WIN@Chemring Day

The 14th September 2022 marks the first International Women’s Inclusivity Network (WIN@Chemring) day. Celebrated across Chemring, the day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the issues surrounding gender diversity in the workplace. It’s also a day to celebrate some of the great things going on locally across the business in support of and organised by women, and those who identify as women, across Chemring. 

Making sure that we have an appropriately diverse pool of talent within the organisation helps us to achieve our goals and grow our business. Starting in 2021, we introduced a programme of workshops for all senior leaders and managers that provided education around the whole area of diversity, equity, equality, and inclusion.  

In 2022, we’ve continued that progress with an ongoing programme of awareness and discussion as part of all our development programmes from Early Careers upwards.  In 2022, we have focused on gender diversity. All business units now have a WIN@Chemring group in place providing support, networking and community opportunities to male and female colleagues. 

Says Chief People Officer, Clancy Murphy, “Our theme at Chemring over the past five years has been Global Voice, Local Accent. Our global approach for this WIN@Chemring day will involve sharing videos of our CEO, Mick Ord, alongside interviews with our fantastic female Non-Exec Directors to share some of their experiences. Then, across the day, there will be activities going on locally around the themes of allyship and support.” 

The network is all about building a community locally while sharing great ideas and knowledge across the group. Continues Clancy, “It’s our hope that the legacy of this event will be to provide a focus for the women’s network groups in each part of the business – both new and existing networks – and that this continues far beyond the September event.”