A Word From Kunle Olulode, Director of Voice4Change England
Dear Members & Partners
Evaluation of Voter ID scheme Pilots
Last Thursday 19th July, the Electoral Commission reported on the outcomes of ID pilots carried out on voters during the May local elections in five districts (Bromley, Woking, Gosport, Watford and Swindon). The need to ask voters for more ID was obstensively to limit potential voter’s fraud. However, none of the areas looked at had any great history of fraudulent activity – and indeed, the absence voting fraud generally across the UK in elections is a common feature.
National Lottery Launches Government’s Coronavirus Community Support Fund
Coronavirus Community Support Fund will open for applications at 10am on Friday 22nd May.
This new funding stream makes available £200m in Government funding that will be aimed primarily at small to medium organisations in England.
The Fund has two key objectives:
My experience as a Voice4Change England Summer Intern
I had the opportunity to be an intern at Voice4Change England during the three months of summer 2018. As a French Student from the Strasbourg Institute of Political Science, summer internships are not mandatory, but recommended in order to confront ourselves to the reality of the subjects we study at the university. I am a student in my first year of Masters in International Relations and European Studies, and will do my second year in International Relations – Conflict and Cooperation.
Voice4change England, in partnership with BFI Southbank: Black & Banned – The Films you weren’t allowed to see
Munira Mirza: Critiquing Islamist fundamentalist practice is not an ‘attack on Muslim women’
Munira Mirza is a former Deputy Mayor of London, and co-author of the Policy Exchange report ‘Living apart together: British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism’.
‘My Kutta ate my polling card’
What civil society can learn from the BBC
Recent events such as BBC pay levels and gendered and racialised pay disparities brings to mind one phrase that might be repurposed in the name of justice.
If you see something, say something.
The slogan is used to questionable effect by the US Department of Homeland Security. But in the pursuit of social, racial, class and gender equality vigilance is important.
Post Election Statement
This election we worked with Runnymede Trust and our members on the ground to organise hustings and a digital campaign to promote voter registration and turnout in our communities. Whatever the result we have been pleased with the mobilisation and participation that we have seen in places like Leicester, Manchester, Bristol and Croydon.
Voice4Change Joins The Government’s Race Disparity Launch At Downing Street
Key information: Race Disparity Audit