ANNUAL REPORT 2009

THE Institute of Race Relations (IRR) wasthe first educational charity on race rela-tions to be established in the UK in 1958.

Since then, it has striven to change its focuswith changing needs and pioneer new thinkingto keep abreast of the changes in racism, itself.Today, the IRR is at the cutting edge of theresearch and analysis that informs the strugglefor racial justice in Britain, and internationally.It seeks to reflect the experiences of those whosuffer racial oppression and draws its perspec-tives from the most vulnerable in society.

The IRR carries out research into pressing issuesof contemporary racism. To meet specificdemands from community groups, the IRR hasconcentrated on research to combat the rise ofracial violence and on evidence about the plightof asylum seekers. The European Race Audit iscurrently conducting a major research project onEuropean racism.

IRR’s print publishing includes the world-famousinternational quarterly, Race & Class, theEuropean Race Bulletin and occasional pam-phlets. IRR also publishes an online anti-racistnews service – IRR News. And increasingly IRR ismaking its information, research and publishingavailable electronically. As part of its education-al function, the IRR continues to distribute awide range of anti-racist materials, including theHomeBeats CDROM. �

Institute of Race Relations

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Race & Class editorial working committee member ChrisSearle (right) and Roger Matland (left) at the launch ofthe October issue of Race & Class, a Festschrift dedicatedto Chris on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.

Liz Fekete delivering the annual Claudia Jones memoriallecture organised by the National Union of Journalists’Black Members Council, October 2009.

Screening of two IRR films at South-East Region TradesUnion Congress film club, Congress House, London, May2009.

IRR council member Victoria Brittain (second from right)speaking about civil liberties in Britain at an IRR semi-nar in February 2009.

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HISTORICALLY hard economic times havealways exposed new evidence of the hard-wired racism in capitalist culture. In this

last year of unprecedented economic recession,it is indeed regrettable, if not downright deplor-able, that no major party or key institution ofcivil society has been moved to take heed ofhistorical precedent and focus on the need tocombat racism and related social injustices inthe UK, as across Europe. The much reportedlack of confidence in the running of the Equalityand Human RightsCommission along with theresignation and departureof a number of its keycommissioners is but anindication of just howmuted concern aboutracism has become in stat-utory and government cir-cles.

The fact that extreme rightparties, vaunting theirnationalist and anti-immi-gration credentials, havebeen able to make elec-toral in-roads – with theBritish National Party win-ning its first two seats inthe European Parliament(and the United KingdomIndependence Party win-ning thirteen seats) –came as little surprise. Butthe apparently opportunistbehaviour of mainstreamparties is yet more worrying. On the one hand,the ‘new’ Labour Party, by and large, refuses tosee how its neglect of predominantly Whiteworking-class communities coupled with thefall-out from its anti-terror and anti-refugee

policies has helpedto fuel racism. Onthe other hand, theTories, buying into thecluster of anti-Europeanintegration/ anti-Islamicideas permeating European politicshave seen fit to remove the Conservatives fromthe centre-right block in the EuropeanParliament and line up instead with anti-federal-ist rightist groups like the Polish Law and

Justice Party (whose lead-ers are overtly homopho-bic) and the notoriousLatvian For Fatherland andFreedom Party.

If UK race relations are tobe influenced by worldevents, comment on thislast year, 2008/9, cannotpass without mention ofthe impact on BME com-munities of Barack Obama’svictory in the US presiden-tial election – one moresmall step towards MartinLuther King’s civil rightsdream. As in the US, whereBlack people a generationaway from slavery andshare-cropping, could mar-vel at Black progress topower, in the UK too, Blackpeople with their colonialhistory were wide-eyed assomeone descended from

their ‘Third World’ could be leader of the mostpowerful nation in the world. Whatever theprobable policy letdowns as Obama faces up torealpolitik, there is no gainsaying the tremen-dous symbolic importance of his victory. �

Colin Prescod

Colin Prescod’s films about the historicalmaking of four Black communities inBritain was re-issued on DVD in Novem-ber 2008 after the 1981-created filmswere remastered.

