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2003/4REPORT

RUNNYMEDE ACTIVITIES REPORT 2003/4

The Runnymede Trust is an independent policy research organisation focusing

on equality and justice through thepromotion of a successful multi-ethnicsociety. Founded in 1968 as a CharitableEducational Trust, Runnymede has a longtrack record in policy research, working inclose collaboration with eminent thinkersand policymakers in the public, private andvoluntary sectors.We believe that the wayahead lies in building effective partnerships,and we are continually developing thesewith the voluntary sector, the government,local authorities and companies in the UKand Europe.We stimulate debate andsuggest forward-looking strategies in areasof public policy such as education, thecriminal justice system, employment andcitizenship.

Runnymede Staff Team

Michelynn Laflèche Director

Rob Berkeley Deputy Director

Sarah Isal Senior Research & PolicyAnalyst

Debbie Bernard Research Associate

Omar Khan Research Associate

Ros Spry Publications Editor

Filiz Caran Projects Officer

Priyesh Shavdia Accountant (Kingsmill Partnership external

contract)

The Runnymede TrustSuite 106,The London Fruit and Wool ExchangeBrushfield Street, London E1 6EPTel: 020 7377 9222; Fax: 020 7377 6622email: [email protected]: www.runnymedetrust.org

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ContentsChair’s report 1

The Jim Rose Lectures 2

Runnymede Projects Reports:

Strategic Policy Research 4

UKREN in and about Europe 6

The Real Histories Directory 10

This Is Where I Live 12

Preventing Racist Violence 14

Developing a Classroom Resource 16

Diversity in the Workplace 19

Report and Accounts 20

Fundraising & Support

Financial Activities

Director’s Report 23

Runnymede Trustees

Dr Claire Alexander**Dame Diana Brittan, CBE (Chair 1998–9)Barbara Cohen*Shaheed Fatima*Dr Kate Gavron (Vice Chair)Farzana HakimClive JonesHitesh PatelDr Samir Shah, OBE (Chair 1999–)Dr Richard Stone (Vice Chair)Séamus TaylorPat Younge*

* Newly appointed to the board in 2004** Newly appointed to the board in 2005

Retired from the Board: (2003) Maggie Lee; (2004) LincolnCrawford, QC, Professor the Lord Parekh, FBA,TrevorPhillips, CBE.

Pranlal Sheth, at one time a Runnymede trustee, died on 30June 2003. He had been a member of the Race RelationsBoard (1973–7) and Deputy Chair of the CRE (1977–80).

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Runnymede was founded 38 years ago to bring an objective voice to public

debates on immigration and race equality.That objective voice was needed tocounter propaganda and misinformation inthe press and within government regardingthe impact of Britain’s changing diversity,and to push for legal remedies to combatracial discrimination.

Runnymede’s founding Director, DipakNandy, recalled recently that theestablishment of Runnymede was meant tobe a short-term initiative – 5 years at most– an immediate solution to an immediateproblem. But 38 years later, the workremains as necessary as ever.

In 2004 we took stock of the progressgovernment has made in relation toachieving a more just and fair society,measured against the recommendations wemade in our report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain (MEB) in 2000. On publishingour briefing paper Realising the Vision(2004), it was with some pleasure we wereable to report that almost two-thirds ofthe MEB recommendations had been actedupon. Not always in the manner in whichwe would have hoped, but acted uponnonetheless, and with an overallimprovement in the development andimplementation of policy towards creatinga more successful multi-ethnic Britain.However, several important challengesremain:• The pressing need for a single equality

act, especially in anticipation of a singleequality body

• The persistence of wide gaps inachievement and disproportionate ratesof school exclusions for different ethnicgroups

• Difficulties for newly qualified teacherswho find themselves ill-equipped to

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handle race equality and diversity in theclassroom

• Resistance by some public authorities toimplementing the duty to promote raceequality

• Limited action to counteract thediscrimination and unequal outcomessuffered by Gypsy/Traveller communities

• And, despite much new policy andactivity, the persistent and very seriouslevels of institutional and, indeed,individual racisms that remainembedded within the Criminal JusticeSystem, particularly in the police andother public services

Looking back at the original 1960/70s focusof our work – immigration – it is importantto highlight what is causing great uneaseamong all of us who are concerned aboutrace equality.While the terrain in relationto migration policy has shifted considerably,most of our earlier recommendations inthis area remain relevant today. Indeed, theincreasingly restrictive measures beingintroduced by government present newand more difficult challenges to equality,fairness and justice for members ofminority ethnic communities in particular,and for the creation of a society where allcommunities andcitizens cancontribute to theirfull potential.

The challengesare still significant.Tomeet them,Runnymede hasmaintained its focus

Samir Shah, Chair of the

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Hosted by the British Council at its SpringGardens HQ on 15 October 2003, the

first Jim Rose Lecture was delivered by LordLester of Herne Hill, who with Jim Rose co-founded the Runnymede Trust in 1968.

Lord Lester’s address – ‘Nailing the Lieand Promoting Equality’ – spoke of thecircumstances and principles that broughtthe Runnymede Trust into being in the late1960s, and for which there is still a needtoday:

… to combat prejudice and bigotry andto seek ways, beyond political rhetoric, totranslate the ideal of equal citizenshipand the right to equality withoutdiscrimination into practical reality.

Jim Rose’s widow Pam chaired a discussionwhere questions from the floor were

on refining skills, experience and expertiselevels across the full range of areas inwhich we are active. A newly structuredteam now enables us to work with a widerrange of project partners and associates.

Among our Board of Trustees too therehave been changes. Four Trustees haveretired: Professor Bhikhu Parekh,TrevorPhillips, Maggie Lee and Lincoln Crawford.On behalf of the other Trustees and theRunnymede staff team, I would like tothank each one of them wholeheartedlyfor their contributions.We look forward tocontinuing to benefit from their supportand engagement with Runnymede in newbut no less important ways over thecoming years.

