The Global Majority Network was set up January 2026 within Imroc. It is led by Carlina Whitmore, alongside Helen Cyrus, Tichea Brade, Faz Islam, Al-Waleed Abu Elgasim and Majeda Dewan Islam.

The network came about after a few of us came off the back of a National Culture of Care programme, commissioned by NHS England, which worked with inpatient settings to improve the culture of care for service users, with lived experience at the heart of all the work. During that programme we faced a lot of very difficult moments among staff teams and services, where people were experiencing a rise in racism and a general lack of understanding of different cultural dynamics.

When the programme ended, we wanted to lead by example and create a supportive network within our own organisation. We meet once a month, and the network has a dual purpose. The first is to give people from global majority groups within our organisation a safe space where we can connect with each other and offer support related to our identities and race. The second is to look at how we can influence change, in how decisions are made, how we're included, and how people can explore and understand our lived experience of being people of colour living in Britain.

We started out with the default identity of "ethnic minority", but that terminology constantly boxes us in as a very small group of people, always the minority. Together, we settled on "global majority", which represents that globally, people of colour are the majority. There are many different variations of us. We are very rich in culture and identity, we practise different religions, and we're not just one identity that fits into a small category. We wanted to celebrate that, hence the name