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SUMMARY:Race Equality Campaign 30 Year Anniversary Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn the key actions for UK employers to promote fairness and equality to create truly inclusive workplaces ready for the future.\n \n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nThis is event is open to both members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). It would be of interest to anyone who has signed the Race at Work Charter or who participated in the ‘Leadership\, employees and procurement’ YouGov survey\, particularly leaders and Executive Sponsors for Race. \n\n\nBackground\n2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the BITC Race Equality campaign. We will be sharing some fresh insights and updated evidence on trends linked to the Race at Work Charter captured within our most recent Leadership\, Employees\, and Procurement survey\, with YouGov in June 2024. This new data fed into our Diverse and Inclusive Supply Chains Insights report and builds on the evidence gathered in our Race at Work Survey series (2015–2021)\, providing a deeper understanding of racial disparities\, fairness and access to opportunities in UK workplaces. \n\n\nAbout the event\nThrough consultations with current and past leaders from the BITC Race Leadership Team\, senior business leaders\, and leading academics\, we have identified key actions for UK employers to drive equality and fairness. \nKey Focus Areas: \n\nEvolving the Role of the Executive Sponsor for Race: In 2015 32% of employees said they had an executive sponsor for race. What is the picture now? What is the role of the executive sponsor in driving change and galvanising leadership commitment at the top and how can this be further enhanced for impact?\nDiversifying the Pipeline to Senior Leadership: What concrete steps must employers take to include the widest range of talent in their organisations in their leadership pipelines and open pathways to the “top table” for underrepresented talent with the intersections of ethnicity and social background\, age\, gender\, and disability?\nLeveraging Data for Inclusion: How can data-driven insights help to shape racial equality and fairness strategies and track progress?\n\nAdditionally\, we will be launching: \n\nA new 10-point Leadership Trend Paper with calls to action for leaders\nUpdated Goals and Targets guide\nUpdated Being Visible Leader guide\nNew sponsorship\, mentoring\, coaching framework to support executive sponsors.\n\nAdditionally\, we will be publishing an insights paper and toolkit at this event. This event provides a unique opportunity to understand how you can use these insights to reinforce your commitments to race inclusion and drive impactful change within your organisation. \n\n\nSpeakers\nSandra Kerr CBE\, Race Equality Director\, Business in the Community will be chairing the event\, and we are delighted to have some speakers already secured: \nAlbertha Charles Partner PWC Global and UK Asset and Wealth Management Leader and member of BITC Race Leadership Team \nJustin Onuekwusi\, Chief Investment Officer\, St James’s Place (SJP) and member of BITC Race Leadership Team \nRichard Iferenta\, Partner and Vice Chair\, KPMG\, and BITC Race Leadership Team Chair \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact events@bitc.org.uk 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/race-equality-30-years-on-leadership/
LOCATION:Online webinar
CATEGORIES:Race Equality
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SUMMARY:Let's Care Together - Programme Introduction (for Employers)
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is for employers and wellbeing leads to introduce our new virtual befriending initiative to support carer’s wellbeing. \n\n\n\nAudience \n\n\n\nThis is a virtual event open to employers\, wellbeing leads and employee carer networks. \n\n\n\nBackground \n\n\n\nBusiness in the Community (BITC) and leading healthcare provider Simplyhealth\, have come together to co-create the Let’s Care Together programme. \n\n\n\nResearch shows that unpaid carers have worse wellbeing outcomes than non-carers\, and are likely to be time-poor due to their caring responsibilities*. The programme aims to support carers by streamlining access to resources and providing practical support across the four pillars of wellbeing: Physical\, Mental\, Social and Financial. This support will include helping people with caring responsibilities to connect with friends and family\, community groups and wider support\, find wellbeing information and gain financial confidence. \n\n\n\nOur volunteer befrienders will work on a one-to-one basis with each carer on one or all of the following\, depending on their preference: ​ \n\n\n\n\nIncreasing connection to their local community\, improving overall social wellbeing and reducing any feelings of isolation. ​\n\n\n\nSupporting financial independence and knowledge of financial tools/support available.​\n\n\n\nAccess to practical support and tools for their physical wellbeing. ​\n\n\n\nBeing a regular listening ear and friendly face to offer support and guidance.​\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n\nIn this webinar you will learn how our Let’s Care Together programme can support unpaid carers (over 18) with their wellbeing\, through pairing them with an online befriender. \n\n\n\nJoin this session to learn more about how your beneficiaries\, or colleagues with caring responsibilities could benefit from the programme. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nUsha Manojkanth – BITC Programme Manager \n\n\n\nSimon Walters – BITC Programme Manager \n\n\n\nMichelle Brannen – BITC Programme Manager \n\n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\n\n\n\nEmail care@bitc.org.uk\, for any further questions.\n\n\n\nThe session will take place on Teams.\n\n\n\nJoining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\n\n\n\nAbout Business in the Community \n\n\n\nBusiness in the Community is the largest and longest-established movement dedicated to responsible business in the UK\, formed in 1982 and with HM The King as our Royal Founding Patron. Together with our network of businesses we are leading the UK to create a fair and sustainable world in which to live and work. \n\n\n\n*Carers UK 2022 – Unpaid carers continue to suffer poorer health- with some groups adversely affected.