Filling the gaps left by eminent Boardmembers is never an easy task, but it is mypleasure to announce the appointment offour new Trustees. As with our retiringmembers, they represent areas ofexpertise which are particularly valuable toour organisation: Barbara Cohen andShaheed Fatima (law), Pat Younge (media)and, most recently, Claire Alexander(academic research).The skills, experienceand interests they bring to our Board helpus in our ongoing organisationaldevelopment and contribute to establishingnew areas of work and competence. Awarm welcome to each one of them. ■

Samir ShahChair of the Runnymede Trust

Eliot Joseph Benn (Jim) Rose, CBE (1909–1999),photographed in 1963 by Jane Bown

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The Jim Rose Lectures

addressed to the platform speakers – LordLester, Professor Heidi Mirza of MiddlesexUniversity, Rod Pryde ADG of the BritishCouncil, and Runnymede’s MichelynnLaflèche.The occasion also saw twolaunches – that of the RunnymedeCollection Archive at Middlesex Universityand a British Council publication on thedevelopment of Citizenship Education andHuman Rights Education in the UK.

The Runnymede Collection is housedon the Cat Hill campus of MiddlesexUniversity as part of a range of archivedmaterial that can be visited byappointment. It contains books, pamphlets,news sheets, publications and papersdocumenting anti-racist and anti-fascist

campaigns from the late 1960s to thepresent day. Sample pages can be foundon the website [www.mdx.ac.uk/runnymede].

Jim Rose’s lifelong public interests infreedom of speech and equality wereexpressed not only in print – famously inthe pages of Colour and Citizenship almost40 years ago – but through a lifetime ofpublic service to race relations.Runnymede is honoured to be able to callpeople together in memory andcelebration of his life and achievements.

The next Jim Rose lecture will be in theautumn of 2005.The text of Lord Lester’s2003 address can be read in full on ourwebsite [www.runnymedetrust.org]. ■

Lord Lester speaking at the first Jim Rose Lecture, with a backdrop of the bannerthat publicises the Runnymede Archive Collection at Middlesex University


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Runnymede has maintained its focus on addressing the key themes that shape

government thinking on race equality andcommunity relations.

The report of the Commission on theFuture of Multi-Ethnic Britain was revisited toexamine how it had influenced governmentpolicy. In our ‘Realising the Vision’ briefingpaper, we were able to announce that overtwo-thirds of the recommendations made inThe Parekh Report were now beingprogressed by government. Given thereport’s difficult initial reception and theshifting sands of ‘race’ and communityrelations, this is an achievement of whichthose involved with the Commission can beduly proud.

The crucial ideas in the report wereinfluential for Runnymede too.These havebeen developed further in our work oncohesion, in particular at a large conference‘Developing Community Cohesion’, in mid-2003, which was timely in delivering earlyviews in the potential benefits and pitfalls ofthe cohesion agenda.Also, the report’sinfluence was felt in a project thatconsidered the role of the auditor andinspector in promoting and assuring raceequality, published as Guardians of RaceEquality.

Having developed a range of work oncommunity cohesion, which helped

DIARY NOTESApril to June 2003

April Publication of Runnymede’sBriefing Paper Divided by the SameLanguage, circulated with theMarch Bulletin.

May Launch of Complementing Teachersat the Institute of Education,London.

Announcement of what beganas the Black History MonthDirectory project, compiling newresources for schools, and whichwas launched in 2004 as the RealHistories Directory.

June NASUWT pilots of professionaldevelopment courses to supportComplementing Teachers held atBirmingham HQ – primary andjunior courses.

Images from the ‘Cohesion, Diversity, Equality’ Conference inJanuary 2005. (L–R) Chris Elliott, Deidre Forbes, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Clive Jones were panel speakers in the Media PanelDebate; Michelynn Laflèche and Jeremy Vine were active in the‘Question Time’ session; Trevor Phillips (lower LHS) responded

to the opening address by Charles Clarke; Pat Younge (lowercentre) introduced Paul Elliott (upper right) on the subject of

racism in sport; Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s poetry performancebridged afternoon and evening sessions; and Charles Clarke,

Home Secretary, in the conference’s opening session, introducedthe government’s strategy document Improving Opportunity,

Strengthening Society. (Photos by Benedict Hilliard)

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practitioners and policymakers relate theagenda more closely to race equality, weshifted our gaze to consider civil renewal andsocial capital. David Faulkner authored aRunnymede Perspectives paper to introducethis debate. He argued that the civil renewalagenda so favoured by the then HomeSecretary could be fatally flawed if it did notsufficiently take into account the realities ofliving in a multi-ethnic society. Responses tothe paper were gathered through an expertseminar, from which a further discussionpaper was drafted – ‘Civil Renewal for All?’

Shared with interested delegates at boththe Labour and Liberal Democratconferences 2004, this paper was used tostimulate debate at a larger academicconference – ‘Social Capital, Civil Renewaland Ethnic Diversity’.This event featuredchallenging presentations from Professor BenFine,Trevor Phillips, Dan Corry,AvilaKilmurray and David Halpern.The publishedproceedings set out a challenge to thoseengaged in civil renewal to also engage withthe issues of race equality. By focusing on thisarea Runnymede had already begun to openup debates about participation, engagement,citizenship and social capital to an audienceof policy makers and practitioners workingon issues of race equality – and to persuadethose already grappling with practicalapplications of social capital theory to keep

Strategic Policy ResearchProject Leader: Rob Berkeley

race equality in the equation.This work is ongoing, with commissioned

research and wider Runnymede projectsreflecting our concern that the way in whichwe envisage governance and citizenshipneeds to be fully responsive to the ethnicdiversity of our society.

