Events

Upcoming event - Providing true flexible and part-time working

Covid19 has changed the term 'flexible working', we invite our signatories on the 5th May 2021 to join us to learn about how flexible and part-time working for your business can bring massive benefits for the business and employees.

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Anniversary Event and Annual Impact Report 2021

On the 24th of March 2021 we invited our signatories and the public to join us for our anniversary event and the launch of ur annual impact report. Read our report here.

This event gave the opportunity to hear about the advancements and progression that has been made by our signatories on the 7 goals of the charter and hear from them on the impact this is having within their organisations. We had inspiring speakers including, Jenna Holliday, a gender specialist advising on policy and programming specifically around labour migration and the world of work; and Thangam Debbonaire MP, who is Member of Parliament for Bristol West and Labour's Shadow Secretary for State for Housing.

Supporting women in lower paid and lower skilled occupations to excel

On the 2nd February 2021, we invited our signatories for an event to discuss the important of supporting women in lower paid and lower skilled occupations to excel. With two fantastic speakers: Camilla Rigby, founder of the Women's Work Lab CIC in 2019 with fellow Bristol mum Rachel Mostyn. The Women's Work Lab supports unemployed mums aged 25+ to become work ready. And Robert Halton, Chief People Officer at the independent law firm, Burges Salmon. He is a trustee of the Business Social Mobility Business Partnership and a member of the Stepping Up Governance Board which he chaired until June 2020.

The power of women on boards and at senior levels in business.

On the 9th December 2020, we invited our signatories for an exclusive event to discuss the power of women in boards and at senior levels in business. We had two excellent speakers: Kalpna Woolf, founded BeOnBoard – a groundbreaking initiative to increase BAME and women’s representation in C-Suite and board roles and to help businesses to improve diversity on their boards, acting as a one-stop shop for Board consultancy, training needs and recruitment. And Anna Langdon, Anna Langdon joined Hargreaves Lansdown (one of our signatories) in November 2019 as Inclusion and Diversity lead and Senior Talent Manager. She is responsible for outlining the Talent Management strategy for the organisation which includes the approach to building an inclusive culture and increasing diverse representation.

Recognising the progress towards gender equality in Bristol Businesses - Launch of our interim report

On the 25th November 2020, we invited our signatories to discuss the progress they have made for gender equality over the past year. Sharing numerous examples of good practices that are making a difference to gender equality in businesses in Bristol, we also shared highlights of the events we've put on over the summer and introduced our new Ambassadors.

Marina Traversari was our guest headline speaker, Marina heads up the Telecom Infrastructure Projects (TIP) Ecosystem Acceleration, Chair of BoD for Gapsquare, on the Advisory Board for TechCentres (TEAC) globally, SPARK & TEDx Bristol, along with so many more achievements; and proved to be an insightful speaker for our event!

You can view our interim report here.

Who's leading the progress toward gender equality in your business?

On the 6th August, we focused on our 3rd Charter goal, making at least one member of the senior executive team responsible for reporting on gender equality and inclusion. Joined by expert speakers, Fiona Hathorn CEO of Women on Boards and Helen Hodgkinson, Human Resources Director at TLT LLP. Following our expert talks, we broke out into small Zoom rooms to disucss with our signatories their challenges, successes and thoughts on the subject.

You can watch our webinar here!

Women, Work and Covid-19: Building a fairer future for Bristol.

On the 10th June 2020, we premiered our first online event: Women, Work and Covid-19: Building a fairer future for Bristol. Discussing the impact COVID-19 has had on gender equality and more importantly, how we can build up stronger. Women have been impacted differently to men by the measures put in place to manage Covid-19. The two sectors hardest hit have been hospitality and retail, which both employ significant numbers of female workers. What’s more, only 1 in 10 of low earners have been able to work from home, and we know that 69% of low earners are women.

Our expert speakers including Sandra Gordon, Annabel Smith and Diane Bunyan. Watch our webinar here.

International Women's Day 2020.

On the 7th March 2020, we celebrated International Womens Day at Bristol City Hall, an event organised by Bristol Womens Voice - we hosted a panel, discussing the topics of how to navigate the oppurtunities and challenges facing Women in Business today. With fabulous guest speakers from a range of different careers with paths you might not have expected!

Mentoring: The Opportunities and the Challenges.

On 13 February 2020, was kindly hosted by the National Composites Centre, we shared thoughts on the benefits and challeneges on mentoring schemes for professionals. We had expert talks by Susan Durbin and Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers.

Closing the Gender Pay Gap.

On 4 October 2019, Charter signatories were hosted by OVO Energy and we shared ideas and thoughts on closing the gender pay gap. Our expert speakers were Charley Maher and Zara Nanu.

The Unbias approach.

Our first event was on 27 June, focused on the Charter goal of implementing work practices that are non-discriminatory towards women and free from bias. The event was kindly hosted by Founding Signatory Burges Salmon.

Photos of the Charter launch by Mireya Gonzalez Portraits

The Women in Business Charter was launched at an event at Bristol City Hall on 26th March 2019. The Founding Signatories inspired us by sharing the reasons they had signed the Charter, what action they had already taken towards gender equality and the progress they planned to make in future.

If your organisation would like to become a signatory of the Women in Business Charter, please complete this on-line form.