ANNUAL REVIEW www.theredcard.org 2011 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 MAJOR SPONSORS CONTENTS FOREWORD Foreword by Shaka Hislop 1 SHAKA CAMPAIGN 2 HISLOP Introduction by Ged Grebby 3 Honorary Campaign Team England President by Paul Kearns 5 It takes courage Website and Social Networking to make the first by Laura Hagan 7 step and then 15th Anniversary Celebration 8 determination to continually Hall of Fame 9 take the next. It Resources by Tony Waddle 10 seems like only yesterday that Educational Events I replied to a by Gavin Sutherland 12 letter and Teacher Training by Jo Wallis 18 wrote a small New Research: ‘The Barriers to cheque, Tackling Racism and Promoting which Equality in England’s Schools’ unknowingly by Sarah Soyei 20 saw me embark on a Education in England 22 journey that was as awe-inspiring as it was CONTACT: Burning Questions by Laura Pidcock 27 rewarding. Aided and encouraged by some of the Annual Showcase for East & best people I have ever met; that journey sees me South East England 29 here today. Along the way I have been encouraged SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SCOTLAND and inspired by a number of people. None more so Stand Up Against Racism 30 The Pentagon Centre than the school children my teammates and I spoke PO Box 141, Whitley Bay to in those early days. That was almost 15 years ago, Suite 311 Stand Up Against Racism Wales 31 Tyne & Wear and I shudder to think that they are all young men and UK Parliamentary FC v Show Racism NE26 3YH Washington Street women now. Hopefully taking with them into their The Red Card Select XI 32 Tel: 0191 257 8519 Glasgow adult lives some of what we said. We have made a Fax: 0191 257 8541 G3 8AZ WALES 33 difference, that I’m sure of. 15 years on and Show email: [email protected] Tel: 0141 332 8566 Introduction by Sunil Patel 34 Racism the Red Card has had the most successful www.theredcard.org email: [email protected] year in its history. As Show Racism the Red Card www.theredcardscotland.org Education Work by Simon Richards 35 continues to be significant to many, I can reflect on Campaign Work by Jason Webber 38 that first step. SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD WALES (SOUTH EAST & EAST) SCOTLAND 40 At a time that the Lawrence family has secured a Room 22 Introduction by Ruth McGeoch 41 retrial for Stephen’s murderers, we are reminded of Bedford REC 65 Penarth Road the determination to keep moving forward. With the Educational Delivery in Schools 36 Mill Street Grangetown launch of the anti-homophobia work and the rise of by Dee Kinning 42 Bedford Cardiff sectarianism in Scottish football we are reminded of MK40 3HD CF10 5DL Club Events by Amanda Peebles 44 where we’re going, and the distance we still have to travel. Taking the time to appreciate our similarities Tel: 01234 219 481 Tel: 02920 340 422 Rivals Not Enemies by Elio Ajmone 46 and embrace our differences is what will get us to email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Afterword by Bill Butler 47 the end and makes the journey enjoyable at the same www.theredcard.org www.theredcardwales.org Press Cuttings 48 time. Staff Team and Patrons List 50 For now, and until then, let’s just take that next step. Cover image: Show Racism the Red Card and friends celebrate our 15th Anniversary at UNISON Centre, August 2011 www.theredcard.org 1 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 INTRODUCTION Ged Grebby, Chief Executive SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD The 15th year for our organisation should be a Finance period for us to be celebrating our For the 15th year in succession we have increased the achievements, however widespread expenditure of the organisation. Our expenditure has risen from £853,000 in 2009/10 to £961,000 in 2010/11. However, for the first spending cuts are making this a very difficult year ever our income actually declined from £924,000 to £871,000. time for charities like ourselves. This means that we made a loss for the financial year of £90,000. This loss will come out of our reserves but we clearly have to try CAMPAIGN At the same time, the need for our anti-racism work has never this year to get the income of the organisation back up or face been greater. Islamophobia remains a widespread prejudice and future cuts to our campaign. One of the strengths of our organisations like the EDL are just the tip of the iceberg in terms campaign has been that we have developed a wide cross of reflecting the racism around this issue. As an organisation we section of sponsors, but we will need to expand this funding have to constantly look at the current key issues to address in base even further if we are going to be able to ride out the fighting racism. Within the classroom our “Burning Questions” recession and public sector cuts. We are establishing Business exercise is a great way for young people themselves to give us Friends of Show Racism the Red Card with the view to the questions they want answered. Whilst this can be quite a increasing our support from the business community. challenge for our education team, it means that we gain insight and are so much more aware of the problems of the racist Partnership working disinformation that is being spread by the media and right wing organisations. No other anti-racism organisation within the UK Vital to the success of our campaign has been the ethos of works with as many young people and teacher as ours and we working in partnership with other organisations and not should be rightly proud of the positive impact of our work. This duplicating work that is being done elsewhere. To help increase Annual Review is a showcase for just some of the work we have the number of working partnerships we have produced a number delivered in 2010-11. of guides and a promotional DVD about our campaign. See our website for details of our Get Involved documents for Councils, Priorities Trade Unions, Football Clubs and other organisations. The two key priorities we set ourselves for this year were to maintain our staff team and develop our educational resources. Our staff team has increased from 38 to 39 (see page 50 for a details of our UK team). However, we have lost an Education Worker’s post in Scotland and an Administration and Support Worker from our Head Office. Thanks to the diligent work of our Management and Personnel Committees, we haven’t been faced with staff redundancies to date; this will remain our priority for the next year. New Resources As an organisation we are not afraid of new challenges, so when we were approached by the Northern Rock Foundation (NRF) to use our model to combat homophobia in the classroom, we gladly agreed. We have produced a 17 minute film which uses sporting role models to combat homophobia; entitled “Homophobia: Let’s Tackle it!” and we are now working on a complementary film to combat homophobia in the classroom. We hope to have a DVD produced by the end of this year. We have produced a new magazine – launched at an event in Parliament in September 2011. We hope to reprint it once the initial 50,000 run sells out. Work has also begun to update our main UK DVD. We have managed to complete a new film and education pack to combat sectarianism – see Rivals Not Enemies (page 46). 2 www.theredcard.org 3 SHOW RACISM THE RED CARD ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 Teacher training Mission Statement Our teacher training work was pioneered in November 2009 and Although as an organisation we are keen to always develop our has been a fantastic new development for our campaign. We resources and staff team, we also have to be careful not to lose now have a staff team who have educated thousands of sight of what we do best. There is a danger that we try to take on teachers and have built up a great deal of expertise in doing so. too much and it is vital that we stick to our mission statement outlined in our Strategic vision. Both our staff and Management We have also produced a new report into the lack of teacher Committee regularly discuss the direction of our organisation training provision, highlighting the implications of this for our and it is important that we re-emphasise that challenging racism schools and young people. “Barriers to challenging racism and through anti-racism education is the key focus for our task promoting race equality in England’s schools” is a much-needed ahead. piece of research and is available to download from our website. In addition, Show Racism the Red Card has developed a “Guidance for Initial Teacher Trainers” document, used in ITT The year ahead institutions across the UK. As the song goes, “There may be trouble ahead!” Certainly the economic outlook is not good and this, combined with public New Initiatives sector cuts, can only make it a difficult time for the voluntary sector. However, it is precisely in times of economic recession The Show Bigotry the Red Campaign (SBtRC) has now been that racism will be on the rise. I am confident that with our staff running for two years and we have developed a number of team’s skill, dedication and commitment we can make it another different strands to this work.