Diversity Champions Scotland

Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme is Britain's good practice forum for workplace sexual orientation issues. Top employers work with us and with each other to promote diversity, and improve the workplace for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. 

Launched in 2001, the programme brings together over 300 employers at the cutting edge of delivering diversity in business and public services. Now Diversity Champions Scotland is working with 41 major Scottish Employers to ensure that they benefit from diversity in the workplace too.

Members of Diversity Champions Scotland enjoy these key benefits:

• Good practice seminars and events delivering information and guidance on workplace issues.
• Ongoing advice and support to ensure that your organisation is not just using good practice but developing it too.
• Networking opportunities with policy makers and senior staff in public, private and voluntary sector organisations and representative bodies.
• Free entry in Stonewall's student recruitment guide which is distributed to all colleges and Universities across the UK.
• Benchmarking opportunities, as a Diversity Champion get the opportunity to examine what your organisations strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to creating a good working environment for your gay staff.
• Dedicated programme manager based in Edinburgh.
• Use of the Stonewall Diversity Champions logo, to show you commitment to your staff, service users/customers and partner organisations.
• Research opportunities, to gain original data for your organisation.
• Sponsorship opportunities, for positive brand association.
• Access to UK-wide DC Programme, which allows you to attend seminars and events across England and Wales.
  

Nicol Stephen, Enterprise Minister, launched the Scottish programme in February 2006. Since then, 41 members from the public, private and voluntary sectors, covering over 200,000 employees, have already signed up to the programme. The programme celebrated its first anniversary with a grand recepion on 22 February 2007, kindly sponsored and hosted by Halifax Bank of Scotland at their headquarters at The Mound in Edinburgh.

To see a list of our current members of Diversity Champions Scotland, click here.

To hear what members think about the programme, watch our Diversity Champions Video.

To read more about the programme, download our Diversity Champions Scotland Leaflet.

For more information on Diversity Champions Scotland, please email the Scottish Workplace Officer on workplace@stonewallscotland.org.uk.

For more information about the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme in England, visit the Stonewall workplace website.