Workshop
Anti-Muslim Hostility: Awareness to Action
Recognising, responding to and recording anti-Muslim hostility, with antisemitism covered alongside where partners request it.
You receiveA consistent method and a written summary.
Community trust and hate incident decisions officers can defend.
We work with police forces, Police and Crime Commissioners and community safety partnerships on the decisions where faith, culture and community confidence meet.
Why this matters now.
Community confidence is built or lost in individual encounters. Officers and staff need a consistent way to read culturally complex situations and record what they did and why.
- Religious hate crime
The Government reports that almost half of religious hate crimes target Muslims, at a record level.
MHCLG, March 2026 - A shared definition
The non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility, adopted in March 2026, gives forces and partners a shared description to recognise, record and respond.
GOV.UK definition - Police and Crime Plans
Commissioners set local priorities for community confidence and victim support. Cultural capability is how those priorities reach communities with low trust.
What this means for you
Our governance standards give every policing workshop its structure, so officers leave with a consistent method for recognising, responding to and recording incidents involving faith communities.
Decisions we help with.
The encounters where faith and culture shape risk, trust and outcome.
- Hate incidentsRecognising and responding to incidents involving faith communities, and recording them consistently.
- Community tensionReading and responding to tension after national or local events.
- Low-trust neighbourhoodsEngagement that builds confidence where relationships with police are strained.
- Mental health presentationsWhen culture and faith shape how distress is expressed and understood.
- Victim supportSupporting victims whose faith or culture affects how they report and what they need.
- Recording decisionsWriting incident reports that capture cultural context accurately.
What you can commission.
Workshop names stay the same across sectors; the scenarios are built from your own services.
Workshop
Mental Health Across Cultures
How culture and faith shape distress, disclosure and behaviour in policing encounters. Explore the programme.
You receivePractical tools and a written summary.
Workshop
Cultural Decision-Making
A structured way to make and record decisions in culturally complex situations.
You receiveA decision method officers can apply on shift.
Evidence from community safety.
Work delivered with policing and community safety partners.
- Police and Crime CommissionerA Mental Health Across Cultures workshop for a Police and Crime Commissioner’s office, booked for autumn 2026.
- Community safetyA community pilot on hate crime, violence against women and girls and safeguarding, co-delivered with a city council.
A tool your teams can use this week.
Practical instrument
Writing Culturally Informed Incident Reports
Guidance for recording incidents where culture or faith is a factor, accurately and without assumption.
About our toolsQuestions we are asked
Who helps police forces engage faith communities and use cultural intelligence in decisions?
CultivIQ works with forces, Police and Crime Commissioners and community safety partnerships through structured workshops built on its governance standards and the Cultural Interpreting Framework.
What does the anti-Muslim hostility definition change for policing?
The definition is non-statutory and leaves the law unchanged. It offers a shared description that helps forces recognise, record and respond to hostility consistently.
Do you cover other faiths?
Yes. Workshops can cover antisemitism alongside anti-Muslim hostility, and panel members from other faith communities join delivery where the scope calls for it.
Tell us about the decision you are facing.
A first conversation is free. We listen, ask one or two questions, and tell you honestly whether and how we can help.