Updates / Annual conference 2024
Tracks, Trails and Threads: Courageous Leadership in a Fractured World
Conference resources
Our ground-breaking conference on 21st March 2024 invited you to join fellow professionals to discuss and shape actions for developing an anti-racist world. Sponsored by Google for Education and Institute of Directors (IoD), the event was held across five venues – in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London – and online. New Wales First Minister Vaughan Gething MS and Cardiff and Vale College sponsored the event at The Senedd. It was a truly inspirational day with world-class speakers and vital discussions, and clear calls to action shared nationwide in an unforgettable ‘Golden Threads’ plenary before the close.
On this page, you will find valuable resources shared on the day, including prospectuses, case studies, presentations and programmes for each of the venues and online. Click on the links to access them. Also, we include a link to a film shot at the event in London, at the IoD in Pall Mall, and a compilation video across all venues.
This page will be updated with more valuable information from conference, so watch this space! We’ll also notify you when more content is added. In the meantime, we hope you find these resources useful and also a reminder of what an inspirational event this was. Now for action!
Prospectuses
- BLG Affiliation Prospectus for Colleges
- BLG Affiliation Prospectus for Higher Education**
- BLG Affiliation Prospectus for Business
- BLG Affiliation Prospectus for Early Years, Primary & Secondary Schools
- BLG Membership Prospectus
** At conference in Birmingham, Professor David Mba, Vice-Chancellor at Birmingham City University, launched the Higher Education Anti-Racism Toolkit (HEART). HEART has been developed by BLG to help inform, guide and challenge HE providers and HE professional bodies. Read our BLG Affiliation Prospectus for Higher Education here to find out more.
BLG Affiliated Organisation Case Study Series 2024
- BLG – Case Study – Jisc’s anti-racism manifesto
- BLG – Case Study – Leading Anti-racism conversations – BMet
- BLG – Case Study – Morgan Hunt Organisational Allyship
- BLG – Case Study – South Bank Colleges Anti Racism
Reports
- Listening to Black Student and Staff Voices – Findings & Recommendations from Commissioned Action Research Studies in 10 FE Colleges
- Ethnic Equity in Education – FE Report_March 2024
Programmes
- BLG – Conference Programme – Edinburgh
- BLG – Conference Programme – Belfast
- BLG – Conference Programme – Birmingham
- BLG-Conference-Programme-Cardiff
- BLG-Conference-Programme-London
- BLG-Conference-Programme-Online
Keynotes and panel discussions
Opening keynote by Lord Simon Woolley of Woodford, Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Video: ‘Fireside chat’ panel discussion with Lord Woolley, Chair Robin Ghurburun, Chantelle Haughton, Principal Lecturer at Cardiff Met University, and Ann Francke OBE, Chief Executive, Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
More content will be added to this section soon.
Other information
- Ethnic Representation Index
- News release: Hundreds take part in UK-wide multi-venue conference on anti-racism
- Pre-conference film
- Windrush Wales @75 documentary – Britain Called and They Answered
- Welsh Government – Anti-Racism Metaverse
- BLG Virtual Space
More content will be added to this section soon.
Films
Film – compilation video of the conference at the five venues and online
Film – Tracks, Trails and Threads: Courageous Leadership in a Fractured World: IoD, London
Please keep 20th March 2025 free in your diary for next year’s conference. We hope to see you there. In the meantime, follow the hashtag #blgconf25