Corporate Social Responsibility

All media production sectors need to be more diverse in terms of production teams, talent and stories.

This is true of the audio industry, and AudioUK is working to encourage greater diversity, inclusion and equity, to represent the wide range of experiences across the sector, in recognition of the creative and business benefits that this brings.

This section of our website is designed to enable production companies and others to understand and act on enabling people with a wide range of experiences to play a full part in audio production.

The AudioUK Diversity, Inclusion and Equity resources can be found here: https://audiouk.org.uk/diversity/diversity-inclusion-equality-resources/ They cover everything from making sure that your policies are up to date, to getting more involved and industry action.

Also our Audiotrain programme has been ensuring it has a range of diverse contributors and subjects, so do keep in touch with what they are offering by joining their mailing list.

And we will continue to ensure that the Audio Production Awards are open to all and the judges reflect the UK’s diverse population. We will continue to work to make sure that we are reaching out and widening our network, to make sure that the awards entries reflect the full diversity of the audio production sector.

AudioUK works with Amazon Music and Wondery on the Pay What You Can Scheme for the Audio Production Awards, to ensure that financial constraints are not a barrier to entry.

AudioUK is a signatory of the Equality in Audio Pact and supports the work of the Multitrack Fellowship, which offers entry level producers paid placements at independent audio production companies, training and networking opportunities, and the chance to pitch for commissions. Many of the production companies involved in Multitrack are AudioUK’s members. We also support Content Is Queen, ELAN and Uni Pod Fest. 

AudioUK wants to help podcast, radio and audiobook producers to work more sustainably.

To that end, with the help of Katharine Kerr of Podcast Pioneers, we have compiled a document to help producers, indies and freelancers feel empowered and inspired to be more sustainable in how they work.

You can download our sustainability guidelines here.

This is a working document and we are inviting our colleagues from across the industry to help input ideas and processes to build this resource, to help make the practical side of audio production greener. Ultimately it is up to the individual company or producer to decide what they are able to afford and achieve.

We would welcome any feedback you have on them – please contact us if you have any thoughts.