Getting into the creative industry isn’t easy. It can be a complicated world, with its own language, rules and traditions.

Whilst these aren’t easy for anyone to learn straight away, it can be harder if you don’t have the connections, knowledge or experience some people are fortunate to have access to earlier on in life.

Making It In The Creative Industry: A Practical Guide is our wake-up call to get people talking about socioeconomic diversity and privilege within the UK creative industries.

Did you know

Class diversity is falling in the UK

The proportion of people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds working in the industry has more than halved since the 1970s, falling from 16.4% to just 7.9%.

Private school graduates have a higher employment rate

The creative industry has an inflated concentration of those who were privately educated. 44% of newspaper columnists attended a private school. This is over SEVEN TIMES the national benchmark.

The class pay gap is real

University graduates from lower socioeconomic backgrounds typically earn £1700 less than graduates with parents from professional backgrounds.

We wrote Making It In The Creative Industry: A Practical Guide to help more people understand the barriers within the creative industry that we are working to dismantle and help the industry see how it can make a difference. Read it below to learn more and join our mission.