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Up to half of ethnic minorities working in the UK’s environmental charity sector are among the relatively general workforce, research has found.
According to data from the Racial Action for the Climate Emergency (RACE) report campaign, only 7% of people working in environmental charities identify as people of color, compared to 14% in the workforce at large.
The campaign believes the research is the most comprehensive of its kind after 91 organizations, representing a workforce of 7,948 people, voluntarily submitted anonymous data on the racial diversity of the workforce.
“We still have a long way to go to make our sector truly representative. But we have something that we sorely lacked before: comparative data and evidence,” said Manu Manganidez from the Race Report team.
“With this, organizations can hold themselves accountable against their set objectives, identify areas of poor performance and take the necessary steps to improve diversity as part of a concerted effort.”
Launched in April, the Race Report is intended as an annual temperature probe of diversity among environmental charities. The organizers intend to repeat the report every year.
This year, as in the inaugural report, the data has been anonymized to give organizations a chance to respond. However, the names of organizations will be published to encourage them to improve diversity in the workforce in future years.
There is still a lot of work to be done. The lack of representation was even worse in the work hierarchy, with only 5% of workers in managerial roles being people of color, the report found.
Despite the lack of representation in staff, the environmental charity sector exceeded expectations in other sectors: 11% of trustees were people of colour, compared with an average of 8% in the wider charity sector, according to data from 62 environmental organisations.
Many organizations were also implementing initiatives to increase diversity, and more than half indicated that they either had or had spokespersons or supporters that included people of color.
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