Pillar 2: People and Culture
Equality and protected characteristics
Trans-inclusion
Come Play with Me and Youth Music. 2022. 56-minute video.
Through this webinar you will understand more about trans identities and terminology, and hear about ways you can be an ally to trans communities.
LGBTQ+ Inclusion
Come Play with Me and Youth Music. 2022. 53-minute video.
Through this webinar you will understand more about LGBTQ+ identities and terminology, and hear about ways you can be an ally to LBGTQ+ communities.
Having people’s backs with Cee Haines
Brighter Sound and More Music. 2022. 4-minute video with transcript.
Cee draws on their own experiences as a transmasculine non-binary person to demonstrate that the struggles of minority communities are not always obvious to outsiders.
Disability equality and accessibility
Youth Music and Attitude is Everything. 2022. 60-minute video.
An introduction to disability equality including language, terminology and with questions from online seminar attendees with Paul Hawkins.
Inclusive recruitment
How to make your recruitment process more engaging and inclusive.
SLS 360. 2023. Free eBook. 16 pages
Download the guide for five top tips on attracting a diverse range of candidates who want to work for you.
Best practice recruitment guide
Creative and Cultural Skills. 2019. Free downloadable guide. 32 pages
This guide will provide some helpful food for thought, encouraging organisations to think about their current approach and whether recruitment processes could be changed or built on for the better.
Accessible employment guide
Attitude is everything. 2021. Free downloadable guide. 50 pages
Aimed at businesses of all scales, and particularly small and micro-sized enterprises without extensive HR resources, this guide offers simple and straightforward tips on how to attract talented Deaf and disabled workers with advice on everything from accessible job interviews and accessible meetings to suggested adjustments to office and work environments.
A quick start guide to using positive action in recruitment and promotion
Government Equalities Office. 2021. Free downloadable guide. 12 pages
This quick start guide is intended to help employers understand how they can use new positive action provisions to improve diversity in their workforce when recruiting and promoting candidates.
Developing your employer Action Plan
Mind and Rethink Mental Health. Date unknown. Free downloadable guide. 9 pages
A free guide on how to fill out the ‘Time to Change Employer Pledge Action Plan’. This guide contains all the information as well as links to resources needed to complete the action plan.
From Here to Diversity: A practical guide for recruiting Black and Asian Charity Trustees
Action for Trustee Racial Diversity. Date unknown. Free downloadable guide. 31 pages
A free guide on how charities can take positive and sustainable steps to increase the racial diversity of their Boards.
Socio-economic diversity and inclusion in the arts: A toolkit for the employer
Jerwood Arts and the Bridge Group. 2019. Free downloadable guide. 72 pages
This toolkit gathers the practical ideas and case studies to support long-term change across the arts sector and encouraging take-up of an intersectional approach to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Talk into Action EDI Webinar Series
Music Mark (members only). 2022. Webinar series.
A series of webinars by Samantha Stimpson, the Founder and Chief Executive of SLS 360 and guest speakers focusing on each area of the Talk into Action pledge.
- Webinar 1: Dealing with Data
- Webinar 2: Action Planning for Success
- Webinar 3: Language
- Webinar 4: Recruitment
How Youth Music uses data to track diversity
Youth Music. 2021. Web article. 6-minute reading time
Collecting data on the diversity of the workforce is crucial in understanding where there may be inequalities, barriers to opportunities and to progression. Insights Manager Remi shares Youth Music’s approach to gathering and analysing this data.
How and why you should update language in your organisation
Youth Music. 2022. Web article. 6-minute reading time
The article outlines some of the changes to language Youth Music uses across their organisation to describe groups of people, why it’s important, and what you should take into consideration when you update language in your own organisation.
Building strong relational skills for organisational change
DOT project. 2022. Web article. 4-minute reading time.
Key takeaways from a training series designed to help teams and organisations facing change.
IDEA Case Study
Bristol Beacon
Developing the next generation of representative, inclusive practitioners.