This summer, Arbeit is hosting the WORK Series.

Over June and July, Arbeit are hosting a number of Free workshops across Locations in Hackney Wick, Leyton Green and online.

The WORK series has been designed to provide knowledge, skills and support to businesses, creatives and communities. The series engages with a number of sectors;

WORK Smart - Workshops for business

WORK Together - Discussion based events

WORK Your Heart - Workshops for mental and physical wellbeing

WORK Your Eye - Visual arts focussed workshops

WORK Your Ear - Musical focussed workshops

WORK The Garment - Fashion focussed workshops

Go to www.arbeit.org.uk/galleries to find out more.

This series has been made possible thanks to the Culture Recovery Fund from Arts Council England.

Creating Safe Work Spaces

The drive for equality, inclusion and acceptance within society is louder today than it has ever been. Allyship is claimed by many normative groups, companies and organisations.

But how much of this is performative? And how can employers, businesses and companies develop to create safe, inclusive spaces where employees and customers feel respected, appreciated and safe ?

Join Leng Montgomery for a discussion evening centred around finding ways to create such spaces.

The discussion will include:

- the basis of bias and where it stems from

- what inclusion means and the forms it can take in the workspace

- actions that employers/companies can take to help create safe spaces

If you have questions or topics you would like raised, please email them to community@arbeit.org.uk and we will endeavour to work them into the discussion.

Leng Montgomery

Leng Montgomery is a passionate Trans D&I Senior Consultant from the UK who actively engages and consults with private and public sector companies.

He is a regular speaker within the D&I field and has appeared on BBC radio, he has also written policy and delivered keynote speeches to many organisations for UK and EMEA. He’s worked as a consultant but also in-house for companies such as ASOS, BDO, Sainsbury's and Cushman & Wakefield. Prior to this, Leng worked at Stonewall, where notably he worked on the Workplace Equality Index and the Trans inclusion guides that were launched in 2016.

In addition to this Leng also has done a lot of work in the Disability, Race & Ethnicity and Gender equality space leading on strategic planning and has a very keen passion for activating allyship and getting companies to look at people with an intersectional lens.

In 2014 he was the first openly trans contestant on BBC’s Masterchef and for two years running from 2014-2015 he was listed on the Independent’s Rainbow List in the ‘Ones to Watch’ category. He’s also one of the Top 10 2018 LGBT awards Corporate Rising Star category and a TEDx London speaker in 2018.

Diversity, Inclusion and Creating Safe Work Spaces with Leng Montgomery