DIVERSE MATTERS

Many people are now starting to understand the importance of diversity and inclusion to an organisation.

Research has evidenced that by recruiting diverse teams and implementing an inclusive culture, this enhances the performance of organisations. Organisations want to provide the best service and ensure their teams can be their authentic selves at work and be supported to reach their potential.

Diversity and inclusion really is key to an organisation’s success.

Embedding Diversity and Inclusion will:

• Enhance service delivery

• Increase retention of employees and volunteers

• Improve performance

• Increase morale of teams

• Reduce recruitment costs

• Enhances reputation

• Enhance creativity

Our mission and values

Our mission is to authentically, and with purpose, support organisations to enhance their inclusion, equity and inclusive practice. We do this with passion, honesty, without bias. with a positive attitude.

Diverse Matters values are important to us, as an organisation we are:

• Authentic

• Inclusive

• Creative

• Honest Our services

We offer a range of solutions including our diversity and inclusion audits, training, policy reviews, toolkit and guidance development, coaching, delivery of focus groups, HR support, research and analysis and diversity and inclusion seminars.

We also look at the wider diversity issues with a strong focus on service delivery and meeting the diverse needs of service users in addition to areas affecting our communities including hate crime, and community cohesion. In addition to specific areas regarding children and young people including safeguarding and child sexual exploitation.

The Diverse Matters team have several years’ experience and expertise in working within the diversity and inclusion field.

We provide our services in an engaging and supportive way ensuring that all activities/offerings have a positive impact and ensures results for our clients!

We have a holistic approach to diversity and inclusion and work with our partners to provide support to fully embed an inclusive workplace including psychological assessments, personal development programmes, Mindfulness and more.

Diverse Matters will support you at whatever stage in your journey in enhancing Diversity and Inclusion practice. Whether you would like to enhance the skills of your teams, develop your Inclusion strategy or meet the needs of your diverse clients we use a bespoke and tailored approach to ensure that the approach works for you.

Our Clients

Diverse Matters work with a variety of organisations from across the public, private and voluntary sectors within the UK and globally. This includes Housing, Public Sector, Criminal Justice, Education, Health, financial sector, legal, professional services, design, energy, construction, the Arts, marketing/PR and retail.

Embedding diversity and inclusive culture is an ongoing process but it the journey is worth it! If you would like to ensure that your organisation is meeting the needs of your service users, your teams are supported, your leaders/ managers are equipped with the best skills to get the best from their teams, you need greater awareness of diversity within the company – get in touch!!

Diversity & Inclusion - why does it matter?

Organisations are now starting to understand and value the business case for Diversity and Inclusion.

Research has evidenced that by recruiting and retaining diverse teams and implementing an inclusive culture this increases creativity within your workforce and enhances the performance of organisations. For teams to thrive and clients needs to be met embedding diversity and inclusion really is the key to an organisation's success.

Diverse Matters offer a range of services to support you to address inclusion in the workplace and in service delivery.

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MTI celebrates five greatest achievements on Fifth Anniversary

Innovative new programmes, partnerships with industry, and successful school outreach activities are on the list of its greatest achievements as the MIRA Technology Institute (MTI) marks its fifth anniversary.

The MTI is helping to create specialist skills in emerging technology areas in the automotive sector including electrification, connected and autonomous vehicles, functional safety, and cybersecurity, as part of its mission to ensure a sustainable supply of future technical specialists and engineers.

Since it first opened its doors, the Institute has welcomed over 42,500 students and delegates. This includes over 3,000 studying for accredited qualifications from a Level 1 Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) certificate up to Masters’ degrees, and over 850 apprenticeships at all levels. More than 17,000 automotive professionals have taken part in professional development activities.

Lisa Bingley, Operations Director at the MTI, said: “We’re very proud of what we have achieved over the last five years and, reflecting on our successes, I am pleased that we can include:

• New postgraduate and short courses in connected and autonomous vehicles.

Innovative training programmes in hydrogen fuel cell technology.

Responsive electrification programme for Jaguar Land Rover employees.

• Dynamic and popular schools outreach activities including TeenTech and Speed Networking.

Huge and consistent demand for our services from over 42,000 students and delegates.”

The MTI, which opened its doors in September 2018, is a unique partnership between North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC), as the lead partner, HORIBA MIRA Ltd, Coventry University, Loughborough University, and the University of Leicester. It was built with £9.5 million investment from the Government’s Local Growth Fund via the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) after research showed rising demand for specialist technical skills across the automotive sector.

Marion Plant, OBE FCGI, Chair of the MTI Operations Board, and Principal and Chief Executive of NWSLC, said: “We are delighted to celebrate the first five years of the MTI and I am very proud of all that it has achieved so far. This has been a remarkable period of disruption, change and growth for the automotive industry and we are pleased to be able to support the sector, especially with one of its key challenges - the increasing need for skilled individuals who are able to adapt to the changes and embrace new technologies. I would like to thank all our partners and clients with whom we have worked for the last five years and look forward to seeing the continued success of the MTI in the future.”

Declan Allen, Managing Director of HORIBA MIRA Ltd, said: “It has been an incredible period during which our partners have worked together to bring MTI’s vision to fruition. You can feel the energy and enthusiasm at this amazing facility which has demonstrated its potential brilliantly over the last five years. This unique collaboration between industry and higher and further education is successfully delivering the high-end technical skills for the mobility sector that are essential to boosting our growth and supporting the prosperity of the region.”