January 2005 also gave Runnymede anopportunity to return to its key role inengaging policymakers and practitioners withstrategic policymaking on race and faithequality.The government launched its lateststrategy on race equality, communitycohesion and faith at our conference‘Cohesion, Diversity, Equality’.This well-attended conference enabled delegates toimmediately engage with the government’splans, set further challenges, and establishwider networks to respond to thegovernment’s proposals.A wide range ofworkshops and an innovative ‘Question Time’panel, chaired by the BBC’s Jeremy Vine,ensured that many voices were heard anddelegates left with a clear understanding ofthe key issues.

The next period, as we move through2005/6, will include further work on civilrenewal, together with a consideration ofchoice in public services, segregation andintegration, and improved understanding ofdiversity within and between minority ethniccommunities. ■


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The UK Race and EuropeNetwork restructures itselfIn January 2003, UKREN held its firstAnnual General Meeting in 2003, andelected a Management Committee – twosignificant steps in its commitment toreposition itself as an independent body.With 101 registered members, theAnnual General Meeting took place on15 July 2003 at the Commission for RacialEquality in London, at which a 4-personExecutive Committee was elected:

Don Flynn (JCWI), ChairKaren Chouhan (1990 Trust),Vice-Chair &

SecretaryArlington Trotman (CCRJ),Vice-ChairMichelynn Laflèche (Runnymede Trust),

Treasurer

UKREN members were also intensivelyquestionnaired to build up a betterknowledge of what members couldcontribute and how UKREN could bestsupport them in their work.

Meetings outside LondonManagement Committee meetings areregularly held outside London to raiselocal awareness of UKREN.Thesemeetings usually feature a seminar with alocal focus. During 2003/4 the locations

DIARY NOTESJuly to September 2003

July First UKREN AGM held at theCRE, London.

Aug Publication of DevelopingCommunity Cohesion: Understandingthe Issues Delivering Solutions,proceedings of the RunnymedeConference of November 2002which had featured Sir Ian Blair,Beverly Hughes MP, Lord Parekhand Gary Younge of the Guardiannewspaper.

Sept ‘London 16-19’, capturing asnapshot of teenage life in Londontoday. Hosted by the Museum ofLondon it showcased the work of6 youth groups, 2 of which featurein Runnymede’s ‘This Is Where ILive’ project.

Faces from UKREN events 2003 and 2004:at the Bradford meeting are (this page) Karima Zahi and

Patrick Yu from NICEM and (facing page) Anja Rudiger,now at the Refugee Council, in conversation with

Maureen Grant of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust;Claude Moraes, MEP, Mohammed Aziz of UKREN’s

Management Committee (chairing) and Jean-Yves Camusare panel speakers at the London meeting of February

2004 (column 2, facing page upper right);at the Glasgow meeting in 2003, Fariha Thomas of the

AMINA-Muslim Women’s Resource Centre, FraserCampbell of SEMPER and Damir Duheric of the Scottish

Refugee Council are the main panel speakers

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chosen for those meetings were Bradford,Glasgow, Leicester and Belfast.

The Bradford meeting (September2003) was supported by the JosephRowntree Charitable Trust in its hostingof a seminar on ‘Bringing Europe to WestYorkshire’, which included discussionaround the Convention on the Future ofEurope, religious discrimination andimmigration and asylum.

BEMIS (Black and Ethnic MinorityInfrastructure in Scotland) were the hostsin Glasgow (December 2003), where theseminar topics included refugees andasylum-seeking, religious discrimination,Gypsies and Travellers, and racism in thepolice force.

In Leicester the meeting (May 2004) atthe National Youth Agency included aseminar on ‘Young People and Europe’,organised by Minorities of Europe. Mostrecently, a meeting in Belfast (February2005) was hosted by the EqualityCommission for Northern Ireland, whobrought together speakers andparticipants to talk about racist violenceand migration issues.

Meetings in LondonLondon-based meetings haveconcentrated on executive commitments– the first and second AGMs (July 2003,

UKREN in and about EuropeProject Leader: Sarah Isal

October 2004) – or events with invitedspeakers from mainland Europe.

Sometimes both functions have beencombined. In February 2004 at the UKOffice of the European Parliament,Claude Moraes MEP hosted a seminar onthe rise of the extreme right. Anelectronic report of the proceedings wasput up on the Runnymede website sothat it could be disseminated widelyahead of the European elections on 10June. In October 2004, following theAGM, UKREN organised a seminar on theimpact of Europe on combating racism inthe UK.Topics covered includedmigration, the extreme right andinstitutional racism.

Representation on other bodiesUKREN is always represented at ENAR(European Network Against Racism)events. At the conference on religiousdiscrimination (Netherlands, October2003) Sarah Isal and Michelynn Laflèchechaired a workshop and plenary sessionaimed specifically at informing ENAR’sstrategy on religious discrimination andthe implementation of the EuropeanEmployment Directive in all memberstates.The ENAR General Assembly(Lisbon March 2004) was attended by 10members of UKREN.


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UKREN publicationsIn summer 2004, with the help of UKRENManagement Committee members, we puttogether an informative UKREN pamphletOvercoming racism: why a European perspectiveis crucial alongside a new promotional leaflet‘UKREN: your link to Europe’. Funded byUNISON, CRE and BEMIS, launched atUKREN’s 2nd AGM, and circulated to allUKREN members, these pamphlets havesupported a significant and continuousincrease in the membership of UKREN.

