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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...

BME National
Jul 25, 20112 min read
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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...

BME National
Jul 13, 20111 min read
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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...

BME National
Jul 8, 20112 min read
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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...

BME National
Jul 6, 20111 min read
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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...

BME National
Jun 30, 20111 min read
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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...

BME National
Jun 29, 20112 min read
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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...

BME National
Jun 29, 20112 min read
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BMENational Yearbook 2011-12
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BME National
Jun 16, 20111 min read
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Edward R. Murrow speech to RTNDA convention
Chicago October 15, 1958 This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of...

BME National
Jun 8, 201117 min read
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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...

BME National
May 26, 201110 min read
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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...

BME National
May 9, 20113 min read
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Feature: Lure of the Blonde
Ewa pulls on a sweater and jeans. She fastens her hair, hiding her beauty. God forbid she wears lipstick or mascara. With both men she...

BME National
May 5, 201113 min read
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News: Hackney kids awarded for anti-bullying film
Neighbours from Middleton Grange Estate gathered last Thursday for the screening of a film produced by the local youth club. The special...

BME National
Apr 21, 20111 min read
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Comment: We must reinvent, reposition and refresh
Particularly now.  Everywhere I turn there’s news of cuts, changes to the welfare benefits system and expectations to provide...

BME National
Apr 15, 20112 min read
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Feature: Green space – helping BME communities fill the void
But recent research indicates black and minority ethnic communities are disproportionately lacking in such environments – and the ...

BME National
Apr 13, 20115 min read
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News: Nehemiah UCHA takes control of Wolverhampton properties
In July 2010 Orbit Heart of England, which manages 14,000 properties across the Midlands, took the decision to look for a new owner that...

BME National
Apr 7, 20112 min read
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News: BME HA Gharana Housing joins Housing 21
Leading social enterprise, Housing 21, has announced that Gharana Housing Association has joined the Housing 21 group. Gharana Housing...

BME National
Apr 6, 20111 min read
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News: Former Steve Biko HA staff member and anti-racism campaigner passes away
Father Austin Smith, who died on March 24 aged 82, lived and worked in Toxteth for more than 40 years, but he was widely recognised...

BME National
Mar 30, 20111 min read
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News: Funding secured for 30 family homes in Newham
The programme has seen Network take advantage of low house prices to buy three and four bedroom family properties on the open market. ...

BME National
Mar 29, 20112 min read
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News: Families to benefit from cheaper homes
Arches Housing is to build much-needed affordable homes for social rent on Sheffield Council land on Ellesmere Road. High-tech...

BME National
Mar 25, 20111 min read
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