BAATN’s operations team expands
BAATN’s operations team expands to include 8 members of (part-time) staff
The first national Covid lockdown
On 23 March 2020, the UK Prime Minister announced the first national lockdown following the outbreak and international spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Breonna Taylor is shot and killed
On 13 March, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American woman and medical technician, was shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment.
BAATN changes it’s name again
The Black and Asian Therapists Network’ changed its name to ‘The Black, African and Asian Therapy Network. As well as the term Black in the network title, which is a political term, there was a need to respect and take into account a sense of place for Black people of both African and Asian heritage, hence the addition of the word African. The word ‘therapist’ was changed to the word ‘therapy’ to emphasise an additional focus of BAATN’s work that
BAATN starts Student Mentoring programme
BAATN starts the “Each One, Teach One” mentoring programme
BAATN registered as a not-for-profit Social Enterprise
BAATN was registered as a not-for-profit company and the name was changed to The Black and Asian Therapists Network to reflect BAATN being more than a directory and that we were meeting and operating as a network.
BAATN starts as an online directory
BAATN started as “Black and Asian Therapists Online” with funding from an organisation called Unltd, an organisation that supports social entrepreneurs. At this point BAATN was an online register of black and Asian therapists.