Founded by the fantastic, multi-talented Hira Ali, Advancing Your Potential (AYP) is a leadership and inclusion consultancy with a core specialisation in allyship, women’s leadership, ethnic minority leadership development, and intercultural communication. Through their flagship programmes, they help organisations build inclusive cultures where diverse talent thrives. Her Allies equips organisations with the tools, training, and coaching materials to embed everyday allyship, enabling employees to advocate for one another and create supportive workplaces. Her Way to the Top empowers women at every stage of their careers with workshops, coaching, and resources that help them overcome barriers, amplify their voices, and lead with confidence. AYP also deliver tailored workshops, executive coaching, surveys, benchmarking, focus groups, and EDI consultancy.
Our Community is a directory of amazing specialists, who see the need for our impartial accreditation, and can help with all sorts of EDI related issues and challenges that you might be encountering on your journey.
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We are thrilled to welcome Male Allies UK to the accrEDIted™ Community.
Founded by the amazing Lee Chambers Male Allies UK exist to engage men in inclusion, building allyship skills and close gender gaps in both directions. They do this through workshops, training, consulting and facilitating spaces, with their work being research-led, evidence-based and focused on practical, relevant action. Male Allies UK have clients across 13 industries, understand commonalties as well as sector specific challenges. Led by business psychologist Lee, Male Allies UK uses it’s profit to fund work with boys in schools, with it’s research report into UK boys being launched in Parliament in October 2025. They also fund a number of women’s initiatives, with a particular focus on access to services for marginalised women and violence reduction. Their mission is to make gender unity a reality.
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Founded by the amazing Mo Kanjilal, a long-standing Community member, we are so pleased to include her exciting new venture with Kaia Allen-Bevan 🧡 in our directory of expert resources.
At Edge Of Difference, they train boldly, include differently and change everything. They are a new diversity, equity and inclusion training company, helping leaders to listen to voices from the edges to understand how to drive diversity, equity and inclusion across teams.
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Founded by the fantastic Jay Jupp they help organisations build cultures where people and business grow stronger — together. They specialise in leadership and culture change that drives lasting impact: a thriving workforce, a culture of empowerment, consistent contribution, and a truly equitable workplace. Their work is rooted in the belief that people lead best when life and work are aligned. Through coaching, insight, and inclusive development, Inner Reach Coaching help organisations lead where life and work collide.
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The #EthnicityPayGap Campaign was established in 2018 by the awesome Dianne Greyson. Its main aim and purpose is to raise awareness of the issues relating to the Ethnicity Pay Gap and to encourage the government to make Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting mandatory.
The Campaign is also calling on the government to ensure that businesses fully demonstrate that they are taking every action to close the gap. Correspondingly we call for clear guidelines on reporting to help support businesses to understand how to produce pay gap analysis that is meaningful and actionable.
We empower employee voice to enable them to be heard and advocate for representation at all levels of an organisation, making a way for improved outcomes for Black, Asian and other minoritised groups.
The #EthnicityPayGap Campaign is a beacon to those who wish to make a positive change.
Our Community is a directory of amazing specialists that can help with all sorts of EDI related issues and challenges that you might be encountering on your journey. So whilst The #EthnicityPayGap Campaign is a little different to our other Community members, we encourage ethical organisations to support the campaign and take action now to ensure they are not contributing to the Ethnicity Pay Gap.
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Founded by the amazing Dianne Greyson they provide Strategic Consultancy, developing and executing high-level strategic plans to improve overall performance of long-term business goals and to improve cultural change within an organisation. Equilibrium Mediation Consulting Ltd provides high-level project support on specific change management strategies. Taking a “critical friend” approach that allows you to evaluate your strategy at critical stages of any project.
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Through Mosaic Fusions, Susan Popoola works with leaders and their organisations to navigate the challenges and complexities they encounter on their journeys to create Harmonious and Impactful environments in which everyone’s value is realised for the benefit of all. They support leaders through one to one support, organisation development, workshops, masterclasses and masterminds that create real Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
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Stress Awareness Month is an annual event observed every April since 1992, dedicated to increasing public awareness about the causes and cures of stress.
If you don’t already have a mental health or wellbeing policy in place, or provide access to support via your workplace, simple steps like:
Setting realistic and achievable targets or deadlines
Making sure people are not regularly having to work additional hours to get through the workload
Creating an open and safe environment where people are not afraid to ask for help and support
can help reduce stress and improve mental health. Which, as well as being kinder to your people, also reduces sickness and absences, boosting productivity!
