Who decides what cohesion is?

Regarding your article "Liverpool and Bradford race equality bodies face closure after funding slashed" (18 July, page 12), I have followed some of the activities in which Checkpoint has been engaged for several years and I find it ludicrous for anyone, including Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips, to say: "We were giving out the best part of £5m without any accountability, and quite often acting against the interest of community cohesion and race equality."

What, precisely, does Phillips mean by community cohesion and race equality? Who determines that status or condition? Surely the people who have been consistently involved for several years, at times using their own funds.