Celebrating you
At Virgin Money we're committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We're cultivating a culture where we can unlock rich insights from diverse perspectives enabling us to drive innovation and better serve our customers, communities and colleagues. Together we're accountable for creating an inclusive environment, making sure to drive our DE&I objectives through our words, our actions, our decisions, our behaviour and the choices we make every day.
Doing the red thing
Culturally, we work hard to drive inclusion, so our colleagues feel safe to speak up, are supported to contribute to their fullest potential and inspired to better understand other perspectives. Our code of conduct "doing the red thing" makes sure that we live up to our responsibilities of enabling colleagues to be themselves in the workplace and encouraging others to do the same. Our allyship framework BRAVER accelerates us towards our ambition.
We've built solid foundations to support our DE&I vision. Starting from ensuring we’ve fair recruitment processes in place, having truly inclusive approach to pay and making sure our colleagues find a balance between their work-life with their personal commitments.
Our inclusion networks
We believe in collective greatness. Our network groups are made up of a community of inspiring and committed volunteers who are passionate about championing equity and inclusion throughout the colleague journey at Virgin Money. Our networks support Virgin Money to amplify under-represented voices, be advocates of positive change, and provide safe spaces for peer support.
We 've 6 colleague network groups all sponsored by senior leaders who advocate for their communities and allies.
Aspire
Our Aspire network provides colleagues with mentoring, sponsoring and networking opportunities. Aspire offers a wide range of activities from sharing personal career stories, leadership panel discussions and in person events such as our STEM careers week.
Balance
Everyone matters in Virgin Money, and Balance is here to provide learning opportunities and insights to support in creating a balanced workforce, where gender isn’t an issue. Our Balance community also supports colleagues from early parenthood through to the menopause.
Embrace
Our culture is all of you, coming together to create something special. Embrace is here to find and celebrate the things that make our individual cultures so unique by amplifying underrepresented voices, raising awareness, and providing a safe space.
Enable
Enable are focused on supporting colleagues and allies with direct and indirect lived experience of disability, chronic illness, caring responsibilities and neurodivergence. Enable works hard to identify areas for improvement in the colleague experience.
Vibrant
Our award winning Vibrant network enables and empowers LGBTQI+ colleagues and allies to champion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Vibrant drive participation in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index and in 2024 Virgin Money placed in the top 100 employers in the Stonewall Workplace Equality index.
Vets@Virgin
Our Vets network provides support and awareness for Armed Forces veterans and allies as they return to civilian life. Working in partnership with the forces, our network runs signature career access days to promote career pathways for those transitioning.
Our Vision
We're dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can thrive, belong and be your best. To do this, we're focused on evolving mindsets to be BRAVER while deploying smart interventions around our 4 strategic pillars.
- Attract, retain and advance talent - for a workforce that reflects talent at all levels
- Create leadership accountability - to drive clear output and outcomes for customers and colleagues
- Create equity in the colleague experience - by removing barriers
- Shifting mindsets - for enterprise wide allyship, empathy and inclusion
Our Commitments
We're committed to ensuring we've got the right platforms in place to ensure that no matter what your story is, you're supported from the get-go. Externally, we've actively developed relationships with partners who provide us with advice and support and keep challenging us to do more.
- We're proud to have signed up to the Women in Finance Charter
- We've gone for gold and have been awarded Top 100 Stonewall Gold Employer
- We're a Disability Confident Employer
- We support the 10,000 Black and Able Interns programme and we're signatories of the Race and Black Talent Charters
- We're delighted to be holders of the Gold award of The Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
BRAVER lens on our benefits
Our benefits package (including flexible benefits for your family) has you covered. It's designed to strike a healthy balance between your work life and your personal commitments and encourages you to keep your wellbeing at the forefront. We know that your lives outside of work all look a little different, that's why we're committed to supporting you with arrangements that are practicable for both the business and you, meaning there’s more time to spend on what makes you happier.
We offer a comprehensive wellbeing programme built around four pillars:
- Mental health
- Physical health
- Financial wellbeing
- Social connections
Empowering growth
We’re committed to breaking down barriers and have created a forward-thinking learning culture to support the development of all our colleagues. Our tailored programs, like career sponsorship, BRAVER reciprocal mentoring, and traditional mentoring, are designed to support underrepresented talent. From early careers to career changes, we have something for everyone. Our career journey framework is flexible, allowing colleagues to shape their career paths in a way that suits them.
We expect our leaders to drive inclusion in everything that they do. We've invested in a wide range of development opportunities to help them empower the growth of those they lead. From our Our Great Leadership framework to BRAVER Hiring workshops we're able to equip our leaders with the skills and tools to have meaningful conversations and drive equity in the workplace.
