Creative Equity | Channel 4

Representing unheard voices is in our DNA and remains key to our Future4 strategy.

Channel 4 is committed to increasing representation on screen and behind the camera, encouraging greater inclusion, and ensuring that portrayal within our programmes is authentic, challenges stereotypes and reflects the lives of everyone living in Britain today.

The Creative Equity team sit at the heart of Commissioning and work across all genres and platforms. They’re involved at the very start of the commissioning process helping to identify talent and opportunities that help shows to meet our Commissioning Diversity Guidelines. Through the Creative Equity Fund they work with Heads of Departments to target funding to accelerate talent, ideas and independent producers.

The team has an open-door policy and aim to support and advise Channel 4’s production partners specifically to help them to meet the Commissioning Diversity Guidelines and also to support off screen talent where possible. We are creative partners, collaborators and facilitators working collectively to advocate for equality and ensure that real, substantial change takes place through our work.

Commissioning Diversity Guidelines

Diversity plays an extremely important role in all our commissioning. Our goal is to reflect the full diversity of contemporary Britain on and off screen. To achieve this, we have published a set of Commissioning Diversity Guidelines for indies.

In June 2022 we published an updated set of Commissioning Diversity Guidelines. Any programmes that are greenlit from 1st August 2022 onwards will be asked to adhere to the new guidelines.

You can read the new guidelines here.