Our History

Board Racial Diversity UK was formally registered as a charity in November 2024. It is the successor organisation to Action for Trustee Racial Diversity (ATRD)  founded in 2019 by Malcolm John. 

Our Mission

Our aim, as with ATRD, is to achieve the proportionate representation of individuals from Black and Asian backgrounds on not for profit boards (and not only charity boards as ATRD) by helping to recruit an additional 60,000 Black and Asian trustees. 

new Black and Asian trustees are needed to achieve proportional representation

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of female trustees are from Black and Asian backgrounds

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of UK trustees are from Black and Asian backgrounds

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What we do

We have developed a package of key resources and services for not-for-profit organisations:

From Here to Diversity

A Practical Guide for recruiting Black and Asian charity trustees

Black and Asian Network Organisations (BANOs) Database

Unique database of over 500 Black and Asian network organisations

ATRD Connects

Online peer support network

One to one consultancy support

"Critical friend” consultancy support

Black and Asian Future Chairs’ Academy (BAFCA)

Developing a pipeline of future Black and Asian charity chairs

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