Our Mission
SoundCheck Aotearoa is a charitable trust dedicated to building a safe and inclusive culture across the Aotearoa music community. Our work is focused on enabling meaningful, systemic culture change within our music sector.
We do this by supporting our community to prevent and respond to sexual harm, bullying, harassment, and discrimination in music workplaces and community spaces.
Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have the right to feel safe and respected at work. We believe in a collective community approach to building safe and inclusive environments, recognising that lasting change is built over time through shared responsibility, sustained effort, and multi-generational commitment.
What we do
SoundCheck Aotearoa is a community-led and informed initiative, combining lived community experience with specialist expertise to support best practice approaches to preventing and responding to sexual harm, bullying, harassment, and discrimination across the music community.
We provide free education, support, resources, and advocacy for our community, working alongside our people to strengthen safer practices and support the collective work of those leading and driving change across workplaces and community spaces in the Aotearoa music sector.
Who we serve
We are grateful to support our home. We work for and alongside the full ecosystem of the Aotearoa music community, supporting the people and environments that bring it to life.
Our values
We are guided by a vision of the music community where everyone is safe, respected, and protected.
Our work is steeped in the following values:
Care: We value relationships and act in ways that uphold the mana and dignity of ourselves and others.
Fairness, diversity, equity, and inclusion: We support and empower people to act in ways that are fair, equitable, and respectful of all individuals across the music community.¹
Courage: We value taking brave and purposeful steps to model respectful and inclusive behaviour in everything we do.
Community: We value collaboration to support shared responsibility and collective change.
¹ People of all genders, ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, health conditions, religions, regional locations, and family or marital status.