Anti-Racist, Equality and Diversity Pledge
Over the last couple of years, Theatr Iolo and each individual team member has reflected on how to take a stand against racism in all its forms. We acknowledge inequality experienced by Black communities and many others because of racism and we want to help change our society for the better. We acknowledge that we haven’t always got it right and we are continuing to learn, consult and educate ourselves. We are trying harder to achieve equality in our industry by making sustained, impactful changes in what we do as a company and we recognise that we will always need to listen, learn and set accountable targets.
To this end we are consulting, meeting, talking with and listening to a number of communities that we serve in Cardiff and throughout Wales, to ensure that we increase inclusion and representation in all areas of our organisation.
Theatr Iolo also recognises the inequalities for disabled people working in the creative industries and that many are facing long term shielding, loss of income and invisibility in wider society. We pledged to support the #WeShallNotBeRemoved movement, which is a forum to advocate, to campaign and support D/deaf, neurodiverse and disabled creative practitioners and organisations through and after Covid19.
In order to ensure a better reflection of the diversity of Wales, we look at four key areas;
1) Recruitment of our staff.
2) Our Board and Governance.
3) The theatre that we create and programme and the freelancers we employ.
4) The audiences that we reach.
You are welcome to download our current Equality and Diversity Action Plan, which is updated annually, although we would like to stress it is a working document. We feel it is important to be open and transparent by detailing our current position each year and publish our annual equality monitoring data.
We would love to hear your feedback, comments, challenges and we commit to reviewing the data and action plan annually.
Targets
At the end of each financial year (April to March) we monitor all the equal opportunity forms that we receive back from all staff, board and freelancers that we work with. This outlines our current position and helps us to determine where we would like to be. From this data we outline several targets, but we also recognise and are aware of inter-sectionality and will not be assuming that any categories are mutually exclusive. We have compared the last three years as a minimum to see how we are progressing with these targets;
Zero Racism Wales
Theatr lolo welcomes the breadth and diversity of tradition, belief and culture of the community. Click here to read our pledge to Zero Racism Wales
