EQUALITY & DIVERSITY

Equality and Diversity Statement

• The New Tavistock Youth Cafe is positively committed to diversity in our club

• We will ensure that everyone feels welcome and we will aim to enable access for all

• The New Tavistock Youth Cafe opposes all direct and indirect discrimination within our club

• We aim to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences and recognises difference/diversity is a great asset to the club, its work and the people it serves

• We will provide equal opportunities for our employees, job applicants, helpers/volunteers and treat them in a fair and unbiased way

• We will ensure that The New Tavistock Youth Cafe’s organisers, employees, helpers/volunteers and members will be made aware of the objectives within the policy and are encouraged to support and uphold them

• Our Equality and Diversity Policy helps to ensure that there is no discrimination in any area of the club on the basis of:

• Disability

• Gender

• Marriage and civil partnership

• Pregnancy and maternity

• Race (including ethnic or national origins, colour and nationality)

• Religion or belief

• Sex and Sexual orientation

• Any other irrelevant ground

• Our Equality and Diversity Policy is an integral part of The New Tavistock Youth Cafe to ensure a fair and approachable image of our club

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• Discrimination, bullying, harassment or exclusion is unacceptable and behaviour of this kind will not be tolerated.  Any breach of The New Tavistock Youth Cafes Equality and Diversity Policy will be promptly dealt with within our Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures.