Renee Barrett (She/Her)

So great to hear the melodic voices from St George's Staff Choir at yesterday's #BlackHistoryMonth closing event. Wonderful to also see staff signing up 2 the Daphne Steele Book Club which have had great titles this year! @TotterdellJac @JosephPav_D ,@RKABarrett @GivingtoGeorges

Happy #Diwali 🎊to everyone celebrating! Today St George’s hosted Diwali celebrations. Big thanks to our Hospital Charity + BAME staff network. Diwali is the Festival of Lights + celebrates new beginnings marking the new year + is a time for exchanging well wishes @TotterdellJac

A huge well done to Gemma for starting your rotation on Main Reception! Thank you to @StGeorgesTrust for providing so many opportunities for our young people to shine in the workplace🌟 @dfnsearch @cricketgreensch @search_george #inclusionrevolution #dfnprojectsearch

Congrats to the GESH Calibre Leadership Programme 202 Graduates! Yesterday's ceremony + conference event was inspirational and showed how empowered pple with disabilities are experts in leading inclusive change that benefits us all!👏🏾👏🏼🎓🎉@TotterdellJac @JosephPav_D @RKABarrett

Thanks to all staff who have already submitted their reflections for Diversity and Inclusion's #BlackHistoryMonth #RestAsResistance Reflective Writing Giveaway! There's still time to enter + sharing how you #ReclaimYourTime in the face of racial injustice @StGeorgesTrust 🛌📖

Is it @fatmanscoop #TheBigBreakfast ?😎🙌🏾

Shell’s Jackdaw gas project won’t: 🙅 Lower energy bills 🙅 Make us energy secure But it will make the climate crisis worse. It’s time to #StopJackdaw @KwasiKwarteng & focus on renewables & energy efficiency.

Today was #graduation day for our @dfnsearch interns For 10 years now we’ve hosted internships, helping people with learning #disabilities gain experience and ultimately get into employment👏 Congratulations to our graduates🎓: Darren Blake Florentina Shane Mehul Adrian Shane

Congrats to all the #ProjectSEARCH 2022 graduates! For 10 years, this initiative provides employment skills + opportunities to young ppl with learning difficulties. Well done to the graduates + the Project SEARCH team for your hard work! @StGeorgesTrust @JosephPav_D @RKABarrett

Fantastic to see the lovely turnout for our July Ally Movie Night yesterday! Due to technical difficulties, instead of advertised title ' I am Not He...She (2015)' we ended up watching Moonlight (2016) which is of course hugely entertaining 🍿🍾@StGeorgesTrust @GivingtoGeorges

@StGeorgesTrust @Stgeorges_EDC @RKABarrett Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you for your ongoing LGBTQ+ Gender Identity training bookings. It has been fantastic to virtually meet your teams & to work with their thoughtful ideas and experiences! Look forward to next! @KatyStaffordLGH

For #Pride2022 we spoke to staff, asking them to share their pledges for wearing the rainbow badge or lanyard To kick things off we have St George's Managing Director Kate Slemeck sharing her #Pride #TeamStGeorges

3/3 Dig Deeper: In the Huffington Post article: 'When You're White-Passing, White People Treat You Like The ‘Acceptable Ethnic'; explore the topic of ‘White-Passing’ with the view of an Arab North African who talks about being ‘an acceptable form of Muslim’ 3-minute read

2/3 'Passing' refers to the prevalent practice of members of minority or oppressed races, religions, ethnic groups, etc. pretending to be white (or otherwise members of the majority culture) to escape prejudice.

1/3 Thank you our sponsors St George’s Hospital Charity and to everyone who joined us in the Hyde Park Room for our first Ally Movie Night last Friday! for the showing of Passing (2021)🍿🎬

Meet our new Diversity and Inclusion Workforce Officer: Renee Barrett! Renee: "I'm looking forward to supporting our staff networks - from planning key events to liaising with the networks and hearing the experiences and needs of staff, as well as developing effective policies."

@StGeorgesTrust Thanks for the warm welcome all ☺️

2/2 For #BlackHistoryMonth2021 in a fab joint event w/@GOSH_Arts commissioned artist @CKSappleton and heard about Faith🙏🏾 as Empowerment in an incredible spoken word set from Poet Chantelle Gillespie. We also heard about the resilience of Windrush Era Nurses frm @DrMyrtleEmanuel

1/2 A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to @GOSH_BAME #BlackHistoryMonth2021 events. We explored White Privilege and the By-stander Effect w/ author @JohnAmaechi, BAME Nurses in Leadership Pitfalls and Ways Forward w/Modern Elder Life Coach @yfernandes29 @GreatOrmondSt

Looking forward to this event on Friday 15:00-17:00. @GreatOrmondSt staff are invited to contribute to a new artwork to commemorate all your efforts & sacrifices during the pandemic. Meet artist Cherelle Sappleton in the Lagoon cafe staff side. GOSHarts@gosh.nhs.uk for more info.