Cardiff City wins LGBT branch organising award

UNISON’s LGBT group celebrated its latest recruitment champions this morning, when vice president Josie Bird presented the winners with their awards at conference in Harrogate. “The presidential team are always astounded at how many weekends our LGBT members are out and about at Pride and other community events,” she said. “We’ve learnt from those regions that submitted an application for the awards that these regional groups attended 35 Prides events this past summer. “We also know that not every region submitted an application, so we can only guess that UNISON was proudly out at virtually every Pride event held in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland this year.” Ms Bird announced that the 2018 winner of the branch LGBT organising award was Cardiff County Branch. Only formed in January this year, since then, it has doubled the number of activists involved and organised and attended many events, both in and out of the work place. Representatives of the branch collected their prize from Ms Bird – pictured above. The regional LGBT award saw a high standard of entrants. Ms Bird thanked the East Midlands, North West, Scotland, West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside regions for “the amazing work that you have done this year. If it was down to the presidential team,” she added, “you would have all won, but apparently that isn’t allowed!” In which case, the judges selected Scotland region (representatives of the regional LGBT group are pic...
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