Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion are complex areas, often hot with rhetoric and aspiration, cool to cold in implementation. The response to such correct-sounding agendas sometimes advances no further than the proverbial tick-box approach. Formal procedures masking settled, undisturbed regimes.

The service can assist with:

• running creative ideas generation sessions
• engaging young people
• strategic planning and review on youth policy, the arts and cultural divesity
• team building - facilitation of away days, mentoring and support for team members
• interim management of organisations
• project and event management
• fundraising (as distinct from grant applications)

Deepa's approach is not easily summarised. But creative, surprising, challenging, acute and warmly empathetic at least skirt the surface of apt description.

Deepa's work includes: Portsmouth Healthcare Trust on the needs of black and minority ethnic communities, the Terrence Higgins Trust and Action Aid on sexual health and HIV/AIDS; co-devised the award winning cultural diversity workshops for Serious music producers which was delivered to staff at EDF Energy and BBC Radio 3; BBC music learning programme managing a range of diverse projects for the BBC Radio networks, including Radio 1 and 2. For Radio 3 she delivered the World on Your Street project. She was also Co-Managing Director for Creative Partnerships.

Deepa works in a variety of ways. Should you care to contact her she is at deepa@playlink.org.uk or phone 078 8055 5971