English Community Group setup guide

Submitted by: Steadfast news correspondent, 16th Oct 09

Feel free to download this guide from this website

Many communities throughout England have established ethnic community groups to promote the cultural identity and lobby the interests of their respective ethnic group.

There are literally thousands of ethnic community groups campaigning within England in every city and large town. However, the Steadfast Trust has been unable to find a single English community group, which is hardly surprising since the English are frequently not recognised as an ethnic group. We are in fact often labelled the civic-identity of ‘white-British’, which of cause applies to any “white” citizen who has gained citizenship through marriage, a short time of residence or any other governmental criteria. Ethnicity is based more on heritage and culture and plays a central role in a person’s sense of identity.

Such community groups, if properly implemented can improve the confidence and self-respect of their respective groups. A government report listed in the ‘Resource’ section of this website details how…

“one white pupil in her early teens who, after hearing in a lesson that other members of her class originally came from the Congo, Portugal, Trinidad and Poland, said that she "came from nowhere".

One of the Steadfast Trusts charitable objectives is ‘the advancing of the education of Anglo-Saxon arts and culture’ and another objective is to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for Anglo-Saxon English persons in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.

It is hoped that anyone setting up an English Community Group will partially follow these objectives and the Steadfast Trust will help where we can.

The English Community Group guide will shortly be available for download from the ‘Resources’ section of the website. This guide is a first edition and will be subject to improvements as and when needed.

You can download the .pdf document here