FOI reference - FOI-378
Date - 15 May 2025
Request
Please include the following information for the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25.
- A list of all the staff networks at the organisation.
- Whether each network receives internal funding and, if so, how much (please express annually for the last four financial years).
- How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network (please express annually for the last three financial years).
- A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far (April to the present day), including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event.
Response
TPR has six staff networks:
- Family Network (Balance)
- Disability Network
- LGBT+ Network (Proud)
- Minority Ethnic Network
- Mental Health Network
- Women’s Network
Each network receives internal funding which is broken down into the below table:
| Year | Budget total | No. of networks | Per network |
| 2022 | £0.00 | 0 | £0.00 |
| 2023 | £14,400.00 |
6 | £2,400.00 |
| 2024 | £14,400.00 | 6 | £2,400.00 |
| 2025 | £20,000.00 | 6 | £3,333.33 |
From 4 August 2023 each staff network chair is allocated a protected minimum of 10% of their working hours per year to spend on voluntary diversity network activities.
In this financial year from April 2025 to present the following events were held by the Mental Health Network to mark Mental Health Awareness Week and National Walking Month:
- The Camino Connection with TPR speaker - 11.30am to 12.30pm
- Connect with your TPR Communities Picnic, 1pm
- Addiction Talk with guest speaker, 1pm to 2pm
- Wellbeing Walkshop with guest speaker, 12pm to 1.30pm
- Chair Yoga with TPR colleague 1pm to 1.30pm