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The Excellence In Diversity Awards
The Excellence in Diversity Awards is an awards ceremony which honours Inclusive Employers and Diversity Champions across all five different sectors. It is held annually in various venues across the United Kingdom. Founded by current CEO, Paul Sesay, who is also the founder and CEO of I Spoil U Media, The National Diversity Awards and The Diversity Group, The Excellence in Diversity Awards launched in 2015. The Excellence in Diversity Awards 2016 will take place at The Queens Hotel, Leeds on 12 May. Award Sectors & Categories The awards are honoured to individuals & organisations across five different sectors: Charity; Education; Housing; Public; and Private. The Excellence in Diversity Awards consists of The Diversity Champion Award, The Diverse Company Award, The Employee of The Year Award, The Best Diversity Resource Award, Marketing Campaign of the Year Award, Outstanding Diversity Network Award, Head of Diversity & Inclusion Award and the Lifetime Achiever award. The Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort ('' castra'') of ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentoo (housing)
Gentoo may refer to: * Gentoo penguin, a species of bird. * Gentoo Linux Gentoo Linux (pronounced ) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the ..., a computer operating system distribution named after the penguin. * Gentoo (file manager), a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems. * Gentoo (term), an alternative, archaic name of the Telugu language, or a historical, archaic term for Hindus. * Gentoo Code, a document translated from Sanskrit regarding inheritance laws in Hinduism. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Giles Trust
St Giles Trust is a charity that works with people facing disadvantages such as homelessness, long-term unemployment, an offending background, addiction, severe poverty and involvement in gangs. History The organisation was established in 1962 by Fr. John Nicholls as The Camberwell Samaritans in the crypt of St Giles church in Camberwell, south London, offering relief and support to the large number of destitute people in the parish. This included emergency relief and support for the large number of homeless men in the area - a prevailing feature of the area at that time due to many local hostels and workhouses, including the infamous Camberwell Spike on Gordon Road. The Trust formally dissolved its ties to the church in the 1970s. In 1995 it moved to its current headquarters in Georgian House, Camberwell Church Street and became known as the Southwark Day Centre. In 1998, St Giles started to offer housing casework in HMP Wandsworth. Over the next decade, the prisons work grew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 trillion in assets under custody (AUC) and $4.9 trillion in assets under administration (AUA), respectively. HSBC traces its origin to a hong in British Hong Kong, and its present form was established in London by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to act as a new group holding company in 1991; its name derives from that company's initials. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened branches in Shanghai in 1865 and was first formally incorporated in 1866. HSBC has offices in 64 countries and territories across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America, serving around 40 million customers. As of 2022, it was ranked no. 38 in the world in the Forbes rankings of large companies ranked by sales, profits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASDA
Asda Stores Ltd. () (often styled as ASDA) is a British supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Leeds, England. The company was founded in 1949 when the Asquith family merged their retail business with the Associated Dairies company of Yorkshire. It expanded into Southern England during the 1970s and 1980s, and acquired Allied Carpets, 61 large Gateway Supermarkets and other businesses, such as MFI Group. It sold these acquisitions during the 1990s to concentrate on the supermarkets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until 1999 when it was acquired by Walmart for £6.7 billion. Asda was the second-largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2014 by market share, at which point it fell into third place. Besides its core supermarkets, the company also offers assistance for insurance and payment services and a mobile phone provider. In February 2021, the Issa brothers (Mohsin and Zuber) and TDR Capital acquired Asda. Walmart retains "an equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
