Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion

We wish GDWG and our outreach work through Refugee Tales to imagine better: a society where everyone feels safe, where everyone has agency and possibility, free from inequality, and free from the fear of prejudice and hate. We wish to address the inherent power imbalance in our work, and we wish to improve representation and lived experience across our organisation. We have recently published a five-year strategic plan that places equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) central to our future planning. Over the next five years we shall look with fresh eyes at the values we hold dear and ensure that anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice is expressed and enacted in the best possible way throughout every aspect of our work. 

This message on our website is a statement of our intent and our commitment to learn, discuss and act. We have started a process of training within our organisation to understand the oppressions that people experience and our new EDI working group leads our learning, conversations and action. What we do, who does it and how we do it are crucial for us to understand. We make clear, today, our commitment to explore how lack of equity has an impact on our whole community. Are you an expert by experience, a GDWG visitor, trustee, a Refugee Tales walker or formerly detained person, and would you like to join our EDI working group? Please let us know. 

Thanks to everyone who is on this journey with us, to the external agencies who have already helped us on our way and to EMBED who are working with us over the coming months as we listen, learn and imagine better together.