What is National Inclusion Week®?
Founded by Inclusive Employers in 2013, National Inclusion Week® (NIW) is an yearly event that takes place every September that is dedicated to celebrating inclusion and taking action to build inclusive workplaces.
National Inclusion Week® offers an opportunity to spark conversations and inspire thinking about inclusion across your organisation. It serves as a platform for discussion, generating ideas, or launching new initiatives. What makes National Inclusion Week® unique and exciting is that is involves everyone. It’s a great week to discuss intersectional issues and include all your communities – across gender, race, religion, LGBTQ+, disabilities, carers and social mobility.
In 2025, National Inclusion Week® will take place from 15th–21st September.
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‘Now is the Time’ – the theme for this year’s National Inclusion Week®
Each year, National Inclusion Week® is given a unique theme inspired what’s happening in society, as well as by conversations with our members and what our team of expert inclusion consultants are forecasting as areas of interest and focus for the year ahead. The theme aims to provide a focus for the week and to act as a tool to widely communicate why inclusion is so important, now more than ever.
The theme this year, ‘Now is the Time’ emphasises the importance of inclusion, urgency, resilience, and the need to push forward – focusing on practical steps that make inclusion sustainable and embedded within our organisations. The theme is influenced by recent backlash against inclusion and diversity coupled with economic instability and tightening budgets – meaning those in inclusion and diversity roles must innovate to maximise impact. Learn more about the theme.
Register now for National Inclusion Week®Join one of our inclusion and diversity webinars
Inclusive recruitment – onboarding & workplace adjustments – advice for line managers and HR leads
Member Community Event – 6 May 2025
Member Community Event – 7 May 2025
Empower – recognising staff contributions in a meaningful way
Menopause: Missed Potential & The Bottom Line
Black Inclusion Week 2025 – Decolonising the Workplace
Integrating professional teams into EDI strategy
Unlocking Potential – Neurodivergent Contributions to the Workplace
Pride in 2025: a history of Pride and exploring it’s relevance today
Events in the elements and managing mass participants
Bitesize session: Re-energising Your Staff Networks in a Shifting I&D Landscape
Inclusive major sporting events – stadium focus
Inclusive kit progression
Parental leave and sporting success
Supporting inclusive pathways in coaching and match officials
Inclusion and environmental sustainability
NIW Demo Event
About Inclusive Employers
Established in 2011, Inclusive Employers are experts on workplace inclusion. We are the first and leading membership organisation for employers who are committed to prioritising inclusion and creating truly inclusive workplaces. In inclusive workplaces all employees are valued and contribute towards the success of their organisation.
We launched National Inclusion Week® in 2013 to give organisations the opportunity to celebrate inclusion and place focus on their inclusion and diversity agendas.