EMF carries out a wide range of policy and research-related activities, including supporting collaborative research projects with various institutions and partners as well as engaging in public policy consultations and steering groups. All these activities contribute to furthering our understanding of issues affecting Britain’s minority ethnic communities, while enabling EMF to influence government policy.

Our presence at Government policy tables and steering groups include the Department for Work and Pensions’ Ethnic Minority Working Party and HM Revenue and Customs’ Voluntary Sector Steering Group.

We have close links with a number of academic and research institutions as well as voluntary and community sector organisations, including the University of London, the University of East London, City University, the University of Glasgow, the University of Reading, NHS UK Transplant, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), Help the Aged, the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector Organisations (CEMVO), CEMVO Scotland, the British Muslim Research Centre (BMRC), the Hindu Council UK (HCUK), the London Chinese Community Network (LCCN) and Community Empowerment Network (CEN).