Equity and Inclusion

We aim to create a welcoming, caring and learning culture in which we recognise and promote the diversity of people and nature, break down barriers to engagement to help build resilient communities and environments, and work together towards a more inclusive and just world.

Our priorities are:

Recruitment

Ensure that our team of staff, trustees, volunteers, freelancers and contractors reflect London’s diverse population and actively seek to recruit to redress imbalances, as well as prioritise local recruitment. 

Retention 

Retain, develop and progress our staff through ongoing training, by encouraging curiosity, new learning and sharing perspectives and by designing safe channels for feedback.

Accessibility of our gardens 

Improve physical accessibility; increase outreach to harder-to-reach groups; prioritise use of the gardens to respond to the needs of local diverse communities. Ensure that our spaces reflect the diversity of our locations through inclusive co-design, made with local communities rather than for local communities. 

Inclusive communications

Consider language on marketing materials; use of visuals, translations, sign language, sensory accommodations for blind people; welcoming entrances to the gardens.

Global perspectives

Use an equity and inclusion lens when developing programmes, designing gardens, growing plants and in the stories we tell. We do this by educating ourselves and working in partnership with people from different backgrounds and with different lived experiences.

Partnership working

Actively seek out partnerships from a wider network of local, national and global organisations to ensure we are aware of latest movements and ideas around racial, land and environmental justice.