together Come Our children will grow up in an


increasingly diverse world. Let’s start their journey by showing them how the PTA finds common ground, says Carol Rogerson


ow will people remember your PTA? As an organisation they were part of – one that welcomed and included them – or as an anonymous group who raised funds from a distance? It takes guts, but your PTA will do better and achieve more if it challenges stereotypes and opens its heart. ‘Following the murder of


George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, we saw a sharp increase in interest,’ says Berkeley Wilde, executive director of The Diversity Trust, who has spent


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the past 30 years campaigning for equality. ‘Organisations that hadn’t engaged before were asking what they could do to create an inclusive culture and starting to understand why it needed to be done. It’s also important for young people to experience acceptance and understanding.’ Rachel Khan, chair at Friends of


Culvers House in Sutton, South London, believes diversity is part of every organisation’s responsibility to society and school is where it begins. ‘For many, primary school will be the first time a child really gets to join in with a community wider than their own family,’ she says. ‘So it’s vital that both they and


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