The Church of England has consecrated its first female bishop during a ceremony at York Minster.
The Reverend Libby Lane, 48, has been ordained as the new Bishop of Stockport in front of more than 1,000 people. More
Monthly Archives: January 2015
See what’s new at the Matt Hampson Foundation
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Stonewall Workplace Equality Index
We are very pleased to announce that our Workplace Equality Index ranking has gone up again this year. We are now ranked at number 182 out of 397 organisations. Last year we were 228 out of 369 organisations.
Feed back from Stonewall was very positive saying it was a ‘substantial jump’ and that we are ‘consistently climbing’ the rankings.
Many thanks goes to all those you contributed to the submission
Stephanie Roche hopes famous goal will boost women’s game
Stephanie Roche, who came second in Fifa’s goal of the year award, says she hopes the attention her strike has received will help to change perceptions of women’s football.
The Irish player’s goal for Peamount United against Wexford Youths received 33% of the vote. But it missed out on the 2014 Puskas Award to James Rodriguez’s stunning volley for Colombia against Uruguay at the World Cup, which received 42%
Asked what it was like to beat Netherlands and Manchester United striker Robin van Persie into third place, Roche said she was happy people talk about her goal “for what it is” and that she hopes one day there will be a female winner of the award.
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Inspirational Diversity Champion – January 2015
Our Inspirational Diversity Champion for January is the artist Rose Wylie.
In 2014 Rose won one of the UK’s most prestigious painting awards at the age of 80. The £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize, was Rose’s latest accolade after being belatedly discovered by the art world with her paintings only receiving recognition in the past five years. She won for her painting ‘PV Windows and Floorboards’, which represents figures at a private view in an art gallery. Unlike the Turner Prize, which excludes artists over the age of 50, the John Moores Prize has no upper age limit. It was founded in 1957, and previous winners have included David Hockney, Richard Hamilton and Peter Doig.
The prize comes 60 years after she began studying at Folkestone and Dover School of Art. Rose resumed her art training at the Royal College of Art while in her mid-40s, having taken time out to bring up her family but it was some years before she began to receive recognition on the art scene.
In 2010, at the age of 76, she was selected to represent the UK in the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, which showcases up-and-coming artists.
She received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Art in 2011 and her first retrospective opened the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings in 2012.
Wylie’s work has recently been exhibited in New York and Amsterdam and she has exhibitions planned for Wolfsburg, Dublin and another in New York.