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Our Needs Analysis
We run our
organisation and conduct our business on the basis of
regular and systematic needs analysis, which we publish from
time to time, usually as part of a three-yearly-strategic
and business planning exercise. The needs analysis involve
consideration of the organisation’s external and internal
environments.
External
factors include demographic trends, new and potential user
groups (e.g. refugees and economic migrants), government
policy changes and steers, major political events (e.g, the
‘war on terror’ and the London transport bombings), racist
far-right electoral activity, changes to voluntary sector
funding arrangements, and the introduction of new laws and
statutory bodies (e.g the Equality Act 2006 and the Equality
and Human Rights Commission).
Organisations must also sustain and develop their internal
resources or assets. Rights and Equality West Midlands has
four kinds of internal resource:
i) its
human resources, (ii) its external contacts, networks,
social position and reputation, (iii) its internal
organisational strength, and (iv) its offices, location and
equipment.
(i) Its
human resource asset currently consists of its members
(drawn form other race and other equality organisations in
the West Midlands), full-time staff, part-time consultants,
trainees, and volunteers, who possess expertise in the
fields of race relations, management, marketing,
anti-discrimination, conflict resolution, business law,
social scientific research, and education and training.
(ii) REWM
operates at the centre of a network of sub-groups promoting
human rights race equality and other equalities across the
region. Subgroups include the Local Authority Equality
Network, the Local Strategic Partnership Support Group, and
the Midlands Network for Monitoring Extremism. REWM has
established a reputation, regionally and nationally, for
developing race equality policy, producing high-quality
information, undertaking research, designing and installing
quality systems, searching out and making applications for
funds to support race equality work, and offering practical
assistance to RECs. It is the only organisation at regional
level offering this particular range of services, the
successful delivery of which is confirmed by its products,
in the form of reports, research findings, a website:
www.rewm.org, and other publications (brand and products).
(iii)
REWM’s organisational strength is evidenced by its six year
history of expansion and consolidation to become a company
limited by guarantee and a registered charity, with sound
financial management and audited accounts. REWM has
established friendly and productive relationships with other
organisations, e.g. refugee groups, and REWIND youth
training. It is also fully compliant with CRE core
standards.
(iv) REWM
offices are located in central Birmingham at the hub of the
West Midlands region, with easy access by rail, bus and
motorway networks. The Business and Innovation Centre in
Aston University Science Park gives REWM the best of modern
office technology and access to university library and
research facilities.
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