Julian House staff gathered at the Komedia in Bath for the first ever Diversity & Inclusion Day.
The event was an inspiring day of idea sharing and engaging discussions as we explored our efforts of inclusivity can be continuously enhanced in our services.
In the morning we welcomed a range of external speakers who delivered talks surrounding inclusion covering a range of topics such as neurodiversity, disability and racial diversity. Talks surrounded identifying and eliminating barriers in the workplace and beyond to foster an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone feels valued.
We would like to say thank you to this panel which included speakers who came from: Inclusive Change, Wecil and Diverse Artists Network.
Staff were treated to a delicious African inspired lunch which was kindly supplied by Jikoni. On the menu was traditional and inspired by dishes from North East Africa.
In the afternoon, there was a Fair featuring booths from various local charities which gave the Julian House staff a platform for staff across the charity to connect with others, share their ideas and expand knowledge.
The charities included: Diversity Trust, Bath Mind, Curo group, The Man Kind Project, Deafplus, The Kite Trust.
Because the staff at Julian House are located at various positions across a 300 mile radius, events such as this provide a great opportunity for staff to meet up and connect with each other from across the organisation.
“We were so pleased to host our first inclusion and diversity day for our staff last week. The day was aim at engaging our people in this important topic and giving them an opportunity to learn more about what we can all do to be more inclusive.” Anna, Head of People at Julian House and Senior Leadership Representative on the Diversity and Inclusion panel.
Thank you to everyone who came along!
Diversity and Inclusion Committee
At Julian House, our Diversity and Inclusion committee is a voluntary group working together to achieve our goal of creating an inclusive and accessible workplace. Similar to our other staff initiatives, anyone from across the charity is encouraged to join.
During the day staff were encouraged to share their learning from the day and write down their EDI pledges to ensure that Julian House fosters an inclusive workplace.
Staff EDI pledges:
- Educate myself and be able to educate other people
- Educate myself and support my team
- Educate myself and my team to ensure that we have a diverse and inclusive culture within our shops
- Educate myself to the various situations of the people work with so I can empathise better
- Creating awareness of diversity in Julian house
- Support clients from minority groups
- Involving all in diversity discussions
- To remind fellow trustees that I&D is part of what JH does and not something additional
- Embed inclusivity at the heart of our programme design
- Finding housing for service users from all backgrounds
- Educate myself about neurodiversity and how to make my ways of working more effective and accessible
- Leading the team to be accountable for D&I strategy
- Ensure EDI lens when writing SOP’s and reviewing policies
2024-2025 EDI targets:
As part of the presentation, our committee presented to the audience the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion targets for 2024-2025
- 15% candidates shortlisted from ethnic minorities.
- Increase % candidates with disabilities applying for our roles.
- Increase % of staff agreeing in annual survey with the statement “Diversity is valued at this charity” from 85%, to 90%.
- Increase referrals into our services from underrepresented groups.
- Reduce our gender & ethnicity pay gaps.
- Secure a disabled access property.
- Increase support for Julian House from younger demographic.
