Power, Justice and Accountability: the anti-racism leadership programme

A yearlong transformational programme from JMB Consulting x Social Justice Collective for leaders who are committed to anti-racist action and transformation – personally, in their organisations and in civil society as a whole.

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About the programme

This programme is designed to provide a space for transforming personal and organisational approaches to anti-racist practice. With a mix of small-group online work and whole-group in-person sessions, you will be guided through a personal, challenging and transformative journey rooted in anti-oppressive practice following the process of decolonisation outlined by Poka Laenui: 

  • Learning and Unlearning

  • Mourning

  • Dreaming

  • Commitment

  • Action


Your facilitators will guide you to rethink your understanding of racism and whiteness, to explore your own relationship to power and to imagine and design life-affirming alternatives in your leadership that centre racial justice.

Programme aims

The programme will open with a whole group kick off and contracting session. Your cohort learning then follows the following seven parts: 

  • Grounding in theory: What are race, racism, racialisation, white supremacy and intersectionality?

  • Positionality and power: reflecting on our personal relationships to systems of oppression

  • Putting racism into context: Race, colonialism and the charity sector

  • White Supremacy Culture in leadership

  • The Transformational Journey

  • Accountability leads to justice, solidarity and liberation

  • Committing to action

Each workshop is 3 hours long and delivered on Zoom. During the workshops you will be supported by your facilitators to explore theory, key concepts and frameworks for anti-racism. You will also participate in discussions and activities that will allow you to put the learning into your context. 

You will also have a group Miro board, a workbook (optional) and an incredible set of resources to extend your learning. Between each session you will be assigned homework tasks and rotating buddies so that you continue to learn and build cohort accountability to learning outside of the sessions. Homework tasks are creative and designed to enable deeper reflection and support leaders to share their learning and test out some frameworks with their own teams. 

The programme will close with a whole group session to set collective commitments and celebrate the life-affirming and transformational journey of the programme. Leaders will be able to access after care support for the implementation of their learning as an alumni of the programme.

Session dates

10am-1pm

  • April– kick off

  • May– session 1

  • June– session 2

  • July– session 3

  • September– session 4

  • October– session 5

  • November– session 6

  • December– session 7

  • January– celebration event

Who is this programme for?

This group programme is for leaders from the third sector, not-for-profit and social impact sector, this includes funders and social enterprises. By leaders we mean anyone at Director level and above, including Trustees.

The cost

Invoices for the programme can be sent in the new financial year (April 2026) to support budget planning.

How to apply

Applying couldn’t be easier! Answer the four questions in this form either in writing or in video responses by 5pm on 16th February 2026.

You will be contacted about your application by 5pm on 23rd February 2026.

Who is leading the programme?

Martha Awojobi – any pronouns

Martha is a huge racial justice nerd who loves learning about histories of oppression and resistance. They run JMB Consulting, an anti-racist practice consultancy specialising in charity, philanthropy, and anti-oppression and are on a mission to build infrastructure for racial justice work in the UK. They created Uncharitable, the home for political education in the third sector which explores race, imperialism and the charity sector through writing, art and events. Martha is also Vice Chair of Stuart Hall Foundation and a Trustee of Civic Power Fund.

Pari Dhillon – she/her

Pari is the Director of the Social Justice Collective. After 20+ years of leading charities, Pari now works with organisations and communities to centre racial and social justice in their purpose and their practice. She is a Trustee of UK Black Pride and founder of the SJC Circle; a healing, learning and action-oriented collective of social justice practitioners. Pari is an anti-racism and queer rights activist, part-time potter and lesbian mother of two.

What is the time commitment?

Each monthly session is 3 hours long and between sessions you will be expected to spend 1-2 hours learning with your cohort buddy.

How to participate fully

In this programme, we use a variety of methods to process and learn together. This might include meditations, movement, as well as just having open and honest conversations.

In order to participate fully, you will need:

  • A strong internet connection that can facilitate a Zoom meeting

  • A private, quiet space where you feel comfortable speaking openly

  • A space with some room for you to move freely

Any questions?

If you would like to know more get in touch with us at shivani.mahida@socialjusticecollective.co.uk and Martha or Pari will get back to you.