PARTNERS

Andy Finnie is an expert in age and employment and has formal training on age diversity management and equality and diversity. His background was in IT where he held several senior posts, including Head of Business Marketing and
Offer Development.

Andy is passionate on all age-related matters but has special expertise in the age and employment arena. Andy currently manages the CoAP Ambassador and Later Life action programmes. The main remit of CoAP is to utilise its specialist partnership to make a real and lasting difference to the WM labour market in general and continuous improvements to age diversity and equaity in particular.

Andy is founder of aged2excel Ltd, which offers age diversity management. He loves family life and has
five grandchildren.

Acas aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations. We provide up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training and we work with employers and employees to solve problems and improve performance.

aged2excel was established in early 2004 in response to the demographic changes taking place across the UK, creating an ageing and often undervalued and underutilised talent pool. The company is involved in leading and consulting on a number of age and employment programmes predominantly in the West Midlands.

As a CoAP partner and taking a lead from TAEN, aged2excel are able to provide Age Diversity Management expertise which includes a portfolio of services aimed at enabling organisations to assess their current level of age tolerance across the age spectrum and improve their chances of recruiting and retaining a more balanced workforce in terms of age, background, expertise, knowledge and life experience.

As a highly competent Director of Operations, Mike’s role includes responsibility for the delivery of all aged2excel products and services as well as a leading role in consulting and training. Mike’s strong delivery background ensures minimum risk, consistency and excellence in terms of the quality of services provided.

The Foundation develops new approaches to working with older people that challenge traditional stereotypes and promote the views, wishes and aspirations of older people themselves. This work is mainly carried out through practical projects that are evaluated and used to inform policy makers at all levels.

In recent years we have been exploring a number of practical projects looking at health, volunteering and employment; developing a support model for people in mid-life to access employment opportunities.

The Birmingham Business School works with a range of businesses and public sector organisations and is renowned for its research contributing to academic debates worldwide.

Isabelle Szmigin is a Professor of Marketing and with colleagues Joanne Duberley and Fiona Carmichael is currently undertaking research in the area of employment and older people particularly in rural areas.

Isabelle is also a fellow of the World Demographic Association which views the current and future demographic challenges as a unique opportunity.

A statutory body with the responsibility to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.

Their job is to promote equality and human rights, and to create a fairer Britain. They do this by providing advice and guidance, working to implement an effective legislative framework and raising awareness of peoples rights.

Jobcentre Plus is a government agency supporting people of working age from welfare into work, and helping employers to fill their vacancies. We are part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and play a major role in supporting the Department’s aim to ‘promote opportunity and independence for all through modern, customer-focused services’.

The Nishkam Centre works in partnership to offer a range of services to the community including:

Health services

The Health Exchange model has been designed to make health services available and accessible to all members of our community, using a combination of on-line resources, public access points at community locations and Health Exchange staff and supporters.

Business Support / Job Search

In partnership with other local government agencies (Working Links, JCP, Business Links and others) The Nishkam Centre offers Information & Advice Guidance to help those in our community who are have been in long term/short term unemployment and wish to get advice on getting back to work.

Learndirect

Learndirect is a nationally recognised brand for learning and is the largest e-learning network of its kind in the world and NCA is one of its foremost centres.

The Nishkam Civic Association endeavours to keep at the forefront of its activity the core values of:

• Truthful living with moral and ethical values
• Shared responsibility for tackling contemporary issues
• Selfless service with community participation
• Quality volunteering

Nichola Balmer, is the Director of Perceptis Limited.

Perceptis specialises in helping companies dramatically improve their performance in two of the areas they often find most problematic: marketing and information technology (IT).

We are warm, friendly, and very direct. We don't waste time - our clients or our own.

By providing expert support in these two crucial areas we help our customers "punch above their weight" so they can compete with organisations which are often much larger than they are. In doing so they significantly increase performance, sales and profits while improving efficiency at the same time.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is the trade body that supports and represents the recruitment industry. Worth £24.5 billion to the UK economy, the recruitment industry is responsible for placing 1.2 million temporary workers on assignment each week and placing over 700,000 employees in permanent work each year.

Recruitment impacts on every sector of the UK economy.

The REC's membership is made up of over 8,000 recruitment agencies and businesses (corporate members) and 6,000 recruitment professionals (individual members).

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West Midlands Police is the second largest police force in the country, covering an area of 348 square miles and serving a population of almost 2.6 million.

Our vision is to serve our communities and protect them from harm. This is at the very core of what we do.

Our values inform how we want to achieve our vision. Our values are:

• To put the public first in everything we do
• To act with integrity, fairness and humanity
• To operate as one team working together
• To ensure we listen, learn and strive to improve
• To do the right thing and deliver a service that our friends and family would be proud of.

The next part of our new performance framework looks at our behaviours - the behaviours that we want staff to display and demonstrate at all times:

• Doing the right thing - things that keep people safe, like catching offenders
• Keeping our promises - making sure we do the things we say we will
• Involving the public - making sure we look at ways of getting more people involved
• Involving our staff - making sure we get our staff involved
• Being productive and efficient - making sure we really make the best use of our time and our resources