In 2023, ITV Pride experienced yet another great year marked by vibrant celebrations throughout WHAT’S NEXT FOR DIVERSITY Pride month. We officially kicked things off with an ITV Pride Day social and proudly participated in EQUITY & INCLUSION Pride parades across the UK, marching alongside our We will continue to collaborate across the LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies. It was also brilliant to broadcasting industry to drive systemic see our ITV Pridecast host, Liam McConkey, reach change. In 2024, we will enable colleagues his two-year and 20th episode milestone in 2023. We to address antisemitism and Islamophobia continued our commitment to diversity, equity and through education and training. We are also inclusion by supporting ITV’s DEI team in submitting partnering with the Film and TV Charity Stonewall’s 2023 Workplace Equality Index – the UK’s in their cross-industry work to support leading benchmarking tool for LGBTQ+ inclusion in organisations and improve the experiences the workplace. of Jewish and Muslim colleagues and Issah Nalzaro, ITV Pride Co-chair freelancers. We will collaborate further with ITV Women’s Network has continued to connect, develop and inspire the TV Access Project to achieve full inclusion women across the business, with now over 1,000 members. Over for Disabled people by 2030. We are continuing the last year we have launched Lean-in circles, which bring women our work with the Creative Diversity Network together in small groups to discuss and support each other on a range and improving the Diamond system that of topics of interest including women’s health issues, confidence measures diversity in UK broadcasting. and how to manage imposter syndrome. We also ran a tailored We will use our remaining Diversity three-month development programme called Inspire which brought Commissioning Fund and Development Fund together over 80 women across ITV at different stages in their to continue driving change in our mainstream career with the purpose to grow their network, have a clear vision for content, sharpening our focus on Deaf, their career goals and a plan of action to reach their full potential. Disabled and Neurodivergent leads. We will Helen Hopkins, ITV Women’s Network Co-chair build on our diverse pipeline of talent by sustaining Step Up 60 and supporting alumni from past initiatives. To improve accessibility, we are implementing recommendations from our Amplify 2023 cohort, and are looking forward to a return of the programme for Network Chairs. We are still working to improve senior representation through recruitment, progression and retention. This includes a data-driven focus on People of Colour; Deaf, Disabled or Neurodivergent colleagues and colleagues from working class backgrounds. Globally, we will train and upskill all colleagues through our new mandatory DEI training. ITV Social Purpose Impact Report 2023 48