EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Our aim is that ‘everyone feels welcome, safe and able to enjoy their Adventures in Utopia at Shambala, regardless of their background, sexual orientation or ability’. Each year we have a dedicated Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan for Shambala. This includes training for our team and stakeholders, practical changes to the festival, recruitment and communications. We’ve made progress, but there is more to do.

Crew:

We’ve focussed on employing more diverse crew – a first step has been the people we directly employ as freelancers. Our managers onsite are disproportionately female, we employ more people from the LGBTQI community and BIPOC backgrounds than national population averages on the site crew.

When recruiting for our year round team, we are putting the effort in to reach applicants from backgrounds that are underrepresented in our industry, through targeted job boards such as Creative Access, Run The Check and Creative Lives In Progress.