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Positive Hair Day Project

 

What is it?

Positive Hair Day is an exciting new project which aims to build positive racial and cultural identities for Black and mixed heritage individuals and their families living in the Brighton, Hove and Sussex area.

Throughout 2010 and into 2011 we are running FREE workshops, events and activities in the Brighton and Hove area including:

• Hair care workshops ; tips and advice on how to care for your Black and mixed heritage hair
• Hair stories workshops ; help to document and collect family histories from the Black and mixed heritage community (including your own!) and in doing that help us create our fantastic hair stories exhibition which will educate and inform the wider population about Black and mixed heritage experience, culture and identity.
• Video workshops aimed at Black and mixed heritage young people

 

Help future generations feel proud of who they are and where they come from

 

 

You can:

 

• Be interviewed by us! We are looking for Black and mixed heritage individuals and families who will be willing to be interviewed for our HAIRstories exhibition. Sharing your experience will help other people learn from your experiences and know they are not alone.
• Become a project volunteer and get involved in doing the interviewing! We will teach you how do interviewing and how to use broadcast quality recording equipment, (video, audio and photography) so you pick up valuable skills along the way.
• Come along to our free HAIR care workshops.
• Give us a call and have a chat and see how you can contribute to the project!

 

Whilst our project focuses on the experiences of Black and mixed heritage people, PHD is open to all. Interested? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Want to know more?

www.positivehairday.org.uk
For more info:
please contact Sarah Lee, project coordinator tel: (07963) 686 904 or Wayne James or Amanda Watson-James at Shae Shae Creations on (01273) 230832

 

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Last call for application to UnLtd’s RISE Awards Programme

 

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Equality and Human Rights Commission – Inquiry into Race in the Construction Industry

 

On Friday we published our Report of the Inquiry into Race Discrimination in the Construction Industry. It is available at

 

www.equalityhumanrights.com/constructioninquiry

 

We hope that you will find the report of interest.

 

The Report highlights the persistence of the under-representation of non-white ethnic minority workers in the Industry, despite causes and potential solutions having been identified at least 10 years ago. It identifies that this poses challenges both for the Industry and the Commission. The Report also points out that significant examples of good practice exist in the Industry and that positive steps are being taken to tackle under-representation.

 

The next step for the Commission is to engage with Industry bodies and stakeholders, including relevant government departments, unions, education providers and careers advisers and key co-ordinating bodies like the National Apprenticeship Service and sector skills councils.

 

This will be led by Commissioner Kay Allen and the focus of our engagement will be to address the question underlying the challenge to increase non-white ethnic minority representation, which is: what makes change happen in the Industry?

 

Our engagement will also look at how to build on the examples of good practice in the Industry that we have found during our Inquiry.

 

This next phase of work will focus on the specific key issues for the Industry and the Commission, identifying who is best placed to lead on tackling those challenges and establishing a programme of action to deliver positive change.

It is our intention to report on this next phase of our work by January 2010.

 

Yours sincerely
Rhodri McDonald