Responses to ConsultationsNGO shadow report to CERD (2003)UKREN was involved in the collaborativeproduction of the NGO shadow report tothe UN Committee on the Elimination of allForms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).CERD examined the UK government’ssubmission on 6 and 7 August 2003 and acoalition of NGOs attended the session tolobby CERD members on behalf of collective

concerns, which included asylum-seekers andtheir press coverage, inconsistencies of anti-discrimination legislation, the Human RightsCommission, and the plight of Gypsy andTraveller communities.The coalition continuesits collective work by monitoring theimplementation of CERD conclusions by theUK government until the next report due in2005.

EC ConsultationsUKREN endeavoured to support theplethora of responses from its members tothe European Commission’s Green Paper onthe Future of Anti-discrimination in anEnlarged Europe (November 2004).Then,early in 2005, we prepared both UKREN andRunnymede’s response to the EuropeanCommission’s consultation on theestablishment of a European FundamentalRights Agency, due to extend the remit of theEuropean Monitoring Centre on Racism andXenophobia to cover all fundamental rights.

Don Flynn, Chair of UKREN in conversation with Sarah Isal, UKREN Coordinator

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Oct First Jim Rose Lecture, held at theBritish Council, with simultaneouslaunch of the RunnymedeCollection Archive at MiddlesexUniversity and of Guardians ofRace Equality, a collection ofperspectives on regulation andinspection for race equality,published by Runnymede insupport of the need to implementthe RR(A)A 2000 legislation.

ENAR conference on ‘ReligiousDiscrimination in the EU’, 24–25October Amsterdam.

Nov Active participation byRunnymede’s Director MichelynnLaflèche in ‘A Sense of Place’, aconference on the role of the artsand media in reshaping societiesand identities in Europe, organisedby the British Council and held inCardiff, related to our ‘This IsWhere I Live’ project for youngpeople.

Dec Publication of Civil Renewal,Diversity and Social Capital in aMulti-Ethnic Britain by DavidFaulkner as Runnymede’s firstcontribution to 2004’s debatearound Social Capital as aconceptual tool and as an activeconstituent of networkedapproaches to supporting equality,diversity and cohesion.

DIARY NOTESOctober to

December 2003UKREN’s response was disseminated to themembership, in order to encourageresponses from the UK NGO sector.

Strength in DiversityResponding to the UK Government’sStrength in Diversity consultation UKRENfocused primarily on the Europeanperspective, and on how to combineCommunity priorities with those broughtforward from the World Conference AgainstRacism, as incorporated and expressed withinthe National Action Plan Against Racism.

Forthcoming partnershipsUKREN has been invited to participate in aEuropean project called SOLID (Strategieson Litigation Tackling Discrimination in EUCountries), a training programme aimed ateffective transposition and implementation ofthe EU Race Equality and FrameworkDirectives.This work will be developed in2005. ■


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DIARY NOTESJanuary to March 2004

Jan Official launch of the RealHistories Directory website at theLMAL Cultural Diversity NetworkEvent at City Hall, London on 28January.

Feb UKREN seminar on the activitiesof the Extreme Right in Europeanpolitics, with Claude Moraes andJean-Yves Camus speaking – at theUK Office of the EuropeanParliament.

March Publication of Realising the Vision –a Runnymede briefing paperrevisiting the 2000 Report of theCommission on the Future ofMulti-Ethnic Britain – circulatedwith the March issue of theRunnymede Bulletin.

We started up this Runnymedeproject in 2003 as the Black

History Month Directory with thesupport of the Calouste Gulbenkian Fundand others. It was conceived as a webdirectory to serve as a reference point forteachers, parents and those interested incultural diversity to locate information onresources within their area.

Unlocking the UK’s diverse cultural heritageFrom the outset we envisaged that its titlewould change, after launch, to the RealHistories Directory, and this was done inNovember 2003.The name change reflectsour position that history teaching whichincludes the contribution of black andminority ethnic experiences to ourcollective British narrative should not belimited to one month per year.

Consultations in the pilot yearpersuaded us to narrow the focus to aschool audience, and LWT gave ussupport for the development of a websitefor the pilot LEAs. By October 2004 wehad reached every LEA in the country, andan events page had been designed andadded to the main RHD site.This nowholds information – on culturally diverseexhibitions, performance artists, danceclasses, etc. – which will be of use toteachers, parents and young people, andwhich complements the main site byfeaturing the events of many of theresource providers included there.

Users can access information onculturally relevant organisations across theUK through searching by age (Key Stage),subject area, local education authority orresource. Users are also invited to submitresources that they feel may be of interestto others so that the directory will

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continue to grow and be of direct benefitnot only to teachers and pupils interestedin diversity issues but also to the widercommunity.

EvaluationNotably, thesite wasreviewed by BECTA and gained theaccreditation of the National Grid forLearning in August 2004.

A further site evaluation, in November2004, involved on-line surveys withmembers of the RHD steering committee,interviews with resource providersfeatured on the website and actionresearch with groups of teachers fromprimary and secondary schools.Conducted on our behalf by an external

The Real Histories DirectoryProject Leader: Debbie BernardProject Initiator: Nicola Rollock

Interim Support:Anjali Wareham

evaluator, this exercise has confirmed theDirectory’s value to teachers and othereducation practitioners.

Recommendations from bothevaluations are now being implementedand a drive for a refreshed look andexpanded content in time for BlackHistory Month October 2005 is underway.

