Monica Vinader Ltd

Who is Monica Vinader? Well first off—she’s real. Today, we’re catching you up on the MV story so far, in her own words.

Here at Monica Vinader Ltd, we have four employee-led committees that help to authentically embed our values and culture in our day-to-day at Team MV.  This includes our We Belong team who champion all things DE&I and as part of their celebration of Pride Month, we had guest speaker Lee Thomas Wragg 🌈 (he/him/they) from Changing Hearts & Minds Consulting Ltd host two webinars for us: Pride 2024: The History and Continuing Importance of Pride 🌈 👨❤️👨 How to be an Ally to the LGBTQIA+ Community 🌈 👩❤️👩 We are committed to active action and education to support our workplace being better, inclusive and accessible to all.   With strong attendance across all of our global teams, we were able to learn about the history and continuing importance of Pride, the different types of allies as well as why it’s important and what we can personally gain from being an ally to the community and individuals within it.  Lee Thomas Wragg 🌈 thank you for your time, expertise, and sharing your lived experiences.  We loved having you and can’t wait to have you host another webinar soon.  To everyone else out there, recommending Changing Hearts & Minds Consulting Ltd as a brilliant business who can support you with both tailor made and off the shelf content for your DE&I journey, today and beyond. What's more, they give 20% of their profits to charities supporting vulnerable LGBTQIA+ people 😍

Earlier this week Megan Shearer, our Chief Product Officer, joined the UN Global Compact Network UK Fashion Sector Exchange to speak with Melanie C Grant, Executive Director at the RJC about how we have embedded our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals within our business and supply chain. It was a great opportunity to reflect on the progress we've made, especially hearing about the importance of supply chain traceability and transparency. We are proud to reflect on the progress we've made since the launch of Product Passport, our blockchain-powered supply chain transparency initiative, which now allows our customers to trace the journey of over 400 products from source to market. The fashion and jewellery sectors have much work to do to deliver the SDGs and we need to collaborate to drive meaningful action. It was inspiring to connect and learn from other brands who are also committed to embedding these goals into their business models. 

Thrilled to share the exciting news that we have had three further Team MV'ers graduate from Diversity in Retail Womens Leader's Programmes: Carolyn Hall last week and Jessica Hart and Jaimee Hollier on Monday this week. These incredible programmes go such a long way to support, encourage and remind delegates to: 🎤 Find your voice: be confident in your aibilities and say 'yes!' ✔ 👩🏫 Prioritise their own learning & development 📚 🗣 Lead purposefully and with empathy 💗 Congratulations to all that have graduated this week, with special thanks to the team at Diversity in Retail and WiHTL: Tea Colaianni, Joanna Aunon (she/her), David Tester, Silvia Sanvito, Sumika Summers and Stéphanie Cook for the incredible work you do and to both programme sponsors SSP Group plc and Bourne Leisure Ltd. Well done again Carolyn, Jess and Jaimee 🥂 🎉

We believe in leading with purpose-driven action, and Monica's Meadow is a testament to this commitment. Started in 2022, Monica’s Meadow is a landscape regeneration project transforming degraded farmland next to our design studio in Norfolk, restoring the space to a native, species-rich wildflower meadow — and it is blooming for the first time this year. A huge thank you to Emily Chan and Vogue for highlighting our progress so far. https://lnkd.in/e2B2k6Ke

We are committed to global sustainability targets, and collaboration is key to achieving those goals. As a committed member of the UN Global Compact, Megan Shearer, our CPO, was invited to attend this roundtable discussion with key business and government representatives. It was a hugely valuable event exploring how the private and public sector can work together to accelerate progress towards the SDGs, by taking tangible accountable actions. At Monica Vinader we ensure our sustainability strategy and each project within that is aligned to each our chosen SDGs. This ensure we stay focused and always link our local projects to global ambitions. To read more about our sustainability progress click here: https://lnkd.in/egfhdatB

Here at #TeamMV this week, and in advance of Men’s Health Week taking place between 10th and 16th June, we welcomed guest speaker on Men’s Mental Health, Luke Bayliss, to help raise awareness of the health challenges faced by men and promote strategies for better physical and mental well-being.  Luke bravely shared his own experience and helped us to explore how we can help break down the barriers that prevent men talking about how they feel as well as sharing resources for us who may be supporting a male friend, partner or family member who is struggling. Special thanks to our WeCare Team and in particular Archie Willis and Chezelle Craig, who helped to pull the content together for both our in person session held at our Warehouse in Acton on Tuesday and today’s online session.  Huge thanks once again to Luke Bayliss for being so open and sharing your personal mental health journey, your ADHD diagnosis and your road to recovery.  What an inspirational story you told and we have all taken something away from the discussions this week: remember you are not alone, even if it feels like it.  There is no shame in seeking help, we are all human and we all need it from time to time 💝 #mentalhealth #itsgoodtotalk #menshealth #stigma

Entering our third year of membership to the collaboration community that is Diversity in Retail, the only Collaboration Community dedicated to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Retail sector, all of us here at #TeamMV are utterly thrilled and honoured to see both Louise Sparkes and Phoebe Dodd featured in the '2024 Role Models for Inclusion in Hospitality, Travel, Leisure and Retail Index'. Congratulations to both Lou and Phoebe but also to all those recognised as equity, diversity and inclusion champions from across the industry. We can’t post without acknowledging a few others too, so here goes: The MBS Group and Elliott Goldstein, for without your partnership with Diversity in Retail, we wouldn’t have this Index as well as DWF for hosting us yesterday in such spectacular surroundings at the Walkie Talkie Building.  Tea Colaianni and all of the team at Diversity in Retail for your energy, enthusiasm and dedication to supporting us all to champion a mindset and working environment that enables everyone to thrive.  Thank you! #diversityandinclusion #teammv #diversityinretail #recognition #rolemodels

We know caring for the wellbeing of every member of Team MV and giving them access to the best tools available is a key way to help our people thrive. That's why we've selected PayCaptain as our new UK payroll provider. Their user friendly platform, built around helping people to understand their pay, is going to be a gamechanger for the financial literacy wellbeing and of Team MV.

Monica Vinader Ltd is our Jewellery Business of the Year 2024 winner! Learn more 👇 The Jewellery Business of the Year Award celebrates luxury businesses fully embracing sustainability and setting higher standards for the Jewellery & Watch industry – from ethical sourcing and social practices, to innovative design and materials. Here’s Rebecca Butler (Professional Jeweller), member of our judging panel for the Award, on the winner… 🗣️ “The business shows an acute understanding of the ‘work in progress’ nature of sustainable action in luxury and strives to continue improving year-on-year – with proven and verified results” With thanks to our other judges for this category… Iris Maria Alexis Van der Veken | Mads Twomey-Madsen ➡️ The Positive Luxury Awards are a celebration of innovation, real change, and higher standards across the supply chain 🔗 Tap link below to meet the rest of our Awards 2024 winners: https://lnkd.in/eZABJvxu #PositiveLuxuryAwards