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BMENational launches first annual yearbook
Black and minority ethnic (BME) housing association umbrella body BMENational launched its first annual yearbook at the National Housing...
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BME National
Sep 15, 20111 min read
Photos: BMENational Yearbook launch drinks reception
Full press release of event here: http://blog.bmenational.org.uk/2011/09/20/bmenational-launches-first-annual-yearbook/ #launch...
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BME National
Sep 9, 20115 min read
Talking Heads: The riots
Nataline Kurubo has been an active tenant for 16 years and lives with her six children. She is a member of the tenants’ steering group...
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BME National
Aug 19, 20117 min read
Opinion: How housing associations can seed the civic economy
The question what housing associations are fundamentally for is likely to lead to a wide range of different answers across the sector,...
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BME National
Aug 10, 20111 min read
Video: Lara Oyedele speaks to CBC News on Tottenham riots
Copyright © CBC 2011 #vandalising #LaraOyedele #youths #cbcnews #looting #londonriots #tottenham #england
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BME National
Aug 10, 20113 min read
Comment: Tottenham’s young people are rioting as they see no future
I have never seen a burnt-out car before, in real life, in front of my eyes. I was walking through Tottenham on Monday morning surveying...
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BME National
Aug 9, 20112 min read
News: Housing chief ‘close to tears’ as London riots erupt near home
Homes, cars and a string of major shopping chains and fast food outlets were smashed up amid clashes with police after a series of...
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BME National
Aug 1, 20112 min read
News: Women’s refuge plea for kids’ musical instruments
A REFUGE for women who have escaped domestic violence is appealing for donations to create a children’s music room. Ashram Housing...
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BME National
Jul 29, 20112 min read
News: Bournemouth YMCA leads city’s family fun day
Children and young people of all ages turned out with their families and friends to enjoy a whole host of activities for free in the...
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BME National
Jul 28, 20111 min read
News: Unity HA strikes £7m deal with regeneration specialist
The five-year agreement, which Forrest secured after an initial year-long deal, will see the firm’s Refurbish and Respond divisions...
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BME National
Jul 25, 20112 min read
News: BMENational member to redevelop London hostel
Working in partnership with the London Borough of Camden and with funding from the Homes and Communities Agency, Irish Centre Housing is...
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BME National
Jul 13, 20111 min read
News: Ex-homeless tenants benefit from Big Lottery grant
Funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s ‘Awards for All’ scheme, which supports small, local community-based initiatives in the UK, Innisfree’s...
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BME National
Jul 8, 20112 min read
Comment: Change the focus
Ten years on from July 2001 when racial tensions erupted into the Bradford riots and the media appears almost obsessed with it being a...
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BME National
Jul 6, 20111 min read
News: BME housing associations platform for future black leaders
A recent report has credited black and minority ethnic (BME) housing associations with moulding a generation of talented black leaders...
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BME National
Jun 30, 20111 min read
News: Foundation Housing honoured in NHF awards
Foundation Housing’s YourFoundation Support Services were double winners at the ‘What we are proud’ of awards held in Kegworth by the...
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BME National
Jun 29, 20112 min read
Comment: Why we still need a BME housing sector
Black and minority ethnic housing associations were set up in the late 1970s and 1980s in response to a growing housing crisis across the...
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BME National
Jun 29, 20112 min read
News: Nehemiah UCHA appoints new Director of Housing and Care Services
BME social housing provider Nehemiah UCHA has appointed Lucy Hales as its new Director of Housing and Care Services. Reporting to chief...
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BME National
Jun 16, 20111 min read
BMENational Yearbook 2011-12
#astwooddesign #BME #BMENationalyearbook
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BME National
May 26, 201110 min read
Feature: Oldham: A town still divided?
The Manchester I left behind in 1997 seemed to me a place of racial harmony. Asian and white children had mixed happily in my small...
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BME National
May 9, 20113 min read
Comment: 10 years on from the Oldham race riots
In May 2001 that division manifested itself in the ugliest of ways when racial tensions erupted in violence in Glodwick and the...
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