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No More Blank Pages

Understanding more about what we need to do to support local organisations working with and led by people from racialised communities

Published: 01 May 2021
30 minute read
1 document

Overview

In 2021, we undertook a research project to improve our understanding of the support needs of community organisations led by and supporting people of colour. We wanted to better understand our role in being an ally across the sector, providing more effective support and capacity building, and how we work with specialist infrastructure organisations in meeting these needs. We talked to Locality members and local and national organisations, and then shared the findings with members and developed recommendations for action.

The findings of the research and our recommendations are set out in this report. The title for this report “No More Blank Pages” comes from one of the focus group contributors to this research. It speaks to the frustration felt by participants that organisations led by and supporting people of colour were tired of doing the heavy lifting for the sector, pointing out structurally racist and historic problems only to be shown blank pages when it comes to delivering solutions.

UPDATE:

As actions from our No More Blank Pages report, we are now:

  • Developing our policy positions on racial justice in the community sector
  • Developing our support for members on how to make place-based working equal anti-racist working

To help achieve this, in 2022 we have begun our Creating Places for Everyone project, researching the strengths and weaknesses of our central, place-based community anchor model in relation to the issue of racial justice.

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