EAUC is the leading body for sustainability in the post-16 education sector in the UK and Republic of Ireland. We’ve been promoting sustainability in post-16 education for over 20 years. Primarily a membership body, we serve 300 organisations whilst also working to change systems that enable sustainability action. We’re both a charity and a company limited by guarantee and are always not-for-profit.
Our commitments
- At EAUC, one of our core values is being inclusive: we centre equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in everything we do.
- We strive to make our community a welcoming, caring and ambitious one for everyone. We work hard to ensure a ‘high performance, high wellbeing’ culture for our staff and those we work with, creating an environment where people in our community can achieve their personal and professional goals.
- We’re working to ensure we don’t just celebrate diversity but invite people with different viewpoints and experiences to shape our work. We want to ensure we create spaces for historically and currently marginalised individuals and communities to be seen, valued, heard and lead in the EAUC community.
- We are committed to a programme of activity focused on enhancing our performance as an organisation and identifying opportunities to support the post-16 education sector’s EDI work too.
- We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all and are striving to be an organisation where all staff and volunteers are able to thrive and be their whole selves.
- As part of our action on inclusion, diversity and equality, when we have job vacancies we encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented backgrounds and groups, including but not limited to, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation.
- We are a Disability Confident organisation and are dedicated to fair work and pay. We are active participants in the RACE Report and use our published transparency card to monitor progress and inform future work. We always pay at least the real Living Wage and do not offer any unpaid/non-credit-bearing placement opportunities or work experience.
What’s in the pipeline?
We know that like other organisations, we still have a long way to go. Each year we consider our progress and plan what we’ll do, in order to build on our work and do better in future. In 2024/25, we are committed to the following actions:
- Introducing mental health first aid training for line managers and team members.
- Introducing accessible communications guidelines for use by all our of staff.
- Investing in the EDI capabilities of our staff and board members.
- Including an honest narrative about our EDI efforts and impacts in our annual report.
- Setting team-wide EDI objectives as part of our annual performance and development processes.
- Ensuring EDI is explicit in our recruitment and induction practices, and onboarding activities support new members of EAUC staff to our EDI work.
- Introducing equality impact assessments in our project and event planning processes.
- Reviewing and updating our policy portfolio and recruitment practices.
- Joining the Diverse Sustainability Initiative to engage with broader networks and support.
- Conducting research with our members to better understand where those we work with are on their journey towards more equitable and inclusive ways of working, and supporting a diverse workforce.