Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
Following the launch of EQUAL's short film #ScrapTheMatrix in November 2022, Action for Race Equality and youth enterprise, Wipers Youth CIC are delighted to be joining forces to host a special youth workshop on the Gangs Matrix: Policing, Race …
Continue Reading about Join us in King’s Cross! A youth workshop on Gangs Matrix, Policing and Race
Young Black men are three times more likely to be unemployed compared to their white counterparts. Do you want to help change this? Action for Race Equality is looking for passionate young Black men, aged 16-24 to become Moving on Up Ambassadors. …
Discover more... …
Action for Race Equality is harnessing young people's voices The Youth Action Network is a platform for young people to get involved in an exciting area of work to improve employment opportunities and services for young Black, Asian, Mixed and …
One of Action for Race Equality’s newest programmes, the Infrastructure Resilience Programme, is working to create strong foundations for the Black, Asian, Mixed-heritage and Minority ethnic-led employability sector. We believe that the …
Continue Reading about Stronger foundations for employability providers
Data on apprenticeship starts in England shows that Asian, Black and Mixed heritage people are still significantly and disappointingly underrepresented in apprenticeships. Asian, Black and Mixed groups in England together make up 16.8% of the …
Continue Reading about Asian and Black people remain under-represented in apprenticeships
Moving on Up (MoU) is ARE’s flagship employment programme for young Black men in London, and came about from a Panorama programme several years ago highlighting the disparities in unemployment rates for young Black men. At the time, it was four times …
Continue Reading about Employers and young people: reflections from Ambassadors
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 …
Action for Race Equality (ARE) were delighted to speak at the Breaking the Cycle of High Youth Unemployment on Thursday 26th January. The event was hosted by 21K Digital Media - a Black-led organisation based in Edmonton working to increase access to …
Continue Reading about Breaking the Cycle of Youth Unemployment in Enfield
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 …
Continue Reading about Reflecting on Route2Success: three year evaluation published
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 …
Continue Reading about Representation in media and film: a guest blog
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 …
Continue Reading about New Mentoring Quality Framework launched
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 …
Continue Reading about The Power of Sports and Social Media: Why Representation Matters
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 …
