Race for Opportunity
Race for Opportunity (RfO) has now published it's 2009 Benchmarking Report - “Transparency at the Heart of Diversity”, the only investigation of UK
organisations’ attitudes and action on race, describing the trends
and challenges on ethnic diversity.
Race for Opportunity (RFO) is committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. It is the only race diversity campaign that has access to and influence over the leaders of the UK’s best known organisations.
The campaign’s objectives are:
- To raise awareness of the barriers preventing the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community from making progress in the workplace.
- To communicate the need to speed up progress on the introduction of policies that further better representation of ethnic minorities.
- To highlight the responsibility and role of leaders in delivering race diversity
- To make clear the economic and business argument for organisations investing in race diversity.
For more information on how Race for Opportunity can help your organisation, please visit our how we can help page.
What we're working on...
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More than 10% of the UK workforce is from an ethnic minority background and over 20% of the emerging workforce, (children in primary and secondary education), are from an ethnic minority background. Britain’s current and future talent pool is racially diverse and progressive employers understand that it makes good business sense to utilise and grow this pool of talent.
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RFO has a proven track record (14 years) of engaging with the UK’s largest private and public sector employers on race equality solutions. RFO provides specialist advice and support to help organisations meet their objectives on race and diversity.
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Employers know the importance of measuring and monitoring progress. RFO’s unique benchmarking tool allows employers to measure and celebrate their progress on race, year on year. The tool also generates sector, regional and industry comparisons which can be shared with individual organisations in a private and confidential manner.
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Fresh information and updates on race equality initiatives and events occurring at both local and national level, as well as employer best practice case studies, UK statistics on ethnic minorities and legal advice on race discrimination cases.
