Keynote speaker
June Sarpong
We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be TV Presenter, world leading diversity expert and awardwinning author of ‘Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration’ and ‘The Power of Women’, June Sarpong MBE. Join us to celebrate diversity and inclusion in Guernsey in a range of workshops and panel discussions.
Conference Agenda
We welcome you to our Equality Conference page where you will find information on the agenda for the days conference, the diverse workshop options and bios of our speakers. To attend you must book through Eventbrite or contact the team at hello@equality.gg, we are expecting to be full and tickets will be required.
We look forward to seeing you on the 4th July for a fabulous line up of speakers, panels and workshops to #StartTheConversation
4 July 2019
Morning
8.30
Coffee on arrival
8.30
Coffee on arrival
9.00
Equality Guernsey Opening Remarks
Alan Brown
9.00
Equality Guernsey Opening Remarks
Alan Brown
9.05
Equality in Guernsey, setting the scene
Deputy Emilie Yerby
9.05
Equality in Guernsey, setting the scene
Deputy Emilie Yerby
9.20
Equality in Guernsey, setting the scene
June Sarpong
9.20
Equality in Guernsey, setting the scene
June Sarpong
10.00
Questions and Answers
June Sarpong
10.00
Questions and Answers
June Sarpong
10.20
Coffee
10.20
Coffee
10.40
The Journey from Tolerance to Acceptance
James Partridge, Face Equality International
Jayne Ozanne, Ozanne Foundation
Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham
Chaired by: Tabitha Carr
10.40
The Journey from Tolerance to Acceptance
James Partridge, Face Equality
Jayne Ozanne,
Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham
Chaired by: Tabitha Carr
11.15
Questions and Answers
11.15
Questions and Answers
Workshop 1
11.30
Select one workshop to attend.
Online booking is required for each workshop.
11.30
Select one workshop to attend.
Online booking is required for each workshop.
Take a closer look at actual discrimination in Guernsey, a review of the big issues of 2018 in the Citizens Advice Bureau Report, and an opportunity to discuss how we make a difference as individuals and organisations.
Paul Chambers
James Partridge, Face Equality International
Vic Tanner Davy, Liberate Jersey
Lorraine Barker, GCFE
In addition, some of our guest workers may live and work in the grey area that can slide over into enslavement. Withholding passports, the application of force and coercion, including sexual assault, all point to cases meeting the criteria of slavery. But with minimal training and with little legislation in the area, cases are rarely recognised as such. And, of course, there is the slavery far away that reaches Guernsey through the things we buy, eat, and wear. Electronics, clothing, foodstuffs, and many other goods are produced by slavery and need our attention and action to reduce demand for these tainted products.
The situation is far from grim, however, our close-knit community, our lack of corruption and solid law enforcement, means that with some attention and action we will be able to say with certainty that slavery does not happen on the island. Come along to increase your understanding of what slavery is, and what it may look like in this small community, how the island can tackle the issue and what we can all do to combat slavery worldwide.
The workshop will take the form of a case-study and discussion led by Kevin Bales, Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, with contributions from Adrian Hale, head of AML/CFT Policy and Compliance for the Financial Intelligence Service and who has 29 years service at Guernsey Border Agency.
Kevin Bales
Adrian Hale
Jayne Ozanne, Ozanne Foundation
Dr Nicky Brink
Emily Litten, Mind Guernsey
A whistle stop tour of sexuality, sex and gender identity: Every single person on the planet has a sexuality and a gender identity but only some people are discriminated against because of theirs. We’ll cover the LGB, as well as the T, we’ll even touch on the S and C, and we guarantee that you hold at least one of these identities – come and find out which one.
Ellie Jones, Liberate
Lunch
12.45
Lunch will be served in the Guernsey College of Further Education hall.
Please email us at hello@equality.gg to let us know of any dietary requirements.
12.45
Lunch will be served in the Guernsey College of Further Education hall.
Please email us at hello@equality.gg to let us know of any dietary requirements.
Afternoon
1.30
Equality in the workplace
Dave Sauvarin, Northern Trust
Louise Misselke, Guernsey College of Further Education
Chaired by: Vic Tanner Davy
1.30
Equality in the workplace
Dave Sauvarin, Northern Trust
Louise Misselke, Guernsey College of Further Education
Chaired by: Vic Tanner Davy
2.20
Questions and Answers
2.20
Questions and Answers
2.40
Tea and Coffee Break
2.40
Tea and Coffee Break
Workshop 2
3.00
Select one workshop to attend.
Online booking is required for each workshop.
3.00
Select one workshop to attend.
Online booking is required for each workshop.
Take a closer look at actual discrimination in Guernsey, a review of the big issues of 2018 in the Citizens Advice Bureau Report, and an opportunity to discuss how we make a difference as individuals and organisations.
