Home Truths 2 is a programme of work from ACEVO and Voice4Change England designed to challenge and support mainstream UK civil society to take serious practical action on anti-racism and race equity.
Events and resources supporting responses to civil society’s ongoing racism problem
Home Truths 2 engages stakeholders from across civil society, including senior leaders, staff and those working within and alongside civil society organisations in a targeted practical programme of activity. Home Truths 2 offers practical resources and guidance to mainstream civil society in general. Through the Race Equity Series, the work includes exploring approaches to calculating and remedying ethnic pay disparities and integrating race equity into the core mission and through the Further Faster programme, bringing senior leaders together to drive forward their anti-racist and race equity practice.
The elements of the programme together contribute to converting the positive words from mainstream civil society on anti-racism and race equity into practical and powerful change.
Home Truths – a legacy
On its release in June 2020, the Home Truths report had a stark message: that civil society did not simply have a diversity problem; it had a racism problem .
Landing shortly after the murder of George Floyd and an upsurge in the Black Lives Matters movement, civil society sat up and took notice of the findings.
But attention is not the same as action. Though some civil society leaders and organisations have moved decisively forward, as a sector there is so much more to be done. For that reason, the Home Truths team has reassembled to advance solutions.
How you can get involved
Race Equity Series: events and resources open to all in civil society
- Explore new insights
- Share challenges, opportunities and ideas
- Engage with guest speakers
- Support transformative change
- Online and free to attend
Follow the journey of our cohort of leaders moving further faster towards an anti racist future
See how the first Further Faster cohort is taking action to achieve race equity within their organisations. Applications for the programme are now closed.
Outputs
Warm Words, Cold Comfort
This report on the Home Truths 2 survey is the first major output of the Home Truths 2 programme. The insights and experiences of Black and Minoritised Ethnic people in the survey will guide the programme’s work to build a sector that takes meaningful action on anti-racism and race equity.
Overall, the survey offers glimpses of what an anti-racist future for mainstream civil society might look like. There are some signs that organisations are recentring themselves against the idea of racism but that this positioning is not reflected in practical steps. This means that the lived reality for most survey respondents is of mainstream civil society as a site of racism, not anti-racism.
Further resources
The Home Truths report was launched in June 2020. In this report, we have sought to reframe the ‘diversity’ debate, saying that racism is a significant and unresolved issue in the charity sector just as it is in the rest of society.
Answers to the frequently asked questions about this programme, and glossary of key terms commonly used in this space.
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If you have any queries please email info@acevo.org.uk or call 020 7014 4600.