Chair’s comment

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THIS has been a year in which a number ofour new projects have come to fruition. TheBlack History Project which was financed

by the Heritage Lottery Fund over eighteenmonths was completed early in 2009. And nowthrough the online catalogue of all our holdingswe are attracting a whole range of new users.We are particularly pleased that young peoplehave been encouraged to make use of the col-lection. One of our regrets last year, when not-ing fifty years of IRR, was the fact that an oldergeneration rather than a younger one was thereto celebrate with us. This year through theBlack History Collection and the fact that thefilms, ‘Struggles for Black Community’, remas-tered on one DVD, have been shown at key anti-racist events (for example to mark fifty yearsfrom the death of Kelso Cochrane and thirtyyears from the death of Blair Peach) and beenmade available to community groups, we havemanaged to engage the interest of younger peo-ple in Black History and its relevance to today’sstruggles. Though we have not had funds thisyear to employ someone specifically to work on

educational out-reach and promo-tion of our BlackHistory materials,thanks are due toRebecca Wood andHarmit Athwal onthe staff and toColin Prescod, thedirector of theoriginal films, fortheir energies inpromoting thisarea of our work.

The projectAlternative Voiceson Integration,funded by a pro-gramme of theEuropeanProgramme forIntegration and

Migration,and headedby LizFekete hasalso taken offthis year. This hasenabled the IRR to reachout in its research and publishing to grass-rootsgroups in a number of European countries. Andonce again it has been particularly gratifyingthat so many young people are now becominginvolved in such initiatives.

As a result of critical feedback from a number ofcommunity projects, the IRR undertook a smallresearch project on the impact of the govern-ment’s Preventing Violent Extremism programmeat local authority level. Headed by ArunKundnani and funded by the Joseph RowntreeCharitable Trust the work which included overthirty interviews and a roundtable workshopconcluded with a key report in October 2009.

All these new projects have been undertakenwhilst our core activities of research and pub-lishing – the online news service, Race & Classand the European Race Bulletin – have contin-ued. Given the fact that we have not been ableto employ more workers, the staff is to be con-gratulated on their enormous output. Witnessthe number and range of outside meetings andprojects the IRR has been involved in during thepast year listed in the diary of events(pp11–12).

These achievements, however, during the yearcould not have been achieved without the con-siderable input of our many volunteers. We needto make special mention of the contributions ofthree young interns who worked with us overthe summer on our research into racial violenceand to give special thanks to Frances Webberwho not only has provided stalwart support toIRR News over the year but also stepped in tohelp on the administration of the companywhen the secretary was incapacitated. �

A. Sivanandan

Director’s note

A collection of A. Sivanandan’s writingswas published by Pluto Press inNovember 2008.

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DURING the course of the year Race &Class, which has essentially remained thesame A5 size for thirty-four years,

changed both size and format. We feel that thenew larger format makes the journal much easierto read and we are pleased to report that thechange has taken place without losing anywords in each volume. It also means that it isnow a standard size which eases matters bothfor our publisher and for libraries. In 2009 pro-fessor Avery Gordon, a long time writer for thejournal and IRR supporter, agreed to join theEditorial Working Committee. We feel that bothher academic and activist interests will verymuch strengthen Race & Class. Overall, theimpact of the journal has been high this year.And we are pleased to report that because ofSage Publications’ ability to sell Race & Class inconsortia online packages of journals, we haveincreased those institutions, which now receiveit – especially in countries outside NorthAmerica and Europe.

