Webinars

Access recordings from THRE’s lunchtime webinar series, all exploring different topics within human rights and equalities.

 

Our Webinars

THRE hosts regular lunchtime webinars, which each feature a different theme within the topic of human rights and equalities. Each webinar features guest speakers with expertise in the webinar’s theme, as well as opportunities for attendees to network and share their own experiences working within a Human Rights and Equalities First Approach. Previous lunchtime webinars include:

  • Fostering Inclusive Workplaces with Inclusion Scotland
  • Community Wealth Building: Transforming Local Economies
  • What’s Next for The Scotland Demands Better Campaign
  • Embedding Lived Experience in Third Sector Organisations
  • Meaningful Participation in Service Design and Delivery
  • Technology in Modern Society: How Do We Tackle Digital Exclusion?
  • Meaningful Equality Diversity and Inclusion: From Policies to Practice
  • Human Rights Budgeting: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Climate Change and Human Rights for the Third Sector
  • Scottish Human Rights Bill: Understanding Incorporation

We want our webinars to be led by the interests of our audience. If you have a suggestion for a webinar theme or guest speaker, please contact us by emailing thre@gcvs.org.uk.

Scroll down to access recordings from our previous webinars.

Fostering Inclusive Workplaces

This webinar focused on the topic of inclusivity and how third sector organisations can build inclusive workplaces. Our guest speakers were Amy Walsh and George Chinwo from Inclusion Scotland, who shared insight into reasonable adjustments in the workplace, as well as their internship programme and training – providing a practical view of how workplaces can support meaningful inclusion.

Fostering inclusive workplaces

Community Wealth Building

This webinar focused on the topic of community wealth building and how this ties in with human rights and equalities. Our guest speaker was Evelyn Henderson-Child, Senior Researcher at CLES (Centre for Local Economies). In her presentation, she shared how local communities can be transformed through community wealth building.

Community wealth building

Demanding Better in 2026

This webinar discussed the ‘Scotland Demands Better Campaign’ with Isla McIntosh, Senior Communities and Networks Officer for Poverty Alliance, sharing updates about last year’s impactful rally and answering the question – what’s next?

Two key themes that emerged were:

  • How collective action can continue to shape the political agenda in the months ahead — from fair wages, strong public services and affordable homes, to robust social security and meaningful investment in life essentials,
  • How to keep momentum, hold decision-makers to account, and translate shared demands into real change.
Embedding Lived Experience

Embedding Lived Experience in Third Sector Organisations

This webinar discussed how organisations can embed lived experience into their board governance. Guest speaker Emma Murray, Network Manager for Neighbourhood Networks, shared how Neighbourhood Networks evaluated their existing lived experience pathways and developed an advisory group for their members.

This webinar accompanies a PDF resource on the same topic. You can download the resource by visiting this link.

Embedding Lived Experience

Meaningful Participation in Service Design and Delivery

This webinar focussed on participation and features guest speakers Michelle Major and Jeremy Wylie from Homeless Network Scotland.

In Michelle and Jeremy’s presentation, they share key lessons and learnings from years of experience in involving people with lived experience of homelessness in the design and delivery of services.

Meaningful Participation

Technology in modern society: How do we tackle digital exclusion?

This webinar discussed taking a rights-based approach to tackling digital exclusion in Scottish society and how third-sector organisations can support communities with this ever-changing topic.

In this video, we feature guest speakers Irene and Shona from Mhor Collective, an organisation working to make Scotland more digitally inclusive.

Tackling Digital Exclusion

Meaningful Equality Diversity and Inclusion: From Policies to Practice

This event’s theme takes inspiration from our popular resource series ‘Beyond Protected Characteristics,’ which supports third sector organisations to create policies which fits their needs and values.

In our recording from the webinar, THRE team member Alice Tucker shares what it means to design meaningful equality, diversity and inclusion policies.

Designing Meaningful Policies

Human Rights Budgeting: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

This webinar focused on the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the role of Human rights Budgeting in its fulfilment.

In this recording, Lydia Murphy (Poverty Alliance) explains ICESCR, progressive taxation, and how the Scottish Human Rights Bill bill will look at a local and national level.

Human Rights Budgeting

Climate Change and Human Rights for the Third Sector

THRE ran an event in September 2023 that focused on the intersection of climate change and human rights and what this meant for third sector organisations. You can find a blog summarising the event here.

We had inputs from a range of expert guest speakers with their recorded presentations available watch on YouTube.

  • The Right to a Healthy Environment – ERCS
  • How are Ethnic Minority Groups Affected by Climate Change? – EMEN
  • Community Climate Adaptation Roadmap – Sniffer

(Link to the YouTube playlist)

THRE Climate Webinar Playlist

Scottish Human Rights Bill: Understanding Incorporation

In 2023, THRE hosted Mhairi Snowden, then Director of the Human rights Consortium Scotland, for a webinar on the Scottish Human Rights Bill.

In our recording from this event, Mhairi examines the key points of note in the Bill, and the potential implications in Scotland for the Third Sector and beyond.

Human Rights Bill recording