We create safe spaces where young people can explore difference and consider their role in creating a world where we all feel accepted.
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Diversity Role Models. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to Diversity Role Models and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/ to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Diversity Role Models social media pages and help spread the word.
How You Can Help
- Simply book your next holiday with Charitable Travel and tell us you want to support Diversity Role Models. The charity will then benefit from the free donation you can make as part of the booking process. To read more about how this works, head to our ‘About Us‘ page.
- If you want to make a donation to Diversity Role Models and you are not booking a holiday, click here to visit their website.
- Visit https://www.diversityrolemodels.org/ to sign up to newsletters, and follow the Diversity Role Models social media pages and help spread the word.
Who are Diversity Role Models?
Diversity Role Models actively seeks to embed LGBTQ+ inclusion and empathy in the next generation. Our vision is a world where everyone embraces diversity and can thrive. This will help create a world where future generations embrace, accept and support differences. Our mission is to create an education system in which every young person will know they are valued and supported, whoever they are.
What do we do?
We create safe spaces where young people can explore differences and consider their role in creating a world where we all feel accepted. Our student workshops feature LGBT+ or ally role models who speak openly about their lived experiences, building young people’s empathy so they can understand the (often unintended) impact of their language and actions. In order to ensure sustained change, we supplement this by also training school governors, staff, and parents/carers.
Why Diversity Role Models are so important...
Meeting LGBTQ+ people face-to-face is crucial for combatting LGBTQ+ bullying and building empathy and inclusion. It lets young people see that LGBTQ+ people are really no different to them, by humanising them and listening to their stories. Importantly, it also lets young people who are gay, lesbian, bi or trans (or are questioning their sexuality and/or gender identity, or who come out as LGBTQ+ in the future) know that there are other people out there like them and that they’re not alone. It offers a vision of a future where they can be happy, included, and part of society.
How our workshops work...
Our workshops are designed for educators and young people across all age ranges and are run by our expert facilitators – many of whom come from an education background. They are accompanied by one of our trained and vetted role model volunteers, who come from across the LGBTQ+ and ally community and represent a diversity of experiences. Our Diversity Role Models sharing their lived experiences is at the heart of every workshop session, and provides workshop attendees with invaluable insight, understanding and compassion for LGBTQ+ individuals and families who may be different to themselves.
Get in touch
Diversity Role Models, St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, London, W1D 6AF
Registered charity number 1142548. Company limited by guarantee number 07640644.
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