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We are now turning our attention to this owned businesses, or support
year’s Pride Month as an opportunity businesses within our
to share lived experiences and drive supply chain regarding
meaningful discussion. We have also LGBTQ+ topics.
invested in trans awareness training
to educate our organisation about how The LGBTQ+ network in
best to support the trans community. action
While none of
OUR FUTURE PLANS us could have
Connecting people: Our LGBTQ+ network anticipated the
We will continue to connect our Pride Covid-19 pandemic
at Work community and allies for and the effect
networking, mentoring and information this has had on
sharing. We are developing our culture our progress, we
of collaboration, innovation and high are committed
performance to drive better outcomes to adapting to
for our colleagues and customers. the situation
The support we offer to LGBTQ+ and continuing
communities is key to making us an to drive
employer of choice, offering rewarding change. We
and inclusive careers to people in the are planning to
communities we serve. attend our first
ever Pride event this
We are now turning our summer, where we
will showcase all
attention to this year’s Pride our employee
Month as an opportunity to communities.
share lived experiences and We view our
drive meaningful discussion Pride at
Work

Attracting and retaining the best
LGBTQ+ talent
We strive to attract and retain LGBTQ+
employees in order to embrace
diversity throughout our business. Our
Pride at Work community is run by
our employees and senior leaders, and community
together with our recruitment team the as an extension
community is working to widen our of how we
LGBTQ+ talent pool. strive to
We are also building our understanding accept and
of how to become a trans-affirming include
workplace. To support local communities colleagues in
and inspire future generations, we have every way
recently proactively contributed to talks as their
at universities about LGBTQ+ experiences authentic
in the workplace. selves.
We recognise that
Diversity in our supply chain we have a lot of
Up to 75 per cent of the work we deliver work to do across
is though our extended supply chain, our organisation
which we have a huge opportunity to to continue
influence in terms of equitable, diverse raising LGBTQ+
and inclusive practices. awareness. We’re
We are on a journey to develop committed to making
relationships with a diverse portfolio a real difference to our
of businesses in order to grow and organisation by creating a culture
strengthen our supply chain. We will that drives innovation and enables our
reinforce our commitment to equality, colleagues to be their authentic selves.
diversity and inclusion and our
commitment to the LGBTQ+ community. To find out more about Cadent’s
We are building our foundations Equality, Diversity and Inclusion work,
internally, with a view to providing visit www.cadentgas.com/careers/life-at-
support and mentoring to LGBTQ+ cadent/diversity-and-inclusion

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