Diversity and Inclusion Resources
The following organisations are working to support social enterprises to be inclusive workplaces and representative of the communities they serve.
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Convergent
Convergent offers EDI training and resources. They have created an Inclusive HR Practices guide.
DownloadNCVO
NCVO are a membership community for charities, voluntary organisations and community groups in England. They have guidance on developing your EDI approach.
Read MoreOpen Learn
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is a free badged course which lasts 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours’ study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week you could push on to complete another week’s study.
Read MoreACAS
ACAS works with millions of employers and employees every year to improve workplace relationships. They are an independent public body that receives funding from the government. They have created a free to use Equality, diversity and inclusion policy template an employer can adapt for their organisation.
DownloadFawcett Society
The Fawcett Society and the REC are calling on employers and recruiters to #EndSalaryHistory – to stop asking applicants how much they were paid in their last jobs. By basing salary offers on previous income, this practice bakes in gender, race and disability inequality and perpetuates existing pay gaps.
Read MoreDisability Confident Employer
The Disability Confident scheme supports employers to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to your workplace.
Read MoreLiving Wage Foundation
Offer accreditation to employers that pay the independently-calculated Living Wage rates to all staff in the UK.
Read MoreDiversity Forum
This is a sector wide initiative to improve diversity among social investors in the UK. Their Manifesto sets out shared goals for its members and is a way for organisations to be held accountable.
Read MoreEthnicity Pay Gap
A campaign to make Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting mandatory.
Read MoreBig Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest has designed a Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Measurement Tool to support organisations to measure their diversity characteristics internally and within the different groups that use their services.
Read MoreEDI Training Providers
Ngozi Lyn Cole
Ngozi provides customised services tailored to the needs of individuals and organisations including leadership coaching; board effectiveness reviews; equity, diversity and inclusion facilitation; managing transition and change; supporting the development and implementation of strategies; organisational health checks; developing medium and long-term strategic plans.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-lyn-cole-she-her-9232135
Convergent
Convergent is a boutique EDI consultancy working with organisations of all sizes. Through workshops, consultancy and leadership support we can help you start having brave conversations about EDI. And we are specialists in helping companies navigate incidents of microaggressions.
Read MoreDiverse Matters
Diverse Matters is a diversity and inclusion consultancy that works with organisations within the UK and globally to embed diversity and inclusion within their practices.
Read MoreFearless Futures
Fearless Futures provides training focused on tackling the ways systemic inequities produce unequal and harmful outcomes for marginalised groups. With headquarters in London and NYC.
Read MoreJMB Consulting
JMB supports a generation of leaders who are courageous, creative and driven to build anti-racist organisations that can transform society.
Read MoreRace and Ethnicity Hub
This hub offers perspectives on race, racism and ethnicity through free courses, articles, interactives and audio/visual materials.
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Queer Trustees / Charities So Straight
Promoting #LGBTQIA+ inclusive boards + growing the number of #QueerTrustees in UK charities that truly value diversity.
Read MoreAction for Trustee Racial Justice
ATRD is a volunteer-led independent campaign working with cross sector partners to address the under-representation of people from Black and Asian backgrounds on charity trustee Boards. They have created a Practical Guide to recruiting Black and Asian charity trustees.
DownloadWomen on Boards
Have supported thousands of women into the boardroom over the last 10 years. You can advertise your position on our vacancy board for free.
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Addressing Imbalance
The Addressing Imbalance programme launched in 2021 with the aim of connecting and engaging with minority- led social enterprises.
Find out moreUbele
An African diaspora led, infrastructure providing advice and funding for Black and Minoritised communities in the UK.
Read MoreCaribbean and African Health Network
The Caribbean and African Health Network is a Black-led organisation that works with the Black community and cross-sector organisations to build community resilience.
Read MoreFlourish CIC
Works with individuals especially women, social ventures, infrastructure support, and public sector organisations to help communities create the change they see needed.
Read MoreGood Finance
Good Finance is a collaborative project to help improve access to information on social investment for charities and social enterprises. They have created a directory of charities and social enterprises who are working to address inequality and improve diversity.
Read MoreSpark and Co
Spark and Co. is a Community Interest Company that supports racialised people in the UK by providing information, education & opportunity.
Read MoreConnect Fund
The Connect Fund provides grant funding to support infrastructure organisations and investment intermediaries to deliver projects that will lead to greater equality, diversity and inclusion on both the supply and demand side of the social investment market.
Read MoreConsortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community
This toolkit is aimed at LGBT+ groups wanting to understand how social investment works, to help groups understand it as an income generation tool and enable groups to determine if it's right for them.
DownloadBASE
BASE is a newly created platform that hosts most of the BAME networks that exist in Greater Manchester.
Read MoreLGBT Foundation
LGBT Foundation is a national charity delivering advice, support and information services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities.
Read MoreImproving funder practice
Delivering better funding for Black-led organisations and racial justice
This discussion paper has been written by Keeva Rooney and Liz Firth, based on a review of research and campaign material from more than 20 Black-led organisations, racial
justice organisations and funders, as well learning from funders and IVAR’s own work with organisations in this space.