Welcome to the Tech Talent Charter

Learn what it means to be a TTC Signatory, including the benefits and resources your organisation can access and how to promote your involvement 

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What does it mean to be a Signatory?

Being a Signatory means an organisation has made a commitment to work with the TTC and our 700+ members to increase the diversity and inclusion of the tech workforce in the UK in a measurable way. Read more about this commitment below and watch our latest impact video.

We offer monthly ‘Maximising the partnership’ sessions. Please join us to explore the TTC's resources and how to leverage your membership. 

What your organisation will gain 

Did you know that Microsoft lists the TTC as the key partner for diversity for their Partner Pledge?

Collaboration

The TTC has over 700 Signatory organisations with whom your organisation can network and share practical tools and materials. You can also join one of our monthly Signatory forums.

A broader toolkit

Our Open Playbook provides sector-leading insights, programmes, initiatives, and practices to improve your diversity and inclusion strategy.

Attraction and engagement

Being a TTC Signatory demonstrates your organisation's commitment to driving diversity and inclusion, enhancing your brand as an employer of choice. The TTC aims to highlight and celebrate the actions your organisation is taking and amplifies good practice through our toolkit and communication channels.

Benchmarking

Signatories can use our annual Diversity in Tech report to access data insights and benchmarking tools to understand your organisation's position across a range of indicators in relation to inclusion and diversity.

Signatory commitments

People, plan, practice, and data

People

Member organisations select a Senior Signatory who is responsible for the Charter commitments and provide a named Principal, Data and PR contact.

Learn more about these roles in the TTC core contacts section.

Plan

Employers of tech
Have a plan to improve inclusion, including adopting inclusive recruitment and promotion processes and practices to support the development and retention of a diverse workforce. You'll find examples of what other organisations are doing in our Open Playbook.

Consultants, recruiters, and other partners
Develop a plan to work with employers/clients and underrepresented groups to improve their diversity and inclusion in tech and provide support to adopt inclusive recruitment and promotion processes and practices.

Practice

Collaborate with other Signatory organisations and the TTC to share what has worked (and what has not worked) for your company to drive greater diversity and inclusion in your tech workforce.

Data

Every autumn, contribute your organisation’s employment diversity data (which will be anonymised and aggregated) for publication in our annual Diversity in Tech report. Please read further information about this mandatory reporting requirement.

If your organisation would like tips about how to gather workforce diversity data, please join one of our data Q&A sessions.

The core contact roles 

Principal

This person is responsible for liaising with the TTC directly on a more operational level and will be included in all TTC communications with your organisation. While this can be the senior executive, organisations are free to nominate the person that makes the most sense. In some organisations, it might make sense to have more than one Principal contact.

Senior Signatory

The Senior Signatory is the person who provides the authorisation for your organisation to be a Signatory and who sponsors the work internally. We do not prescribe the title or level of your Senior Signatory, but recommend this is someone internally and externally who has the credibility, clout, and commitment to ensure D&I moves forward in your organisation.

Data

This person will need to complete the annual data return in September/October, which feeds into our annual Diversity in Tech report. This information is protected by NDA and will be aggregated and anonymised. For more information on our annual data submission requirement please see our FAQs or join a Q&A session.

PR

This person is responsible for liaising with the TTC in relation to mutual promotion, logos, quotes, press releases, social media etc.


Want to know who the core contacts are at your company?

In order to find out who your core contacts are, please click the below button and submit the form.

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Checklist: how to promote being a Signatory 

If your organisation has recently become a TTC Signatory, use this checklist to promote and share the news

Submit a statement from your Senior Signatory, and we will announce your organisation as a new Signatory on Twitter and LinkedIn, tagging your organisation and your core contacts.

For example, here are recent Signatory statements from MBNL and Times Higher Education.

 

Please follow the TTC on social media and share, retweet, and like our activity. We would love for you to shout about the TTC and the work we are doing together.

Below are some suggested posts for your convenience or free to draft your own. You can download social media graphics here.

Please tag our accounts if you mention us. Here are the links:

Website
Twitter 
LinkedIn

Please note: when tagging our name, using underscores between the words can help to locate our organisation.

