We recommend that racial equity is thoroughly embedded within the new Mental Health Bill, and that a number of its current clauses are significantly amended in order to tackle racial disparities in ...

In 1992 Runnymede set up a Commission to consider antisemitism in contemporary Britain. Its report entitled A Very Light Sleeper, published in 1994, carried as one of its recommendations the proposal ...

In 2015 we produced a major report on higher education and race. The report highlighted the inequalities for Black and minority ethnic people in terms of admissions, degree attainment, curriculum ...

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 ...

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, ...

This week marks six months since the devastating events from which the Southport community is still grieving, and the subsequent racist riots which exposed the realities of racism in the UK.

Statement from Professor Dame Donna Kinnair, Chair of Runnymede Trust’s Board of Trustees. Friends and followers of our work will know that after the acquittal of Sergeant Martyn Blake in October 2024 ...

We have deleted our posts in relation to the acquittal of Sgt. Martyn Blake for the murder of Chris Kaba. We accept that the wording and statistics used in our original posts on X were not as ...

UK racist riots: open letter to Keir Starmer from 80 anti-racist and migrants' rights organisations ‍ August 5th 2024 ‍ Dear Prime Minister, ‍ The unprecedented levels of racist rioting across the UK ...

Dear Prime Minister, We, the undersigned, write to urge you to repeal the unfair Voter ID laws brought in under the last Government. More than 400,000 were prevented from voting on the day you became ...