Equalities Podcast
By METRO Charity
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Equalities PodcastDec 17, 2021
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
We are delighted to launch a feature episode of our Equalities Podcast as we mark Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 2024.
In this episode, our Emma Jones (she/her) speaks to Simon Faulkner (he/him) who leads METRO Walnut, our prostate cancer peer support group for LGBTQ+ people. The group runs out of our New Cross office in Lewisham and also online.
Simon reflects on the origins of and contexts for this peer support service.
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Trans Awareness Week 2022
We are delighted to launch a feature episode of our Equalities Podcast as we mark Trans Awareness Week 2022.
In this episode, Adam Tipping, our Digital Communications Officer & Lead LGBTQ+ Youth Worker, has a discussion with gender-diverse members of our staff team.
Podcast Guests:
- Adam Tipping (he/they) - Digital Communications Officer & Lead LGBTQ+ Youth Worker (Bromley)
- Joel Robinson (he/him) - Director of Services
- Ems Chippendale (they/he) - Young Greenwich LGBTQ+ Youth & Schools Lead
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Disability History Month 2021: METRO GAD Discussion
We are delighted to launch a feature episode of our Equalities Podcast as we mark Disability History Month 2021
In this episode, our Emma Jones speaks to a group of current and former colleagues and management committee members of METRO GAD, formerly GAD (Greenwich Association of Disabled People).
GAD was founded in 1975 emerging through the Independent Living Movement in the USA and UK and associated political and human rights activism with the objective to promote their welfare and rights as disabled people and for the wider community who live, work or study primarily within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, including by assisting such persons to obtain their full rights and privileges as citizens. Post its merger in 2019 becoming part of the METRO family METRO GAD continues to be led by disabled people for disabled people, with its own independent management committee. This approach reflects the disability rights maxim Nothing About Us Without Us.
Podcast guests:
- John Ley - Co-Chair of the METRO GAD management committee and METRO Charity trustee
- Sue Elsegood - current management committee member
- Matthew Goodsell - management committee member
- Angela Smith - newly elected member of the management committee and former GAD employee
- Michael Farley - newly elected management committee member.
- Kate Brown - newly elected management committee member.
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Gwen Bryan
We are delighted to launch a brand-new series of our EqualitiesPodcast for Black History Month 2021. Our Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will discuss their personal heritage and identity and how it intersects with the work they do at METRO.
In this episode, Phinnah Ikeji, METRO's Young Greenwich Parenting Support Manager, speaks to Gwen Bryan, the Chair of Trustees.
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Isaac Tendo
We are delighted to launch a brand-new series of our EqualitiesPodcast for Black History Month 2021. Our Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will discuss their personal heritage and identity and how it intersects with the work they do at METRO.
In this episode, Mark Delacour, our Director of External Affairs, speaks to Isaac Tendo, METRO's HIV Youth Coordinator.
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Phinnah Ikeji
We are delighted to launch a brand-new series of our EqualitiesPodcast for Black History Month 2021. Our Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will discuss their personal heritage and identity and how it intersects with the work they do at METRO.
In this episode Natalie Wagstaffe speaks to Phinnah Ikeji, METRO's Young Greenwich Parenting Support Manager.
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Natalie Wagstaffe
We are delighted to launch a brand-new series of our EqualitiesPodcast for Black History Month 2021. Our Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff will discuss their personal heritage and identity and how it intersects with the work they do at METRO.
In this episode Emma Jones, METRO's Head of Insight speaks to Natalie Wagstaffe, METRO's Young Greenwich Parenting Support Groupwork Coordinator.
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Barbara Gray
In this episode Emma speaks with METRO Trustee Barbara Gray.
