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For more than 50 years, we have worked tirelessly to build a Britain in which we all enjoy equal opportunities. From broadening the curriculum to exposing the Windrush scandal, our work is rooted in ...
The Runnymede Trust has long campaigned for the removal of Safer Schools Officers from UK schools, and so we support the Met’s recent announcement to do so. There is no credible or conclusive evidence ...
We are deeply concerned that the Chancellor’s spring statement published yesterday, threatens to inflict and compound harm on some of the most under-protected people in our communities. This, ...
Welcome to our blog, Race Matters, where you can read the latest content on all matters to do with race. Race Matters aims to bring new perspectives to matters of racial (in)justice, including topics ...
Two decades since Runnymede was first credited with coining the term 'Islamophobia' in our flagship 1997 report, we look at how the phenomenon has evolved over the past 20 years, and how it manifests ...
Proudly independent, for over 50 years Runnymede’s esteemed research, analysis and policy development has provided the evidence to challenge racial injustice. From broadening the curriculum to ...
Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools explores the nature of racism in secondary schools and is organised around four key issues: the teacher workforce; curricula; police; and school policies ...
Art is one of the only subjects that explicitly offers a space for personal exploration, where students are encouraged to respond to the world and their place within it. Art lessons are therefore a ...
The run-up to the 2024 general election will be riddled with political debate on immigration, based on racialised ideas of who is welcome and who belongs. When people are asked what matters to them ...
We've partnered with Greenpeace UK to remind the world of something that should be glaringly obvious: the climate crisis is rooted in systemic racism. People of colour across the globe bear the brunt ...
Runnymede Trust analysis of new Home Office strip search data shows that Black people are disproportionately strip searched by nearly all police forces in England and Wales. Black children are 6.5 ...
The survey, Over Exposed and Under-Protected - The Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in Great Britain (conducted by the Runnymede Trust and ICM in June 2020), ...