The ''Northampton Chronicle & Echo'' (known locally as ''"The Chron"'') is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. It was published daily from Monday-Saturday until 26 May 2012 at a price of £0.48. It then began to publish one edition per week each Thursday for £1.00 (2014: £1.20) (2015: £1.30) (2016: £1.40) (2017: £1.45) (2018: £1.50) (2019: £1.60). It had a circulation of 17,483 in the first half of 2010, a year on year decline of 7.8%, and the decline continued into 2012. The paper is owned by JPIMedia. Origin The title was the result of a 1931 merger of two dailies: the ''Northampton Daily Chronicle and Evening Herald'' (founded 1880) and the ''Daily Echo'' (founded in 1885 and retitled as the ''Northampton Daily Echo'' in 1908), which occupied a striking art deco office building overlooking Northampton's famous market square. This was demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a shopping development. A blue plaque m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- campus; many of its courses (both undergraduate and postgraduate) can also be studied anywhere in the world. There are also a number of full-time postgraduate research students based on the 48-hectare university campus in Milton Keynes, where they use the OU facilities for research, as well as more than 1,000 members of academic and research staff and over 2,500 administrative, operational and support staff. The OU was established in 1969 and was initially based at Alexandra Palace, north London, using the television studios and editing facilities which had been vacated by the BBC. The first students enrolled in January 1971. The university administration is now based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, but has administr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jermain Jackman
Jermain Jackman (born 10 January 1995) is a British singer and political activist who won the third series of the BBC television singing competition ''The Voice UK'' in 2014. His debut album, ''Jermain Jackman'', was released on 23 March 2015. He was twice a candidate for the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) in 2020. He is a member of the Musicians' Union and Unite. Early life and education Jackman was born in Hackney, London to an Afro-Guyanese family with four older siblings and a twin sister. He attended the Islington Arts and Media School in Finsbury Park and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow, where he trained in music. He then went on to study Politics at the University of Leeds. He graduated from SOAS University of London in 2022. Music and television 2014: ''The Voice UK'' and career beginnings Jackman was the winner of series 3 of ''The Voice UK'' in April 2014, and the first male to win the competition. He beat Christina Marie, who was the fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of the British company Reuters Group in April 2008. It is majority-owned by The Woodbridge Company, a holding company for the Thomson family. History Thomson Corporation The forerunner of the Thomson company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario, as the publisher of ''The Timmins Daily Press''. In 1953, Thomson acquired the ''Scotsman'' newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year. He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957, when he won the franchise for Scottish Television. In 1959, he bought the Kemsley Group, a purchase that eventually gave him control of the '' Sunday Times''. He separately acquired the ''Times'' in 1967. He moved into the airline business in 1965, when he acquired Britanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action For Children
Action for Children (formerly National Children's Home) is a United Kingdom, UK children's charity created to help vulnerable children & young people and their families in the UK. The charity has 7,000 staff and volunteers who operate over 475 services in the UK. They served a total of 368,648 children in 2019 and 2020. Action for Children's national headquarters is in Watford, and it is a Charitable organization, registered charity under English and Scottish law. In 2017/2018, it had a gross income of £151 million. History The first 'Children's Home', a renovated stable in Church Street, Waterloo, London, Waterloo, was founded in 1869 by Methodist minister Thomas Bowman Stephenson, who had been moved by the plight of children living on the street in London. The first two boys were admitted on 9 July 1869. In 1871 the home was moved to Bonner Road, Victoria Park, and girls were admitted. The home was approved by the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Hotel, Manchester
The Midland Hotel Manchester is a grand hotel in Manchester, England. Opened in 1903, it was built by the Midland Railway to serve Manchester Central railway station, its northern terminus for its rail services to London St Pancras. It faces onto St Peter's Square. The hotel was designed by Charles Trubshaw in Edwardian Baroque style and is a Grade II* listed building. History Built at the junction of Peter Street and Lower Mosley Street opposite Manchester Central railway station, terminus for Midland Railway express trains to London St Pancras, the hotel was designed by Charles Trubshaw and constructed between 1898 and 1903 for the Midland Railway Company at a cost of more than £1 million. In 1908 ''The Railway News'' reported that the hotel had over 70,000 guests in its first year and described it as a "Twentieth century palace". The hotel had a 1,000-seat purpose-built theatre where opera, drama and early Annie Horniman performances were staged, and a roof terrace wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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