About - The Diversity Trust

The Diversity Trust CIC

The Diversity Trust CIC is a Community Interest Company, established in 2012, in the UK. Our mission is to ‘influence social change to create a fairer and safer society’. The Diversity Trust has undertaken large scale auditing, consultancy projects, research, training and strategic projects across the corporate, public, private, voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors across the UK, as well as internationally. We are specialists in equality, diversity, equity and inclusion.

As an equalities-led organisation, our Leadership and Governance; our staff, volunteers and consultants are all members of a wide range of protected characteristic groups including: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Refugee and Asylum Seekers, LGBTQ+ people, Disabled People, Neurodivergent People and Gender Diverse People and Communities.

The Diversity Trust supports all minoritised and marginalised communities, in our society, and is especially supportive of the Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, Refugee Rights and Women’s Rights Movements, thinking and acting intersectionally. We use our voice, and our platforms, to amplify the voices of minoritised and marginalised people and communities. Our broad network of staff, volunteers and consultants brings rich, lived experience critical to helping us and our clients understand the issues of bias and how it helps create structures of institutional and systemic discrimination e.g., ageism, ableism, racism and sexism – across society and within institutions and organisations.

Our clients include individuals, businesses, and organisations across the corporate, public, and social purpose sectors. We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in policy development, project management, research, evaluation, and training. We are able to advise our client, and partner organisations, on employment and management, as well as service design, development and delivery.

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Social Mission

‘Influencing social change to create a fairer and safer society’

Social Objects

Promote equality, diversity, equity and inclusion through the elimination of discrimination, harassment and victimisation on the grounds of: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation*
Promote social engagement with equalities communities, groups and individuals
Develop and deliver specialist adult and youth services to equalities communities, groups and individuals
Provide consultation and engagement with equalities communities, groups and individuals
Provide individuals, communities and groups with education, support and training to advance engagement with wider society and institutions
Provide education; including training, consultancy, research, policy and service development
Helping corporate, public and social purpose organisations to advance capacity to engage with and fully include socially disadvantaged and marginalised communities and individuals.

*Including any other protected characteristics and groups covered by the Equality Act 2010, the Public Sector Equality Duty 2011 and the Human Rights Act 1998.

How We Work

We work across all sectors including: corporate, public, private and social purpose (Voluntary, Community & Social Enterprise Sector – VCSE)
We support our client, and our partner organisations, to meet the Equality Act (2010) and the Public Sector Equality Duty (2011)
We support our NHS clients to meet the Equality Delivery System (EDS2)
We provide equality, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility audits
We deliver education, awareness and training
We provide consultancy and research
We provide policy and procedural development and support
We provide service development and design
We carry out consultation and engagement with equalities communities
We develop new media, including powerful short films addressing equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Where We Work

We work across the UK, Europe and internationally; including partnerships with local, regional, national and international organisations who share our values of equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please use the Contact page to get in contact.

Social Enterprise

We are independent of state
We are controlled in the interests of our ‘social mission’
Any surplus, or profit, is reinvested in the social objects of the association
We have an environmental policy and are committed to tackling the climate and nature emergencies
We are members of Social Enterprise UK, NCVO, FSB, Consortium and CVS South Gloucestershire
We are regulated by the CIC Regulator, the ICO and the Fundraising Regulator.

Community Interest Company

A Community Interest Company (CIC) is a type of company introduced by the Government under the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004, designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for public good. You can read more about CIC’s by clicking here.

About Us

You can download a PDF about the Diversity Trust to print and share here FlyerAug2021.

We are a proud member of Social Enterprise UK and registered with the Fundraising Regulator.

We are also humbled to be supported by the Community Fund, TSL, Transearch, Abbey School, Cromwell, Rosewood London and a number of individuals who donate regularly.

Corporate Partnerships

If you would like to find out more about our corporate partnerships please click on the link to read more… The Diversity Trust – corporate partnerships BROCHURE