Liverpool Mutual Homes manages 15,000 homes in the city and have 17,600 customers. Their exceptional equality, diversity and inclusion strategy “People Matter” showcases their commitment to continuous improvement and to providing excellent services that recognise people’s differences and embrace their various needs. LMH invest in learning, training and development to help staff achieve and excel, and have long term strategies in place to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Their equality and diversity staff group ‘Your Voice’ is representative of the whole organisation and has 15 members, 7 of which are ‘diversity champions’. These remarkable champions assist in embedding inclusion throughout the organisation by promoting their own relevant protected characteristic and promoting activities and events. LMH have a thorough equality and diversity training programme consisting of induction sessions, handbook training sessions, e-learning training, regular ‘Did You Know’ email communications and learning sessions.
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Cam Kinsella
Diversity, equality & inclusion for Cam isn’t just her ‘job’, it’s her whole world. Removing inequalities is Cam’s greatest passion and this is evident through her extraordinary achievements over the past 8 years across the industry. Cam transformed Golden Gates Housing Trust from an organisation with no systems in place to promote, monitor or support equality, into a leader within the sector; becoming the first winner of the DNA award and the only organisation still to date to have received 10 distinctions. Amongst Cam’s many outstanding initiatives include setting up GGHT as a hate crime reporting centre which saw reporting rise from 1 per quarter to 15. Additionally, Cam was a key partner in the ‘Keep Warm Keep Well’ Campaign which targeted older customers with winter warm bags. Cam recently brought her exceptional initiatives to Merlin Housing, and has already created plans to drive the organisation to excellence. Cam’s incredible commitment is rapidly evolving housing organisations to become truly inclusive employers.
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Gentoo
Gentoo Group is a social business whose ambition is to improve the lives of the people, communities and the environment in which they operate by investing in people, the planet and property, what they call ‘the Art of Living’. As a ‘profit for purpose’ organisation, they use any profits from their commercial activity to reinvest back in towards achieving this. Gentoo has obtained recognition from a number of sources for its work and commitment to equality and diversity and clearly puts a phenomenal amount of effort into this area. Their dedication is outstanding and quality evidence showcased the number of initiatives and projects put place to encourage and embrace diversity internally and externally. Gentoo make it their business to champion causes to eradicate inequality, drive change and challenge conventions, promoting diversity and inclusion across so many spheres. This extraordinary housing association clearly demonstrate to employees and residents why inclusion it is integral within their corporate vision and values.