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BME organisations lose seat at top policy making table

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BME organisations lose seat at top policy making table

22 March 2011

No equalities organisations will receive funding as Strategic Partners, the Office for Civil Society (OCS) has revealed today.

OCS has released a list of nine organisations who will receive strategic status and funding as part of their Strategic Partners Transition Programme. The programme will run until 2014 and was open to applications from all 42 existing Strategic Partners. For the remaining 33 organisations, funding will end in March 2011.

EXPERT ROUNDTABLE SEMINARS

EXPERT ROUNDTABLE SEMINARS

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Policy Activism: The role of small and medium sized health charities

  • 23 November 2011, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
  • At BHA, Democracy House, 609 Stretford Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0QA

A collaboration of BHA, Naz Project London, Positive East and Positively UK is hosting a 'by invitation only' roundtable on policy activism for small and medium sized health charities on 23 November 2011 at BHA in Manchester. The roundtable will explore how small and medium sized charities can most effectively use and target their limited policy activism capacity, e.g., who is the most effective group to work with and/or to target? The discussion will draw on the experience of participants working with vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.

Shaping the future: Race and Racism in 21st Century Britain

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Is there an elephant in the room? If we live in a post-racial society, why do certain ethnic groups continue to experience disadvantage?

This seminar series, launched in November 2011 to coincide with the retrial into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, will debate these questions and seek to identify solutions to persistent and emerging inequalities faced by BAME children, young people and their families.

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After the riots

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Race Equality FoundationThere has been much comment and some analysis of the August riots in England and whether or not inequality played a part. This conference provides an opportunity to hear from a range of voices and consider the implications for the future of race equality.

  • Where: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
  • When: 13:00-17:00, 21st January 2012