By METRO Charity
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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*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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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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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.