Mission Statement
Mission
Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) exists to promote equality and diversity and protect the future of the LGBT community in Scotland.
Vision
Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) will:
- Create a safe space to engage communities in the celebration of their sexual orientation.
- Coordinate the bi-annual Pride celebration in Edinburgh
- Capture and build upon our organization's and our communities' history.
- Provide a platform for education through a significant public presence.
- Run a not-for-profit organization, committed to volunteers and staff.
Values
- Honour – our past by remembering our history.
- Protect – our future by reaching out, educating and defending our right to celebrate.
- Value Diversity – by accepting and respecting differences and working to understand the diverse cultural complexities that influence identity, assumptions, behaviours, expectations and beliefs.
- Celebrate – with provocative and outrageous events.
- Engage – the diversity of our communities to participate in events and facilitate community development.
- Recognise – and acknowledge, the involvement and contributions of volunteers, staff and sponsors.
- Respect – volunteers, staff and sponsors by creating and sustaining an environment where we treat each other with respect and dignity.
- Sustain – the organisation by ensuring transparency in our actions and accountability with, and to, our communities.
- Manage – with fiscal responsibility and foresight, ensuring the viability of the organisation and the fulfilment of its mission.