CORE LGBTQIA+ Summer event

🌈 Join us for an unforgettable summer celebration of love, diversity, and unity! 🌞

📅 Date: 19 June 2025

🕠 Time: from 12.00pm

🏛️ Venue: The London Eye, Riverside Building, County Hall, London SE1 7PB  

Get ready to shine brighter and higher than ever this summer as we come together to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community in all its beautiful colours!  

Pride 2025 will be concentrating on “activism and social change”, theme aiming at educating and inspiring but also encouraging reflection on past struggles and recognition of ongoing efforts toward equality. 

Our specially curated event will focus on leading figures within the industry who have championed and are advocating LGBTQ+ rights. 

Agenda & schedule:

12.00PM – 12.45PM          Guests/attendees arrival & registration 

12.45pm – 1.00PM             Intro from Krishnan Doyle, MD at COREcruitment 

1.00PM – 2.15PM               Keynote speakers

• Paul Moreton & Anna Brent: Merlin Entertainments fireside chat
• Tim Spoor - Chief Executive, Queerwell : bounce back and be well: resilience, resistance & reconnection
• Ebony Quow - People Partner – Revenue & Post Office : “Finding your own community and culture, embracing your identity whatever that is gives you power !!”
• Liz Jacobs - Director of Global Programmes - Open for Business: LGBTQIA+ activism – Real moment of positive change throughout the last year: the economic case for LGBTQ+ inclusion in southeast Asia

2.15PM – 2.35PM               Tris Reid-Smit interviews Jason Jones : “the decriminalization of homosexuality in Trinidad & Tobago”

2.35 – 2.45PM                      Mini talk: Dean Alunan - Gather & Gather on "winning the Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards 2023/2024 "

3.00PM – 4.00PM               London Eye Tour

• Anna Brent & Rodney Collins – Outvertising: LGBTQIA+ inclusive marketing: understanding the landscape & driving positive change.
• Dee Llewellyn & Chris Joell-Deshields – Pride in London: Volunqueer campaign
• Ayla Holdom – Stonewall: "Authenticity's impact on small, focused teams - Stories of a SAR pilot"
• Colin Kimber – Pareto: allyship and its impact & importance
• Dena Tahmasebi  - Diversity Role Models
• Jamie Love – Monumental: social media algorithm — why diversity is a growth lever, not a checkbox
• Jess Thilthorpe & John Conyers – wagamama : what wagamama are doing to lead the way with true inclusion for all out communities, how pride is a huge celebration for us + our teams and what we have planned for the event but also all year round, real life stories from our communities inside + out of our restaurant walls
• DIVA: Breaking down barriers for LGBTQIA+ family formation - Fertility Justice Campaign

4.00PM – 4.40PM               Jake & Hannah Graf: prominent British transgender couple celebrated for their advocacy in LGBTQ+ rights, media representation, and family life.

4.40PM – 5.10PM               Recruitment Panel - hosted by StuartHills: the challenges of recruitment, with L&D & DE&I playing a key part

• Rachel Masing – POOLHOUSE
• Gemma Hampton-Stone – Bodeans
• Felipe Chavez – Pho
• Arbi Rai - Virgin Atlantic

5.10PM – 5.20PM               Mini talk: Dominic Arnall - Open for Business: The Economic Case for LGBTQ+ inclusion

5.20PM – 5.50PM               Shared journeys and stories

• Cieran de Valmency - CTO, Nat20 Design & Gamechangers Organisation: recently published an article in this week's The Oracle magazine about his experiences with the new Supreme Court ruling. The latest attacks on the community have very much pushed him to get more involved publicly and discuss social change in a welcoming environment.
• Jax Feeley - Award Winning Speaker, Broadcaster & Advocate
• Hugo Remi – CEO – Cardaq Ltd: Personal journey and Pridepay
• David Bevens – Portico: Polari and/or the linguistic origins of key LGBTQIA+ language/terms

6.10PM                                  Networking, drinks & food 

🎉What to expect:

🗣️ Great talks: we will have some amazingly talented and inspiring LGBTQ+ speakers

🌈 Rainbow vibes: join us to celebrate the diversity and inclusivity of our community. Feel free to wear your most fabulous attire!

🍹 Drinks & tasty nibbles

🎟️ Guest list only!  Secure your spot at this extraordinary event! Contact  Elouise: elouise@corecruitment.com  

Let's come together to make Pride 2025 a moment of love, acceptance, and unforgettable memories.

Mark your calendars for 19th June 2025 and let's create beautiful memories under and in the London sky.  

See you there! 🏳️‍🌈