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The Employers Forum for Sharrow, Heeley and Norfolk Park Limited

the employers forum for sharrow, heeley and norfolk park limited

Welcome to The Employers Forum Sheffield The Employers Forum (TEF) is a non-profit organisation based in Sheffield and has a proud history of supporting those in our communities who are disadvantaged, to find and keep employment. The Employers Forum has over 23 years’ experience of delivering high quality tailored employability programmes that equip hard to reach individuals with the support they need for a path to sustainable employment. We work in partnership with companies to put inclusion and belonging at the heart of their culture, in the drive for a level playing field. We empower individuals to build their careers and ensure they can flourish and progress in life. The Employers Forum assists individuals to develop important life skills, work ready skills, strategies and confidence to overcome their challenges and barriers, as a means for achieving positive outcomes in education, training, employment and personal well-being. Our mission To guide and inspire people to realise their true potential and achieve their goals. To empower and enrich our communities through interventions that cultivate enterprise, promote active citizenship and embrace cultural diversity. To promote economic regeneration through activities that empower the community and secure prosperity through enterprise. To empower communities and improve livelihoods. To actively champion positive social change, create strong partnerships that benefit local people and transform communities through advocacy and enterprise. Our vision Enriching lives, helping people, transforming communities: empowerment through employment. To use our community links to promote and sustain community regeneration and enhance intermediary services through cross- sectored networks of support. The values underpinning our mission are: The economic enhancement of the community in which we are embedded. A supportive and inclusive culture. We celebrate the diversity of the community in Sheffield and this reflects in all our work. Harnessing social capital and providing access to services. Professionalism and responsibility in all that we do. Sound financial management and continual improvement of our processes and the way we are accountable to the communities that we serve. Environmental protection/conservation.

InnovateHer

innovateher

Liverpool

Only 19% of the digital tech workforce in the UK is female, compared to 37% across all sectors. It’s proven that the gender gap costs the tech sector time and money, but it also contributes to the challenges we have sourcing talent and widens the digital skills gap. Our exploration of diversity Our journey began in 2013, as Liverpool Girl Geeks. We created a community of like-minded people in Liverpool who wanted to progress gender equality in tech. In the beginning we organised meet ups for adults, but we soon realised that we could make a real difference if we mobilised the community, so we began running educational programmes led by industry with the aim of helping minority groups progress. In 2015 we launched our first educational programmes for teens. We recognised that we needed to work with girls as young as twelve to tackle the gender stereotypes that are so entrenched within women by the time they reach adulthood. What we noticed within our first few cohorts of teen girls was the lack of background diversity. Students that attended were from similar backgrounds, with supportive parents who may already work in tech (or a related field), from mostly white families, who could afford to bring their child to the sessions we were hosting in Liverpool City Centre each week. Our Co-Founders are women who have both grown up in low income families and wanted to make sure that our programmes reached girls from different backgrounds. As two (relatively young!) white women, they were also acutely aware that we needed to work with a diverse set of industry mentors to ensure that we had a broad range of people of all ages, backgrounds and identities to inspire the students. This includes working with male role models too, as we don’t want to exclude anyone from our mission. A turning point was at the Big Bang Fair in 2016, where we were exposed to hundreds of schools across the U.K. The students that attended were from different nationalities, ethic backgrounds and a multitude of faiths. We realised that to engage a truly diverse range of young people we had to remove all barriers to them accessing our programmes. Shortly afterwards we rebranded as InnovateHer and took our educational programmes into schools. We prioritised working in disadvantaged areas across Liverpool and Manchester. Since then we have worked with girls from a broad range of backgrounds; including families who are asylum seekers, looked after children, girls in faith schools and girls who identify as non-binary, trans or queer.

Pushkin House Trust

pushkin house trust

London

The founder of Pushkin House Maria Kullmann was one of the few women of her generation to have a degree in theology. In her youth she became personally acquainted with the philosophers of the Russian Religious Renaissance who made the journey to the West in the legendary ‘Philosophers’ Ship’: Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 - 1948), Sergei Bulgakov (1871 - 1944) and Nikolai Lossky (1870 - 1965). Their writings, as well as those of Vladimir Solovyov were explored in depth in lectures and talks at Pushkin House. Nikolai Lossky frequently visited from Paris and also gave talks. Across the border in Soviet Russia, the works of Bulgakov, Berdyaev and Lossky were published in self-published ‘Samizdat’ form: the intelligentsia considered religious discourse as providing a theoretical platform that could inform resistance to the regime - alongside a discourse on human rights and continental philosophy. The charismatic head of the Russian Orthodox Church Diocese of Sourozh Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) (1914 - 2003) regularly contributed to the programme at Pushkin House. He spoke on a wide variety of topics including Russian Christian thinkers and Nikolay Fedorov, the founder of Russian Cosmism. Among his lectures was one entitled ‘On Faith and Deed’ that was published as an essay and became an influential text within the Russian Orthodox Church community, as did ‘On Russian People’s Faith’, recordings of which from the Pushkin House archive can be listened to at this exhibition. In many ways Metropolitan Anthony defined his faith and beliefs through his lectures at Pushkin House, which were to have a great influence within the Russian Orthodox Church and beyond.

Creative Quarter Nottingham

creative quarter nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham’s Creative Quarter is an environment that attracts and supports creative and digital businesses to start-up, to spin-out, to grow and to thrive. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham College and the Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies provide a steady flow of first-class talent with up-to-the-minute skills. Creative Quarter businesses offer well-paid careers, recruit internationally and appeal to investors. A strong independent retail mix and many bars, restaurants, cafés, galleries, arts cinema and theatres make the Creative Quarter a great place to live, learn, work and invest. LIVE - Modern urban living in and amongst refurbished lace factories and warehouses. On-trend independent retailers and many bars, restaurants, cafés, galleries, arts cinema and theatres. A buzz in the daytime and a rhythm at night. For the price of a wreck in London you can buy a rectory in Nottingham. The average house price is £136,000. A city-centre apartment rents for £500 a month. Transport connections are great. LEARN - Nottingham Trent University, the UK’s University of the Year, has a Creative Quarter campus. Nottingham College is investing £58m in a new skills hub. Confetti is expanding fast, spending £12m. Thousands of students of all ages are acquiring the skills needed for creative jobs and careers of the future in the Creative Quarter. WORK - Easy-access offices and workshops. Co-working and incubator spaces. Top-notch commercial premises. A community of like-minded individuals, suppliers and customers. We support entrepreneurs and creative businesses before they start trading, to start trading, and to grow, helping them to find premises and skilled employees. The Creative Quarter is the perfect environment for businesses to flourish.