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8 Things I’ve Learnt in 8 Weeks as an Apprentice in the Social Investment World
Kendal Mountain Events Ltd
Kendal Mountain Events brings thousands of outdoor enthusiasts from across the globe together to share and celebrate the best stories from the world of adventure.
Their vision is to inspire more people to enjoy, respect and represent the mountains, through their annual festival in Kendal, Cumbria, and more recently school engagement programmes.
Outside the Box
Outside the Box Café is an inclusive community café based in Ilkley, Bradford. Their mission is to enable young people and adults who have learning disabilities to have more fulfilled, independent and healthier lives.
Institutional Discrimination
Concerned with discrimination that has been incorporated into the structures, processes and procedures of particular organisations or institutions, either because of prejudice or because of a failure to take into account the particular needs of different social identities.
Structural or Systemic Discrimination
Refers to macro-level or overarching rules, norms, routines, patterns of attitudes and behaviour in institutions and other societal structures that represent obstacles to groups or individuals in achieving the same rights and opportunities that are available to the majority of the population.
Individual Discrimination
Concerns individual prejudicial or unfair behaviour to others based on their status or characteristics.
Vulnerable
People or groups of people that experience higher risk of harm, abuse, disadvantage, and discrimination
Voluntary Carers
A person, usually a relative, parent, spouse, partner, child, or friend, who provides regular and substantial voluntary care, often in lieu of a paid care worker, to someone who is disabled, severely ill, frail or has a mental health problem.