TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Being inclusive is everyone’s business and at PAN, we offer a range of training and development to businesses and organisations to ensure staff and volunteers are upskilled and educated about the issues that affect people within our communities.

In 2023 alone, we have delivered our training and workshops to hundreds of professionals.

These include Youth and Community Workers, Designated Safeguarding Leads, School Nurses, Adopters and Foster Carers, Registered Childcare Officers, Advocates, Senior Managers in Fire Services, Advocates, the list goes on.

Why choose us?

Everyday, PAN staff work with LGBTQIA+ people across the North. It’s our job to share our skills, knowledge and experience so that LGBQTIA+ people can live their lives free from discrimination, prejudice and receive the support that they deserve.

All staff at PAN have extensive knowledge and lived experience and because we work with children and vulnerable adults

INCLUSIVITY WORKSHOP

We are in 2023 and, while we would have hoped to have seen and end to all kinds of discrimination, it still sadly exists in many forms, whether it be deliberately malicious or unintentional.

To protect memes of the LGBTQIA+ community, Pride Action North offers a range of training and development sessions to businesses and organisations to ensure their staff are educated about the latest topics within the LGBTQIA+ community.

WORKSHOP content

Safe spaces versus sterile spaces
Defining key terms
Understanding spectrums
Intersex, trans and nonbinary
Intersectionality
Personal identity
Mental health and being LGBTQ+
Practical allyship
Positive LGBTQ+ experiences

BESPOKE WORKSHOPS

Every workplace is different and we at Pride Action North understands this. If there are any specific LGBTQIA+ topics you would like us to cover, we can facilitate this.

Examples of previous bespoke workshops we have delivered include:

The History of Pride – One customer wanted us to deliver a workshop chronicling the history of Pride and why it is still so important across the world today.

How to be more inclusive – An organisation contacted us requesting a workshop specifically looking at how they could be more inclusive to members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and requested case studies of employees.

Protected Characteristics – One organisation wanted us to deliver a workshop around all the nine protected characteristics and intersectionality.

COSTS

As Pride Action North is a charitable organisation, we do not seek to make a profit so any additional proceeds from our workshops goes directly back to our charity to ensure we can provide valuable services to members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Our workshops are bespoke to individual organisations and start from £300+VAT for our standard offer.

To find out the cost of our workshops, contact us. We offer special rates to not for profit organisations.

testimonials

“Having a number of LGBTQIA+ members in our team, we knew that it was important that this year’s Pride Month was more than just a celebration. We wanted to recognise the daily struggle that many people within the community, particularly our trans colleagues and friends, are facing and ensure that all of our team had the opportunity to educate themselves on the issues and be able to ask questions in a safe space. Angela spoke to our whole team and explained in a very accessible and sensitive way, the true meaning and history of the Pride movement, the current situation across the world and gave some great hints and tips on how to be a good ally, the importance of pronouns and how to identify and deal with trans, homo and biphobia. It was highly interactive and the number of questions from the team demonstrated the level of engagement which was largely due to Angela’s understated and empathetic delivery.”

“It was great to have Angela speak with our team about the Pride movement and LGBTQIA+ issues generally – we all learned something and came away with practical tips on how to identify and deal with discrimination.”

“The inclusivity and diversity training from Pride Action North was incredibly insightful, informative, thought provoking, and provided the platform for the entire team to ask probing questions to gain a better understanding of issues which may impact members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the workplace. The training has left a big impression on the team and has started the conversation about areas in which we can improve in our pursuit of being welcoming and accommodating to all members of society.”