Inclusive Kingston

Closes 31 Jan 2025

Opened 8 Nov 2024

Overview

We are deeply committed to building a community where fairness and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. Your council has an important role in reducing inequality and establishing our communities as an area with equal opportunities. We are proud of our diverse borough, where different cultures and lifestyles come together and are celebrated.

We are working on a new equality, diversity and inclusion strategy that will serve as our framework to address inequalities and promote inclusion. This can only be achieved by listening to you, understanding your perspectives and needs.

By sharing your views, we will be able to better understand your experiences, and your responses will be used to identify key priorities for the new strategy. If you live, work or study in the borough, we would love to hear from you.

Key Words to Know

  • Equality: treating everybody equally and fairly, regardless of their personal characteristics, such as their ethnicity or sexuality. It is also ensuring that everybody has equal opportunity. This means helping those who are disadvantaged by their circumstances.

  • Diversity: recognising and celebrating the difference between people and communities. A diverse borough celebrates its wide range of cultures. A diverse workplace welcomes the variety of ideas, innovations and representativeness that diversity brings.

  • Inclusion: creating an environment that actively includes, welcomes and values everybody, regardless of their background. This strategy represents our ambition to become more proactive in our inclusion, reaching into communities, meeting people where they are, and attracting the best talent to our inclusive workplace.

  • Borough: In this engagement, when we refer to ‘the borough’ we mean The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames as a whole, including its four neighbourhoods: Kingston and North Kingston, New & Old Malden, South of the Borough, and Surbiton.

If you have any questions, or need any of the information in a different format or translated, please get in touch with us by emailing engagement@kingston.gov.uk or call the council's contact centre on 020 8547 5000, and ask for a member of the engagement team to call you back.

Areas

  • All Areas

Audiences

  • Anyone from any background

Interests

  • Children & young people
  • Community safety
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Participation and Engagement
  • Volunteering
  • Early years
  • Primary schools
  • Secondary schools
  • Sixth Form/FE colleges
  • University
  • Adult education
  • Arts & Culture