A group of up to 50 charity leaders are being urged to sign up to a 12-month anti racism and racial equality programme.

Applicants must be “committed to series action on anti-racism and racial justice – in their organisations and civil society as a whole”, according to organisers.

Those who take part will work in small groups online and in person to look at a “personal, challenging and transformative process of reflecting on power, racism and white supremacy culture”.

“The cohort will be supported to understand and dismantle systems of oppression and to imagine and build life-affirming alternatives in civil society that centre racial and social justice,” say organisers.

The Further Faster programme is being run by charity leadership body Acevo and Voice4Change England, and is being led and delivered by Martha Awojobi of JMB Consulting and Pari Dhillon on Social Justice Collective.

The programme costs between £495 and £4,795 depending on the size of the organisation.

Following a launch event in July sessions will run from September this year to May next year.

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“This programme is aimed at those who are already committed to anti-racism and have taken steps towards this work,” add organisers.

“You may have hit barriers that have stalled your progress or met the limit of your knowledge on this practice and so are keen to learn and do more.

This programme does not aim to convince you of the need for anti-racism within the sector and so leaders should not be sent on this course but should be actively and keenly signing up to it.

“We expect participants to be demonstrably committed to and convinced of the need for anti-racism in mainstream civil society.”

A survey of global majority charity workers published in December 2023 found that charity leaders and managers are the groups most often cited as playing “a significant role in acts of racism” within the sector.

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