Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As an organisation with a mission to tackle climate change by decarbonising our energy system, our activities are guided in large part by a commitment to climate justice. Our goals set out an explicit commitment to 'a thriving and diverse clean energy sector that creates economic opportunities, gives communities a stake and delivers affordable energy for all'.

But we recognise that this work must begin within Regen itself. We actively try to recruit from underrepresented groups and provide financial and other support to enable access to work experience placements where needed.

We have also developed a six-point pledge to improve diversity and inclusion in our work:

1. We seek to include the views of stakeholders from more diverse backgrounds.
2. We seek to promote diversity and inclusivity through our communications and engagement activities, including language translation where appropriate.
3. We ensure full disability access to all in-person events and provide for the needs of people with sight and hearing impediments.
4. We ensure speakers, panels and chairs at our events are balanced by gender, and will be proactive in seeking participants that represent a diverse audience.
5. Team members will only participate in external events where there has been an effort to make panels and speakers representative of gender and wider diversity.
6. Team members actively encourage clients and stakeholders to consider how they can be more inclusive and increase the diversity of participants in meetings and events.

We will monitor our progress against this pledge and when, despite our best endeavours, we do not achieve it, will interrogate the reasons and seek to learn from them.

We recognise that this pledge places more emphasis on gender balance and acknowledge that we must continue to seek ways to improve diversity of race, socio-economic background and neurodiversity in our organisation and the work we do.