Community Action: MK is dedicated to eradicating inequality and upholding social and racial justice in our communities.

Our most recent blog – ‘ Learning, Awareness and Anti-racism at CA:MK‘ (Nov, 2020) we have been working on and looking internally at how we can be anti-racist… this is an ongoing process. We are keen to learn from others and share our experience and process. Please get in touch if you have any questions or comments: danielle@communityactionmk.org / info@communityactionmk.org

Please see some resources below and sign up to our newsletter to hear about events, forums and discussions that contribute towards social justice in Milton Keynes.

Local MK Groups:

• Friends of the Caribbean
• Q Alliance

Lived Experiences:

• YMCA – Young, discriminated, and Black: the true colour of institutional racism in the UK, real insight into the the experiences of young people and how racism is in all areas of the their lives.
• BBC documentary, Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson and Afua Hirsch
• CBBC Newsround – Being young and Black in Britain / Why Black History month is important / ‘My ancestor was a slave’
• Where are you really from? – A project sharing stories from Black and Brown people in the rural south west.
• Oxfordshire Youth Podcast – Are you listening? Black Lives Matter series
• Woodcraft Folk – ‘Anti racist education is urgently needed’ a range of resources, guides, activities and education tools. Take ownership of your learning and share with family and friends. ‘Check you privilege’, you can use this activity to explore your position of privilege and understand what this means so as a society we can begin to dismantle it.

Reports/ Resources:

• RunnyMede – Race Matters Blog
• Home Truths: Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector
• An Unsafe Distance: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Excluded People in England
• CharitySoWhite: Tackling institutional racism in the charity sector
• Fawcett Paper: Re-thinking equality for post-crisis times: a focus on gender
• The Ubele Initiative’
• Runnymede Trust: Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools
  report drawing upon insights from teachers, police, curricula and highlighting how racism is deeply embedded in schooling.
• BAME STREAM – Coming together during Covid-19 to bring Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Mental Health into the Mainstream. Survey and Report on ‘Implications and Impact: A Case for Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Service in response to COVID-19

Community Action: MK Blogs

• Black Lives Matter
• Inclusion Not Exceptionalism
• Update from MK Fawcett Group
• Covid 19: Asylum seekers, refugees and migrants
• Combating Coronavirus Stigma and Discrimination

Events:

If you know of or would like to share any events please email us at info@communityactionmk.org

Funding:

Phoenix Fund is now open for applications – Global fund for Children and The National Lottery Community fund are partnering to support the delivery of the Phoenix Fund. This initiative will provide £1 million in emergency funds to BAME communities across England.

More info here from the Ubele initiative who have been involved in co-designing and developing the Phoenix Fund. Funding rounds currently closed

Organisations to look at:

• Racial Justice Network
• Ubele Initiative
• Runnymede – Intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain
• Resourcing Racial Justice
• CharitySoWhite
• Black Heros Foundation