Procedures, Equality & Diversity Policies

All About Holes Ltd

This policy applies to all staff, volunteers, management committee members, users and the general public

COMMITMENT

Equality and diversity are central to the work of All About Holes Ltd.

All About Holes Ltd will treat all people with dignity and respect, valuing the diversity of all. It will promote equality of opportunity and diversity.  It will eliminate all forms of discrimination on grounds of race, gender, marital status, caring responsibilities, disability, gender re-assignment, age, social class, sexual orientation, religion/belief, irrelevant offending background or any other factor irrelevant to the purpose in view.

It will tackle social exclusion, inequality, discrimination and disadvantage.

For this policy to be successful, it is essential that everyone is committed to and involved in its delivery.

All About Holes Ltd’s goal is to work towards a just society free from discrimination, harassment and prejudice.

All About Holes Ltd aims to embed this in all its policies, procedures, day-to-day practices and external relationships.

 

     AIMS

All About Holes Ltd aims to:

  • Provide services that are accessible according to need
  • Promote equality of opportunity and diversity in volunteering, employment and development
  • Create effective partnerships with all parts of our community

OBJECTIVES

All About Holes Ltd objectives is to realise its standards by:

  • Sustaining, regularly evaluating and continually improving its services to ensure equality and diversity principles and best practice are embedded in our performance to meet the needs of individuals and groups.
  • Working together with the community to provide accessible and relevant service provision that responds to service users’ needs.
  • Ensuring staff, volunteers and trustees are representative of the community served and the employment policies are fair and robust.
  • Responding to volunteer’s & employees’ needs and encouraging their development to increase their contribution to effective service delivery.
  • Recognising and valuing the differences and individual contribution that all people make to the organisation.
  • Challenging discrimination.
  • Providing fair resource allocation.
  • Being accountable

WHY HAVE THIS POLICY?

All About Holes Ltd recognises, respects and values diversity in its employees, volunteers and service users.

All About Holes Ltd has this policy because it is a people-led organisation that must always ensure it meets the needs of the community through fair and appropriate employment and development of the people who work and volunteer for All About Holes Ltd

       
PROCEDURES

        Responsibility for Implementation

       This policy covers the behaviour of all people employed or volunteering in All About
        Holes Ltd or using the services and sets out the way they can expect to be treated in        turn by All About Holes Ltd.

       The overall responsibility for ensuring adherence to and implementation of this policy        lies with the staff and the management committee.

 

       Method of Implementation

  • All About Holes Ltd intends to implement this policy by:
  • Ensuring that it is condition of paid employment in the organisation.
  • Ensuring that Management committee, volunteers and users are made aware, understand, agree with, and are willing to implement, this policy. 
  • All staff and volunteers will be given a copy of this policy as part of their induction.
  • Actively encouraging staff, management committee and volunteers to participate in anti-discriminatory training, and making time and resources available for such training.
  • Monitoring the services, publicity and events provided by All About Holes Ltd, to ensure       that they are accessible to all sections of the population and do not discriminate.
  • Taking active steps to ensure that participation is representative.

Monitoring and Reviewing

All About Holes Ltd has declared its commitment to establishing, developing, implementing and reviewing a policy of equality opportunity.

Effective record keeping, monitoring, and acting on information gathered, are essential in order to measure effectiveness and plan progress.

The management committee will review the policy annually.

 

Name: Darran William Beveridge        Position: Director