Date for your diary

Tuesday 15th October 2024 – this is the date for the second ‘showcase’ event for organisations which have signed up to the Covenant to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion. Shrewsbury Town Football Club is booked 9.15am – 4.15pm. 

We thought you might find it helpful to have just one place to go, from where you can then access all the information we send relating to the Covenant. If there is anything missing which you’d find helpful to be here then please let us know sal@lgbtsand.com

First up – if you have not already signed up to our e-newsletter please do so  it is the best way to stay updated. CLICK HERE

The Covenant Bulletin Issue 1 (January 2023)

The Covenant Bulletin Issue 2 (May 2023)

The Covenant Bulletin Issue 3 (July 2023)

The Covenant Bulletin Issue 4 (January 2024)

The Covenant Bulletin 5 (May 2024)

The Covenant – Basic information – our webpage (scroll down for links to resources to support action planning)

Who else has signed up – A list of organisations signed up and where we add updates – our webpage

How it fits together – All the different components of the EMBRACE project – the Covenant, the training, the campaign – how they all contribute to the whole (pdf file)

Facilitator Training – our third and final tranche completed in May 2024. Individuals have been trained from the following organisations: Axis Counselling ISVA Service, Energize Shropshire, Positive Steps Shropshire Limited, Shropshire Council, Severn Hospice, Welford Healthcare, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, My Options, Telford & Wrekin Council, Midlands Partnership University Foundation NHS Trust, Shrewsbury Town Council, Age UK STW, Partners in Care, AgeUK STW, Citizens ASdvice Shropshire, Community Resource, Coverage Care, Cruse Bereavement Support, Radfield Home Care, Robert Jones Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hopsital, Shropshire Community Health Trust, STAR Housing, Welford Healthcare, Wrekin Housing Group

Small Steps Big Difference Conference – you can watch the highlights reel and 7 of the presentations from the 2023 conference here: Conference Playlist. The 2024 Small Steps Big Difference Conference will take place on 15th October – a full day at Shrewsbury Town Football Ground, please note this date in your diary. It is an invitation-only event and, if you have the link to this page then you should have received an invitation – if you haven’t please give Sal a nudge: sal@lgbtsand.com

Brand Guidelines: Covenant Partners, when producing materials where they want to flag up their connection with their work to EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion should always use the EMBRACE logo because this brings us all together in an enduring, collective campaign for change. If there is a need then, partners may, in addition, use the SAND logo – please do not use the SAND logo without the EMBRACE one!. Logos can be found at the bottom of this page and you can follow this link to a dropbox folder for Hi-res EMBRACE versions.

Diagram showing the five approaches that SAND is taking to implementing the EMBRACE A Culture of Inclusion project. These are: public training (understanding why change is needed), the Covenant (making a commitment to change), training facilitators (increasing capacity to implement change), facilitator network and resource bank (maintaining change), and the I'm IN campaign (promoting change).

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