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Logistics needs to reach a more diverse talent pool
Editor: The recent announcement that the Generation Logistics campaign, which aims to improve recruitment and retention in the logistics workforce, has secured another year of government funding is welcome news for the sector, where there remains a critical need to expand the labour pool.
EDI Q&A: Mark Capanda, senior associate director, BNP Paribas Real Estate
Talking about your sexuality and bringing your whole self to work is not always easy. Mark Capanda, senior associate director, lease advisory, at BNP Paribas Real Estate, shares his experiences of being openly gay in the property sector and explains how employer support, having role models and networks can help.
EDI Q&A: Andrew Argent, business development manager, Close Brothers
The next cohort of young developers is facing a tough market with SME developers dropping from contributing 40% of housing share 30 years ago to just 10% currently.
EDI Q&A: Paddy Allen, chair, Pathways to Property
Historically, a traditional route was followed to enter the property market but this doesn’t always have to be the case, as Paddy Allen, head of operational capital markets at Colliers and chair of Pathways to Property, explains.
Quaye Services sponsors five BWRE memberships to support junior real estate professionals
Chartered quantity surveyor Quaye Services (QS) is sponsoring five memberships to Black Women in Real Estate (BWRE) as part of a campaign aimed at encouraging junior and intermediate real estate professionals to join the network.
EDI Q&A: Lisa Ravenscroft, chief marketing officer at Mount Anvil
Property might not be the first career choice for many with some not realising the breadth of roles in the sector if they have no family or friends working in it.
Diversity Case Studies
EDI Case Studies: British Land’s Brona McKeown
Often credited to management guru Pete Drucker, there is a saying popular in HR circles that ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it’.
EDI Case Studies: Cobalt Recruitment’s Charlotte John
If property as an industry is serious about improving its diversity, equality and inclusion record, it will need to rethink long-standing assumptions around how it recruits people, argues Charlotte John, director for key accounts and client solutions at specialist property recruitment firm Cobalt Recruitment.
EDI Case Studies: Knight Frank’s Charmain Platt
With 1,332 men and 1,425 women across its commercial, residential and business services divisions in the UK, the gender split at real estate agency Knight Frank is actually looking pretty healthy at the moment.
EDI Case Studies: Carter Jonas’s Claire Matthews
Since its launch back in 2017, property firm Carter Jonas’s School Ambassadors Network has grown from just a single employee to 38 people from within its 1,000-strong staff.
EDI Case Studies: essensys’ Kally Kang-Kersey on neurodiversity
Tech giants such as Microsoft and Google, among others, have long recognised the very particular skills, attributes and talents that neurodiverse employees especially can bring to the software and technology arena.
EDI Case Studies: Sovereign’s Kathryn Bowe on social mobility
One of the great strengths of property as a sector is that it houses the whole nation, whatever our nationality, age, colour or gender.
EDI Case Studies: SEGRO's Margaret Murphy on childcare policies
Back in April, a poll by temporary work platform Indeed Flex highlighted that nearly two in five UK mothers are unable to return to work after starting a family because of the spiralling cost of childcare.
EDI Case Studies: Savills’ Noel McGonigle and Chanelle Gray on EDI representatives
With some 8,000 employees in the UK, real estate services giant Savills last year made a very public statement of intent around equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by appointing Chanelle Gray as its dedicated head of EDI.
EDI Case Studies: The Hill Group’s Victoria Anthony on diversity in construction
The idea that modern-day construction sites are awash with unreconstructed ‘white van man’ brickies is, of course, a stereotypical cliché. But, like all clichés, what makes them resonate is the fact there is often at least some element of truth to them.
EDI Case Studies: Grosvenor Property UK’s Anne Sloper on the visibility of property as a career
The lack of visibility of property as a sector – and as a tangible career option – within schools, colleges and even universities is a key barrier hindering greater equity, diversity and inclusion, especially greater social mobility, within the industry, argues Anne Sloper, head of organisational effectiveness at Grosvenor Property ...
EDI Case Studies: Gerald Eve’s Helen Foley on what property can learn from other sectors on diversity
In its gender and ethnicity pay gap report for the year to March 2022, real estate advisory firm Gerald Eve neatly illustrates one of the ongoing challenges the whole property sector is facing when it comes to equality, diversity and inclusion: progression.
Networks and Groups
British Property Federation (Associate Partner)
From the homes we live in, to the spaces where we learn, work and relax, property is an essential part of modern life.
BPIC Network
BPIC Network is a built environment inclusion network that collaborates with industry organisations to increase ethnic minority representation and retention. It provides inclusion guidance, career opportunities, training, and networking events tailored to those currently working and aspiring to work in the industry.
Black Women in Real Estate (Associate Partner)
Black Women in Real Estate (BWRE) enables Black Women to be seen, heard and grow in the Real Estate industry.
London Property Alliance (Associate Partner)
London Property Alliance is the joint name for City Property Association (CPA) and Westminster Property Association (WPA): two not-for-profit membership bodies that represent and advocate for more than 400 companies.
Real Estate Balance (Associate Partner)
Real Estate Balance is a membership organisation working to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry.
Women in Property (Associate Partner)
Women in Property (WiP) is a 1,500 strong, national membership organisation, formed in 1987 when a woman working in the industry was a rarity.
