Posted on 15 April 2025
Our gender staff network, Aspire hosted an event for colleagues and business partners.
To celebrate the day people were invited to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness about discrimination, and take action to shape gender parity.
Focusing on this year’s theme 'Accelerating Action for Gender Equality', we heard powerful stories from our speakers who included:
- Julie McCullie, Head of Delivery and Change, the Hyde Group
- Vanessa Denny, Senior Assistant Company Secretary, the Hyde Group
- Sarah Andrews, Marketing Manager, Hyde New Homes
- Ciarán O'Shea, New Business and Partnerships Director, Morgan Sindall
They shared the challenges they’d faced in their personal and professional lives, and what had sparked their personal growth. Following with a panel discussion to further discuss these topics.
Nimi Shepard-Patel, Fundraising Manager and member of Aspire, said:
"This year our event focused on accelerating change and we wanted to make sure we included more than just our Hyde colleagues in the event. We invited community partners and social value partners to the event - more perspectives lead to more learning; more learning means ideas around actionable change are informed by a wider range of lived experience.
"We're proud to collaborate across our wider networks to increase awareness and spearhead change one person, one attitude or one behaviour at a time".