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SUMMARY:Developing a Pride of Place Prospectus
DESCRIPTION:Join BITC and leading UK-wide place-makers to help you to firmly put your Place on the map.\n\n\nThis is a virtual event. \nAudience\nOpen to all. \nThe primary audience is the existing Pride of Place Network\, particularly stakeholders involved in Places that have been in operation for less than 3 years. \nSecondary audiences include: All existing PoP Board Members and partners; All BITC members; PoP Prospects; Other interested businesses\, local/combined authorities and voluntary organisations; charitable funders and thought leaders. \n\n\nEvent details\nDeveloping a Pride of Place Prospectus is a crucial way of articulating the long-term vision\, strategy\, and impact of your Place Partnership. \nThis interactive BITC webinar will support Pride of Place partners at different stages of their placemaking journeys to learn from peers and practitioners who have developed and delivered a successful Prospectus. \nA panel of business and cross-sector leaders from across BITC’s Pride of Place Network will reflect on their experiences of crafting a Prospectus for their Place\, focused on: \n– Engaging with diverse stakeholders to understand key local challenges and opportunities \n– Building a compelling narrative that builds increased support for your Place \n– Leveraging your strategic relationships to add value to your Place Prospectus \n– Using a Prospectus to drive long-term\, sustainable growth for your Place. \n\n\nBackground\n  \nBITC’s Pride of Place programme helps places across the UK take ownership of their futures and tackle their most pressing challenges. It brings the private\, public\, and voluntary sectors together to build and deliver a vision for their future that serves everyone\, with input from everyone. To date\, Pride of Place has worked with over 75 partner businesses to make an impact in 18 places across the UK. \nAttendees will be introduced to the Pride of Place Learning Hub (supported by Aviva\, Pride of Place Strategic Partner) a free learning resource designed to help guide you on your Placemaking journey. \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/developing-a-pride-of-place-prospectus/
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SUMMARY:Opening Doors Forum: Job Descriptions That Welcome Diverse Talent
DESCRIPTION:Join our next Opening Doors Forum to share challenges and best practice on opening doors to diverse talent.\n\n\nThis is an online event. \nAudience\nOpen to both members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). The event will be designed for HR Managers\, Talent acquisition leads\, EDI and Responsible business leads. \n\n\nBackground\nOpening Doors is BITC’s flagship inclusive recruitment campaign. Free and open to all employers\, the campaign aims to make 2 million jobs more accessible by building a supported network of businesses committed to fair and inclusive hiring. So far\, 160+ employers are making 1.65m jobs more accessible. Join our campaign.  \n\n\nAbout the event\nIf the UK was made up of 100 employers\, 22 would close their doors to disabled people\, 35 would close their doors to school leavers and 55 would close their doors to ex-offenders. For employers\, opening their doors to diverse talent creates social and economic value. BITC’s Opening Doors 2025 Progress report highlights that 72% of signatories are making their workforce more diverse\, 64% are filling hard-to-fill vacancies and 53% are closing skills gaps – demonstrating the impact of employers sharing and learning together to improve outcomes. \nIn 2026\, the Opening Doors Forums focus on each of the ‘Five Keys to Inclusive Recruitment’. Following on from Forums on Keys 1 (Partnerships) and 2 (Showing your commitment to inclusion)\, our next forum will be on ‘Using comprehensive job descriptions with inclusive language’ (Key 3). \nJoin us for a practical session on: \n· Writing job adverts that are clear and accessible to all candidates. \n· Using neutral\, jargon-free language and avoiding unnecessary barriers. \n· Benefits and challenges around sharing full role and workplace information (salary\, hours\, location\, policies). \n· Making the application process simple and transparent. \nSpeakers include: \n· Justine Pernice\, Diversity\, Inclusion and Wellbeing Manager\, Aldermore Bank PLC \n· Evelina Ditkute\, Social Impact Talent Acquisition Lead\, Sodexo \n\n\nAbout Opening Doors\nOpening Doors is Business in the Community’s (BITC) flagship inclusive recruitment campaign. Open to all employers\, and free to join\, we have an ambition to make 2 million jobs more accessible to diverse talent by supporting employers to make changes to the way they recruit. \nBusiness in the Community has created a simple framework to guide businesses through their inclusive recruitment journey. It identifies 25 actions grouped into the 5 keys to inclusive recruitment. Businesses are asked to identify at least three actions that they will implement during the campaign. \n\n\nBooking and contact details and further information\n\nContact events@bitc.org.uk 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/opening-doors-forum-job-descriptions-that-welcome-diverse-talent/
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