Our office still remains closed as a precaution to protect staff, visitors and our wider communities from the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

All staff continue to work from home at their normal hours and are available on their usual email addresses (staff's first name @rota.org.uk).

Please note: our office telephone number is temporarily unavailable as we manage a new solution to enable staff to work remotely. If you have a general query, please direct it to rota@rota.org.uk.

We apologise for any inconvenience, although we are confident our members and colleagues will understand our reasoning.

Our forthcoming events/meetings have also been affected and we have adapted the use of online technology, Zoom web conference where possible. Please keep an eye on our Twitter feed and our website. We will also announce the reopening of the office via these methods of communication.

We urge everyone to stay safe and take measures to protect vulnerable members of our communities in these uncertain times.

Wishing good health to all.

The ROTA Team

The Trustees of Race on the Agenda are happy to announce that Maurice McLeod has been appointed as the incoming CEO of Race on the Agenda following the retirement of Andy Gregg.  

Andy had been the CEO over the last seven eventful years and says, “I am very happy to handover such an important organisation to Maurice, who has a long track record of work to further the cause of anti-racism and equality as well as the ability to communicate widely to policy makers and politicians, as well as frontline campaigning organisations.”

Maurice McLeod says: “I have been involved in ROTA as a board member for the last seven years and it is a great honour to take on this role.

When new policies and laws are devised, it’s vital that the impact on communities of colour should not be an afterthought. We are at a moment of potential change when organisations and individuals are waking up to the scale of the challenge of fighting racism in British institutions and ROTA has a key role to play. 

We have decades of experience of supporting both the voluntary sector and marginalised communities and I hope to carry on Andy Gregg’s great work steering the organisation.”

Alba Kapoor is our new joint Policy Officer, working for both Runnymede Trust and Race on the Agenda.

Prior to this, Alba worked as a researcher for Members of Parliament in the House of Commons. This included providing policy research and parliamentary support for Marsha de Cordova MP in her roles as Shadow Minister for Disabled People and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities.

She has previously represented South East Labour members on the Young Labour National Committee. Alba has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford in History and Politics, where her thesis focused on the politics of Asian Youth Movements in Britain. 

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