22 February 2006
The CRE today announced its decision to fund more local race equality organisations than ever before to the tune of £4.2 million - a 20 percent increase on recent years. Through its Getting Results funding programme, 127 local groups will be awarded money to build good race relations and integration and tackle discrimination in their areas. For the first time, the CRE has also given small grants to 41 organisations for an additional £250,000. This money has been awarded to help small organisations become more effective at delivering local race equality work and to deliver small one-off projects to ensure greater interaction between different communities through activities like sport, art and music. Trevor Phillips, CRE Chair said: CRE funding through Getting Results is a crucial part of our integration agenda. Ensuring greater interaction among different communities is the hardest challenge with the most urgent need. We have spoken about the way our communities are drifting apart and this funding is part of the practical action to reverse this trend. This year we received bids totalling £14.3 million with only £4.2 million to go around. Recent events have put our local partners on the front line, calming and reconciling fractured communities. We want to ensure that the invaluable work we have invested in over the past 30 years, continues.
For further information or case studies contact the CRE Media Office on 020 7939 0072/ 0106 / 0064Notes to editors- The CRE helps to fund a number of racial equality councils and local volutary sector organisations. They form an independent network working in local areas to promote racial equality and tackle racial discrimination.
- Getting Results is the CRE's funding framework and was launched in 2003. Its priority areas for 2006/7 are inter-community conflict prevention and resolution and support for victims of racial discrimination and harassment including casework.
- More about Getting Results
- The CRE is recommending that a new body be formed, to lead on community relations, extremism, migration and citizenship issues.
- A new body for community relations
About the CRE- The Race Relations Act 1976 makes it unlawful to discriminate against anyone on grounds of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins. The Commission for Racial Equality was established under the Act to work for the elimination of discrimination, the promotion of equality of opportunity and good race relations generally.
- The CRE can advise or assist people with cases before courts and employment tribunals and can conduct its own investigations when it has grounds to believe discrimination may be taking place.
- Public bodies have a duty to eliminate discrimination in the way they work and to promote equality of opportunity and good race relations. The Commission is working to help them deliver this duty.
| Organisation | Region or country | Funding awarded (£) |
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| Age Concern Lewisham | London & South | 25,000 | | Barking & Dagenham REC | London & South | 30,000 | | Bath & North East Somerset REC | London & South | 35,000 | | Bedford REC | London & South | 42,500 | | Bexley REC | London & South | 40,000 | | Birmingham Race Action Partnership | Midlands | 28,500 | | Black Community Development Project | Scotland | 27,500 | | Black Minority Ethnic Young People's Project | London & South | 25,000 | | Black Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration Network | London & South | 20,000 | | Bolton REC | North | 24,000 | | Bradford Law Centre | North | 28,000 | | Bristol Resource Centre (operating as Avon and Bristol Centre) | London & South | 36,000 | | Bromley REC | London & South | 32,500 | | Bury Metro REC | North | 15,000 | | Council for Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations (CEMVO) | Scotland | 25,000 | | Central Scotland Racial Equality Council | Scotland | 58,500 | | Charnwood Racial Equality Council | Midlands | 30,000 | | Cheshire, Halton & Warrington Racial Equality Council | North | 63,000 | | Citizens Advice & Rights Fife | Scotland | 10,000 | | Coventry Law Centre Ltd | Midlands | 35,000 | | Cultural Media Enterprise Limited | London & South | 15,000 | | Derby REC | Midlands | 44,000 | | Devon Racial Equality Council | London & South | 18,500 | | Dorset REC | London & South | 26,250 | | Dudley REC | Midlands | 45,000 | | Dundee Citizens Advice Bureau | Scotland | 20,000 | | Ealing REC | London & South | 40,000 | | East Lancashire Partnership Ltd on behalf of East Lancashire Together | North | 20,000 | | East Staffordshire Racial Equality Council | Midlands | 47,000 | | Edinburgh & Lothians Racial Equality Council | Scotland | 32,500 | | Enfield Racial Equality Council | London & South | 20,000 | | Essex Racial Equality Council | London & South | 45,000 | | Ethnic Minorities Law Centre | Scotland | 45,000 | | Friends, Families and Travellers | London & South | 37,000 | | FSU Investing In Families | Midlands | 25,000 | | Gloucestershire REC | London & South | 33,500 | | Grampian Racial Equality Council | Scotland | 21,500 | | Greenwich CRE | London & South | 25,000 | | Hammersmith & Fulham Black Minority Ethnic | London & South | 37,500 | | Hammersmith & Fulham Refugee Forum | London & South | 30,000 | | Haringey REC | London & South | 27,500 | | Harrow REC | London & South | 25,000 | | Hillingdon REC | London & South | 23,000 | | Hounslow REC | London & South | 43,500 | | Hull Asylum Seekers Support Group | London & South | 28,000 | | Institute of Small Business Management | London & South | 19,000 | | Kettering Business Venture Trust Ltd | Midlands | 20,000 | | Kings Cross Community Development Trust | London & South | 24,500 | | Kingston Racial Equality Council | London & South | 25,000 | | Kirklees REC | North | 27,500 | | L8 Sports Forum | North | 27,500 | | Lambeth Law Centre | London & South | 99,400 | | Leeds REC | North | 28,000 | | Liverpool 8 Law Centre | North | 28,000 | | Lochaber Routes | Scotland | 20,000 | | London Gypsy & Traveller Unit | London & South | 25,000 | | Luton Equality Agency | London & South | 30,000 | | Manchester CCR | North | 30,000 | | Medway Racial Equality Council | London & South | 26,500 | | Merton Racial Equality Partnership | London & South | 27,500 | | MEWN Cymru | Wales | 27,500 | | Milton Keynes Racial Equality Council | London & South | 50,000 | | MOSAIC Black & Mixed Parentage Family Group | London & South | 28,500 | | National Crime Reduction Charity (NACRO) | Midlands | 35,000 | | NCBI (Lancashire) | North | 25,000 | | Newcastle Law Centre | North | 28,000 | | Newham Monitoring Project | London & South | 30,000 | | North Kensington Law Centre | London & South | 54,000 | | North Staffordshire Racial Equality Council | Midlands | 50,000 | | North Wales Racial Equality Network | Wales | 25,000 | | North West Kent REC | London & South | 25,000 | | Northamptonshire REC | Midlands | 60,000 | | Norwich & Norfolk Racial Equality Council | London & South | 70,000 | | Nottingham & Nottinghamshire REC | Midlands | 68,000 | | Oldham Race Equality Partnership | North | 50,000 | | Outward Bound Trust | North | 28,500 | | Oxfordshire REC | London & South | 30,000 | | PeaceMaker | North | 20,000 | | Peterborough REC | Midlands | 50,000 | | Plymouth & District REC | London & South | 33,500 | | Poplar HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community Association) | London & South | 20,000 | | Preston and West Lancashire REC | North | 67,000 | | Race Equality Action for Lewisham | London & South | 38,000 | | Race Equality First | Wales | 28,500 | | Race Equality in Newham | London & South | 20,000 | | Race Equality Partnership Wolverhampton | Midlands | 30,000 | | Race Equality Sandwell | Midlands | 32,500 | | Race Equality West Midlands | Midlands | 69,000 | | Racial Equality Partnership Croydon | London & South | 30,000 | | Reading REC | London & South | 42,000 | | Redbridge REC | London & South | 55,000 | | Rochdale Centre of Diversity (formerly Rochdale Racial Equality Council) | North | 30,000 | | Scottish Refugee Council | Scotland | 25,000 | | Scottish Sports Futures | Scotland | 22,500 | | Sheffield Racial Equality Council | North | 70,000 | | Slough REC | London & South | 40,000 | | SoftTouch Community Arts | Midlands | 20,000 | | Sompriti | London & South | 26,500 | | South East Wales REC | Wales | 25,000 | | Southwark Action for Voluntary Organisations | London & South | 18,000 | | Southwark REC | London & South | 33,500 | | Specialist Mediation in Lancashire East Ltd | North | 30,000 | | Sutton Racial Equality Council | London & South | 25,000 | | Swansea Bay REC | Wales | 48,600 | | Swindon REC | London & South | 30,000 | | Taleem Trust | Scotland | 33,500 | | Tameside Racial Equality Council Ltd operating as Equality and Diversity Centre of Excellence | North | 95,000 | | Telford and Wrekin Race, Equality and Diversity Partnership | Midlands | 30,000 | | The 1990 Trust | London & South | 40,000 | | The Haven, Wolverhampton | Midlands | 25,000 | | The Royal Association for Deaf People | London & South | 30,000 | | Timebank | London & South | 20,000 | | UNITE Ltd | North | 20,000 | | Valley RECs | Wales | 40,000 | | Wales Council for the Elderly | Wales | 25,000 | | Waltham Forest Racial Equality Council | London & South | 22,500 | | Warwickshire Race Equality Partnership | Midlands | 50,000 | | Watford REC | London & South | 20,000 | | West Midlands Discrimanatory Advisory Service | Midlands | 65,000 | | West of Scotland REC | Scotland | 30,000 | | Weston Spirit | London & South | 26,500 | | Wiltshire REC | London & South | 20,000 | | Worcestershire Racial Equality Centre | Midlands | 20,000 | | Wrexham and District Citizens Advice Bureau | Wales | 30,000 | | Wycombe Race Equality Council | London & South | 25,000 | | York Racial Equality Network | North | 20,000 | | Young Gloucestershire | London & South | 15,000 | | TOTAL (127 organisations) | | 4,229,750 |
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