BRIG’s key demands:

1) Make Birmingham the first ‘Anti-Racist City’ in the UK. 2)

Adopt a 10-year Race Equality Delivery Plan for key sectors with key targets over the next decade. 3) Conduct a Survey of Racial Attitudes every two years, to respond to any shifts in the city’s racial attitudes and community cohesion.

4) Promote a three-year Boards Diversity Challenge to ensure Birmingham’s Boards and management teams are reflective of the city’s superdiversity.

5) Establish cross-city Race Inequality Metrics to measure race impact and benchmark race inequality indicators to assess progress. 6)

Press the city’s public agencies to formally adopt a duty requiring them to reduce socio-economic disadvantage through their decision making by adopting Section 1 of the Equalities Act 2010.

7) Encourage key Birmingham Institutions to publish Annual Ethnicity Pay Gap data. 8)

Persuade more Birmingham institutions to adopt the Race Equality Code, so joining the growing number of early adopters in the city who can be audited on their progress.

9) Acknowledge the historic role by city institutions in the slave-trade and commemorate it like London, Liverpool and Bristol have done.

10) Support all Birmingham schools with teaching Black, Asian and marginalised community histories as standard.

11) Develop and adopt a Schools Race Equality Standard for all city schools to achieve, and make it part of the city council’s seven year improvement contract with the Birmingham Education Partnership.

12) Establish a cross sector Race Equality Community Fund to support projects tackling systemic racism and community projects enhancing race equality and community cohesion.

13) Develop and implement a Birmingham Leadership White Paper to deliver the leadership required for a super diverse city. 14) Agree a detailed Legacy Delivery Plan and framework for the 2022 Commonwealth Games to be shared with the city’s citizens by the Games Organising Committee, its partners and the city council prior to the Games.

15) Establish a National Centre for World Cultures as a shared space to celebrate Birmingham as a superdiverse city.