Fund houses form charity corporate advisory board to boost ethnic diversity in finance

Dynamic Planner and DMGT among those on new board

Dynamic Planner, DMGT and Refinitiv are among the companies that have formed a corporate advisory board to support UK-registered charity Urban Synergy in extending mentoring and career opportunities to black minority ethnic and disadvantaged young people.

Urban Synergy said the newly-created corporate advisory board will enable the growth of the charity by bringing new expertise and experience to support sustainable fundraising, idea generation and corporate participation. The members of the corporate advisory board are UK Power Networks, Dynamic Planner, DMGT, EC1 Partners and Refinitiv, and will develop career learning and pathways for the children served by Urban Synergy into employment through corporate insight days, job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships and other work experience. FTSE 100 boards falling short on ethnic diver...