The enormously successful Couraud Cabaret has taken place and I had a great time welcoming all our clients, suppliers and other friends of Couraud.

Towards the end of the night as we were unwinding I began to cast my eye round the room. At this point I noticed a very strange occurrence. Everyone bar 5 people was white, we easily had over 100 attend. I am a 27 year old from the proud County of Shropshire. Salop (Shropshire in local speak!!) is not known as cosmopolitan so I have clearly been to events with similar proportions of different cultures but even so I was actually quite shocked and a little disappointed.

Couraud invited all sorts of people to the event, encouraged people to bring colleagues and other interested parties. Thus it makes me wonder if HR departments themselves are as lacking in diversity as other departments, yet these are the departments in charge of putting this lack of diversity right. I had thought that the gender balance was more representative but having aired this in the office the view was that in addition HR departments are grossly skewed to females in their 20s, 30s and 40s.

I am the IT Manager and have no real agenda or points to prove with diversity indeed I am normally tutting when my pieces get edited for "wrong" language but I have realised that much is needed to be done, starting with HR departments.