Mark 20th anniversary of Living Wage; learn how to tackle homelessness & food poverty; identify how to promote race equality at work at Cambridge City Council’s event celebrating the Living Wage.
Join us on Zoom on 16th November to learn how you can help tackle poverty and inequality in Cambridge. Organised and chaired by Cambridge City Council.
We will be sharing how businesses can help tackle food poverty in the city, and the difference businesses have made in the pandemic. We will also briefly introduce our Climate Award module launched in October and opportunities that promoting action on climate change and climate diets offers businesses..
Other speakers at the event include:
- The Living Wage Foundation: To mark Living Wage Week (15th to 21st November), as we celebrate 20 years of the national campaign for the real Living Wage. The Living Wage Foundation will also explain the difference the living wage movement makes locally and nationally, and explain practicalities for becoming accredited with the Living Wage Foundation. The real Living Wage is independently calculated based on what employees and their families need to live. That is why it’s higher than the Government’s minimum wage, which has now been rebranded as the ‘National Living Wage’.
- It Takes A City: On engaging public, private and third sector bodies to work together in new ways to end rough sleeping due to homelessness in Cambridge. It Takes a City will introduce their new 'Sharing Spaces' guide, aimed at providing businesses with clear information on how to engage positively with rough sleepers and homeless people.
- Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum (CECF) will share best practice on how employers can promote race equality, diversity, and inclusion in their workplaces. CECF has produced a toolkit on this for employers, which draws on their expertise from running the Cambridgeshire Human Rights and Equality Support Service (CHESS) providing free advice, support and advocacy to people who have experienced discrimination, including in the workplace.
For more information on the event, please contact helen.crowther@cambridge.gov.uk.
We are really excited by the range of speakers and topics for this event and hope to see you there!
Register for free here.