Starting off as a location runner via Creative Access in 2015, Hetty's career history so far reads like a dream resume, having worked as a social video producer at Mail Online and producer for BBC Good Food. She is now living out her creative dreams as a content creator at The Lego Group.

We’re not interested in box-ticking training exercises. What we’re passionate about is facilitating discussion, reflection and actions that lead to disruptive change and impact. Whether you’ve participated in our diversity and inclusion, mental health and wellbeing, or leadership training, our goal is for you to take these learnings to the outside world with you and […]

The Mo Siewcharran Fund has awarded its latest round of grants to four innovative, creative organisations in Leeds, London and Brighton, across publishing, theatre, music and art: Blast Theory, World Book Day, Come Play with Me and Arcola Theatre. The Fund was set up five years ago in memory of Nielsen Books’ former director of marketing and […]

Broadcast’s Ellie Khan has covered Creative Access’ 2023 Thrive findings on support for diverse creatives, explaining: The network’s Thrive Report has raised concerns about poor mental health among people who are disabled, from black, Asian and ethnically diverse (BAED) backgrounds, and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, with a lack of focus on wellbeing by employers apparently exacerbating […]

PR Week’s Jonathen Owen has written that Creative Access’ 2023 Thrive Report warns: “PR careers stalling for under-represented groups”. The coverage highlights that only one in three people from under-represented groups working in PR or trying to enter the profession have progressed in their career over the past year. Read in full.

For Advanced TV, Colin Mann has reported on Creative Access’ newest annual report; and the findings that “Organisations within the creative sector such as PR, broadcast/media, publishing, performing arts and more are currently putting most of their efforts into improving diversity and inclusion at entry-level (45 per cent), however when asked where they felt their […]

Heloise Wood has covered a new Creative Access report showing lack of DI&E progress in publishing in The Bookseller. Wood reports: When it comes to diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) strategies, publishing was shown to be behind other creative trades. None of the 194 respondents in publishing selected “Where we lead”, whereas this option was […]

This week’s creative industry trailblazer is Hearst’s branded content editor, as well as a freelance journalist, and member of our steering group, it’s Isabella Silvers. Isabella started off as a Creative Access intern at Time Inc in 2015 and has since worked at Hearst across titles like Cosmopolitan and Digital Spy.  

Creative Access announces results of annual survey charting career optimism among diverse talent & employer progress towards DEI goals in creative industries New research from leading diversity & 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 […]

The annual Thrive report by Creative Access examines business sentiment around DE&I with employers and career sentiment amongst individuals from our community, the majority of which (70%) come from groups underrepresented in the creative industries.  This study conducted over a two week period in May 2023 sets out to compare how far the dial has moved […]

This month our employer partner Penguin Random House hosted the latest instalment in our career-in-focus events series, this time to shine a light on publishing career in sales. These are events intended to demystify important, but lesser-understood industry functions – if you’re an employer and interested in doing a career-in-focus event with our community get in […]

Founder and executive chair of Creative Access, Josie Dobrin, has been featured amongst leaders in the PR and advertising world in an article on how to address the ‘high churn’ of junior staff in the industry. Read the piece in full here.