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Racism: Not in our sector?

DSC Zoom Talk Wednesday 12 August 2020

Racism: Not in our sector?

• 1. Introduction – what is going on?
• 2. Panel discussion
• 3. Q&A with the audience

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Introduction – what is going on?

Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, DSC

a) Only 9% of voluntary sector employees are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups (BAME). This is a lower proportion than for both the public and private sectors (both at 11%) lower than the UK as a whole (14%). b) Only 3% of charity CEOs were BAME c) 92% of all charity trustees are white d) 9.6% of trustees in the top 100 charities by income are from a BAME background

Source: a.) ACEVO’s Racial Diversity in the Charity Sector 2018 b.) ACEVO’s Pay and Equalities survey 2018 c & d.) Charity Commission Taken on trust: awareness and effectiveness of charity trustees in England and Wales (2017) All taken from: https://www.acevo.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Racial-diversity-in-the-charity-sector.pdf

68% of respondents said that they had experienced, witnessed or heard stories about racism in their time in the charity sector.

Source: 335 out of 489 respondents, Home Truths: Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector www.acevo.org.uk/reports/home-truths/

50% of respondents felt that they needed to ‘tone down’ behaviour

• r to be on their ‘best behaviour’ in
• rder to fit in in the charity sector.

Source: 246 out of 490 respondents, Home Truths: Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector www.acevo.org.uk/reports/home-truths/

222 people had been subject to ignorant or insensitive questioning about their culture or religion. 147 people had been treated as an intellectual inferior. 114 respondents had been subject to excessive surveillance and scrutiny by colleagues, managers or supervisors.

Source: Numbers out of 500 people surveyed in total. Home Truths: Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector www.acevo.org.uk/reports/home-truths/

Panel discussion and Q&A with:

• Amira Tharani, Senior Consultant at NCVO Charities Evaluation Services
• Joyce Fraser, Founder & Chair of Board at Black Heroes Foundation
• Kristiana Wrixon, Head of Policy at ACEVO
• Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO at DSC (hosting)

How to participate in Q&A:

• Open the Q&A window (not the Chat window!) to submit a question
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Recommendations for the sector collectively

• Redefine racism as ordinary, systemic and institutional
• Conduct an annual sector-wide ‘BAME Barometer’ survey

to capture BAME experience in charities

• Develop independent or third-party mechanisms for

reporting and addressing racism in charities

• Develop a plan on the use of regulation to accelerate DEI

progress

Recommendations from the year long project Making Diversity Count and final report Home Truths by acevo and Voice4Change England: www.acevo.org.uk/reports/home-truths/

Recommendations for individual

• rganisations

Recommendations for organisational policy:

• Integrate explicit race equity goals into charitable work.
• Report publicly on internal DEI targets.
• Publish ethnicity pay gap data.
• Change recruitment criteria, e.g. value attributes differently, including lived experience and

alignment with institutional vision.

• Invest in supporting and safeguarding BAME charity people, including proper complaints

procedures.

• Work with and pay BAME DEI specialists to improve practice.

Recommendations for CEOs and senior leaders:

• Learn more about racism and current anti-racist thinking.
• Take responsibility for learning how racism can manifest in your organisation.
• CEOs (with board chairs) should lead on and be held responsible and accountable for progress
• n DEI targets.

Recommendations from the year long project Making Diversity Count and final report Home Truth by ACEVO and Voice4Change England: www.acevo.org.uk/reports/home-truths/

Resources List

• Statement of commitment by leaders of national umbrella bodies for charities and

social change organisations (#NeverMoreNeeded website)

• Making Diversity Count (year-long project by ACEVO, including final report: Home

Truths Making Diversity Count & Home Truths Report

• #CharitySoWhite campaign Charitysowhite.org/
• ACF report on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

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