In an article posted online by The Telegraph on 24th August, it is incorrectly stated that BEMIS campaigns for independence. This is not true. BEMIS holds its impartiality as an organisation as a core value which enables us to deliver with credibility a broad programme of work which seeks to instill a culture of active citizenship with our diverse communities.
We have asked for the article to be corrected and sent a formal letter of complaint.
This week saw the release of the 400th issue of MEMO (Minority Ethnic Matters Overview), our weekly newsletter produced in partnership with SCoJeC. First issued in August 2005, for nearly 9 years MEMO has been providing a weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.
Check out the special 400th issue edition of MEMO below:
BEMIS is pleased to share with you the launch of the Equality Internship Programme which is a Scotland wide initiative. 150 paid Internships are being created within third sector organisations and are being promoted to unemployed graduates with a disability or long term health condition and graduates from Ethnic Minority communities.
The internship will be for a period covering three months (at 35 hours per week), paid at the national minimum wage or higher.
Eligibility criteria is:
For the latest vacancies, click on the following link : SCVO Equality Internship Programme.
Anyone interested please contact Mr Zahid Mahmood on 0141 548 8047 or via email zahid.mahmood@bemis.org.uk
Follow the link to have more information.
On Monday we held our Employment, Race Equality & the Referendum conference at the University of Glasgow (photos here). On both the way in and way out we asked people the same question that will be asked in the Independence Referendum – ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’. The results of these polls were as follows: