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Open the Door - Access and Equality Training for the Creative Industries
13 September 2008
Open the Door is the country’s most comprehensive programme of disability equality training; designed specifically for the creative industries.
Over the last 2 years, we’ve trained over 400 arts and cultural organisations across the UK to help them:
- become confident in engaging with disabled audiences, employees and volunteers
- become compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act
- apply access equality standards
- build disabled audiences
Seminars (October 2008 - March 2009)
- Disability Equality with Customer Care
- Employing Deaf and Disabled People
- Accessible Marketing and Publicity
- Organising an Accessible Event
- Deaf Equality: Artists, Audiences and Participants
- Developing a Disability Action Plan
- Developing Participatory Arts Activities
Download the training brochure
About Shape
Shape has over 30 years experience of supporting creative industries to open their doors to disabled people. Our training promises to demystify disability equality issues, leaving you inspired.
As well as seminars, we offer in-house training that can be tailored to the individual needs of your organisation, and work out much cheaper for larger groups.
We also offer an access audit service. Providing you with a complete understanding of the steps your organisation can take to become accessible to disabled people.
For more information
- Download the training brochure
- For a free consultation telephone 020 7424 7334 or email openthedoor@shapearts.org.uk
- Visit www.shapearts.org.uk/openthedoor
