The ABTT’s Core Values

What we do:

The ABTT is an independent membership organisation setting and upholding standards in technical excellence, safety and compliance for theatre and live performance. The ABTT seeks to work with our membership to develop and promote best practice in the design of places of entertainment, in their operation and in the production of performance. We support practitioners, those who seek to pursue careers in our industry, those who operate and manage venues,  those who supply specialist equipment and services to our sector and those who have a general interest in our world.  We have defined five core values which we use to  underpin all our activities and guide us in the way we meet our objectives.

Why we have Core Values:

The Core Values underpin all the activities of the Association and act as a ‘toolkit’ to guide us in the way we meet our objectives.  The ABTT demonstrates as many of the values as appropriate in all with which it engages.

Our Core Values:

• Promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion
  The ABTT believes that those who are interested or working in the design of places of entertainment or in their operation or in the production of performance should be as diverse in all respects and attributes as the members of the society in which we all live.  The Association will  be welcoming and respectful to all who seek to connect with it. In addition, it recognises that it must work to overcome barriers of any nature that prevent or inhibit anyone from seeking connection, support, guidance or participation with the ABTT. This value mandates the ABTT to find ways of actively promoting equality, diversity, respect, dignity and inclusion and removing barriers for those who are underrepresented in our current membership, association leadership and sector. We want to promote a secure and positive atmosphere for everyone with whom we work and provide anyone with whom we engage with  an atmosphere free from harassment or bullying.
• Enabling excellence
  The ABTT recognises that the development of excellence in attitudes, behaviours, skills and knowledge is essential to sustain the areas it supports.  In all that it undertakes it will seek to enable participation and the achievement of excellence,  identifying barriers to entry and progression and seeking to find solutions by which they may be removed.

• Acknowledging achievement
  The ABTT will work to communicate and celebrate the contribution that the sector it represents makes to the success of the theatre and live performance industries and it will acknowledge excellence in the performance of all the associated crafts and disciplines.

• Representing all
  The ABTT is for all who are interested or working in the design of places of entertainment or in their operation or in the production of performance.  It will seek to offer support and be relevant to all the regions and nations of the United Kingdom, those whose participation is waged and unwaged, the small and the large, those with buildings and those without; everyone no matter where or how they pursue their interest.

• Combating climate emergency
  The ABTT is committed to taking positive action in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse. It has pledged to support all those operating in live performance production, technology and building design to strengthen working practices and redesign business activities, operational processes, use of resources, organisational policy and overall governance in order to create and present live performance in a way that has a more positive impact on the world around us.  The ABTT also pledges to  adopt positive measures in its own activities.