Forgive me for my occasional digression from tech, but occasionally such interesting events happen that I sometimes decide to cover them here. Regular readers will know that I am a member of Tesco Diversity Council which ensures that 'Everyone is welcome at Tesco'. I am also a committee member for our lesbian, gay, bissexual and transgender staff (LGBT) support network Out at Tesco.
Tesco's new CEO, Philip Clarke, has written on his internal blog about Out at Tesco. Our network's sponsor, Dan Gilsenan, has asked me to recreate Philip's blog article here and I am very happy to do so.
Tesco is sponsoring the Family Area at London's Gay Pride festival on Saturday 2nd July 2011. I'll be there helping out with my fellow committee members so come over and say hello!
Out at Tesco
by Clarke, Philip on 18/05/2011 09:28
Category: Values
In a meeting earlier today with the senior sponsor, Dan Gilsenan, I was reminded about how challenging life can be for our colleagues in the LGBT community. The work of the Out at Tesco network has been transformational for us and we need to keep on supporting it. Dan has decided to leave to be head of M and A at Intercontinental and will be sadly missed by the network, amongst others. We need a replacement senior mentor. If anyone out there wants to act as the mentor please let Andy Higginson or Therese Procter know. The role is to act as the bridge between the network and my senior team.
I am really pleased that the company has sponsored the Family Area at this year's London Pride celebration. I hope you all have a great day.
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Out at Tesco gay staff network wins award from Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy
Out at Tesco, the staff network for LGBT colleagues, has won an award from the man leading the Tesco - CEO Sir Terry Leahy.
Out at Tesco chairman Romain Sauron, who established the network in 2009 (which I am communications secretary), was invited on-stage at the Tesco Company Conference 2010 in London on 3 November to accept the award for his tireless efforts (mostly in his private time) to bring endorsement from all across Tesco.
In giving Out at Tesco an award, Sir Terry says (as you'll hear in the video with link below)
You can watch the 2 minute video of the presentation on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaV63M7HuA
For more on the Out at Tesco network go to www.outattesco.com
Out at Tesco chairman Romain Sauron, who established the network in 2009 (which I am communications secretary), was invited on-stage at the Tesco Company Conference 2010 in London on 3 November to accept the award for his tireless efforts (mostly in his private time) to bring endorsement from all across Tesco.
In giving Out at Tesco an award, Sir Terry says (as you'll hear in the video with link below)
"We've worked very hard over the years to make everyone welcome at Tesco because we have such a diverse work force. One of the ways we've done that is recognise and support the contribution of some of our minority groups. It's very important that, as individuals, you can be yourself at Tesco. The support networks are very encouraging to help people to do that. We have a Women's Network as you know, and a very successful Asian network, and recently we introduced a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender network which is called 'Out at Tesco' set up in March 2009 to help LGBT employees feel confident, be themselves at work."
You can watch the 2 minute video of the presentation on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaV63M7HuA
For more on the Out at Tesco network go to www.outattesco.com
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