Leith CRAIC is a community-run third space committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and comfortable environment for everyone. We welcome people from all backgrounds and identities. To ensure this space remains a place where everyone can be themselves, we ask that all visitors and participants adhere to this policy.
Our Core Values
- Respect: Treat everyone with dignity. Respect people’s privacy, personal space, and boundaries. Be excellent to each other.
- Consensus & Cooperation: As a non-hierarchical cooperative, decisions and conflict resolutions are handled collectively, creating an environment where members are expected to take responsibility for the impact of their words and actions.
- Active Bystanders: We encourage everyone to look after one another. If you see something that makes you uncomfortable or someone being treated poorly, please speak up or alert a member of the coordinating team.
- Consent: Consent must be free, enthusiastic, and informed. It is a choice made with freedom and capacity. Remember: “Hands off unless consent”.
Zero Tolerance
Leith CRAIC strives to be a welcoming space for the LGBTQ+ community and marginalised demographics. We have zero tolerance for any form of aggressive, abusive, or discriminatory behaviour. Anyone acting in a way that creates an intimidating, hostile, or degrading environment will be questioned and/or asked to leave the space.
Equality & Diversity
- Be respectful of names and pronouns that others have asked you to use for them. If you are unsure of the pronoun someone uses, ask them, or avoid gendered language, e.g. use “they” instead of “he” or “she”.
- Avoid negative comments, assumptions and stereotyping of people on the basis of their gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, disability, religion, beliefs, age, accent or culture.
- Respect the physical, mental and emotional boundaries of others – ask for consent before engaging in any form of physical contact.
- Shouting, harassing, threatening or humiliating behaviour (verbal, physical or sexual) towards others is unacceptable.
Friendly constructive discussion is welcomed but personal insults and demeaning or argumentative comments are not acceptable.
Reporting and Accountability
If you feel uncomfortable, are harassed, or have concerns while visiting:
- Approach a Volunteer/Coordinator: Please speak to a member of the team on shift. You can identify them by their radios or headsets.
- Reporting: We are committed to a non-judgemental, active listening approach. We will take your concerns seriously and determine the appropriate action, which may include removing the perpetrator from the space.
- Conflict: If you feel someone is not respecting our values, we encourage you to safely point it out or, if you do not feel comfortable doing so, to report it immediately.
Confidentiality:
- Keep personal information shared at our events about others private, and only share if they have given you permission.
- A photographer may be present at our events. Any images captured may be used for promotional purposes in future publications and presentations as well as our digital and social media channels. If you do not wish to appear in any photographs, please notify a member of staff and they will make sure that you are not included in any imagery.
A Note on Events
Some event promoters or groups booking Leith CRAIC may impose their own safer spaces policies. These will be advertised in advance on social media and at the venue entrance. Where an event-specific policy exists, it will operate in conjunction with this one.
To ensure safety and accessibility for all participants, we strive for daytime sessions to be an alcohol-free space unless specifically advertised as BYOB. During BYOB events and jams, guests may bring their own alcoholic drinks with corkage fees applied. We reserve the right to refuse entry or ask any intoxicated person(s) to leave the premises if we feel it appropriate.