Creating a more inclusive, accessible & diverse culture through sports?

ODiSEE (Opportunities for Diversity & Inclusion in Sport, Entertainment & Education) established in 2021 under the guidance of Director Sara Matthews, is a beacon of innovation in training and consultancy. Sara brings over two decades of rich HR experience from notable names like Chelsea Football Club, Ladbrokes Coral, and Travis Perkins. ODiSEE, with its focus on equality, diversity, and wellbeing, mirrors Sara's passion, evident in her roles ranging from Includability Ambassador to Non-Executive Director at Netball Scotland.

ODiSEE's Diversity & Inclusion Star isn’t just an award; it's a testament to an organisations commitment to a continuous journey towards inclusivity. Recognising that every company is at a different stage in its D&I path, ODiSEE's process is crafted with compassion, encouragement, and partnership at its heart.

Discovery Session: This gentle 30-minute conversation aims to understand your current D&I initiatives. Instead of an assessment, think of it as sharing your D&I story and aspirations with ODiSEE's experts.

Collaborative Reflection: ODiSEE will then provide insights, drawn from a wealth of best practices across various sectors. However, the benchmarks are not rigid criteria but guiding lights to show what's possible.

Guidance & Support: It's not about where you currently stand but where you aim to be. Should your organisation benefit from additional insights or resources, ODiSEE offers a bespoke support journey tailored to your unique needs.

Celebrating Commitment: The Diversity & Inclusion Star is awarded to organisations that display genuine dedication to the cause, whether they're just starting or are well into their D&I journey. It's less about perfection and more about genuine commitment and progress.

With ODiSEE by your side, it's all about celebrating the journey towards a more inclusive future, cherishing every milestone along the way.

This Star will be awarded automatically if your organisation is already B Corp Certified, B Corp Pending, Planet Mark Certified or CSR-A Accredited, however the Star will also be presented if an organisation is able to provide good intentions in creating a sustainability strategy – for example, a net-zero focus, staff volunteering days, community and charitable support, or even embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals across your website.

Prosperah enables organisations to unleash their greater purpose for tangible business value, helping them to explore a space where social responsibility and sustainability are reimagined as a competitive advantage.

They guide businesses through a journey to map their purpose to the Sustainable Development Goals and through enhanced stakeholder consultation, they’ll set key priority SDGs and targets to create your Purpose Book.

This Star will be awarded automatically if your organisation is already B Corp Certified, B Corp Pending, Planet Mark Certified or CSR-A Accredited, however the Star will also be presented if an organisation is able to provide good intentions in creating a sustainability strategy – for example, a net-zero focus, staff volunteering days, community and charitable support, or even embedding the UN Sustainable Development Goals across your website.

Planet Mark believe we must all work together to embrace sustainability. They work passionately with organisations to empower their people to halt the climate crisis and improve society in everything they do. And by working this way we will build a sustainable brighter future for us and our planet.

Through our Net Zero Programme, they are supporting businesses of all sizes to plan for and reach net zero targets in this critical Decade of Action.

Mental Health Charter (MHC)'s purpose is to provide a flexible and consistent charter to enable all businesses in the UK to access mental health support, provide awareness and training and put in place a structure and systems to support people in the workplace.

The team will conduct a short survey over the phone to discuss Mental Health current procedures/practices with free advice offered.

You will then be given a complimentary Bronze Membership (with accompanying logo) to the Mental Health Charter as a Committed To Action Employer - the first step to creating a mentally healthy workplace.

In order to achieve your Mental Health Star all Educational Settings will be required to install Ripple Suicide Prevention Software. This is Free for Includability Committed Educational Settings.
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Ripples mission is to intercept harmful content relating to self-harm and/or suicide through innovative technology to redirect users to mental health support if they are struggling to cope or in need of immediate help. Their vision is to ensure all users searching for harmful content online are presented with an opportunity of hope that things can and will get better.

Unleashed is a new kind of HR Consultancy that helps organisations be successful by making them more inclusive.

They provide a unique approach to recruitment & retention, learning & development and deployment that uses diversity and inclusion tactics, and a suite of innovative technologies, to create an agile, high-performing workforce.

Unleashed support organisations by improving talent management and making them more inclusive - by removing personal bias, they help companies improve productivity, reduce costs and create a positive culture where everyone is happier at work.

This process will involve a 45-minute consultation with the Unleashed Team to review current recruitment and retention processes and provide any guidance necessary to support you.

Outliers Wellbeing will have an initial call to chat about what you're doing in the confusing world of wellbeing, how you're doing it and what your plans are. Just an informal chat between two lovely people.

They will then send a link to an Insights Questionnaire that they will ask you to fill out, not to analyse and judge every facet of your business, but just to gain a further understanding of your wellbeing provision.

A follow-up call will then be booked to run through the insights at which point the Wellbeing Star will be awarded if enough evidence has been gathered on your strategy and provision, or will chat-through next steps if further support is needed.

The HR Agency is a HR consultancy, founded in November 2020 to provide clients a full range of HR solutions. Whether that be fully outsourced HR provision for smaller employers, or project-based work for organisations of large and small, they believe in influencing their clients to be do better, not just for their employees, but also their local communities and our environment.

As a purpose-driven organisation themselves, The HR Agency understands that identifying a desire to do business better is only the start to making a positive difference. What turns these good intentions into meaningful and impactful actions, is good governance and great leadership.

Good governance is the pursuit of purpose. It is a journey requiring constant vigilance and adaptation to external and internal changes. As such it requires ethical, competent and responsible leadership to inspire and engage everyone in bringing it to life. It’s essential for any business with purposeful aspirations to ensure great leadership and good governance is in place.

The HR Agency will conduct a 45-minute call to explore your current approach to leadership and governance. Looking at four pillars – organisational structure; roles & responsibilities; people & culture; and infrastructure – the team will follow-up the call with recommendations on how to further improve your leadership and governance framework ensuring your purpose is translated into action.