Thanks @MsNRuk for the inspiration for our Eid & Shavuot celebration. I particularly loved sharing my dad’s mini Torah scroll with colleagues. Civil Service Jewish Network

At our head office today marking our #CancerNetwork’s 2nd anniversary & hearing a Carer’s story - supporting our people through cancer John Leyland Chris Pedlar BEM Environment Agency Macmillan Cancer Support Carers Week Carers UK Defra Diversity Team Defra UK

Today colleagues heard different stories from different speakers. The one thing that unites them all was the importance of talking. Talking out loud, to each other, to someone. Thanks to the speakers, all those who attended and to all our new #CancerNetwork local reps #TeamEA

I’m really pleased that I was able to represent Defra Diversity Team and support the Home Office and the HO Working Through Cancer Network celebrating #NationalBloodWeek. Good to see lots of employees signing up to donate and making pledges.

Great session this morning with The Migraine Trust learning and discussing the support we can give to our employees across Defra Group Defra Diversity Team Environment Agency RPA Natural England APHA Defra UK We’ll also share this information as part of EDI Week#EverydayInclusion

As part of #NIW2019 , we played snakes and ladders with an inclusive twist. Even Dual Purpose Working Dog, Ike, got involved - let’s just say, the blow up dice required a ‘repair’ job! Such great fun 😍 Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion

Another successful Macmillan Cancer Support #macmillancoffeemorning Env Agency NW hosted by members of our #CancerNetwork reminding staff of support available - Equality, Diversity & Inclusion week. @JamesBevanEA Emma Howard Boyd John Leyland joannehoare Seonaid Webb MBE Defra Diversity Team

Really useful and interesting finding out more about tricky issues faced by people living at the intersection of faith and sexual orientation with Clare Moriarty and panel. Celebrating #NIW2019 #Diversity #inclusion

The #MenAsChangeAgents Board met earlier today with senior business leaders working together to find ways to promote diversity and inclusion in business. Find out more: gov.uk/government/new…

Great to be celebrating National Inclusion week - (EDI Week in Defra and EA ) first a giant Snakes and Ladders and then a lunchtime learn session on NeurodiversityAlso lots of Macmillan coffee mornings around the country Defra Diversity Team #NIW19 Jo-Ann Moran Seonaid Webb MBE @

We held a breakfast for heads of diversity and inclusion to thank them for all they’re doing to make the #YearOfInclusion a success

Good to be at the Business Disability Forum (BDF) Northern England Network at BBC Salford - an interesting day ahead looking at Neurodiversity, what the BBC do to ‘create a positive environment’ (neurodiversity programme) amongst other topics @maria_herlihy Defra Diversity Team

Interesting and thought provoking day at the Employee Network Summit... great conversations around network strategies, intersectionality and collaboration, tools to improve our employee network offering and sphere of influence @autism @maria_herlihy joannehoare

Celebrating International Women’s Day early with colleagues across the Civil Service Inclusion ⁦Antonia Romeo⁩ and Nicola Robinson Deputy Director at Defra #yearofinclusion #shewriteshistory #EachforEqual

Today we are celebrating #womenandgirlsinscience Day #February11 with Susan Zappala bit.ly/susanzappala our Senior Air Pollution Adviser. “The attraction for me is that Science transforms failure into discovery”. #womeninSTEM #airpollution #EqualityInScience

Today is International Day of Women in Science.Join us in saying thank you to our #WomenInScience working on the front line to: 🏘️ protect homes and businesses from flooding 🌅 care for our environment 🌳 tackle climate change 🔬detect #COVID19 in waste water

Today is #WomenInScienceDay2021 and I was so pleased to join a panel of inspirational Environment Agency #women #scientists to talk about my career and the importance of #professional accreditation. #CharteredSci CIWEM Science Council #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

To end a fantastic week celebrating #womendandgirlsinscience we talk to Natalie Askew bit.ly/NatalieAskew one of our Marine Monitoring & Evidence Team Leaders. A zoologist turned marine mapper Natalie's spent more than 15 years making policy relevant marine evidence products.

Congratulations to Karen Parker from the EA being included in Queens Birthday honours list ,awarded a BEM for her work on Equality Diversity and Inclusion .Environment AgencySE Mark Hill Catherine Wright Chris Pedlar BEM Women in Field Operations EA