Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility strategy
Understanding and reflecting the communities we work with and those we aim to work with.
We need to ensure that the music we share is meaningful and accessible to as wide an audience as possible. We believe the pursuit of greater equality and diversity across everything we do offers a creative opportunity to make our work relevant to everyone who needs it.
Accessibility is core to our vision; we are working towards a world where everyone can access and experience the joy of live music, irrespective of their health and wellbeing. Music is universal; it transcends barriers, brings communities together and promotes social cohesion.
To ensure the impact of our live music is effectively realised, we are continuously in pursuit of greater equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all the people we work with, those that support us and the staff, volunteers and professional musicians who deliver our work.
Our action plan for 2025/26:
Strengthen our use of EDIA data and evidence to better understand where we are now, set future targets and evidence the impact our actions have made.
Increase EDIA across our live music programmes and external facing media and other resources.
Ensure our organisation is more diverse, by attracting and recruiting people from under-represented groups to work with us as staff, volunteers and musicians.
Increase awareness and understanding of EDIA amongst our staff and volunteers through learning and development, communications and engagement.
Foster an inclusive organisation and culture, taking actions to remove barriers to EDIA, support the wellbeing of our people, and improve policies and practices.
What does success look like in the future?
Inclusive and accessible live music
We continue to work with people from a diverse range of backgrounds, countries and communities living with different health and wellbeing challenges. Our live music reflects, and enables people to experience, different needs, tastes and cultures.
Engagement, belonging and effective voice
Through fostering an empowering environment and culture where our people can say they belong to an organisation that truly values equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility. We can formalise and build on feedback processes and opportunities for all staff and freelance musicians to feed in new ideas and practices to our organisation development. Inclusive behaviours will exist in all aspects of the organisation to ensure that any barriers to participation are addressed and minimised where possible.
Learning and understanding
This isn’t just about delivering training. Equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility will be an ongoing and organisation wide learning conversation. Where we can provide rich opportunities for people to learn together and to apply their understanding.
Policies, practices and data
All of our organisational policies and working practices are assessed through a lens of equality, diversity, accessibility and inclusion from fair and inclusive recruitment, to accessible technology. We will use EDIA data and feedback to continue to make further improvements to our practices.