Recent Completed Programmes and Projects

Employer Diversity Project

This was a one-off project, funded by Jobcentre Plus, that helped 250 employers to improve the ethnic composition of their workforce across eight Jobcentre Districts in England and Wales. Eighty bespoke diversity action plans were produced for companies which, between them, employed 35,000 personnel, and 27 certificates were presented at the House of Lords to companies which publicly committed to implementing these diversity action plans.

Muslim Graduate Employment

This was a major consultation, funded by DWP and DfES, that involved two seminars with over 100 participants in Yorkshire and London and resulted in a final report for Ministerial consideration on the difficulties faced by Muslim graduates in finding employment.

IMPACTSS

This was a three-year project, funded by BBC Children in Need, which involved QED-UK working with three madrassas in Bradford to assist 180 Muslim children to improve their literacy skills. As a result of this project, the government is working nationally to improve the links between madrassas and mainstream schools. See Children's Literacy Project.

Getting to Know your Communities - Public and Private Sectors

Under this programme, QED-UK trained over 700 senior managers on diversity from Barclays, British Waterways, Business Links, Environment Agency, Bradford & Bingley, Government Office and others.

Faith in Communities

This was a two-year national campaign in England and Wales, sponsered by the Lloyds TSB Foundation, to educate grant-givers about the non-faith work of Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities. Over 50 grant givers participated and 150 faith groups benefited.

Faith in Health

This project, funded by The Health Foundation, involved working with local community groups and co-ordinating seminars in Yorkshire region for health professionals about the specific needs of minority faith communities.

Bradford Community Life Fund

On behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Government Office for Yorkshire and The Humber (ODPM/GOYH), QED-UK administered this £1.8m Community Fund over four years, awarding grants to benefit over 500 grass root community groups working with their local communities in the Bradford district.

Talking of Education

This was a region-wide campaign, funded by DfES to educate South Asian parents in the ways of the British education system and how they could support their children's involvement in it.

Regional Economic Strategy

Funded by Yorkshire Forward and the Regional Development Agency, QED-UK developed and ran two events involving 80 ethnic minority businesses and community groups in West and South Yorkshire to contribute towards the RDA's 10 year regional economic strategy.