Tag: Channel 4

Channel 4 and Lloyds Bank launch Black in Business offering more than half a million pounds of free advertising to Black entrepreneurs

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 and Lloyds Bank have launched Black in Business – a new initiative to help boost up to five Black owned businesses with TV advertising airtime worth £100,000. In addition to receiving £100,000 worth of airtime, each of the five business owners will also have a creative bespoke TV advert made for them and six months of tailored marketing and business support from Channel 4, Lloyds Bank and social enterprise, DOES. The initiative will offer support to small businesses that are new to TV advertising and comes after research…

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Channel 4 teams up with We Are Parable for a second year of mentoring programme for Black film and content creators across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 is renewing and expanding its partnership with award-winning organisation We Are Parable following a successful first year of Momentum – a mentoring and training programme for Black TV, film and content creators across the UK. Channel 4 will work with We Are Parable to help progress the careers of people keen to work in the TV and film sectors in cities including Leeds, London, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham, and will also expand across Scotland and the Midlands this year. The mentorships offer participants the opportunity to receive one…

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Channel 4’s Paralympic Production Training Scheme offers 19 disabled people the chance to launch careers in TV production

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4’s Paralympic Production Training Scheme will give 19 disabled people the chance to launch their broadcast careers with 12-month placements at independent production companies across the UK – and some will go on to work on the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Successful applicants will spend a year working as trainee production co-ordinators or as researchers working on sport, entertainment, factual entertainment and factual productions at indies based throughout the UK – Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Chepstow, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Manchester. Disabled people interested in a career in broadcasting can…

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Me, My Autism and I: Vanish unveils its Channel 4 Diversity In Advertising Award-Winning campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Vanish, the garment care brand committed to helping clothes live longer lives, today unveils its Channel 4 Diversity in Advertising Award-winning campaign, Me, My Autism and I. Backed by £1 million worth of commercial advertising airtime across the whole Channel 4  network, it aims to nurture a conversation to broaden public understanding of autism – particularly in girls, who are three times less likely to receive a diagnosis than boys(1). As a brand, Vanish is committed to helping clothes last longer – and for most autistic people, familiar and consistent…

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Channel 4 launches period policy and partnership with WUKA

Stuart Mitchell

Channel 4 has announced the launch of its first ever period policy, alongside a brand-new partnership with pioneering sustainable period-proof underwear brand, WUKA. The policy, created by Channel 4’s gender equality employee network 4Womxn, has been designed to enable employees who are experiencing difficulties with their periods, including health conditions such as endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), to get the support they need in order to manage their symptoms at work. Research suggests that 89% of people who menstruate have experienced stress or anxiety at work because of their…

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