Equal opportunities

The NCA believes that the arts should be open to everyone. For that to be the case, specific actions are needed to help under-represented groups to have access to the arts and to become part of the organisational culture, as artists, as administrators, as participants and as audiences.

In November 2000, the NCA took a delegation of artists to meet the Arts Minister, Alan Howarth, to discuss issues related to Equal Opportunities in the arts.

The delegation came at a time when issues of race and disability were coming to the forefront in the media and politics. The NCA is committed to promoting best practice in the arts and to demonstrating to Government and stakeholders that the arts can and do embody aspirations about equal opportunity and that they need support in doing this.

NCA delegation report: Equal Opportunities, November 2000

In 2005, the NCA and EQ collaborated to produce a Diversity Manifesto, continuing and developing the NCA's commitment to promoting equality in the arts.

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