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SRTRC ANN REV 2009 rev6 7/23/09 11:26 AM Page 1 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD Annual Review 2008-2009 SRTRC ANN REV 2009 rev6 7/23/09 11:26 AM Page 2 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD MAJOR SPONSORS: CONTENTS Foreword by Shaka Hislop 1 Introduction by Ged Grebby 2 Sponsorship 4 New Website 5 Community Education Work 6 The Campaign in England 10 Events Map 12 Resources 14 Show Racism the Red Card Wales 16 Show Racism the Red Card Scotland 20 Management Committee 24 Staff Team 25 Above: Dave Prentis, UNISON General Honorary Patrons 25 Secretary, with Civil Rights leader Jesse Contact Details 26 Jackson. FOREWORD SHAKA HISLOP, HONORARY PRESIDENT I’m constantly asked why I got involved with Show Racism The Red Card, my answer isn’t very revealing - I really don’t know, it just felt right. There’s no doubting that footballers are asked to join, participate in or endorse any number of events and causes, all very worthwhile in their own right. To the new generation of players I can say only this, do what feels right, but do something. Players, thanks to the media FEEDBACK: attention and fan adoration, forget what this game has always been about, the kids, the communities, the fun, “I recently watched this powerful DVD with 150 primary the friendships. school children and listening to their reaction afterwards As SRtRC continues to grow and provide opportunities was very powerful. It highlights the great work Show for players to be involved in their communities, as we Racism the Red Card does and encourages children to continue to tackle the challenges ahead, we always question why racism takes place at all. I think Show appreciate that the game’s true assets are its players, its Racism the Red Card are conveying a strong anti-racist lifeblood our communities. We can never lose sight of that, message in an understandable and memorable way.” we can never forget what this game meant to us all as Rt. Hon. Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, children, we can’t let that be hijacked at any cost. The Schools and Families audacity of hope lives on in all of us and in our efforts. www.theredcard.org 1 SRTRC ANN REV 2009 rev6 7/23/09 11:26 AM Page 2 This is just one example of the huge impact our relatively small organisation is able to ANNUAL REVIEW 2008/09 have. Another example of an external review of our work was the film produced by Teachers TV INTRODUCTION around our event at Manchester United. This film showed the impact of our events on GED GREBBY, CHIEF EXECUTIVE young people, but also demonstrates that teachers are able to pick up our educational resources without our involvement and undertake some fantastic work with young people. We have used the film at several of our public events to show the impact the campaign can have on young people and the great work the young people themselves can then produce. One of the disappointing aspects of our work this year has been the low level of orders for Welcome to a new version of our traditional Annual Review. The campaign has grown so our Islamophobia DVD. We have discussed with many different partner organisations and much over the last few years that it would take a massive publication to cover all the teachers why this is the case and the main conclusion we have come to is that schools work we are now involved in. The aim of this Annual Review is to give an overview of the are not geared up to challenging this new form of racism. We conducted a survey at this main areas of work and look at how we have developed over the last year. It has been an year’s teaching union conferences which supported this conclusion and also underlined exciting year with the launch of four new films and a big growth in our staff team. that teachers are not confident of educating against Islamophobia. We are therefore We are now working with a record number of football clubs in the UK and our impact looking at developing teacher training resources and conferences in the next year. continues to grow. Finally, we are always looking to develop our range of anti-racist educational resources The background to writing this review has been the European elections, in which the and our education team have recently produced an excellent education pack to challenge fascist British National Party (BNP) have gained their first two seats. One of the reasons racism towards Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, called ‘Out of Site’. for this is a growth of racism as a result of the recession. As an organisation we are always seeking to improve our educational resources and we will be looking to challenge some of the racist ideas of the BNP and the right wing press who have targeted migrant NEW AREAS OF WORK labour to blame for the current loss of jobs for British workers. As a result of the success of our Scottish Campaign we have been approached by the 2008/09 saw us produce and update some great DVDs and education packs. Our main film Scottish Government to use our model to tackle religious intolerance in Football. We hope is now stronger than ever and is getting a fantastic response. We also managed to to have a new person in post in October to draw up a strategy for this important new area reproduce on DVD our film to combat racism against asylum seekers and refugees, A Safe of work for our campaign. Place, and update the accompanying education pack and quiz. We are also pleased to announce that Sarah Soyei will start as our South East of England One of the major growth areas of racism over the last few years has been Islamophobia worker in September 2009. As manager of the North East Community Education team, Sarah and our new film and education pack has had a brilliant response wherever it has been has done a fantastic job and we were very pleased to be able to keep her in our team. shown. The Scottish Government were so impressed that they have granted us £81,700 over the next two years to undertake Islamophobia workshops in their schools. This will be a key resource over the next few years and we will endeavour to get it used in every CONCLUSIONS secondary school in the UK. The aim of this Annual Review is to showcase some of the work we do and hopefully increase the number of partners we have to help us fight racism. We have recently This year also saw us commission a major external evaluation of our schools’ competition redeveloped our website and our aim is to use this as our main resource for the next few in Scotland. The report, available on our website, has been extremely useful in assessing years. the impact of this area of our work and the conclusions were very positive for us: My thanks go to all the staff, Management Committee, Scottish and Welsh Advisory • The competition is very popular with schools, teachers and pupils. There were high Committee, volunteers, players, managers and supporters who have been the driving force levels of satisfaction with all aspects of the competition amongst schools. to make this our most successful year on record. Zoobia Aslam has unfortunately left our • Almost one in five of Scotland’s schools have participated in the competition since staff team this year to move to Manchester and she will be a big loss. 2003. Around 80,000 children have taken part. Finally, a big thank you to all our sponsors who have made every action that we have • The competition is supported by a very high standard of materials. taken possible. 2 Show Racism the Red Card Annual Review 2008/09 www.theredcard.org 3 SRTRC ANN REV 2009 rev6 7/23/09 11:26 AM Page 4 SPONSORSHIP PAUL KEARNS, UK OFFICE MANAGER In terms of sponsorship it has been another great year for our campaign. We managed to secure improved funding from several trade unions: Unison, Unite the Union, Communication Workers Union and Prospect; and we welcomed USDAW back to the campaign, featuring their logo on each of our Premier League posters. Thompsons Solicitors sponsored our England, Scotland and Wales national team posters for the first Above: Abou Diaby and time. We also received funding for the first time from UIA Insurance and the Fire Brigades winner of day’s best question Union. Our long-standing partnership with the Hilton in the Community Foundation at our Arsenal event. continued to be very successful. Right: Bobby Barnes, PFA Assistant Chief Executive Of the councils which sponsored team posters in the 2007-2008 season all but two welcomes Arsenal legend renewed their sponsorship. In addition we secured poster sponsorship from six new Paul Davis into the SRtRC councils from all over the UK. Hall of Fame. This funding enabled us to print over 500,000 posters of 52 different teams in England, approximately 80,000 posters of 16 teams in Scotland and 41,500 posters of eight teams in Wales, nearly 650,000 posters in total. WEBSITE LAURA FLECK, EDUCATION, EVENTS & INFORMATION WORKER KEY LESSONS: www.theredcard.org www.theredcardscotland.org www.theredcardwales.org In light of the One of the major advancements for the campaign over the past year has been the current economic redevelopment of our website. Both its design and functionality have been vastly improved climate the next thanks to our work with a professional web design agency, and the new site should prove 12 months will be a valuable showcase for the work that we do.