We value everyone, irrespective of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation or socio-economic group. But we know that some of these groups are underrepresented within The Swan and across our audience. While remaining vigilant across all groups, we have prioritised increasing representation by people from diverse backgrounds in our performers, composers, audience, staff and board; increasing our use of female composers; and making our music more accessible to those from lower socio-economic backgrounds and in communities historically underserved by cultural organisations, such as the visually impaired and those living with complex disabilities. We have also made partnering with local education and local care providers a priority.

As part of this drive, we have set the following strategic goals:

1. Actively share music-making with as wide and diverse a community as possible
2. Actively focus on four protected characteristics when conswiering our inclusivity and relevance – Age, Disability, Pregnancy and Race
3. Celebrate difference, create an inclusive organisational culture, whilst promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in everything that we do

All members of the Board are responsible for delivering our strategic goals. To help, we have appointed an Inclusivity Champion and assigned an Inclusivity Team to spearhead our Inclusivity and Relevance planning and implementation; to ensure it is data-led; to ensure appropriately ambitious targets are set; and to hold all of us at The Swan to account for being inclusive in everything we do.

Inclusivity Champion:
Roger Wilson (Trustee)

Inclusivity Team:
Sunney Sharma (Trustee)
Marcus Willett (Trustee)
Roger Wilson (Trustee)

David Le Page (Artistic Director)
Debbie Jagla (Chief Executive)
Megan Matthews (Head of Community Engagement)