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Developing and sharing best practices across our partners and the wider employer community is an important part of enabling the provision of fairer work.
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Bringing people and communities together
By collaborating with our partners and the wider employer community we’re able to reach more people and deliver a greater impact. This enables us to share best practice and bring together people professionals, leaders and organisations to really make a difference to those facing the biggest barriers.
Our engagement with businesses in the CIPD network has demonstrated a clear appetite to support people facing the greatest barriers to work. To foster action, they require more guidance, support and advice. To make this happen, we have come together with these organisations to develop new pilot programmes, directly promoting and supporting inclusivity in the workplace and making a meaningful impact on local communities.
Launched in 2019 to deliver on City & Guild’s purpose, the City & Guilds Foundation provides opportunities in skills and work, supporting everyone to succeed no matter who they are or where they come from.
The CIPD Trust is working with the City & Guilds Foundation on two projects. With funding provided by the Foundation, we are supporting refugees by offering access to CIPD qualifications and providing mentoring support around developing skills, navigating the workplace and wider career aspirations.
We are also working with the City & Guilds Foundation supporting women back into work as they leave the prison system and develop their lives and careers beyond the gates. Working initially with HMP Styal, we are providing mentoring support to help women find work opportunities and go on to thrive in secure employment. Find out more about our ‘Beyond the Gates‘ mentoring programme.
RefuAid provides people who have fled their homes with tailored support and employment opportunities to build independent lives in the UK.
We are working with RefuAid to tackle unemployment rates for refugees. We do this by providing support, mentoring and bursaries to refugees with the right to work in the UK and by supporting employers to recruit and retain refugees into employment.
Offploy works with those facing adversity, often providing second chances and transforming lives, in order to create a more accessible world.
We are working with Offploy providing mentoring support to help people with convictions to re-enter the workplace successfully. Mentors provide advice and support and work with mentees to build their skills and confidence in order to succeed in the workplace.
St Giles Trust helps people held back by poverty, unemployment, the criminal justice system, homelessness, exploitation and abuse to build a positive future.
The CIPD Trust is partnering with St Giles Trust on a project to support people with lived experience of the criminal justice system to re-enter the workplace and develop in existing roles. We do this through mentoring, using the unique skillset of our people professional members.
New Futures Network is a specialist part of HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), which attracts and supports employers to work with prisons in England and Wales.
The CIPD Trust has partnered up with the New Futures Network to increase the number of people professionals on Employment Advisory Boards in prisons. We will work together to identify and engage senior people professionals to join employment advisory boards, where HR expertise is currently lacking.
We also work closely with charities and the wider employer community to enable the provision of fairer work for all.
The Centre for Ageing Better
The Centre for Ageing Better tackles inequalities, working to make homes and workplaces suitable for everyone as they get older as well as changing the way we all think about ageing.
We are working with The Centre for Ageing Better, along with a network of age-friendly employers, to develop new approaches to support older workers back into the labour market.
The power of our network
We use our convening power to create 'coalitions for change' to drive long-term advocacy, policy and practice change – fostering connections, and tracking any resulting change within the organisations. Organisations supporting our work include Timpsons, Murphys, Greggs, HGI Heathrow, Starbucks, Amazon, Recycling Lives, Launchpad Collective. We are always looking for new organisations to work with.
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