carers survey Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/carers-survey/ Supporting parents and carers in the UK screen sector Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:15:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.raisingfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-raising-films-favicon-32x32.png carers survey Archives - Raising Films https://www.raisingfilms.com/tag/carers-survey/ 32 32 Interview with Ming Ho to mark Carers Week 2020 https://www.raisingfilms.com/interview-with-ming-ho-carers-week-2020/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 09:01:22 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=23144 In 2019 Raising Films launched our report We Need To Talk About Caring at an event in London, we were hosted by Equity and welcomed guests from Carers UK, the Society of Authors, the Film and TV Charity, PiPA, Times Up UK, the BFI and Directors UK. Straight after the launch the Society of [...]

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]]> Support and commitment from the industry in response to We Need To Talk About Caring report https://www.raisingfilms.com/support-and-commitment-from-the-industry-in-response-to-we-need-to-talk-about-caring-report/ Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:34:16 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=18685 On the back of our We Need To Talk About Caring report launch we called out for responses and commitments from the wider film and TV industries to acknowledge and support the needs of carer. We are delighted to share some initial responses and thank all the organisations and people below for their support [...]

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]]> More stories on caring https://www.raisingfilms.com/more-stories-on-caring/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:28:51 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17795 The launch of our Carers Survey prompted two people working in production to get in touch with their experiences. We're grateful to be able to share their stories here... Male, working in production How long have you been caring for someone and can you tell us a bit about this person? "I've [...]

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]]> Ming Ho joins our Advisory Board https://www.raisingfilms.com/ming-ho-joins-our-advisory-board/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:00:24 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17823 We're delighted to welcome Ming Ho to our Advisory Board. In addition to her extensive career in writing for film, TV and radio Ming brings with her first hand experience of being a carer. She writes, speaks, and campaigns on dementia and carer issues and is a member of the Carers Advisory Panel for charity [...]

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]]> My experience of sandwich caring https://www.raisingfilms.com/my-experience-of-sandwich-caring/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:30:15 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17729 To mark the launch of We Need To Talk About Caring we're posting the experience of sandwich caring from someone in our community - a female, working in production as a Director / Writer... We thank them for sharing their story. What is your experience of caring / looking after someone? I have recently [...]

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]]> Our Carers Survey is now live https://www.raisingfilms.com/our-carers-survey-is-now-live/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:00:37 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17710 We Need To Talk About Caring Through our Carers Survey we want to help people acknowledge and recognise the caring they do, or have done in the past. We want to know how best to support these people providing care who work, have worked or want to return to work within the screen industries. [...]

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]]> Experiences of caring https://www.raisingfilms.com/experiences-of-caring/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:23:40 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17557 Ahead of the launch of We Need To Talk About Caring, our survey into caring within the screen industries, we invited our community to share their experiences of caring. Huge gratitude goes out for the openess and willingness shown by those people who have kindly taken the time to get in touch with us. [...]

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]]> We need to talk about caring… https://www.raisingfilms.com/we-need-to-talk-about-caring/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:05:19 +0000 https://www.raisingfilms.com/?p=17070 Today (Friday 30 November 2018) is Carers Rights Day and we are marking the occasion here at Raising Films by announcing We Need To Talk About Caring our 2019 Carers Survey (following on from our Making it Possible survey and report in 2016). We are running this survey in order to learn more about [...]

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