Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
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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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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We share the letter sent by ARE Chief Executive, Jeremy Crook calling on the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and the Metropolitan Police to end the Gangs' Violence Matrix. This form part of Action for Race Equality's campaign to highlight the impact of …
In a brand-new film produced by HelpFilm and released by Action for Race Equality on Wednesday 2nd November, criminal justice campaigners and young Black Londoners issue an urgent call to the Metropolitan Police Service to scrap its Gangs Violence …
Action for Race Equality (ARE) is delighted to have partnered with the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN), through the Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Programme to bring you the Empowering Parents Conference 2022. The conference will be held …
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Victoria Atanda is Project Support Officer for ARE’s Moving on Up Programme. In this blog she reflects on her journey with dyslexia, and how she's navigated its challenges as a Black woman of Nigerian heritage. Being a Black dyslexic from a …
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Action for Race Equality is delighted to be supporting Why Me? in their brand new Youth Justice Project. Why Me? aims to increase access to Restorative Justice for people affected by crime and conflict in England and Wales. But what is it all …
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Our two-year programme for the Black, Asian and minority ethnic-led employability sector. This infrastructure programme has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Youth Futures Foundation's Infrastructure Resilience Fund. We want …
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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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On Wednesday 28th September, during National Inclusion Week 2022, leaders from across Construction, Finance and Technology and a cohort of young Black men came together at the iconic headquarters of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors …
The staff and trustees of Action for Race Equality would like to express our sincere condolences to the members of the Royal family. HM Queen Elizabeth II placed a high value on the country's charities and community sector, and we have been …
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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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Action for Race Equality, through our Moving On Up initiative, is thrilled to have joined forces with the Mayor of London to bring together a unique, two-part event this September! (Header photo credits: Luke Agbaimoni) A Journey Towards …
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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