Excellence in Diversity Awards

Tag: 2015 Shortlist

  • 2015 EiDA Nominee – The University of Manchester

    The University of Manchester is committed to creating an environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly. They have a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity for their staff and students, and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse community they serve. Specialist staff networks, forums, training and events are just some of the ways in which the university keep their community connected and engaged with diversity issues. Top quality evidence showcased a real understanding from the University of the importance of incorporating all aspects of diversity. The University demonstrated incredible promotion of all equality strands and protected characteristics, and presented credible information which highlights the great lengths they are going to, to be fully inclusive. The University is also addressing youth unemployment through their leadership of The Works – an innovative employment and training initiative at the heart of our local communities in Moss Side and Ardwick.

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  • 2015 EiDA Nominee – The Co-operative Group

    Respect is the Co-operative Group’s inclusive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender network which is made up of a dedicated LGBT Steering Group from across the organisation’s family of businesses. The network provides voluntary support to raise awareness of LGBT community initiatives, local pride events and charities such as the George House Trust and Albert Kennedy Trust. In previous years, the co-operative featured in stonewalls top five employers and was listed as the most gay friendly retailer across the UK – the only retailer to feature in the Top 100 and the first to make it into the Top 10. The network is impressively the largest LGBT network in the UK with over 8,500 ‘Friends of Respect’; Over 1,300 of these are employees. Since the group established 5 years ago, they have achieved an extraordinary amount – not only supporting colleagues internally but supporting over 80 pride events such as Manchester Pride and Sparkle. Respect is also the most followed UK LGBT Network on twitter with over 9,000 followers.

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  • 2015 EiDA Nominee – Greater Manchester Police

    Greater Manchester Police has shown outstanding contribution to harnessing diversity within their workforce, actively taking the lead to highlight the business case for inclusion within the police service. In recent years, Greater Manchester Police have taken robust measures to increase the diversity of their workforce, successfully doing so in the process. The force has resourced a new operation, ‘Operation Peel’ to increase the diversity of staff recruitment, and to tackle issues internally last year GMP established a Hate Incident Governance Group to have organisational oversight of all hate cases involving discrimination within their police force. Having such a group enables GMP to have an understanding of the volume of cases and the type of issues staff experience when concerned about fairness. GMP have seen astonishing results from initiatives that they have implemented in response to their employees needs and diversity related issues, and continue to make improvements across many areas internally and externally.

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  • 2015 EiDA Nominee – Housing Diversity Network

    Housing Diversity Network is a social enterprise and incredible diversity resource that supports organisations to improve how they address inequality, get the most from their staff and meet the needs of the communities they work with. HDN provides a wide range of exceptional services including training, consultancy, independent assessment, accreditation and guidance. There are two areas in particular that make them unique, distinctive and worthy of being featured in this shortlist. These are their Staff Mentoring programme and their network of regional Equality and Diversity Practitioner Groups. Their dynamic mentoring programme has directly benefitted an immeasurable amount of individuals and organisations. Their practitioner groups provide ongoing practical support to countless equality, diversity and inclusion staff. As a network HDN are a catalyst for sharing advice and expertise across the sector, and there is no doubt that their activity has a great impact on their clients and wider sector organisations.

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  • 2015 EiDA Nominee – Oxfam

    Oxfam

    Oxfam is a globally renowned aid and development charity working and campaigning with partners in over 90 countries worldwide. With over 70 years experience, Oxfam GB is a champion of equal opportunities in all of their work, internally and externally. Their international development work and crisis response always seeks to equally distribute resources and ensure all genders, ethnicities, age groups, cultures and sexualities have their voices heard. Their community projects excel in creating lasting change through initiatives such as health promotion, agriculture support and WASH initiatives. Impact is astonishing; internationally, 4.3 million people have been reached by health promotion activities, 700,000 have benefitted from agricultural support and 2.6 million from improved sanitation facilities. The outcome of such work aids many minorities worldwide with a variety of different issues – therefore, ensuring a strong diversity pedigree, which has been earned through Oxfam’s desire to include those who need help most.

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