Welcome
Welcome to West Midlands Race Equality Advisory Board’s (WMREAB) website.
Our purpose at WMREAB is to address race inequalities, by achieving better engagement and outcomes for BME communities and the BME third sector in the West Midlands.
WMREAB’s vision is to have ‘a region which proactively responds to the challenges of race inequality and empowers BME communities and the BME third sector.’
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| Race Equality Impact Assessment necessary for all of Government Action Plan. Click here to read more…
NAO publishes report on building capacity in the third sector. Click here to read more… Valuing the BME Third Sector campaign is launched by national BME voice organisation. Click here to read more… Voice4Change England has welcomed the news that the BME regional networks will receive government funding for 2009-11. Click here to read more… Investment in regional voice - Today, the Government is announcing £1.5 million to support third sector regional networks in delivering many of the Government’s policies and programmes at the regional level…. Click here to read more… Capacitybuilders launch £5 million capital grants programme to develop third sector resource centres. Click here to read the full article |
WMREAB’s response to CLG’s consultation on Tackling Race Inequalities We welcome Government recognition that mainstreaming equality strands may lead to racial equality priorities being ignored or forgotten. We therefore believe this consultation is a positive measure from CLG which we as the West Midlands Race Equality Advisory Board (WMREAB) are pleased to respond to. Click here to read more… Operation Black Vote - Women belong in the House… Operation Black Vote and the Government Equalities Office Black Asian Minority Ethnic Women Councillor Shadowing Scheme Do you want to become a Councillor? The representation of Black and other minority ethnic (BAME) women at every level of governance from the Houses of Parliament to local government is woefully low. Of the 646 MPs in Westminster, two are BAME women and out of 20,000 Councillors, 149 are BME women, representing less than 1% of Councillors nationally. |