Diversity Awards 2022

BAE Systems is a global defence, aerospace and security company employing around 85,800 people worldwide. Our wide-ranging products and services cover air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology, and support services. Our Maritime sector businesses design, manufacture, and support complex surface ships, submarines, and command and combat systems. Not only are we proud of what we do, we are also proud of how we do it – we are committed to working to high ethical, safety and environmental standards, retaining and attracting a diverse and talented workforce and making a positive contribution to the countries and communities in which we operate.

https://www.baesystems.com/en/home

Diageo is a company with a rich Scottish heritage – our roots can be traced back to 1627 and the Haig family. Since then, Scotland has played an important role in shaping Diageo and we now export our premium brands to 180 markets around the world.

Scotland is one of Diageo’s largest spirit supply centres responsible for producing around 50 million cases of leading brands of Scotch whisky and white spirits annually. We employ around 3000 people in Scotland, working in over 50 communities across the country. Around 85% of Diageo’s production in Scotland is
sold overseas.

At Diageo we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative culture that benefits both our people and our business. Our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

We have a diverse workforce made up of thousands of talented people, each with their own story to tell. We are proud that Diageo is the FTSE 100 Company with the highest number of women at the most senior levels and in Scotland we are making progress towards achieving greater diversity in the workplace through a range of initiatives focused on building an inclusive culture across our organisation.

sportscotland is the national agency for sport in Scotland. Our vision is an active Scotland where everyone benefits from sport. In an active Scotland we will all find ways to be physically active every day. Keeping moving at home and at work. Taking an active approach to getting around. Choosing to be active in our leisure time.

More of us will take part in sport because we see it being relevant to our lives. Being involved in ways that suit us. Meeting fewer barriers. Feeling more included. We will all experience more of the benefits of sport. For some of us, by taking part. For others, through our communities.

For more details visit Sport For Life – https://sportforlife.org.uk/

Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)

SQA helps people to realise their potential and to achieve their ambitions by providing a wide range of high quality, internationally recognised qualifications and associated services.

Our qualifications include National Qualifications, Higher National Qualifications and a range of vocational qualifications, developed with industry partners, and responding to perceived skills needs. SQA qualifications accurately reflect learners’ knowledge and skills and provide routes to jobs or further study.

www.sqa.org.uk

Arnold Clark is a family business, with strong family values at the heart of everything we do.

The story of the company began when Sir Arnold Clark left the Royal Air Force and used his demob money to buy a Morris Ten Four for £70. After restoring the car to its original condition, he sold it for a profit. From this first venture, Arnold Clark began to buy and sell cars. And from that one showroom in 1954, Arnold Clark has grown to become Europe’s largest independently owned car retailer, selling more than 300,000 cars a year with locations stretching from Elgin to Southampton. And we’re not done yet! Our aim is to grow, innovate and inspire while continuing to offer genuine value for money and provide customer service of the highest level. We also do more than just sell and service cars. From renting for a road trip to studying a new skill, and everything in between, we’ve got you covered, with our Car & Van Rental, Insurance Services, Coachbuilders, Alarm Engineering and GTG Training divisions.

Our employees are the core of our business and they have helped choose the values which define the company – Family, Communication, Progression, Recognition and Community. The aim has always been to create a culture in which everyone feels accepted and respected. We have won many awards for our work in promoting diversity within the automotive industry, actively working with organisations to increase representation within the LGBTQ+ community and to address the gender imbalance within the automotive industry as a whole.

At Arnold Clark, we are constantly striving to improve the communities in which we operate, providing support and sponsorship for charities, businesses and much more. Recently, we introduced the Arnold Clark Community Fund to help registered charities and local community groups who have been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the aim of helping approximately 500 organisations, we were overwhelmed with applications and more funding was made available to help nearly 3,000 organisations in need.

Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is Scotland’s national skills agency.

Our purpose is to drive productivity and inclusive growth through investment in skills, enabling businesses and people to achieve their full potential.

Our services are designed to reflect best practice nationally and internationally and, through extensive engagement with partners at national, regional and local level, we flex and shape our delivery to meet local needs and priorities.

Our work includes providing careers advice in schools and our high street centres, as well as online through website My World of Work; helping employers develop the skills of their workforce.

SDS is committed to equality and diversity. Through a wide range of policies, initiatives, and continuous improvement activities, we’re working to embed equality and diversity throughout our organisation and meet our responsibilities as a public sector body. Before the pandemic hit, inequality existed across education and employment in Scotland, and the crisis has exacerbated many pre-existing inequalities. Therefore, during the pandemic, we took additional action to ensure our services continued to be accessible to all, whoever they are, wherever they live, whatever their needs.

Our message to employers is that equality is good for business. A diverse workforce is a more creative one.

Fostering an inclusive working environment helps bridge skills gaps and harnesses different experiences, backgrounds and approaches.

Our employer web service Our Skillsforce reinforces these positive messages to employers.

Staff from across SDS help spread our message by promoting information on equality issues, developments and best practice.

City Building is one of Scotland’s largest construction companies, providing a wide range of construction, maintenance, and manufacturing services.   Along with design and build construction, repairs and maintenance, and major investment and refurbishment we also offer manufacturing, training, and specialist services, new house building, and retrofitting carbon reduction technologies.

As well as providing one of the largest construction craft apprenticeship programmes in Scotland we also operate Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi), one of the largest supported manufacturing businesses in Europe.   RSBi also employs 250 people, 50% of whom have a disability.

Our values are Excellence, Honesty, Ambition, Trust and Community and our mission is to contribute excellence in construction, repairs, maintenance, manufacturing and training to our customers, our employees, partners, suppliers and the local communities in which we work.

For further information www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk

LOCALIQ

LOCALiQ is one of the UK’s fastest growing digital marketing agencies

We combine our best in class marketing technology, the data insights this provides, with our huge audience reach. We can help our customers grow, and take their business to the next level.

At LOCALiQ we focus on you. As part of Newsquest Media Group, the UK’s leading local publisher, LOCALiQ gives you access to a network of 200+ trusted news brands, both in print and online, an award-winning events division, recruitment platforms and a wide range of multimedia marketing solutions.

www.localiq.co.uk

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