I made the case for funding on the amount of advertising included within the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme - the employment guide alone is worth quite a lot when you look at how widely it is disseminated.
Alex
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Can I ask everyone who is a Stonewall champion how they funded it? Our personnel department are not interested - they say they have other higher priorities. I'm based in Student Affairs with a very small budget. I've tried to bring together personnel, marketing and a few other key areas to hear a presentation from Stonewall but they are just not interested in contributing anything! I'm completely stuck now with no funds.
Kirsteen
Kirsteen Coupar
Equality and Diversity Manager
Flat 40b Catherine of Aragon Court
Southwood Site
Avery Hill Campus
University of Greenwich
Tel 020 8331 8817
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We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion and participate in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI) each year (since 2008).
Speaking on a purely personal basis (since I've not had time to confer with colleagues in Salford's WEI team), I would say that the latter has proved most effective in helping to achieve organisational change here. The rigour of the audit process in WEI has certainly improved our performance in a number of key areas, such as equality monitoring, procurement and engagement with the wider community. Perhaps most importantly, I think the very public nature of the whole WEI exercise did much to persuade our senior managers to put LGB equality onto their agenda, which they did by appointing one of the associate directors of HR to head up the Stonewall WEI team and including our results as one of the institution's key performance indicators.
Like other colleagues at other HEIs who have participated in this discussion so far, we are very keen to share ideas and experiences across the sector.
Warm regard
Ken
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We would also appreciate comments on this.
Many Thanks,
Vicci Jarman
Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator
6th Floor Room 621
Manchester Metropolitan University
Tel 0161 247 6415
Fax 0161 247 6789
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Dear All
We are investigating the idea of the University of Essex becoming a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
If anyone else has done this, could you contact me and let me know if you feel it has been worthwhile/successful?
Kind regards.
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Karen Stephenson
Equality and Diversity Assistant and Harassment Adviser
Equality and Diversity Unit, Human Resources
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
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