Get accredited and take action against workplace sexual harassment
We work with employers to effectively prevent and respond to sexual harassment in the workplace.
We want every online and offline working environment to be free of harassment, that's why we've developed an easy accreditation system.
Our Accreditation
No matter where you are as an organisation, we're ready to support you on your journey to become an employer that takes sexual harassment seriously.
For each accreditation level, you'll receive resources including email sign-offs and posters
Bronze
For your organisation, we will...
- Design and implement a trauma-informed sexual harassment policy to ensure a sensitive and supportive approach for those affected.
- Conduct disclosure response training sessions to equip you with the necessary skills to receive disclosures of sexual harassment in a compassionate and understanding manner.
Silver
For your organisation, we will...
- Provide specialised advocate training to HR professionals, enabling them to effectively work with and support individuals who have experienced sexual harassment.
- Conduct comprehensive culture-setting staff training to establish clear behavioural expectations, promote bystander intervention, and foster a broader cultural shift within the organisation.
Gold
For your organisation, we will...
- Deliver trauma-informed communication resources to engage those who may need support.
- Provide a bespoke, reusable training that can be used for induction purposes.
- Create an employee handbook on sexual harassment, including expected behaviours, guidelines on how to support a colleague and steps on how to disclose if they experience it.
Our Team
Martha Jephcott, Co Director
For nearly a decade, Martha has enjoyed a wide and varied career in the violence against women and girls space. She is best known for being part of the leadership team that made misogyny a hate crime, initially in Nottingham and later across half of all other police forces.
A qualified Independent Sexual Violence Advocate, Martha has worked in various domestic and sexual violence crisis centres in training, policy and advocacy roles. Martha managed a Department of Health funded pilot project concerned with sexual exploitation that was later used to inform national best practice.
Martha continues to lead Love & Power's service delivery work with universities via Empowered Campus, and workplaces via Empowered Workplace, supporting them in creating gold-standard prevention and response strategies regarding VAWG.
In 2019, alongside Charlotte Fischer, Martha was co-awarded a Paul Hamlyn Ideas and Pioneers grant, and in 2020, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to travel to the United States and Australia to better understand international approaches to VAWG.
Charlotte Fischer, Co Director
Charlotte has enjoyed a long career as a skilled and successful community organiser, working with Jewish communities to take action on issues of social justice and develop relationships across lines of race, religion and class and to co-ordinate the national campaign to make misogyny a hate crime. She is co-founder of L'Taken, an antisemitism training that puts antisemitism into a broader frame of anti racism and supports individuals and communities to identify and interrupt antisemitism in their organisations and relationships. As a result, Charlotte has lead anti-oppression training with local authorities, government departments, political parties and charities.
Charlotte grew up in south east London and read History and Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, after which she studied Arabic in Damascus. Her career started in Geneva working in political mediation before changing track to work in conflict history in Cyprus, Spain, Northern Ireland and South Africa. A dual national, she worked in South Africa, co-authoring a book on the history of South African education and as the executive director of the South African Religious Action Centre, where she refuted a ban placed on Jewish women singing.
In 2014 Charlotte won the Annemarie Schimmel Award at the Muslim News Awards for her work with synagogues and the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association after their building was burnt down in an arson attack, and in 2015 she was ranked in the Jewish News' 40 Jews under 40. In 2019 with Martha Jephcott she was co-awarded an 'Ideas and Pioneers' award for their work on feminist organising.
Empowered Workplace is a project of Love & Power, which is Co-Directed by Martha and Charlotte. Love & Power is a feminist not-for-profit that organises ordinary people to take action on the issues that matter to them.
