Make Equality Real Campaign

 BARAC UK is part of Make Equality Real campaign, coordinated by the General Federation of Trade Unions which we are pleased to announce are affiliated to BARAC UK.

Please join the campaign and sign up to support here:

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Support BARAC UK and other good causes supported by trade unions - Union Lotto launched

In association with the General Federation of Trade Unions GFTU, BARAC UK has launched a union lotto page. Play the lottery with a 1 in 50 chance of winning and at the same time raise funds for BARAC UK . Tickets cost just £1 per week. 

Playing the lottery

Union Lotto is an exciting weekly lottery that raises money for good causes in affiliated Trade Unions. All good causes supported by the lottery will benefit affiliated Trade Unions and its residents.

Play the lottery, support affiliated Trade Unions - it’s that simple!

Tickets for the lottery cost just £1 a week. Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance to win a prize each week, with a top prize of £25,000! That’s a better chance of winning than the National Lottery or the Health Lottery.

Each ticket has six numbers and each number is between 0 and 9. There will be a draw every Saturday night when a six digit winning combination will be picked. Prizes will be given to players with tickets that match the first or last 2 to 6 numbers from the winning combination. Match all six and you win the jackpot!

Find out more and purchase a ticket for just £1 here 

BARAC UK provides a much needed  and valued service for communities, workers and service users, campaigning  for equality  and justice, including  against the disproportionate impacts of cuts and the pandemic on Black, Asian and minority ethnic and migrant communities  for justice for the Windrush Generation and their descendants and for human rights. We organise  regular solidarity and humanitarian  aid missions to support  refugees  and displaced people in Northern France who have fled the impacts of persecution,  climate change, poverty and conflict. and people with no recourse to public funds. 

We need your help so we can continue to offer and even expand our  campaigning,  solidarity and support.

Thank you for your support and good luck!

Yours sincerely,

BARAC UK

https://www.unionlotto.org/support/barac-uk

Call out for black (BME) artists to participate in the Roots Culture Identity touring art exhibition

The Roots Culture Identity art exhibition is hosted by the TUC Race Relations Committee and is the concept of activist, poet, artist and curator of the exhibition Zita Holbourne, who is elected to the TUC Race Relations Committee & a national executive member of Artists Union England.

This is a call out for black artists (we use black in the political sense to include black and minority ethnic people) and particularly young black artists to submit art to exhibit in the Roots Culture Identity art exhibition at Trades Union Congress HQ, Congress House, in London in April from 7th to 29th April . This kick starts our year and the aim is to get other opportunities for you during the year. We will also be exhibiting at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham from May to June and the General Federation of Trade Unions have agreed to host us at their hotel near Leicester,

The theme of the TUC conference is 50 years on from the Race Relations Act 1968 looking back but also at how far we have come or not, where we are today in terms of racism and race equality in relations to employment and the labour market. You are free to interpret the theme in which ever way you wish.


You are invited to submit 3 pieces of art (which don't have to be on the theme if you don't have any yet, but to show examples of your art) as JPEGs attached to an email itogether with a couple of paras about you and your work as an artist and why you would like to participate by 10th of March sent to Zita; zitabaracuk@gmail.com.

Facebook event:    https://www.facebook.com/events/120529532106219/

Background:

The exhibition, hosted by the TUC Race Relations Committee, celebrates its seventh anniversary this year and was established to meet one of the TUC Stephen Lawrence Task Group objectives, to use the Marble Hall at the TUC to showcase the artistic talents of young black creatives. The exhibition aims to provide an opportunity for black and minority ethnic and migrant artists who are marginalised and face discrimination in the arts and culture sector as well as the disproportionate and multiple impact of austerity. 

The exhibition in full is available for hire or a smaller pop-up exhibition can be arranged for short term events. In addition to the TUC the exhibition has been hosted by a wide range of organisations and events including unions such as PCS, GMB, CWU, NEU and NASUWT as well as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a range of events including a major conference on Climate Displacement. It will also be hosted in 2018 by GFTU, Slater and Gordon Solicitors offices  and the Bernie Grant Centre with more opportunities to be confirmed.


Venue in April

Address: The Marble Hall, TUC HQ, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

Contact Zita Holbourne zitabaracuk@gmail.com or Wilf Sullivan wsullivan@tuc.org.uk