Sustainability and Piping Live!
Piping Live! is committed to providing excellent standards of service across its event period, including programming, promotion and delivery. The festival is committed to its responsibilities to reduce our carbon emissions and bring awareness and change to our community in line with Glasgow City Council commitment to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2030. Our aim is to work in a manner which is sustainable and to minimise the environmental impact of our operations. As part of The National Piping Centre’s work, we are at the centre of the worldwide piping community which will allow the festival to influence and communicate information in areas such as carbon emissions reduction and reducing, reusing and recycling of resources.
Piping Live!'s Sustainability Commitment

Statement on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment

The Piping Live! Festival believes everyone should feel safe during the festival. We will help maintain this by not tolerating harmful behaviours, which may include non-consensual touching or verbal harassment. If a participant chooses to break these policies, they may be removed from the event. If someone or something makes you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, no matter how minor it may seem, please do not stay silent. You can report it to any Piping Live! Festival member of staff, or volunteer. They will follow your lead, and work with you to try to make sure it does not happen again and that you continue to feel safe at our festival.

Procedures for reporting of crime or sexual assault and support
The National Piping Centre Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy 
The National Piping Centre Prevention of Bullying and Harassment Policy 
The National Piping Centre Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy

Access at Piping Live! 

We are delighted to now be working with WelcoME to allow people with disbilities to contact us in advance of their visit. WelcoMe specialises in making face-to-face transactions between staff teams and disabled people as informed, anxiety-free and friendly as possible. WelcoMe shares information about your customers, their needs and their reasons for visiting, along with proximity aware information so your teams can plan for their arrival. In addition, WelcoMe delivers a unique and innovative approach to in-the-moment training so that teams do not need to rely on recall to deliver best practice and can easily identify hidden conditions without awkward conversations
Book your visit with WelcoME here

Fair Work First
The National Piping Centre is committed to Fair Work principles and our policies and processes reflect
this commitment. You can read our full action plan over at The National Piping Centre website here.