Channel 4 has launched its first equity strategy, ‘Equity by Design’, a framework that sets out how it will create fair outcomes for everyone and accelerate change in the industry. The strategy details how Channel 4 will work to ensure there is equity in experience by improving how diversity and inclusion is built into decision-making. […]

Sky has announced a new initiative aimed at supporting diverse-owned and diverse-led independent production companies in developing programmes for its factual channels. Sky explains its goal is “to widen the playing field, ensuring they hear from a diverse range of voices as they pursue best-in-class boxsets and premium feature documentaries”. It’s through that diversity that […]

UK PSB Channel 4 is launching ‘Untapped’, which it describes as a ground-breaking commercial initiative to invest in entrepreneurs who have traditionally been overlooked by the VC ecosystem. The initiative – led by Channel 4’s consumer investment arm, Channel 4 Ventures – is informed by research which shows that founders securing significant investment historically fall […]

Creative Access, a UK diversity & inclusion social enterprise, has revealed research on working-class experiences in the UK’s creative sector. In speaking to broadcast professionals from all class groups across the creative industries, findings reveal 70 per cent believe that ‘soft’ social identifiers of class – such as where an individual went to school and […]

Sky Sports has commissioned ten pieces of content, produced by creators who are part of Sky Sports initiative – the New Focus Fund. The fund is part of Sky’s £30 million commitment to tackle racial injustice, remove barriers and provide opportunities for creative talent in the industry.  In a search for new and fresh ideas […]

ITV has published its Diversity Acceleration Plan report for 2023, detailing the company-wide progress made. ITV says its Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy is to create and showcase content by, with and for everyone, connecting and reflecting modern audiences. Both as a company and as a workforce, ITV has focused its efforts on mainstream […]

ITV has announced a new diverse-led production companies development pilot, Amplify: The Companies. Supported through ITV’s Diversity Commissioning Fund, ten companies – either People of Colour or Deaf, Disabled and/or Neurodivergent-owned or led – have been matched with an ITV genre commissioner from Drama, Entertainment, Factual, Reality or Current Affairs. The aim of the pilot […]

Having launched earlier this year, ITV has revealed how its Diversity Commissioning Fund has generated multiple new schemes to help support diverse writers within TV production. ITV’s Diversity Commissioning Fund has reserved £80 million of the content commissioning budget over the next three years to help drive change towards racial equity and disability equity, in […]

Research from diversity and inclusion social enterprise Creative Access confirms a dip in optimism about career futures in individuals from under-represented groups in the creative industries. The Creative Access Thrive Report 2023 comes after a gruelling year for talent as well as comms agencies and PR & marketing functions navigating the world of work – […]