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Accessibility & inclusion

The Modern Cockney Festival event at RSA House

Fellowship news

06 Mar 2023

On Wednesday 22 March, this event, part of The Modern Cockney Festival (3 March-4 April), explores how invisible discrimination is still widespread in modern Britain. Three different groups highlight their experiences, responses, and challenges - the Jewish community, those facing ageism, and Cockneys.
Educating the City: Learning through inspirational partnerships

Fellowship news

21 Nov 2022

RSA Fellows are invited to join the Educating the City Learning through inspirational partnerships seminar.
Why fostering diversity must be at the heart of community building and social cohesion

Comment

08 Nov 2022

Susannah Hardyman

Susannah Hardyman explains how drawing on the diverse backgrounds of volunteer tutors to teach disadvantaged students has proved a powerful win-win
Designing work around people

Comment

25 Oct 2022

Nick Bacon Mark Howard Fergus Grierson

We have inclusive design standards for buildings. Why can't we have them for work? The RSA Inclusive Work, Disability and Ageing Network Steering Group propose a system that works for everybody.
Autistic girls need Child First support when in police care

Comment

07 Sep 2022

Carly Jones

A succession of news stories of the appalling treatment of autistic girls by police is shocking but not surprising. Carly Jones, who grew up with undiagnosed autism, says that there are essential safeguarding measures that must be taken now
Why isn’t the UK design industry more diverse?

Comment

07 Jul 2022

Ben Pearson

The world faces existential sustainability issues – a global problem requiring a societal response – yet the design industry reflects a tiny segment of our society. Ben Pearson’s research examines how much damage this is doing, and how we can make things better
Bird's eye view

Feature

05 Jul 2022

Mya-Rose Craig

The importance of forging strong relationships between visible minority ethnic youth and nature
You’re out of data

Feature

05 Jul 2022

Claudia Baldacchino

Tech poverty creates real barriers to daily life for many across the UK
Under the influence

Feature

04 Jul 2022

Kate Eichhorn

Does the online world really offer young women and girls more power than ever before?
Stronger together: foundation building for third sector system working - part two

Comment

28 Jun 2022

Mark Swift Ian Burbidge

In part two of the Comment article double bill, Mark Swift and Ian Burbidge explore how the VCSFE sector might align its efforts to liberate the best it has to offer.