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Changing the Story at Hachette UK
Our mission at Hachette UK is to make it easy for everyone, everywhere to unlock new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. To achieve this, we have to attract and retain talent that is fully reflective of the world we live in and become the employer and publisher for everyone. So, we’ve ensured that all our internships are paid above the London Living Wage. We also have a minimum salary for all roles. And we offer interest-free loans for rental deposits.
‘Changing the Story’ is one of four pillars of our business strategy and it puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. It’s a programme of employee networks, policy changes, partnerships and initiatives through which we will achieve our mission. It began in 2016 as a huddle of 13 people who believed that better representation would lead to broader publishing, and has grown into a movement of eight networks with a combined membership of almost 1,500 of our colleagues right across Hachette UK.
We now have a three-strand approach to Changing the Story: our people, our publishing and our partnerships. We want to build a talented staff base that is representative of all readers and a culture in which everyone can thrive in their role while being themselves. We want to build a more diverse author base and publish work that reaches more consumers by being much more representative of all readers and telling stories with inclusion at their core. We want to build strategic partnerships to help improve access to books and life-changing reading skills for under-served communities. We believe greater diversity and inclusion enriches creativity and means better books for everyone.
Changing the Story has organic, grassroots energy at its heart. We empower our people both to take ownership of the change they want to see and to hold the leadership team accountable for that change. We partner and collaborate with our employee networks and staff from across the business to enable this transformation and we commit to radical transparency about our progress.
In the fifth anniversary year of Changing the Story, the purpose of this report is to be open and honest about where we are today, and to share our aims and actions as we focus on the next five years of Changing the Story. We received the Inclusivity in Publishing Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, recognising the transparent, holistic and open approach we take with this work. This is something we pledge to continue.
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