On 21st April, ROTA was in Birmingham for a seminar on BAME employment in the West Midlands. With Black people three times more likely to be unemployed in Birmingham than White British people, the seminar focused on the barriers and solutions to unequal employment outcomes. Co-hosted with local equality think tank BRAP, the audience put the panelists through their paces.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is a journalist and one of the founding editors of Galdem, a media platform for women and non-binary people of colour that launched in September 2015.

She is the opinions editor who is also currently helping to head up Galdem’s second print edition and organise their various events.

Read the latest edition of our Equality Law Briefing.

The Equality Law Project supports front line organisations to understand and use the Equality Act 2010.  Through the Equality Law Briefing we aim to provide you information on developments relevant to race equality and the role of the Equality Act 2010 and other relevant legislation.

On May 16, Council for the Welfare of Immigrants submitted a pre-action letter to the Government challenging the legality of their proposed roll out of the Right to Rent Scheme to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are arguing that in light of the growing evidence that we at JCWI, and others including the Government themselves, have gathered of discrimination under the scheme, there must be a thorough review of the scheme's impact in England before any expansion. Thus far the Government have refused to listen.

We need your support to ensure that we are fully prepared and able to pursue litigation on this point if necessary. The Right to Rent scheme, that turns private landlords into immigration officials, is a central pillar of the Government's 'hostile environment'. The scheme threatens to take race relations backwards to the days of signs in houses saying 'no dogs, no black, no Irish." This is completely unacceptable in 2017.

The 'hostile environment' itself fosters distrust and hinders integration in our communities, encouraging people to be suspicious of their neighbours' immigration status. It means that landlords, NHS staff, teachers, employers and others are forced to do the work of immigration enforcement. 

This isn't right. Nor is it right that these policies, like right to rent, have been introduced without any proper evidence that they work, and no adequate monitoring of discrimination and the impact on migrant and ethnic minority communities.

The Government have refused to listen and now our only choice is to hold them to account through the courts. Please help us by supporting our legal challenge to the further roll out which we hope will ensure a proper evaluation of the scheme in England at www.crowdjustice.com/case/right-to-rent/

This report presents the findings of a survey and qualitative study of the experiences of Black, Asian and ethnic minority (BME) teachers in England. Commissioned by the National Union of Teachers (the NUT), the Runnymede Trust worked closely with the NUT to design, administer and evaluate the findings.

Walcot Foundation and Battersea Power Station Foundation are running a joint grant programme to help strengthen the voluntary and community sector in Lambeth and Wandsworth. 

Grants of up to £80,000 per year over three years to an organisation that can provide capacity building support to organisations in order to improve their skills, efficiency and sustainability. 

Islington Refugee Forum would like to invite your organisation to take part in a screening video to showcase the achievements of successful IRF’s member organisations in Islington which will be played during the Refugee Week celebration on the 20th June at the Islington Assembly Hall.

The aim of the screening is to show case the role of your organisation in addressing the issues facing refugee communities in the borough which have significant impact on their integration, community engagement and civic participation and the enormous contributions that your Refugee Communities Organisations is providing to deal with these issues.

We would like to hear from diverse RCOs backgrounds and different types of services you provide. IRF will select four organisations, who have done well, demonstrating their contribution to their own and wider society in a video for five minutes. Please note that the selection is on a first-come, first-served basis followed by criteria collection of services.

For more information and to request a nomination form, please contact 
info@islingtonrefugeeforum.org

Thinking of holding an event at Resource for London? Come and visit before you book!

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding an Open Day on 14th July 2017, giving you a chance to see the Centre's facilities and to sample the delicious menu provided by Cooks and Partners, our on-site caterers.

To book your place on the day (10am to 2pm), please contact Alex or Irina at bookings@resourceforlondon.org

A London-centric community to encourage Diversity & Inclusion in Tech! To find out more and to join.