Helping employers to recognise the value of inclusive recruitment
Inclusive recruitment is the process of connecting with, interviewing, and hiring a diverse set of individuals through understanding and valuing different backgrounds and opinions.
An inclusive recruitment environment considers how different experiences, opinions and values can work together to achieve a common goal.
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In short, it?s about looking at your company?s practices and ensuring you are not placing anyone at a disadvantage. It means you are looking locally, adapting your practices to bring new people in to help your company grow.
It?s about knowing your local community and the organisations that can help you to diversity your workforce; and recognising that everyone has a past and your company could be a part of their future.
Stakeholder managers for the Building Better Opportunities programme like Sarah Bull (left) and Maria Ward work with a range of employment and skills providers dedicated to supporting people furthest away from the labour market.
For more information and to access a free library of resources on how businesses can develop inclusive recruitment practices, visit?bbo-d2n2.org.uk
Grants to help businesses reduce energy costs
Businesses are currently facing a number of inflationary pressures, not least the rising cost of energy. Businesses are also increasingly looking at how they can decarbonise and reduce their carbon footprint.
Nottingham City Council?s Accelerating Reduction in Carbon (ARC) project helps small and medium sized businesses in Nottingham and Greater Nottingham to reduce their energy bills and decarbonise through the introduction of energy efficiency measures.
To help businesses invest in measures that lead to cost and carbon savings Nottingham City Council is offering grants between ?1,000 and ?16,000. The grant can fund 35% of the costs of installing energy saving measures such as LED lighting, energy efficient heating and cooling systems, refrigeration, solar panels and insulation.
Information on the support available and how to apply for a grant can be found at www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/arc
Alternatively contact David Kelly, the Project Manager, at [email protected] or 0115 876 4271.
 Part funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
UK Community Renewal Fund events:
Setting up a CRM
Tuesday 28 June?
Would you like to create and maintain lasting relationships with?your client base?? Do you also want to be able to use your client database to target the right customers about specific products and services relevant to them?
Maintaining strong customer relationships is simple when you have a good understanding of your customer data. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software will give you all the tools that you need to make the best use of your customer data to develop and grow long-lasting customer accounts.
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Join us for this two-part action planning workshop to see how you can configure a CRM system to give you all the information your business needs to grow.
East Midlands Chamber subsidises SME access to Zellar sustainability platform
In a bid to support the net zero efforts of the region?s SMEs, East Midlands Chamber is subsidising the cost of 400 one-year licences to access the Zellar sustainability platform.
Zellar empowers SMEs to rise to the challenge of climate change by making sustainability simple and actionable.
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It supports UK businesses with a single view of their emissions and with step-by-step guidance on how to become a more sustainable business.
As well as helping them calculate and manage its carbon footprint, the platform helps a business understand its performance against competitors and create a decarbonisation action plan with measurable results.
 Carbon Literacy training for SMEs
6 & 7 July 2022, attendance is required at both sessions.
If you feel that you need to do something to get you started on your journey to combat climate change and are working for or with an SME, then through this course you will get the knowledge and tools to set you off on the right path.
By the end of the course, delegates will have:
- Gained an understanding of the basic science of climate change and how climate change will affect us both globally and locally
- Gained an understanding of how climate change will affect SMEs
- Explored the low carbon objectives in the SME sector
- Created an action plan to help reduce the carbon footprint of their workplace
- Explored strategies for influencing others to take action on climate change
What is Carbon Literacy?
An awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.
 These initiatives are offered as part of the?East Midlands Accelerator, a ?5.27m project part-funded by the Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund (UKCRF).
SEO and content marketing for start-ups and small businesses
Thursday 7 July from 11 to 11:45am
When people are searching for something, they are actively looking for you, they just don't know it yet! Get found by new audiences by optimising your website, and connect with them through quality content.
In this session, we'll explain what SEO and content marketing are, how they work, and more importantly, how to get you started on increasing your organic traffic to your website. We'll talk about keyword research, page optimisation, starting your own content marketing and how to attract more customers to your website through organic search.
If you have a website or are thinking about getting a website, then this webinar is for you. It doesn't matter if you sell products or services, work locally or on a global level: if you want to get found in search engines, you need to know about SEO and content marketing.
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