Of the four issues published this year, three hadkey themes. The January 2009 number looked atIslam, Islamophobia and the Middle East witharticles on the impact of anti-terror laws onMuslims in the UK (Victoria Brittain), the mis-takes about Islam in Pope Benedict’sRegensburg speech (Ralph Coury), the socio-economic position of Israeli Jews who originat-ed in Muslim countries (Ehud Ein-Gil and MosheMachover) and Elaine Hagopian’s review ofTamim Al-Barghouti’s The Umma and the Dawla:the nation state and the Arab Middle East. Othercontributions included Hazel Waters’ article on

race on the Victorian stage and reports from theIRR’s November 2009 conference ‘Catching his-tory on the wing’.

The April 2009 issue led with an article by JerryHarris and Carl Davidson on the cultural shiftindicated by Barack Obama’s election victory.The rest of the issue focused on asylum andmulticulturalism in Sweden. Peo Hansen wroteon ‘Post-national Europe’, Shahram Khosravi ondetention and deportation of asylum seekers andAnna Bredström on HIV/Aids policy. In addition,Sarah Dornhof critiqued German sociologists’research on Islamist radicalism and Liz Feketewrote on European ‘crimes of solidarity’ withmigrants and asylum seekers.

The July 2009 issue, the first in the new format,covered a wide range of topics: ‘Civilising theIrish’ (Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston),‘Palestinian resistance and international solidari-ty’ (Abigail Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban),‘Dean Baker’s war of position’ (Jonathan Scott)and ‘Tea – midwife and nurse to capitalism’ (A.Kemasang). Commentaries on British radicalsand the voices of the French banlieues were pro-vided by Jeremy Seabrook and Naima Bouteldjarespectively.

The October 2009 issue was a special number, aFestschrift dedicated to the work of EditorialWorking Committee member Chris Searle on his65th birthday. It covered the range of hisachievements as publisher, poet, writer, critic,cricketer, teacher and educational advisor acrossthree continents. �

Race & Class

chris searlethe ggreat iincluder

‘Civilising the Irish’Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston on

Plus • Sivanandan on Gaza • Solidarity with Palestine• Dean BakerPlus: special focus on multiculturalism and asylum in Sweden

Besieged in Britain

Plus: the Orientalism of the Pope • Zionism and Oriental Jews

by Victoria Brittain

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LARGELY because of the controversial natureof the issues the European Race Audit(ERA) works on – whether it be the xeno-

racism that grows out of the asylum laws or theways in which the anti-terrorist laws reinforceIslamophobia and racism against Muslims – it ishard for our work to penetrate to the main-stream. But it was extremely gratifying to notethat throughout the year under review a numberof quasi-governmental organisations, as well assome of the larger justice and human rightsNGOs, have used our research material as toolsto lobby for change. Recognition of the impor-tance of our research to new constituencies wasevidenced in February 2009, when Liz Feketewas asked by the Children’s Society to join theadvisory team of ‘Outcry’, the campaign to endthe detention of asylum-seeking children in theUK and in October, when the Black MembersCouncil of the NUJ invited Liz to give theClaudia Jones annual lecture on the theme of‘Who’s terrorising who? The media and the waron terror’.

The ERA has pro-duced four issuesof the Bulletin thisyear dealing, asusual, with issuesby and largeignored by themainstream. Thespecial issue of theBulletin on thecriminalisation ofthose who work insolidarity with asy-lum seekers andundocumentedmigrants provedtimely; its themeswere subsequentlytaken up by FrontLine International,the Foundation forProtection of

Human Rights Defenders as well as theFederation of Human Rights League and theInternational Organisation Against Torture whichconsulted with us prior to its fact-finding mis-sion to France. While our issue covering ‘Racism,elections and the economic downturn’ led to aninvitation by COJEP International to address aside meeting at the OSCE Human DimensionImplementation Meeting in October. The issue ofthe Bulletin on deaths in Europe due to racism,fascism and immigration policy from 2007–9 wasformally presented as evidence to the OSCEOffice of Democratic Institutions and HumanRights and the European Committee for thePrevention of Torture. ‘Secrecy, detention, tor-ture’, the special issue of the Bulletin whichfocused on the parallel world of Europe’s anti-terror laws, has been used by organisations sup-porting individuals and families campaigningagainst the use of secret evidence in anti-terrorcases and lobbying for a special debate in theEuropean Parliament on this disturbing issue.

