Diversity Scotland

02/09/2026

We're really chuffed to have been shortlisted for Consultancy of the Year at the Inclusive Awards 2026!

Thanks to everyone who's worked with us and trusted us to get on with the hard bits.

We thought we'd take the moment to say what we're actually about.

We don't do bunting and awareness days and call it inclusion. The real work is far less visible and often a lot slower. It's asking why some people get promoted and others get stuck, sorting out recruitment so that good people don't fall out of the process before anyone's read their application, and making a workplace somewhere people can be themselves instead of leaving half of who they are at the door.

We think equity has to come first.
There's no point bringing people into a workplace where they'll be disadvantaged the moment they arrive. Sort that out first, then worry about diversity.

And we think culture change takes both the organisation and the people in it. Neither on its own is enough, and doing both properly is harder and slower than a one-off lunchtime workshop.

So, that's a bit about our approach at Diversity Scotland!

Thanks again for the recognition, we're delighted, and now we're getting back to work.




Image description: A promotional graphic for the Inclusive Awards 2026, set on a bright background of purple, magenta, blue and gold circles. On the left is the Inclusive Awards 2026 logo, a gold abstract figure of a person inside a navy blue diamond. To the right, large white text reads "2026 Finalist" above "D&l Consultancy Award". A row of sponsor and associate logos runs along the bottom.

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14/08/2026

Happy Friday folks! Our CEO, Tony McCaffery was in with the team at IM2C Hub Club today, and they've not stopped smiling since. 😃

If you don't know them, IM2C are an award-winning, volunteer-led Scottish charity working with children, young people and adults with additional support needs and disabilities across Glasgow, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire. The team have built somewhere people really want to be, and Tony felt that warmth the moment they walked through the door.

Over the next few months Tony will be going in to volunteer their time with the group at IM2C Hub Club, where they'll be thinking together about fairness, inclusion, belonging and difference. It's part of the work Diversity Scotland does pro-bono with a small number of charities every year, and being asked to help IM2C means the world to us.

Tony took Angus (their wee Goldendoodle) along to break the ice, and, erm, let's just say he pretty much stole the show! We actually don't think anybody was listening to a word Tony said because Angus was there, but we can't really blame them to be fair!

Tony's first proper session is on Friday 11th September, which happily falls during Scottish Learning Disability Week (7th to 13th September). This year's theme is "I am here... to be seen", and we can't think of a better group to spend time alongside that week.

If you'd like to support the wider charity, whether by volunteering, fundraising or becoming a partner, you'll find everything at includeme2club.org.uk.

More soon, from us, from Tony, and probably Angus too🐾

06/08/2026

“Differently abled” was invented by people who find the word disabled uncomfortable, and it has never once fixed a lift or widened a doorway.

Just say disabled people. We’ve heard the word before, we’re not going to flinch.

Image description: White neon lettering on a dark wall reading “If you mean disabled people, say disabled people.” The Diversity Scotland logo sits in the bottom right corner.

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05/08/2026

In March everyone is herded outside for the photo, arms crossed in an X one year, hugging themselves the next, whatever shape the hashtag wants. In October the intranet turns red, black and green and somebody books a drummer.

Nobody’s saying don’t. The drummer is great. But your women still aren’t on the exec, your Black staff are still two grades below where they should be, and everyone in that building knows it.

The bunting comes down on the 31st. Do both or do neither.

Image description: Turquoise neon sign on a dark navy concrete wall reading “Most inclusion work stops at food, fun and flags.” The Diversity Scotland logo sits in the bottom right corner.

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05/08/2026

The cheapest accessible building, website or recruitment process is the one designed accessibly at the start. Every organisation knows this in principle. Very few behave as though they know it.

Something launches, someone raises a barrier, and then the work begins again with a smaller budget, a shorter timescale and a disabled colleague doing unpaid consultancy on top of their actual job.

Bring disabled people into the design stage, and pay them for it.

Image description: Pale turquoise neon sign on a light grey concrete wall reading “Accessibility added after launch is a retrofit, and retrofits cost more.” The Diversity Scotland logo sits in the bottom right corner.
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04/08/2026

Equity has to come first. At Diversity Scotland we see it again and again: organisations recruit brilliantly, and then lose those same people within eighteen months.

If progression routes, pay decisions and everyday behaviours favour one group over another, then bringing more people through the door simply exposes more people to the same conditions. It’s not necessarily the recruitment campaign alone that’s a problem, but the workplace they arrive into certainly is.

Have a look at your last three exit interviews and consider what they were telling you.

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26/07/2026

Scenes of racist violence and disorder in Glasgow ‘must never become normalised’

09/06/2026

There’s a significant police operation in Glasgow city centre tonight, and reports of unrest in parts of Scotland after events in Belfast. Police Scotland are asking people to stay away from the area.

At Diversity Scotland, we’re thinking about everyone caught up in this, and particularly people from minoritised ethnic communities who’ll be feeling unsafe right now. That fear is real, and frightening people is often the main point of this kind of violence.

Everyone has the right to live in safety and dignity, whatever their background, nationality, ethnicity, race, or immigration status. Racism and intimidation don’t belong in our communities, and they don’t speak for us.

If you’re out tonight, look after each other, be careful what you share while so much is still unverified, and check in on anyone who might be scared.

03/06/2026