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Mosaic LGBT+ Young Perosons’ Trust runs services for schools:

• training
• workshops for students
• mentoring in schools
• Pride Groups set up and facilitation

Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons Trust runs a number of services for young LGBT+ community aged 12 – 18 and 18 – 25 that aim to support, educate and inspire:

• Young persons’ clubs
• Summer camp and winter retreat
• Events like Pride Prom and Homoween
• Counselling
• Half-term activities
• Drag workshops
• Mentoring
• Discord community

We work in and around London.

Pride in London ‘Future Activists’ Award
Ben Cohen’s Foundation Stand Up Foundation’s Charity of the Year 2019
Highly Commended Rainbow Honours
Certificate of Recognition ‘Camden Faith and Belief Forum’

About Mindful Equity UK

Mindful Equity UK was founded by Aretha Banton and Youlande Harrowell. We are a brand new service supporting Black and Asian women educators right from the start of their careers – from trainee teacher onwards. Our mission is to ensure that more Black and Asian women educators join the teaching profession, stay in the teaching profession and move into leadership in the teaching profession.

Mindful Equity UK run a peer networking service providing advice, guidance and coaching to Black and Asian women throughout their early teaching careers. We encourage solution focused conversations about representation and inclusion within the education sector with the aim of influencing changes within educational policy and practices. Our consultancy strand supports, ITT providers, employers and leadership teams to implement frameworks that will increase the diversity amongst student teachers, early career teachers and leadership teams. We work with the most amazing allies and are proud to be part of a wide ranging and truly representative network.

Our Founders

Aretha Banton is an Assoc. Vice Principal EYFS- P16 specialising in SEND, Safeguarding and Inclusion.

She is proud to have worked in a range of diverse schools and Academies improving outcomes for vulnerable and disadvantaged students. She is driven by a passion for social mobility and meaningful change.

Youlande Harrowell is an Assistant Headteacher working in an inner London secondary school and is experienced in leading successful sixth form provisions, CEIAG and developing key stage 5 curriculums. Youlande is a proud champion and advocate for visibly diverse leaderships in education.

The MTPT Project are the UK’s charity for parent-teachers, supporting educators as they consider starting families, during their expectancy and leave periods, and as they balance both professional and parenting commitments in the longer term.

We believe that teaching has the potential to be one of the most rewarding and family-friendly career choices, and many schools and Trusts are getting things so right!

Unfortunately, the motherhood penalty in education – on a larger scale – is still having a significantly detrimental impact on the health of our workforce. Women aged 30-39 are the largest demographic to leave teaching every year, and the gender pay gap increases at every level between the ages of 35-39 – the age that women are most likely to become mothers.

The MTPT Project supports our grassroots community of parent-teachers through positive networking opportunities, coaching, workshops and webinars.

We work with schools, unions and CPD providers to create more family- and life-friendly working conditions for staff.

We are the UK’s experts on the motherhood penalty in education and campaign at national level to bring about improvements that will help to make teaching a more sustainable career choice.

View our book.

IKWRO is a registered charity (Registered Charity No: 1151507 and the Company registration number is: 8140751), set up to help women and girls from the UK’s Middle Eastern communities (Iranian, Kurdish, Arab, Afghan and Turkish) who are facing “honour” based violence, forced and child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) or domestic violence. Our staff, volunteers and management committee include women survivors of gender based violence. We aim to preserve Middle Eastern women’s rights and equality, to combat discrimination and violence against women, and to empower women to access their rights and entitlements in the UK. Currently we have four main areas of work: Advice/advocacy/outreach/counselling, training, campaigning, and our own refuge.

Our True Honour Awards: the True Honour Award was launched first in 2011 in memory of all victims of “honour” killing, and in recognition of those who work to end “honour” based violence around the world.

WE BELIEVE THAT ACHIEVING EQUALITY WILL ENSURE A BETTER, FAIRER, MORE PROSPEROUS SOCIETY FOR ALL.

Inclusion can only occur when we all work together, which is why we are the Global Equality Collective (GEC).

The GEC is an ever-growing online community of 15K+, a ‘Collective’ of 350+ DEI subject matter experts (academics, grass-roots groups and change maker organisations) and the world’s first App for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion – the #GECApp – all the data, information and education for breaking your own new ground.

