The BME VCS Coalition supports Doreen Lawrence's open letter to the Government on the planned review of the Public Sector Equality Duty.
The BME VCS Coalition supports Doreen Lawrence's open letter to the Government on the planned review of the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Voice4Change England is looking to strengthen its staff team and we are looking for an exceptional person with the
right skills with immediate availability to join our small team and take the lead in enhancing our external profile with members and key stakeholders by maximising opportunities using new media. The post is funded by the funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund and the project aims to strengthen the voice of the BME Third Sector.
Location: Central London
Hours: 21 hours per week
Salary: Up to £25,194 (ILW) pro rata
JUST West Yorkshire, Bradford Resource Centre and Joseph Rowntree Foundation are hosting a seminal event examining the aftermath of the Bradford Disturbances of 2001 in an event that will examine how state policy rolled back race relations and civil liberties.
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.
On 9 June 2011 the Communities and Local Government Select Committee launched the report of its inquiry into the Government’s plans for localism and decentralisation of public services. The Report concludes that ‘Government’s desire to deliver localism is neither supported consistently across Whitehall nor implemented coherently by each department of state’ and that Ministers have ‘so far produced no compelling vision of what their imagined localist future will look like.’ The report makes a number of recommendations including for the forthcoming White Paper on public service reform.
On Saturday 11th August, Voice4Change England presented a Return to Mexico City, featuring a first time screening in London of Return to Mexico City and Tommie Smith in a live Q&A session. Return to Mexico City is an award winning documentary narrated by Kieffer Sutherland about the lives of Olympic athletes Dr Tommie Smith and John Wesley Carlos, who shot to fame during the 1968 Olympics when they protested what has been dubbed a ‘Black Power’ protest salute upon collection of their medals for the 200 meter dash finals.