Our LGBTQ+ staff, volunteers, members, visitors and supporters help to make everything we do possible, and we couldn’t achieve our aims without them. A key priority for the Trust is ensuring that our culture is inclusive and welcoming to all. We truly want everyone to feel safe to be themselves. Our diversity is what makes us succeed. It makes us stronger, more resilient and it makes us impactful.
We have updated our social media and website logos to include a rainbow for pride to show our support for LGBTQ+ people. Alongside this, we have taken a range of actions which demonstrate our support and actively improve inclusion for LGBTQ+ people, including:
- Establishing a network of Inclusion Champions, helping us to fulfil our ambitious new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy for 2023-30.
- We are actively encouraging the inclusion of pronouns on our HR system and email signatures, allowing staff and volunteers to specify preferred pronouns and ensure correct pronouns are used by others.
- We have a zero-tolerance policy on homophobic bullying. All staff are required to undergo mandatory Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training to ensure our workforce is understanding of things like inclusive terminology.
- We internally showcase LGBTQ+ people in our movement, including a campaign for LGBTQ+ history month in February. This culminated in a blog about Warley Place’s very own Ellen Willmott. You can read this blog here.
- Staff are encouraged to join the LGBTQ+ staff network Out for Nature, which is both a supportive and social group as well as helping all Wildlife Trusts to take action for LGBTQ+ inclusion.