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/lets-care-together-programme-introduction-for-employers-3/2025-03-25/
LOCATION:Online webinar
CATEGORIES:Health and Wellbeing
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SUMMARY:The King's Seeing is Believing Visit in Glasgow\, Scotland
DESCRIPTION:The visit will bring key insights on factors impacting social mobility in towns and cities across Scotland and solutions to these challenges\n \nThis is an in person event.\n \nAudience\n \nC-Suite – attendance by invitation only. To express interest in attending\, please complete the booking form and the Seeing is Believing team will reach out with further information.\n \nBackground\n \nThe King’s Seeing is Believing programme of visits is one of the most well-established and widely respected experiential leadership programmes in the UK. The Programme has been championed by HM The King for over three decades.\n \nOver the past thirty years\, its profound influence and extensive reach has engaged more than 25\,000 leaders. It is a unique immersive experience which provides senior leadership from businesses of all shapes and sizes with opportunities to view their business from the ‘outside in’. It also allows them to meet and better understand those who are really struggling in life and to consider actions that can be taken to address some of the key issues facing our communities today – and in turn transform millions of lives.\n \nAbout the event\n \nThis unique programme of visits brings together CEOs and senior business leaders. in small groups to re-connect with communities across the UK. This programme is kindly supported by Salesforce and Linklaters.\n \nLed by Roisin Currie\, Chief Executive of Greggs\, this experiential visit will bring together prominent business leaders for The King’s Seeing is Believing event in Glasgow on 27 March 2025. The visit will bring insights into some of the key factors impacting on social mobility in our towns and cities across Scotland\, looking specifically at barriers such as food insecurity\, child poverty and the growing issue of in-work poverty and lack of opportunities for the communities living in areas of high deprivation. The visit will also explore collaborative solutions to address these challenges.\n \nTo help set context for the visit\, delegates are also invited to join the dinner with local stakeholders and community groups the night before the visit\, Wednesday\, 26 March\, for an opportunity to meet fellow delegates and hear from those who live and work in the city.\n \n\nEvent Details: \nDate and time for Seeing is Believing Visit: Thursday\, 27 March 2025 @ 09:00 – 15:00 \nDate and time for Pre-Visit Stakeholder Dinner: Wednesday\, 26 March 2025 @ 18:30-21:00 \nPrice: Free of charge \nLocation: Glasgow\, London \nAudience: CEO and C-Suite (by invitation only) \n\nRefreshments\n \nLight refreshments and a lunch break.\n \nBooking\, contact details and further information\n \n\n\nContact SIB@bitc.org.uk to book your spot or if you have any questions.\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\n\n \nFind out how your organisation can become a member of Business in the Community\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/the-kings-seeing-is-believing-visit-in-glasgow-scotland/
LOCATION:Glasgow\, Scotland
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SUMMARY:Transform Your Workplace: Is Data-Driven DEI a Game Changer?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon where DEI (Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion) best practice will be mixed with networking and opportunities to talk through current challenges.\n\n\nThis is an in person event. \nAudience\nThis event is open to both members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC) and has been designed for HR people/Talent management practitioners/managers. \nAbout the event \n\n\nJoin us for an engaging and insightful 2-hour event designed for West Midlands businesses\, focusing on the transformative power of data-driven DEI strategies. Discover how real-time analytics and measurable outcomes can enhance transparency\, build trust among employees\, and drive meaningful change in your organisation. \nThis event will feature a keynote presentation\, a panel discussion with industry experts\, and interactive table exercises to help you develop actionable DEI strategies. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from recent case studies and best practices\, and to network with like-minded professionals committed to fostering inclusive and sustainable workplaces. \n\n\nRefreshments\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact Andreea.Tudor@bitc.org.uk\, Regional Lead 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/transform-your-workplace-can-data-driven-dei-be-the-game-changer/
LOCATION:Irwin Mitchell Solicitors  20 Colmore Row 9th Floor Birmingham B4 6AH
CATEGORIES:Gender Equality
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