Partly as a result of the publication of the bookA Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration andIslamophobia in Europe by Liz Fekete (PlutoPress, 2009) the work that ERA has carried outinto Islamophobia (a hostile mindset towardsthe Muslim world) and the way it morphs intoinstitutionalised racism against Muslims, hasattracted much attention this year. Many groupsacross Europe working on Islamophobia andracism feel isolated, and we are pleased to beone of the European organisations valued forproviding analysis, practical support and advice.We have also either been written up or beeninterviewed on Islamophobia and racism by jour-nalists from Samora (Norway), Arbetaren andDagens Nyheter (Sweden) and Telerama (France).Our work on Islamophobia and xeno-racism isincreasingly cited in academic debate and wehave forged links with academics working in arange of fields from those working on bordercontrols at the University of New South Walesand criminologists looking at ‘state crime’ andthe war on terror at Kings College, London to

European projects

Liz Fekete’s A Suitable Enemy waspublished by Pluto Press in 2009.

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sociologists working on issues of racism andgender at the University of Lund.

The Alternative Voices on Integration Project,which seeks to publicise and strengthen thework of grassroots civil society initiatives work-ing in dynamic ways around issues of integra-tion in France, Netherlands, Germany, Austriaand the UK, has been running for almost oneyear. We now have a dedicated area on the IRRwebsite showcasing innovative projects, such asthe Transnational Migrant Platform (Nether-lands), the Kanafani Intercultural Initiative(Austria), the Social Forum of the Banlieues(France) and Young Muslim Voices (UK).

It has been extremely rewarding to engage withnew European voices, particularly those ofyoung people who are dealing with issues ofmarginalisation and the erosion of their sense ofbelonging, in creative ways often involving thedevelopment of new media and internet tools.Three young volunteers, Chandra Frank inAmsterdam, and Najia Ahmed and Nazmin Ali inthe UK, have contributed written work for theproject, as have research consultants NaimaBouteldja and Nina Mühe, whose support hasproved invaluable. We are also thankful to theEuropean Programme for Integration andMigration (EPIM) of the Network of EuropeanFoundations not only for funding the project,but also for creating a unique space for strate-gic learning and capacity building for groupsacross the EU. It has certainly allowed us todeepen our collaboration with organisationssuch as the Platform for InternationalCooperation on Undocumented Migrants(Belgium), Migreurop (France), the ImmigrantCouncil of Ireland Independent Law Centre andPeople in Need (Czech Republic). �

UNITED

Robin Virgin

‘I have been enthralled by LizFekete’s book. Each page, eachparagraph, each sentence a timelyreminder of how the establishmentturns the screw!’

U S E R F E E D B AC K

Liz Fekete spoke at the UNITED conference in Sheffieldin 2009.

Liz Fekete and Naima Bouteldja attended the ForumSocial des Quartiers Populaires in Paris in 2009.

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THIS service has been much strengthenedduring the year by having had the supportof new staff member Rebecca Wood. This

has meant that IRR News has on average pub-lished over twenty-five items per weekly bul-letin. The addition of Frances Webber as a regu-lar (volunteer) contributor to news stories andfeatures on developments in immigration andasylum law has very much added to the depthand range of IRR News’ coverage. The number ofsubscribers continues to increase, as does theimpact of our coverage.

