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Anti-Racism Policy

As a company of predominantly white employees, freelancers, and Trustees, we recognise our privilege and we acknowledge that institutional and systemic racism exists at all levels of society, including within our sector.  We are committed to addressing barriers to working in the arts sector for people of colour and those who have lived experience of racism. We will embed an anti-racist approach to reduce the risk that work we do contributes to, or perpetuates, harm, bias and inequality.

 

We recognise that creating a truly inclusive and diverse culture is an ongoing process and we know we have a long way to go. We also acknowledge that the use of language around race and cultural identity is always evolving.  We have chosen to use the term 'people who experience racism' at this time as our preferred term.  We are committed to a process of ongoing anti-racist education, listening, learning, and unlearning, including reviewing language 

Action
Status
Area
Sub-area
Adopt a commitment to EDI intervention across every budget line.
Done
Leadership
Finance
No jobs below Living Wage
Done
Leadership
Finance
Publish pay scales for all staff and visiting artists.
Done
Leadership
Finance
Introduce transparent pay scales.
Done
Leadership
Finance
Create pathways to leadership for diverse candidates.
On-going
Leadership
Finance
Set inclusion targets for all staff involved in hiring.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Produce policies in accessible formats.
Working on it
Leadership
Policy
Allocate budget provision for regular EDI work.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Provide BSL interpreters in all meetings when required.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Create your own anti-racism policy for board, staff and all who engage with you.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Make a public commitment to anti racism.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Ensure your anti-racism policies are created/reviewed by those with lived experience of racism.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Ensure all your company anti-racism policies are available online.
Done
Leadership
Policy
Dedicate regular active anti-racism engagement for all staff teams
On-going
Leadership
Policy
Anti racism policy leads to have regular and extensive anti-racism training.
Done
Leadership
Training
Ensure all staff who interact with members of the public have Anti-racism training that includes Unconscious Bias training, and Bystander Training.
Done
Leadership
Training
Create partnerships with ethnically diverse organisations across your business and production needs, to embed cross pollination of practice and ideas.
On-going
Leadership
Training
Build regular opportunities for ‘anti-bias audits’. Create public consultations for workforce and contractors to review and revise your policy with specific reference to anti-racism.
Working on it
Leadership
Training
Create and implement Positive Action plans that actively develop opportunities for African Caribbean and Asian practitioners in your creative practice.
Done
Leadership
Training
Provide paid-for training opportunities for all freelancers you work with for more than 3 months in a year.
Done
Leadership
Training
Anti-racism training must be delivered by a team that includes trainers from the communities that experience racism.
Planned & in budget from 2024-25
Leadership
Training
Commit publicly to a minimum 20% of your main stage works to be produced, staged and created by diverse creatives.
Working on it
Leadership
Work & Care
Provide a robust induction/welcome pack to visiting staff, freelancers and new members to all in your organisation to inform them fully.
Planned for 2024
Welcome
Ensure new staff are clear about how to cascade complaints.
Done
Welcome
For all staff and freelancers, provide in-person introductions to all areas of business that is led by Senior Management team members.
Done
Welcome
Induction to take place prior to commencing work duties.
Done
Welcome
No unpaid internships for any role lasting more than 1 week.
Done
Welcome
Regularly rotate days and times of all staff meetings - as a routine - to ensure all staff can make at least some of them.
Done
Welcome
Provide free tickets to regular contracted staff (including cleaners and security) & their families.
Done
Welcome
ZERO tolerance to reported racism: end onus on 'proof' and investigate all complaints without censure or judgement.
Done
Work & Care
Care
Signpost to free resource support as part of your induction/engagement process.
Working on it
Work & Care
Care
Hold regular EDI/anti-racist check-in on all culturally sensitive productions for all staff to attend; monitor who attends.
Done
Work & Care
Care
Allocate funds to provide a minimum 8 hours per year of free counselling/support for all who work with you who experience racism.
Planned from 2025
Work & Care
Care
Have debrief/exit meetings with artists in a safe environment where they can be candid.
Done
Work & Care
Care
Provide specialist care and expertise in styling and consultation on Black hair and makeup when working with Black actors.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Seek annual feedback from diverse communities, publish findings and make attendance inclusive (access, childcare, timing, hospitality).
Working on it
Work & Care
Productions
Guarantee equitable budget allocation for the production of ethnically diverse shows and projects: equivalent to non-diverse shows equivalent in size/scale.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Disrupt the 'show must go on' culture: ensure care processes are built in practice and resourced for every production.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Work that originated outside the UK, or is about migrant communities to also include migrant artists and practitioners that are living in Britain.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Make a commitment to allow diverse artists to not make work just about trauma or oppression.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Reject the tokenistic approach of recruiting migrant theatre artists: don't use them only in productions related to foreign identity or migration, and commit to integrating migrants into a thematically broader range of work.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Theatres and production companies to actively support artists in the event of racist and discriminatory reviews/press.
Done
Work & Care
Productions
Zero-tolerance approach in dealing with any reported incidents involving digs, and digs list to be maintained and updated by venue to include this.
Done
Work & Care
Touring
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