Camden Council offers support to raise awareness on migrant/minority languages. It namely provides guidance and information on specific issues in a variety of community languages such as Covid-19 related info, as well as offers access to British Sign Language for key services for residents. In addition, Councillors have made videos targeting Somali and Bengali communities and the Council has promoted these on Twitter. It has also promoted videos in Somali and Gujarati made by local organisations and community leaders, across the Council’s social media channels and coronavirus webpages.
Camden Council supports projects that seek to give a positive image of migrant/minority languages. In 2018, the Council has launched the #WeMakeCamden campaign with an allocation of over 70K to the Communities Together Fund for small grants to be distributed by the participatory grant giving body, Camden Giving to community and faith groups to celebrate diversity of culture in the borough and develop events or projects promoting inclusion. This project was replicated with over £80,000 Social Action Fund during 2019-2020 and is going to continue in 2021-2022 again through Camden Giving lead. The Council funds a number of equality organisations tackling barriers around language and disabilities through a number of services made accessible in minority languages and easy read.
