Strengthening BRIG’s Leadership: Welcoming New Trustees and Advisory Members

At a time when many organisations are being asked to do more, often with less, the question of how we lead matters as much as what we do.

For BRIG, this moment has prompted a deliberate step to strengthen our Board of Trustees and Advisory Group. Not simply to add capacity, but to deepen the range of insight, challenge and accountability that shapes our work.

We are pleased to welcome a number of new trustees and advisory members who bring experience across community organising, public service, research, education, and civic leadership. Together, they reflect a mix of lived experience and professional expertise that will help us stay grounded in the realities facing communities, while also navigating the systems we are seeking to influence.

That range matters. It includes people working at the intersection of academia and civic life, helping to shape how we understand race, power and participation. It includes those operating within regional and public institutions, bringing practical experience of delivery, systems change and programme leadership. It includes community and cultural practitioners creating spaces for dialogue, debate and collective thinking. And it includes leaders working on the frontline of issues such as women’s health and public health; areas where inequality is felt every day.

This is important. Because the work BRIG is part of, supporting Birmingham’s ambition to become a world-leading anti-racist city and the best place in Europe for young people, cannot be driven by one perspective alone. It requires spaces where different forms of knowledge can meet, where assumptions can be tested, and where leadership is shared.

Our trustees carry legal and governance responsibility for the organisation. Our advisory members play a different, but equally important role, offering insight, critical friendship, and connection into wider networks. Both are essential to how we think about stewardship at BRIG.

We will be introducing individual members in more detail over time. For now, we want to acknowledge and welcome those who have recently joined us, and to recognise the commitment they are making to the work ahead.

Their contribution comes at a point where BRIG is continuing to evolve, shaping its Community Mandate, strengthening its role in holding systems to account, and working with partners across the city to move beyond statements towards meaningful change.

We look forward to the role they will play in helping to guide that journey.