The Forest Stewardship Council ® (FSC®) UK is a registered charity dedicated to promoting responsibly forestry and helping to ensure Forests For All Forever.
FSC UK would like to make a public commitment to work towards improving diversity within the environment and sustainability sector, and among environment and sustainability professionals.
In 2023:
- Developed our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy and made this visible on our website.
- Provided unconscious bias training to line managers
- Ensured application packs used inclusive terminology and did not overstate the skills/experience required for a role
- Continued to anonymise applications
- Collated data on diversity of staff and applicants and took part in the Race Report
- Continued to learn from others
In 2024:
- Continue to conduct our annual EDI survey and submit data to the RACE report
- Collect data on applicants and establish systems to review the data and report internally
- Explore a greater range of advertising media, and particularly social media, to reach a more diverse talent pool
- Continue our work to ensure application packs use inclusive terminology and do not overstate the skills/experience required for a role
- Offer unconscious bias training to all staff
- Embed EDI into the selection criteria for projects submitted to our proposed impact investment fund
- Further develop our EDI policy
- Support The Raven Network
- Continue to learn from others particularly through networks such as the IEMA initiative and Wildlife & Countryside Link