Develop skills and progress your career in the screen sector

Whether you're starting out in your career, growing your business or delivering skills and workforce development activity, apply for funding to build skills and experience in the screen sector.

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Supporting screen sector skills and workforce development

Through our National Lottery funding, we're committed to supporting a UK screen sector workforce that is skilled and reflective of the population. Our National Lottery skills and workforce development funding programmes for 2023 to 2026 have been informed by a range of research including the BFI’s Skills Review, the BFI and ERIC screen careers research, and the PEC’s Good Work Review of the Creative Industries.

To get in touch with the BFI Skills and Workforce development team, email skills.coordinator@bfi.org.uk.

Our funding and support programmes

BFI National Lottery Places Fund: Skills and Training

Develop strategic plans, and pilot projects and partnerships, to address local skills gaps and shortages in screen production.

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Our broader strategy for research

We’ve committed to invest £440,000 of BFI National Lottery funding in one-off research commissions focused on the screen sector’s skills and workforce development needs. 

More details on this research will be added here soon.

Our plans to work with industry

The BFI convened the UK Screen Sectors Skills Task Force in autumn 2022 in response to the BFI Skills Review and to tackle the systematic challenges to skills development in the industry. Managed and chaired by industry, the task force is made up of 28 organisations. Read their first report published in November 2023: A Sustainable Future for Skills.


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