Project update:

• CORE's position Paper on Low Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccines within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities HERE. 
• On Tuesday March 16th, CORE in collaboration with Caribbean & African Health Network, held a national public event to engage the Black and Asian communities about COVID-19 vaccines. See event summery HERE.
  
• CORE responds to the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.  Read the response  HERE
• CORE’s statement in support of the Runnymede available HERE 
• The Ubele Initiative have now been officially inducted as CORE members.

The CREME Project continues to create media training materials and share them on YouTube.

In this second YouTube tutorial video, CREME Project officer Lee Pinkerton explains the six essential elements that you should include in every press release.

In these COVID times you can gain valuable training resources simply by visiting the CREME Project website.

We are pleased to have signed an open letter by Friends of the Earth, to the Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Justice to urge the government to reconsider the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

The letter was sent over to the Home Sec and Justice Sec on Monday 15th March, in time for 2nd reading, and also was covered in the press, including the Guardian and the Independent.

As you may have heard, the Bill has now been delayed a little, and is not expected to start Committee Stage until May, after the Queen’s Speech.

Hosted by the Runnymede Trust, the Shared Futures conference took place virtually over two days in April 2021.

The aim of the conference was to bring together representatives from Black-led charity organisations and funding bodies, to have an open discussion about the future of the funded sector.

The event was sponsored by The National Lottery Community Fund and The CREME project.  As well as keynote speeches and panel discussions, there was also opportunities for speed networking and more intimate round table discussions.

Watch a video by ROTA Chief Executive Maurice Mcleod available HERE.

Join Money4YOU on Friday 30th April, 6-7pm and meet other like-minded BAMER led nonprofits and charities for a different networking event.

Join Money4YOU's #BrunchBriefing on Monday 10th May, 11am-12pm with guest speaker Victor Willmott.

Join Money4YOU's #BrunchBriefing on Monday 24th May, 11am-12pm with guest speaker Andrew Robinson.

Join Money4YOU's #BootCamp: An Introduction to Events, Communities and Volunteer Fundraising on Friday 14th May, 10am-2pm.

Join NMPC in an inclusive community of practice for deepening our work ahead together. This event will be a closed, safe space, for people of colour to come together, heal, and be empowered. 

During this retreat we want to explore how mindfulness can develop and support people of colour, who are currently under-represented in mindfulness groups, workshops and training pathways yet who are more likely to experience cumulative stressful events such as marginalisation, poverty and limited access to resources which directly impact individuals, families and communities. The value, concepts and adaptability of mindfulness are yet to make an impact on marginalised communities and we want to bring about change. 

by Barbara Roymacauley

This poetry collection is a quick sprint through my key childhood and adolescent memories including my arrival in London, from Jamaica with my mother.

Reflecting also experiences of living going to school in East London, there are some portraits of schooling and parenting back in the days of 50s - 60s.  I left school and went to a Leicester University college in the 1970s after which I have mostly been a London Teacher. It covers how I made it against the odds to becoming a school girl athletics champion and deputy head girl in Stratford Grammar school.

Where some experiences are unique to me , some will resonate with others in the same generation, gender and ethnic group.

Booska Paper exposes structural racism in the third sector and explores the impact of the pandemic on funding attitudes in the UK.

The Ubele Initiative took a convening role, leading on this research to amplify the voice of Black and minoritised community leaders in the sector.

Together, we urge funders and policy makers to transition to anti-racism by confronting entrenched inequalities and systemic racism exposed in the Booska Paper and implementing the 9 Calls to Action.

Read and share this VITAL piece of research

Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter led to an unprecedented shift in how we think about and fund race equality issues in the UK. The Funders for Race Equality Alliance, the Ubele Initiative and Future Foundations UK, has been reflecting on the changing funding landscape. As well as discussing the unprecedented increase in emergency funding targeted at the Black and Minority Ethnic VCS in the early stages of the pandemic.