Equality South West

Paul Dunn

CEO

paul.dunn@equalitysouthwest.org.uk

ESW organisational structure

• Chief Executive

• 2 x Equality Development Officers, Office Manager and 1x Admin staff

• Board of Directors from the equality strands and regional agencies and organisations

• Funding – Change Up, SWRDA (& BASIS?)

• Company Ltd by Guarantee (soon Charity)

ESW main work• support capacity building in equalities work

– help secure funding– events– newsletter and website– share good practice– develop sub-regional networks

• develop an information and intelligence resource

• support, campaign for and influence policy

ESW Equality Networks

Support and develop 7 equality networks

• Age• Disability (SWDEN)• Gender (FPSW)• Race (SWREN) • Religion/Belief (with faithnet.southwest)• Sexual Orientation (LGBSWN)• Transgender

Developing cross-strand strategy…

• Often equalities is seen as ‘us’ and ‘them’ – separate ‘strands’.

• Single strands can be seen as ‘safe’ for many organisations.

• People have multiple identities / suffer multiple deprivation.

• Changes in legislation will impact on people from equalities’ communities in differing ways.

ESW work includes…• Events:

– Age Discrimination– Gender Duty Consultation Event – diverse groups– Disability Duty training event– Disability Duty consultation event (DRC)

• Research: Equality Proofing the Voluntary and Community Sector (Change-UP Consortia) – ways of improving delivery

• Equality Standard for the VCS

• Newsletter• Website – award winner!

Future initiatives include…

• Organise CEHR event, 3/7, about EU Year of EO for All

• Regional Consultation on Human Rights

• Developing 3rd Sector E&D strategy for SW

• Road testing the Equality Standard for the VCS

• Research on Migrant Workers