Mor Media Charity Strengthens Safe Respectful Spaces for Everyone
A creative space only works when people feel safe enough to take part. That is true in a cinema queue, a workshop room, a community screening, a volunteer shift, a trainee session, and every online space connected to our work.
At Mor Media Charity, our purpose is to bring people together through media, events, training, and community engagement. We create places where stories can be shared, skills can be learned, and people across Cornwall can connect through film and culture.
That work depends on trust. Staff, freelancers, volunteers, trainees, artists, audiences, partners, suppliers, and visitors all help shape the atmosphere around our events and programmes. We want that atmosphere to be welcoming, inclusive, and respectful for everyone.
In line with updated UK employment laws coming into effect on 30 October 2026, Mor Media Charity is reinforcing its commitment to protecting staff, freelancers, volunteers, and trainees from harassment by third parties. This includes audiences, event guests, suppliers, vendors, contractors, and members of the public.
This article sets out what that commitment means in practice, what we expect from everyone who takes part in our activities, and how our community can help keep creative spaces safe.
Why safe creative spaces matter
Mor Media Charity exists to connect people through stories, learning, and shared cultural experiences. That work can be joyful, inspiring, and sometimes deeply personal.
A film screening might bring people together around difficult subjects. A workshop might ask participants to try something new in front of others. A trainee may be building confidence while learning technical skills. A volunteer may be welcoming members of the public, answering questions, or helping a busy event run smoothly.
In all of these settings, people need to know that respect is not optional.
Harassment, discrimination, intimidation, abuse, or inappropriate behaviour can quickly damage the trust that makes creative work possible. It can leave people feeling unsafe, unheard, or unable to do their role. It can also silence voices that should be part of the cultural life of Cornwall.
That is why Mor Media Charity Strengthens Safe Respectful Spaces for Everyone is more than a statement. It is a clear standard for how people are expected to behave when they engage with our events, training, projects, venues, and digital spaces.
Our team works hard to deliver high-quality cultural experiences and educational programmes. Every person involved in that work has the right to do their job without facing harassment from anyone.
Our commitment to staff, freelancers, volunteers, and trainees
Mor Media Charity stands firmly behind the people who deliver our work.
That includes:
Staff working across events, operations, programming, training, communications, production, and community activity
Freelancers supporting creative, technical, educational, and event delivery
Volunteers helping audiences, guests, and participants feel welcome
Trainees learning new skills and gaining experience in media and cultural work
Each of these people deserves to be treated with dignity.
Our commitment is simple: nobody should be expected to tolerate harassment as part of their role.
This applies whether the behaviour comes from someone inside an event, a member of the public, a guest speaker, a supplier, a vendor, a participant, or someone engaging with us online. It also applies across the full range of Mor Media Charity activity, including live festivals, screenings, training workshops, community sessions, and digital platforms.
Everyone has the right to contribute to creative and cultural work without facing discrimination, abuse, or inappropriate behaviour.
This commitment includes practical support. Team members have our backing to remove themselves from any situation where they feel unsafe, targeted, or disrespected. No one should feel pressured to remain in a conversation, exchange, or public-facing role when behaviour crosses a line.
What third-party harassment can look like
Third-party harassment is harassment carried out by someone who is not part of the organisation’s staff structure but interacts with the organisation’s workers or representatives.
In the context of Mor Media Charity, this could include behaviour from:
Festival-goers
Event guests
Workshop participants
Suppliers
Vendors
Contractors
Partner organisations
Members of the public
People engaging through online platforms
Harassment can take many forms. It may be verbal, physical, written, visual, or digital. It may happen once, or it may form part of a pattern.
Examples may include:
Discriminatory comments or slurs
Sexual comments, gestures, or unwanted attention
Aggressive or threatening language
Intimidation or bullying
Repeated unwanted contact
Mocking someone’s identity, background, disability, accent, appearance, age, faith, gender, sexuality, race, or personal circumstances
Abuse directed at someone doing their role
Inappropriate behaviour in a workshop, screening, event queue, venue, or online space
Some behaviour may be clearly abusive. Other behaviour can still cause harm even if someone claims they “didn’t mean it that way”. The impact on the person receiving the behaviour matters.
For Mor Media Charity, the standard is not only about avoiding extreme incidents. It is about building spaces where respect is normal, kindness is expected, and people feel able to speak up when something is wrong.
Our zero-tolerance approach
Mor Media Charity operates a strict zero-tolerance policy towards harassment in all spaces connected to our work.
This means harassment is not dismissed as banter, part of the job, a misunderstanding to ignore, or something people should simply put up with during a busy event. If behaviour is abusive, discriminatory, threatening, sexually inappropriate, intimidating, or disrespectful, it will be taken seriously.
Our zero-tolerance approach applies across:
Live festivals and screenings
Training workshops and learning environments
Community projects and events
Volunteer spaces
Partner activity connected to our work
Digital platforms and online engagement
Zero tolerance does not mean every situation will look the same or be handled in the same way. It means the principle is consistent. Mor Media Charity will not accept harassment as part of its culture.
Where needed, action may include asking someone to stop their behaviour, removing a person from a space, ending an interaction, limiting further contact, or taking other steps to protect the people affected. The priority is safety, dignity, and respect.
Active support means our team can step away
Public-facing arts and charity work can ask a lot of people. Staff and volunteers often manage queues, greet guests, assist speakers, answer questions, support access needs, solve problems, and respond to last-minute changes. Freelancers and trainees may be working in new environments or under time pressure.
No one should have to balance those demands while also absorbing harassment or abuse.
Mor Media Charity gives team members our absolute backing to remove themselves from any situation where they feel unsafe or disrespected.
That matters because people can sometimes feel they must stay polite, stay available, or keep serving a person even when the interaction becomes harmful. We want our team to know that their safety comes first.
Active support can include:
Taking a break from an interaction
Asking another team member for help
Moving to a safer area
Ending a conversation
Reporting an incident
Seeking support after something has happened
Escalating a concern during an event or activity
A respectful event culture is not built by asking individuals to endure poor behaviour quietly. It is built by making clear that the organisation will support them when they set boundaries.
Shared respect is part of taking part
Mor Media Charity’s work depends on community. Every audience member, workshop participant, partner, supplier, artist, volunteer, and guest contributes to the tone of a space.
Shared respect means thinking about how behaviour affects others. It means listening when someone asks for space. It means accepting boundaries. It means recognising that public cultural spaces include people with different backgrounds, needs, identities, experiences, and ways of communicating.
At our events and activities, we ask everyone to help create an environment where people can:
Attend without fear of abuse
Work without being harassed
Learn without being belittled
Ask questions without being mocked
Share ideas without being targeted
Participate without discrimination
This applies in person and online. Digital spaces are still real spaces, and words shared online can affect the people who receive them. Respectful behaviour is expected across comments, messages, emails, forums, and any other digital contact linked to our work.
What this means for audiences and participants
For festival-goers, workshop participants, guests, and members of the public, this commitment should feel clear and reassuring. It sets a shared expectation before anyone enters a screening, joins a session, attends a festival event, or contacts us online.
Everyone is welcome when they engage respectfully.
That means:
Treat staff, freelancers, volunteers, trainees, artists, and other participants with courtesy
Follow event guidance and venue instructions
Respect personal space and boundaries
Avoid discriminatory language or behaviour
Do not make sexual comments or unwanted personal remarks
Do not intimidate, threaten, shout at, or abuse people
Accept decisions made to keep an event safe
Raise concerns calmly with an appropriate team member
Creative spaces can involve debate, strong feelings, and different views. Respect does not mean everyone must agree. It means disagreement should not become personal abuse, discrimination, or harassment.
What this means for partners, suppliers, and vendors
Mor Media Charity values the partners, suppliers, vendors, and community organisations that help make our work possible. Collaboration plays a major role in delivering festivals, training, events, and cultural programmes across Cornwall.
The same standards apply to those relationships.
Everyone working with us is expected to behave respectfully towards Mor Media Charity staff, freelancers, volunteers, trainees, participants, artists, audiences, and other partners. That expectation applies before, during, and after an event or project.
Respectful partnership includes:
Clear and considerate communication
Safe behaviour on site
Respect for boundaries and roles
No discriminatory, abusive, or intimidating conduct
Prompt action if a concern is raised
Support for the shared safety of the event or activity
This is not about creating distance between people. It is about making collaboration safer and clearer. When standards are understood, people can focus on the work they came together to do.
Building an inclusive culture across Cornwall
Mor Media Charity’s work is rooted in Cornwall, but the principle reaches far beyond one venue, festival, or workshop. Cultural spaces shape who feels able to join in. They influence who gets to learn, lead, create, volunteer, and be seen.
A safe and respectful environment does not happen by accident. It grows through everyday choices: how people greet each other, how concerns are handled, how boundaries are respected, how access needs are met, and how quickly harmful behaviour is challenged.
For a charity working through film, media, events, training, and community engagement, inclusion must be practical. It must show up in the way people are treated when they arrive, when they ask for help, when they make a mistake, when they raise a concern, and when they do the often unseen work that keeps programmes running.
That is why this strengthened commitment matters. It gives our team confidence. It gives participants clarity. It gives partners a shared standard. It tells our wider community that safety and respect sit at the centre of our work.
A shared responsibility to keep spaces safe
Mor Media Charity is reinforcing this commitment because our people matter. Staff, freelancers, volunteers, and trainees are central to everything we deliver. They should never have to face harassment, discrimination, abuse, or inappropriate behaviour while doing their work.
We also know that safe spaces are built collectively. Policies set the standard, but people bring that standard to life through their actions.
So we ask everyone who engages with Mor Media Charity to join us in maintaining creative spaces built on mutual respect and kindness.
That means looking out for one another. It means taking care with words and actions. It means accepting boundaries. It means understanding that a festival, screening, workshop, or online space works best when everyone can take part without fear of being targeted or mistreated.
Thank you for your continued support in keeping Mor Media Charity a safe, respectful, and inspiring space for all.
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