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SUMMARY:Business in the Community Critical Friends Forum
DESCRIPTION:An exclusive panel of Business in the Community (BITC) member contacts who advise BITC on priorities and direction.\n\n\nThis is an virtual event. \nAudience\nAttendance is by invitation only. If you would like to be considered to be part of this panel\, or if you would like the opportunity to provide more feedback to BITC\, please contact Paul Archer\, Head of Customer Experience. \n\n\nThe aims and objectives of the event \nBusiness in the Community’s Critical Friends advise us on our priorities and direction to ensure we can deliver our vision and grow the responsible business movement. \nThe panel comprises contacts from BITC member companies from various sectors and sizes. \nBITC’s Critical Friends is designed to be a representative sample of our entire membership\, and gives our members a direct line to the leaders and decision-makers here at BITC. \nOur Critical Friends meet two to four times a year to consider BITC strategic issues\, as well as provide ad-hoc feedback on innovations and decisions. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\nContact Megan Gillett\, Events Coordinator at BITC\, for further questions.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/business-in-the-community-critical-friends-forum/
LOCATION:Online webinar\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Responsible Business and Strategy
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SUMMARY:International Standards: how to respond
DESCRIPTION:This event forms part of a series covering the impact of new international standards. This event will provide a high level overview of the standards on overarching responsible business reporting (environmental\, social and governance). \n\n\n\nJoin the other event in the series\, International Standards – Sustainability reporting\, taking place on October 24.  \n\n\n\nThis is an online event. \n\n\n\nAudience\n\n\n\nOpen to BITC members and non-members. This event has been designed to benefit Heads of Responsible Business. \n\n\n\nThe aims and objectives of the series of events\n\n\n\nThese events are a monthly opportunity to meet peers and learn from each other. \n\n\n\nBITC will convene Heads of Responsible Business\, or those who own and drive responsible business within their organisations\, to accelerate greener and fairer action together. Each month\, we will explore a different emerging trend or challenge facing our member businesses. We will facilitate discussions allowing you to meet peers\, navigate your barriers and accelerate responsible business. \n\n\n\nSave the time and date\n\n\n\nSave the time and date of 10-11:00 on the last Tuesday of every month\, to join these facilitated discussions. \n\n\n\nDetails of the November Share and Learn session will be published very soon.  \n\n\n\nResponding to new international standards\n\n\n\nBusinesses are being subject to increased responsible business regulation\, requiring sophisticated approaches to responsible business activity. The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in the European Union\, the global ISSB standard (International Sustainability Standards Board) as well as the Sustainability Disclosure Standards (SDS) in the UK\, creates an imperative for businesses to have an in-depth understanding of their social and environmental impacts and to demonstrate how they are being managed. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this Share & Learn session where we will be discussing the CSRD\, ISSB and SDS (which will adopt ISSB standards) and their implications for businesses’ approach and reporting of responsible business. \n\n\n\nThe session is applicable both for businesses affected by the legislation\, and those unaffected. BITC believes that all businesses should be complying with the standards so they are meeting best practice standards and are in a strong position to respond to future regulatory developments. \n\n\n\nThis event is aimed at responsible business practitioners and leaders alike\, and aims to equip individuals with intel from peers to inform internal stakeholders and prepare the organisation for the forthcoming requirements. We will provide the opportunity for attendees to join breakout rooms to hear from other businesses about how they are responding to the developments. \n\n\n\nQuestions to discuss in breakout rooms include the following: \n\n\n\n\nHow the business currently manages responsible business and what needs to change in order to become compliant?\n\n\n\nWhat departments need to be engaged in order to effectively manage this new approach to responsible business?\n\n\n\nWhat will this mean for responsible business ambitions?\n\n\n\nHow will this effect current approach to responsible business reporting?\n\n\n\n\nFuture Share and Learn Sessions\n\n\n\n\n28 November\n\n\n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\n\n\nFor more information\, please contact Megan Gillett\, Events Coordinator at BITC.
