A new £1.5m fund has been launched by the Home Office to help charities and other organisations develop projects to prevent acts of terrorism.

The Prevent Innovation Fund from the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, is available in grants of up to £100,000.

A statement by the Home Office said the strategy behind the fund is to “stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism”.

It is aimed at projects that develop new counter terrorism methods with a potential for replication nationally - as well as projects that promote understanding best anti-terrorism practice.

The fund was released as a result of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015, which came into effect in July. The Act requires that local government institutions, the police, prisons, schools and higher education establishments have “due regard” to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

A statement on the Prevent fund's website said: “We are particularly interested in proposals that respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it; protect vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism; and work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to address.”

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 2 December. 

Last year, Prime Minister David Cameron awarded £8m to the Charity Commission to tackle terrorism and tax avoidance. 

“I want to build a country which everyone is proud to call home,” Cameron said last October. “That’s why I want us to confront the menace of extremism and those who want to tear us apart."