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Wednesday, 28th Oct 2026 CSG
📅 Date: Wednesday, 28th Oct 2026
⏰ Time: 10.30 AM to 11.30 AM (GMT)
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Catchup on the Sept 26 CSG
Quick one for you, our Community Support Group catchups are now on Spotify too! So whether you fancy watching back on YouTube or listening on the go, we've got you covered. Perfect for a commute, a walk, or sharing with the team.
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What’s new this quarter: Q4 2026
Hey,
A quick run through what’s landed and what’s coming in your Committed Employer partnership.
Includability Academy
Our learning platform at incademy.co.uk is coming together, and four Expert courses are now complete: Everyday Pride with Saski, Neurodiversity in the Workplace with Kate La Trobe, Mental Health Awareness at Work with Matthew Holman and Simpila Wellbeing, and Good Leadership and Great Governance with Will Cleare. Your Academy account comes with some free content and Committed Employer discounts. Courses are charged per user per course.
Take a look: ↳ incademy.co.uk
JEDI Toolkit
Launching this month on the Academy. JEDI stands for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. B Corp Standards V2 made it a scored requirement with evidence behind it, and the toolkit is the route through it. The work stands on its own for organisations that aren’t B Corps.
There are Thirteen sections, each with a guidance document and a video, linked to the JEDI criteria it supports. Start wherever your gaps are. The plans, data, policies and trackers you produce along the way become your evidence.
Access the free modules here >
If your Cultural Roadmap included a JEDI Gap Analysis, the toolkit is how you close those gaps. It costs £999 plus VAT, or £650 plus VAT for Committed Employers.
Find out more: ↳ hello@includability.co.uk
Insight Self-ID Surveys
Confidential, voluntary Self-ID surveys that give you the workforce data behind your inclusion work, your board reporting and, for B Corps, your JEDI evidence. There are three options, from data collection through to full strategic reporting with JEDI-aligned recommendations. The surveys collect no names and no email addresses, and the raw data is analysed outside your organisation.
Talk to us: ↳ hello@includability.co.uk
Burnout Awareness First Aiders: Cohort 3
Cohort 2 is underway and runs to November. Cohort 3 is next, and you can register your interest now. Two places a year are included in your partnership, and additional places are £99 plus VAT.
The training is about building resilience within teams: spotting the early signs and supporting the people around you before pressure builds.
What’s included:
↳ Four live sessions with Katie Maycock, burnout and wellbeing specialist
↳ Sessions 1 and 2: understanding burnout, including from a personal point of view
↳ Sessions 3 and 4: building resilience in teams and the signs to look out for
↳ Access to the BAFA Hub, with recordings, workbooks and resources
It’s for anyone who manages a team, leads people, or wants to be the person their colleagues can lean on.
Register your interest: ↳ Sign up here
Inclusive Job Board
Your unlimited postings and branded company page are live, with Committed Employer status on every listing. We take the roles from your website, so just let us know when a new one goes up. Listings link back to your own site.
See the board: ↳ includability.co.uk
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↳ Over a thousand hours of Community Support Group video
↳ BILI, our AI-powered support chatbot
↳ 365-day awareness calendar
↳ Document library
↳ Discounted third-party support through the marketplace
↳ Your annual impact report through B1G1
Community Support Groups
Our next session is on Wednesday 28 October, 10:30 to 11:30am on Zoom. Claire Gray, founder of Neurotalent at Work, joins us, and Matthew Lock leads a panel on men’s mental health ahead of Movember. It’s free and open to your whole team.
💻 Registration Link: Sign up here
Missed September? ↳ Watch on YouTube
Coming next
↳ HIT sessions (Hot Inclusion Topics). Our first session runs this month. These are small, invite-only live sessions on one current topic, with a Partner Expert in the room. They’re private and not recorded, and invites will come to you directly.
↳ Includability Awards 2026. Nominations close 31 October and the ceremony is on 25 November. As a Committed Employer you’re entered automatically, and you can put yourself forward in as many categories as you like for free. Nominate here
If anything isn’t working the way you’d expect, or you’ve got a question, email me directly: james@includability.co.uk
Thanks,
James
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Awareness & Event Calendar
Dive into our interactive calendar, brimming with Awareness Days, Weeks, and Months! It's your one-stop destination to explore, search, and stay informed about the dates that matter. Talk to our team about Booking a Speaker Today from our Partner Experts.
For Access to our full calendar with 100's of Awareness Days & Events choose an Includability Membership today
The date marking when clocks go back one hour in the UK and daylight saving time ends, returning the country to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
A campaign to celebrate community gardening and improvement, particularly focused on floral displays and lighting in public spaces.
A day to raise visibility and awareness about intersex people, human rights issues, and challenges faced by the community.
An informal day encouraging people to scream to release tension or frustration.
A day encouraging people to track down lost or forgotten pension pots to secure their financial future.
A global observance to raise awareness of the serious nature and high rates of stroke, promoting prevention and treatment.
A day encouraging people to connect and network digitally to share ideas and build professional relationships.
An annual celebration observed in many countries on the eve of All Saints' Day, marked by costumes and trick-or-treating.
A night before Halloween (or sometimes Bonfire Night) where minor acts of vandalism and pranks are carried out.
A campaign to encourage parents to check their children’s hair for head lice, promoting detection and effective treatment.
A month dedicated to promoting agile ways of working and business flexibility across enterprises globally.
An annual event involving the growing of moustaches during November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and male suicide.
A day to celebrate the importance of books and writers in our lives.
A month dedicated to raising awareness about diabetes prevention, management, and research.
A month dedicated to raising the visibility of transgender people and addressing the issues they face.
