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Women in Housing Awards opens for entries

The Women in Housing Awards open for nominations today, on International Women’s Day, with six extra categories.

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Women in Housing Awards opens for entries

The 2018 awards will be the first organised by Inside Housing, and will be delivered in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). Women in Social Housing (WISH) continues to be the partner for the awards.

New categories include Woman of the Year, Finance Professional of the Year, Social Media Influencer, HR Team of the Year and Employer of the Year.

“I’m really pleased that the CIH is working with us on these important awards, building on our success partnering on the UK Housing Awards and the Housing Heroes Awards,” said Emma Maier, editor of Inside Housing.

“We have created some exciting new categories to run alongside the existing favourites, to provide even more opportunities to shout about the successes of the women in our sector. There are categories to suit all, from social housing to contractors and consultants, so I urge readers – men and women – to take a look and nominate colleagues.”


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“I’m delighted that we are partnering with Inside Housing on the Women in Housing Awards, which are a crucial showcase of the great work women in housing do,” said Terrie Alafat, chief executive of the CIH.

She said: “There is no doubt that the housing sector, along with many others, still has work to do to ensure a better gender balance and enhance equality and diversity across the board. We must all play our part.”

The awards are open for entries at womeninhousingawards.co.uk until 11 May. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester on 11 October.

Follow twitter.com/womeninhousing for updates.

Inside Housing is committed to promoting positive role models as part of the Inclusive Futures campaign. The Women in Housing Awards will form part of that campaign. Inside Housing acquired the Women in Housing Awards from events company Connect In earlier in the year.

Inclusive Futures

Inclusive Futures

Inside Housing’s Inclusive Futures campaign aims to promote and celebrate diversity and inclusion.

We are pledging to publish diversity audits of our own coverage.

We are also committed to proactively promoting positive role models.

We will do this through the pages of Inside Housing. But we will also seek to support other publications and events organisations to be more inclusive.

Our Inclusive Futures Bureau will provide a database of speakers and commentators from all backgrounds, for use by all media organisations.

We are also challenging readers to take five clear steps to promote diversity, informed by the Chartered Institute of Housing’s diversity commission and the Leadership 2025 project.

Click here to read more or to sign up for more information

INSIDE HOUSING’S PLEDGES

We will take proactive steps to promote positive role models from under-represented groups and provide information to support change.

We pledge to:

Publish diversity audits: We will audit the diversity of the commentators we feature. We will formalise this process and publish the results for future audits twice a year.

Promote role models: We will work to highlight leading lights from specific under-represented groups, starting in early 2018 with our new BME Leaders List.

Launch Inclusive Futures Bureau: We will work with the sector to compile a database of speakers, commentators and experts from under-represented groups. The bureau will be available to events organisers, media outlets and publications to support them to better represent the talent in the sector.

Take forward the Women in Housing Awards: Inside Housing has taken on these successful awards and will work to grow and develop them.

Convene Inclusive Futures Summit: Our new high-level event will support organisations to develop and implement strategies to become more diverse and inclusive.

THE INCLUSIVE FUTURES CHALLENGE

Inside Housing calls on organisations to sign up to an inclusive future by taking five steps:

Prioritise diversity and inclusion at the top: commitment and persistence from chief executives, directors and chairs in setting goals and monitoring progress.

Collect data on the diversity of your board, leadership and total workforce and publish annually with your annual report. Consider gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, age, and representation of tenants on the board.

Set aspirational targets for recruitment to the executive team, board and committees from under-represented groups.

Challenge recruiting staff and agencies to ensure that all shortlists include candidates from under-represented groups.

Make diversity and inclusion a core theme in your talent management strategy to ensure you support people from under-represented groups to progress their careers.

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