Subscription rates for disability access scheme to start from £200

Annual subscription rates for organisations interested in becoming part of a forthcoming sector-wide access scheme for disabled audiences will be priced from £200 a year for the smallest arts and culture organisations.

The All In scheme, a partnership between the UK’s four arts councils and Arts Council Ireland, will work with participating organisations to remove the barriers faced by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people when booking and attending creative and cultural events.

Two subscription packages will be available. All In Essentials is aimed at organisations that want to provide better access to their audiences but do not use a ticket booking system, while All In Plus is geared towards organisations that want to improve their booking processes.

Each package will offer organisations support to meet accessibility standards, participation in skills development programmes and one-to-one support on accessibility, while the All In Plus package also offers help with customer access requirements via the scheme’s digital system and data analytics tracking.

Annual subscription prices will vary depending on the turnover of the organisation, starting at £200 for the All In Essentials package or £250 for the All In Plus package for companies with turnover lower than £500,000.

Prices increase incrementally across six turnover bands, up to the highest band for companies with turnover in excess of £10m, where annual subscriptions will cost £5,500 for the All In Essentials package and £7,500 for the All In Plus package.

Group subscriptions will also be available, at an additional £250 per location across both packages. A breakdown of all subscription options and prices is available on All In’s website.

The All In scheme is due to roll out across the UK and Ireland in the second half of this year. A pilot is currently taking place in Leeds.

The scheme is modelled on an existing arts access scheme in Wales, Hynt. It plans to scale-up the success of Hynt, making it easier for people with disabilities to book tickets to participating organisations and attract new audiences to the sector. 

Drop in disabled audiences

Details of the subscription rates follows news that the proportion of disabled audience members visiting organisations belonging to Arts Council England’s last National Portfolio decreased over the funding period, from 12% in 2018/19 to 10% in 2022/23.

The number of disabled people working in a NPO increased however, from 5% at the start of the funding period to 9% by the end of the funding period.