It Stops Here is a collaborative campaign by King’s College London and KCLSU and began as a movement to challenge sexual harassment on campus. The campaign aims to empower members of the King’s community to help build an environment where everyone feels welcome, supported and safe regardless of who they are.

It Stops Here has now been extended to include all forms of bullying and harassment, with a particular focus on religious hate crime. The funding presents an exciting opportunity to build on the work already established around prevention and responses to bullying and harassment – to recognize the needs of religious communities within King's, particularly focusing on incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia.  

It Stops Here is a collaborative campaign by King’s College London and KCLSU and began as a movement to challenge sexual harassment on campus. The campaign aims to empower members of the King’s community to help build an environment where everyone feels welcome, supported and safe regardless of who they are.

It Stops Here has now been extended to include all forms of bullying and harassment, with a particular focus on religious hate crime. The funding presents an exciting opportunity to build on the work already established around prevention and responses to bullying and harassment – to recognize the needs of religious communities within King's, particularly focusing on incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia.  

This reflects work taking place nationally in response to the UUK’s Changing the Culture report which set out a range of recommendations for universities around institutional responses to violence against women, harassment and hate crime affecting university students.  

Operating as part of a collaborative network with the ten other universities receiving the funding and led by the Diversity & Inclusion team, King's will work with staff and students across the institution including various faith communities and the chaplaincy at King’s, to understand better their experiences.

This will include work to establish and strengthen reporting mechanisms and support new infrastructure and facilities. The team will also work to build awareness, understanding and tolerance of different faiths and how discrimination occurs by enhancing existing training programmes for students and staff. This includes peer-led active bystander training for students, which encourages people to feel confident in taking steps to stop a situation from escalating, and disclosure training for staff. There will also be a programme of collaborative events with faith communities and student leaders.

It Stops Here will also look at developing responses to politically-motivated hate crime which targets students of a particular religion or belief. This work will all feed in to university-wide policies around student misconduct and improving data collection for monitoring. This project will be supported by two internships for King’s students next summer.

Sarah Guerra, Director of Diversity & Inclusion commented following the funding announcement: ‘We are proud to have a diverse and vibrant community at King’s College London and we are working hard to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are a reality and embedded into all aspects of King’s life and work.

‘The expansion of It Stops Here reflects the importance King’s places on ensuring an institution-wide, comprehensive and systemic approach to tackling and monitoring harassment, bullying, hate crime and discrimination.’