Diversity & Inclusion | Good Together - Commitment to Equality

Balance

Balance Network is focused on making everyone’s lives, professionally and personally, more manageable. By coming together as a group and sharing our ideas, we have successfully supported one another in trying to find some Balance amongst the day-to-day hustle and bustle!

Run internal events throughout the year raising awareness around days such as Movember, Breast Cancer Awareness and International Womens day

Create lunchtime walking routes

Share monthly recipes and podcasts internally

Access

The Access Network’s mission is to ensure that all current and future employees who are disabled or neurodiverse feel welcome, included and supported. The group aims to also offer support around mental health. Allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Run internal events around stress awareness month, mens health week, world suicide prevention day to name just a few!

Grammarly Premium accounts for all employees with dyslexia

Yearly charity fundraisers

A bi-monthly Happy Newsletter goes out to the business to share non-work related positive news

Environment

The Environment Network’s mission is to educate and involve employees on matters affecting the environment and to help come up with initiatives to reduce Goodman Masson’s carbon footprint.

Recycle old IT equipment by donating them to a local charity

Raise awareness around different environmental topics throughout the year including Veganuary and Recycling!

Environmentally friendly benefits such as Electric Car Leasing, Cycle to Work Scheme & Carbon Offset Tax Efficiency Scheme

We have gone Paperless! – so far reducing paper usage by 90%

Pride

The Pride Network's mission is to celebrate and embrace the LGBTQ+ community whilst providing a support network for LGBTQ+ employees. The network aims to take on accountability for progressive LGBTQ+ focussed workplace change.

Our Paternity Scheme supports non-cis/hetero families

We hold a Transitioning at Work policy

We have Signed the Trans in the City Charter

We celebrate awareness days throughout the year such as National Coming Out Day, Trans Awareness, LGBTQ+ History Month & Pride Month

All employees are encouraged to use pronouns on their email signatures and Linkedin

Unity

The Unity Network's mission is to support a race-inclusive culture and provide a safe space for employees to educate themselves on social issues and race, class, religion and heritage.

Celebrate awareness days and religious holidays such as Ramadan and Black History Month

Help set up inclusive month end with different music choices and alcohol-free sports day

Distribute the Black History Month magazine along with other educational literature

Raise awareness around the Black Lives Matter movement and celebrated the 10 year anniversary

D&I Working Group

As an organisation and as individuals, we’ve realised we need to do more. We need to be vocal, take action and stand up for what we believe in: power in diversity.

Our D&I Working Group meets once a month to discuss areas in which we can be a more inclusive company, highlight and share D&I topics with the wider business and amplify the voices of those who may be underrepresented.

Our charity partner, XLP, helps create positive futures for young people growing up in inner-city London. Over the last four years, we have raised over £20,000 for XLP!

From our CEO completing the Marathon Des Sables to selling raffle tickets for a place on our annual Super Trip.

Campaign LGBTQ+

We are a founding member of Campaign. An initiative that advises recruitment agencies on the ways they can make their workspace safe and inclusive for LGBTQ+ staff.

It offers friendship, advice, and emotional support to ensure people are able to bring their authentic selves to work.

Message from Lenna

Executive Director of Diversity & Inclusion

"I’ve had the pleasure of working with Goodman Masson for over three years. When I was brought on board, GM were eager to make progress in defining and delivering on their diversity and inclusion aims. When I started, we were already in a good place with employee networks.

Developing strategic plans and working across the organisation, I get to see the progress being made in the big and the small changes. Awards aren’t everything, but to be recognised multiple times for our diversity and inclusion commitments and efforts tell you how we compare to others in recruitment. There’s always more everyone can do; the great thing here is that GM is open to improving by continuously learning and continuously improving, and that’s all anyone can ask for."