For example, articles by Frances Webber formedthe basis of a lecture in Westminster Abbey onHuman Rights Day and our research on racialviolence was used for presentations on RacialJustice Sunday. Rebecca Wood’s feature on com-

munity campaigns andthe new funding agen-da was reproduced bycommunity groups aswas the piece byFrances Webber on theCoroners and JusticeBill (by PrisonersAdvice Service andINQUEST), and LizFekete’s on a neweducational forum (inCriminal JusticeMatters). ArunKundnani’s analysis ofthe BNP’s success hasbeen very influential(within trades unionsin particular) and apiece by RebeccaWood on newspapercoverage of Muslimsas a threat had beenreproduced in an edu-cational textbook. Themost recirculated arti-cle from this year wasundoubtedly the textof a speech by

A. Sivanandan to the Marxism 2009 conferenceon ethnic cleansing in his native Sri Lanka. Thiswas not just reproduced on a number of othersites but attracted the largest number of com-ments in response – in excess of one hundredon one South Asian-based site!

The training workshops and internships havebeen a very important part of IRR News’ servicesover the year. Four young people had benefitedfrom internships during which they were trainedin information retrieval, writing of news copyand basic sub-editing skills. The workshops havebeen extended in 2008/9. In addition to provid-ing media training at IRR, Arun Kundnani hasalso gone out to community groups on threeoccasions to deliver training to a whole organi-sation. IRR’s media training guide was also ofgreat benefit to European participants at theEPIM seminar on migrants groups and the mediaheld in Prague. IRR also pioneered workshops ona number of new themes: the roundtable on thegovernment’s Preventing Violent Extremismagenda, a discussion on the impact of anti-ter-ror laws (led by Victoria Brittain), immigrationand asylum campaigning (with Fizza Qureshi,Frances Webber, et al). �

IRR News

IRR News, edited by Harmit Athwal,published on average over twenty-fiveitems per week.

‘Thanks as always for keeping us sowell in the frame.’

‘Would not want to be without you… I use IRR News to informprisoners.’

‘Well done folks. Your service isinvaluable.’

‘I save everything you send me asyour articles are informative … andgive us a bird’s eye view of the sit-uation nationally.’

‘Many thanks for your continuingweekly digest which I much value.’

U S E R F E E D B AC K

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IN addition to the research undertaken onEurope, the IRR has carried out research onthe UK in a number of areas. In 2009 we

received a grant from the Joseph RowntreeCharitable Fund to undertake short-termresearch into the government’s PreventingViolent Extremism agenda. This project, under-taken by Arun Kundnani, involved carrying out anumber of interviews with those working with‘Prevent’ at a local level and a roundtable dis-cussion. Findings have been published in areport entitled Spooked: how not to prevent vio-lent extremism and evi-dence based on theresearch was submitted tothe Communities and LocalGovernment Committee ofInquiry in September2009. Essentially theresearch found that thePVE programme was not‘communities-led’, thatdecision-making lackedtransparency and account-ability and that it alienat-ed those communities itsought to win over. It didnot examine extremismacross the board, but sin-gled out the Muslim com-munity. In addition, proj-ects funded throughPrevent were being used ininformation gathering forthe police. To effectivelycounter extremism, thereport argued, meant pro-viding a truly democraticspace where people, especially young people,could openly discuss issues. On publication inOctober, the report’s findings made front-pagenews in the Guardian and, at the time of writ-ing, the home affairs parliamentary select com-mittee is considering an investigation. The IRRis planning to follow up this work with a seriesof public meetings to discuss the issues relatingto PVE with local communities around England.

Harmit Athwal and Rebecca Wood of IRR Newshave continued to monitor and follow-upincidents of racial violence this year and withthe aid of volunteers Trevor Hemmings, NajiaAhmed, Nazmin Ali and Ashika Singh haveresearched the consequences of racial attacks interms of investigation, arrest, charging andconviction and sentence. Although we have notbeen able to attract funding for a full-scaleproject to analyse the data on incidents wehold (which date back to the 7/7 bombings in2005 and the subsequent rise in attacks on

Muslim communities) wehave created a databaseon which many of theincidents have beenlogged. This is apreliminary step inproviding the much-needed evidence onpatterns of violence. It isworrying that on such avery serious area thereappears to be neitherdetailed academic researchnor systematic governmentinterest.

