We started out as a small project in Birmingham.

We recruited and trained 20 new types of community advocate.

One of our first reports, Shattered Homelands, Scattered Dreams, gives a voice to asylum seekers in the city. It says the government’s refusal to recognise the hardships its policies are creating is ‘deliberate’ and ‘shameful’. 

Attending the Education and Skills Select Committee to talk to MPs about the underachievement of Black and Asian pupils, they ask us if role models are the answer. We politely tell them reforms ‘needs to be far more fundamental than that’.

Following the murders of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis we brought together over 300 people to talk about race, hip hop, and gang crime: the only organisation in the region to do so.

Our training numbers start to hit a thousand a year.

We were asked to review the implementation of mental health trusts’ plans to address the issues raised by the David ‘Rocky’ Bennett inquiry. In response, we produced a learning tool that was commended across the country and picked up by nine mental health trusts.

We pioneered human rights policies and strategies for a range of health commissioning organisations. These were showcased by the Department of Health as good practice.

We deliver a multi-million pound programme giving local groups the skills to change communities. The number of organisations we help tops 500.

The government announces it will use the human rights standard we devised for Macmillan Cancer Support to help reducing cancer inequalities.

We delivered our first unconscious bias training in this year. Since then, we've provided this type of training to over 80 different organisations. 

With Birmingham reeling from the Trojan Horse affair, we hold public events, talk with schools, and advise the city council. Thousands of people download our reports and guidance on the issue (which you can read here).

We published From Benign Neglect to Citizen Khan, a review of how organisations have promoted equalities over the last 30 years.

We support over 400 budding young entrepreneurs, giving them the skills to set up a business and follow their passion.

The Prime Minister invited us to Downing Street to discuss the state of race equality in the UK. You can see what we said here.

Trialling new approaches to democratizing conversations, we hold events up and down the country to find out how people really feel about the way communities are changing. We engaged over 500 people and afterwards went to Sweden, Turkey, and Spain to tell them how we did it.