Within the #GECApp, you will explore, educate and take action when it comes to the 9 characteristics of the Equality Act PLUS socio economic status and single parents, by being educated by our GEC Collective. We’ll give you a DEI 360 on leadership and teacher attitudes to ensure you’re creating inclusive settings for your staff, your students and your families.

“We are partnering with #DiverseEd – as we believe in working collaboratively with everyone in the spaces of Diversity and Inclusion. The GEC is in a unique position to bring parents, teachers, leaders and organisations together – in one community, one collective. So we are. We are excited about standing shoulder to shoulder and arm-in-arm with DiverseEd in offering THE benchmark for D&I, THE assessment audit for your settings, and all your eLearning in one place – made up by our Collective, many who are part of the DiverseEd community. We both respect and admire DiverseEd and support all they do with our actions and vision #BetterTogether”

Nic Ponsford, Co-CEO and Founder, GEC

Established in 2002, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is a unique coalition of organisations and individuals who come together to unite against bullying. Membership consists of large scale children’s charities to smaller local anti-bullying organisations.

Our work is underpinned by evidence, a rights-based approach and the expressed needs of children and young people.

The Anti-Bullying Alliance works closely with its members to reach consensus and Government and high profile stakeholders including online industry to focus on better and more evidence based approaches to addressing bullying online.

The Anti-Bullying Alliance is part of the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), a leading charity driving change across society so all children grow up safe, secure and supported. Anti-Bullying Alliance staff are experts in their field and are employees of National Children’s Bureau.

The Centre is committed to challenging all forms of prejudice, discrimination and marginalisation towards individuals and collectives in schools and colleges who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/ Questioning and others who have gender identities or sexual orientations that differ from the heterosexual and cisgender majority. Through our research we provide evidence-based recommendations to support the development of LGBTQ inclusion in education. Our research enables us to better understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in educational institutions, including the experiences of children, young people and staff and provide voice and agency to those who have been marginalised.

Through our research informed professional learning, and the production of research informed resources we seek to transform the cultures of educational institutions so that individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ can experience a sense of belonging through a positive affirmation of difference.

The Centre for Race, Education and Decoloniality Centre aims to challenge everyday racism and structural race inequalities in education through research, evidence-based practice and the professional development of pre-service and in-service teachers nationally and internationally.

Disability impacts 1 in 5 people globally. Disability is a complex, deep, and broad lived experience that is often misunderstood and under-represented. Elizabeth Wright knows this because of her own lived experience with limb difference. An activist, speaker and consultant, Elizabeth believes that education is the key to creating a more inclusive, accessible and welcoming world for all disabled people.

Through the use of story in her writing, workshops, resources and speaking, Elizabeth takes her audience on challenging and insightful journeys. Through consultation Elizabeth supports schools/businesses/organisations to address their structures and cultures to make sure that they understand what inclusion looks like for disabled people that they may engage with every single day, i.e., employees, clients, customers, and students. Elizabeth believes it is possible to make every space and organisation disability friendly, and she wants to help you achieve this.

How can you work with Elizabeth to make a positive impact on disability at your organisation? Book her to speak at your next event. Book her to deliver her series of “What is Disability?” “Issues Disabled People Face” and “Be a Better Disability Ally” workshops. Book an initial consultation call to discuss what needs you have and to discover how she can make your organisation a place and space that all disabled people would want to be a part of.

Elizabeth is also editor of Conscious Being publication on Medium. It is a publication that promotes disabled women’s voices and pays disabled women writers to contribute. You can support Conscious Being paying their writers through Patreon. Elizabeth is also editor of Disability Review Magazine.

Elizabeth is a Paralympic medalist. In more recent years she has become a global inspirational speaker on disability, character, and resilience, culminating in her TEDx talk – Emily SENDs Her Love.

Founded in April 2020 by two passionate male primary teachers, Matt Withers and Mike Keys, Men Teach Primary is on a mission to ensure that one day every child has the opportunity to be taught by a male primary school teacher.

Their purpose is to create a global support network for men to share and celebrate their passion for primary teaching. They have three core values: to celebrate men who teach primary, to empower men to challenge damaging stereotypes and ultimately inspire the next generation of male primary teachers.