An annual event celebrating the benefits of veganism for animals, the environment, and human health, marking the start of World Vegan Month.
A month dedicated to promoting the vegan lifestyle and raising awareness of animal welfare, environmentalism, and health benefits, starting with World Vegan Day.
A campaign to celebrate the essential work of charity trustees and encourage new people to volunteer for the role.
A week dedicated to raising awareness of stress management, mental well-being, and promoting better coping strategies.
An informal day celebrating the sandwich, commemorating the birthday of the alleged inventor, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
A day dedicated to improving the customer experience for disabled people and their families, with businesses committing to long-term changes.
A day raising awareness of stress management and promoting psychological well-being.
An annual commemoration in the UK to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, marked by bonfires and fireworks displays.
A week in the UK encouraging positive engagement between different faith and belief communities and increasing awareness of the contribution of faith communities to society.
A national observance on the second Sunday in November, marking the primary commemoration of the war dead with ceremonies and poppy wreaths.
A day dedicated to celebrating adoption and raising awareness of the need for adoptive families.
A national campaign to promote the best start for babies and their families, focusing on early years health and services.
A campaign encouraging everyone to open up conversations about money to improve financial well-being.
A day promoting positive online behaviour, encouraging users to spread kindness and combat online abuse.
A day to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
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Welcome to your Impact Dashboard!
This space showcases the incredible impact you're making as a valued Includability member.
Now, you can find your Quarterly Impact Report in the Client Area, tracking how your ICE Points contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) through B1G1, alongside community totals for trees planted via Carma and Ecologi.
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Supporting UN SDGs 5 and 16
One in three Cambodian men admits to having used violence against a partner in the past, indicating the scale of domestic violence. Through structured campaigns, This Life exploits Cambodia’s love of social media to reach large numbers of women at risk of domestic violence. Using social media, we put the power of the law on domestic violence and information about support groups directly into the hands of women at risk, and in the hands of those best placed to help them. Your support enables us to boost our posts within Cambodia to impact even larger numbers of women at a very low cost.
Supporting UN SDGs 3, 11, 16
Access to safe drinking water is the foundation to address the issues of health, education, food, and livelihood. This water is provided via the means of a Bio-Sand Water Filter (BSF) that lasts up to two decades, or more, and is able to provide safe water for an entire family. A BSF is a point-of-use water treatment system adapted from traditional slow sand filters. Your support provides clean water for an entire family through a BSF.
Supporting UN SDG 2
Many impoverished children suffer from diseases of malnutrition and lack the access to nutritious food. This project makes an impact by giving parents a supply of seeds to grow healthy crops, so that they can feed and sustain their children day after day. Maize, vegetable, soya bean, sunflower, peanut and cow pea seeds, along with tree seedlings, are given to subsistence farmers who are trained to develop both large crops and home gardens.
Supporting UN SDG 15
The rainforests of Borneo, home to the critically endangered orangutang, are threatened with large-scale destruction due to fire. In recent years, droughts have lasted longer and become more frequent. Through this project, we aim to recruit, establish and maintain a permanent fire brigade. We will equip them with specialised firefighting equipment and protective clothing to protect the forest.
Supporting UN SDGs 3 and 10
This project will help prevent child blindness by supporting the distribution of a daily dose of vitamin A supplements to a child in Turkana, Northern Kenya. In the early stages of physical development, it is important that a child receives the correct nutrition. Access to a proper diet is extremely limited in Turkana as people are nomadic pastoralist and live off the blood and milk of their animals. By treating children to prevent blindness you are helping a child living in poverty become more confident and courageous by providing him or her a new chance at life through improved nutrition.
Supporting UN SDGs 3 and 10
Nurse Ethiopian nursery school children back to health by providing medicine for a range of illnesses and infections. Many of these children lack access to basic medical care and are very susceptible to diseases and infections. Your contribution will aid in tackling such diseases and allow these children to grow up physically and healthily to become strong and independent adults.
Supporting UN SDGs 13 and 15
In Honduras, there is an alarming rate of natural habitats being lost to climate change, urban development, and rural-to-urban migration. To counter this, active forest rangers help slow the poaching of trees, water, and wildlife from the Triquilapa and Cantagallo Mountains. Nursery managers also make restoration and reforestation efforts possible to conserve this vital forest. Support these advance community-based efforts that protect biodiversity, and restore habitats that provide 20,000 people with potable water.
Supporting UN SDG 4
This project will help realise the potential of an underprivileged Ethiopian nursery school child by giving him or her one set of educational materials. These schools often lack sufficient school supplies such as pens, pencils and writing pads, and books have to be shared amongst a group of students. Your support for this cause will help these students get much more out of their education and give them a brighter future.
Supporting UN SDGs 3 and 10
Malaria kills over 400 000 people per year and over 200 million people fall ill. 70% of the deaths are children under 5; and malaria is the world's single largest killer of pregnant women. The most effective means of prevention is sleeping under a mosquito net, treated with long-lasting insecticide. These nets can be distributed for just $5.52 per net, with each net lasting 2 years. Your support would provide people at-risk of malaria with access to bednets, saving the lives of people who could otherwise have contracted malaria and died.
Supporting UN SDG 6
Provide access to clean water by sponsoring a simple well and water pump. In the villages of Malawi, high infant and child mortality rates are caused by water and sanitation related diseases. These problems are made even worse by a lack of knowledge about proper hygiene. Your contribution of a well and water pump well make such a difference to the life of a family in Malawi.
Be Inclusive, Learn, Inspire.
BILI (Be Inclusive, Learn, Inspire.) is an experimental chatbot designed to support organisations with learning and training in diversity, inclusion, mental health, sustainability, and leadership within the Includability Community.
