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The Equality and Diversity Work Group have compiled a list of External Resources that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Film, TV and Commerical industry.
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Urgent Support
Film & TV Charity is a live online chat and 24h confidential support line: 0800 054 0000
Film & TV Charity Support Grants for immediate help with facing unexpected costs or a short-term financial shortfall.
BECTU Equality Networks
BECTU Black Members Committee - Email: Janice Tuner (BECTU Diversity Officer) - jturner@bectu.org.uk
BECTU LGBT+ Network - Email: Robbie Young - lgbt@bectu.org.uk | Twitter: @bectulgbt
BECTU Disabled Members’ Network - Email: Diane Lockwood - dlockwood@bectu.org.uk
BECTU Women’s Equality Committee Email: Emily Collin - ecollin@bectu.org.uk or Caroline Hemmington - chemmington@bectu.org.uk | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1562775410601499/
BECTU Young Members Forum is for members aged 35 or under. Email: Polly Avison - pavison@bectu.org.uk | Facebook: bectuyoungmembers | Twitter: @bectu_ym
BECTU Junior Members Sub-Divisional Committee represent Junior Grades; who are defined as the following, only one is needed to be eligible: aged 35 or under; earn less the £1400 a week; have less than three years in the industry. Email: Polly Avison - pavison@bectu.org.uk
Industry Networks
Childcare / Flexible Working
Cinemamas is an online platform for all parents working in the film industry who want to connect and create a positive community built around mutual support.
Raising Films aims to challenge, at a structural level, the demands the film and television industry makes of all of us – to support parents and carers in the UK screen industries.
Parents & Carers in Performing Arts (PiPA) helps promote best practice employment and support for parents and carers in the performing arts sector.
Media Parents is a website and organisation which aims to pull all the short term, regular hours, job share and part time jobs in media into one place, to help freelance working parents or anyone who wants to work flexibly to balance the demands of media and other commitments.
Share My Telly Job is an online community built for Freelancers in the Television industry who are hoping to find more flexible working contracts.
The Wonder Works aims to set a new precedent within the film industry, through the provision of on-set childcare.
Women
Primetime is a global hiring platform for women working above and below the line behind the camera.
Women in Film & TV UK is a leading membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK.
Barb is an online collective for women in film.
Booth is a network of women working across the film industry, from entry-level runners to established directors.
Illluminatrix is a collective of professional women cinematographers in the UK.
Women behind the Camera is a showcase of women working behind the camera in the UK.
Animated Women UK supports women in VFX and animation.
TIME’S UP UK is an organisation that insists on safe, fair and dignified work for everyone.
Birds’ Eye View (BEV) is a not-for-profit that centres the female perspective in film and campaigns for gender equality in all film spaces.
ERA 50:50 wants to see women represented on screen, in television and theatre in equal numbers to men.
Diversity
Sporas is a collective of cinematographers and film technicians dedicated to supporting and uplifting film workers of color around the world. Instagram: @sporasco
The British Blacklist is an online platform which celebrates African & Caribbean creative professionals on the Screen and Stage, in Sound and Literature – both up front and behind the scenes.
The TV Collective is an online resource dedicated to promoting the creative and commercial value diversity adds to the British TV and film industries.
Creative Access is the only organisation in the UK dedicated to recruiting under-represented talent in the creative industries.
Just Runners is designed to create a fair and equal entry system into the film industry.
Access VFX pursues inclusion, diversity, awareness and opportunity within the VFX, Animation & Games industries.
The TV Collective is an online resource dedicated to promoting the creative and commercial value diversity adds to the British TV and film industries.
ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the screen industries.
The Talent Manager was born out of a desire to simplify the way the industry works and to professionalise the way TV companies recruit.
LGBTQ+
Intermedia UK is a LGBTQ+ network group for people working across all areas of the media spectrum.
New Entrants
Film London - Equal Access Network was launched to ensure that the capital’s screen industries represent the diversity of the city itself, by helping new entrants, mid-level and returners to get in, stay in and return to the TV and Film industry.
ScreenSkills' Trainee Finder has helped place trainees on UK feature films, children's TV and high-end TV dramas across the UK. In 2017/18, candidates selected for the Film Trainee Finder were 66% women, 60% from outside London and 20% black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME).
Film London Equal Access Network: NEET Get Into FIlm & TV promotes training and placements scheme for young people (18-25) who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
Creative Access Trainee Network offer to help you get your foot in the door and support you throughout your career. They only work with people from under-represented backgrounds to make sure the creative industry reflects our society.
HR
Spot’s AI reporting tool makes it safer for employees to speak up and easier for HR to follow up, even on anonymous reports.
Apprenticeship & Trainee Schemes
ScreenSkills Trainee Finder has helped place trainees on UK feature films, children's TV and high-end TV dramas across the UK. In 2017/18, candidates selected for the Film Trainee Finder were 66% women, 60% from outside London and 20% black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME).
Film London Equal Access Network: NEET Get Into FIlm & TV promotes training and placements scheme for young people (18-25) who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
Creative Access Trainee Network offer to help you get your foot in the door and support you throughout your career. They only work with people from under-represented backgrounds to make sure the creative industry reflects our society.
ITV Entry Careers promotes Work experience (18+) and apprenticeships (16+)
Film London Equal Access Network: Return to Work Scheme is VFX & Post-production specific
Screenskills Film & TV Apprenticeship provides training opportunities in different areas in the industry.
Mentoring
ScreenSkills Find A Mentor is an in-house mentoring programme and support network of other organisations that wish to offer mentoring.
Talking Point Mentoring Network
Film London Equal Access Network: Breaking The Glass Ceiling A leadership programme to support black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) mid-level professionals in the Film and TV industry.
Access VFX Mentoring Programme
Animated Women UK - Helen North Achieve Programme An intensive introduction to strategic career management for women in vfx and animation.
Create Jobs is an employability programme for young Londoners that focuses on supporting and developing individuals who are underrepresented in the creative and digital industries.
Training & Education
Creative Media Skills work hand in hand with the industry and the companies that support it, to facilitate their specific and targeted training requirements at the top level.
ScreenSkills Indie Training Fund runs training courses for production companies and freelancers across the UK.
London Screen Academy is a sixth form academy for students aged 16 to 19 years old who have a passion for film & television and the stories they tell.
Funding
ScreenSkills Bursaries - Cash grants designed to remove some of the practical barriers to making progress in the screen industries. Bursaries pay for training or other costs associated with skills development.
Film & TV Charity Support Grants - For those facing unexpected costs or a short-term financial shortfall - grants between £200- £800 but might be higher in exceptional circumstances.
Film & TV Charity: John Brabourne Awards - Financial assistance of up to £5,000 to people in the UK film and TV industry who have already proved what they can do – but now face obstacles to their success. This may be financial, health-related or due to a change in personal circumstances.
Film & TV Charity: Going Places Awards - Awards from £100 up to a maximum of £1,500 per person per year, to help meet travel, accommodation and other subsistence costs incurred in accessing opportunity and ensuring professional security.
Film & TV Charity: Family Support Fund - Up to a maximum of £1,500 per person per year to help screen industry professionals with caring responsibilities to protect and advance their careers.
ScreenSkills Make a Move Funding: Film
Specific Courses
ScreenSkills ITF: Women Returning to Work
ScreenSkills ITF: Mental Health First Aid Training
ScreenSkills ITF: Equality & Leadership Masterclass
ScreenSkills: Unconscious Bias Training covers how unconscious and ingrained biases affect human decision-making day-to-day and how that might have an effect on the work we do in British filmmaking.
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