Action for Race Equality, in partnership with award-winning creative agency BLITZWORKS, is excited to launch its inaugural campaign aimed at reducing deep-seated unemployment disparities in London. Through our Moving on Up programme, which is …
Become an Ambassador
Young Black men are three times more likely to be unemployed compared to their white counterparts. Do you want to help change this? Action for Race Equality is looking for passionate young Black men, aged 16-24 to become Moving on Up Ambassadors. …
FAQ’s for Youth Panel
Action for Race Equality is delighted to be running a Youth Panel, as part of our Infrastructure Resilience Programme! This is a platform for young people to get involved in an exciting area of work to improve employment opportunities and services …
Asian and Black people remain under-represented in apprenticeships
Data on apprenticeship starts in England shows that Asian, Black and Mixed heritage people are still significantly and disappointingly underrepresented in apprenticeships. Asian, Black and Mixed groups in England together make up 16.8% of the …
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Breaking the Cycle of Youth Unemployment in Enfield
Action for Race Equality (ARE) were delighted to speak at the Breaking the Cycle of High Youth Unemployment on Thursday 26th January. The event was hosted by 21K Digital Media - a Black-led organisation based in Edmonton working to increase access to …
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New infrastructure fund awarded by Youth Futures Foundation
Action for Race Equality is delighted to announce that we have been selected as one of seven organisations to benefit from the £1.3 million Infrastructure Fund from Youth Futures Foundation in their latest round of grant funding. The award seeks …
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Response to Public Accounts Committee on apprenticeships
BTEG welcomes the Public Accounts Committee report and agrees with the Chair of the Committee that job losses among young Black people needs ‘serious attention now’. However, we do not believe the Committee’s recommendations go far enough. …
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Steep rise in unemployment for young black men
The unemployment rate for young black men in the UK, the great majority of whom live in London, is more than double the rate for young white men. This disparity has persisted for years. It has led to Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair of the Public …
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