Great Big Impact Survey 2020

Thank you for taking part in the 2020 Great Big Impact Survey, kindly sponsored by Barclays, for the second year.

This survey is designed to help us showcase the benefits and outcomes of disabled employee networks / resource groups, as well as allies and champions programmes, wherever they operate in the world.

Any employee can take part from any organisation that has an employee network / resource group or a formal ally / champion programme (not just PurpleSpace members).

The findings will be published in the Great Big Impact Report 2020 and will be freely available during our 24-Hour Global Broadcast on 3rd December 2020 to coincide with #PurpleLightUp (International Day of Persons with Disability).

In addition to questions about networks / resource groups and ally / champion programmes we have a few questions about how your organisation has been managing during the pandemic. These have been put together by our partners, Scope, a national pan-disability charity campaigning for equality for the UK’s 14 million disabled people. Scope are interested in hearing from employers about changes and support put in place for disabled colleagues over the past 6 months to inform its campaigning work in the future.

With only 20 questions, the survey should take you no more than 30 minutes to complete. All answers are confidential and no one individual or organisation will be attributed to the answers. We would be grateful too if you could circulate to your own networks. Thank you so much for taking part and for everything you do to build disability confidence from the inside out.

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* 1. Which country do you work in?

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* 2. Which sector do you work in?

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* 3. Does your organisation have a disability network / resource group or a formal ally/champion programme?

Yes

Don’t know

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* 4. Are you / is your organisation a member of PurpleSpace?

Yes

Don’t know

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* 5. What organisation do you work for? (Note this information is stored in confidence).

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* 6. Does your organisation’s work extend to many countries? If so, please indicate which geographies your organisation operates in.

Africa

Asia

Australia/Oceania

Europe

North America

South America

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* 7. What is your role within your organisation’s network / resource group or in the organisation’s ally / champion programme?

Chairperson / co-chair / network or resource group leader / member of the executive committee

Member of the network / resource group

Diversity and Inclusion team

Ally/champion

Key senior champion / executive sponsor for the network / resource group

I am not part of a network / resource group or ally / champion programme

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* 8. What do you believe is the greatest benefit of your organisation having a disability network / resource group or having an ally / champion programme? Please rank the following, with 1 being of the greatest importance, and 6 being the least important.

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* 9. What is the most important activity or project that your network / resource group or ally / champion programme has achieved? (e.g. this might be something like running a webinar or a podcast. What was the feedback you received? How did colleagues use the learning?)

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* 10. What is the most significant “engagement with colleagues” you have achieved? (e.g. this might be the number of people you have managed to secure from launching an ally / champion programme. What have you seen as a result?)

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* 11. What is the most significant way you have partnered with your Diversity and Inclusion colleagues? (e.g. this might be how you have supported the creation of new policies such as improved remote working policies resulting from COVID-19)

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* 12. What changes, if any, has your organisation introduced to support disabled colleagues as a result of COVID-19? (e.g. flexible working, continue home-working)

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* 13. What measures, if any, does your organisation intend to put in place to support disabled colleagues returning to your workplace? (e.g. flexible working, continue home-working)

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* 14. Thinking about the information and support available to you over the last few months, how much support and information have you personally received about supporting disabled colleagues during COVID-19?

Enough

Not enough

No information or support

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* 15. Thinking about the future, what information, support or resources would your organisation need, to support disabled colleagues in the workplace?

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* 16. Whatever role you have in running a disability network / resource group or an ally or champion programme, what are your greatest challenges? Please rank the following, with 1 being the greatest challenge, and 5 being the least challenging.

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* 17. Why do you think so many organisations are joining the PurpleSpace community? Please tick your top three reasons

It makes us feel part of a bigger community of change agents creating a better working world for disabled employees

We get to meet and network with other network / resource group leaders

We can learn about how to drive cultural change through the targeted resources, webinars, events, podcasts, per-group coaching

I am challenged to think about my role as a leader and the opportunity I have to make a difference

It helps me to make the case for resources internally when I can point to networks / resource groups in other organisations that are doing great things

It helps us to ‘pivot’ in readiness to mine the #PurpleLightUp celebrations

We are not yet members of PurpleSpace or I do not know if my organisation is a member so cannot answer

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* 18. What one thing can PurpleSpace do more of, to support you to build a better working world for disabled employees, and to help your own colleagues build disability confidence from the inside out.

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* 19. Can you offer us a quote about why you are involved in your organisation’s disability network / resource group or the ally / champion programme or related activities? (we will keep your contribution anonymous)

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* 20. If you are not a member of PurpleSpace and would like to receive information about what we do and to join our mailing list, enter your email address and a member of the team will be in touch.