Taking place today is Civil Society Media's People & Culture Conference 2018. See the full programme below and keep up with the action on the hashtag #charityculture.

Taking place today at One Great George Street, Westminister, London, speakers include Sarah Pryce, chair of Cornwall Air Ambulance and non-executive director of Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust, who will talk about being resilient, robust and ready. 

It features an opening keynote from Francesca Martinez, a writer, actor and comedian, who will talk about how we need to embrace diversity and see the profound benefits it can bring, both on a personal level and to society as a whole. 

The conference is about instilling a positive working culture and putting in place the right strategies, processes and systems to build motivated and effective teams. 

The conference will close with a panel on challenging racial inequality and prejudice in charity leadership, where panelists will pinpoint the barriers to progression for aspiring BAME leaders in the charity sector, and identify some practical steps that organisations can take to urgently redress the balance.

The panelists are Thomas Lawson, chief executive, Leap Confronting Conflict; Dr Wanda Wyporska, executive director, the Equality Trust; Vicky Browning, chief executive, Acevo; Sufina Ahmad, City of London Corporation and chair of the Institute of Fundraising’s expert panel on diversity; Tessy Ojo, chief executive, The Diana Award. The session will be chaired by Rob Berkeley, trustee of the Baring Foundation.

See the full programme and more details about the event here.