High profile inclusion champions to gather in Birmingham

Leading minds and diversity and inclusion campaigners will gather in the city this month, for the Hope Conference, a dynamic event designed to bring together those who share a commitment to challenging stigmas.

The conference will be built around a key programme of speakers, but is designed to be extremely collaborative, offering delegates who provide support, training and awareness in mental health and other social issues, the opportunity to shape the agenda of roundtable discussions and workshops.

Jo Emmerson director of The Speakers Collective, explains: “The event is for those who share a commitment to challenging stigmas around mental health and is all about bringing grassroots organisations and individuals together with inspirational speakers and workshops.

This is about learning from each other, sharing and collaborating; a celebration of what all these voices can do every day to affect change. ”

The event is being hosted in Birmingham on Friday by The Speakers Collective, a social enterprise designed to facilitate important conversations within the workplace and the wider community, along with Chasing The Stigma, a national mental health charity.

Joining conversations across the key programme, will be Katie Neeves (pictured), trans ambassador from Cool2BTrans, Jake Mills, stand-up comedian, writer and CEO of national mental health charity, Chasing the Stigma, along with Dr Samara Linton, award-winning writer and author of The Colour of Madness.

The event is sponsored by BHSF, a not-for-profit health and wellbeing provider that helps keep millions of employees physically, mentally and financially healthy.

The Hope Conference will take place at The Studio on Cannon Street on Friday 11 November, from 9.30am to 4.30pm. Tickets cost £75 and are available from: www.hopeconference.co.uk