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Black-led organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities and funding
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We would like to request that a copy of the following information;
1. A list (public names, telephone numbers and emails) of black-led organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities that applied for funding from 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2023
2. A list (public names, telephone numbers and emails) of black-led organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities that secured funding from 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2023
3. Your recommendations for recognition and promotion for Black-Led organisations at you location with good values
An organisation is Black Led if:
Their Management Committee or Board has at least 75% of representation from people of African or African Caribbean Descent and;
At least 50% of their paid staff team are African or African Caribbean people with representation at all levels of the organisation and;
They provide services for or work on behalf of African and Caribbean people.
The Council would require further information to be able to complete this request. We do not keep records of company, groups, or organisations leadership statistics or demographics and would not know which met the criteria. This would not be for the Council to spend resources on researching the leadership breakdown of the organisations to be able to confirm if they met the criteria or not. Even if the Council where able to establish the current demographic of the board then this may have changed within the period of January 2019 and present day. This work would exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours to complete (Section 12), and would be a disproportionate use of public resources to carry out.
If a list of organisations, groups, networks, forums, or entities can be supplied to us that you would like to check, then we would be able to look into this further. Question 3 would also require clarification as to what is meant by this, for example ‘good values’ is open to interpretation as every individual will have different values in their lives – Freedom of information is about information held so we also wouldn’t create new data to answer a request. The Councils equality and diversity information is available here which may cover what question 3 is intending: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/council-and-meetings/open-data/equality-and-diversity/
