supporters

Comments from supporters of the Indie Training Promise

Nick Catliff, New ITF Chair and Joint MD Lion TV (June 2011):

“Training is a crucial issue for the entire industry. Whether you are an indie, an in-house producer or a broadcaster, your staff are you biggest cost and your most important asset. With some notable exceptions we don’t invest enough in developing the creative people on whom the future of our industry lies. I’m delighted to be taking over the Chair of the Indie Training Fund, and to be announcing this important new initiative  This Promise is intended to focus minds on the fact that training is something that starts with each company – without it our businesses, our people and our industry as a whole cannot thrive.  ITF and its member indies are key players in supporting training  in terms of both its own acclaimed short courses, its significant contributions to the Skillset TV Skills Fund, and its practical involvement in so many industry initiatives. I now want to take it forward to the next stage, to get indies to sign up to the Promise, and to join ITF and so get the benefits of the best possible development for their teams.”

Dinah Caine, Skillset Chief Executive (June 2011):

“We are delighted to support the Indie Training Promise, and congratulate ITF on developing such an excellent initiative. This promise covers the key areas that need to be addressed if we are to keep our industry at the cutting edge. With some 1,100 indies employing more than 40 per cent of the television workforce, this Training Promise will make a huge difference to our industry if it is embraced properly.

We would also like to remind all indies that there are funds available through our TV Skills Fund, to which the ITF is a key contributor, to help their employees and freelancers access training and thus fulfil the first two steps of this Promise.”

Anne Morrison, BBC Academy Director (June 2011):

“We thoroughly endorse the values and objectives of the Indie Training Promise. We share the vision of creating and maintaining a highly skilled creative media production sector and agree that training the professionals who work in our vibrant indie sector is a top priority for UK media and for its audiences”

4Talent also supports the Indie Training Promise