‘A Real Success Story’The Real Histories Directory nowprovides a unique opportunity toencourage teaching and learning aboutdiversity for all communities across the UKthroughout the year. New site entries areedited and added weekly, and groupscontinue to submit information about theirwork to us at www.realhistories.org.uk. ■


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DIARY NOTESApril to June 2004

Apr At Leighton House, SouthKensington, the launch of ourbriefing paper Realising the Vision inthe presence of a gathering ofRunnymede friends andsupporters. Fiona Mactaggart,Parliamentary Under Secretary forRace Equality, Community Policyand Civil Renewal, spoke at thelaunch, which was also acelebration in support ofRunnymede’s work

May Commencement of Phase 2 of the‘This Is Where I Live’ arts project,engaging young people in acountrywide debate aboutheritage, identity, nation andcitizenship. Phase 1 had produceda range of responses to focusgroup interviews that had set thestyle and determined theparticipants for Phase 2, in whichthe young people’s voices areamplified and they are encouragedto engage with theircontemporaries in policymakingand debate

Jun Conference at Oxford House,Bethnal Green on the theme of‘Social Capital, Civil Renewal andEthnic Diversity’, the secondRunnymede contribution of 2004to a discussion on tackling thefundamental building blocks ofsocial interaction in relation to theinstitutions of the state

‘This Is Where I Live’ (or TIWIL as we came to know it) is a project that

involved a range of young people, throughengagement with the arts, in a countrywidedebate about heritage, identity, nation andcitizenship.

From mid-2003 to 2004 Rob Berkeleyand Rajiv Anand conducted focus groupresearch across the UK with newly formedand existing youth organisations who wereusing the arts for working out ways ofinteracting socially with their peers.Thegroups were widely diverse, someorganised around their ethnicity, othersaround location or interest.They includedgroups of young people with disabilities,lesbian and gay groups, Baha’i, Muslim, ruraland urban groups. From the 27participating groups, 14 took part in thefocus group research.They formed thecore around which the expression andrecording, in a variety of formats, of theiropinions about what it is to live in thiscountry as a young person in the 21stcentury became concentrated.

In order to record and share the youngpeople’s ideas and activities with a wideraudience, the project resolved itself around

Project groups being filmed in November 2004 forthe ‘This Is Where I Live’ cd-rom.

(Photos by Benedict Hilliard)

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‘This Is Where I Live’Project Leader: Rob Berkeley

Project Coordinator Phase 1: Rajiv Anand

the development and production of a cd-rom for schools. Six of the TIWIL groupswere chosen for filming and follow-upinterviews:

• Fitzrovia Youth in Action (photography)• Monkwearmouth School in Sunderland

(video)• Trash Fashion at Belfast Community

Arts (fashion design)• Merseyside Youth Association (poetry)• Bristol Youth Music Action Zone (music

and lyrics)• Shahck-Out Too! At RJC Dance in Leeds

(dance)

Working in partnership with Skillset’s CarolJacobs and Heart Vision’s Shabazz L.Graham, 12 hours’ worth of material wasfilmed in the final months of 2004.Launched in January 2005 by two youngcontributors to the project at our‘Cohesion, Diversity, Equality’ conference,the edited cd-rom (at 11/2 hours’ length)also featured in the Youth Section of theODPM’s Sustainable Communities Summitin Manchester during the same month.

The views of the young people address

a wide range of current debates about thefuture of multi-ethnic Britain, and the cd-rom is a useful resource for other youngpeople, policymakers and practitioners inunderstanding the importance of identity,heritage and belonging in contemporaryBritain and Northern Ireland.The cd-rom isavailable free of charge to all secondaryschools and community groups, andaccompanying lesson plans for teachers canbe found on our website at www.runnymedetrust.org.

Analysis of the young people’s views,gathered in the focus groups and throughtheir artistic efforts, underpins a policypublication.This too is available on theRunnymede website.

Among the key issues it addresses are:

• Devising activities to support thedevelopment of young people’s identity

• The everyday impact of racisms• Young people’s participation in decision-

making and influence on policy• The important role of youth work in

challenging racisms and developing asense of belonging. ■


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DIARY NOTESJuly to September 2004

Jul Launch of our ‘Preventing RacistViolence’Working Paper at theHouse of Lords, at a receptionhosted by Baroness Whitaker

Aug Accreditation of our Real HistoriesDirectory by the National Grid forLearning.

Sep ‘Civil Renewal for All: Deliveringcivil renewal in a multi-ethnicBritain’ – a Runnymede WorkingPaper published in web versiononly.

Active involvement with theENAR Conference andWorkshops on Combating Racismand Xenophobia as a Crime.

Runnymede is represented atthe major party political nationalconferences.

In January 2003, work started on a newRunnymede initiative ‘Preventing Racist

Violence: Working with PotentialPerpetrators’. Following on from our 2002publication Perpetrators of RacistViolence, this programme set out toinvestigate existing local and community-based projects that use primaryprevention as a means of reaching out toand changing the attitudes and behavioursof potential perpetrators of racistviolence.

A scoping exercise, carried out withthe help of two interns from theUniversity of Westminster, initiatedcontacts with various organisations acrossLondon. An expert steering group was setup with youth workers, academics andanti-racist activists represented, and DrRichard Stone as the lead RunnymedeTrustee.

We proceeded to identify andconsolidate contacts in 4 pilot Londonboroughs (Brent, Merton, Southwark andTower Hamlets) through establishing LocalReference Groups in each borough.Thesealso served as a cross-borough networkof practitioners.The final months of 2003were spent interviewing organisations anddeveloping a broad range of contacts

Guests gathered at the Lord Chancellor’s Apartments, Houseof Lords, for the Working Paper launch

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Preventing Racist ViolenceProject Leader: Sarah Isal

newly interested in the work ofRunnymede.

In July 2004, to keep the informationflowing, we drafted a working paper thatsignposted the interim findings of thework carried out in 2003/04. One keyfinding was that work with potentialperpetrators of racist violence is de factomainstreamed in a variety of sectors andpolicy frameworks, such as civil renewal,crime reduction or community cohesion.The paper spells out how thismainstreaming takes place and outlinesour thoughts on ways to inform policy inthis area.

