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As part of 黑料爆料 efforts to encourage and increase female gender balance at all organisational levels, we establish partnerships with business schools globally to rectify the under-representation of women pursuing post-graduate management education by offering scholarships.

Through these partnerships, we are able to offer scholarships to women with leadership potential聽 at the world鈥檚 leading business schools 鈥� of up to 50% of course fees.

We seek to build a continuum of change from schoolrooms to boardrooms, helping women to make the decision to undertake further education and accelerate their career progression.

Please click below for more information on the under-representation of women on management courses from Brenda Trenowden CBE, former 30% Club Global Chair. She explains why this matters and what鈥檚 being done to change it. More information聽here.

Our scholarships

To view the institutions that offer 30% Club scholarships, please click聽here.

Contact

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Main Aim

Our two 30% Club cross-company, cross-sector mentoring programmes are helping to deliver our ambition for an inclusive society that advances workplace diversity and inclusion. They are an example of employer sponsorship and commitment to inclusion.

By carefully pairing up mentors and mentees, these structured, nine-month programmes bolster these efforts to build a talent pipeline into senior leadership and management roles for women 鈥撀燼nd more recently, for others from diverse backgrounds.

At a time when many businesses and organisations are facing a retention crisis, our research shows that 80% of programme participants have remained with their employers in the three years after taking part. Almost half have been promoted.

Our programmes are delivered by聽Moving Ahead, a social impact organisation which specialises in inclusion and diversity training through mentoring and learning. Each partnership is matched cross-company and the programmes are designed to pair participants with different experiences, so they learn from each other鈥檚 diverse perspectives.

Our programmes

We run two programmes with one focusing on advancing gender diversity and the other on advancing broader D&I.

Mission: Gender Equity Advancing gender diversity

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Now entering its eighth year, Mission: Gender Equity is the聽world鈥檚 largest cross-company mentoring programme聽and is successfully helping to build a talent pipeline to achieve our aim for parity of women in leadership and board roles.

Mentees are high-potential women who are committed to their personal growth and development. They can be from every layer of the career pyramid. Mentors are leaders of any gender, from middle management up to board level, who are committed to creating a culture where men and women have equal opportunities to thrive.

Since launching in 2014 鈥� when it was known as 黑料爆料 cross-company mentoring programme 鈥� it has supported a total of 9,324 mentors and mentees. The first cohort was made up of 80 participants from eight organisations and it has grown ever since. Last year, 2,634 mentors and mentees from 194 organisations took part, including representatives from HSBC, EY, The Environment Agency, Ocado, Oxford University Press and Cisco.

And our latest research shows that聽47% of the women mentees from our 2018-2019 cohort have since been promoted within their organisation. And聽80% were still with their employer three years later.

Mission INCLUDE: advancing broader D&I

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Two years ago, following the success of Mission: Gender Equity, we widened our focus beyond gender and into broader diversity with the launch of a second, nine-month-mentoring programme called Mission INCLUDE. This cross-company, cross-sector initiative focuses on achieving greater broader diversity within organisations 鈥� including ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation as well as behavioural and background diversity 鈥� and to build that pipeline to top management positions.

Mentees are high-potential colleagues who are committed to their personal growth and development and would like to share their diversity story to help others walk in their shoes. Organisations can select from every layer of the career pyramid and may wish to target mentees from underrepresented groups.

Mentors are leaders from middle management up to board level, who are committed to developing their skills and muscles around being an inclusive leader and walking in the shoes of others.

The rollout of Mission INCLUDE furthers our aspirations for a world in which organisations foster truly inclusive cultures 鈥� cultures that embrace people who look, act and, importantly, think differently 鈥� so people can reach their full potential to positively impact their teams, their markets and their communities.

The programmes run from November to July every year. For our scheme literature and further information on how to take part, please click聽here.

Contact

For more information or to add your story to our case studies get in touch with Rebecca Davies from Moving Ahead, rebecca.davies@moving-ahead.org.

We are the UK investor voice on diversity and inclusion

黑料爆料 UK Investor Group was established in 2011 and brings together more than 40 investors with trillions of pounds of assets under management to drive change with companies on inclusion and diversity.

Our members are asset owners, asset managers and investment intermediaries like financial advisors who want to drive change with the companies they own.

