Social

• We are Stonewall Diversity Champions
• We are signatories of Business Disability Forum and are currently working through our Action Plan following a recent audit of our processes from an accessibility and disability inclusion perspective
• A partner of Change 100 – an internship scheme for talented disabled students and graduates
• ‘Small Employer of the Year’ in the ENEI (Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion) Awards
• A proud registered member of Time to Change Employer Pledge to end mental health discrimination in the workplace
• We are an employer member of the Tommy’s Pregnancy and Parenting at Work programme
• We are an employer member of Working Families and we are happy to talk flexible working in relation to any of our vacancies
• We are active in the communities we work in, using our D&I pledge to engage with local and national projects such as action tutoring, or locally the brilliant club
• Mentoring schemes with local universities and colleges across the UK and we have a partnership with Young Diverse World Changers where we have 50 mentoring partnerships supporting disadvantaged students into a career in law)
• The Legal Scholarship scheme – a bursary and paid work experience at our Milton Keynes office
• Our corporate social responsibility programme encompasses a wide range of fundraising initiatives for both local and national charities each year
• We have trained 38 Mental Health First Aiders
• We are members of NOTICED – the UK’s first inter law diversity forum hosting events, training, networking opportunities aimed at increasing diversity within the legal profession

For us, it is important that our activities under ESG are aligned.  As an incentive to sign up to our D&I pledge we committed to planting a tree for every person who signed up in the first year of launching the pledge, so over the next 2 years in partnership with the Tree Council, we will be planting 500 trees.