Your experiences help shine a light on poor and unlawful working practices, hold employers to account and measure improvements across the sector.
⏳ The survey closes at the end of this week - take it now!
Take part: tinyurl.com/PantoSurvey2026 or via the link in our bio
Bold red text announces one week left to complete the first-in-a-decade Panto Survey shaping the future of panto, with a link in bio prompt.
💥 Last chance to take our panto survey.
If you’ve worked in pantomime in the last 12 months as a performer, stage manager or in the creative team — whether you're an Equity member or not — we want to hear from you. .
Celebrating resistance and love, SCREEN CUBA film festival opens in London 15 March. Featuring Humberto Solas’ iconic feminist trilogy Lucía, Tomás Alea’s anticolonial masterpiece, The Last Supper, the music biopic El Benny, docs by Sara Gómez, and more linktr.ee/Screencuba.uk
Notice of closure for Cardiff-based Regan Management with advice to contact Equity for support via agents@equity.org.uk
CLOSURE OF REGAN MANAGEMENT
Equity understands that Cardiff-based agency Regan Management is due to close. If you are affected and require advice on your situation, contact us at agents@equity.org.uk.
Latest update: We have engaged in positive discussions with vendors who were making these changes and have reached an amicable compromise, but Equity continues to push our guidance and best practice for any video games work.
Attempts by some videogames vendors to delay buyout payments to performers are unacceptable. Pay and conditions in videogames are already lagging behind the rest of the industry and Equity is working to raise standards, not roll them back.
Read our statement
www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/vi...
We’ve heard reports of a producer offering to make free showreel footage & inviting actors to their home for this. Physical auditions & similar should always be held in appropriate & recognised workspaces. Do not meet in anyone’s home or alone in a hotel room
www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-s...
Cracking Branch Meeting last night! We'd like to thank our visiting Councillor from the Midlands, Tonia Daley-Campbell, for delivering our Council Report & to our 3 intrepid @equityuk.bsky.social staff members (Anna, Karen & Kirsten) for delivering our Anti-Fascist Training Taster Session.
Why we're boycotting the government's BBC Charter Survey:
👉Absence of workforce consideration
👉Limited detail and scope
👉Possible use of AI to aggregate responses, likely to generate overly simplistic conclusions
Read what we're calling for instead 👇
Be proud of yourself as a union member because only together do we change the world of work for the better.
In the words of Equity President Lynda Rooke "We are proud and we are powerful."
❤️Happy #HeartsUnion week ❤️
If you’re not yet a member, join us today: www.equity.org.uk/join
Equity is proud to join Together Alliance, made up of 100s of civil society organisations representing over 7 million people united against division & the far-right.
Join us on Sat 28 March when we'll march with 1000s of people in London to show that love, unity and hope are stronger than hate.
UK performers are losing out on overseas work because of the heavy admin & financial burden of taking UK artists to the EU. Yesterday Equity's Head of Policy Tom Peters was in Parliament at the CMS select committee calling for changes to make touring easier for UK artists.
Equity will continue to pursue non-payments with liquidators and with Manchester City council for more than 50 members owed money from the 2025 event.
Find out more on our website:
👉 tinyurl.com/Equity-ManchesterVillagePride
This follows the news that Pride will return to Manchester in August 2026, with newly founded Manchester Village Pride Community Interest Company, run by village businesses and community stakeholders, set to deliver the event after the collapse of Manchester Pride Ltd in October 2025.
Equity is delighted to announce that Manchester Village Pride will be the first Pride event to sign a UK union agreement.
Read our manifesto on increasing working-class representation: www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-po...
The Class Ceiling report is right to call for changes to increase the number of working class people in the arts. For that to happen we need trade union agreements guaranteeing fair pay & conditions - only then will the arts be a feasible career for many
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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A large, dense crowd of protesters gathered in a public square in front of historic stone buildings under an overcast sky. Many individuals are wearing beanies and winter coats. The crowd is a sea of signs and flags; prominent light blue flags feature the "National Education Union" logo, while participants hold numerous black posters with the slogans "HOPE IS BACK" and "MARCH FOR LOVE. FOR UNITY. FOR HOPE. TOGETHER."
A large group of activists stands together in a high-ceilinged hall with brick arches and pillars. In the center, a large purple banner for the "TUC London, East & South East" is held high. Every person in the group is holding a sign, creating a wall of black posters with bold pink and white text reading "UNITY IS BACK" or the multi-colored "MARCH FOR LOVE" design. The setting appears to be a formal meeting or community space, with several people in the front row smiling at the camera.
Organised. United. Ready to fill the streets with hope and unity.
Share this post to help spread the word. We are growing. We are building. We are #Together.
Today we remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust. We remember too, the millions more murdered under Nazi persecution & the genocides that have followed.
We stand united against hatred and prejudice today.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/ho...
Equity win! 💪
Bristol City Council WILL NOT CUT Cultural Investment Programme for the next three years, following a campaign by Equity activists and local community groups👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2026/equity-win-bristol-city-council-will-not-cut-cultural-investment-programme-for-next-three-years
“There’s no Pride without performers, but performers are getting a raw deal,” Equity North-West Official Karen Lockney told the leader of Manchester City Council, in a letter this week.
Catch the story in the Manchester Evening News tinyurl.com/MEN-EQUITY-JAN26
Bids close today on the concerning sell-off of Manchester Pride’s brand assets. Meanwhile, performers are still waiting for thousands of pounds in unpaid fees from the 2025 event.
Where does the data go and who controls it?
In our current negotiations, Equity members are standing up for consent and control when it comes to AI including digital scanning on set.
Equity General Secretary Paul W Fleming discusses the fight on the BBC’s The Media Show.
This is a free, informal get-together, open to Equity members and non-members alike. Just reserve a spot so we know you’re coming.
Illustrated poster for an Equity Directors and Designers Committee Social. The design shows rows of teal theatre seats with a warm peach background. Large teal text reads “Directors and Designers Committee Social.” Event details are displayed: 12th January, 6.30pm, the Old Vic backstage, 131 Waterloo Road SE1 8UR.
Directors and Designers, this is your invite!
Join us at the Old Vic Backstage this Monday to toast the new year, meet other directors and designers and tell us what you want from your trade union.
📣 Monday 12 Jan / 6.30pm / SE1 8UR
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We have concerns that you may have been denied your basic employment rights and you could therefore be owed a significant amount of money.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE 📣
If you are an Equity member who was recently engaged as a performer or stage management on Squid Game: The Experience by Luna Cinema/Luna Entertainment, please contact Equity with a copy of your contract at pmpp@equity.org.uk
As we start a brand new year, we look hopefully to the future. Hopeful for positive change, growth and improvement within the Arts, and for the continued support and community that @equityuk.bsky.social creates as a union.
#StrongerTogether
It’s a landslide! The results are in, and Equity members have made their position clear with a 99.6% YES vote. They are prepared and ready to take action to secure AI protections.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/pe...
The workforce has yet again been shut out of the Creative Industries Council.
Lack of worker representation on the government advisory body is a damaging snub & hamstrings the government’s own growth plans.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/workforce-again-shut-out-of-the-creative-industries-council
