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Westminster Blog

The Runnymede Westminster Monitor

Follow our day-to-day coverage of race equality issues in parliament and Whitehall.

The newly established Westminster Monitor will act as an information resource for NGOs, charities, the wider race equality sector and other interested parties, covering the discussion of race in politics and government policy.

Real Histories

Real Histories Directory

The Real Histories Directory (RHD) is an online resource for teachers, parents, pupils and the wider community to encourage teaching and learning about cultural diversity across the UK.

A Lib Dem View

A View from the Liberal Democrats

Liberal Democrat Equalities Spokesperson Lynne Featherstone MP outlines her vision of how to tackle race inequality in the UK in the second in our series of Runnymede Political Platforms.

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Vacancies At Runnymede

We are currently recruiting for an Arts Manager to lead an exciting new video project and a Project Assistant to provide research support for our director. If you are committed to race equality and could see yourself working for one of the UK's leading thinktanks, click the link below.

Ethnic Profiling

How Does it Feel to be Treated Like a Terrorist?

Listen to Zin Derfoufi's firsthand account of being pulled from a flight to India and questioned intensively, despite being innocent of any crime. 

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Young People's Event

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.

A Lib Dem Perspective

Lynne Featherstone writes Race Equality and the Liberal Democrats for our Political Platform series

 

A Matter of Assets

Why Do Assets Matter? Assets Equality and Ethnicity - Building Towards Financial Inclusion

    

Latest Community Study

Making a Contribution: Exploring New Migrants' Sense of Identity and Belonging

Latest News

Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke took part in a 'Question Time' style debate on race equality in Norwich.

He was joined on the panel by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, Conservative councillor Antony Little, Green Party councillor Samir Jeraj, community activist Gita Prasad, and panel chair and BBC reporter Clive Lewis.

Up to 60 per cent 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.

Runnymede on Twitter

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Spaces for our 'Black Fatherhood in the 21st Century' event filled too quickly for me to even tweet it. Videos on our website next wk though
Thursday, 11 March 2010 @ 15:44
Just seen an early edit of a film by @thatguyfemio that will be screened at our fatherhood event with @DavidLammyMP on Monday. Very slick.
Thursday, 11 March 2010 @ 15:39
Awful news RT @AmnestyUK Italy: 'Nomad plan' to evict 6000 Roma people into new camps could leave hundreds homeless: http://bit.ly/9Tfruz
Thursday, 11 March 2010 @ 12:11
Struggling to find a Mothers' Day card that represents your family? More ethnically diverse ones available at http://bit.ly/9LJx40
Thursday, 11 March 2010 @ 12:03
@EKI_Consulting mostly true :-)
Thursday, 11 March 2010 @ 11:57
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