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| | NCVO - The role of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Voluntary Sector - case study Enfield |
 | | The BME voluntary sector is younger than the wider sector and has been created on a self-help basis by people directly affected by the problems it aims to address, in contrast to the wider sector which has tended to emerge mainly from middle class people taking a benevolent interest in the disadvantaged. |
 | | Furthermore, the BME voluntary sector is diverse; there are differences of ethnicity and culture, experience and struggles against racism, demography, patterns of settlement, gender, age, outlook, and religion as well as the distinctive problems of the UK's newer minority ethnic communities, particularly those which consist mainly of refugees and asylum-seekers. |
 | | Firstly, individual BME organisations can not address all the aspects of social capital due to the limited capacities of the BME voluntary sector and secondly, the activities of an individual organisation may only directly affect their users. |
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