Overview Creative Access partnered with world-renowned brand strategists Ogilvy UK to devise and deliver the first cohort of its Borderless Mentoring Programme, aimed at boosting retention and progression of Ogilvy UK staff from under-represented backgrounds within the company in order to impact retention, confidence and progression. Approach Individuals from Ogilvy UK’s enterprise resource planning groups […]

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Pippa Considine spoke to Creative Access for an opinion piece on class barriers in the TV industry. Both our founder & executive chair, Josie Dobrin OBE, and Creative Access alumni & Steering Group member, Dean Webster, gave their comments on classism and how the industry can address this issue. The article also highlights our mid-level […]

‘The Mo Siewcharran Fund offers opportunities for young people from ethnically diverse backgrounds‘ reports BookBrunch.

‘Little Angel Theatre aims to tackle lack of diversity in puppetry with internship’ reports The Stage.

The Mo Siewcharran Fund has awarded its latest round of grants, with recipients including the Women’s Prize Trust and academic publisher The Association of Laboratory Medicine, as reported by The Bookseller. You can read it here.

The Mo Siewcharran Fund has awarded its latest round of grants; to book charity The Women’s Prize Trust, Edinburgh-based theatre and dance organisation Imaginate, non-profit member organisation the Association of Laboratory Medicine and puppet theatre Little Angel Theatre.   In its sixth year, the Mo Siewcharran Fund continues to support a breadth of creative organisations within […]

Despite 2023’s challenges, Creative Access made remarkable strides in supporting under-represented talent directly and helping organisations within the creative industries on their DE&I journey. With the writers’ strike and financial hurdles affecting 68% of film and TV workers, Creative Access stepped up to provide critical support & development opportunities across the creative economy. Key highlights […]

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the front lines of live sports broadcasting?   Our Diary of a CA Intern series uncovers the career journeys of the latest entrants in the creative industries, placed by Creative Access. This week we’re joined by the talented trainee technical assistant Lanna Cowles.  In 2023, a new […]

Georgia Luckhurst has reported on Creative Access’ latest Thrive findings for The Stage writing: “Theatre workers feel more optimistic about their careers than their counterparts in TV and film, a Creative Access report has claimed… But the findings, presented by diversity and inclusion social enterprise Creative Access, revealed an overall drop in optimism about career aspirations for […]

“New research from diversity & inclusion social enterprise Creative Access confirms a drop in optimism about career futures for individuals from under-represented groups in the creative industries”, Jon Creamer has reported for Televisual. Read the article in full: Creative Access report: career optimism plunges

From the increasing digitalisation of the industry, to environmental and financial sustainability, what the future of theatre looks like was up for discussion at our last masterclass of the summer. We were captivated by an incredible panel made up of industry heavyweights like the National Theatre (NT)’s artistic director Rufus Norris and award-winning playwright Roy […]