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SUMMARY:Aberdeen Responsible Business Network - Cost of Living\, Financial Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:Addressing the cost of living\, improving financial wellbeing\n\n\nThis is an in person event. \nAudience\nThe Aberdeen Responsible Business Network is open to both BITC members and non-members and is free to join. It is open to all job levels too\, if you are passionate about Responsible Business in Aberdeen you are welcome to join us.  \n\n\nBackground\nBITC set up the Aberdeen Responsible Business Network in 2019\, it was born out of a need for professionals who were tasked with driving Responsible Business activity across their businesses\, often off the side of their desks\, to have a better connection to individuals who were trying to achieve the same impact. \n\n\nAbout the Event:\nLearn what is available to enable employers\, people in the community\, entrepreneurs and young people to address today’s economic environment. \nThe event topic: \n\nRecognises the challenges faced by the most vulnerable in our communities\, those in work\, responsible for their own business and those yet to enter the workforce and\,\nOffers practical insights and examples for you and your business to consider\, support\, implement and/or highlight to others for their benefit\nPutting resources in place\, sign posting related help and supporting programmes all help mitigate the negative consequences associated with the cost of living crisis and strengthen employee and community wellbeing\n\n\n\nRefreshments\nTea/coffee and a light lunch will be served \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact Evelyn.Rorie@bitc.org.uk 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 \n\n\nAgenda: \n1230 Networking – light lunch provided  \n1300 Welcome \n\nBusiness in the Community\, Scotland Director\, Louisa Macdonell \n\n1305 Resources for Entrepreneurs \n\nBarclays\, Ecosystem Manager\, Nick Bansal \n\n1312 Financial wellbeing for community groups and young people \n\nSpeaker to be announced\, Barclays \n\n1320 Support for those moving on from homelessness to make sure it is rare\, brief and non-recurring \n\nRoyal Foundation\, Homewards Local Delivery Lead\, Anu Kasim\nSeonaidh Baker\, Development & Public Relations Manager\, Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen \n\n1340  Community funding for Anti-poverty and Inequality measures to mitigate the cost of living crisis – \n\nCommunity Planning Aberdeen\, Strategic Lead\, Prevention and Community Empowerment\, Michelle Crombie \n\n1350 An update on BITC’s programme to reducing poverty for those in work \n\nBITC Scotland Director\, Louisa Macdonell \n\n1400 Close 
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/aberdeen-responsible-business-network-cost-of-living-financial-wellbeing/
LOCATION:Aberdeen AB10
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SUMMARY:Volunteer Befrienders - Lunch & Learn
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nLet’s Care Together- Supporting those who look after others\nA Lunch and Learn session about the volunteer Befriender role in the Let’s Care Together programme. \nBusiness in the Community (BITC) and leading healthcare provider Simplyhealth\, have come together to co-create the Let’s Care Together programme to support the wellbeing of carers through a series of virtual befriending sessions. \n1 in 7 people in the workplace are juggling a caring responsibility and over 5 million people in England and Wales have a caring responsibility. Caring can impact on someone’s mental\, physical and financial health as they deal with a lot emotionally and have multiple responsibilities to juggle. \n\n\nHow does the programme support?\nEmployees volunteers are trained to become befrienders. \n\nBusinesses support the programme by offering employee volunteers the opportunity to become befrienders.\nEmployee volunteers receive comprehensive training on being a befriender and are provided with all the required tools and resources*.\nBefrienders and carers join the programme and create a profile.\nThe carer then chooses a befriender and sends a match request.\nBefrienders and their partnered carer meet virtually for six sessions of 60 minutes over two to four months.\n\n*Guidance and support will be provided throughout the programme. \n\n\nThis Lunch and Learn session will tell you about the role of a Befriender and how to get involved. \n\n\nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nContact john.riddell@bitc.org.uk if you have any questions about this session.\n\n\nFull joining instructions will be sent before the event.\n\n\nFind out more about BITC’s Let’s Care Together programme.