The paper was launched on 5 July2004 as a Working Paper at a well-attended reception in the River Room(the Lord Chancellor’s Apartments) at theHouse of Lords.The reception, hosted byJanet Whitaker, not only provided anopportunity to present the findings butalso brought together all the practitioners,key organisations and individualscontacted during phase 1. Positivefeedback on the project and follow-upresponses to the Working Paper camefrom a wide range of organisationsincluding the Metropolitan Police,Southwark Mediation and LondonProbation.

The final report is being drafted in2005, and will be launched in October

2005 as the focus for a majorconference, with Home Office ministerPaul Goggins giving the keynote address,and interactive workshop sessions tobring practitioner expertise into contactwith policymakers. ■

Baroness Whitaker, a Runnymede Patron, launched the‘Preventing Racist Violence’ Working Paper at the Houseof Lords in July 2004


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DIARY NOTESOctober to December 2004

Oct UKREN AGM – the second inLondon – is followed by anothersuccessful seminar, this timefocusing on ‘Europe: Itsimportance in the fight againstracism’.

Nov Commencement of the INSETProfessional DevelopmentCourses designed to support theuse of Complementing Teachers.

Launch of Muslims in the UK, anOSI publication, at a jointly hostedevent at Portcullis House,Westminster.

Dec Production of the ‘This Is Where ILive’ cd-rom goes into full swing,visiting 6 location/filming sites,editing the footage, then writingand filming the links.

Nicola Rollock, Michelynn Laflèche, Jagdish Gundara andNatalie Rollock at the launch of Complementing Teachers

Nicola Rollock, Sam Rock and Anya Makerova run a pilottraining day with the new trainers’ handbook

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Published on 14 April 2003,Complementing Teachers: A practical

guide to promoting race equality in schoolswas launched at the Institute of Educationon 1 May. Activity since that date hasfocused on two distinct strands: promotionand dissemination of the publication, anddevising and piloting the professionaldevelopment courses which will useComplementing Teachers as their corematerial.

Using the BookCreated by a team of teachers, educationspecialists and race equality expertsComplementing Teachers is a resource thatcan help all types of schools comply withthe duty to promote race equality. It offersa range of information they can use toreview their policies and practices inpursuit of ensuring a high-quality educationfor pupils of any ethnic identity, culturaltradition or community experience. It willsupport pupils in their development ofpersonal and cultural identities and a senseof citizenship in today’s culturally diversesocieties, particularly those who come fromless ethnically diverse and multi-ethnicschools.

Developing a Classroom ResourceProject leader: Nicola Rollock

Interim Support:Anya Makerova

Ongoing promotions of the book havetaken place within specific LEAs withwhom we established close workingrelationships, and since November 2004there have been INSET days and trainingworkshops at conferences.The next stagefor us has been to put together a trainers’handbook for use with the ProfessionalDevelopment Courses we are trialling in2005.

Professional Development CoursesEarly versions of courses usingComplementing Teachers were run withsupport from the NASUWT at theirheadquarters in Birmingham in 2003.Thesedevelopmental sessions were aimed atprimary and secondary school teachersand newly qualified teachers (NQTs).

Our new full-day course consists of arange of exercises that include planninglessons and full schemes of work usingComplementing Teachers. Featuring ourtrainers’ handbook, handouts, copies of thetextbook and related cd-roms, it is beingpiloted in 2005.The training aims toprovide a context for current debates onethnicity and education.Teachers areencouraged to think about their ownidentity and experiences and how thesemight impact on classroom teaching andlearning, and they are supported in findingcreative ways to use the handbook.Contact us at Runnymede for more details.

New projectsWe have also been developing newprojects in education, and two significantproposals are in the pipeline for 2005 –one on School Choice and EthnicSegregation, the other on CommunityCohesion and Faith Schools. ■


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DIARY NOTESJanuary to March 2005

Jan Runnymede’s national conferenceon ‘Cohesion, Diversity, Equality’ isheld at Congress House, withHome Secretary Charles Clarke askeynote speaker, and FionaMactaggart, Parliamentary UnderSecretary for Race Equality,Community Policy and CivilRenewal, launching government’sreport on Improving Opportunity,Strengthening Society.

Feb The professional evaluation of ourReal Histories Directory iscompleted, and plans are agreedfor expanded content and arefreshed look in 2005.

Mar Dissemination of ‘The SpaceBetween’ Briefing Report with theMarch issue of the RunnymedeBulletin completes this currentcycle of work on the impact oflanguage on Equal Ops inEmployment.

Runnymede’s Quarterly Bulletin

First published in 1969 as a monthly information sheet on race relations, the

Bulletin has evolved through severalredesigns that reflected changes of emphasisfor the work of the Trust. A quarterlypublication since 1999, the Bulletin nowseeks to reflect the range of work its policyresearchers engage with – through activecollaboration with other NGOs andacademic institutions here and acrossEurope, and with departments and agenciesof government. In support of embeddinganti-racist attitudes through advocacy,research and support for legislative change,we report on our own activities and thoseof our associates, and we publish relatedopinion pieces, research articles and reviewsof current publications.

In 2003/4 we have been focusing oncommunity cohesion, social capital, equalitiesand human rights, and preventing racistviolence – all in support of active projectand policy involvement by members of theRunnymede team. Also, in each quarterlyissue, Omar Khan has published articles thatput ethnicity at the forefront of subjectsranging from the day-to-day of politics – the

Census and elections– to equalities,discussed in suchcontexts as basicincome, democracyand representation,diversity andshared values,group rights,human rights,justice and moralresponsibility. ■

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Diversity in the WorkplaceProject Leader: Michelynn Laflèche

External Researcher: Sandra Sanglin-Grant

From 2000 to the present, Runnymedehas been registering a persistent gap in

perception between those making policypronouncements on equality and diversityin the workplace and those receiving themessages as employees.This gap is thefactor by which rhetoric from strategicpolicymakers fails to reflect or predict theexperience of minority ethnic managers asthey progress their careers within themanagement hierarchies of nationalbusinesses and organisations.

