The Consortium of Black Groups (COBG) have called for non-compliance with the city of Bristol's plans for commemorating the bicentenary of the UK abolition of slave trading. At a meeting of the Bristol Partnership on 16th March 2006, a statement was read out by Madu Ellis, representative of the COBG on the city's 'Local Strategic Partnership'. It condemned the city's track record on consulting Black and Afrikan communities and proposed that Afrikan heritage people would not take part in the commemoration.