Chwarae Teg

Chwarae Teg
Founded 1992
Type Charitable organisation
Location
  • Cardiff, Conwy, Treforest, Llanelli
Area served
 Wales
Key people
 Joy Kent Chief Exec
Employees
 68
Website www.cteg.org.uk

Chwarae Teg - (Welsh for Fair Play) is a United Kingdom based charity working in Wales to support the economic development of women as well as working with businesses and organisations to develop and improve working practices.[1]

History

Chwarae Teg was launched by a consortium in 1992 in South Wales, and Jane Hutt now a minister in the Welsh Government was appointed its first director.

In 2009 Chwarae Teg launched their European Social Fund and Welsh Government sponsored project, Agile Nation (More details below). Referred to as "Chwarae Teg Agile Nation project #1", the project was completed in March 2015.

On 22 July 2015 Chwarae Teg launched their latest European Social Fund and Welsh Government sponsored project, "Agile Nation #2".[2]

Activities

Agile Nation

Launched in 2009 and completed in March 2015, the Chwarae Teg Agile Nation project aimed to promote gender equality, support the career advancement of women and contribute to a reduction in the gender pay gap. Agile Nation was a £12.5 million project funded by the European Social Fund and the Welsh Government.[3]

The project has two training programs Ascent (targeted at individual women) and Evolve (targeted at employers).[4] Since their launch they've helped over 2,921 individual women and 504 businesses as of March 2015.

Policy

Chwarae Teg's policy function monitors economic and workforce developments that impact on women and business across Wales and provides advice to academia, government and industry. This knowledge is used to identify areas where new targeted projects can be developed to address situation where women are underrepresented in the workplace.[5]

Membership

As a registered charity Chwarae Teg is a membership organisation that offers membership to individuals, business, organisations and institutions.

Trustees

As of 31 July 2015 the trustees of Chwarae Teg are:

Past chief executives

Past chairs

References

  1. ↑ , Chwarae Teg, About Us
  2. ↑ , Agile Nation #2
  3. ↑ , Wales Online Article, Feb 12th 2009
  4. ↑ , Agile Nation #1
  5. ↑ , Chwarae Teg, Policy

External links

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