Our Moving on Up? report in 2000 hadshown the disproportion between strengthof minority ethnic intake and theirnumerical shortfall in terms of progress tomanagement success among some FTSE-100 companies. Companies, however, werethen and now talking up the strength oftheir equality and diversity practices, sowhy was and is the rhetoric so differentfrom the experiences?

With Widening the Talent Pool in 2002and Divided by the Same Language in 2003,we’ve kept examining the nature of thisgap, to try and work out how it could beeradicated.


Recent back issues of the Bulletin in pdfform can be found on our website, andwe can supply researchers with printedor photocopied Bulletins dating back to1969 on request.The current calendaryear is available by subscription to thepaper version.

Runnymede’s archival library is nowheld at the Centre for Racial EqualityStudies at Middlesex University as theRunnymede Collection[www.mdx.ac.uk/www/runnymedecollection]. ■

In our latest report – The SpaceBetween: From Rhetoric to Reality in theWorkplace (published officially in April2005) – we concentrated again onlanguage.This time we were examininghow the language of Human Resourceswas managing to give a false impression ofsuccess – to the HR personnel themselvesin particular – while minority ethnicmanagers remain unengaged andunpromoted.What emerged from thisreport was a more purposeful modelling ofHR language directed towards more trulyinclusive outcomes. ■


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Fundraising and SupportOur work is supported primarily by fourcategories of funder: independent grant-making trusts; international organisations;corporate sponsors; and individual donors.A proportion of our annual income isrecurrent, as a result of long-term individualand corporate pledges, but the majority isearned through targeted projectfundraising.The remainder consists ofrevenues we receive from the events, thesale of project material, as well as fromsubscriptions to our regular publication theBulletin.

As always, we owe a large part of oursuccess to those socially minded individuals– the Trustees and the Friends ofRunnymede – who have beendemonstrating their commitment tocultural diversity and social justice bymaking regular donations to our work. As ateam, we also wish to express our thanksto organisations and individuals who haveendorsed our work by allowing us to makeuse of their time, their premises or theirresources, or who supported us financiallywith project- or provision-based grants.

In 2005 and beyond we will continue towork in collaborative partnerships bothnew and established.The purpose of thatwork is to press for high-priority actiontowards the achievement of a more equaland multi-ethnic society through thestrength of the findings and presentationsof our key projects.

Runnymede’s Activities Report for2002/3 can be downloaded from ourwebsite [www.runnymedetrust.org].Information about current and newprojects can be found there, along withseveral volumes of back issues of ourquarterly Bulletin in pdf form. ■

Report and Accounts for the years 2003 and 2004

Supporters in 2003/4OrganisationsThe Allen FoundationAmberstone TrustThe Avenue Charitable TrustAW.60Bank of EnglandBarclays BankBEMISBridge House Estates Trust FundThe British CouncilChurches Commission for Racial JusticeCity Parochial FoundationComic ReliefEsmée Fairbairn FoundationEuropean Network Against RacismThe Garfield Weston FoundationThe Calouste-Gulbenkian FoundationJoseph Rowntree Charitable TrustJoseph Rowntree FoundationKPMGLloyds TSB Foundation for England and WalesLWTMars UK LimitedThe Methodist ChurchPaul Hamlyn FoundationPH Holt Charitable TrustRobert Gavron Charitable TrustUnisonWyseliot Charitable Trust

Government/Statutory BodiesActive Citizenship Centre at the Home OfficeCommission for Racial EqualityCommunity Cohesion Unit at the Home OfficeRace Equality Unit at the Home Office

IndividualsSir Adrian CadburyLord and Lady HaskinsKlausner Estate (Legacy)Pam Rose

Gifts in KindAshurst Morris CrispThe British CouncilCommission for Racial EqualityGood Relations CommunicationsGranada LearningInstitute for EducationISOBEL CommunicationsITV NewsRMP3 PR

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Statement of Financial Activities for the Years Ended 31st December 2003 & 2004

Total TotalFunds Funds

2004 £ 2003 £

INCOMING RESOURCESDonations and Grants 173,996 131,990Publications and Subscriptions 13,776 10,699Bank Interest Receivable 782 525Fees: Lecturing and Consultancy 7,294 1,717Education Programme 22,871 19,019Employment Programme 5,000 18European Programme 24,467 29,186Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain Programme - 24,923Preventing Racist Violence Programme 6,757 59,042Strategic Policy Research (formerly MEB) 32,449 -This Is Where I Live Programme 17,000 20,000TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 304,392 297,119

RESOURCES EXPENDEDCosts of generating funds 27,466 18,986Fund-raising and Publicity 27,466 18,986

NET INCOMING RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR CHARITABLE APPLICATION 276,926 278,133

CHARITABLE EXPENDITUREDirect Charitable Expenditure 196,797 219,556Management and Administration 80,973 76,833

TOTAL CHARITABLE EXPENDITURE 277,770 296,389TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED 305,236 315,376

NET OUTGOING RESOURCES BEFORE TRANSFERS (844) (18,256)Transfers Between Funds - -NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS (844) (18,256)

BALANCES BROUGHT FORWARD at 1st January 2004 11,318 29,574BALANCES CARRIED FORWARD at 31st December 2004 £10,474 £11,318

CONTINUING AND DISCONTINUED OPERATIONSNone of the company’s activities were acquired or discontinued during the above two financial years.

TOTAL RECOGNISED GAINS AND LOSSESThere were no recognised gains or losses for the year.


