Community campaign • Reparatory justice

Help build the future of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre.

Build a community mandate for lawful community acquisition, protection or durable community stewardship of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre—and for a renewed African Reparations Movement capable of advancing reparatory justice.

The redesigned pledge system will require no name, email address, telephone number or full postal address. A pledge will remain voluntary, conditional and revocable. No money is taken when a pledge is recorded.

Two connected objectives

Protect the Centre. Develop the Movement.

1. Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Build an evidenced community mandate to pursue lawful acquisition, protection or durable community stewardship of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre.

The campaign does not state that a purchase has been completed, that a binding right to purchase has been established, or that an authorised sale price has been agreed.

2. African Reparations Movement UK

Develop a democratic and accountable institution capable of constructing and delivering reparatory justice for Black and Mixed-Black people.

Governance, beneficiary rules, forms of repair, eligibility and future financial arrangements remain matters for lawful institutional development.

Public journey

Learn. Support. Pledge. Shape.

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Support

Sign the public Change.org petition. Signing is separate from making a pledge.

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Pledge

The new system will accept anonymous financial, skills, combined or general founding support.

Pledge system status →
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Shape

Nominate people, organisations or programmes and participate in the public discussion.

Join discussion →

Legacy continuity

The old campaign record remains intact.

Historical pledge records

Preserved in the existing ARM-BGAC system while the new anonymous system is built.

Historical nominations

Preserved. Existing nomination records are not being reset or silently discarded.

Historical audit trail

Preserved as part of the evidential record of the previous implementation.

The Black Pledge: How a Promise Became a People's Currency
The meaning of a pledge

A promise carried into action

The campaign uses the pledge as a practical expression of possible community support. No money is taken when the pledge is recorded, and every pledge remains voluntary, conditional and revocable.

The visual identity of this site draws on The Black Pledge: deep forest tones, warm gold, intergenerational imagery and the idea that a pledge should be understood, recorded and controlled by the person making it.

African Reparations Movement UK petition campaign

Public petition

Turn support into a public mandate.

Support the campaign for the future of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre and the development of the African Reparations Movement UK. The petition and anonymous pledge are separate forms of support.