Introduction

We are committed to ensuring the freelance associates and specialist advisors we work with are treated and paid fairly.  

Principles

We are committed to treating the freelancers we work with professionally and respectfully in our working practices.

We are committed to giving the freelancers we contract due profile in our business materials and company communications.

We are committed to advocating for good practice around fair work and fair payment for creative freelancers and artists as part of our vision to make positive strategic change in the culture sector. 

We are committed to diversity across the sector and welcome the different perspectives freelancers bring to our projects and patterns of working.

How we are financed

Culture Radar is a private limited company with its income self-generated through the delivery of services to public, private and third sector clients.

Culture Radar can receive public funds for the delivery of sector-facing projects, managed and monitored through a public funding agreement. 

Fees and payments

We aim for the fees we pay freelancers to be fair and relevant to the different types of activity we contract. For example:

• We pay above the Real Living Wage for general administrative work offered to freelancers to reflect both their time and overheads.
• We reference Industry Standard Rates of Pay when contracting freelance professional expertise (or to a mutually-agreed project fee (depending on the nature of the work).
• Creative commissions are negotiated on a case-by-case basis, with reference to Industry Standards.
• We negotiate and agree daily rates with each freelance consultant on a project-by-project basis, and review fees with regular freelancers on an annual basis.

Transparency

We are open with our associates and freelancers around the detail of projects we are inviting them to be part of (including how they are funded) and we invite their input to proposals and bids to ensure their time and fees are appropriately estimated.

Contracting

We negotiate terms and payment schedules individually, and provide all freelancers with a Letter of Agreement detailing agreed responsibilities, activities, outputs, delivery timeframes and fees. We pay promptly when invoiced.

How we review our payment policy

This payment policy is reviewed annually and in line with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan.

Culture Radar

May 2023

Introduction

The Equality Act 2010

It is a legal requirement for Culture Radar to have, publish and adhere to an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy. 

Culture Radar, as a service provider working across the public, private and third sector, takes its commitment to equality and diversity seriously. In delivering our services we seek to ensure equality of opportunity and repectful behaviours with everyone we work with. 

We understand the Equality Act’s ‘protected’ characteristics as: 

• Age
• Disability
• Gender reassignment
• Marriage and civil partnership
• Pregnancy and maternity
• Race
• Religion or belief
• Sex
• Sexual orientation

To these we add:

• Class/socio-economic status

Culture Radar Aims

We commit to:

• The principles of equality and diversity, and to observing the law.
• Ensuring that no person (or group of persons) working with us (i.e., associates and freelancers) or for whom we are delivering work (i.e., clients, client's stakeholders) be treated less favourably than any other person (or groups of persons) because of their age, disability (physical or mental), gender or sexual orientation, marital status, race, ethnic origin or nationality, religious beliefs, class or socio-economic background.
• Supporting Fair Work, equality and diversity priorities and interests of our clients.
• Promoting our commitment to the Equalities Act (2010) by making our policy available on our website. 
• In any advertising of opportunities to work with us, we aim to ensure:

1. Inclusive and accessible recruitment processes
2. Promoting opportunities as broadly as possible
3. Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required

• In seeking to support equality and diversity we commit to counterbalance any prejudice against the protected characteristics of the 2010 Act as set out above.  

Culture Radar Principles

We believe that committing to and implementing our policy will contribute to broader representation in the culture and heritage sector and will improve its long-term sustainability.

We are committed to implementing our policy and to promoting its aims within the wider network in which we operate.

Culture Radar

May 2023