We are committed to acting fairly, promoting wellbeing and championing inclusion so we can deliver the best experience for both customers and colleagues.
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    Our EDI priorities

    Customers

    • Ensuring our services are inclusive and accessible to everyone.

     

    • Ensuring our homes enable everyone to live well.

     

    • Providing more affordable housing of different tenures and types to meet the needs of the communities we serve.
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    Our EDI priorities

    Colleagues

    • Improving diversity within the workforce across all levels and roles.

     

    • Enabling colleagues to be themselves and be their best.

     

    • Fostering our inclusive culture and being known for this.
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    Our EDI priorities

    Partners

    • Joining forces to champion and advance equality in housing.

     

    • Improving equality of opportunity within the communities we serve.

     

    • Being an ally and supporting marginalised groups in the communities we serve.

Everyone’s welcome here

  • We have a positive gender pay gap.

  • We are a Disability Confident Committed employee.

  • We’ve signed the armed forces covenant and have the silver status in their recognition scheme

  • We’re member of Houseproud and have Pledge Pioneer status

Measuring our impact

We lead on Diversity, Inclusion, Community Cohesion and Equality (DICE) on behalf of Greater Manchester Housing Providers. Every three years we survey members to understand how we’re tackling inequality within our own organisations and collaboratively. The research has enabled members to sharpen their focus on tackling inequalities. It has been well received by others across the UK who have adapted our methodology. This will allow us to gather a more comprehensive picture of the sector’s response to tackling inequalities. Since carrying out our survey, we have helped the National Housing Federation to develop their EDI data tool.

Our gender and ethnicity pay gaps 

We encourage our colleagues to confidentially share their equality and diversity information with us. This helps us to ensure everyone is treated fairly, that our workplace is safe and welcoming for everyone and somewhere everyone is rewarded and recognised equally for what they bring.  

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