The UK’s only evidence-based inclusion rating for festivals. We audit festivals across six dimensions so you can find the ones that welcome everyone — not just take their word for it.
Festival listings tell you the line-up and the ticket price. They rarely tell you whether the event is genuinely accessible, affordable, safe and welcoming. Elsewhere in the sector, inclusion is measured one dimension at a time — disability access here, sustainability there — or reduced to a membership pledge that tracks nothing.
The FestivalFocus Inclusion Rating is the first to bring these together into a single, comparable, evidence-based view — so inclusion becomes something you can actually browse, filter and compare.
Disabled access, viewing platforms, accessible facilities and the presence of a published access scheme or Access Card acceptance.
Ticket affordability, payment plans, concessions, low-income schemes and the real cost of attending.
Multilingual information, signage and support for non-English-speaking and international attendees.
Breadth of programming and representation across the line-up, audience and the cultures a festival platforms.
Sustainability practices, travel access and the environmental footprint of attending.
Welfare provision, safer-spaces policies, harm-reduction, reporting routes and support on site.
Each dimension is scored from 0 to 10 against published, verifiable evidence — a festival’s own accessibility information, access-scheme tiers, welfare and safer-spaces policies, pricing and concessions, programming and sustainability disclosures. The six dimensions combine into an overall score. Every audit is attributed and dated, and carried out under the GoldBerry method by our team — not an opinion poll or a self-certification.
Ratings reflect the evidence available at the time of audit and are our honest assessment of it. They are not a substitute for a festival’s own official accessibility information — always check directly for your specific needs.
We rate on evidence, and we’d always rather rate on complete evidence. If you run a festival and believe your rating is out of date, missing information, or wrong, tell us — send the evidence and we’ll review and re-audit promptly, and correct anything we’ve got wrong.
Improved your access provision, welfare or pricing since we last looked? That’s exactly what we want to capture. A better festival should show a better rating.
Request a review or re-audit