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This is interesting. We haven't been approached along these lines, but we do support an Adopters Network, which comes under the remit of our Parents Network (itself coming under the much larger Women's Network). We've also been approached to support a 'parents of bi-lingual children' network.

In relation to the above, we support the Women's Network with budget and some administrative support, and work jointly on some key areas of work. When the Parents network was set up, we were clear that they came 'under' the women's network and therefore they have a seat on the women's network steering group, and access to some of the budget and admin support we provide. They run very effective coffee mornings and seminars, and both networks work very well together.

The adopters networks is almost a sub-group of the parents network, again with access to support - they run small meetings for adopters or those interested in finding out more.

I imagine we would take a similar approach to a network for parents of bi-lingual children, but I would need to talk more about this to colleagues.

If you already had a network for religion or belief, this might be one appraoch you could consider?

Julie

On 11 November 2015 at 10:38, Pears, Angie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all

Do any of you have specific faith staff networks in your organisation?

There is a sizable known Pagan community at NTU, and of course there may be more Pagans than we are aware of, and we have been approached to facilitate a Pagan Staff Network.

The request is for a supported staff network similar to our LGBT+ and Disabled Employee Networks.

This staff group are drawing attention to a sense of vulnerability in being open about their religion/belief at work, especially because of perceptions about what ‘Paganism’ is.

I would really appreciate feedback from anyone who has supported staff networks for parts of a protected characteristic – e.g. Pagan, Lesbians, Muslims, Asian etc.

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Many thanks

Angie

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