We support organisations, individuals and communities to address inequality and embrace diversity, provide advice and practical guidance to the sector and ensure that ED&I has a high profile. We provide training and mentoring for staff, boards and customers; run practitioner groups on equalities; undertake document review and award our Diversity Network Accreditation (DNA).
Our Members
Why become a member?
Online webinars - all past webinars arealso available to HDN members to view atany time.
A range of resources including audio and written guides and toolkits.
Discounted places on our HDN Board Excellence Programme. This national programme is designed to strengthen governance and enhance diversity in the sector and has gone from strength to strength in recent years.
Achieving and harnessing Board diversity - Join our Board Trainee Programme to commit to investing in future diverse governance in a real, practical way.
Advice and Guidance:
Our unique enquiry line service which provides advice to members not only from HDN but also our network of partners and associates as well as practitioner groups. The enquiry line can be accessed by phone or email and is available to all staff of subscribing organisations, giving them straight-forward practical advice on equality and diversity issues.
Free HDN Diversity Calendar sent out each year to be used across your organisation.
Improving practice across the sector:
Free or discounted places at all Network seminars, events, training and conferences – we have a wide and varied programme of events throughout the year and across the country.
Regional Diversity Groups – join our newly relaunched Diversity Groups in London, Midlands or in the North and help shape EDI locally with your fellow EDI leads.
Discount for membership organisations on our specialist training and consultancy – we have a pool of specialists and experts who can provide support to your organisation in many aspects of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Special Member rates for our Diversity Network Assessment (DNA). RSM UK and Housing Diversity Network have joined forces to bring you a robust, comprehensive and sector-specific diagnostic assessment for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in social housing.
Study visits to learn from organisations outside of the housing sector.
Support and invest in your people:
Discounted/free places on our HDN Staff Mentoring Programme (SMP). Our CPD accredited mentoring programme provides career development guidance and support to staff through a series of mentoring workshops and one to one mentoring sessions.
SMP is an effective and value for money approach to supporting and investing in your staff. SMP runs from September to June each year. We are very proud to announce that we have gained CPD (Continued Professional Development) certification for our programmes and your staff can take advantage in participating as mentors and mentees, to gain huge benefits and CPD hours as well.
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