Sophie Belle
Sophie is a breathwork facilitator (400 hour Global Breathwork Alliance qualified), owns 2 businesses and is a Mum of two. She is passionate about the power of breath and strongly believes breat... Read More
Steph Peltier
Steph Peltier is a happiness expert and founder of The Happiness Society, a real brain hacker! On top of doing the usual coachy things, she teaches her clients the Science of Happiness, a s... Read More
Suraiya Rasheed
Suraiya Rasheed is the founder of Diversity Diagnostics . She has a depth of experience in delivering world-class inclusive talent management, including attraction, selection, recruitment... Read More
Tash Koster-Thomas
Tash Koster-Thomas is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker and LGBTQ+ Activist, who is at the forefront of conversation. Tash uses her lived experience and intersectional ... Read More
Timea Kadar
Timea Kadar , Francis Cooper Marketing Consultancy & Programme Leader of MSc Digital Marketing at Northumbria University.
Timea has been in marketing for more than 20 ye... Read More
Virginia Mendez
Virginia is a feminist author, public speaker and co-founder of The Feminist Shop - a feminist ethical brand and hub. With a background in corporate and mother of 2 she decided to p... Read More
Dr Zoe Schaedel
Dr Zoe Schaedel is a GP and an accredited British Menopause Society Menopause Specialist. She is the co-director of Myla Health and the clinical lead of Brighton and Hove Community... Read More
Cityparents welcomes the NHS with free support for all staff
London, Monday 8th June 2020 – Cityparents, the organisation for professional working parents, today announces a new partnership with the NHS. Cityparents is giving the NHS’s working pare... Read More
Cityparents welcomes 20,000th member
Cityparents, the London-based organisation offering a platform of support for working parents, is celebrating its 20,000th member registration. Louise James, Managing Director at Accenture joined on ... Read More
Q&A with Louise James, our 20,000th Cityparents member
With working parents needing support now more than ever, Cityparents has seen rising numbers of registrations, with new joiners over March up 345% year on year. Last week, we were thrilled to welcom... Read More
Cityparents Annual Matching Scheme 2020 Launch
Cityparents Annual Matching Scheme 2020 Launch
The annual Cityparents Mentoring Matching Scheme is now open! The two week application window opened on Monday 4th May and closes at midnight, Frid... Read More
The LSE’s Consultation on Trading Hours – we offer our view
Tomorrow, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) will close its Consultation on Market Structure and Trading Hours, in which it asked for views on a proposed reduction in trading hours. The consultation rec... Read More
News from Cityparents HQ - Autumn 2019
Welcome to the latest edition of the Cityparents newsletter. Autumn now feels well underway, with the business of the new school year already hurtling us towards half term and then on to Christmas!
... Read More
Cityparents Annual Members Survey 2019 – What Did You Tell Us?
Each summer we ask you, our members, to answer a survey about your experience of working in the City and balancing your career ambitions with your home life. We are so grateful to all of you who take... Read More
Cityparents Annual Member Survey 2019 Results
Welcome to the 2019 results of our Annual Members survey and many thanks to all of you who participated. The responses received yielded a wealth of data and insight into people’s experiences o... Read More
An interview with ... Ali Mirkhani and Britt Johnston, NATIXIS
Cityparents reached a milestone last month welcoming our 100th Corporate Member! Ali Mirkhani, Director of Public Sector Origination in the Investment Banking Division and Britt Johnston, Direc... Read More
Working Families celebrates it's 40th Anniversary
This year, Working Families—the UK’s work-life balance charity—celebrates its 40th anniversary. Over the last four decades, there have been great strides made in improving the work... Read More
Events Round - Up July 2019
It has been an exciting few months here at Cityparents with many successful events. Even the rainy weather didn’t stop us from making the most of our packed schedule!
Having started at Cit... Read More
News from Cityparents HQ - July 2019
I am delighted to introduce the summer edition of the Cityparents newsletter and my first as its editor. I’ve now been with the Cityparents team for two months and what an exciting time to ha... Read More
News from Cityparents HQ - May 2019
We’ve had a flying start to 2019 - passing a major membership milestone, holding our second successful Accelerator conference, launching our new webinar programme, publishing our first podcast... Read More
Meet our new team members
Our new team members Anna Richards, Head of Communications and Marketing, and Susanne Leja, Head of Events, chat with us about their memorable work experiences, top wellbeing tips and... Read More
Cityparents Mentoring Scheme 2019 Launch
This year’s Cityparents Mentoring Scheme will be open for applications from mentors and mentees between 13th – 24th May.
Mentor applications are invited from senior-level people wh... Read More
Events Round-Up - May 2019
We have just launched our Webinar programme plus a great series of events for Mental Health Week 2019. Our Summer events schedule promises to be one of the best yet!
Meet our new Head ... Read More
Update from Working Families: Jan 2019
Cityparents’ charity partner Working Families recently won two awards for their legal advice service: the 2018 Law Society Excellence In-house award and a high commendation at the 2018 LawWork... Read More
Meet our 14,000th member
Faye Suvari from SS&C became our 14,000th member when she joined Cityparents in November last year. We invited her to tell us about her experience of combining a City career with a fam... Read More
Events: Preview of our Accelerator Conference
Our Cityparents Accelerator event is taking place on 20th March 2019. Join us at our fantastic half-day conference full of expert content which will give you the unique opportunity to ex... Read More
News from Cityparents HQ - Jan 2019
We have events, news and networking galore to help brighten the first quarter of this year! Scroll down to read about Influencers, the Accelerator Conference, Cityparents Webinars and a new Cityworks... Read More
Cityparents Accelerator Day 2019
Mark your diaries now for our next Accelerator event which will be held on the afternoon of Wednesday, 20 March 2019 at the offices of Allen & Overy. At this half-day conference we will be join... Read More
Events Round-Up: October 2018
Summer has been and gone (wasn’t it lovely!), the leaves are falling and Autumn is here. Dare we say it … Christmas is just 12 weeks away!
We have had an exciting few m... Read More