Hilton Birmingham Metropole has launched an initiative to help individuals from a range of backgrounds enter the conference, events and hospitality industry.
‘A Place for Everyone’ will see the venue partner with a series of charities and NGOs. Partners include: Workfit, a Down’s Syndrome Association’s employment programme, that matches employers with potential employees who have Down’s Syndrome and will see the hotel take on employees through the partnership.
The hotel will also partner with Aurora Foxes, Hospitality and Catering College, a school for people with severe learning disabilities and Newlands Bishop Farm, a work and education charity, that also gives those with learning disabilities an entry level work experience in a farming environment.
Hotel values
Hilton Birmingham Metropole, which completed a multi-million-pound refurbishment last year, sees this as an opportunity to “build a truly inclusive workplace in which all team members can thrive, regardless of background, ambition, or role.”
Nicola Underhill, general manager, Hilton Birmingham Metropole, said: “We said from the beginning that the investment in our refurbishment had to be reflected in the personality of the hotel and our people.
“We have built an amazing reputation over decades for the quality of our team, and we want to keep this strategy of inclusion, care and openness going after the refurbishment.”
As part of the campaign, the Hilton Birmingham Metropole will share contacts within the partnership organisations, and case studies of the work being done, with the wider meetings and events industry through its marketing, and through its involvement with its trade associations.
Pictured: Nicola Underhill, the hotel’s GM and Simran Hoonjan, who has been working with the hotel as part of its partnership with Workfit.
