Spotlight Essentials

“We desperately want to keep our EDI work going, but we need practical support that is affordable, credible, and works within our capacity and workload challenges.”

STRUCTURED, SUPPORTIVE. SUSTAINABLE

12 - Month EDI subscription

For organisations that want practical, expert-led support to strengthen equity, diversity and inclusion work across the year.

Spotlight Essentials is designed for those who want to move beyond surface level work.

This subscription brings together learning, leadership support, governance resources and flexible advice in one structured offer, helping you make meaningful progress without the stop-start pattern of one-off interventions.

It is designed for organisations that want high quality support that is practical, sustainable and more manageable in the current financial climate.

Download a ‘Leadership Pack’.

Why Spotlight Essentials exists

At Spotlight Inclusion, we know that many organisations remain committed to EDI work but are facing very real pressures around budget, time, capacity and confidence. We conducted research to understand more about what leaders want. One of the clearest messages was that many leaders still want support, but one-off consultancy and irregular training costs can feel difficult to commit to and lack the depth that is needed to make real change.

Spotlight Essentials was created in response to that.

What’s included

Expert-led sessions focused on key inclusion topics and implementation strategies. Each session includes:
- 60 minutes of input
- 15 minutes of peer discussion
- 15 minutes of Q&A
These sessions are designed to help organisations move beyond introductory conversations and into practical implementation.
Choose one of the following:
- Three seats on our EDI in the Arts programme, or
- One bespoke 2 to 3 hour live online training session for your organisation
Training topics can include:
- Inclusive recruitment and retention
- Understanding microaggressions
- Creating safer spaces for LGBTQ+ people
- Inclusive governance
- Supporting neurodivergent adults
- Beyond unconscious bias
- Introduction to EDI
- Disability awareness.
Quarterly 75-minute facilitated sessions in small groups, offering space for:
- reflection
- reviewing live challenges
- managing emotional impact
- strengthening decision-making
This is designed to support leaders carrying responsibility for EDI work and help reduce isolation and burnout.

Up to 6 hours of expert advice across the year.
Support is available between 10am and 4pm on week days by phone or video call.
This support is there to help you think through challenges, get timely guidance, and move forward with clarity when decisions need to be made.
Templates, guidance and updates to help strengthen governance, accountability and board confidence in relation to EDI.
This reflects our belief that meaningful organisational change requires governance to be part of the conversation.
Ongoing access to a growing repository of practical tools, checklists, templates and learning materials that can be applied directly within your organisation.

EQUITABLE, PRACTICAL, TRANSFORMATIVE

An equitable approach to pricing

We know that financial capacity should not be the thing that determines whether organisations can access meaningful inclusion support.

That is why Spotlight Essentials uses a tiered pricing model:

Tier 1: £1,000

For very small or volunteer-led organisations, or those with a turnover under £250k.

Tier 2: £1,500

For organisations with a turnover under £5m.

Tier 3: £2,500

For organisations with a turnover over £5m.

As a values-led organisation, we trust subscribers to select the tier that best reflects their context. This pricing model is part of our ethical approach to EDI work. We do not want cost to be an unnecessary barrier to progress - get in touch if you feel cost will be prohibitive.

To subscribe to Spotlight Essentials, we ask organisations to pay a refundable £250 deposit by 31 July. This helps us confirm genuine interest and plan the subscription ahead of launch on 1 September.

Download a ‘Leadership Pack’.

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Organisations We’ve Worked With

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"It has been a joy working with Shonagh both at The Old Vic and the National Theatre. Displaying a sensitive and collaborative working style, Shonagh establishes an immediate rapport with key staff which enables consensus driven cultural change. She has provided us with training programmes for new and established staff, advice on topical and complex issues, a sounding board for colleagues, and been a working guide on inclusion and belonging to further education within the workforce in the broadest sense. Staff feedback on training was extremely positive and has resulted in a clearer understanding about the inclusive community that we all want to foster in theatre."

Kate Varah: Executive Director at The National Theatre
"We were seeking support to help us continue our journey of organisational cultural change and found the perfect partnership with Spotlight Consultancy. Spotlight Consultancy’s mix of training, active-learning and action-based outcomes alongside longer-term coaching support for the senior team is helping further our thinking and giving us the confidence and skills to take short and medium term action."

Helen Tovey, Co-Executive Director Unicorn Theatre