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The South Indian Arts and Cultural Society  is committed to achieving equal opportunities, respects and values diversity, and is committed to applying equality of opportunity in all its practices and objective/service delivery with regard to ethnic origin, age, gender, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status and disability or any other criterion not relevant to the point at issue.

The South Indian Arts and Cultural Society  Trustees/Committee Members have overall responsibility for the effective operation of this policy. However, all Committee Members/Trustees volunteers and service users have a duty as part of their involvement with the group/organization to do everything they can to ensure that the policy works in

Practice.

Trustees and members of the South Indian Arts and Cultural Society  will bring to the attention of all committee members/trustees and volunteers the existence of this policy, and will provide such training as is necessary to ensure that the policy is effective and that everyone is aware of it.

Aims 

The Charity aims to: 

• Provide services that are accessible according to need.
• Promote equality of opportunity and diversity in volunteering, employment and development.
• Create effective partnerships with all parts of our community. 
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The Charity’s objective is to realize its standards by: 

• Sustaining, regularly evaluating and continually improving its services to ensure equality and diversity principles and best practice are embedded in our performance to meet the needs of individuals and groups; 
• Working together with the community to provide accessible and relevant service provision that responds to service users needs;
• Ensuring staff, volunteers and trustees are representative of the community served and the policies are fair and robust; 
• Responding to volunteer’s needs and encouraging their development to increase their contribution to effective service delivery; 
• Recognising and valuing the differences and individual contribution that all people make to The Charity; 
• Challenging discrimination;
• Providing fair resource allocation;
• Being accountable.

Equal Opportunities Policy Implementation

General activities of South Indian Arts and Cultural Society.

As a provider of a service to the community, South Indian Arts and Cultural Society accepts responsibility to promote equal opportunities and challenge discrimination wherever it occurs. This document sets out the main consequences of this commitment and the action to be taken in order to achieve equal opportunities.

We will actively monitor all activities to ensure that we are serving the needs of all communities and groups.

It is the responsibility of all staff, volunteers and service users to ensure that no other

committee member, volunteer or service user receives less favorable treatment than another on the grounds of age, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status or gender.

We will encourage our committee, volunteers and the staff of any organization working with us to take positive steps to ensure that the needs of minority communities and disadvantaged people are met.

We will listen carefully to what people tell us they need from South Indian Arts and Cultural Society and do everything in our power and within our resources to ensure their needs are met.

Monitoring and Reviewing 

The Charity has declared its commitment to establishing, developing, implementing and reviewing a policy of equality of opportunity. Effective record keeping and monitoring, and acting on information gathered, are essential in order to measure effectiveness and plan progress. The management committee will review the policy annually.

Physical access

South Indian Arts and Cultural Society event  premises will be reviewed regularly so that access by committee, staff and users with disabilities can be maintained and improved where

necessary.

Adopted by the Management Committee on 15/03/2023