HM Land Registry’s Women’s Network are pleased to be hosting an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Nottingham. The event is open to HM Land Registry employees and colleagues from across the Civil Service.

We will be joined by guest speakers Keela Shackell-Smith, Gender Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Emma Dunn, chair of a:gender the Civil Service support network covering all aspects of gender reassignment, gender identity, gender expression and Intersex.

Our guests will be delivering some incredibly inspiring talks on topics such as living and working as an Intersex person, navigating shared parental leave as part of a same-sex relationship, founding a Civil Service Women’s Network and much more.

In addition, we will be hosting a diverse and informative open space session. Here, we will cover topics such as postnatal mental health and wellbeing with guest Charmaine Daley (previously featured on BBC news) a fitness instructor who fought postnatal depression with Zumba and now teaches others how to do the same.

There will be a visit from Joanne Ratcliffe from the Nottingham Women's Centre, who offer advice, guidance, counselling and therapies for women as well as providing a safe space for those in crisis. We’ll also delve into topics such as endometriosis awareness and the menopause with first-hand accounts, and we’ll be celebrating our history with a look back at the suffragettes.

Please register for each of the sessions you wish to attend. This helps us to open up our limited number of spaces to as many people as possible.

• Talk 1 10am to 11am - Keela Shackell-Smith

• Talk 2 11:30am to 12:30pm - Emma Dunn

• Open space session - 1:30pm to 3:30pm

We are hoping to record both Emma and Keela’s talks. If you can’t make our event but you would like us to send you a link to the recordings, please register for ‘recordings only’ using your Civil Service email address.