Equity Bristol & West of England Branch
@equitybristolw.bsky.social
Representing Equity UK members in Bristol & the West of England.
Posts are by Committee members, not endorsements by Equity.
Posts are by Committee members, not endorsements by Equity.
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We are delighted that Bristol City Council is not moving forward with the sale of The Bottle Yard Studios, the only UK film studio to be owned by a local authority.
Full story: tinyurl.com/BottleYardJuly25
Full story: tinyurl.com/BottleYardJuly25
July 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We are delighted that Bristol City Council is not moving forward with the sale of The Bottle Yard Studios, the only UK film studio to be owned by a local authority.
Full story: tinyurl.com/BottleYardJuly25
Full story: tinyurl.com/BottleYardJuly25
Tomorrow 20th May at 7:30pm. The Zoom link has been sent to members today. We hope to see you there!
May 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Tomorrow 20th May at 7:30pm. The Zoom link has been sent to members today. We hope to see you there!
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Paul W Fleming has been re-elected as General Secretary of Equity with 81% of the vote.
“It’s an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won’t let you down.”
Read more: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
“It’s an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won’t let you down.”
Read more: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
May 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Paul W Fleming has been re-elected as General Secretary of Equity with 81% of the vote.
“It’s an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won’t let you down.”
Read more: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
“It’s an overwhelming honour to be re-elected as General Secretary of Equity. Members chose a loud, proud, and radical vision for Equity, and I won’t let you down.”
Read more: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
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VOTE: your union, your choice 🗳️
The Equity General Secretary ballot closes at 12 noon on Friday 2 May 2025 - make sure your voting papers are returned by this date and time.
And remember voting is by post only!
The Equity General Secretary ballot closes at 12 noon on Friday 2 May 2025 - make sure your voting papers are returned by this date and time.
And remember voting is by post only!
April 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
VOTE: your union, your choice 🗳️
The Equity General Secretary ballot closes at 12 noon on Friday 2 May 2025 - make sure your voting papers are returned by this date and time.
And remember voting is by post only!
The Equity General Secretary ballot closes at 12 noon on Friday 2 May 2025 - make sure your voting papers are returned by this date and time.
And remember voting is by post only!
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✅ Don’t delay, return your completed ballot paper today!
April 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
✅ Don’t delay, return your completed ballot paper today!
Next week - 15 April, Branch Meeting.
Guest Speaker - Lynda Rooke, President of @equityuk.bsky.social
Details are emailed to Branch Members
Guest Speaker - Lynda Rooke, President of @equityuk.bsky.social
Details are emailed to Branch Members
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Next week - 15 April, Branch Meeting.
Guest Speaker - Lynda Rooke, President of @equityuk.bsky.social
Details are emailed to Branch Members
Guest Speaker - Lynda Rooke, President of @equityuk.bsky.social
Details are emailed to Branch Members
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River City update:
Yesterday was a tough one for our River City members and all the actors who have appeared on the show over the past two decades. As the recognised trade union, Equity was pre-briefed and we leapt into action straight away. 1/6
Yesterday was a tough one for our River City members and all the actors who have appeared on the show over the past two decades. As the recognised trade union, Equity was pre-briefed and we leapt into action straight away. 1/6
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
River City update:
Yesterday was a tough one for our River City members and all the actors who have appeared on the show over the past two decades. As the recognised trade union, Equity was pre-briefed and we leapt into action straight away. 1/6
Yesterday was a tough one for our River City members and all the actors who have appeared on the show over the past two decades. As the recognised trade union, Equity was pre-briefed and we leapt into action straight away. 1/6
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📣 Want to change the arts & entertainment industries for the better?
No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas & energy.
What committee will you stand for?
Nominations open! equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas & energy.
What committee will you stand for?
Nominations open! equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
March 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📣 Want to change the arts & entertainment industries for the better?
No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas & energy.
What committee will you stand for?
Nominations open! equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas & energy.
What committee will you stand for?
Nominations open! equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
TONIGHT- Branch Meeting. Details have been emailed to members. We hope to see you there or on Zoom!
March 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
TONIGHT- Branch Meeting. Details have been emailed to members. We hope to see you there or on Zoom!
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Equity members: join your National or Regional Meeting this March!
It’s your chance to learn about our work & have your say on its future.
All meetings will have BSL interpretation 👌
Find details of all meetings at: www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
It’s your chance to learn about our work & have your say on its future.
All meetings will have BSL interpretation 👌
Find details of all meetings at: www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
March 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Equity members: join your National or Regional Meeting this March!
It’s your chance to learn about our work & have your say on its future.
All meetings will have BSL interpretation 👌
Find details of all meetings at: www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
It’s your chance to learn about our work & have your say on its future.
All meetings will have BSL interpretation 👌
Find details of all meetings at: www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
Take action - sign and share, non members can alter the wording in the email.
equity.eaction.org.uk/BristolDontR...
More info in the email sent to members 14 March
equity.eaction.org.uk/BristolDontR...