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Balance Sheet as at 31st December 2003 & 20042004 2003

£ £ £ £

FIXED ASSETSTangible assets 10,971 13,298

CURRENT ASSETSDebtors 10,750 11,776Cash at Bank and in Hand 11,317 4,228

22,067 16,004

CURRENT LIABILITIESCreditors: falling due within one year 22,564 17,984

NET CURRENT (LIABILITIES) (496) (1,980)NET ASSETS £10,474 £11,318

CAPITAL AND RESERVESUnrestricted Funds 15,735 10,141Restricted Funds (5,261) 1,177

£10,474 £11,318

At the Leighton House Reception in April 2004, Ashley Sweetland, Co-Chair of the UK Youth Parliament meets Rushanara Ali of theYoung Foundation and Rob Berkeley of Runnymede

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Director’s Report

Runnymede has a tradition of mainly pursuing its own research and policy

agenda, but during 2004, with somerevisions to our organisational structure, wehave been able to work with a wider rangeof associates on tendered or commissionedresearch.This policy will continue into2005/6, and we are already involved inmapping exercises and in producingguidelines on BME issues in the areas ofhealth, housing and social policy.

Trustees have supported these initiativesby approving the creation of the post ofDeputy Director – in mid-2004 – and theestablishment of a Patrons’ Board alongsideimproved academic and regional networks.Partnerships with other organisations in ourkey project disciplines – education,employment/work, criminal justice, arts,media and culture, and health and socialwelfare – are already increasing our strengthand depth in these programme areas.

Ultimately, it was the quality of ourpolicy-orientated work that enabled us tosecure the Home Secretary as the keynotespeaker for our January 2005 Conference –‘Community Cohesion, Diversity andEquality: Civil Renewal in Multi-ethnicBritain’.The content of that conference hascertainly solidified Runnymede’s position asthe leading non-governmental organisationfocused on research and policy analysis inrelation to race and equality, and we arecontinuing to pursue this line.

Programme area results (researchfindings, reports, guidance, policy responses,handbooks, etc.) are disseminated aspublications (extensive or brief, printedand/or web-based), promoted through theRunnymede Quarterly Bulletin as our mainvehicle, highlighted on our website to drawin new contacts, and circulated at our ownand other events. During the timespan

covered by this report these have beenmany. Some are covered in the pages of thisdocument, but the full list can be found onour website.

In addition to their own project work,Runnymede team members are engaged inprojects led by other organisations, as wellas sitting on the panels of numerousadvisory bodies, responding to consultations,and taking active roles in over 200 nationaland international conferences of directrelevance to our work.We make an effortto ensure that our project and policy worktakes us out of London on a regular basis.By doing this we can improve ourawareness and knowledge of what mattersto those participating in equalities debates inthe devolved regions.For me as Director some of these changesin 2004 freed up sufficient capacity for meto actively engage in time-intensive taskforcemembership and policy responses.We haveparticipated actively, and with a high profile,on the equalities consultations and reviewsin particular, throughout 2004 andcontinuing into 2005. Other members ofstaff and Trustees have increased their publicpresence too by means of keynoteaddresses and participation in otherorganisations’ events.

Although we arefew in number ourpublic presence iscontinually growing,our programme hasbeen both importantand influential, and willcontinue to be so. ■

MichelynnLaflècheDirector of theRunnymede Trust


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From 2003 to mid-2004 Rajiv Anand was with us on a fixed-term contract as Youth and ArtsCoordinator for Phase 1 of the ‘This Is Where I Live’ project.

Over the period April 2003 to March 2005, we engaged twelve research interns (minimumplacements of 4 weeks) four of whom undertook longer-term placements (3–6 months).There were also two single-week job-shadowing placements, two 2-week year-10 workexperience placements, and two volunteers helping with basic administration.

Our Interns were: Mohan Ambikaipaker, Natasha Conhye, Preyal Dalal, Amanda Gitten, DunniJoseph, Ravi Longia, Anya Makerova,Vinay Menon, Sara Mody, Oluwatoyin Opeloyeru, RobertStein, Anjali Wareham (who also worked as a staff member on the Real Histories Directory).

Runnymede policy staff are or have been Members of the following Committees duringthis 2-year period:

Runnymede Staff From early 2003 through to early 2005 our core staff were as follows:

Michelynn Laflèche DirectorRob Berkeley Deputy Director (Strategic Policy Research)Sarah Isal Senior Research & Policy Analyst (Europe; Racist Violence)Debbie Bernard Research Associate (Real Histories Directory)Omar Khan Research AssociateRos Spry Publications EditorFiliz Caran Projects OfficerVastiana Belfon Projects Officer (maternity cover 2004/5)Harpreet Dhami Development Officer (to May 2005)Priyesh Shavdia Accountant

Black Gay Men’s’ Advisory GroupChurches Commission for Racial Justice

(CCRJ) Church & Race Editorial BoardCommunity Cohesion Unit Practitioner

Groups for : Education, Employment,Policing

Commission for Equality and Human Rights(CEHR) Taskforce

Centre for Citizenship and Human RightsEducation, Leeds University

Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education,Leicester University

Committee for the Elimination of RacialDiscrimination (CERD) NGO ShadowCommittee

Children of New Arrivals to EnglandCRE Good Race Relations Steering Group

DCA Ministerial Forum on Human RightsDfES Innovation UnitEuropean Network Against Racism

(ENAR) BoardEqualities Coalition Advisory GroupEquality & Diversity ForumEthnicity Research Advisory Group, ESRCHome Office Active Citizenship CentreJoseph Rowntree Foundation Race and

Ethnicity Advisers PanelNaz Project BoardOxford Access Scheme BoardPartnership ForumRace Advisory Group, QCARAXEN Network Steering CommitteeWorld Conference Against Racism

(WCAR) Steering Committee


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