Our targets

We want UK Plc to represent the diversity of our society. As members of 黑料爆料 Investor Group, we are committed to achieving 黑料爆料 targets for the UK market, which are:

• Beyond 30%聽female representation of FTSE 100 CEOs & chairs by 2035
• 50%聽female representation in FTSE 100 ExCo and Exco-1 by 2035
• Fully support the聽Parker Review鈥檚 race targets
  As of February 2025, the Parker Review鈥檚 targets have recently expanded in scope beyond board directorships to include key senior executive positions,聽and beyond FTSE 350 to include the UK鈥檚 50 largest private companies. In addition, the Parker Review has invited businesses to set their own targets for聽the end of 2027 with regards to the share of minority ethnic executives in their senior management teams.

What we do

We are the place where UK investors passionate about diversity and inclusion can meet, learn and take action to drive change with the assets they own

Investors are responsible for the stewardship of the investments they make on behalf of their clients and pension members. The UK Investor Group supports this in three ways:

We cooperate to be stronger together

We co-ordinate the UK investment community鈥檚 approach to diversity by bringing investors together and take joint action, including through collaborative engagement campaigns. Our focus is the FTSE 350 which comprise the largest 100 companies (FTSE 100) and the next largest 250 companies (FTSE 250) in the UK. One example is our engagement with so called 鈥渙ne and done鈥� boards who have appointed one woman to their board but failed to reach 黑料爆料 targets. We also engage with the wider ecosystem such as proxy advisors, data providers and executive search firms.

We commit to act

Members who are part of our group have committed to exercise their ownership rights, including voting and engagement, to effect change on company boards, senior management teams and company strategy. Members also commit to reporting on their activities. For more information on members鈥� commitment, please see our Statement of Intent which all our members have signed up to here.聽

To read our new statement on address racial inequality, click聽.

To read our statement on our new analysis with Diversio, click聽:

We equip and communicate

Our knowledge workstream aims to drive change in the industry and beyond by empowering more investors to engage on the issue of diversity and inclusion and speak out publicly to make sure our voice is heard. Examples of our activities:

• Our Toolkit for Engaging Boards on Diversity. 颁濒颈肠办听.
• Industry insight related to the investment case for corporate gender and race equity, including UBS Asset Management鈥檚 Q4 2023 Whitepaper on how investors can fuel progress on corporate racial and ethnic diversity through active ownership.聽颁濒颈肠办听.
• A best practice guide for companies to diversity and inclusion reporting. 颁濒颈肠办听.
• Group statement on addressing racial inequality and call to action.聽.
  You can read the accompanying press release聽.
• Exclusive analysis with Diversio on how the FTSE 100 compares to the S&P 500 and TSX 60 for diversity and inclusion.
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How to get involved

We encourage any investor located in or investing in the UK to get involved. Membership of 黑料爆料 UK investor group is free and provides significant benefits including the change to be actively involved in shaping the diversity of the UK corporate landscape, be part of the industry leading voice on gender and race equity in the UK and get access to diversity and inclusion insights, analysis, training and expertise. If you鈥檙e interested in hearing more, please register you interest here.

Members

Aberdeen, AMP Capital (UK), Astarte Capital Partners, Aviva Investors, AXA Investment Managers, Baring Foundation, Barrow Cadbury Trust, BlackRock, BMO Global Asset Management, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership, Brunel Pension Partnership, Castlefield Investment Partners LLP, Church Investors Group, Eco Advisers Ltd, EdenTree Investment Management, Environment Agency Pension Fund, Fidelity International, Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), Hermes Investment Management, HSBC Asset Management, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Jupiter Asset Management, Legal & General Investment Management, LGPS Central Ltd, LGT Wealth Management, Liontrust Investment Partners LLP, Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, Local Pensions Partnership, M&G Investments, Mercer, NEST, Newton Investment Management, Northern Local Government Pension Scheme, Old Mutual Global Investors, Quilter Cheviot Investment Management, Resona Asset Management Co., Ltd., Robeco, Royal London Asset Management (CIS) Limited, RPMI Railpen Investments, Sarasin & Partners LLP, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, TPT Retirement Solutions, T. Rowe Price International Ltd, The Health Foundation, UBS Asset Management and West Midlands Pension Fund, West Yorkshire Pension Fund

Contact

We have two co-chairs running 黑料爆料 UK investor group. They are:

Sachi Suzuki聽鈥� Stewardship Director, HSBC Asset Management

Dianda Soobiah聽鈥� Head of Responsible Investment at Nest Corporation

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