Runnymede

Jim Rose Lecture

A Tale of Tottenham: race, riots and the future

Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Labour MP for Tottenham, will be delivering this year’s Jim Rose Lecture, held in partnership with the LSE.

Join us for this special evening devoted to the memory of Runnymede’s co-founder, Jim Rose, on Wednesday 1 February 2012.

Cities Of Migration

Call for Submissions

Cities of Migration showcases good ideas in immigrant integration and promotes innovative practices that create inclusion and urban prosperity.

They are currently looking for good practice ideas from municipal leaders and outstanding examples of city leadership on immigrant integration.

Glasgow Training

Apply for a place today

This free awareness raising seminar, targeted at UK civil society and non governmental organisations working in the equalities sector, will focus on building capacity in the areas of advocacy, the media and monitoring.

The Glasgow training day has been confirmed for Thursday 9 February



Clench

What are you fighting for?

Runnymede has made a new film about racism and neighbourhood politics, filmed on location in Manchester.

Directed by RIffat Ahmed, the film was made as part of our Generation 3.0 project.

 

Retirement

New research: To Stay or Not to Stay

Runnymede has published new research on the barriers people face when deciding to retire abroad.

Part of our wider work on Financial Inclusion, "To Stay or Not to Stay" shows how people in the UK, particularly those from ethnic minorities, make retirement location decisions.

Race & Sport

MPs hear evidence on race and sport

Sol Campbell, Luther Blissett and others involved in the world of sport have told MPs that racism still exists on and off the pitch.

The speakers argued their case to the All Party Group on Race and Community, for which Runnymede acts as secretariat.

Donate

Support our work

If you care about redressing the balance of ethnic equality in the UK, why not support our work with a donation?

We are independent of any political affiliation and 100 per cent not-for-profit, funded by charitable trusts and generous individuals.

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Runnymede

Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank. We generate intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, leading debate, and policy engagement

Generation 3.0

Publications

Criminal Justice v Racial Justice

 

 

Are You Saying I'm Racist?

Latest News

A renewed focus on tackling ethnic minority poverty and inequality is needed to reduce racial disproportionalities in the criminal justice system, a new report by Runnymede has argued.

Following the Stephen Lawrence verdict, our new report Criminal Justice v Racial Justice argues that now is the time for a new approach to tackle race inequalities in the criminal justice system.

Read more

Writing on the Runnymede blog, our director Rob Berkeley has argued that the Stephen Lawrence verdict is a “call to action” to end racism.

He states that despite changes in the law since Stephen Lawrence’s murder, the UK’s police, schools, councils and health service still regularly offer a worse service for people from black communities.

Read the full blog post

Trust for London, in partnership with Runnymede, has published a new report on preventing racist violence.

The report finds that racist violence continues to be a serious problem in the UK, particularly amongst young people in London.

Read more

Runnymede on Twitter

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Stephen Lawrence's mother says No 10 must do more on race http://t.co/VmuuUvJE via @guardian
Friday, 27 January 2012 @ 21:21
Aboriginal Australians are part of the country's present – not just its past, argues Sarah Keenan on @commentisfree. #AustraliaDay
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 21:42
Read our latest blog post, responding to Nick Clegg's focus today on raising the income tax threshold http://t.co/VxrA6Rin
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 17:27
@faiselr agree!
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 16:32
@emmuk74 thanks very much for this
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 15:02
The Equality Challenge Unit are recruiting 2 Senior Policy Advisers, 1 focused on gender + another on religion + LGBT http://t.co/7qrrkEZi
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 14:14
Europe - who lives where? Interesting interactive guide on @guardian http://t.co/RIpyhLTd
Thursday, 26 January 2012 @ 14:06
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