Culture Lab - Rethinking how we work: Learning from RadHR

Building More Equitable, Values-Driven Arts Organisations

What if the biggest barrier to equity, sustainability and creativity in Lancashire’s cultural sector isn’t funding or audiences - but how we organise ourselves internally?

If we are working to challenge inequality, exclusion and injustice through our creative practice, to what extent might we be unintentionally reproducing those same dynamics in how we hire, make decisions, pay people, manage conflict, or support one another?

This session invites arts and culture organisations across Lancashire to explore these questions together - offering space to reflect on where current ways of working may not fully align with our shared values as a sector.

Taking inspiration from The Peace Museum’s work with RadHR, we’ll explore what becomes possible when organisations begin to rethink internal practices- from HR and governance to everyday culture - through a more collective, participatory and values-led lens.

Together, we’ll consider:

• Where do our current ways of working fall out of alignment with our values?
• What might improve if we took more collective approaches to pay, recruitment, decision-making or wellbeing?
• What would we need - individually and collectively in Lancashire - to start doing things differently?

We’ll be joined by Jude Wright, Development Lead at The Peace Museum (Bradford), who will share insights from their organisational development journey. This includes their work with RadHR to move beyond reactive, policy-led systems towards more equitable, values-driven ways of working- grounded in their mission around peace, nonviolence and social change.

This session is particularly relevant for organisations considering future funding applications, including core funding, where clarity of values, governance and organisational culture is increasingly important.

We hope you’ll join us to explore new ways of building a more equitable and sustainable cultural sector in Lancashire.

Book your place now to be part of the conversation.

11am - 12.30pm | Friday 12 June | Online

Free to attend.

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