Awareness days and campaigns run throughout the year, and many of our ALP members have found it helpful to use Skill Boosters resources to support learning around these events. To help with your planning, we have produced this calendar, listing relevant dates for each month. Please note that this is not a definitive list and that some awareness days may fall on different dates depending on who is running the campaign, so it is advisable to check the source before planning.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is considered one of the most sacred months in Islam. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, which means they refrain from eating, drinking, and engaging in any kind of sexual activity or other physical needs during daylight hours.

Intersectionality describes the relationship between our multiple identities and how they can create a unique experience of discrimination, bias and privilege. Professor Binna Kandola OBE explains, “If you imagine our identities as a set of circles, so you have a gender, you have a sexuality, you have an ethnicity, you may have a disability. If you imagine, so each identity is represented as a circle, it’s bringing these circles together and, where they overlap, that represents me as an individual, and that’s what intersectionality is about.”

Intersectionality is an approach that considers how overlapping identities and experiences can result in multiple forms of bias and prejudice. This course shows how an intersectional lens can be used to tackle discrimination and exclusion, and improve inclusion at work.

In this webinar, we will draw on expert insight, ‘lived experience’ interviews and original drama to look at how an intersectional approach can support inclusion and help to achieve more equitable outcomes.