Other data collected in thecourse of IRR News’ dailymonitoring – on deaths incustody and on arrestsunder anti-terror legis-lation – have also beenworked on in the course ofthe year with a view towriting articles for thenews service and/or

updating web pages on these subjects. RebeccaWood has also begun to monitor the area ofgang/gun/knife crime and, in particular tounpick contemporary discourses on youthviolence. In March, Frances Webber and HarmitAthwal presented oral evidence, based on IRR’sresearch, to the European Commission AgainstRacism and Intolerance (ECRI) inquiry into theUK’s asylum system. �

Research

Arun Kundnani’s report on preventingviolent extremism provoked a majordebate about the effectiveness of thegovernment’s Prevent counter-terrorismstrategy.

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BY February 2009, the Heritage Lottery-funded project to catalogue and promotethe IRR’s Black History Collection

(1950s–1980s) was completed, as was the cre-ation of an impressive online downloadableresource for teachers of Citizenship at KS3 andKS4 and promotional leaflets on both theCollection and all IRR’s Black history resources

for young people. We havebeen pleased at the interestin the Collection, the factthat we have such demandthat we now have to organ-ise appointments some twomonths ahead. Those thathave used the Collectioninclude overseas and localacademics but also quite anumber of community-basedorganisations attempting tochart local black history.And we were particularlypleased to work via theCollection with young peo-ple from West London onthe Octavia Hill Foundation’sHidden Heroes project tointerview on film key play-ers and collect archivematerials about the lives ofClaudia Jones, JayabenDesai, Amy Ashwood Garveyand Octavia Hill to create aDVD for young people.

‘Struggles for BlackCommunity’, the DVD about the historical mak-ing of four Black communities in Britain whichwas re-issued last year after the 1981-createdfilms were remastered, has been yet another wayfor IRR to inform new constituencies about thehighpoints and key movers in Britain’s Blackstruggles against racism. The DVD has beenwidely reviewed and sales have been unexpect-

edly brisk. But in addition, it has been shownand discussed at a number of events over thepast year – ’58 Remembered’, the Black SectionsConference, the BFI’s Black Film Forum, thePortobello Film Festival, Rich Mix Black HistoryMonth, the DRUM’s Black History Month – andhad an impact on new audiences who wereeager to discuss the issues raised and take for-ward research and understanding of BlackBritish history.

The IRR is now ideally placed – because of itsrange of anti-racist educational materials(CDROM, DVD, exhibition, educational books,online resources for teachers and the BlackHistory Collection itself) – to revivify its publiceducational contribution and, in particular, tomeet the growing interest in Black British histo-ry in the young. It is evident from our workwith young trades unionists and youth groupsthat increasingly people are viewing Black histo-ry not just in terms of the past but also as away of informing current fights and campaigns.In that sense it was significant that Liz Fekete,who researches current aspects of racism,including the impact of anti-terror legislation,was asked to give the 2009 Claudia Jones annu-al lecture during Black History Month. �

Black history

MAC / WIN CDROM

A multimediajourney throughtime from theCaribbean,Asia andAfrica to themaking ofmodernBritain

Jenny Bourne (centre) working with young people fromthe Octavia Hill Foundation’s Hidden Heroes project.

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Events, meetings and seminars at which IRRstaff and Council members have contributed asspeakers, facilitators or in other capacities.

