THIS is our Inclusion and Diversity Manifesto, which we’re championing throughout the team so that we can hold ourselves accountable and ensure transparency and openness in our dialogue around inclusion and diversity. We were founded by two middle-class white men, and for some reason, most applicants to THIS roles took gap yahhs, went to private school and love skiing. So we need to work extra-hard to make sure our team is as representative of wider society as possible.

THIS actively promotes, supports and celebrates complete inclusion, diversity and equality across all people from every walk of life for our team members, our customers and any one who we come into contact with. Not only is it the right thing to do as human beings, but diversity is essential in giving us a healthy mix of backgrounds and contrasting perspectives in order to drive innovation. So it’s sort of selfish too. Oh and just as importantly - without inclusion, diversity is not sustainable.

We commit to actively promoting inclusion in our team culture by educating the team and supporting them to improve and celebrate inclusion and diversity in their team environment. We empower and encourage each other to overcome the barriers that divide us in wider society. We facilitate this by:

• Fostering an open, transparent, respectful and inclusive team culture.
• Continually listening, learning, teaching and supporting each other so that everyone can have a voice and a place within THIS.
• Ensuring our recruitment process is fair and is free from conscious and unconscious bias in order to promote diversity.
• Giving our team training on championing inclusion and diversity.
• Doing all of the above without creating a climate of over-compensation. We still have a laugh and don’t all tread on eggshells!

The journey for complete inclusion and diversity is never-ending, so we will continue to learn and improve our ways of advocating this important matter. We’re currently a small team and we know that our organisation is not representative of the wider society - and this needs to change. We will keep pushing forward with our inclusion and diversity in order to achieve a truly inclusive and diverse team and then continue pushing to sustain this.