In this ARE guest blog, Bayo Igoh, a business coach at Bigoh Coaching and one of our dedicated Routes2Success role-models, sends a clear message to all our readers looking to make a fresh start in the new year. It’s a new year, and people are …
Ten hours as a role-model: the impact
In this guest blog, Greg Bonsu, Senior Strategy Director and dedicated Routes2Success role-model and mentor, shares the impact that volunteering to work with young people has had on him. Routes2Success is our ethnic minority school role-model and …
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‘The Windrush Scandal’ Five Years On – What needs to change?
In this guest blog, Almaz Teffera, Researcher on Racism in Europe, Human Rights Watch kicks off the first of our brand new Windrush Justice blog series, which aims to showcase a range of perspectives on the Windrush Scandal and those campaigning to …
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Missing in the media: the fight to cure Missing White Woman Syndrome
In this ARE guest piece, budding journalist and creative, Hayley Mills-Amissah, examines the disproportionately loud spotlight cast on cases of missing white women by the media. Her article, originally posted for the Green Room, features interviews …
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ARE Guest blog: Inspire Brighter Futures in young people
In our latest guest blog, Diane Spence, founder and manager of social enterprise Genesis Sun, which is currently one of eight organisations taking part in a deep dive of the youth employability landscape for our Infrastructure Resilience Programme, …
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Black Women celebrating and passing on the Baton
The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.” Serena Williams I want you to close your …
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Representation Matters: Black women as entrepreneurs
ARE Associate and Communications Advisor, Alex Louis recently supported Black women and other business leaders under-represented as entrepreneurs on our Inclusive Entrepreneurs and Enterprise Support Programmes with Islington Council. In this blog, …
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Representation in media and film: a guest blog
In this guest blog, Shelley Patterson, an Action for Race Equality volunteer currently supporting our Routes2Success programme, writes about the state of race and representation in the film and media industry, and the impact of seeing your reality …
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The Power of Sports and Social Media: Why Representation Matters
In this guest blog, Routes2Success volunteer role-model and a Senior Data Strategy Director, Greg Bonsu, takes a close look at one of his passion areas: the power of sports, and what it means to have an industry that supports, nurtures and rewards …
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Boys and absent fathers
Actor, broadcaster, teacher and R2S volunteer role-model, Hepburn Harrison-Graham looks at the impact of absent fathers, and the importance of male role-models in the run up to International Men’s Day 2022. In the summer of 2008, my …
Is it time to move on from Black History Month?
In this ARE guest blog, Lee Pinkerton, a Communications and Media Specialist and a Routes2Success role-model, shares his views on Black History Month and the bigger picture beyond this yearly celebration. It’s October so once again we will be …
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Being a Black graduate and job-seeker: an intern’s perspective
Over the summer, recent Philosophy and Politics graduate Kamarl Wilson, joined us as an ARE Intern. Whilst with us, Kamarl was able to reflect back to his time as an undergraduate, and some of the parallels he noticed as a young Black job-seeker …
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Is prison really a holiday camp?
I'd never given serious thought about what it would be like to be locked up behind bars 24/7. When I was growing up, I heard the stories about ‘Feltham’ being like a holiday camp. To be honest, I thought there was some truth in it. I saw young men …