minority matters
Minority Matters is a charity that started in 2010 to provide children and young
people educational support. Our purpose was to ensure that children from
disadvantaged backgrounds were succeeding academically, so that they could break
the cycle of poverty. Over the years, our role in the community grew to the
point where parents were coming to us for assistance with wide ranging issues.
As we were dealing with matters beyond the educational needs of the children, we
started to engage with local authorities and our role grew organically beyond
educational support. While we have remained true to our grass roots, we now
deliver community focused projects to empower parents and increase the
safeguarding of children. Our Vision Minority Matters’ vision is: to see a world
in which children and young people from black and ethnic minority migrant
backgrounds achieve their full potential, are protected from grooming and
criminal exploitation and integrate into British society, and are not affected
by the economic-socio circumstances they are born into, and/or their postcode.
Our Mission Our mission is to reduce the impact of educational and employment
inequalities, social, economic and geographical disadvantage on black ethnic
minority migrant communities, through the provision of tailored support
services, advice and advocacy, representation and a safe trusted space, led by
the community in which they can trust. Our aim is to work in partnership with
communities, to promote social inclusion, child safeguarding and increased
engagement with voluntary and statutory services. In addition, we utilise
professional and personal experiences to influence available statutory service
delivery and the creation of new ones, such as those responding to the issues of
grooming and criminal exploitation of children and young people. Minority
Matters continues to assess community needs by developing programmes that will
ensure parents are empowered and equipped with the skills and tools they need to
better help, safeguard and protect their family. We want families to seek and
find trusted community led provision/support available locally and foster
communication so that cultural barriers are reduced. We provide tailor- made
services and capacity built by the community for the community. We seek the
reduction of gaps between statutory bodies and hard to reach communities,
building trust on both sides and access to services, as well as bringing about
to bring about positive changes.
