We want everyone connected with Barts Charity to feel valued and respected. We will create and sustain a truly inclusive culture where everyone feels they can contribute. We know that this will take action and we must keep working at it.
We recognise that a diverse Barts Charity is not just the right thing to be, but will also make us better at what we do. Embracing a breadth of perspectives and experiences will help us to make better decisions and be more effective and impactful in all our activity.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Principles
- To encourage and champion an inclusive and aware internal culture through actions and resources.
- To create, update and keep under review our governance structures, policies and procedures to ensure that EDI is embedded into all our activities.
- To better capture, monitor and analyse data to develop evidence from which to learn and drive change.
- To apply unbiased and inclusive funding processes and ensure the activities we fund are inclusive in their design and their delivery.
- To have diversity across our staff and non-execs who each feel able to realise their full potential and who better reflect the communities we work with and for.
Taking action
We are seeking to deliver on our commitment in the following ways:
Culture
- Continue to provide work experience to Tower Hamlets secondary school children working with The Switch (see a quote from one of them below.)
- Review our external events to ensure there is good speaker and guest representation.
- Consider how the breadth of the East London population we serve is better reflected in the case studies we use to communicate about our funding.
- Closer liaison with Barts Health Comms Team and EDI groups in development of collateral based on hospital sites to ensure that the staff and patient profile is reflected.
Data & insight
- Continue to collect and analyse data about diversity of grant applicants and grant holders so that we can monitor whether our funding processes are inclusive, fair, and free from bias.
- Use social media analytics to reach a more diverse digital audience.
- Move our annual staff diversity survey to be included in the annual staff engagement survey, managed externally so as to improve anonymity.
Funding
- Continue to develop funding policies and processes that further support creating an inclusive and fair organisational culture where we fund.
- Continue to explore and support activities associated with patient and public involvement and engagement in funding activities.
Personnel
- Ensure our recruitment processes adhere to our Inclusive Recruitment Policy (Jan 2025).
- Review our EDI Commitment in time for the launch of our new five year strategy in April 2027.
I think that work experience is important because everyone needs a viewpoint from early on in life to see how it is. Sometimes the placement you receive is not always what you imagined but still giving it a go may make you change your mind and learn about a new sector. The staff at Barts Charity treated me as they did their colleagues, so it really gives you an idea of adulthood.SB, work experience student