Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
Action for Race Equality (ARE) is delighted to be recruiting knowledgeable and skilled individuals to help deliver our Routes2Success programme to young people. Routes2Success (R2S) matches Black, Asian and ethnic minority role models with young …
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For decades, research has proven that parental involvement has a direct positive impact on academic achievement in children and young people. With this in mind, ARE’s Routes2Success (R2S) Team held their first parent session at Brentside High …
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Action for Race Equality's longstanding Routes2Success role-model and mentoring programme for Black, Asian and minority ethnic young people in schools, is delighted to have secured support from the Propel funding initiative. This is a long-term …
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On March 1st 2023, our Routes2Success team, Brianna Cryus and Phoebe Georgestone, held their first session with parents at Brentside School in Ealing. Brentside have been taking part in the school mentoring and role-model sessions, and the forum was …
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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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Last month Bayo Igoh, an Executive Coach & Mentor and dedicated role-model for our Routes2Success programme, was featured on the distinguished Tedx Talks series. Giving his first Tedx talk on the theme "You don’t pick role models…they pick …
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We are thrilled to announce that Action for Race Equality has been named as one of five non-profits around the world to receive a philanthropic gift from Blackbaud - a leader in global cloud software - alongside an offer of multi-year organisational …
Routes2Success (R2S) is Action for Race Equality's flagship ethnic minority role-model and mentoring programme. It has been running since 2013, providing quality role-model and mentoring services for children and young people across UK schools, Pupil …
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Action for Race Equality is delighted to have worked with the Mayor of London's A New Deal for Young Londoners initiative to co-design a brand new Mentoring Quality Framework alongside organisations from the voluntary and community sector, and …
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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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Routes2Success (R2S) is a volunteer-led ethnic minority role-model and mentoring programme. We deliver workshops in schools across the UK to support young people, aged 10 - 24 from Black, Asian, Mixed and Minority-ethnic heritage, and work closely …
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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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Brianna Cyrus is Routes2Success' programme manager. She is also a qualified Secondary English teacher and had been teaching for 8 years before she began working for Action for Race Equality in 2013. This month, she was interviewed by Nu …
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On Monday 8th August Routes2Success held their first learning session of 2022 in attendance with the R2S Team and ten of their dedicated role models and mentors. The learning session was an opportunity for the team to share best practice and …
