Twenty-one people from various organisations contributed to the July 20th, 2022, roundtable at Margaret Powell's House in Central Milton Keynes.
Participants included representatives of MK Council, Thames Valley Police, MK Community Foundation, MK University Hospital, Woughton Community Council, Citizens:MK, Church of Christ the Cornerstone, MK Council of Faiths, representatives of BME networks, BME leaders not affiliated with specific BME networks, local secondary school representative, and The Open University.
Following individual introductions, Dr Fidele Mutwarasibo presented observations and preliminary findings from research projects on the leadership of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Voluntary Sector Organisations. The research includes a scoping study titled Exploring BAME Leaders' Leadership Development Needs as they Collaborate with Policy Makers and the Police to Address Racial Inequalities in Milton Keynes (undertaken in the 2020/1 academic year).
The presentation also covered a follow-up project titled Exploring the expansion of the pool of BME leaders that the Police consults, collaborates and engages with (the ongoing study started in the 2021/2 academic year). Following the presentation, participants commented on the preliminary findings and identify areas for in-depth discussions at the final project conference in Cardiff on October 27th, 2022.