CELEBRATING DIVERSITY BUT A CALL TO ACTION TOO

We have been active as a committee with several events from our wonderful sub-committees from Pride in June to celebrating South Asian Heritage Month, but we are also trudging the streets of Birmingham to hand deliver copies of Judge Brenda, Equal To Everything. We pledged in 2021 to deliver a copy to every primary School in Birmingham and are over half way there. However, we still have 100 schools yet to receive their copy. PLEASE HELP!

Will you pledge to deliver a book to a primary school in Birmingham? There are full instructions available, just email me c.edwards@keele.ac.uk or follow this link Judge Brenda Primary School Book Project.xlsx or QR code to choose your school. I have added postcodes to make it easier to find the school locations closest to you. However, please be daring and go somewhere else too! Many of us now live in nice areas and so many of them have received books, but we want to help children in ALL areas of Birmingham to understand that your background does not define where you will go and that the legal profession is becoming more diverse. We also offer talks to schools on a range of topics so do choose to deliver a book somewhere new by the end of September!

We also held a wonderful event to discuss retention of women in the legal profession run by the talented Rebecca Mander. Everyone with an interest and commitment is welcome to join us in the gender sub-committee, just email me for details. We are also holding an online event with a new panel of speakers featuring junior lawyers on 21 September at 5.30pm. We are going to ask everyone to join us for a fun interactive session which will mean cameras on and be ready to talk whether by mic or chat functionality.

I hope to see you online on 21st and to see every school receive one of our Judge Brenda books by the end of September.