
Tackling workforce inequality
Helping people and businesses grow by creating employment, training and business opportunities.
Helping people and businesses grow by creating employment, training and business opportunities.
Addressing inequality in the tech sector and growing digital talent by partnering with Ahead Partnership to engage young people from deprived local schools.
Connecting with students to share industry insights:
Speed networking: Met with students at Chorlton High School and Bruntcliffe Academy.
Girl Tech Leeds: Inspired 150 girls from economically deprived areas to pursue user-centred design careers.
Virtual careers panel: Hosted Waltham Toll Bar Academy in Grimsby, inspiring students without tech role models.
Guiding young people to overcome barriers and build successful careers:
CATCH Leeds mentorship: Provided one-on-one support to help young people develop career goals.
Coders Guild: Guided career changers as they transition into tech after boot camps.
Guest Speaker at Dixons Unity Academy: Introduced Year 10 students to content design careers and tech pathways.
Committed to creating employment and training opportunities and breaking down employment barriers while addressing skills shortages.
Creating employment and training opportunities:
University collaborations: Work with institutions and funding programmes to support ethnic minorities in IT.
Flexible working and support: Offer an Employee Assistance Programme and flexible working policies to support parents and diverse needs.
Inclusive Leadership: 50% of lead consultancy roles held by underrepresented groups.
Continuous development fosters an inclusive workforce:
Learning opportunities: Collaborate with North Coders and CodeourFuture to break socio-economic barriers.
Conferences: Engage in events like BarCamps and support Women in Tech to drive equality and diversity.
Aire Time: Offer staff 10 volunteer and training days yearly to spend time with community groups and charities.
Gender and disability inclusion: Committed to increasing the number of women in technical roles by 100% within 2 years and recruiting those with lived disability.
We've published our first gender pay gap report and outlined our plan to close the gap by supporting career development, flexible working, women-focused benefits and industry engagement.
We partner with different charities to help the underrepresented and career changers develop digital technology careers.
Code your future
Supporting refugees and people from disadvantaged backgrounds in building a career in software development.
Digital Access West Yorkshire
Refurbishing and distributing our devices to children and families, addressing the digital divide.
Generation UK
Supporting unconventional candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds to kickstart a tech career.
Northcoders
Running coding boot camps for career changers, those returning to work, school leavers and grads.
Mentoring for the future
Why Jody signed up for One Million Mentors
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Jamie's route into tech
How Generation UK helped me become a software developer.
Speed networking at schools
Visiting Dixons Trinity Chapeltown in Leeds