Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability: Funded through the Transform Leeds budget, we were commissioned to consult with the black and minority ethnic led community and voluntary sector in the city to find out its priorities and challenges during a period of austerity. To this end, we organised summits for the sector to learn about their challenges and needs over the subsequent 3 – 5 years and to assess the types of infrastructural support they felt they could most gain from.
We went on to carry out lengthy and detailed interviews with infrastructure provides and with black and minority ethnic led organisations. The project culminated in a report which was presented to the local authority and provided a framework for future activity.