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. The day celebrates the joy and resilience of trans and non-binary people, while also combating disinformation, discrimination, and hate.
The day was created in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall, who wanted a day to celebrate the lives of transgender people while acknowledging the challenges they face.
Today, 15 years later, Transgender Day of Visibility is more needed that ever. With governments in the UK and USA targeting trans people, attempting to remove their rights, making their paths to gender affirming healthcare more difficult than ever and transphobic hate crimes increasing, there has never been a scarier time to be a trans person.
The USA has been grabbing headlines since Trump’s inauguration. With his immediate and extreme Executive Orders aligning with Project 2025 removing Trans rights, before moving on to women and everyone else. People have been likening the dystopian reality unfolding in the US to the book and television series The Handmaid’s Tale. If you want to know more about what is happening in America, Erin Reed is a great LGBTQ+ journalist who gives regular and insightful updates about anti-Trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation there.
Whilst, for some, it might feel like a more subtle attack in the UK, the Labour Party has been a huge disappointment to the LGBTQ+ communities since coming to power. With ongoing debates about gender recognition, gender affirming health care, single-sex services, and the impact of the Cass Review on youth gender services, and the government taking steps to clarify legal gender definitions – Trans rights are definitely under attack. The Labour government backtracked in February on promised reforms to make it easier for people to legally change gender.
Wes Streeting, Health Secretary claims to be “led by the evidence” but consistently relies on so called “independent evidence” which, at best leaves Trans voices out and at worst, is deliberately anti-trans. The Sullivan Review (commissioned by the Conservatives but being accepted by Labour) to review how data and statistics record gender identity and “biological sex” is yet another example. The review was led by sociology professor Alice Sullivan. However, Sullivan has ties to anti-trans groups such as Sex Matters. Her association with gender-critical groups should have been seen to compromise her position as an independent reviewer and was a “clear sign of bias” but is something the Health Secretary appears willing to overlook.
Aside from the government’s failing to understand, listen to or represent Trans and Non-binary voices, the media constantly echoes and amplifies anti-trans sentiments, spreading misinformation and stirring up hatred.
What is clear to us through our work, is those with strong anti-trans opinions, have rarely met or know any trans people. Their views have been entirely shaped by scare-mongering headlines.
That is why on this day of Trans Visibility we want others to actually see and hear about Trans people from Trans people. Get to know the human beings who are debated and vilified by a government and media who doesn’t know them.
Our Trans Inclusion Charity Partners Global Butterflies provide Trans and Non-binary Inclusion training, workshops and consultancy to help organisations become more inclusive. Their Global Butterflies Fund was established to support organisations working to advance human rights and protections for trans and non-binary communities in the UK and worldwide raising £33,000 in 2024.
Their founders Rachel Reese and Emma Cusdin said “Transgender Day of Visibility is a day where we celebrate the positivity, strength and resilience of transgender people worldwide. It’s a day where we come collectively together, in the face of growing discrimination towards our community, and stand tall, proud and unbowed. We need all our allies, on every day but especially this day to be loud and active.”
So, in these worrying time for Trans & Non-binary people what can you do to show your support and be a better ally?
In the workplace:
Ensure you have a zero-tolerance approach to transphobia and misgendering
Have positive policies affirming your commitment to equality and respect in the workplace
Ensure Leadership teams and hiring managers have been trained on Inclusive Leadership and hiring practices
Train employees on inclusion topics, including Trans & Non-binary inclusion regularly
Encourage participation in Employee Resource or Special Interest Groups for shared support and learning
Create a safe and inclusive culture where all your people have a sense of belonging and can show up as their authentic selves
Personally:
Learn – educate yourself. Seek out podcasts, books and blogs (start with the ones listed above) that will increase your understanding and help you see the human stories behind the headlines
Always make the effort to use people’s preferred pronouns – if you accidentally mess up, apologise and do better in future
If you hear someone being deliberately or repeatedly misgendered, speak up and correct the mistake
Call out transphobia wherever and whenever you see it
Be an ally to anyone who you see experiencing transphobia
If you care about equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace, check, do you have a Trans & Non-binary inclusion policy or plan? Do you have Trans or Non-binary staff or customers who you think you could support better?
Jessica specialises in mental health training, consultancy services, and one-to-one mentoring and wellbeing support. She designs and delivers evidence-based training programmes that help individuals and organisations create mentally healthy workplaces and communities.
With a unique combination of cultural understanding and expertise in systemic practice, Jessica facilitates sustainable change by addressing the deeper patterns that influence both personal and professional dynamics.
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