Local Equality Commission

The Local Equality Commission is a community project born out of the June 2020 BLM protest in Lydney. The LEC seeks to suture across cultural divides by creating community level youth initiatives in rural Gloucestershire. Through supporting these community initiatives and engaging with local schools and charities, and facilitating youth and outreach programmes The Local Equality Commission educates on and advocates for racial, social and economic justice—because understanding these systemic inequalities leads to social transformation.

We reached out to Khady Gueye in summer 2020; after her compelling and courageous struggle to bring race conversations to rural Britain with a #BLM protest, we wanted to assist in giving her voice and aims a long term programmatic agenda. Together we incepted and created the Local Equality Commission. NKG handled everything from website and graphic design to copy, research, registration as well as core principals and strategic direction. In December 2020, NKG helped Khady to secure two years of funding from Thirty Percy and a long term partnership was made possible. This partnership between NKG, Khady, and the LEC will see us collaborate on education programmes, a visibility project and a whole host of other community initiatives forthcoming; NKG will be in a 360 strategic advisory role, helping Khady drive forward her message of rural racial equality with our consultancy, operations and design units on hand.