Runnymede

Are We Getting it Right Yet?
It is a fact that black and minority ethnic pupils are still disproportionately excluded from schools. Runnymede's first eConference will therefore bring leading figures from the education sector together with parents and pupils to discuss the issues key to this debate.

'Question Time' - style debate
You can tune it to a live web stream of our debate on race equality in Norwich on 11 February, 2010. The panel event, which will feature representatives from all the major political parties, will take place at Blackfriars Hall in Norwich between 7pm and 8pm. A link the the live stream will be available on our website on the day.

Racial Profiling in UK Law Enforcement
Lord Carlile of Berriew, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Shadow Minister for Immigration Damian Green MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne MP and Labour MEP Claude Moraes are among those to provide comment for a Runnymede eConference on the use of ethnic profiling by UK police. [Photo copyright info].

Race and Difference
The future of our multi-ethnic society was the focus of lively debate at the Race and Difference event, co-organised by Runnymede.
The evening provided the perfect platform from which to launch Making a Contribution, the last publication in our series of Community Studies, which pulls together an overview of the findings in all eleven of its precursors.

Love for Music Unites Generations
Grime artist and teenage heartthrob Bashy takes the stage alongside acclaimed dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson in the Runnymede event captured in this four-minute video. The two artists recount their stories of growing up in Britain - one today, one decades ago - and how being black and a love of music has shaped this experience for both of them.
Runnymede
Runnymede is the UK's leading race equality thinktank. We are a research-led, non-party political charity working to end racism.
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Why Do Assets Matter? Assets Equality and Ethnicity - Building Towards Financial Inclusion
Latest News
Up to 60% of Black and Asian people have no savings at all, reveals a new research report - Why Do Assets Matter? - from our Financial Inclusion team. The report highlights how tough policy decisions will have to be made to ensure that all people, regardless of ethnicity, have the assets to fulfil their potential.
Practical solutions to the medium-term problems faced by our public services need to be identified, according to the 2020 Public Services Trust (2020 PST), which is placing this task at the centre of its purpose.
Ten recommendations on how to deal with young adults in the criminal justice system have been pulled together in the Young Adult Manifesto, which is published by the Transition to Adulthood (T2A) Alliance and incorporates Runnymede’s suggestions.


