It has been a busy end to the year and we are looking forward with hope.  

Level Best: a new programme for BAME and disabled people 

We are excited to announce that Result CIC has been given a grant from UnLtd’s Inclusive Recovery Fund whose partners are Comic Relief and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). We will be running a dream project of ours called Level Best from January to March 2021.

Level Best is about boosting participants’ ‘confidence and contacts’. It will offer 3 workshops, 3 individual coaching sessions and 3 masterclasses. It is aimed at people who experience racism and/or people with disabilities and it sets aside several places for individuals who do not have work. It will be facilitated by people with the same lived experience. You can read about the programme and find a link to an application form here. Applications by video and audio are welcome. The closing date for applications is 13 January.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training for Social Enterprise UK (SEUK)

Having thoroughly enjoyed taking part SEUK’s conference this year, Social Enterprise Futures, we were delighted to be invited to bid to run some training for their staff team in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. This will take place in January and focus on unconscious bias, privilege and how we use the power we have. Like all our training, this will be about supporting participants to increase their self-awareness and decide for themselves positive actions they want to take. We are really looking forward to it.

If this training sounds like something your organisation would benefit from, why not contact us? 

Resilience beyond Crisis: new programme for Migration and Refugee sector lived-experience leaders gets underway

In October we reported that we had been awarded a grant by The National Lottery Community Fund’s Awards for All to run a new programme for leaders in the Migration and Refugee sector who have their own experience in the field. We are delighted to have received a group of exceptional applications to this programme. Coaching started this month and we will work online with the group from January to March. The focus will be confidence and resilience based on knowing and communicating as well as possible your strengths. 

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Inclusive Entrepreneurship recognition award for Jane Cordell

The new All-Party Parliamentary Group is the brainchild of Jacqueline Winstanley at Universal Inclusion. Jacqueline is a specialist in supporting and enabling inclusive entrepreneurs. The group, Chaired by Dr Lisa Cameron MP launched in September 2020. Result CIC has been supporting this work and Hormoz took part in the group’s inaugural meeting.

In October the APPG held is first annual recognition awards ceremony in a glittering online event. These included awards for Outstanding commitment to the arts – which went to Sara McKee from Life: full colour, commitment to Music – for the talented James Holt and to Equality for women in Enterprise – for Helene Martin-Gee of the Pink Shoe Club.

Result CIC’s Jane Cordell was then announced as the winner of their award for ‘Outstanding role model and champion of disability rights’.
Julian Pike from Farrer & Co. presented the award and this was followed by a short speech by Dr Lisa Cameron. Jane admits she was rather in shock about this award – as well as being absolutely bowled over of course. This award having been totally unexpected, she was wearing one of her best cardigans (!) so plans, next time, to seek sartorial advice from the wonderful Lady Sharon Farley Mason of Glamsticks -herself one of the award winners.

As we went to press, the Inclusive Entrepreneur network, organised by Universal Inclusion, had been gathering evidence for the Parliamentary Work and Pensions’ Committee enquiry into the disability employment gap. We look forward to seeing how this important work goes.