10 examples of "Global Majority" opportunities

In many cases, taxpayers are funding jobs and programmes that they can't apply for

Yesterday, some of my readers may have seen that I posted this video (below) of Caroline Woodley, the Mayor of Hackney, on X.

The clip shows Woodley, in the manner of someone explaining how to use the HMRC website, introducing Hackney’s “Thinking Spaces” programme for 14+.

This is “a safe and therapeutic space where Black and Global Majority community residents can openly discuss and process the lasting effects of systemic racism.”

Vital services?

The clip didn’t exactly delight people on social media - and you can only imagine how Hackney residents might feel about the programme. In March Hackney increased council tax by 4.99%, blaming cuts from central government, so it could “help fund the vital services people rely on.”

You have to wonder if “vital services” include “therapeutic reflective spaces for black and Global Majority Community residents in Hackney”…

Rather presumptuously, Hackney Council suggests these constituents might have “trauma” that needs to be discussed and healed.

Attendees are even offered remuneration for doing so:

The sessions are run by “I Found Me Therapeutic Counselling”, which also holds six-week groups for locals to explore their “lived experience of being a refugee in Hackney"…

… and another group for “Empowering Black and global majority women (12-18 yrs)”:

Hackney has other similar examples of funding linked to race, such as its “Young Black People’s Mental Wealth Fund - with £50,000 ringfenced:

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Being honest, I was actually quite surprised that the video of the Mayor of Hackney blew up on X - with 300,000 views at the time of writing.

This is probably because I spend lots of time trawling through Woke Waste, so I may have desensitised to initiatives like “Thinking Spaces”. Terms like the “Global Majority” are the norm in state-funded sectors. The long and short of it is that often British taxpayers are funding opportunities that they can never apply for - if they are white/ cannot otherwise “identify” as “Global Majority” (the new description BAME/ ethnic minority). In some cases, funding/ opportunities are exclusively for “Global Majority” talent.

Without further ado, I thought I’d put together some examples of similar funding opportunities to Hackney’s - to illustrate the extent of the trend:

1. Beyond Face - “Devon’s first Global Majority theatre company”

£750,000 from Arts Council England (aka taxpayers).

2. Tamasha Theatre Company - “a home for emerging and established artists from the global majority”

£1,717,340 in government grants since 2019:

3. Soho Theatre - Global Majority Writers’ Lab

 Soho Theatre receives £614,582 per year from Arts Council England.

4. Royal Opera House - mentoring for the “global majority”

Uncertain how much this mentoring scheme costs specifically, but the Royal Opera House Convent Garden Foundation receives huge amounts in government grants:

5. MAYA Productions - “work led by global majority artists (African, South Asian, and Latin American Diasporas)”

£188,460 in government grants since 2019:

6. Oxford and Cambridge - Black and Global Majority studentships

NB. Studentships tend to cost around £20k per year (annual stipend) and last for 3.5 years approx; normally means PhD. These are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), a council of the (taxpayer-funded) UKRI. Same deal for below - but funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (another UKRI council):

7. North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership - “Do you wish to be considered for the Global Majority Directed Studentships?”

8. Westminster City Council - “Global Majority fund”

9. NHS England - “Global Majority Physiotherapists experiences”…

…and “Global Majority Conference”

10. PhD with Portsmouth City Council - “welcome actions from PGM" (People of the Global Majority)”

We particularly welcome applications from students from PGM (People of the Global Majority) backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented at this level in this area

And other examples previously covered:

The Decolonise Choir

*hosted at Tara Theatre, “for people of global majority”, which has received over £600,000 in government grants since 2019:

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