One of our three rules is Be Yourself.
The only way our members, staff and trustees can be themselves is if we create a safe, inclusive space for everyone involved in our work. We believe that a real commitment to equity, equality and diversity means not waiting for harm to happen, but to be proactive in recognising and challenging inequality and celebrating difference.
Social Graces
We call our work in this area the Social GRACES. We originally developed our approach in consultation with Rukiya Jemmot, a specialist in relational team dynamics with a focus on Race, Culture and Difference. The Social GRACES refers to the way in which we are all different:
Gender, Gender Identity, Geography, Race, Religion, Ability and Disability, Age, Appearance, Caste, Class, Economics, Education, Employment, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, Spirituality.
We operate a rolling Social Graces Plan which is created and reviewed through weekly work with our members, weekly staff meetings and termly board sub-committees. All our work takes place according to our regularly reviewed Social GRACES Code of Conduct. In our weekly Social GRACES meetings we interrogate our practice, raise up incidents, have uncomfortable conversations and hold ourselves accountable for taking action.
Representation
Company Three exists to make space for teenagers to tell their own stories and make their own change. We think young people do this best when they’re working with people who share their backgrounds, cultures and experiences and so we work proactively to ensure our our staff and freelance teams are broadly representative of the young people we are working with. This includes through regular call-outs to expand our knowledge of people working in the industry, called Meet C3.
Data
We publish data regarding the identity of the people we work with at Company Three on an annual basis in September for the previous Academic year. We do this to better understand the composition of our workforce and to actively address areas of under-representation in terms of our membership, our local area and the wider theatre industry. Members, staff and trustees are asked about their identity based on the principle of self-identification.
Who we are: download the data
Contacting us
We welcome feedback on our Social GRACES work from those inside and outside the company.
Please contact us if you’d like to ask or say anything about our work in this area. We promise to welcome your comments or questions openly and honestly, whatever you have to say and however you want to say it.
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