Last week, Chief Constable Sarah Crew acknowledged that her own force, Avon and Somerset Police, is institutionally racist. Action for Race Equality welcomes the comment made by the Chief Constable. We would welcome this acknowledgement from …
Casting Call for young Black men: join an exciting creative campaign to tackle employment inequalities
Creative media agency Blitzworks, with Action for Race Equality, has issued an exciting casting call for young Black men to star in a new video production and campaign for our Moving on Up programme. This forms part of our core efforts to promote …
Unleashing The Power Of Stories: ARE Youth Competition Celebrates The Windrush Generation
In a vibrant celebration of heritage and resilience, Action for Race Equality is thrilled to announce a brand-new youth competition inviting 10-18 year olds to share their stories and memories from the Windrush Generation. ARE's Windrush Voices …
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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A warm welcome to our new Head of Policy
We are delighted to announce Meka Beresford has been appointed as new Head of Policy at Action for Race Equality. This is a new position that will oversee policy outputs across our three key activity areas: education, criminal justice and employment. …
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The need to engage Black parents in education
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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One of the first Propel Grants awarded to Routes2Success
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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New film spurs employers to take practical action
Action for Race Equality has today (Monday 3rd April 2023) released a brand-new film, the first of a three-part series specially commissioned by the Mayor of London, as part of a joint drive to encourage employers to advance equity, diversity and …
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My work is ‘what we need to do as a community’ – a Moving on Up interview
Caz Simmonds is Business Manager for London Works at East London Business Alliance (ELBA), a collective impact partner of Moving on Up (MoU). She has been part of the MoU programme since its inception in 2015, as one of the strategic leads reaching …
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Bola Abisogun OBE, steps down as Moving on Up chair. ARE reflects
On Thursday 23rd March, 2023, our Moving on Up (MoU) team came together for their final Advisory Group meeting with Bola Abisogun OBE - Founder of DiverseCity Surveyors, and Digital Director at the BIM Academy - as as its Chair. This is a position …
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ARE comment on Baroness Casey’s Review
Today, on Tuesday 21st March, 2023, also UN anti-racism day, Baroness Dame Louise Casey's year long investigation into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service was published as the Casey Review. ARE attended …
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Get involved with ARE! Two new paid opportunities for young people aged 16-24
We are delighted to announce that we have two exciting paid opportunities for young people to get involved in our projects this year! This is a unique moment to work with Action for Race Equality as we look to improve the employment outcomes of …
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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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Join us in King’s Cross! A youth workshop on Gangs Matrix, Policing and Race
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 …
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