20085 NOVEMBER – Lecture on anti-terrorism laws atCriminology Department, Kings College London

1 DECEMBER – Presentation on IRR’s work tothe Campaign Against Criminalising Communities

2 DECEMBER – Keynote address at ‘Time forQuestions’ young people’s forum on asylum atBristol Academy

4 DECEMBER – Media workshop with TurkishKurdish community group, north London

12 DECEMBER – Presentation on multicultural-ism in Europe at Maynooth University, Dublin

13 DECEMBER – Roundtable on migrants andasylum rights organised by the TransnationalMigrants Platform Amsterdam

200915 JANUARY – Information exchange withImmigrant Council of Ireland – Independent LawCentre

16 JANUARY – Roundtable on public attitudestowards refugees at the Princess of WalesMemorial Fund, London.

17 FEBRUARY – Launch of ‘The Hounding ofDavid Oluwale’ play, Hackney Empire, London

19 FEBRUARY – IRR meeting on impact of con-trol orders, speaker Victoria Brittain

21 FEBRUARY – Speech at ‘Remembering WalterRodney’ Huntley Archive conference, LondonMetropolitan Archive

3 MARCH – Lecture on racism in Europe atCornell University’s Department of Labor Studies

9 MARCH – Submitted evidence to ECRI delega-tion on asylum system in the UK

11 MARCH – Lecture at King’s College, Londonon integration policy and the anti-terrorist laws

16 MARCH – Presentation at Kings College,London, on multiculturalism

19 MARCH – Roundtable on racism at OSCE,Vienna

20 MARCH – Information exchange with Anti-Racist Center, Oslo

21 MARCH – Speech at Médècins du Monde AGMon immigration/ asylum issues

24 MARCH – Speech on points-based system,work and asylum at meeting organised byLiverpool Student Guild, Liverpool TUC and UCU

27 MARCH – PICUM conference on undocument-ed workers, London

30 MARCH – Speech to NUT conference onEducation and Multiculturalism

14 APRIL – IRR meeting on ‘Palestine: the real-ity vs. the political speeches’, speaker ShawkiIssa

16 APRIL – Paper delivered to ‘Instruction,Amusement and Spectacle 1800-1914’ confer-ence, Exeter University

28 APRIL – Speech to Manchester UniversityHuman Rights Society on immigration; Keynotespeaker and facilitator at Black Film Forum,‘Legacies of Atlantic Slavery’, British FilmInstitute

7 MAY – Keynote address at Centre for RacialEquality and Diversity, University of Warwick

14 MAY – Book launch discussion on racism atBookmarks, London; meeting of UN AdvisoryGroup on Forced Evictions, House of Lords

16 MAY – Screening and discussion of IRR film‘From you were black you were out’ at KelsoCochrane memorial event, Ladbroke Grove

19 MAY – Meeting of Children’s Society ResearchAdvisory Group

20 MAY – Lecture on xeno-racism at theRefugee Studies Centre, University of EastLondon

21 MAY – Screening of two IRR films at SERTUCfilm club, Congress House, London

23 MAY – Presentation on Islamophobia atChicago International CommunicationAssociation conference

Diary events

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29 MAY – Workshop at IRR on tackling racism inthe media

6 JUNE – Talk on propaganda and conflict atUNITED for Intercultural Action’s conference inSheffield

10–11 JUNE – EPIM workshop in London onadvocacy and integration issues

12 JUNE – IRR workshop on deportation anddetention

17 JUNE – Presentations on points-based sys-tem to UCU meeting at School of Oriental andAfrican Studies; launch of ‘Young Children andracial justice: taking action for racial equality inthe early years’, House of Lords

22 JUNE – Attendance at seminars on ethnicity,harm and crime and Black youth crime at Centrefor Crime and Justice Studies, Kings College,London

27 JUNE – Screening and discussion with direc-tor, Colin Prescod, of two IRR films at BritishFilm Institute

28 JUNE – Speech at Justice for the North West10 Campaign meeting in Birmingham

3 JULY – Speech on ethnic cleansing in SriLanka at Marxism 2009 conference

5 JULY – Speech on Islamophobia at Marxism2009 conference

23 JULY – Media workshop with Turkish Kurdishcommunity, north London

10 AUGUST – Talk on Preventing ViolentExtremism with Campaign Against CriminalisingCommunities

19 AUGUST – Talk to City Circle/Campusalaammeeting on Preventing Violent Extremism

7/8 SEPTEMBER – EPIM NGO workshop onmigration and the media, Prague

17 SEPTEMBER – Delegate at UN Human RightsCouncil (12th Session) special session on deten-tion, Geneva

23–24 SEPTEMBER – EPIM workshop in Brusselson Partnership, Networking and Collaboration