URL:https://www.bitc.org.uk/event/volunteer-befrienders-lunch-learn/
LOCATION:Online event
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SUMMARY:Westminster Roundtable: Creating a Just Transition in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Join Business in the Community and Royal London for an exclusive roundtable on achieving lasting prosperity through a just transition.\n\n\nThis is an-in person event \nAudience\nThis event is by invitation only and is for senior policymakers\, business leaders\, and influential stakeholders committed to driving meaningful action towards a just transition. \n\n\nAbout the event\nThis invitation-only event will convene senior leaders from government\, business\, and civil society to discuss the imperative\, opportunities and challenges of integrating economic growth strategies with efforts to deliver a just transition to a net zero and resilient UK. Participants will hear initial insights from our academic partners at the University of Exeter and discuss how to maximse the opportunities of a just transition to promote lasting prosperity in the UK. \nDuring this roundtable we will: \n\n– Explore the benefits and risks of a just transition focussed economic policy.\n– Identify the barriers that need to be unlocked to mobilise widespread private investment.\n– Shape recommendations for business and government\, in order to find innovative ways to invest in collaborations that accelerate the UK’s journey to a net zero\, resilient prosperity that works for all.\n\n\n\nBackground\nThis roundtable is part of BITC’s research exploring how positioning a just transition to a net zero\, resilient future\, at the heart of UK economic policy could promote lasting social\, economic\, and environmental prosperity. The research findings will be launched at a parliamentary reception in Autumn 2025 and we would value your insights as part of this Chatham House style event. \nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact Annette.Ettarh@bitc.org.uk\, Events Manager 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/westminster-roundtable-creating-a-just-transition-in-the-uk/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Environment
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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\nAudience \nThis virtual event is open to employers\, wellbeing leads and employee carer networks. \nBackground \nBusiness in the Community (BITC) and leading healthcare provider Simplyhealth\, have come together to co-create the Let’s Care Together programme. \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. \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\nIncreasing connection to their local community\, improving overall social wellbeing and reducing any feelings of isolation. ​\nSupporting financial independence and knowledge of financial tools/support available.​\nAccess to practical support and tools for their physical wellbeing. ​\nBeing a regular listening ear and friendly face to offer support and guidance.​\n\nAbout this event\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. \nJoin this session to learn more about how your beneficiaries\, or colleagues with caring responsibilities could benefit from the programme. \nSpeakers \nUsha Manojkanth – BITC Programme Manager \nSimon Walters – BITC Programme Manager \nMichelle Brannen – BITC Programme Manager \n \nBooking\, contact details and further information\n\nEmail care@bitc.org.uk\, for any further questions\nPlease hold the date in your diary\nThe session will take place on Teams\nJoining instructions will be sent before the event\n\nAbout Business in the Community \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*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-5/
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SUMMARY:Norwich Vision Dinner - Shaping the Future Together
DESCRIPTION:Join business\, public and voluntary sector leaders in painting a picture of Norwich today and your hopes for its future.\n\n\nThis is an in-person event. \n\n\n\nAudience\nAttendance is by invitation only. Number of places is limited. \n\n\nAbout the event\nThis dinner will bring together Norwich’s key stakeholders and community leaders for an opportunity to hear about and share their views on the vision and the future of the city. \nOur work in Norwich harnesses the power of the Business in the Community (BITC) network\, combining our expertise in creating opportunities and driving place-based regeneration with the skills and resources of our members to make a meaningful impact on local communities. \nAttendees will be joined by a group of senior business leaders participating in The King’s Seeing is Believing Visit\, led by Jason Storah\, Chief Executive Officer\, UK&I\, General Insurance\, Aviva. \nThe visit will explore the interconnected challenges faced by Norwich’s communities and examine how businesses can play a pivotal role in fostering inclusive growth and opportunity for all. \n \n\n\nRefreshments\nLight refreshments followed by dinner \n\n\nAbout The King’s  Seeing is Believing Programme\nThe King’s  Seeing is Believing programme\, established in 1990 with His Majesty King Charles III as our Royal Founding Patron\, was born from a simple but powerful belief that the best way to close the gap between the boardroom and the community was to take business leaders out into the communities themselves. He understood that the power of the visits was not just in seeing and believing but also in how to turn that experience into ‘doing’. \nOver 25\,000 business leaders have taken part in visits\, each designed to show the unique contribution business can make when working in partnership with others on an issue or in a community. By thinking strategically about the implications for their business\, the visit gives a different understanding of the long-term impact and benefit that can be delivered for both business and communities. \nL earn more about The King’s Seeing in Believing Programme \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact Diana Abad\, Engagement Manger\, 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/norwich-vision-dinner-shaping-the-future-together/
LOCATION:Norwich\, NR4 7TJ
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