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/business-in-the-community-share-and-learn-sessions-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Responsible Business and Strategy
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SUMMARY:Green Skills for a Net Zero Wales
DESCRIPTION:Join us to help us build a stronger\, fairer\, greener Wales.\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. \nAudience\nOpen to Business in the Community (BITC) members and non-members. This event has been designed to benefit senior leads from businesses based or with a presence in Wales. \n\n\nBackground\nWith increasing pressure from investors\, customers\, and employees for authentic climate action\, now is the time to ensure that your business is harnessing and building the right culture and capabilities to deliver it. \nBITC has championed a Just Transition for a fair\, inclusive and resilient net zero future since the Seven Steps for Climate Action publication during COP26. This work explores vulnerability in the transition\, who is at risk and how we mitigate against these effects. \nBITC is also working with the Wales SME Taskforce on Climate\, with NatWest\, FSB\, ACCA\, Cynnal Cymru\, British Business Bank and Business Wales\, a collaboration which aims to help SMEs see climate action as a priority. \n\n\nAbout the Event\nThis is your opportunity to connect with senior leaders in businesses of all sizes across Wales to exchange ideas on how we can grow a skilled workforce that meets Wales’s net zero commitments. As well as narrow the skills divide\, tackle inequality\, and boost good jobs that lift people out of poverty and ensure a just transition\, meaning no one is left behind. \nWe invite you to explore the current landscape of green skills\, identify the support required to succeed and learn from BITC’s network. \nWe hope you can join us to help us build a stronger\, fairer\, greener Wales. \n\n\nSpeakers\n\nVaughan Gething MS\, Minister for the Economy\nHelen Brand OBE\, Chief Executive\, ACCA\nGemma Casey\, Ecosystem Manager\, NatWest\nRhianydd Jenkins\, Director of Development and Regeneration\, RHA Wales\nBethan Jones – HR Director\, Wales & West Utilities\nKay Martin OBE\, Group Principal\, Cardiff and Vale College\nTracy Rees\, Senior Lead and Interim Director Wales\, BITC\nGudrun Cartwright\, Climate Action Director\, BITC\n\n\n\nRefreshment\nComplimentary breakfast rolls\, tea\, coffee and fruit juice will be served. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nFor more information\, please contact the Events Team. \n\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/green-skills-for-a-net-zero-wales-2/
LOCATION:The Classroom Restaurant\, Cardiff and Vale College\, Dumballs Road\, Cardiff CF10 5BF
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SUMMARY:Race at Work Charter Surgery October 2023
DESCRIPTION:Join this event to learn more about the early insights from the recent Race at Work Charter survey.\n\n\nAudience\nThis event is open to members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). \n \n\n\nBackground\nThe monthly Race at Work Charter surgeries are an opportunity for attendees to speak directly with Sandra Kerr\, Race Equality Director\, BITC and ask any questions about the Charter\, the survey\, or race offerings at BITC. \nThese surgeries benefit anyone wishing to sign or build on their commitment to the Race at Work Charter. \n\n\nAbout the webinar\nThis webinar will provide employers with a space to ask questions about the feedback available from the Race at Work Charter 2023 survey and what the commitment to action is that we ask of employers who have signed the Charter. There is also an opportunity to peak into what insights are coming down the pipeline. \n\n\nAbout the Race at Work Charter\nThe Race at Work Charter is seven calls to action to ensure that ethnically diverse employees are represented at all levels in an organisation. The actions include: \n\nAppoint an Executive Sponsor for race.\nCapture ethnicity data and publicise progress.\nCommit at board level to zero tolerance of harassment and bullying.\nMake clear that supporting equality in the workplace is the responsibility of all leaders and managers.\nTake action that supports Black\, Asian\, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse people’s career progression.\nSupport race inclusion allies in the workplace.\nInclude Black\, Asian\, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse-led enterprise owners in supply chains.\n\nLearn more about BITC’s Race at Work Charter. \n\n\nBusiness in the Community’s work on race equality\nBusiness in the Community (BITC) is working to ensure all employees feel they belong\, have a voice\, are valued and can be their true selves. \nFor over 27 years\, BITC has been campaigning and helping organisations to ensure Black\, Asian\, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse employees are represented at all levels. \nAll organisations want to recruit from the widest talent pool and help successful applicants progress. It is key to future productivity and performance. Black\, Asian\, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse staff still encounter significant disparities in employment and progression*. The government-sponsored Race in the workplace: The McGregor-Smith Review found that greater progress and positive outcomes are needed to ensure all organisations benefit from the wealth of diverse talent and tap into the potential economic boost of £24bn annually by tackling racial disparities in the workplace and labour market The findings led BITC to create the Race at Work Charter\, with 85 founding signatory organisations committed to improving equality of opportunity in the workplace. \nFind out more about BITC’s work on race equality. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact Jessica Hart\, Events Coordinator at BITC for more information.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\n\n\nReferences\n*Business in the Community (2021) Race at Work 2021 Scorecard Report
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/race-at-work-charter-surgery-october-2023/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Race Equality
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SUMMARY:BITC Cymru Networking Event: BITC in Swansea
