Creative and Cultural Experiences

The standards in this category focus on setting and articulating your organisation’s strategic commitment to accessibility. They help you to make sure that everyone in your organisation can understand your approach and how it relates to their role. The individual standards ensure that your strategic commitment is reflected in day-to-day processes such as programming, budgeting and working with disabled-led organisations and other external partners.  

The standards in this category might be especially useful to leaders, budget holders, board members or trustees.  

The standards in this category focus on taking an equitable approach to finding and selecting work so that disabled people are fairly represented in your programme. These standards will help you to make sure that your whole process for finding and programming work and offering opportunities is accessible and inclusive of disabled creatives. The individual standards ensure that your organisation explains its approach clearly and transparently. They make sure that opportunities and open calls reach a wide range of disabled people and that people can apply or submit work for consideration in an accessible way. These standards also lay out how you can ensure that the voices of disabled people are involved in your decision-making process. 

The standards in this category may be especially useful for programmers and schedulers, commercial bookers, curators and curatorial teams, artist development teams and project delivery teams. 

The standards in this category are focused on providing an equitable and accessible experience for disabled artists and creatives once they are working with you. They will help you to make sure that you are working collaboratively with disabled people and proactively taking responsibility for the accessibility of the process. The individual standards will help you to plan how you’ll meet people’s access needs, take an accessible approach to contracting creatives and make sure your ways of working are accessible for everyone involved. 
 
The standards in this category may be particularly useful for producers, project managers, community and learning managers, artist development teams and volunteering teams. 

The standards in this category are focused on embedding accessibility in your event planning and delivery process. They will help you make sure that you are planning and budgeting appropriately to deliver a range of accessible experiences for your audience. They’ll ensure you’re working accessibly with access providers and disabled experts throughout the planning and delivery cycle. The individual standards help you plan for accessible events and appropriate marketing and communications, choose and deliver access provisions that meet the needs of your audience and consider crisis and contingency planning that takes account of disabled people. 

The standards in this category may be especially useful for producers, project officers, event managers and venue and visitor operations teams.  

The standards in this category are focused on measuring and evaluating your work on accessibility. They will help you make sure your evaluation is based on inclusive, wide-ranging feedback and that you use what you learn to drive continuous improvement and best practice. The individual standards cover how to build reflection points into your production or delivery process and create a culture that welcomes honest feedback about accessibility, inclusive ways to collect information and measure progress and consistent approaches to defining goals and evaluating your work.  
 
The standards in this category might be especially useful for leadership teams, budget holders, project managers, evaluators, data managers, board members/trustees and advisory groups.