13 February 2020

• 8.20AM - 8.50AM
  Registration, morning coffee & networking
• 8.50AM - 9.00AM
  Chair's welcome

  Derek Bardowell, philanthropy consultant and author, No Win Race

• 9.00AM - 9.40AM
  Coming unstuck - identifying barriers to progress

  We’ve been talking about the charity sector’s shameful lack of diversity for years. Why does nothing change? Let’s zero in on the barriers, so we can figure out how to break them. Is it the fear of a zero-sum game - do white people have to relinquish their power and status for their BAME counterparts to have any? Is it unconscious bias? Fear of saying the wrong thing and offending people, so safer not to engage at all? Is it history, the Empire, white saviour complex, the paternalistic charity model of doing things to people, rather than with people? Are we focusing on the wrong things, on equality rather than equity? If we are stuck, how do we get unstuck and begin to make progress?

  Dr Wanda Wyporska, executive director, the Equality Trust, Tom Lawson, chief executive, Turn2Us, Fatima Iftikhar, campaign leader, #charitysowhite, Fozia Irfan, chief executvie, Beds and Luton Community Foundation

• 9.40AM - 10.20AM
  Better leadership recruitment and retention

  If we are serious about making our leadership teams and boards more diverse and inclusive, what can we do? What recruitment policies and practices can we deploy to achieve real change?  And once people are in post, what can we do to ensure they feel included and valued?

  Radojka Miljevic and Gera Patel, partners, Campbell Tickell

• 10.20AM - 10.50AM
  Coffee and networking
• 10.50AM - 11.45AM
  Action stations

  What can charity leaders do to ensure their organisations do not perpetuate institutional racism, and promote racial equity among their board and leadership team? What commitments should they make, what targets should they set? How can they instil a culture of genuine inclusiveness? What part should lived experience play? How can charities create a pipeline of BAME talent that doesn’t require waiting another generation for leaders to emerge? How can they genuinely shift power to their service users? How important is external expertise? How can their membership bodies help them?

  Yemi Gbajobi, chief executive, Arts' Student Union, Dr Sanjiv Lingayah, lead researcher, Making Diversity Count, Asif Afridi, deputy chief executive, brap, and member of Civil Society Futures panel, Anne Fox, chief executive, Clinks, Martha Awojobi, committee member, #charitysowhite

• 11.45AM - 12.35PM
  External Pressure

  What external pressures can be brought to bear on charities by external forces, namely, regulators and funders? If charities are slow to rise to the challenge, or deliberately bury their heads in the sand, is there anything that can be done to force them to change? And - can these organisations realistically apply pressure if they haven’t got their own houses in order?

  Colin Douglas, interim director of communications and policy, Charity Commission, James Fitzpatrick, director, Joseph Levy Foundation (speaking in a personal capacity), Lily Lewis, Director of Social Cohesion, Bernard Family Charitable Trust, Fozia Irfan, chief executive, Beds and Luton Community Foundation

• 12.35PM - 12.45PM
  Chair’s closing remarks

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