Race Equality Week is an annual UK-wide movement uniting hundreds of thousands of organisations and individuals to address the barriers to race equality in the workplace.
Race Equality Week 2024, which takes place 5-11 February, aims to keep the momentum going and accelerate change by uniting thousands of organisations into action to seriously address race inequality in the workplace.
The theme for 2024 is #ListenActChange and was selected by the Race Equality Matters community.
It reflects ongoing findings and feedback. In particular:
- Only 25 % of the REM community believes their organisation focuses on action, change, and impact, and not just words.
- 63% believe that less than a quarter of allies are actually helping to tackle race inequality.
- 44% said their senior leaders and managers are committed to tackling race inequality, but only 21% said their senior leaders and managers are making an impact in tackling race inequality.
We need to make it everyone’s business
Building on the REW 2023 theme, which sent a clear message that race equality is everyone’s business (#ItsEveryonesBusiness), in 2024 #ListenActChange will galvanise everyone to focus on taking action.
There has been a lot of listening, and discussing, but very little action and even less meaningful change.
If we all commit to #ListenActChange, then real change can take place.
Everyone has a role to play in the fight for racial equality in the workplace, from the top of each organisation to the bottom. The sooner we act, the sooner change can become our reality!
That is why the 2024 Race Equality Week theme is #ListenActChange.
Join us and hundreds of thousands of other organisations and individuals by participating in Race Equality Week and taking meaningful action towards tackling the barriers to race equality.
Find out more about how you can get involved.
