Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is important to the Royal Armouries. As an organisation, we want to build a museum that creates spaces for people to be themselves, hold a collection that tells diverse stories and be a fair, progressive and hopeful place to work – for us, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion means more than just words, and is an expression of a constantly evolving organisational culture.
We believe that both equality and equity are critical to our work to bring together the best talent, knowledge and creativity. To do this we need to recognise, understand and remove barriers faced by staff, volunteers, stakeholders or visitors.
Equality
We will adhere to the Equality Act 2010, upholding the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation and social class. We need to go further, by not only adhering to our responsibilities; we will actively identify and address inequalities and challenging discriminatory practices when and where we find them.
Equity
We believe that equity is an important tool in achieving equality, and that we should be realistic in our recognition that we need to use all the tools at our disposal and acknowledge that there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Targeted interventions, designed in collaboration with our staff, volunteers, stakeholders and visitors, may be needed for us to progress our work effectively in this area, all supported by robust policies and procedures.
Monitoring and evaluating our progress
Without transparent and honest monitoring and evaluation of our progress, we don’t how far we have to go and where we can still improve. In keeping track, we aim to understand our own actions and their impacts better so that we can go even further – but this doesn’t always mean that we’ll get everything right or that it will always go to plan, however we pledge to always be transparent in our work on this process that should be continuous and evolving.