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Diversity Education Learning & Consultancy Community Interest Company

diversity education learning & consultancy community interest company

London

Influencing Social ChangeThe Diversity Trust CIC is a Community Interest Company, established in 2012 in the UK. Our mission is to ‘influence social change to create a fairer and safer society’. The Diversity Trust has undertaken large scale auditing, consultancy projects, research, training and strategic projects across the corporate, public, private, voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors across the UK, as well as internationally. We are specialists in equality, diversity, equity and inclusion. As an equalities-led organisation, our Executive and Non-Executive Directors, staff, volunteers and consultants are all members of a wide range of protected characteristic groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, Refugee and asylum seekers, LGBTQ+, Disabled and Neurodivergent and Gender diverse. The Diversity Trust supports all minoritised and marginalised communities in our society and is especially supportive of the Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, Refugee rights and Women’s movements, thinking and acting intersectionally. Our network of consultants brings rich, lived experiences that are critical to understanding the issues of bias and how it helps create structures of institutional and systemic discrimination e.g., racism in our society. Our clients include individuals, businesses, and organisations across the corporate, public, and social purpose sectors. We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in policy development, project management, research, evaluation, and training. We are able to advise our client, and partner organisations, on employment and management, as well as service design, development and delivery.

Coppice Designs

coppice designs

5.0(3)

Saffron Walden

Hello, my name is Andy Basham and I first got interested in coppice crafts and woodmanship through conservation work, mainly coppicing ancient woodlands. I was running a cane furniture workshop and material supply business at the time. Soon I realised I wanted to 'convert' to using local materials and traditional tools / practices. English woodland, particularly the uses for the underwood or coppice, became my passion. After selling my cane furniture business in London and moving to Norfolk, I took up hurdle making in willow osier, also rustic furniture, even making plantable live willow chairs and benches. I displayed and demonstrated my wares at craft fairs and built up a whole range of items to sell, including rakes, besoms and walking sticks. Seems to me very right that the best quality, or perhaps the most individual or unusual sticks occurring in nature, should be ear marked for walking sticks, after all they will be always close to hand even if not used every day. Its a strong link twixt ourselves and mother nature. What Andrew offers a range of greenwood products & services from the hazel woodland he helps manage. Utilising coppice wood and his palette of traditional skills he can weave a bespoke in-situ hazel hurdle; runs hazel chair making courses; and has a vast array of handmade hazel products - from pea sticks to faggots, from thatching spars to rake tines. See greenwood products from Coppice Designs for full list of creations >> Ethics I don't travel far for my raw materials, most is only a short bike ride away. This cuts down on 'wood miles' reducing our carbon footprint and supports the local economy. For these reasons I don't encourage people to travel long distances for my products or material. Carriage can be arranged for finished products and raw materials. Be warned this can be expensive as most of what I deal in is bulky and/or heavy. Where An old hand at woodland management Andrew is now based near Saffron Walden, North Essex. He demonstrates and displays his craft at country fairs mainly in East Anglia. See our events programme. You are welcome to view his products, contained in his 'show shed', next to his workshop at the new courses venue, Bridge Meadows, Springhill, Widdington, CB11 3SU, strictly by appointment. >>Jacob Lambert < Jacob Lambert models a "living willow chair". Want to make your own chair? See our courses page. Work Experience and Apprentceships Jacob Lambert (pictured left) got in touch and after a period of work experience became a successful apprentice. Get in touch with Andy to discuss the possibilities. Hales Wood, NNR/SSI I lead volunteer work parties at the reserve. We warmly welcome new volunteers. Coppicing is probably the best example of permaculture beneficial to man and beast (and plants!). The intricacies and diversity is mind blowing, please get involved if its not too far to come. Bring all your mates - in one car to make the journey count! Email me directly to be put on our specific Hales wood vols newsletter/mailing list for dates and other news. Become a part of the solution to climate change, instantly improve your carbon footprint, learn how, come along. While you need to be reasonably able/fit, no experience is necessary.

The Gateland Project Ltd.

the gateland project ltd.

London

We deliver a pathway to change Working in partnership with both the private sector and local authorities where we all share a common interest in developing and supporting young people our services can also be accessed by the general public. Here you'll get an insight into the work we are currently undertaking and how we see the next phase operating where we can encouraging more young people and creating greater opportunities for staff and volunteers. We work with those who are struggling to see a better future for themselves on the right side of the law, help break that recurring cycle and those finding it difficult to deal with and make sense of their present situation. Here at the gateland we make a commitment to stand by our service users whilst they navigate the maze of change on there new journey. We work in three key areas in development & support : - Personal Development - Offender Management - Supported Living Working with the three big R's which are the fundamental building blocks at the heart of the gateland where the foundations have been laid for : - Re-training - Rehabilitating - Re-educating Our client group is predominantly young males between the age of sixteen to twenty-two who have been before the courts and are deemed to be at risk or in need of a particular support package. Whilst it is recognise that each local authority will provide the necessary care for it's service users, inevitably there will always be individual cases / areas of training and support that are uneconomical for the authority to provide.