Green Park is an award-winning consultancy that offers Executive Search, Interim Management, Board Advisory, Diversity & Inclusion and Managed Service People Solutions across the private, public and third sectors.

Championing diversity and inclusion, Green Park is changing the face of leadership by helping organisations think differently about talent in the UK’s top boardrooms.

Green Park’s aim is to help organisations to attract, identify, develop, and retain trusted, inclusive, authentic and, most of all, highly effective leaders from different backgrounds to leverage the power of collective difference.

In 2019, Green Park placed a new diverse leader on a board every 8 days. Our goal is to make that a daily occurrence by 2025!

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Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. Through the collective intelligence and risk sharing expertise of the market’s underwriters and brokers, Lloyd’s helps to create a braver world. The Lloyd’s market provides the leadership and insight to anticipate and understand risk, and the knowledge to develop relevant, new, and innovative forms of insurance for customers globally. And it promises a trusted, enduring partnership built on the confidence that Lloyd’s protects what matters most: helping people, businesses, and communities to recover in times of need.

Lloyd’s aim is to build a diverse, inclusive environment that reflects the global markets they work in and in which everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

“Working with Race Equality Matters (REM) is an important part of the Lloyd’s Ethnicity Commitments which aim to improve racial equality, diversity and inclusion in our Market. We recognise the important role REM play in advocating for racial equality and are proud to partner with them.” Mark Lomas, Head of Culture, Lloyd’s

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The Collaboratory is a catalyst for a movement of social innovation. It brings together specialised skills from the commercial and not-for-profit organisations, allowing both sides to work together to come up with solutions that tackle the problems that really matter.

The Collaboratory takes on not for profits and society’s BIGGEST problems to make a real ‘impact,’ believing that the most important step in fueling change is #actionnotwords.

The Collaboratory have made it happen by linking the right people together and putting in place the key pieces to help solve problems that really matter.

This includes creating new campaigns, creating new interventions to help those charities are trying to help, creating mass movements of change and helping create funding and income streams for the future.

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BT is a multinational telecommunications company. Recognising the prejudice their ethnic minority employees continue to face in many aspects of their lives they have joined Race Equality Matters to help make practical, real life solutions to accelerate change.

We look forward to working together.

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HS2 is a new high speed railway linking up London, the Midlands, the North and Scotland serving over 25 stations, including eight of Britain’s 10 largest cities and connecting around 30 million people.

The construction of the new railway is split into three phases – Phase One linking London and the West Midlands; Phase 2a linking the West Midlands and the North via Crewe; and Phase 2b completing the railway to Manchester and Leeds.

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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give their clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Their honours include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work.

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Auto Trader is the UK and Ireland’s largest digital automotive marketplace, bringing together the largest and most engaged consumer audience with the largest pool of vehicle sellers.

Strongly advocating diversity and inclusion, Auto Trader strives to build respect for and appreciation of differences in: gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, race and ethnic origin, religion and faith, marital status, social, education background and way of thinking. They believe that inclusion is a state of being valued, respected and supported for who you are and have the same career opportunities as others.

We look forward to working with AutoTrader to move the dial on race inequality in the workplace.

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Diversity UK is an equality charity that aims to research, advocate and promote ideas for improving diversity and inclusion in Britain. It is an evidence-based initiative that seeks to influence policy, enhance civic engagement and improve the perception of the minority ethnic community in Britain.

It delivers its objectives through its website and newsletters and aims to undertake research, raise awareness, facilitate debates, host roundtable meetings, participate in consultations and monitor progress in public appointments.

Founded in 2012, Diversity UK is a registered charity (No: 1155189) in England & Wales.

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Media Trust, as a charity, works in partnership with the media and creative industry to give marginalised groups and young people a stronger voice. They encourage the media and creative industry to share their time, knowledge and creativity to benefit charities, under-represented communities and young people. Working together, they amplify charities’ voices by developing their communication and digital skills to help them connect better with their audiences. They also create and run unique programmes to encourage young, diverse talent to develop their confidence, passions and talents for the work place.

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Rare is a multi-award winning diversity company. Rare produces software products including Hemisphere, the online unconscious bias training platform, and the Contextual Recruitment System, which allows employers to put candidates’ achievements in context. It also sources, develops and places ethnic minority candidates for elite graduate schemes.

Rare works with all five Magic Circle law firms, the top three global strategy consulting firms, two of the world’s top three investment banks, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Rare has over 20,000 candidates on its books, and its contextualised recruitment software has processed over 750,000 graduate job applications.

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The Governance Forum, (TGF) consists of specialist organisations working together to deliver exceptional standards in the whole area of governance.

The main aim of the forum is to encourage organisations in the private, public and voluntary sector to think more strategically about the benefits and importance of effective governance. The forum provides a practical approach to building a firm governance structure and helps such organisations to operate to the best of their ability.

TGF provides leadership solutions to strengthen the capacity of the board, delivering exceptional standards in the areas of high performance leadership, strategic thinking and practical approaches based on years of experience in this sector, when implementing firm governance structures throughout the organisation.

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Kick It Out is English football’s equality and inclusion organisation. Working throughout the football, educational and community sectors to challenge discrimination, encourage inclusive practices and campaign for positive change, Kick It Out is at the heart of the fight against discrimination for everyone who plays, watches or works in football.

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Mental Health First Aid England’s mission is to train one in ten people in mental health awareness and skills.

Through their training and campaigning, they equip people with the skills they need to support their own and others’ wellbeing.

MHFA England offer a range of evidence-based face to face and digital learning, from awareness raising to skill development. Their courses empower people to notice signs of mental ill health, and encourage them to break down barriers, listen in a non-judgemental way, and signpost to support for recovery.

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CBI believe that business has the power to do good and to make a difference. When the economy booms, society prospers, and every business plays a part in protecting and growing that economy. They create opportunities, build, innovate and cultivate a better future for the next generation. That’s the true purpose of business and it’s the CBI’s purpose too.

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East London Business Alliance builds the connection between businesses and local communities, bringing the time, skills and resources of the private sector, to help build the capacity of local organisations, support young people in education and place people into employment in London. ELBA makes community investment easier, more effective and more rewarding. The face of London is changing and ELBA’s 100+ corporate partners are at the heart of these changes. In the last year, ELBA helped place over 700 people into work in London through its award-winning employment programme, delivered over 16,000 business volunteers into the community, and worked with over 500 local organisations in east London.

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SHIFT25 is a new campaign led by a group of senior and influential Black and BAME professionals and business organisations, following the shocking murder of George Floyd and unfolding events in the USA and the reaction to injustice around the world.

Despite our efforts at home in programmes, initiatives, charities and movements to improve the UK’s track record on diversity in recruitment and progression, we have to acknowledge and accept that it has not been enough. Whilst each individual effort in its own right has validity and value, we choose this moment in time to make changes that lie within our influence and we accept that what we have done so far is insufficient.

We are calling our campaign SHIFT25 – we are calling for a fundamental shift – and for it to happen quickly, by 2025.

We know that this is a time for greater joint action. We believe that we as individuals, our organisations, and the power of senior Black and BAME professionals, together with London’s business community can and should do more to make London the kind of city and economy that our young people deserve.

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