Celebrating 2019
In December 2019, only eleven months after launch, we returned to City Hall to celebrate the first year of Gender Action with a celebration and networking event for teachers, early years practioners and friends of the programme.
Deputy Mayor Joanne McCartney welcomed everyone to the event and emphasised the Mayor of London’s enthusiasm for work that looks to reduce limits on the potential of young people.
Professor Becky Francis, outgoing Director of the UCL Institute of Education, then led the keynote discussing the research behind Gender Action’s work. She then presented Initiator school and nurseries with certificates.
The event continued into a reception and everyone had the opportunity to speak to each other about their work and look over the posters of the Initiator projects of schools and nurseries so far. You can read case studies on these posters are now available here.
The night was a wonderful opportunity to recognise what has been achieved so far, and it was great for Supporters just starting out to be able to speak to Initiators who were already working on challenging gender stereotypes in their settings. There were many engaging conversations and great advice given.
Photography on the night was by Martin Delaney - www.martindelaneyphotography.london