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Job Advert Chief Executive Officer Northampton Rights and Equality Council 📍 Northamptonshire💼 Part-Time (28 hours per week, flexible)💰 £29433 (£38,894 pro rata)📅 Permanent Open to Job share The Role We are looking for a leader who: Has a strong commitment … Continue reading
£238,999 Investment Will Ensure Northamptonshire’s Untold Black History Is Finally Heard
Today, Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC) is celebrating after securing a £238,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to deliver Summer of ’76: Black Youth United by Reggae, Heritage and Resistance—a landmark two-year project that will preserve the … Continue reading
Upcoming Changes to the Equality Act
On 26th October there will be new changes to the Equality Act made by made by the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act, will come into force. These changes will place new duties on employers to ensure that workplaces are … Continue reading
Ask your Parliamentary Candidates “What’s Happening About Windrush?”
As the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush approaches, it is only right and fitting that migrant communities and the diaspora celebrate the contribution that black communities have made to our country and our local towns. However, this event is … Continue reading
National Hate Crime Awareness Week- 14th to 21st October 2023
PRESS RELEASE Local group issues call to scrap the word “victim” to commemorate hate crime awareness week Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), a specialist support agency supporting local people targeted by hate crime has called for agencies dealing with … Continue reading
Windrush Day and the Windrush Scandal – Adversity and the fight for Justice
2023 sees the 75th anniversary of the HMT Empire Windrush arriving in Britain on 22 June 1948. The arrival of the ship Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks in 1948, brought hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean, in a moment that … Continue reading
Commemorating #StephenLawrenceDay22
“Stephen: The murder that changed a nation” Special NREC commissioned video below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3axgptd_Y
Are reparations for Trans-Atlantic enslavement a realistic goal?
NREC special event Tuesday, 23 August 2022 at 19:00 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/are-reparations-for-trans-atlantic-enslavement-a-realistic-goal-tickets-338116283907 This event has contributions from black history campaigner Donna Parmer-Smith and the renowned journalist and trade unionist Roger McKenzie The nights of 22 to 23 August 1791, in … Continue reading
Messages of Hope Workshops in April – tackling anti-trans hate
Monday 11 & Wednesday 13 April, 6.30pm – 8.30pm Want to be part of an outstanding opportunity to join a course on strategic messaging to tackle anti-trans hate? This FREE event covers what it is and developing a positive vision … Continue reading
Take Action Against the Nationality and Borders Bill
In the last few days one of our Board members Tre Ventour has written about his concerns about the Nationality and Borders Bill. It will be going through to the House of Lords on the 4th of January. We are … Continue reading