The National Equality Partnership is a new three-year project funded by Capacitybuilders to support the third sector on equality and diversity issues. Its remit is to deliver services to ‘sector support providers’, i.e. umbrella bodies and infrastructure organisations, to help them with equality, diversity and human rights. It will turn up the volume on equality in the third sector by enabling equalities organisations to increase their own voices and be more integrated into the wider sector.
Our programme is national covering England. All our work aims to promote collaboration and partnership working so that long-term relationships develop between organisations - especially generalist and equalities organisations - and expertise can be shared.
The partnership is made up of Women’s Resource Centre,
Voice4Change England, the
Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations and the
National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA). WRC is the lead partner and core staff is based at our offices, although some of the work will be carried out by our partner organisations.
Events for your diary
Human rights - tackling inequality and social exclusion
The National Equality Partnership (NEP), in collaboration with the
British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) and regional partners are
delivering six
FREE regional awareness and consultation events aimed at support and umbrella bodies that work with equality groups and organisations interested in helping the third sector use human rights. The events discuss how to bring human rights to life, they explore the human rights capacity building needs of the third sector and present the work of BIHR and NEP.
- Leicester, 2 October
- Taunton, 21 October
- Newcastle, 24 October
- London, 27 October
- Manchester, 17 November
- Cambridge, 24 November
For more information, see
www.improvingsupport.org.uk/events. If you are interested in attending, please email
events@bihr.org.uk.
Diversity - making it real
NEP and SKiLD are holding this learning session to explore discrimination and oppression; to look at the differences and similarities between equal opportunities and diversity; to introduce UK legislation on diversity; and to discuss practical strategies to put things into action in your organisation.
For more information please email
events@navca.org.uk or call 0114 278 6636.
New publications from the National Equality Partnership
- Supporting Equality Groups: An overview of support to the diverse third sector in England: The National Equality Partnership has published a report (PDF, 1.3MB) that maps the different equalities groups in the third sector in England, their support needs, and how those needs are being met. For a paper copy of the report or if you have any problems downloading it, please contact Macarena on macarena@wrc.org.uk or 020 7324 3048.
- Scoping for a skills framework for Equalities Specialist Infrastructure Workers: The National Equality Partnership has published the results of a scoping exercise of the skills, knowledge and experience needed by specialist equalities support workers. You can download the report (PDF, 1.1MB) directly or contact Macarena on macarena@wrc.org.uk or 020 7324 3048.
How can I get involved?
- Get in touch: If you would like to know more about the plans for this project please see www.improvingsupport.org.uk/equality. We are developing our actions and welcome feedback on the project and ideas for work that is needed. Please call Isabel at WRC on 020 7324 3037 or email equality@wrc.org.uk.