Brand

Our brand has been developed to reflect our values and to illustrate that we are committed to demonstrating equality, inclusiveness and accessibility in every area of our practice and, in so doing, informing and stimulating positive change in the wider world.

Values

• We believe that the arts can be a positive force in people’s lives, awakening us creatively, enriching us spiritually, and profiting us economically

• We regard the people we work with as 'emerging artists' whose artistic journeys begin with the histories, experiences and stories they bring with them, both as individuals and as members of socially excluded groups

• We believe that the arts can be powerful in many ways: as a voice (a vehicle for self-expression), a tool (a medium for learning), a force (a stimulus for social change), and as a product, an end in itself

• Our team includes, and our projects always involve, professional artists and trainers whose background and experience reflects the groups with whom we work

• We strive for quality and excellence in all of our work

• We believe the arts can help us understand and express our pasts, and thereby transform and shape our futures

• We regard the arts as an important medium for exploring and conserving history, sharing our cultural experience and creating opportunities for greater social cohesion

• We aim to stimulate informed debate and influence policy-making, through networking, conferencing and dissemination of our work

• We regard access to and participation in the arts as both a right in itself, and a means to progressing cultural representation and equality in other social spheres

• In our work, we create safe, supportive and enabling environments, which promote self-determination and maximise personal achievement