Contribution to British Society quarterly update - March 2026

The first quarter has been an extremely busy one for the Tackling Antisemitism in Sport project. Across a jam-packed three months, we saw over 1,000 people, including staff at football clubs, academy players, steward teams, Kick It Out staff, county cricket clubs and tennis governing bodies.

On the football-front, we delivered sessions for academy squads at Premier League clubs, Brentford and Nottingham Forest. We also ran workshops for four new County Football Associations, taking our tally up to 34 Counties that have received full staff training. This included training for the full staff team and board members at Devon County Football Association, as part of a trip to the Southwest, which also saw us deliver multiple sessions to staff and the academy scholars at Plymouth Argyle.

Alongside, the clubs and county FAs, we also delivered a workshop on antisemitism in football for the full staff at Kick It Out, the premier anti-racism body working across British football, and one of our key partners, to ensure they are fully equipped to deal with any issues that may surface. We also hosted an Antisemitism in Football training morning towards the end of March in collaboration with Kick It Out at Fulham’s Craven Cottage for heads of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at top clubs across London.

Excitingly, in February, we delivered sessions to staff at the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and International Tennis Federation (ITF), marking our first workshops delivered in tennis. The bespoke sessions were well received by the staff members across departments at the organisations who attended, with aims to expand this work across the game of tennis.

We also delivered our second session in cricket to the stewarding team at Essex County Cricket Club. The workshop at the County Cricket Ground in Chelmsford was attended by 50 senior stewards and received very positive feedback from the organisers.

Outside of our regular programming, along with our CEO, we delivered updates at both the Kick It Out and FA Antisemitism working groups, and had productive conversations with stakeholders around the future of the project and expansion opportunities.

Looking forward, we will be attending the Fair Game Conference at the National Football Museum in Manchester. We will be involved in discussions about the future of football in the country along representatives from clubs across the football leagues. We will also be taking part in the football bus at the March of the Living along with other people in the football industry who want to take part in the unique and inspirational experience.

The Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination team began delivery this year against the backdrop of 2025, which ended with increasing lethal terrorist attacks against the Jewish community, both abroad and at home.

The first sessions delivered took place within a few weeks of the devastating antisemitic Islamic State (IS)-inspired terrorist attack on a Chanukah event on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, and which saw the murder of 11 men, 3 women and a 10-year-old girl. An attack which in itself was just a couple of months after the terrorist attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, which resulted in the death of two Jewish congregants.

Increasing community tensions has led to the need for greater training, and in January, the St

and Up! team gratefully received training from Rev’d Nathan Eddy from the Council of Christians and Jews on Christian Antisemitism and session with Ali Amla of Solutions Not Sides (SNS) on Islam and Antisemitism. In February, further training from the Community Security Trust (CST) focused on Islamist Antisemitism, particularly important given Islamist Extremism has been recognised as the primary terror threat in the UK and what this means for the Jewish Community in the UK. Not only this, but news spread of a foiled terrorist plot against the Jewish Community in Manchester, which had it not been stopped, would have been the most devastating terrorist attack to take place on British soil.

February also marked an expansion of war in the Middle East, as the United States of America and Israel launched large, coordinated strikes on Iran, as well as a never-ending wave of worrying news for the Jewish community in London, such as the Iranian spies caught carrying out surveillance on various Jewish community buildings including JW3 and the Sternberg Centre, and in March, the hate crime in Golders Green which saw 4 Hatzolah ambulances set alight.

March saw the end of Stand Up! Education Against Discrimination’s delivery phase for the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime’s (MOPAC) Shared Endeavour Fund. Throughout the period of September 2025 until March 2026, the Stand Up! team will have reached around 15,000 young people right across London through a wide range of sessions for students in Year 7 - 13 exploring the themes of anti-bullying, anti-discrimination and media and propaganda, with a specific focus on contemporary antisemitism and anti-Muslim hostility.

Over the next few months, Stand Up! will shift the focus from London towards the rest of the UK, both in terms of the delivery of the educational workshops for students and teacher training.

ASULP: 

Alan Senitt Upstanders Leadership Programme (ASULP) has delivered two seminars involving 100 students which focused on empowering the young people to develop their social action projects in more detail, whilst reflecting on their own personal journeys and growth throughout the programme so far.

All schools have now decided on their projects, ranging from tackling gender discrimination, disability discrimination, LGBTQ+ discrimination and religious discrimination. Schools have already begun running fundraisers and events to raise awareness. The workshop focused on the range of qualities leaders possess, with students working in small groups to discuss role models, ranging from Akeela Ahmed MBE who founded and is CEO of the British Muslim Trust (BMT) to Marcus Rashford, a professional footballer who has carried out considerable charitable work to

improve the lives of those living in food poverty. The day included various activities focused on communication skills and time set aside for students to reflect on their own leadership journeys. We were also pleased to have been able to give participating students at Yavneh School the opportunity to speak at an ASULP fundraiser event.