ScreenSkills

About Us

ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based creative industries - animation, film, games, television including children's TV and high-end drama, VFX and immersive technology. We work across the whole of the country to ensure that UK screen has access now, and in the future, to the skills and talent needed for continued success.

ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills charity for the screen industries. We work across the UK to ensure that film, television (including children's and high-end drama), VFX (visual effects), animation and games have the skills and talent they need.

We provide insight, career development and other opportunities to help grow and sustain the skilled and inclusive workforce which is the foundation stone of the UK's global screen success.

Our work includes:

Identifying skills gaps – current and future – across the screen industries and the whole of the country to provide an evidence base for investment in skills and training
Providing careers information
Mapping and quality-marking professional pathways to improve entry-level diversity and work readiness
Supporting development at every stage of a professional career in screen including through mentoring and offering bursaries.
Our approach is:

Industry-informed and owned: shaped by business intelligence and industry demands
Efficient: direct industry input delivers skills and training to meet priority needs
Partnership-led: harnessing the expertise of trade bodies, agencies, guilds, broadcasters, indies and others including the Royal Television Society, BAFTA and the British Film Institute (BFI)
Inclusive and accessible: embedding diversity in the workforce we help build.
Our revenue includes:

Contributions paid by industry through the skills investment funds
National Lottery funds awarded by the BFI
Funds from key UK broadcasters and independent production companies
Awards from partner organisations such as Arts Council England.
In a fragmented industry where many key workers are freelance, we provide targeted, efficient interventions to retain and build the skilled workforce which underpins the UK’s screen success. Partnership with other organisations such as Creative & Cultural Skills (CCS), who support the broader arts, reinforces key messaging on the importance of skills and training – built on a good, rounded education in schools – to the country’s thriving creative industries.