The 64 Million Artists community celebrates equality and inclusion. We are committed to understanding and overcoming barriers to access to include and celebrate people of all gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We recognise the systemic injustices that exist in our society and our own unconscious biases due to our privilege. We recognise that we have not always done enough to address this in our work. We strongly believe that action is the best way to show a commitment to our values. While we are constantly working on making our approach universally accessible, we are currently undertaking a series of actions in 2 key areas where we think we have the most work to do.

Anti-Racism

We are aware of the systemic injustices that exist towards Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups in UK society and globally. As such, we have recently re-committed to proactive steps to learn, grow and take action as a company:

• Expanding our pool of freelancers and associates to include more people of colour
• Ensuring that as we appoint our first Board of Directors that it includes people of colour
• Build on our learning around anti-racist recruitment practices to ensure any new positions are advertised broadly and applications structured to combat the unconscious bias that we know exists in all of us
• All staff to undergo regular training around anti-racism, unconscious bias and accessibility practices
• Only work with clients that adhere to our values around anti-racism
• Ensure that people of colour are always paid fairly and appropriately
• To amplify Black and Minority Ethnic voices through our public-facing programmes and always pay for their time

Access and Disability

We are also proactively working with and listening to d/Disabled artists and participants to develop best practices around recruitment and access to programmes. To this end, we are committed to:

• Improving accessibility on our website over the next 6-12 months.
• Proactively working with and listening to disabled artists and audiences
• To amplify d/Disabled voices through our public-facing programmes and paying for their time
• Continuing to improve access to recruitment processes
• To ensure that people with both visible and invisible disabilities have representation on our staff, board and associate pool

Over the next five years, we expect to grow as a company and will continue to build on these actions to ensure our company staff, board and associates, partners, and participants are more fully representative of the 64 Million (plus population growth) people in this country.

If you have any questions or further thoughts on how to develop or support our actions, please get in touch at hello@64millionartists.com.