Suggested Tweets:

TWEET ONE
News 📰

[Your organisation] is delighted to share that we've joined the @techcharterUK.

The TTC is a membership group of 700+ UK organisations committed to driving measurable change in D&I.

Learn more: https://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/home

#TTCSignatory

TWEET TWO

We’re a proud Signatory of the @techcharterUK.

Want to help drive greater diversity and inclusion in the UK tech workforce? Join us and over 700 organisations as we work together for measurable change.

www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/home

#TTCSignatory

 

Suggested posts for LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram:

POST ONE

We’re proud to announce that we are now a Signatory of the @Tech_Talent_Charter (TTC)!

The TTC is a government-supported, industry-led membership group that brings together 700+ Signatory organisations and equips them with the networks and resources to drive their diversity and inclusion efforts.

Join us as we work towards increasing D&I in tech in a practical and measurable way.

www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/home

#TTCSignatory

POST TWO

We’re a proud Signatory of the @Tech_Talent_Charter!

Want to help drive greater diversity and inclusion in the UK tech workforce? Join us and over 700 organisations as we work together for measurable change.

www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/home

#TTCSignatory

 

Looking for inspiration? Here are some examples of blogs and/or posts shared by other organisations when they became a Signatory:

We have created some graphics that will let your social media followers know your organisation is a Signatory and a champion for greater diversity and inclusion within UK tech.

Download the social media graphics. 

TTC Signatory organisations are  encouraged to use the TTC logo and/or the TTC Signatory logo to promote the fact that they are Signatories on your website, social media channels, presentations, reports, and any other materials.

Before using our logo, please review our logo guidelines.

Download the TTC Signatory logo in various formats.

Download the TTC logos in various formats.

Other links:

 If you have any issues accessing these items or have questions related to promotion, please contact us at hello@techtalentcharter.co.uk. We would be happy to create bespoke images and graphics that include your organisation’s logo.

Many of our Signatories choose to share a blog or news item when they join the TTC. This helps to promote your involvement and demonstrate your company's commitment to driving inclusion, enhancing your brand as an employer of choice.

Looking for inspiration? Here are some examples of Signatory blogs/posts:

Please feel free to announce your membership in a manner and time that works for your organisation - you don't need our approval for your announcement about joining the Charter. 

It is valuable for us to see press releases or blog posts for information and to enable our team to promote your announcement across our channels. Please share any press or social media plans with Ash Stark, our Social Media Manager.

In your material, we ask that you please include links back to our website and social channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube) where possible.

Please feel free to use these approved  statements and quotes:

What is the Tech Talent Charter?

The Tech Talent Charter (TTC) is a government-supported, industry-led membership group that brings together 700+ Signatory organisations and equips them with the networks and resources to drive their diversity and inclusion efforts. The TTC’s broad base of Signatories includes companies and industries of all sizes, non-profit organisations, charities, leading UK educators, and government departments. 

Created in 2015 to address the UK’s tech talent shortage and diversity problem through collective action, the TTC’s goal is for the UK tech ecosystem to be a diverse and inclusive community where people from all backgrounds are welcomed and valued for their contributions.

The TTC works towards this goal by providing concrete measurement and insights into diversity in the tech ecosystem and actionable ways forward by gathering, curating, and distributing innovative practices, techniques, and ideas.

TTC CEO Debbie Forster, MBE:

''The importance of greater diversity and inclusion in tech is, thankfully, no longer up for debate. Sectors and organisations now need to work together to shift the dial – and this will happen faster if we pool our successes, failures, and key learnings to bring about real structural change.

No group can do it alone, which is why we’re asking organisations to join our 700+ Signatories who are working together to drive diversity and inclusion in tech.”

Once you have completed steps 1 - 6 of this checklist, the next step is to discover how you can get the most out of being a Signatory.

Learn how you and your organisation use the TTC and our resources to support your diversity and inclusion strategy on our 'How to leverage being a Signatory' page.

You can also join one of our monthly ‘Maximising the partnership’ sessions.

