Nothing about us, without us.
A term that has deep roots in disability rights activism. This strategy sets out our roadmap to a just and equitable UK, built alongside Black and Global Majority communities, not on their behalf.
Grounded in lived experience and structured around our three R’s.
Vision
The world we want to see: ROTA aims to create a just and equitable Britain, working with communities to eliminate systemic racial injustices.
Mission
Our role in getting us there: ROTA’s role is to drive for structural change by using evidence and research, working collaboratively with impacted communities and the organisations that support them.
Respond. Reimagine. Resolve.
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Respond
To the urgent injustices communities face today, from housing to healthcare to school exclusions.
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Reimagine
The systems and institutions that produced these inequalities in the first place.
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Resolve
By tracking real, tangible change and celebrating the distance travelled.
We believe communities impacted by racism, and the organisations which serve them, already know how best we can create anti-racist policies and practices. ROTA works with these groups and uses its lobbying and communications expertise to enable communities to exercise their power, empowering them to wield their influence and drive change.
We abide by the principal of ‘nothing about us without us’.
Change happens from the bottom up
We work with communities and the organisations that serve them, combining research, lobbying and communications expertise to help them wield their existing power and influence.
One aim across every front
Across seven thematic areas, our aim is the same: to put race on the agenda, and to see racial justice realised.
Read the full strategy
We’re grateful to our board, team, partners, funders and members for shaping this vision with us. This is a moment of possibility — and we’re looking forward to the work ahead.