The Diverse Matters team are experienced in organising a wide range of diversity events and seminars. 

A seminar or panel event is an excellent way to positively promote the value of diversity and inclusion. This could be an internal event or to the general public.  We are able to support with planning and developing:

• Seminars
• Panel events
• Focus groups

We can support you with as little or as much as you require. We can arrange everything from start to finish including sourcing speakers, planning the day, preparing and briefing speakers, organising the promotion and marketing to just undertaking an aspect of the event as per each individual or organisation’s needs.

‘I attended four #BeYourself LGBT+ events. Each event had a different theme; BAME within LGBT+, trans awareness, bi-visibility and the final event was a wrap up which incorporated all themes including allies to celebrate LGBT history month 2017. All events had a range of good quality, open and entertaining speakers. Each talk was insightful, thought-provoking and empowered. I felt incredibly privileged to hear some really personal stories from the speakers and was empowered by their courage to share their individual experiences to help others. The events also included fantastic networking opportunities to meet like-minded people and share ideas’.

Nila Patel – Victim Support Disability and Mental Health network Chair 2017 regarding events organised by Natasha Broomfied-Reid (Diverse Matters) and Siobhan Corria (Action for Children)

Chairing and Facilitation

Our team are also experienced in Chairing and Facilitation and can support you to ensure your events run smoothly.  We understand the importance of:

·       Effective participation

·       Psychological safety

·       Participants achieve a mutual understanding

·       Contributions are considered and included in the ideas, solutions or decisions that emerge

·       Participants take shared responsibility for the outcome

Westminster Briefing feedback - Diverse Matters team chaired/facilitated the event:

- Fantastic, enthusiastic Chair. Very Knowledgeable’ Community Connector, NHG
- ‘Engaging, brought a lot of energy’ Employee Relations Officer, BDO

Olivia Bishop - Westminster Briefing, Diversity and Inclusion Events Manager:

‘Natasha is a joy to work with; very knowledgeable and brings tremendous passion and energy to the conversation’

Guest speaking

We are also happy to take part in your events via Guest speaking/delivering seminars regarding all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion.

Diverse Matters have supported a number of organisations with their events including:

• Westminster Briefing seminars
• People and Culture Conference
• Royal Academy of Engineering - Annual Diversity and Inclusion conference
• Walk this Way - AVECO/JUMP - Diversity in Volunteering conference
• Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioner (IEDP) events 
• Charity Meetup
• Sign Solutions - Disability Confident event
• AVSM Network UK conference - (network for volunteer managers within hospice and palliative care) 
• Women and Work APPG
• NCVO - National Volunteering Forum
• Champs consulting

Open Courses

We also run open course throughout the year.  To find out more click here.

If you have any questions or would like support with an event as described above or something a little different, get in touch!