The Bell Foundation Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Our values: We believe in diversity, valuing difference and tolerance. Our beneficiaries: Are children, young people and adults who use English as a second or additional language. This includes learners, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, job seekers, victims of crime and/or people with convictions. Our strategy: Sets out our ambitions to empower beneficiaries to overcome exclusion through language education and includes our strategic objectives and how we plan to achieve them. Our DEI work: Is guided by the nine ‘Pillars’ of good practice on DEI as identified by the Association of Charitable Foundation’s report Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The Pillars of Stronger Foundation Practice. Programme Reach and Impact Information on how the Foundation’s programmes are creating opportunities, changing lives and empowering beneficiaries to overcome exclusion through language education in order to access education/training, employment and justice, can be found in the following sections of this website: Impact Report. EAL Programme. ESOL Programme. Criminal Justice Programme. About Us – including our vision, mission and values. The Foundation generates evidence through funding research and grant funding partnerships and projects. The Foundation builds partnerships with academic institutions, charities, specialist organisations, schools and community groups. These partnerships influence policy and practice, lead to the development of tools and resources, and provide training and best practice advice and guidance. The Foundation’s partnerships with others also includes how language overlaps and is interdependent with other protected characteristics. Below are examples of recent partnerships with organisations working with diverse communities, and research partnerships. Further reading Partner with Us The Bell Foundation’s History Impact through Partnerships Examples of our partnerships include: I CAN National Deaf Children’s Society Parental Involvement Hibiscus Initiatives Harrow Law Centre ESOL Programme University of Oxford Impact through Influencing Policy The Foundation responds to Government and other stakeholder consultations. Recently these have included: A submission to the Education Select Committee from the Foundation shared our research evidence on the underachievement of particular ethnic groups. A response to the call for evidence from Runnymede to provide ‘the independent civil society perspective to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) by examining the situation of race and racism in England. A submission to the Government’s second consultation on the Victims’ Code of Practice, highlighting the need for strengthened rights around the provision of interpretation and translation services. As a result, the responsibility of a victim to request an interpreter was removed from the final code, which states that “all translation or interpretation services must be offered free of charge to the victim.” Impact through Grant Making The Foundation is working with 360Giving to provide information and transparency on our grant making. Organisations interested in working in partnership with the Foundation are encouraged to visit our ‘Partner with Us’ page. 360Giving – open data The link below provides information on grants awarded during the period 2020-21. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to The Bell Foundation. 360Giving Data Watch how some of our work has been covered by the BBC and meet our new Chair of the Board: Play Radha Chakraborty, Chair of Trustees Quick links Contact us Policies and terms Keep updated The Bell Foundation The Bell Foundation 2021. Website by Itineris