Eastlight residents and staff celebrate Purple Tuesday
On this Purple Tuesday 2023, we share our commitments and look ahead to building a fairer future for our disabled residents.
As this year’s Founding Partner, Eastlight is proud to lead the housing sector in celebrating Purple Tuesday – a social movement taking place on the first Tuesday of each November that highlights the disabled customer experience.
Today, we join our fellow Purple partners and ambassadors on this annual awareness-raising day to share learnings and best practice around creating more inclusive environments that are reflective of society around us.
Eastlight residents – including Customer Influence Committee (CIC) Chair, Michelle Baker, and Member, Craig Clackett – are attending today’s Purple celebrations at London Piccadilly and Canary Wharf.
Michelle said: “As an Eastlight resident with two children with disabilities, I’m a fierce advocate for the disabled customer.
“Eastlight have come a long way over the last few years in enhancing their support and services for disabled residents and communities, but there’s still much more work to be done. Together, we can – and will – do more at Eastlight. That’s a promise."
Alongside our Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Hugo Drummond, they will be celebrating our successes during our three-year partnership with the organisation, as well as our latest accomplishment in achieving ‘Disability Confident Leader’ (Level 3) status – the highest level in the Government’s Disability Confident Employer scheme.
Celebrating this achievement on this significant occasion, Hugo said:
“I am very proud of Eastlight’s achievements through the Disability Confident scheme, due to our close work with Purple over the past few years. Our work with ECL has also been paramount in this achievement, and I’d like to thank them for supporting us every step of the way.”
To read more of Eastlight's partnership and work with Purple, please click here.
Our next steps
In a dedicated year-long project, Eastlight will be working closer together with our CIC and disabled residents to better understand their experiences, identifying key improvements needed to ensure our homes and services are accessible, adapted and equipped to enhance quality of life.
The work commences with a special Disability Inclusion event in collaboration with Purple this November, bringing together residents, leadership teams and disability organisations.
It aims to spotlight the biggest challenges faced by those living with disabilities, our progress made so far, and our upcoming plans for working in partnership with residents to create lasting homes and communities that are safe, accessible and sustainable.
If you’re a disabled resident and would like to help us shape the future of our accessible homes and services, then please look out for more information coming soon or email Hugo Drummond, Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion Manager, on Hugo.Drummond@eastlighthomes.co.uk.
Get involved in the discussion
Don’t miss inspiring insights today and help us support the Purple Tuesday movement. We’ll be publishing live updates on our social media accounts via the hashtags listed below.
Stay tuned to the latest, below:
- X: @Eastlighthomes
- Instagram: @Eastlighthomes
- LinkedIn: Eastlight-Community-Homes-
- Facebook: @Eastlighthomes
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