Project update:

• CORE responded to the EHRC's inquiry into racial inequality in healthcare workplaces.  Read the response HERE. 
  
  

• CORE members have contributed via survey to the Funders for Race Equality Alliance’s mapping of the race equality sector in England. This mapping has aimed to provide greater insight into the sector. increase funding to support, strengthen and sustain BAME and race equality organisations post COVID-19.
  
  

• A number of CORE members have held COVID-19 Vaccine related events. For example, CORE member CAHN (Caribbean and African Health Network) hosted a COVID-19 Vaccine Panel, which received 2000 bookings.  This involved 17 of CAHN's medical professionals sharing their experiences and their personal reasons for taking the COVID-19 vaccine.

  Following the session, an evaluation survey indicated that 83% of attendees felt that it was informative, 23% would now be willing to take the vaccine, and 55% wanted to attend additional sessions.
  

CRÈME stands for Communicating the Race Equality Message Effectively.

The Project is a collaboration between three of the largest charities in the race equality sector – Race On The Agenda (ROTA), The Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) and the Runnymede Trust.

As well as giving communications support to the afore-mentioned organisations, the other part of the project is to provide training to smaller charity organisations in the sector.

Two such media training workshops were given in 2019 and 2020, but this was brought to a halt due the COVID pandemic and the accompanying lockdown.

As a way around this we have now set up a CREME Project YouTube channel.  Instructional videos will be uploaded every month looking at varying aspects of working with the media.

The first in the series (Planning a Media Campaign) is available to watch now.

15th March 2021, 11am

Join Money4YOU's #BootCamp on Monday 15th March, with Christine Goodall from HEAR Network and find out about the latest call on Collecting and Using Equality Data-beyond the ‘tickbox’.

• Why collect equality data?
• How can we collect and use equality Data effectively?
• What are the challenges and opportunities?

Most funders require us to collect and report on equality data, but we should be going beyond the ‘tickbox’ and collecting and using our data to help make our work more truly inclusive; even with few resources, we can capture information that is about people, not statistics.

29th March 2021, 11am

Join Money4YOU's #BootCamp on Monday 29th March, with Fazzan Ahmed.

Fezzan is an independent and creative manager with over a decade of diverse experience across the private and voluntary sectors. As a Halpin Partnership Consulting Fellow in Strategy and Race Equality in particular, Fezzan has worked on a number of different Higher Education projects in EDI as well as Fundraising.

He is currently the Philanthropy Officer for BAME Communities at Barnardo’s. Prior to working with Barnardo’s and founding Jigsaw House, Fezzan managed several multi-million pound change projects for organisations such as HSBC, the University of Westminster and the Battersea Arts Centre.

9th April 2021, 10 - 2pm

Join Money4YOU's #BootCamp on Friday 9th April (10am-2pm) to learn about effective Bid Writing techniques.

As always, we are committed to bringing you industry experts with relevant experience so go ahead and book with confidence!

This is FREE to those on the AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme and subsidised for everyone from small and BAMER (black, Asian, multi-ethnic and refugee) organisations.

We know that you are facing numerous unique challenges; often it takes many years to gain momentum and build capacity in spite of the great need that you are meeting.

14th May 2021, 10 - 2pm

Join Money4YOU's #BootCamp on Friday 14th May (10am-2pm) to learn about Events, Communities and Volunteer Fundraising.

As always, we are committed to bringing you industry experts with relevant experience so go ahead and book with confidence!

This is FREE to those on the AVOCADO+ Accelerator Programme and subsidised for everyone from small and BAMER (black, Asian, multi-ethnic and refugee) organisations.

We know that you are facing numerous unique challenges; often it takes many years to gain momentum and build capacity in spite of the great need that you are meeting.

26th March 2021, 6 - 7.30pm

Inclusion London, ALLFIE and Sister of Frida will be holding a special panel discussion event on 26th March, in celebrating our contributions to the Disability Rights movement. 

Panellists

• Yewande Omoniyi (ALLFIE DBLM)
• Tasnim Hassan (ALLFIE DBLM)
• Thiandi Grooff (Quiet Riot)
• Ruth Bashall (Stay Safe East)
• Mandy Colleran (Sista of Frida)

Event Hosts

• Tracey Lazard (Inclusion London COE)
• Michelle Daley (ALLFIE Director)
  

18th March 2021, 3 - 4pm

Join Dr Suriyah Bi, founder of the Equality Act Review and lecturer at SOAS, University of London and The University of Edinburgh, as she presents her recent reports on discrimination in education, Predicting Futures and Predicting Futures 2.0. The series, which was launched following the government's announcement that GCSE and A Level exams for 2020 would be cancelled, address students' concerns and experiences of teacher grade predictions. Dr Bi's presentation will focus specifically on the reports' findings of bias against students from low socio-economic and BAME backgrounds.

Dr Bi will be joined by the Shadow Secretary of State for Education Kate Green MP and Afzal Khan MP.

Signups are open for our 2021 Communications for Change workshops! With debate raging about what kind of society we want to build back to after the pandemic, this is a crucial year for shaping public debate and building support for a more just and inclusive society.

Using insights from behavioural science to understand how and why people respond to some messages over others, strategic communications uses values-based framing to create messages that change hearts and minds. Our free one-day training will give you a broad grounding in the theory and practice of this approach.

Our government has chosen a moment of national crisis to drive a wedge within the working class, framed around the notion of white marginalisation. Our government would have us believe the white working class are held back because of the gains made by minority groups, rather than as the result of decades of underinvestment.

This politics of blame only encourages one vulnerable community to resent other vulnerable communities, while doing nothing to assist anyone to escape the shackles of their privation and poverty. Rather than inciting division, we believe our government needs to focus on solutions and reflect a community that recognises we have more in common than that which divides us.

Available across the UK | 18 - 26 March

From 18 - 26 March, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival is coming to your homes with our first online digital edition, available across the UK!

There has rarely been a time when individuals around the world have lived such shared human experiences. Our interdependence is clear: what impacts one individual, family, society affects us all - and yet basic human rights, including pathways to medical and economic survival, are felt most severely by those already impacted by stark inequalities. The world needs to hear these powerful and uplifting stories of those demanding justice, equality, and safety for themselves, their communities, and future generations.

Be sure to check out what we have in store for you and to join the conversation

Small and local charities helping people overcome complex social issues can now apply for two-year unrestricted grants of £50,000 from Lloyds Bank Foundation.

We fund small and local charities, investing in their work helping people overcome complex social issues across England and Wales. We support charities with an annual income of £25,000 to £1 million with a proven track record of helping people on a journey of positive change through in-depth, holistic and person-centred support. We offer unrestricted funding, including around core costs, and tailored development support to help your charity be more effective.