Support for club football reaches across our society, spanning political, social and ethnic divides.
‘Shared Goals: The power of football to connect diverse communities’ sets out new research exploring the unique power of club football to foster a shared sense of identity and pride in local towns & cities, across people from different backgrounds.
The project worked with two clubs, Brentford FC and Huddersfield Town AFC, to create new social media campaigns drawing on research with local fans and communities. Research for Shared Goals found both films strengthened a sense of local identity shared by people of different backgrounds.
The report highlights examples of best practice among clubs working to bring communities together, and sets out a series of recommendations. Clubs could do more to welcome new fans from different backgrounds and project a sense of inclusive identity in their communications; league bodies should encourage social connection work through their EDI frameworks, funding and a new ‘Belonging and Inclusion Index’. And government should play its part too, using ‘Levelling up’ funds to support initiatives promoting shared, place-based pride through football.
"The Home Office has been forced to release a suppressed report on the origins of the Windrush scandal by a tribunal judge who quoted George Orwell in a judgment criticising the department’s lack of transparency" - @guardian (report out today)
“The long-awaited publication of a report into the roots of the Windrush scandal is key to reinforcing transparency around government, a campaigner has said” - @itvnews report citing @ppvernon
Keir Starmer's conference speech drew a line between the toxic racism of rioters and the "legitimate concerns" that some people hold about immigration. Sunder Katwala examines the difference between 'legitimate concerns' – and those with no legitimacy.
https://www.britishfuture.org/understanding-legitimate-concerns-and-how-to-differentiate-them-from-those-with-no-legitimacy/
A reminder of our joint paper ‘After the riots’, setting out how govt should respond and help build more resilient communities:
We’ll be discussing further ar a conference on 20 Nov with @BelongNetwork @togethercoalit
‘After the Riots - How do we respond to the causes of racism, disorder and violence in our communities?’ - our #LabourConference2024 fringe with @togethercoalit @BelongNetwork - @matthyde of @LBFEW introduces the panel
“This didn’t come out of nowhere. It came after years of vitriol towards minority communities in the uk.” Says @MrBrendanCox - We need different narratives, he says, telling the everyday stories of communities who live together and work together
.@MrBrendanCox “What tends to happen after riots is that the political response is law and order - a brilliant place to start, a terrible place to stop. Unless this gets consistent political attention, we’re going to get nowhere.”
.@mcintosh_kim says creating more social contact between people from different backgrounds is important, but it has to be intentional and properly resourced, so people have sustained, positive contact.
.@MrBrendanCox “What tends to happen after riots is that the political response is law and order - a brilliant place to start, a terrible place to stop. Unless this gets consistent political attention, we’re going to get nowhere.”
.@MrBrendanCox “What tends to happen after riots is that the political response is law and order - a brilliant place to start, a terrible place to stop. Unless this gets consistent political attention, we’re going to get nowhere.”
. @LordWajidKhan says “You can’t do community cohesion on the cheap… we need to invest in this area.”
“What this showed us is that we need to build our resilience.”
. @LordWajidKhan says “You can’t do community cohesion on the cheap… we need to invest in this area.”
“What this showed us is that we need to build our resilience.”
. @Abtisam_Mohamed MP for Sheffield: “For the first times ever I had to decide if it was safe for me to go into the city centre… it anyone who looked different who was worried.”
. @Abtisam_Mohamed MP for Sheffield: “For the first times ever I had to decide if it was safe for me to go into the city centre… it anyone who looked different who was worried.”
.@patrick_hurley MP for Southport opens discussion by describing what happened this summer in the community he serves
.@patrick_hurley MP for Southport opens discussion by describing what happened this summer in the community he serves
‘After the Riots - How do we respond to the causes of racism, disorder and violence in our communities?’ - our #LabourConference2024 fringe with @togethercoalit @BelongNetwork - @matthyde of @LBFEW introduces the panel
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