Stonewall CEO - Candidate Pack

Transforming Institutions
We work with institutions to create inclusive and accepting cultures, to ensure they
understand and value the huge benefits brought to them by LGBT people, and to empower
them as advocates and agents of positive change. We work with all type of organisations
(including employers, schools, healthcare providers, sports organisations and religious
institutions) to ensure they offer inclusive, equal and inspiring environments for LGBT people,
and to empower them as advocates and agents of change in wider society.
• We work with over 1,200 Stonewall School & College Champions to make safe and
inclusive spaces for LGBT pupils, having trained 925 teachers in 2018/19. We work with
a range of settings, from primary to secondary schools, single-sex to faith and church
schools. Our programme uses the ‘Train the Trainer’ model, giving one teacher the
knowledge, tools and confidence to train colleagues in tackling homophobic, biphobic
and transphobic bullying and language. We also work with 40 Children and Young
People’s Services on benchmarking their practice on LGBT inclusion, pioneering best
practice partnership working and initiatives.
• We work with over 860 organisations through our Diversity Champions programme
and more than 170 global businesses and organisations to create LGBT-inclusive
workplaces in the UK and across the world.
• We launched our award-winning Diversity Champions programme in Northern Ireland,
in partnership with The Rainbow Project in April 2018. It already has 27 member
organisations, making it the largest LGBT workplace programme in Northern Ireland.
• 13 of our Diversity Champions became launch partners for our Trans Allies
programme. The Diversity Champions programme is also a key source of
sustainability for Stonewall which accounts for over 25 per cent of our income.
• We work closely with 27 LGBT organisations in 24 different countries to conduct
research on LGBT issues including health, civic and political participation, economic
wellbeing, personal security and violence, and education.
Changing and Protecting Laws
We work to ensure that laws and rights essential for LGBT equality are created, protected
and defended, so that LGBT people have equal rights here and abroad. We will ensure that
laws already in place to protect LGBT people are not rescinded and we’ll continue to
campaign for improvements where the law doesn’t go far enough. We are working with
governments and others to improve equality for trans people, by collaborating on tackling
hate crime and discrimination, and we’re working with national bodies to ensure LGBTinclusive
policy across key areas of society (for example, health, education and sport).
• We successfully built cross-party and Government support to introduce statutory,
LGBT-inclusive Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education in all of
England’s schools from September 2020. We helped secure Government
commitments in Wales to make LGBT-inclusive Relationships and Sexuality Education
statutory from 2021, and in Scotland for all schools to deliver LGBT-inclusive teaching
across the curriculum from 2022.