UKELA's 2020-2025 Strategic Plan sets out a number of aims, including a key aim around strengthening our commitment to a diverse and inclusive organisation. On this page, you can find more details about this aim and the activities we have in place. We will update this page regularly so do check back for new content, which will be uploaded regularly.

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Our Strategic Plans says that we will promote greater inclusion throughout the environmental law field, aiming for diverse speaker line-ups across our events portfolio; and continue to promote a diverse and inclusive board, voluntary and staff team. We will achieve this in the following ways:

• UKELA is committed to creating an inclusive environment where its membership can thrive through diversity.
• UKELA recognises it has a role to play in supporting legal professionals from all backgrounds, gender, and ethnicities to participate in its activities.
• Increase representation of those from underrepresented groups; as well as building partnerships with different organisations to support this
• Ensure that diversity and inclusion are integral to UKELA’s activities
• Promote and support the active participation of members from a range of backgrounds and provide a platform for diversity of issues
• Increase diversity of UKELA’s Council and Executive bodies

We've set up a Diversity & Inclusion team that will take forward the strategic aim. The team consists of UKELA trustees and members and will meet regularly to review actions.

Please feel free to contact us on edimembersforum@ukela.org to discuss any issues which you’d like to raise.