Gang Show Insurance for Scout, Guide, Youth Theatre and Community Performance Groups

Gang Show Insurance can provide protection relevant to Scout, Guide and youth performance productions, with cover potentially including Public Liability, equipment, costumes, scenery, premises and other risks depending on the policy arranged.

Yes, suitable Scout Gang Show enquiries may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the production, performers, volunteers and venues.

Yes, suitable joint productions may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about cast size, rehearsal venues, performances and equipment.

Yes, suitable larger county productions may be considered.

Yes, suitable local and community productions may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about participant ages, activities and venues.

Potentially. Tell the broker which age groups take part.

Potentially. Participant age groups should be disclosed.

Yes. Adult volunteers are common in production, backstage and front-of-house roles.

Yes. These can all form part of the declared production.

Yes, suitable variety and revue-style performances may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the production format and technical activity.

Potentially. Tell the broker about musicians and equipment used.

Yes. Tell the broker the number of performances and expected audience sizes.

Yes. Rehearsal activity can form part of the declared production period.

Yes, suitable Scout hall rehearsals may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about regular rehearsal venues.

Yes, suitable hired school premises may be considered.

Yes. Community and village halls are common rehearsal venues.

Yes. All regular venues should be disclosed where material.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the venue and performance arrangements.

Yes, suitable community-theatre venues may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the venue and audience capacity.

Yes, suitable school or college performance venues may be considered.

Potentially. Outdoor performances should be specifically disclosed.

Potentially. Tell the broker about venue capacity and expected attendance.

Yes. Public Liability can be relevant where allegations involve audience injury, visitor injury or damage to third-party property arising from insured activities.

Potentially, subject to policy terms and the circumstances of the incident.

Potentially. The applicability of cover depends on the circumstances and policy arranged.

No. Employment status depends on the actual arrangement and should not be assumed solely from the word volunteer.

Yes. Some productions may employ administrators, technicians or other workers.

Employers' Liability is generally legally required for most UK organisations employing staff, subject to limited exemptions.

Yes. Lighting, sound and other freelance technicians may be engaged.

Yes. Electricians, carpenters, set builders and other contractors may be used, but their own insurance responsibilities remain separate.

Potentially. Set construction should be disclosed where significant.

Yes, suitable theatre-production tool use may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker what tools are used and where.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the scale and type of construction.

Potentially. Regular use of ladders, elevated scenery or lighting access should be disclosed.

Potentially. Theatrical smoke or haze should be specifically disclosed.

Potentially, but pyrotechnics require specialist consideration and should never be assumed to be included.

Potentially. Any live flame or fire effect should be specifically discussed.

Potentially. Unusual or realistic weapon props should be disclosed.

Potentially. Owned scenery may form part of suitable property cover.

Potentially. Props may form part of Business Contents or another suitable property arrangement.

Potentially. Costume wardrobes may form part of insured production property.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the values involved.

Potentially, depending on contractual responsibility and policy terms.

Yes. Sewing, repairs and alterations can form part of normal production activity where declared.

Potentially. Owned stage lighting may form part of Business Contents.

Potentially. Mixing desks, microphones, speakers and other technical equipment may be considered.

Potentially. Tell the broker about owned or hired instruments and associated equipment.

Potentially. Tell the broker about owned staging and equipment values.

Potentially. Production tools may form part of suitable Business Contents cover.

Yes, particularly where the production owns costumes, props, scenery, sound, lighting or other equipment.

Potentially. Tell the broker where costumes are normally stored.

Potentially. All material storage locations should be disclosed.

Potentially. Suitable costumes, props, scenery and technical equipment may be kept in self storage.

Potentially, where suitable production property is stored in a self-storage facility.

Yes. All significant storage locations should be disclosed.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the property stored and premises used.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the location and values involved.

Potentially. Significant off-site storage should be disclosed rather than assumed.

Yes. It can be relevant where costumes, scenery, props or technical equipment are transported between storage, rehearsals and performance venues.

Yes. Equipment transport can form part of the production, but motor insurance for the vehicle is separate.

Yes. Tell the broker where substantial wardrobe values are moved regularly.

Potentially. Goods in Transit may be relevant where substantial technical equipment is regularly moved.

Yes. Established organisations may own or lease rehearsal rooms, workshops, offices or storage premises.

Potentially. Commercial Property Insurance may be relevant where the organisation owns or leases suitable premises.

Potentially. Tell the broker about set construction, tools and other workshop activity.

Potentially. Wardrobe areas may form part of the premises and contents arrangement.

Potentially. Tell the broker about buildings used to store scenery and props.

It can be relevant where the organisation owns or leases suitable premises.

Potentially. It may be relevant where an insured incident affecting premises or property interrupts rehearsals, production preparation or performances.

Potentially, depending on the policy and cause of interruption. It should not be confused with general event cancellation cover.

No. Event cancellation is a separate consideration unless specifically arranged.

Yes. Online ticketing is common for larger productions.

Yes. Website-based ticketing and payments may form part of the production operation.

Yes. Online ticketing platforms may form part of normal activity.

Yes. Digital fundraising can form part of the production.

Yes, potentially.

Yes. Productions may hold contact and participant information.

It can be relevant where the organisation relies substantially on ticketing systems, participant information, websites, online payments, email or cloud services.

It can be relevant where there are substantial online ticketing, booking or other digital operations.

Yes. Social media is commonly used for promoting shows, recruiting volunteers, fundraising and ticket sales.

Yes. Local business sponsorship is common.

Yes. Sponsorship arrangements can support production costs.

Yes. Fundraising can form part of the wider production operation.

Yes. Programme sales are a normal ancillary activity.

Potentially. Tell the broker if physical merchandise sales become material.

Usually only where meaningful physical products are sold or supplied. It is not normally a central exposure.

Yes. Administration, accounts, marketing, ticketing and planning may be undertaken from home.

Usually only where substantial production activity or property is genuinely based at a home. It should not be forced onto ordinary committee administration.

Potentially. Significant home or off-site storage should be disclosed.

Potentially, where a genuine dedicated rehearsal or creative workspace is regularly used for production activity.

Yes. All regular venues should be disclosed.

Yes. This is common.

Yes. All material storage locations should be included in the enquiry.

Yes. This is a common operating model.

Yes. The full production format should be disclosed.

Yes. Annual productions are common.

Potentially. Tell the broker about the performance schedule and audience sizes.

No. Significant productions, venues and unusual activities should be disclosed.

No. Pyrotechnics, live flame, realistic weapons and other unusual effects should be specifically discussed.

No. Volunteer roles and activities should be described rather than assumed.

No. Responsibility for hired costumes, lighting, sound, staging or other property depends on the policy and contractual arrangements.

No. Rehearsal, performance, storage, workshop and owned premises should all be disclosed where material.

Useful information can include the type of show, Scout or Guide involvement, performer ages, volunteer numbers, performances, audiences, rehearsal and performance venues, own premises, scenery, props, costumes, lighting, sound, special effects, employees, contractors, storage, transport, ticketing, fundraising, sponsorship and previous claims.