14.09.2026
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What our team told us about exploitation within our organisation“Exploiting yourself sets expectations that others should exploit themselves too.” That’s what one person told us during our Anti-Exploitation Academy course. It’s changed how we think about leadership. Find out what our team told us, and why their honesty matters to all of us. |
Making a statement, taking actionEvery six months, we look again at our statement on human rights. We check it still speaks to where we are as a world and as a sector, then we update the work we’ve been doing in these areas. We’ve just refreshed it. Take a look at what’s changed, and what it means for how we work. |
Commissions
misery: misery mealsCommunity-sourced recipes for when you’re depressed or just really tired! A culinary love letter by and for the Mad community. Centring queer and transgender people of the global majority. |
Can a disabled person escape their identity? Can anyone? This meta-theatrical show is about a disabled-led company trying to make work that has nothing to do with their disability. At Bristol Old Vic in October.
Part gig, part light show, part apocalyptic rave. Lighthouse is a euphoric new live performance from learning disabled musician and composer Jez Colborne. Experience at artsdepot in November.
Two performers and their uncanny video doubles spiral through a strange, looping morning, in a mind-bending performance exploring how we live, slip and stall in time. Catch them in October and November.
Maddie Morris is going on tour with a setlist featuring their Unlimited commissioned song. Planned with accessibility at the heart. The audience are invited to doodle, stim, and exist however they are. Touring this autumn.
Like the childhood toy, this sculpture asks how our unique perspectives shape understanding of the world around us. Take over the lights yourself at WX using the bespoke Collide O Scope app.
Resources
Learn to recognise exploitation in your structures, practices and partnerships. Discover practical ways to redesign opportunities so that they’re equitable, accessible, and sustainable.
One of our most frequently asked questions from organisations is how to respond when receiving an access rider. So, we made a resource to help you put the right things in place.
On our radar
🩰 Candoco Dance Company is inviting applications for Choreo Accelerator, their new commissioning programme supporting D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent choreographers to develop, create, and tour an ambitious piece of original work.
🤝 As the cultural sector looks to the future, join leaders, practitioners and funders to explore why putting parents and carers at the centre of equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging, supports lots of people at once.
📣 Media Trust and Health Equals are looking for people across the UK living with an ongoing health condition and experiencing the challenges of staying in work, balancing work and health, or leaving work because of their health to become spokespeople for the campaign.
🧑🏽🎨 Arts and Homelessness International want to connect with people who have lived experience of navigating freelance or paid creative work while receiving benefits and who are interested in using their experiences to help create positive change. Email to find out more.
🎭 Funny, frank and unapologetically human. Sex & Disability – The Musical asks what happens when desire, love, intimacy, independence and connection collide with the realities of disability and care.
🤝 Work across creative health, culture, health and wellbeing? Common Ground: CHWA Conference 2026 is an opportunity to come together for three days of learning, connection, nourishment, and support.
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