About the project

25x25 is a network and campaign aimed at diversifying city leadership through a just and equitable transition education programme. 

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It is focused on racial equity via abolition frameworks and addresses complex problems, enterprise and systemic change. The programme aims to develop a sustainable ecosystem which leverages innovation and transformational change for historically marginalised groups including AAMG (African, Asian & Minoritised Groups) leadership in positions of influence, impacting city-wide strategic development, organisational business planning and public narratives. 

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25x25 further aims to implement personal and organisational development programmes that facilitate leadership capacity and fulfilment in people from AAMG communities. To create the conditions for this through outputs including:

• The creation of a distributed eco-system which connects civil society organisations and communities working across the city to this aim         

• A leadership programme facilitating AAMG people to enter leadership positions of influence         

• A public sense-making campaign building awareness, narrative and capacity to engage in the systemic lock-ins which underpin structural racism and to celebrate good work being done 

 

This work will be delivered through a coherent, distributed and equitable network of cross-sector partnerships stretching from communities and neighbourhoods to education settings and board rooms across the fabric of the city.

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It engages with the ‘systemic lock-ins’ which underpin structural racism and offers a proportionate, proactive and holistic response to low levels of influence by AAMG people in decision making.