ROTA Policy E-Newsletter issue 51
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Volunteer with the Tamil oral history project
Through the generations: Tamil oral history project, a one-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, is currently recruiting volunteers to help document the narratives and experiences of the Tamil community in London. The project, jointly delivered by Race on the Agenda and the Tamil Community Centre, is looking…
ROTA’s submission to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner
ROTA's submission to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner: Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in gangs and groups (CSEGG). Read the submission here.
Dr Richard Stone OBE
Dr Richard Stone is a medical doctor who also has extensive experience working against social exclusion, homelessness, and in the grant making charitable sector. He is a leading expert in social cohesion, anti-racism, and Islamophopia, and is a regular speaker around Europe at conferences on these topics. Richard was a panel member of the 1997/99…
ROTA comment on London Councils decision to cut London VCS funding
This week London Councils voted to cut funding for over 200 groups working with London's most vulnerable and disadvantaged residents. Organisations placed in category's B and C will lose funds in June. This cut will reduce the current London Boroughs Grant Scheme from £26.4 million to a core scheme of £9.875 million – a cut…
Recession Report – June 2009
Starting in November 2008, ROTA carried out research through the network of MiNet to look at the impact of the recession on London's BAME Third Sector and London's BAME population. The research showed that the recession as a phenomenon has had a specific impact on London's BAME third sector largely attributed to vast majority of…
Recession Event – June 2009
MiNet launched its report at a successful event on 30th June 2009 at NCVO in London. Speakers at the event included, Ibukun Olashore, MiNet Chair and Director of Organisation for Blind African's and Caribbean's, Ian Redding, Head of Grants, London Councils and Lisa Greensill, Head of the Communities and Third Sector Team in Government Office…
Monitoring Public Spending Cuts on London’s BAME Third Sector
In March 2010, MiNet commenced monitoring public spending cuts on London's BAME Third Sector. The purpose of this research is to map public spending cuts on the BAME Third Sector across the various London boroughs and collect information on the different areas of service delivery where cuts are more prevalent. This will enable MiNet to…
BAME Children and Young People – Recession Mapping
AFRUCA and MiNet are working jointly to map any emerging patterns as a result of the economic downturn on London's BAME children and young people. The information gathered will be used to inform a short report identifying concerns, barriers and potential solutions which will enable AFRUCA and MiNet to accurately raise these concerns at a…