26 SEPTEMBER – Workshop on deportation andbail at Kent Refugee Help, Canterbury

3 OCTOBER – Lecture on 1958 ‘race riots’ to‘Revolting London’ conference, LondonMetropolitan Archives

5 OCTOBER – Speech on Islamophobia and hatecrimes at COJEP International event at theHuman Dimension Implementation meeting atOSCE, Warsaw

7 OCTOBER – Keynote address at annual meet-ing of Swindon Racial Equality Council

14 OCTOBER – Keynote at the eighth annualClaudia Jones lecture

28 OCTOBER – Talk at Young Muslim Voices, KickIslamophobia event

31 OCTOBER – Presentation at Campaign forPress and Broadcasting Freedom annual generalmeeting

Shawqi Issa (left) spoke at an IRR seminar on ‘Palestine: the realityvs the political speeches’ in April 2009.

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Balance sheet at 31 March 2009

2009 2008

Fixed assets 146,584 149,036

Current assetsStocks of stationery and publications 7,007 7,278Debtors and prepayments 43,481 39,478Cash at bank and in hand 55,154 105,642 77,931 124,687

252,226 273,723Less: creditorsAmounts falling due within one yearSundry creditors 10,875 18,037

241,351 255,686Represented by:Funds Available

Unrestricted 35,331 67,305Designated 35,523 35,523Restricted 170,497 152,858

241,351 255,686

Income and Expenditure Account and Statement of Financial Activitiesfor the year ended 31 March 2009

Designated Unrestricted Restricted Total 2009 Total 2008Incoming resourcesIncoming resources from general funds:– Voluntary income - 21,373 - 21,373 19,365– Activities for generating funds - 77,281 560 77,841 74,101– Investment income - 2,850 - 2,850 4,634Incoming resources from charitable activities - - 106,592 106,592 97,640

Total incoming resources - 101,504 107,152 208,656 195,740

Resources expendedCosts of generating voluntary income - 6,765 - 6,765 6,306Charitable activities - 95,185 119,511 214,696 192,702Governance costs - 1,530 - 1,530 1,607

Total resources expended - 103,480 119,511 222,991 200,615

Net incoming resources (1,976) (12,359) (14,335) (4,875)Transfers between funds - (29,998) 29,998 - -

- (31,974) 17,639 - (4,875)Balance brough forward at 1 April 2008 35,523 67,305 152,858 255,686 260,561

Balance carried forward at 31 March 2009 35,523 35,331 170,497 241,351 255,686

There were no recognised gains or losses in the year, other than those shown above. All of the Company’s activities are continu-ing. These accounts are extracted from the full accounts for the year ended 31 March 2009 on which reporting accountant SusanField, FCA, reported without qualification on 21 July 2009. A copy of the full accounts is available on request from the companysecretary.

Finances

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Contact detailsInstitute of Race Relations2–6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS, UKTel: +44 (0)20 7837 0041Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 0623Email: info@irr.org.ukWeb: www.irr.org.uk

StaffA. Sivanandan – director and advisory editor of

Race & ClassLiz Fekete – executive director and head of

European researchHazel Waters – advisory editor of Race & ClassJenny Bourne – company secretaryHarmit Athwal – editor of IRR NewsArun Kundnani – editor of Race & ClassRebecca Wood – publications officer

Additional research assistanceNaima BouteldjaNina Mühe

Council of managementColin Prescod (chair)Professor Lee BridgesVictoria BrittainTony BunyanDavid EdgarPaul GrantProfessor Louis KushnickLord Herman OuseleyNaina Patel, OBEFizza QureshiDanny ReillyCilius VictorFrances Webber

FundersAllen Lane FoundationThe Big LotteryCity Parochial FoundationEuropean Programme on Integration and

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