The EMBRACE Covenant

The EMBRACE Covenant is the way for service providers in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin to commit to be more inclusive of older and old LGBT+ people in the work that they do. If you operate in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and would like to join the many organisations already doing great inclusive work then this webpage is designed to help you.

It is important that your commitment is meaningful – we’re not being funny but, over the years, we have been approached by many organisations which want to use our logo or join the covenant without doing anything different in terms of their actual practice. This damages the integrity of EMBRACE and undermines the work of others.

The Covenant requires you to commit:

to providing the best possible quality services for older and old LGBT+ people
to learning what life can be – and has been – like for different LGBT+ people
to vocally and visually supporting groups working with and for older and old LGBT+ people
to creating meaningful opportunities for LGBT+ people and groups to ‘influence’ what you do
to assessing and evidencing change, including work carried out to engage LGBT+ people (within the group/organisation and outside it)

In order to join the Covenant, we ask you first to watch some videos.

So, let’s get to it!

SAND’s journey

Background to the covenant

14 mins

Gen Silent (trailer)

Where it all started

4 mins

70 years

LGBT+ lives from the 1950s

22 mins

Dignity Day

Local voices

6 mins

With reference to the 5 commitments listed above, we now ask you to identify one key action for each – actions which you believe are realistic for your organisation to undertake to start your journey to be more inclusive of older and old LGBT+ people. You will be able to enter these into your application form below. You can find information to help you here: Resources – Beginners.

As part of your application to join the Covenant, and to get the very most from this county-wide initiative, we also ask you to identify a senior member of staff to lead your organisation’s work on the Covenant and to nominate a member of staff who works at the coalface to attend bi-monthly meetings of the Facilitator Network (for smaller organisations, this may be the same person).

Once you submit the application form below it will go to the next Facilitator Network Meeting where the members will discuss your application. You will be contacted shortly after this meeting.

Thank you for expressing interest in EMBRACE, it is a unique and exciting venture.

Sign Up to the EMBRACE Covenant

Name of group or organisation (required)

Department (if you are signing up on behalf of a distinct part of an organisation)

Brief introduction to your organisation/service

I confirm that I have watched the films (please check all boxes):

SAND's Journey to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion
Gen Silent (Trailer)
70 Years through LGBT+ Eyes
Dignity Day

Covenant lead nominee

Name (required)

Position in group/organisation (required)

Email address (required)

Phone number (required)

Facilitator network member

Name (required)

Position in group/organisation (required)

Email address (required)

Phone number (required)

Public contact

Please give public contact details for queries/to report issues.

Email address (required)

Phone number (required)

Organisation address (required)

Website URL (required)

I confirm that the above group/organisation/department (please check all boxes):

Operates in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin
Signs up to the 5 commitments of the EMBRACE Covenant

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