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate positive connections between local businesses and the communities they serve.\n\n\nThis is an in-person networking event.\nAudience\nOpen to Business in the Community (BITC) members and non-members. Local cross-sector partners\, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and local and national Government. \n\n\nThe aims and objectives of the event\nBITC and its members in Wales are acutely aware of the challenges many communities in Swansea face. Struggling to cope with the impacts of the cost-of-living crisis and persistent inflation. At this event\, key discussion topics will include business volunteering\, community collaboration and inclusive recruitment. \nThis networking event\, supported by Welsh Government and Business Wales\, will: \n\nCelebrate connections between businesses\, local authorities\, and voluntary sector organisations that help people and communities across Swansea and surrounding areas.\nShowcase employment and skills opportunities for local people and profile responsible regional employers.\nDemonstrate how responsible business can play a crucial role in driving a fairer\, greener future for Swansea.\nShare relevant resources from BITC’s cost-of-living campaign and other free-to-access employment and skills materials and programmes. Links to Welsh Government and Business Wales materials will be provided.\n\nKey speakers\n\nCouncillor Robert Francis-Davies\, Cabinet Member for Investment\, Regeneration and Tourism – Swansea Council\nSol Pritchard \, Director of Regeneration – POBL Group\nAmanda Carr\, Director – Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (SCVS) \nAnnelie Grey\, Head of Planning and Performance – Principality Building Society\nClaire Roberts\, Community Engagement Manager – Dwr Cymru Welsh Water\n\n  \nRefreshments \n\n\nLight refreshments will be served at this event. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact Megan Gillett\, Events Coordinator at BITC\, for any further questions.\n\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/bitc-in-swansea-networking-event-business-and-community/
LOCATION:Sketty Hall\, Sketty Lane\, Swansea\, Swansea\, SA2 8QF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community Collaboration
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SUMMARY:PLF: International Standards - Sustainability reporting
DESCRIPTION:This event forms part of a series covering the impact of new international standards. This event will focus on the implications of the standards on environmental management and reporting. \nJoin the other event in the series\, International Standards: how to respond\, taking palce on 31 October.   \n\n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nAttendance is by invitation only. This event is designed for members with advisory days in environment. \n\n\nThe aims and objectives of the event\nThis year we have seen an ever-increasing alphabet soup of new corporate sustainability reporting requirements\, coming straight from mandatory Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) reporting for many large businesses. These include: \n\nCorporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)is a major overhaul of the EU’s sustainability reporting rules\, and it will require large companies to report more comprehensive and detailed information on their Environmental\, Social and Governance (ESG) impacts.\nThe International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has release two new sustainability standards (IFS1 and IFS2) but crucially\, the ISSB has now been asked to take over responsibility for monitoring the progress of companies’ climate-related disclosures from the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) and (TCFD) as of next year\, following a request from the FSB.\nThe Science Based Target Network (SBTN) has now released the first tranche of guidance for companies looking to set Science-Based Targets for Nature\, which will complement and work alongside companies set science-based emissions targets.\n\nJoin us at our Peer Learning Forum (PLF)\, where we will share information about the new standards\, how to understand your legal obligations\, how to get ahead of the pack\, and how to integrate it seamlessly into your existing reporting infrastructure. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nPlease contact Megan Gillett\, Events Coordinator at BITC for any further questions.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/plf-understanding-new-sustainability-reporting-standards/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Peer Learning Forum: Wellbeing for Field-Based Roles
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to understand the wellbeing challenges faced by colleagues in field-based roles and how to take action.\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. \nAudience\nAttendance is by invitation only. This event is for Business in the Community (BITC) members with advisory days in wellbeing\, and has been designed to benefit health and wellbeing\, inclusion and HR practitioners. \n\n\nThe aims and objectives of the event \nThis event aims to support health and wellbeing and inclusion practitioners in understanding the wellbeing challenges specifically faced by colleagues in field-based roles and how to take action\, recognising they are: \n\nHarder to reach via internal communications\, line manager support and peer connection/ collaboration.\nLess likely to have non-scheduled time to access support services and resources within an online wellbeing hub.\nLikely to work alone in time managed\, pressurised environments.\nLess likely to access flexible work with capacity to co-design good work.\n\nThis event will build on insights shared in BITC’s and the McKinsey Report ‘Prioritise People; Unlock the Value of a Thriving Workforce’ with guest speaker\, Allyson Savage\, Head of Occupational Health and Wellbeing for Northern Gas Networks. \n\n\nAgenda/outline of the event \n1. How to prioritise people at work \n2. What are the challenges of supporting wellbeing for operational colleagues? \n3. Guest speaker- Allyson Savage Northern Gas Networks \n4. Discussion/breakout: Sharing challenges and sourcing ideas to overcome these \n\n\nAbout Business in the Community’s Peer Learning Forums \nBITC’s Peer Learning Forums provide a confidential environment to discuss common issues\, solutions\, and good practice. There will be an emphasis on discussion and sharing experiences. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\nContact Megan Gillett\, Events Coordinator at BITC for further information.\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/plf-wellbeing-for-field-based-roles/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Health and Wellbeing
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