Action for Race Equality
Empowering Young People who are Black, Asian and of Mixed Heritage
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 …
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 …
EQUAL has joined forces with 11 voluntary, community and equality organisations in an open letter to Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, and Deputy Mayor Baroness Beverley Hughes who oversees the city's Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and …
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Just before the Omicron variant ruined everyone’s Christmas party plans, the Black Training and Enterprise Group chose to make our 30th anniversary a time to reflect and refresh as well as celebrate. The anniversary party held on November …
Fighting Knife Crime London was launched on 1st June 2021 to address the causes and effects of knife crime and all forms of violence in Greater London. Alongside its solutions-focussed network, it curates a quarterly magazine as a …
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Across March - July 2021, EQUAL, in partnership with Liberty, hosted five free Legal Action workshops for organisations supporting Black, Asian, and minority ethnic people, and Muslim and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the criminal justice …
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In May 2021, Criminal Justice Alliance brought forwards a super-complaint on the harms caused by s.60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. The complaint outlines that Section 60 is harmful, ineffective, inadequately scrutinised and …
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