Who we are
Black Lives Matter UK is a member-led, campaigning organisation, working towards collective liberation.
How are we achieving this?
Relief: Material relief and improvement from structural violence
We organise support to individuals and communities facing structural racist violence. Our teams coordinate material, legal, and community resources to meet immediate needs, offering respite to those who are most vulnerable. Whether it's community food kitchens, providing legal defence, or working with migrant organisations to meet material needs, we are there to ensure no one is left to fight alone.
Repair: Rebuilding solidarity in working-class communities
We win improvements and transform ourselves by developing real solidarity in our primarily Black working-class neighbourhoods. Our community programmes are designed to cultivate trust, mutual aid, and collective resistance to develop Black power. We believe as Black communities rediscover the power of collective action through building community institutions, then we can achieve meaningful change.
Restructure: Organising for structural transformation
Beyond immediate relief and repair BLMUK is committed to revolutionary change. We believe that the structures perpetuating racism must be dismantled. Our long-term goal is to build collective strength that can transform a racist society into an anti-racist and anti-capitalist one. Through education, mobilisation, and sustained organising for community power, we are working to overturn the policies, institutions, and ideologies that uphold systemic racism.
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We have distributed £600,000 to grassroots and small community organisations, which are either Global Majority run or dominated. We have organised with the Free Palestine Coalition to disrupt capital and the state to end the genocide. We have defended racialised people seeking asylum in Home Office hotels facing racist violence by stopping forced relocations. We continue to organise in communities deeply affected by structural inequalities.
With your support we can continut to fight for a world free of racist violence and oppression..
On the 30th of October, we gathered for our event Here to Stay, Here to Fight: How We Resist the Far Right at Rich Mix London. This event was also the launch of our Anti-Racist Movement (ARM). It was an interactive and collaborative event that sought to jump-start us into action. Our incredible panel made up of, Zainab Abbas, Taj Ali, Aderonke Apata, Jess Mally and BLMUK organiser, Kojo Kyweree, shared their deep knowledge, lived experience, and strategies of resistance to help shape the action we need in these challenging times.
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Want to equip yourself with the tools, and knowledge towards Black Liberation?
We are growing a community of radical Black activists across England to learn more about abolition and develop ways and actions to collectively build care not cages in our local areas.
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