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- 1. SO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OF YOUR BOARD… 5 NOVEMBER 2018 Drinks sponsors: Lead sponsor: Co sponsor: Media partner: Digital partner:
- 2. PANEL • Peter Olawaye, Trustee, Leap Confronting Conflict • Janet Perry, Young Leadership Development Officer, Community Action Suffolk • Tracey Lazard, CEO, Inclusion London • Paula Harriott, Head Of Prisoner Engagement, Prison Reform Trust Chaired by Susan Cordingley, Director, NCVO Lead sponsor: Co sponsor: Media partner: Digital partner: Drinks sponsors:
- 3. Peter Olawaye Trustee Leap Confronting Conflict Lead sponsor: Co sponsor: Media partner: Digital partner: Drinks sponsors:
- 4. Project Officer, Janet Perry “It is a great idea to get younger people actively involved in the role of a charity trustee. Hopefully this will lead to an increasingly diverse pool of people prepared to volunteer for these roles.” St Elizabeth Hospice, Trustee
- 5. Diversity and inclusion Tracey Lazard: CEO Inclusion London
- 6. Why it really does matter Barriers to diversity & inclusion The role of user-led organisations & what they can teach us about diversity
- 7. • Talent • Authenticity, credibility • Deeper knowledge = better work • Self determination and building a community’s own skills!
- 8. So why aren’t we that good at it? Inequality Discrimination and prejudice Inertia and tokenism Fear of other and of change Letting go of power Nice but not essential Poor practices and poor culture
- 9. Disabled people: at the sharp end of historic & current exclusion and discrimination… • Treated as ‘other’, feared, pitied or viewed as of less value • Socially, culturally and economically excluded • Institutionalised • Little choice or control • Impact of austerity: rights going backwards, poverty, deprivation, poorer outcomes
- 10. Disabled people and charities – a particular history ! • A history of being ‘done to’ • A history of being kept passive / grateful and vulnerable recipients • = A history of disability charities run by non – disabled people who know best
- 11. A journey from workhouse to workplace , from institution to independent living, from charity to human rights The Disabled people’s rights movement
- 12. is also a history of Disabled people’s organisations
- 13. What can user-led organisations teach us about diversity? • Diversity & inclusion as primary aims and objectives • Really know the community you serve and be accountable to them • Fishing rod not fish • Accessible & Inclusive practice • Value of lived experience
- 14. Paula Harriott Head Of Prisoner Engagement Prison Reform Trust Lead sponsor: Co sponsor: Media partner: Digital partner: Drinks sponsors:
- 15. CLOSING Please speak to us about your support needs. Contact Rebecca.young@ncvo.org.uk. The Charity Governance Code https://www.charitygovernancecod e.org/en Lead sponsor: Co sponsor: Media partner: Digital partner: Drinks sponsors:
Editor's Notes
- IL - a pan-London Deaf and Disabled peoples organisation – run and controlled by Deaf/Disabled people: policy, voice and campaigning on disability equality issues at a regional, national and international level. We also provide capacity building support to over 65 local DDPOs in London Whistle stop tour of some of my observations, views and ideas gained from nearly 30 years experience working for user-led organisations – run by and for the community the org serves – with a focus on DDPO ad disability equality Diversity > inclusion. Diversity being invited to the party; inclusion is being invited to dance! – so we need both!
- Briefly say a few words about each of these areas
- Why it matters
- Barriers
- Spend a few minutes talking about the experience of Disabled people: our exclusion; our relationship to charity, how we fought for our self determination and self organisation and what that can teach wider civil society organisations.. Including public life
- In response…
- Timeline of the cultural shift from viewing Disability and Disabled people as a medical or chartable issue to a an issue of human rights, exclusion and inclusion is the time line of Disabled peoples self organisation – the timeline of DPOs run by and for d/p
- Core business, owned by everyone with clear monitored / reported on targets Knowing your community – needs, issues aspirations. Start with people real life experience Handing over the tools of power to the community you serve – the skills, knowledge, the networks, the opportunities - makes real transformative change Lots of ways of having Board meetings, lots of ways of understanding the money, lots of ways to support decision making and participation Value lived experience can bring to strategic governance – currently pretty much ignored or eclipsed by the accountant and HR