Projects/

Know Your Rights, Live By Your Rights

Funded By

National Lottery Community Fund

Project Status

Active

Overview

This is a Wales-wide 3-year project. As the title suggests, the project aims to educate black and ethnic minority people across Wales about their civil and legal rights, combat barriers they encounter to access public services and support them to challenge discrimination. The project also provides training for organisations and workshops for school students to educate them about ethnic minority communities, their cultures, their religions and their needs.

Project Activities

One-to-one advocacy, advice, support, mediation and representation for Black and ethnic minority people in Wales, assisting local people to remove barriers of access they face to use public services or exercise their rights;
Advocafés delivered by Volunteer Leaders engaging community people to talk about issues our communities face: carers support, housing, access to health and mental health services, transport, un/employment, policing, discrimination etc.;
Education sessions delivered by Volunteer Leaders engaging community people to educate them about their rights: access to health and mental health services, transport, housing, un/employment, policing, discrimination, rights under the Public Sector Equality Duty, Equality Act 2010 and the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan etc.;
Cultural Diversity Workshops in Schools for students across Wales with educational activities to educate them about the diverse communities of Wales: religion, culture, appropriate and inappropriate language or terminology etc;
Annual school competitions across Wales to celebrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from April - June each year, culminating with prize giving events for 16 winning school students in the summer and a 2-week exhibition across Cardiff, Newport and Swansea’s city centres’ digital advertising boards.
Public and civil service organisations trained on: needs of BAME service users; culturally appropriate personal care; maintaining dignity and pride; delivering cultural/religious-sensitive services; implementing the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan, Public Sector Equality Duties, how to write and implement an equity and diversity strategy / anti-racist action plan; and
Community people supported by our Advocacy Officers with interpretation and translation services to access the public services they have a right to: health, housing, transport, criminal justice etc.

Tackling racial discrimination together

We fight on behalf of victims directly affected by hate crimes and/or discrimination, we deliver anti-racism training to companies of all sizes, and we hold governments and organisations to account.

Our people