Home Truths - Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector

This is the time to act, for the charity sector to centre BAME people and for DEI to be reflected in who is in the sector and what the sector is trying to achieve. [...] That said, we consider our Research interests and methods evidence base to be rich and important in In conducting our work, as well as seeking to conveying some of the hitherto underexplored understand the experiences of BAME people experiences of BAME people in the charity in the charity sector, we have sought the sector. [...] It has been powerfully argued that the idea This allows us to then say things like ‘x per cent Section 1: of ‘race’ did not lead to the invention of racism, of the charity workforce is BAME, while the Introduction and that instead racism led to the creation percentage of BAME people in the population of the idea of ‘race’ (Denvir, 2018) as a means is 2x’. [...] We hope that of people attempted to fill in the survey who this report marks the beginning of intentional 13 Home Truths Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector new practice in the charity sector: not more fully in Section 3, but here it is worth The partner organisations simply to consult, but to ensure that the emphasising that racism is built on beliefs knowledge. [...] This is extremely The corollary of thinking that BAME people concerning and points to the need for white are somehow ‘not up to the job’ is that charity leaders, trustees, and colleagues to 15 Home Truths Undoing racism and delivering real diversity in the charity sector fully engage in making workplaces inclusive More specifically in the first two quotes, The partner organisations and free of.