AIMS OF SMALL SCALE THEATRE COMMITTEE

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Our aims and objectives

These aims are not prioritised:
Each one is as important as the next.

  1. To find a new name for the field.

  2. To campaign and fight for funding which recognises the size, scope and professionalism of the field and is commensurate with that given to the rest of national and regional Subsidised Theatre.

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  3. Raise profile of Small Scale theatre within union and without.

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  4. Ongoing clarification of the nature of the field in order to adequately represent practitioners.

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  5. To protect, promote and extend the rights and interests of all practitioners in the field who are members of Equity.

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  6. To support the recruitment of new practitioners to Equity.

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  7. To be active within Equity and promote the interests of practitioners as integral, rather than peripheral to the union and theatre structure as a whole.

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  8. To monitor the use of all current agreements and to develop new agreements/codes of practice/guidelines for areas not currently covered e.g. workshop leaders, work in drama schools, role play, live interpretation, the health service, etc., and for new areas as they arise.

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  9. To promote training and development for all practitioners at all stages in their careers.

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  10. To encourage the presence of deputies at committee meetings.

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  11. To explore the area of copyright for collectively developed and workshop produced scripts and materials.

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  12. To work with other Equity specialist committees to promote and protect the interests of members represented by those committees.

  13. To be active in promoting enhancements to Equity's democratic process by making the union more directly responsive to the needs of all the individual specialisms that are represented.

What happens at a committee meeting?

Certain issues are always on our meeting's agenda.

  1. Apologies from those who are unable to attend.


  2. A review of the previous meeting's minutes, the matters arising, the actions being taken relating to the issues discussed and progress being made.

  3. A report from the Equity Council usually given by our committee's council representative, Caryl Griffith.

  4. A report from the committee's secretary, Ian Bayes (a member of Equity's staff) appionted to support and administer our committee.

  5. Health and Safety is also discussed at every meeting. Issues bought to our attention are reported and a course of action is proposed and followed.