The Basics
How can you make sure that inclusion is at the very heart of all that you do?
Action Planning
Think about action planning as equal opportunities aerobics.
Case Studies
Case studies from arts organisations in the south east who have moved to place inclusion at the heart of their practice.
Get a Plan is a here to help arts organisations evolve.
This site is the result of four years work by arts organisations in the south east, developing interesting diversity and disability action plans, partnerships and projects. This site sums up their experiences in order to inspire others (alright, its also here to provoke, kick, tickle, seduce & drag you in too).
Tony SneeRemember that: you can’t plan for everything, you can’t do it alone, and it’s the right thing to do. A plan needs to be caring but not patronising; we need to strike a balance. We are the ones who have got to make it work and I really think this process has helped that to happen.
The Mill Arts Centre
Sarah PickthallFor me, a plan’s… got to be something that is sung throughout the organisation, and is creative and feels that its alive, feels like its got some achievable yet little risky milestones within it, that has textures and flavours and feels very exciting, so that the organisation feels empowered in the delivery of it.
Arts Council England, South East
Stevie RiceFor DaDA South a really good disability action plan is one that really takes risks. I like it when arts organisations don’t quite know where they’re going, they’re not quite sure what is going to happen with the one particular aspect of their plan, and it’s a little bit more freefall.
DADA-South
Michelle DicksonGet A Plan has been great in terms of putting together all the different experiences of the organisation. It’s been good to hear everyone’s experiences, get their ideas and find out how we move forward in the best way possible.
Oxford Playhouse
Jo VerrentAn action plan is simply a list of what that organisation is going to do to push their practice forward, but it has to be right the way across - artistic as well as marketing, in terms of audience, in terms of how that organisation runs and governs itself.
ADA inc
Jo VerrentThat’s what this website is for. It’s a chance for people not involved in the original Get A Plan process to find out more and to basically do the work themselves and to “get a plan”.
ADA inc
Sarah PickthallWhat I’m always looking for within these plans is to see the buy-in throughout the organisation because, fundamentally, it won’t work if it doesn’t have that buy-in, so the plans that have worked really well have been where different people within the same organisation have ownership of the milestones that they set for themselves.
Arts Council England, South East
Pete WattForget the fact that its about the law … [action planning] is about genuinely making the experience better for every single member of our audiences and that’s helped change attitudes.
The Corn Exchange Newbury & New Greenham Arts
Mark SteeneThe whole process was inspiring. The auditing was daunting but a real challenge… this was really a useful tool to bring us together and make the process complete.
Pallant House Gallery
Jo VerrentWhat’s an action plan? It’s like a stick of rock, it’s got to run right the way through the organisation.
ADA inc
Jo VerrentGet A Plan was a 4 year programme so what are we left with? We’re left with a lot of organisations, a lot of good practise, a lot of learning and we’re left with the materials from the training days, useful pieces of information that have already inspired other organisations to take action.
ADA inc
Sarah PickthallAction plans are very much individual things, the whole point of Get A Plan is that it develops the idiosyncrasies of organisations, their individuality, building on the strengths of that.
Arts Council England, South East
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