We invite you to join our 'Maximising the partnership' sessions


If your organisation is new to the TTC (or perhaps you are a new TTC contact or would like a refresher), you can join these monthly sessions to learn how to get the most out of being a Signatory, including a look at some of our resources like the Open Playbook. If you have any questions about being a new member or would like to collaborate, please contact Karen Blake.

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Some of our Signatories

Bank Of England
Cheltenham Borough Council
Crown Prosecution Service
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The National Cyber Security Centre
OVO energy
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Zoopla

What our Signatories are saying

"I am delighted that the Bank of England is now a proud signatory of Tech Talent Charter. We are committing ourselves to action by joining this collective effort and pledging to collaborate and share best practices with others, progress our plan to improve inclusion and share diversity data for collective intelligence. I strongly believe our commitment advances the Bank’s desire for meaningful change, continuing to hold ourselves accountable both to our staff and externally to our peers."
"eSynergy Solutions are proud signatories of the Tech Talent Charter and are honoured to be part of a community dedicated to taking positive and measurable action to improve the gender balance within the tech industry. Rather than re-writing the playbook, being part of the TTC community allows you to access a wide range of resources including their toolkits, playbooks and events to help support you in your own D&I journey. Our diversity and inclusion strategy is data-driven and evidence-based which means that is incredibly useful to be able to benchmark our progress using the TTC’s Diversity in Tech Report. We encourage other organisations to also pledge their commitment to the delivery of greater diversity in the technology and digital industry and take part in events and hackathons to cross share knowledge to work together to create a more diverse and inclusive industry."
"We are very proud to be a signatory - OVO is determined to hire and nurture a diverse and inclusive movement of world changers. We're solving humankind's greatest challenge and we need all of humankind here to help us. We look forward to learning from and networking with the TTC community."
"Obtaining a balanced workplace, where everyone is comfortable contributing their maximum potential, is key to achieving great business results and is motivational to all involved. As a technology function we are working hard to make sure that we achieve this through our recruiting and development of our talent. Through the Tech Talent Charter, I am looking forward to help drive this in any way I can."
"We are really pleased that our ICT Provider Publica Group Ltd along with Cheltenham Borough Council have signed up to the charter. We have a shared commitment to greater inclusion and diversity in technology roles."

Bank of England

"I am delighted that the Bank of England is now a proud signatory of Tech Talent Charter. We are committing ourselves to action by joining this collective effort and pledging to collaborate and share best practices with others, progress our plan to improve inclusion and share diversity data for collective intelligence. I strongly believe our commitment advances the Bank’s desire for meaningful change, continuing to hold ourselves accountable both to our staff and externally to our peers."

eSynergy Solutions

"eSynergy Solutions are proud signatories of the Tech Talent Charter and are honoured to be part of a community dedicated to taking positive and measurable action to improve the gender balance within the tech industry. Rather than re-writing the playbook, being part of the TTC community allows you to access a wide range of resources including their toolkits, playbooks and events to help support you in your own D&I journey. Our diversity and inclusion strategy is data-driven and evidence-based which means that is incredibly useful to be able to benchmark our progress using the TTC’s Diversity in Tech Report. We encourage other organisations to also pledge their commitment to the delivery of greater diversity in the technology and digital industry and take part in events and hackathons to cross share knowledge to work together to create a more diverse and inclusive industry."

OVO Energy

"We are very proud to be a signatory - OVO is determined to hire and nurture a diverse and inclusive movement of world changers. We're solving humankind's greatest challenge and we need all of humankind here to help us. We look forward to learning from and networking with the TTC community."

Superdrug Stores plc

"Obtaining a balanced workplace, where everyone is comfortable contributing their maximum potential, is key to achieving great business results and is motivational to all involved. As a technology function we are working hard to make sure that we achieve this through our recruiting and development of our talent. Through the Tech Talent Charter, I am looking forward to help drive this in any way I can."

Cheltenham Borough Council

"We are really pleased that our ICT Provider Publica Group Ltd along with Cheltenham Borough Council have signed up to the charter. We have a shared commitment to greater inclusion and diversity in technology roles."