I spent some of Friday at PATH, a charity which is celebrating 21 years of helping Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people overcome barriers and fulfil their employment potential by offering Positive Action Training.

PATH is in part funded by the European Social Fund and it is nice to see EU money used so successfully with the charity having made a real impact across West Yorkshire since 1985.

Increasingly, employers are going to PATH in order to help realise a truly representative workforce, something many still struggle to do genuinely, with the likes of ITV and Customs and Excise benefiting from the charity’s expertise.

I met with PATH manager Hughbon Condor, chair Elain Gentles, and Fundraising and Marketing Manager Bronagh Campbell to discuss how the charity can access new European funding and how it can expand its outstanding work into more of the private sector.

There is still under-representation of BMEs in the West Yorkshire workforce, particularly in more senior roles, something PATH is working to change.

For more information on PATH and to see if you are eligible for one of PATH’s courses visit their website at www.pathyorkshire.org.uk

Following the meeting we decamped to Maureen’s West Indian Restaurant in Chapeltown, for a sumptuous lunch which gave me the chance to try curried goat for the first time, and I can heartily recommend it!