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Join us for the 2025 Neurodiversity Index Survey Launch Event, with Professor Amanda Kirby, DO-It Solutions via zoom to learn more about how the survey and how your input can make a difference.
At City & Guilds we are all connected by our common purpose: to help people develop their skills. And our City & Guilds Foundation was established back in 2019 to really amplify our purpose and particularly with a focus on supporting individuals who face significant barriers in developing their skills. In an era where inclusivity has become a cornerstone of organisational success, championing and supporting neurodiversity in the workplace is more important than ever. In 2022, we...
Did you know that in the workplace, 40% of neurodivergent employees say they are impacted most days in the workplace by their condition and only 32% of employees felt that they can disclose their neurodivergent condition? These are some of the key findings from our Neurodiversity Index and Report that we launched earlier this year, in partnership with Do-IT Solutions. It's always been a mission at the City & Guilds Foundation to help each person achieve their potential, by focusing on...
Back in 2019 the City & Guilds Foundation was established to really amplify City & Guilds’ purpose and particularly focus on supporting individuals who face significant barriers in developing their skills. Over the past 3 years we have supported a range of people including Prisoners, ex-offenders, care leavers, refugees and young people at risk of becoming NEET. What was becoming more and more obvious when we were talking to some of our charity partners in these spaces was the common...
Join Jennifer Warner, City & Guilds Foundation, and Amanda Kirby, Do-IT Solutions, to learn why we need to know the data relating to neurodiversity at work and how you can be involved in making a difference and understand more about what the Neurodiversity Index is trying to achieve. Find out more about the Neurodiversity Index and take part at cityandguildsfoundation.org/NDIndex
Last week was my second week of secondment with the Foundation Team and I was fortunate to be able to attend a two-day Neurodiversity Train the Trainer event. It was delivered by Helen Arnold Richardson from DO-It Solutions, and was specifically for our Foundation charity partners who work with offenders and ex-offenders – all with one shared goal, to reduce reoffending. Our partners in this space includes St Giles, Groundwork, Bounce Back, No Going Back and HMP Hull – as well as colleagues...
