Equality: the big picture

Guest post from Ronnie Murray on Scope, who is group head chef at Mark Hix’s London restaurants and has a shortened left arm. He’s backing Scope’s End the Awkward campaign, and stars in their new awkward moments film. http://blog.scope.org.uk/2015/07/29/theyre-biting-my-arm-off-for-these-canapes-tales-of-a-disabled-chef-endthe-awkward/

Sheffield’s Wellbeing Festival will take place on Fargate (City Centre) on Wednesday 29 July. The event aims to showcase the mental health organisations and services in the city as well as highlighting things we can all do to look after our own mental wellbeing while having some fun – there will be zumba, belrobics, stilt […]

The Equality and Human Rights Commision have launched their #worksforme campaign. Over the next four weeks they’ll be showcasing useful guidance aimed at helping make pregnancy and maternity work for everyone, whether you’re running a small business or a first-time mum planning your return to work. See more on their page: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/blog/welcome-worksforme

Many of us are aware of the term LGBT (or even LGBTQ/LGBTQI and LGBT+) which refers to someone identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans. Here in the UK we have one of the highest degrees of LGBT liberties in the world, but these changes have been very recent and much later developments than other protected […]