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SUMMARY:Annual General Meeting 2024
DESCRIPTION:At the Annual General Meeting\, you will receive updates on our performance for the previous year and our goals for 2024-25.\n \nThis is a virtual event.\n\n\nAudience\nThe Annual General Meeting is open to members only. \n\n\nAbout the event\nAs the year draws to a close\, we are reflecting on the great year we’ve had at Business in the Community (BITC). We could not have achieved this without our valued members and partners driving meaningful change across the UK.Join us for our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 10 December for a short update and to celebrate the impact we’ve had in places\, on key social issues our member success stories\, and the insights we’ve learnt over the past 12 months. \nIn addition\, we will share our upcoming plans for the year ahead\, aligning with our vision of creating a fairer and greener world driven by responsible businesses to achieve our goals to ensure: \n\nEvery young person and job seeker feels supported and has clear pathways into work.\nEvery employer invests in skills that are needed for today and for the future\, creating workplaces where everyone has the opportunity to grow and reach their potential\, regardless of background.\nEvery community has a shared sense of pride\, hope and support with building and delivering a strong\, collective vision of a fairer tomorrow and a protected planet.\n\n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact Annette Ettarh\, Events Manager at BITC for further information.\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/annual-general-meeting-2024/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Responsible Business and Strategy
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SUMMARY:CEO Leadership Forum Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:This event provides the opportunity to share your experiences\, successes and ideas regarding the key challenges facing the world and society. \n\n\n\nThis is an in person event. \n\n\n\nAudience\n\n\n\nThis event is by invitation only and for CEOs. \n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nAs part of Business in the Community’s work in supporting businesses to drive transformation at pace and scale in our communities\, we are holding a series of CEO Leadership Forum Breakfast events. \n\n\n\nAbout the event\n\n\n\nThese informal\, private discussions over breakfast will form a key part of the national conversation initiated by BITC’s Lifting up the UK: State of the Nation 2024 report\, which detailed the thoughts of the leaders of some of the UK’s largest businesses on what has been done and what is still needed to change the world around us. As such\, they provide CEOs with the opportunity to share their experiences\, successes and ideas regarding key challenges in the world and society today\, as well as the action that can collectively be taken to make a positive difference and change the world around us. \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to join this date we are also holding more breakfasts in the coming months\, to join another date instead\, click here. \n\n\n\nTo join us at a CEO Leadership Forum Dinner instead\, click here. \n\n\n\nRefreshments\n\n\n\nBreakfast will be served. \n\n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\n\n\n\nContact Fiona Macleod\, Head of Events at BITC for any further questions.\n\n\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\n\n\n\nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/ceo-leadership-forum-breakfasts/2024-12-11/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Responsible Business and Strategy
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SUMMARY:The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us to launch The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 and hear new findings on the commercial case for gender equity.\n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nThis event is open to members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). It has been designed to be of most benefit to those working in Corporate / External affairs\, CSR/Responsible business/ ESG\, Diversity and Inclusion and HR/People/Talent management. \n\n\nAbout the event\nIn a world where progress towards greater gender equality remains fragile\, and in some spaces\, risks rolling back\, join this session to explore: \n•  New research highlighting the ‘commercial case’ for gender equity at work – including how this applies to the working world of the future\, particularly challenges such as climate change and equitable technological innovation. \n•  How you can reap the benefits of greater gender equity by benchmarking and enhancing your approach through applying to the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality. \nPanellists will include senior staff from previous Times Top 50 award winners such as: \n• Kelly Beaver MBE\, Chief Executive of Ipsos Mori in the UK and Ireland\, one of the UK’s largest research agencies. \n• Sharmaine Lovegrove\, MD of Dialogue Books\, an imprint of Hachette UK\, former literary editor at Elle. \n• Jackie Henry MBE\, Managing Partner for People and Purpose at Deloitte. \nGender inequality remains one of the most devastating types of inequality in the UK\, and for women and girls from poorer communities or Black\, Asian\, Mixed Race or other ethnically diverse backgrounds – things are only getting worse. \nHowever\, beyond the moral and social case\, the data is clear that greater gender diversity and equity has a large\, positive impact on businesses’ commercial performance\, both directly through increasing revenues and reducing costs\, and indirectly through enabling greater resilience to major commercial risks and opportunities\, including climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) \nThis panel discussion will consider how to utilise this new research to drive progress and reflect on how applying to the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality – the UK’s largest\, longest established assessment of employers’ efforts on this agenda – can support businesses to improve their practice. \n\n\nBackground\nThe Times Top 50 Employers is the UK’s most high-profile and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone\, regardless of gender\, can thrive. \nWomen and minoritised genders are disproportionately affected in times of more significant political and economic uncertainty\, as gender inequalities deeply entrenched in working life have a greater impact. At a time when the UK continues to experience a cost of living crisis\, women are paid less\, are more likely to be employed in severely insecure work and have less access to highly paid\, highly skilled roles due to the need of more women having to balance work and caring responsibilities. As such\, the need for employer intervention to ensure greater gender equality and avoid a backslide in progress has never been greater. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact Jessica Hart\, Events Co-ordinator\, BITC.\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/empowering-equality-times-top-50-employers-for-gender-equality-2025-launch/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Gender Equality
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