By the end of 2003, over two-thirds of the recommendations of the report had been acted upon.The report encouraged responses in a wide range of media from academic journals to community newsletters. It also features on numerous university reading lists,representing an important contribution to our understanding of a multi-ethnic society. This would suggest that the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain has been influential in shaping the latest phase of thinking on race equality, and that the hundreds of people from around the country and from various walks of life, who gave their time and effort to contribute to the work of the Commission, did not do so in vain. The report looks at the changes, progress and further challenges to the creation of a community of citizens and community of communities since the publication of the report in 2000.