Every year on March 8th International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated all around the world. This day traces back to the early women’s rights campaigns of the 1910s and became a global holiday in 1975, when the UN first celebrated it as part of the International Women’s Year. IWD acknowledges the big and small achievements … Continued
As a trans historian who specialises in the ancient world, I occasionally get asked whether there is any evidence for the existence of trans people in ancient Britain. That isn’t an easy question to answer because our ancestors did not have much in the way of a written culture. Most of what we know … Continued
Listen to the full podcast interview here… #10 [The Diversity Trust Podcast] K-Dogg – Allyship as a Tool to Fight Racism or Listen to a snippet here… [#10 Soundbite 1] K-Dogg – Having Support “Just knowing you’ve got support it helps you, it pushes you forward to become better, and just … Continued
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, the millions of people killed under Nazi Persecution and in recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. 27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp … Continued
GetApp surveyed 1,001 employees to better understand how companies are approaching diversity and inclusion and whether they do enough to promote it. As of November 2021, GetApp’s new study reveals that over half (59%) of respondents believe their company still has ‘a lot or a bit’ of work to do to progress diversity and inclusion … Continued
The South West Heritage Trust is looking to procure a consultant to create a resource list and a digital resource pack for the study of Black History in Somerset, and to enhance existing popular school loans boxes in the Somerset Heritage Loans Service. The results will be used to raise awareness of Somerset’s diversity, to … Continued
Quite a year, quite a journey! In March I thought the world had ended, COVID struck, lockdowns began and all our courses were being cancelled. I was grateful for the security provided by our grant income, which kept us going in those first few months of the pandemic.
Inclusive Employers is the UK’s leading membership organisation for employers committed to making inclusion an everyday reality. This week saw the celebration of National Inclusion Week 2021, a programme of activities run by Inclusive Employers to celebrate inclusion and diversity and unite colleagues across the world with the goal of making inclusion an everyday reality … Continued
A harmful set of new rules, that aim to make rough sleeping grounds for refusal or cancellation of a migrant’s permission to remain in the UK, have recently been announced by the UK Home Office. However, Priti Patel, Home Secretary, has recently furthered these changes by reviving a controversial data collection programme that had … Continued
Listen to the full podcast interview here… #9 [The Diversity Trust Podcast] Dr Howard P Haughton – Allyship and Inclusive Leadership or Listen to a snippet here… [#9 Soundbite 1] Dr Howard P Haughton – Entrenched systemic political racism “It made me realise that there’s more than institutional racism within the … Continued