EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION POLICY_
Equality, diversity, inclusion are values which are core to Electric Medway’s vision to bring technology and the arts together to make Medway an innovative and exciting place to live, work, learn and visit. This sits at the heart of our organisational processes, practices and culture.
Electric Medway is an equal opportunity employer. It’s important that our directors, staff, artists and volunteers reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.
The Equality Act 2010 provides the legislative framework that informs our work to promote equality of opportunity and reduce barriers to engagement, in particular for protected groups including:
Achieving action
We have an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion plan, which sets out how we plan to use our national reach and profile to model best practice within our communications, fundraising, workforce and governance as well as influencing others in their practices through our grants criteria and sector support role. We also operate an anonymised recruitment process to eliminate unconscious bias.
We define this as:
Equality – we believe in equality for all people. However, society is not equal, and for this reason we adopt an equitable approach to give support to those who need it most.
Diversity – we take active steps to ensure that our workforce and those we support through are work are represented, included and respected, whatever their gender, ethnicity, race, religious and political beliefs, education, socioeconomic background, disability, sexual orientation and geographic location.
Inclusion – we are committed to ensuring everyone feels welcome, no one feels uncomfortable and everyone is able to thrive and contribute equally regardless of who they are, where they’re from, or what they’re going through.
The action plan is assessed and reviewed on a 12-monthly basis internally and the revised version published annually on our website.
What this means for staff
People who work at Electric Medway are integral to making our vision of equality and diversity a reality. This includes:
How do we update this Equality, diversity and inclusion policy?
We keep our policies under regular review and we will place any updates on our webpage. This policy was last updated on 06/01/2023.
Electric Medway is an equal opportunity employer. It’s important that our directors, staff, artists and volunteers reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.
- We will strive to eliminate any unlawful or unfair discrimination.
- We will remain proactive in taking steps to ensure inclusion and engagement for all the people who work for and with us.
- We will continue to strive towards a culture that is diverse and inclusive that recognises and develops the potential of all.
- We recognise the business benefits and opportunities of having a diverse community of staff, who value one another and realising the contribution they can make to achieving Electric Medway’s vision.
The Equality Act 2010 provides the legislative framework that informs our work to promote equality of opportunity and reduce barriers to engagement, in particular for protected groups including:
- age*
- socioeconomic background
- disability*
- ethnicity (including race, colour and nationality)*
- gender*
- gender reassignment*
- religion or belief*
- sexual orientation*
- marriage and civil partnership*
- pregnancy and maternity*
- refugees and asylum seekers
- people who are neuro-divergent
- ex-offenders
Achieving action
We have an Equality, Diversity & Inclusion plan, which sets out how we plan to use our national reach and profile to model best practice within our communications, fundraising, workforce and governance as well as influencing others in their practices through our grants criteria and sector support role. We also operate an anonymised recruitment process to eliminate unconscious bias.
We define this as:
Equality – we believe in equality for all people. However, society is not equal, and for this reason we adopt an equitable approach to give support to those who need it most.
Diversity – we take active steps to ensure that our workforce and those we support through are work are represented, included and respected, whatever their gender, ethnicity, race, religious and political beliefs, education, socioeconomic background, disability, sexual orientation and geographic location.
Inclusion – we are committed to ensuring everyone feels welcome, no one feels uncomfortable and everyone is able to thrive and contribute equally regardless of who they are, where they’re from, or what they’re going through.
The action plan is assessed and reviewed on a 12-monthly basis internally and the revised version published annually on our website.
What this means for staff
People who work at Electric Medway are integral to making our vision of equality and diversity a reality. This includes:
- Being active in ensuring the technology and arts activities we create are done so with community settings and accessibility in mind.
- Workshops are planned with inclusivity at their heart, differentiation, support for additional learning needs and adapted tools and methods.
- Adapting technology where required.
- Diverse voices and targeting marginalised, subculture groups.
- Ensure all marketing and communications to audience and participants are inclusive and use everyday, plain English, and can be made available in other formats where required - language, Braille, audio, subtitles, large text, easy read.
- Design and planning of programmes is done by co-creating with local communities.
- Taking part in in-house and external training programmes to develop awareness, knowledge and skills to better meet everyone’s needs.
- Reading and committing to Electric Medway’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement and Equality Action Plan.
- Monitor equality data for board, staff, volunteers, artists, audiences and participants.
How do we update this Equality, diversity and inclusion policy?
We keep our policies under regular review and we will place any updates on our webpage. This policy was last updated on 06/01/2023.