Paul Chambers
Guernsey Disability Alliance
Guernsey Employment Trust
Walkers
Employment Social Security
Vic Tanner Davy, Liberate Jersey
Lorraine Barker, GCFE
A focus on inclusive and mixed age communities, loneliness, dementia friendly communities, equality and inclusion within the care sector and the role of technology in reducing loneliness.
Dave Inglis, Chairman of Age Concern
Sue Fleming, Matron, St John’s Residential Home
Julie Bulpitt, Dementia Friendly Guernsey
Jayne Ozanne, Ozanne Foundation
Sarah Boddey, Northern Trust
Dr Nicky Brink
Emily Litten, Mind Guernsey
A whistle stop tour of sexuality, sex and gender identity: Every single person on the planet has a sexuality and a gender identity but only some people are discriminated against because of theirs. We’ll cover the LGB, as well as the T, we’ll even touch on the S and C, and we guarantee that you hold at least one of these identities – come and find out which one.
Ellie Jones, Liberate
Close
4.00
Round up and close
Alan Brown and Deputy Emilie Yerby
4.00
Round up and close
Alan Brown and Deputy Emilie Yerby
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Speakers
Join us for a celebration of diversity and inclusion during the morning session with a deeper look at what it means to be an inclusive, organisation or employer during the afternoon.
Alan Brown
Alan Brown
He was Headteacher at Oakvale, Le Rondin and Le Murier before moving to the Education Department, finally retiring from the post of Director of Education at the end of 2017.
His passion for ensuring that all people in society are treated fairly and with respect no matter their background and personal circumstances led to him applying for the voluntary position as Chair of the EWG, a position he took up in February 2018. He is pleased to be working with such committed and experienced colleagues at this critical time in Guernsey, in the development of the equality agenda and the rights of all Guernsey people.
Alan also works as a civil, commercial and workplace mediator.
Deputy Emilie Yerby
Deputy Emilie Yerby
June Sarpong
June Sarpong
was when she started on Channel 4’s T4 that she became a household name.
June hosted 2005’s Make Poverty History event and presented at the UK leg of Live Earth in 2007. In 2008 she hosted Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations in front of 30,000 people in London’s Hyde Park. June has also interviewed and introduced some of the world’s biggest names including HRH Prince of Wales, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and George Clooney.
She has worked extensively with HRH Prince Charles as an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, whilst campaigning for The One and Produce (RED). June was awarded an MBE in 2007 for her services to broadcasting and charity, making her one of the
youngest ever people to receive an MBE.
June is the co‐founder of the WIE Network (Women: Inspiration & Enterprise). This acclaimed conference has featured leading speakers including Sarah Brown, Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan, Queen Rania, Nancy Pelosi and Iman.
After living in America for eight years, June moved back to the UK in 2015, and is now a regular panellist on Sky News’ weekly current affairs discussion show, The Pledge.
June is also an author of two award winning books; ‘Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration’ and The Power of Women. Diversify is launching across USA and Canada in Summer 2019.
Tabitha Carr
Tabitha Carr
In today’s society we all stand up and say we want everyone to succeed, we want everyone to reach their dream but how can we when half of us are being held back. I believe we should all be involved in the conversation and the only way to do that is by having equal opportunity, equal rights and over all having equality.
James Partridge
James Partridge
James says “I’m delighted to be invited to be an Ambassador of Equality Guernsey because this is the right time for the island to recognise how fundamental human rights and equality are for all of us and to act accordingly.”
The alliance’s website is here: www.faceequalityinternational.org.
Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
Working with vulnerable people has been a fundamental aspect of Paul’s work over the past 20 years. In all of his roles he has never been afraid to influence policy and practical change so that the voices of those who have no voice at all can be heard. “The best way to tackle any problem is at its source, treating causes rather than symptoms. It saves people from suffering the same problems over and over again”.
Jayne Ozanne
Jayne Ozanne
“As a Christian I believe that we are each uniquely created and equally loved by a God who calls us to be ambassadors of the same. Our society is therefore always far stronger when we embrace and celebrate our differences whilst treating each other with mutual love and understanding. I am thrilled to be part of the Equality Guernsey Campaign as I know that the island has always been a steadfast rock that offers a place of refuge to all. I am looking forward to “coming home” in July to participate in the EGC conference so that we can explore this together further.”
www.ozanne.foundation
Kevin Bales
Kevin Bales
Adrian Hale
Adrian Hale
The Financial Intelligence Service (FIS) is a Division of the Economic Crime Division, Guernsey Border Agency. The FIS is responsible for the receipt, development and dissemination of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and the development of cases for criminal investigation or civil forfeiture.
