Over the past few months, the team at Unloc have welcomed the Black Lives Matter movement and how it is shining a light on injustice and inequality in the UK and around the world.
As an organisation, we have started a process of discussion and reflection on how we can best add our weight to this powerful social movement. We don’t claim to have the answers and we still have an enormous amount of learning to undertake – but one thing is certain – that we are committed to going on a journey to be better informed and to take the action needed to enable us to be anti-racist and support all young people.
We are dedicating time to review and change how we work, exploring each of the areas summarised below:
- Scope: establishing our role in the movement and the scope of the work
- Learning: personal learning and education for the whole Unloc team
- Unloc internally: adapting and expanding our policies and procedures
- Unloc externally: how we identify and challenge discrimination
- Collaboration: how we work with other organisations to be anti-racist
- Beneficiaries: how we embed our learning into our facilitation and programme design
We will bring Unloc’s team values; enthusiasm, commitment, collaboration and supportive nature to the table as we strive to identify how we can best contribute to this agenda. We will be reaching out to members of the BAME community to help support this work through facilitation, education and open discussion.
This is the very beginning of our journey – but one we are wholeheartedly committed to – and one we will continue to revisit with ongoing discussion and action as a result of input from the team and our community.
