Diversity Action Plan - DOC

							John Hansard Gall ery

DIVERSITY ACTION PLAN
This Diversity Action Plan is to be revised and updated on an annual basis and should be referred to in
conjunction with the 2007-2008 Diversity Policy. This Action Plan has been created as a result of the
Gallery’s ongoing foundation work integrating diversity within the organisation.

YEAR 1
Objectives: October 2007 – October 2008


1. Monitoring & Marketing:

ISSUE identified -

To streamline the monitoring of the gallery’s audiences, participants and artists in order to establish who currently
attends the gallery and those whom the organisation needs to work more with.

ACTION –

Combined audience development / research project with Audience Development South East (ADSE).



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2. Exhibitions:

ISSUE identified –

To create more opportunities for deaf and disabled artists to create and exhibit work with the John Hansard Gallery.

ACTION –

Offsite ‘Go-Make’ artist residency at the WEA (Workers Education) Clovelly Centre with Disability Arts Development
Agency – South (Dada-South) and Southampton City Council. This project is part supported by an Awards for All grant.
The Clovelly Centre is based in St. Mary’s which has a large minority ethnic community. This project also aims to
promote disability awareness and equality within minority ethnic communities.


3. Education:

ISSUE identified –

a). Create more learning opportunities in partnership with Wessex youth Offending Team (WYOT) for young offenders
on Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programmes (ISSP), through delivery of the Arts Awards, which (as an
outcome of the WYOT Arts Summer College in July 2007 which the Gallery was involved in) has proven to help reduce
or stop repeat offending.

b). Develop and implement the Gallery’s first community cohesion related project, which embeds our continued work on
promoting race equality in the Southampton North area.



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ACTIONS –

a). Work on a year long project delivering the Arts Awards for young people on ISSP through WYOT.

b). Delivery of the Community Cohesion / Race Equality CONNECTPort project, creating an animation led by project
artist Elroy Simmons, in collaboration with Swaythling Youth Centre and the Swaythling Neighbourhood Centre Over
50s Club, exploring the Port City exhibition looking at issues of mobility, migration and contemporary slavery. Project
funded by the University of Southampton.


4. Governance:

ISSUE identified –

To ensure that all new staff joining the organisation during October 07 – January 08 have an understanding of diversity
and how it relates to the Gallery’s own policy and way of working.

ACTION –

Delivery of equal opportunities training for new staff (to be recruited this year) and update on Diversity Policies.




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ACTION PLAN
Deliverable    Success             Resources /      Timescale             Sign-Off By      Diversity Area
               Criteria            Costs
Objective 1.   Streamlined         Staff time in    Diagnostic in         Stephen Foster   ALL
Monitoring &   monitoring and      meetings and     September             Adrian Hunt
Marketing      audience            administration   2007, visitor         Ronda Gowland
               development         with ADSE.       diversity data        Ros Carter
               strategies are in                    capturing during      ALL Gallery
               place for all       No costs.        Port City (Nov 07     Assistants
               aspects of JHG                       – Jan 2008) with
               activities.                          pilot strategies in
                                                    place by
                                                    February 2008.

               Strategy impacts
               on all areas of
               gallery activity.

Objective 2.   Residency work      £4,800 from      Commences             Stephen Foster   Disability
Exhibitions    is completed and    Awards for All   November 2007         Ronda Gowland    Equality and
               achieves project    plus £10,000     with celebration                       Race Equality.
               aims by creating    ACE funding      exhibition in the
               more                from Dada-       Spring 2008 at



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               programming           South.          JHG.
               opportunities for     Support from
               artists and           Southampton
               promoting             City Council,
               disability equality   WEA Clovelly
               with participant      Centre and JHG.
               ethnic minority
               groups.

               Lessons learned
               and impact on
               future projects.

Objective 3.   a). Achievement       £400 for delivery   WYOT Arts       Ronda Gowland   Social Inclusion
Education      of Arts Awards        of Arts Awards      Awards; October                 and Race
               for at least 10       and Gallery staff   2007 – October                  Equality.
               young offenders.      time.               2008.

               b). Successful        £10,000 from the    CONNECTPort                     Social Inclusion
               completion of         University of       commence                        and Race
               collaboratively       Southampton for     October 2007 –                  Equality.
               produced              CONNECTPort         completion 26th
               animation from        project plus        January 2008.
               the community         Gallery staff
               cohesion project      time.



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               CONNECTPort
               with Swaythling
               Youth Centre
               and Swaythling
               Over 50s Club.

Objective 4.   All new staff       Resources –          In – house          Stephen Foster    ALL
Governance     recruited gain an   staff time for in-   training of new     Ros Carter
               awareness of        house training       staff by the        Adrian Hunt
               diversity issues    from accredited      Gallery Diversity
               and ALL staff       Diversity Trainer    Trainer in          Note: ALL staff
               have had an         with Diversity       January 2008, to    are required to
               update and copy     Policy updates.      be completed in     ensure they
               of the JHG                               first year by       have received
               Diversity Policy                         October 2008.       appropriate
               and Action Plan.                         Diversity Policy    training.
                                                        Updates by
                                                        January 2008.




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