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Sarah Howard Named Disability and Access Ambassador for Arts and Culture

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Sarah Howard, smiling at the camera, wearing light-tinted sunglasses and a bright, multicoloured striped dress in pink, green, yellow, and blue. Sarah has short blond hair and a red lanyard around their neck.
Candoco Board Member Sarah Howard appointed as the Government’s Disability and Access Ambassador for Arts and Culture, a role within the Disability Unit of the Office for Equality and Opportunity.

We are immensely proud to share that on 31 July, Gov.uk announced the appointment of Sarah Howard as one of nine newly selected Disability and Access Ambassadors (DAAs). These ambassadors are senior business leaders who collaborate with the government to enhance accessibility for disabled people across their respective industries. The new appointees will join existing DAAs in working to improve services and facilities for disabled people in a wide range of sectors – including arts and culture, higher education, transport, banking, housing, insurance, and more.

“I’m delighted to announce my new appointment as Disability and Access Ambassador by the Minister for Social Security and Disability. This is a voluntary position that I will be completing, alongside my work as Head of Access at Shakespeare’s Globe and Trustee for Candoco Dance Company. I will represent the Arts and Culture sector, alongside 19 other ambassadors, to champion access and disability inclusion in their industries.

Both personally and professionally I’m very conscious of society’s continual evolving relationship with disability and access, and its engaging and diverse connection to art and culture. I am acutely aware of what has changed, but also what is still required and possible. Working within this industry I’ve been witness to the enhanced rich tapestry and palette that individual difference brings to our creative cultural scene. There are enormous quantities of creativity, skill, knowledge and experience within this vast 16+ million growing community that deserves our belief, encouragement and a commitment to an equitable process that acknowledges and welcomes everyone’s individuality. I very much hope that this role will enable me to build awareness and champion a shared common purpose to create greater inclusivity through arts and culture.” – Sarah Howard

 

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