ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 www.theredcard.org SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD MAJOR SPONSORS: SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD DVD and education pack £25 (inc p&p) The DVD is a fast moving and engaging 22 minutes exploration of racism, its origins, causes and practical ways to combat it. The film includes personal experiences of both young people and top footballers, such as Ryan Giggs, Thierry Henry, Rio Ferdinand and Didier Drogba. The education pack is filled with activities and discussion points complete with learning outcomes, age group suitability and curriculum links. SPECIAL OFFER: Buy ‘SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD’ with ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA/ A SAFE PLACE’ for a special price of £45 including p&p. For more information or to place an order email www.theredcard.org ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 FOREWORD CONTENTS Shaka Hislop, Honorary President Foreword by Shaka Hislop 1 What a year it has been for Show Racism the Red Card. Football crowds and club revenues continue to rise steadily Introduction by Ged Grebby 3 despite much of the world still gripped by the recession. Many people believe, and will say out loud, that football has Sponsorship 4 its own world. As the growing crowds also show an increase in the number of minority groups regularly attending games every weekend, a few ask ‘why the need Website 5 for an organisation such as Show Racism The Red Card?’ The stats speak for themselves. This has been a record year Leroy Rosenior 6 in terms of revenues raised and staff growth at well over 15%. The website also continues to show amazing growth Hall of Fame 7 and popularity and even on Facebook the fan numbers are very pleasing indeed. Resources 8 But there's a reason for the numbers. More and more people understand our long held belief that communities The Campaign in England 11 respond best together in times of adversity. The BNP continues to have good showing in local elections and the Events Map 12-13 people are having their say against it. So our work continues. The communities are our target and School Competition 14 our voice. Be it the through our website, Facebook group or our Teacher Training 15 dedicated staff, all of our voices will be heard. Maybe one day there won't be the need for an organisation such as Teacher Training Events 16 ours, that day we'll all smile together. Until then, we'll all shout out loud in our belief of right over wrong. Community Education Work 21 South East Work 27 Stand Up Against Racism 31 SRtRC Wales 32 SRtRC Scotland 42 Management Committee 50 Staff Team 50 Press 51 Honorary Patrons 52 Contact Details 54 www.theredcard.org 1 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD MAIN PICTURE: Pupils at the launch of our partnership with Bedford Borough Council. INSETS: Coaches, Dean Gordon and Curtis Fleming; Sir Michael Eavis and Billy Bragg show their support for the campaign as SRtRC visit Glastonbury Festival 2010. Photo by Peter Dunwell 2 ANNUAL REVIEW 2010 INTRODUCTION MOVING FORWARD We are now one year into our by Ged Grebby, Chief Executive most recent Business Plan Welcome to our Annual Review in conducted an external evaluation of April 2009 to March 2012 (see what is the 14th year for our charity. our North East Community Education website for a copy) and we are It has been another record year for work. This evaluation sampled 36 on track to meet most of the our campaign with growth in both our partner agencies and 32 schools and targets. As well as new income and expenditure and another the overwhelming response was very developing new educational large increase in our staff team. positive. The report is available to resources to combat racism we Selecting the highlights from a year’s download from our website. It is are about to launch a new film, work is becoming an increasingly always useful to have external Show Bigotry the Red Card. difficult task as our anti-racist evaluations to see the organisations We have also received funding campaigning continues to develop. strengths and weaknesses through for a new film to combat Among the highlights must be the other people’s eyes. Homophobia in football. These resources will be important award our organisation in Wales Whilst we are constantly looking to additions to our work but the received from the Welsh Council for improve on the work we undertake central theme of our campaign Voluntary Action for “Most Admired as an organisation. This does not will remain anti-racist Organisation”. Our Islamophobia film mean that we need to change what education. also won “Film of the Year” at the we do dramatically, our most recent Scottish Muslim awards. external evaluation concluded that The current economic However, overall my highlight of the “Show Racism the Red Card as an recession has led to a marked year has to be the development of organisation has a very strong brand increase in unemployment and our staff team and consequently the and identity. The linkage of football short-time working. This, improvements we have made in all to racism and its use as an together with the current round areas of our work. Since August educational tool is a simple but of public sector cuts and the 2009, the staff team has increased powerful concept seen as effective threat of even more from 23 to 38 staff members. and easy to understand.” Updating redundancies, has produced and developing our anti-racist fertile territory for the As an organisation we are not afraid educational resources remains key development of racist attitudes. of new challenges and we have to the success of our campaign. The recession has led to an developed a brand new strand to our increase in racist scapegoating Finally, this year has seen us work in Scotland with the Show by the media, with the issue of significantly increase the Bigotry the Red Card Campaign. We immigration again coming to geographical impact of our work. have also started to develop our the fore. Anti-racists must The opening of our Bedford office in adult education work with some therefore redouble our efforts September 2009 resulted in a highly successful Teacher Training to combat the growth of far significant increase in our Days being organised in England and right parties and mainstream partnerships in the South East of Wales. To combat the racism of the racism. England but we have also increased British National Party (BNP) in the the work we undertake elsewhere in The aim of this Annual Review General Election 2010 we also the UK. This is down to our is to showcase our work and launched Stand Up Against Racism excellent staff team and I would like hopefully increase the number to harness the high profile of to pay particular tribute to those who of partners working with us to professional comedians to challenge have made a brilliant impact on our fight racism. We have recently the racist policies of this repugnant work but sadly left us to pastures redeveloped our website and political party. new: Tommy Breslin, Laura Fleck, our aim is to use this as our Following on from last year’s major Atta Yaqub and Conrad Franks have main resource for the next few external evaluation of our schools all made a huge contribution to our years. competition in Scotland, this year we work over the last year. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks go to all the staff, Management Committee, Scottish and Welsh Advisory Committee, volunteers, players, managers and supporters who have been the driving force to make this our most successful year on record. Finally, a big thank you to all our sponsors who have made the actions that we have taken possible. www.theredcard.org 3 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SPONSORSHIP Paul Kearns, UK Office Manager The last year was another highly England, Scotland and Wales. managed to secure a new agreement successful year for the campaign We managed to secure improved with another Council. We secured team. It was the first year we had to funding from Unison and renew our brand new poster sponsorship approach new and previous sponsors funding agreements with Unite the agreements with Victim Support since the recession began. In light of Union, USDAW and Prospect. We Merseyside, Oldham Council, very difficult financial times and in the also received further funding from Stoke-on-Trent Council, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and midst of the harshest economic UIA Insurance, which helped to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough climate in many years it has been an establish our new South East Office Council. amazing year for the organisation. based in Bedford. In the 2010 General Election, the BNP One of our major strengths is that we We built upon our excellent had some of their best results in both have always managed to source our relationships and managed to secure Stoke and Rotherham, it is important funding from a variety of different an amazing mascot package from that we continue to progress our sponsors and over the course of the Liverpool FC, which we were able to work in these areas where the BNP last year we have increased and auction for £2,000 via our long- will target their message over the further diversified our range of standing partnership with the Hilton next few years. We have applied to funders. We secured funding from in the Community Foundation. the Department for Communities and Stand Up Speak Up to continue our Local Government Tackling Racial We put into place a new partnership work in these areas over the next Inequalities Fund (TRIF).