After seven years as head of ROTA Andy Gregg has announced that he will be retiring at the end of August. Ali Ahmed, ROTA’s Chair during this period said “Regrettably I am sorry to announce Andy’s departure from ROTA. Andy continued to build our work on put race equality at the centre of the policy…
During this difficult time for many organisations, we have drawn up a list of funding opportunities. See HERE.
The Government is consulting on the 'Exceptional arrangements for exam grading and assessment in 2020. ROTA is very concerned that the guidance does not adequately address the disproportionate impact the new arrangements may have on certain groups of BAME pupils, those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, and those who share other protected characteristics. The Coalition…
Read the latest March edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for May 2020, please contact…
On Monday 20th January 2020, ROTA held its Annual General Meeting for the financial year 2018/19 at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA. Following our AGM, a special conference on "Tackling Informal Exclusions" saw over 70 people in attendance. Conference key note speakers included: Dan Rosenberg, Simpson Millar Solicitors – Dan is a Public Law Solicitor,…
This year, the Avocado+ event was held in the prestigious surroundings of London’s Living Room at City Hall on 4th October 2019. The idea of the event was for six small Black, Asian, Minority-ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) charity and voluntary organisations to pitch their business ideas to the representatives of funding bodies assembled on the…
Read the latest September edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for November 2019, please contact…
Since 2018, ROTA has been researching student choice and disadvantage in Higher Education with reference to UK domiciled BAME students. In May 2019, the Augar Review of Higher Education was published. ROTA’s full report, containing a Commentary on the Augar Review. In response to the Augar Review, ROTA is concerned that: Reducing the fee level…
Active Lives, Healthy Minds was a a three year (June 2016-2019) refugee-led mental health and wellbeing project in West London run by Race on the Agenda (ROTA) in partnership with Account Trust (Nepali community organisation), Network of Eritrean Women UK, Qoys Daryeel – Family Care (Somali community organisation), the Tamil Community Centre and Ilays. The…
Read the latest December edition of our Policy E-Newsletter now available HERE. This is our quarterly newsletter full of information about our work, our partners/supporters and what is happening around the sector in relation to race equality. If you have something you would like to include and publicise in our next issue, scheduled for March 2019, please contact…