I have extensive experience in Anti Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism having worked in all areas of the ECD including non conviction based forfeiture
Vic Tanner Davy
Vic Tanner Davy
Lorraine Barker
Lorraine Barker
For me this work is about treating everyone with dignity and respect and empowering people to challenge the status quo to improve their lives.
Dr Nicola Brink
Dr Nicola Brink
Sarah Boddey
Sarah Boddey
Sarah joined Northern Trust in July 2016 and is responsible for the strategy and implementation of a wide variety of diversity and inclusion programmes and initiatives in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions. As part of the Global Office of Diversity & Inclusion she is responsible for supporting the business to recruit, develop and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Before joining Northern Trust, Sarah headed up Diversity and Inclusion teams at AIG and Barclays Wealth. Prior to this she held a variety of HR roles at Morgan Stanley and Simmons & Simmons LLP.
Sarah holds a BA in International Management and Business Administration with German from the University of Reading. Additionally she holds an MSc in Human Resource Management and an MBA from the Open University.
She is a Fellow of the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development) and is bilingual English/German. Sarah is also a Magistrate, serving in the East London Local Justice Area across two magistrates’ courts. Additionally she sits on the board of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, advising them on diversity and inclusion.
Sarah is a qualified Mental Health First Aid instructor, delivering Mental Health First Aid England’s one and two day courses on mental health both within Northern Trust and externally.
Ellie Jones
Ellie Jones
We all have an identity that means that we may be treated differently for some reason – whether we realise that or not. And we have a moral duty to protect people who are more vulnerable than ourselves from discrimination. And, thats why I (and Liberate) are involved in the EWG.
Personally I would love to see people changing their views and perception towards LGBTQ+ people, in particular for people to take the time to understand the Trans community more. It would be an amazing achievement if we could all be more accepting of people who are different to ourselves and we can only do this by listening to each other and engaging with each other.
Liberate support the LGBTQ+ community, their family and friends, we campaign to to update laws to be LGBTQ inclusive, we inform people of LGBTQ+ issues, and hold inclusive events to create an open dialogue with regards to these issues.
Dave Savaurin
Dave Savaurin
Dave is CEO of Northern Trust Channel Islands where he is responsible for the Banking, Fund Administration and Fiduciary business.
Dave has previously represented Northern Trust’s Channel Islands business on a number of regional diversity and inclusion resource councils, campaigning for excellence in recruiting, developing and deploying the highest calibre workforce.
Louise Misselke
Louise Misselke
Emily Litten
Emily Litten
Karen Blanchford
Karen Blanchford
Karen returned home to Guernsey in 2014 after spending much of her working life in Europe, Australasia and North America. Having a young family Karen chose to give up consulting (lots of travel) and started a new life in the 3rd sector, firstly with the Disability Alliance. Whilst working and volunteering in the sector she felt a need to pull together a wider group of like minded people on the topics of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and in 2016 formed the Equality Working Group. It’s first role being to provide input into the Government and Disability & Inclusion Strategy board on broader equality issues, findings and guidance, with specific reference to the Equality Rights Organisation (ERO).
Karen is currently We All Matter, Eh? projects director and can be contacted on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN.
Sarah Ash
Sarah Ash
Sarah has experience in advising companies in a broad range of industries including financial services, insurance, legal and media. She also has in-house secondment experience working within both employment legal and HR teams and spent time in a major international bank where she gained invaluable experience of employment related matters from the client’s perspective.
Nikki Ioannou-Droushiotis
Nikki Ioannou-Droushiotis
Her role is to ensure that disabled people get a quality supported employment service and that the service continues to develop to meet the needs of disabled islanders. She takes great pride in the fact that the team work hard to provide the right types of support to both employers and individuals with barriers to employment.
Dave Inglis
Dave Inglis
The support services are organised by a management committee who establish contact and friendship for many islanders. Having been an accomplished and experienced motivator with a solid history of achievement in both strategic planning and day-to-day operations ensuring that best practices are followed for maximum efficiency. Has helped in establishing a well-respected charity
In recent years David was the Chair Person for Young Enterprise, following ten years as an advisor, he has also served as a past Chair Person of PostWatch Guernsey and past President of the Bowmen of Guernsey. He has been a members of the Confederation of Guernsey Industry (CGi) management board and a former Chair Person of Guernsey Island Games Association. Community work within my Parish has culminated in carrying out the roles of Procurer for the Poor, Constable, and Douzenier. Over a 15 year period.
I enjoy golf, walking, family time and I’m a loyal Leeds United Football Club supporter above all, I’m always keen to challenge myself.
Julie Bulpitt
Julie Bulpitt
She is a dementia champion and delivers awareness sessions to carers, businesses and organisations and manages a small team of dementia champions and supports professionals. Julie has personal experience of dementia through family members and has previously worked with those living with dementia.
This event is supported by Northern Trust