Barbara was born and still lives in South London. Her parents who arrived from Jamaica met in London in 1950s, and set out on an adventure. In Wandsworth, Barbara attended a comprehensive school for 2000 girls. Her first job was with a publishing house where she worked as PA to Graham Greene (nephew to the great author). She went on in 1976, to work in the community sector with the Martin Luther King Foundation in Balham, supporting mainly Caribbean and growing African and Asian populations into employment and training. Her next role, in public relations for British Gas HQ, taught her the importance of brand reputation and she became versed in the workings of national policy and politics, and the power of the media. It’s there that she also learned about corporate social responsibility through community projects. 1989 saw a significant change when Barbara became an Executive Assistant to the Leader of Lewisham Council and worked in a number of roles, ending her career in 2010, after 6 years in economic development working with Lewisham communities to narrow economic and equalities gaps and improve the local economy through regeneration. She since founded and leads Urban Dandelion CIC. In 2019-2020 Barbara was Mayoress of Lewisham. A resident of Lewisham for over thirty years, Barbara became a Trustee of Voluntary Action for Lewisham in 2015, and METRO Charity since formation of METRO VAL. She is also a Trustee for METRO.
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Dr Greg Ussher
*Please note this episode includes frank discussion of racism, homophobia and domestic violence*
In this episode Emma speaks to Dr Greg Ussher, the CEO of METRO Charity.
Greg has worked at METRO Charity for 14 years. Greg is also a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Expert with the Council of Europe, a Consultant with the Kings Fund Cascading Leadership program, a non-Executive Director on Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), immediate past Chair of the UK National LGBT Consortium since 2013, Chair of the Kent/Medway LGBT Forum, Chair of the Greenwich Charitable Trust, a Director of Red Zebra in Kent, a Director of Healthwatch Medway and a Patron of Freedom to Donate. Greg is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of Greenwich, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Churchill Fellow. Greg has a PhD in the prevention, treatment and epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections from the University of Sydney.
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Sue Elsegood
In this episode, Emma speaks to Sue Elsegood, Co-Chair of METRO GAD BA (hons); PG dip. (Couns) MBACP
A disabled people’s rights activist, Sue is also a therapeutic counselling practitioner as a volunteer counsellor for METRO GAD and Co-Chair of its Management Committee. First active in the Campaign for Accessible Transport (CAT) and Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (DAN), she became a member of Greenwich Association of Disabled People (GAD)in 1989 and a Trustee in 1990.
Sue was instrumental in supporting the merger between METRO Charity and GAD into METRO GAD in 2019 and her volunteering also includes being Co-Chair of Independent Living Alternatives and Co-Director of DADESU Media Ltd. She is active in current campaigns with DPAC (Disabled People Against The Cut); Trailblazers (Changing Places Campaign); WinVisable (Women with Visible and Invisible DisAbilities); ROFA (Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance) and NDY (Not Dead Yet).
Sue is also a founder member of Access at The O2 and advises on the Mayor of London’s Inclusive Design & Access Panel for the Greater London Authority. She co-authored PAMS ‘Personal Assistants Management Skills’ (GAD-CIL; 1997) and she is passionate about independent living.
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Naomi Goldberg
In this episode, Emma speaks to Naomi Goldberg, Director of Strategy at METRO Charity.
Naomi studied pharmacology at Kings College London where she became actively involved in student politics and voluntary work. She began working in the public sector in 1986, becoming Head of Policy and Performance for Barking and Dagenham Council where she led on the voluntary sector, community development and partnerships. After volunteering for the United Nations in Vietnam for two and a half years, in 2009 she was appointed Chief Executive of Greenwich Action for Voluntary Service (GAVS).
In 2017 Naomi became Director of Strategy of METRO Charity with the merger of GAVS into METRO GAVS. She oversees METRO’s Community domain as well as the HR and Volunteering functions. Externally, she chairs the Mental Health Reference Group in Greenwich and is currently a member of the Borough’s Health and Well Being Board; Children’s Services Strategic Partnership; Health and Wellbeing Strategy Implementation Group, and the Project Mosaic Steering Group.
Find out more about METRO's services on our website.
To continue the conversation around equalities use #EqualitiesPodcast and follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Equalities Podcast Trailer
The "Equalities Podcast" is a brand new podcast from METRO Charity coming in October.
To mark the ten-year anniversary of the Equality Act coming into law on 1st October 2010, we have been reflecting on the significance of the word ‘equality’ and what it means to us as a charity. In this podcast series, our Head of Insight Emma Jones, speaks with senior leaders in the charity, both members of our paid staff team as well as those who contribute voluntarily to realising our commitment to equality and diversity.
METRO Charity's "Equalities Podcast" is available wherever you listen to podcasts.