Disabled-led arts organisation TripleC is marking a decade of change-making work to improve access and representation for deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent [DDN] people across the arts, stage, and screen industries with a new look logo and visual identity, reflecting its growth, confidence and ambitions for the next ten years.
Founded as a collective in Autumn 2016 and registered as a Community Interest Company in May 2017 TripleC is a disabled-led Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) that has become a leading force for inclusion through training, networking, artist development, consultancy and advocacy.
As part of its tenth anniversary review, TripleC has introduced a restructure to position the company for its next decade. This includes new board members, clearer staff roles, updated job titles and a renewed, sharper focus on its priorities – including a revamped training offer to arts organisations and venues as well as film and TV productions and companies to ensure access is embedded for all employees and all productions.
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TripleC would not exist without the vision of its founder, Lancashire actress and Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston MBE, and founding partners Monique Dior Jarrett, Melissa Johns, Ged Mulherin and Lydia Mulherin. Together they built an organisation rooted in lived experience that has changed how the arts and screen industries think about disability and have created genuine pathways for DDN creatives.
Having led the anniversary review process, co-creative lead Cherylee Houston has decided to step back from day-to-day operations in her staff role.
She will remain at the heart of the organisation as a member of the board, where she will help oversee the company’s development, support the senior team and ensure its work remains true to its founding values.
Jules Hussey, CEO of TripleC, said: “Cherylee’s vision is the reason TripleC exists. She established an organisation that has changed how the arts think about disability and created career pathways for deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent creatives, collaborators and audiences. I am delighted she will remain at the heart of TripleC on our board whilst pursuing her own career on and off the screen.
With our new identity, our sharper focus, and our stronger structure and exciting new partnerships, we are ready for the next ten years”
Cherylee Houston MBE added: “I, as many others in this industry, have put my heart and soul into making a change for our community. Within TripleC it feels like it’s time for me to step aside to allow someone else to bring exciting new ideas and energy to the new leadership role we have created within the company.”
TripleC is currently recruiting for a co-artistic director to help lead the organisation into its next decade.