More info in the email sent to members 14 March
March 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Take action - sign and share, non members can alter the wording in the email.
equity.eaction.org.uk/BristolDontR...
More info in the email sent to members 14 March
equity.eaction.org.uk/BristolDontR...
More info in the email sent to members 14 March
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🚨Concern at non-payment by Sneaky Experience events🚨
We've been contacted by members who are together owed over £27,000. Contact us ASAP if you're an Equity member and have worked, or are booked to work, for Sneaky Experience.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/co...
We've been contacted by members who are together owed over £27,000. Contact us ASAP if you're an Equity member and have worked, or are booked to work, for Sneaky Experience.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/co...
Concern at non-payment by Sneaky Experience events | Equity
Equity is calling on members who have undertaken work, or are booked to work, for Sneaky Experience to contact us as soon as possible in relation to concerns over non-payment. Sneaky Experience is an ...
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March 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨Concern at non-payment by Sneaky Experience events🚨
We've been contacted by members who are together owed over £27,000. Contact us ASAP if you're an Equity member and have worked, or are booked to work, for Sneaky Experience.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/co...
We've been contacted by members who are together owed over £27,000. Contact us ASAP if you're an Equity member and have worked, or are booked to work, for Sneaky Experience.
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/co...
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“The industrial scale theft of performers’ and artists’ work by big tech must stop.”
We have today joined with fellow @tuc.org.uk
unions to publish an AI manifesto for creative workers and stop the “theft of work” from performers and artists ⬇️
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
We have today joined with fellow @tuc.org.uk
unions to publish an AI manifesto for creative workers and stop the “theft of work” from performers and artists ⬇️
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
March 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The industrial scale theft of performers’ and artists’ work by big tech must stop.”
We have today joined with fellow @tuc.org.uk
unions to publish an AI manifesto for creative workers and stop the “theft of work” from performers and artists ⬇️
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
We have today joined with fellow @tuc.org.uk
unions to publish an AI manifesto for creative workers and stop the “theft of work” from performers and artists ⬇️
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
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“Some fans are treating them as props or characters that aren’t real human beings with lives. They’re working people who are members of a trade union, who have every right to dignity at work.”
Equity's General Secretary on when fans at the stage door go too far.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
Equity's General Secretary on when fans at the stage door go too far.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
‘Just to see Tom Hiddleston would be enough!’ My eye-popping night with the fans who mob stage doors
With London’s West End chockful of Hollywood A-listers, crowds are thronging stage doors. But do some fans go too far? We uncover a shadowy story of joyful adulation, gobby putdowns – and endless TikT...
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Some fans are treating them as props or characters that aren’t real human beings with lives. They’re working people who are members of a trade union, who have every right to dignity at work.”
Equity's General Secretary on when fans at the stage door go too far.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
Equity's General Secretary on when fans at the stage door go too far.
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...
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Ready to change the entertainment industry?
Stand for election to an Equity committee & change the arts and entertainment industries for the better. No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas, energy & industry experiences. Nominations open 5 March.
www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
Stand for election to an Equity committee & change the arts and entertainment industries for the better. No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas, energy & industry experiences. Nominations open 5 March.
www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ready to change the entertainment industry?
Stand for election to an Equity committee & change the arts and entertainment industries for the better. No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas, energy & industry experiences. Nominations open 5 March.
www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
Stand for election to an Equity committee & change the arts and entertainment industries for the better. No previous committee experience needed - just your ideas, energy & industry experiences. Nominations open 5 March.
www.equity.org.uk/about-us/how...
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Have you received the latest issue of the Equity magazine? From the campaign to #AbolishAuditionFees to saving Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, this issue celebrates collective action.
You can also read it online or listen to the audio version here: www.equity.org.uk/about-us/equ...
You can also read it online or listen to the audio version here: www.equity.org.uk/about-us/equ...
March 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Have you received the latest issue of the Equity magazine? From the campaign to #AbolishAuditionFees to saving Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, this issue celebrates collective action.
You can also read it online or listen to the audio version here: www.equity.org.uk/about-us/equ...
You can also read it online or listen to the audio version here: www.equity.org.uk/about-us/equ...
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Equity is calling on regulators to hold Mad Dog 2020 Casting accountable for failing to pay money owed to members.
In the letter, General Secretary Paul W Fleming calls for the use of fines, prosecutions and bans on those behind Mad Dog.
For more info: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
In the letter, General Secretary Paul W Fleming calls for the use of fines, prosecutions and bans on those behind Mad Dog.
For more info: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
Equity calls on regulator to hold Mad Dog accountable for money owed to members
Equity has sent a letter to the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate (EASI), calling on the regulatory body to use its powers to ensure Mad Dog 2020 Casting is held accountable for failing to pay money owed to members.
www.equity.org.uk
March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Equity is calling on regulators to hold Mad Dog 2020 Casting accountable for failing to pay money owed to members.
In the letter, General Secretary Paul W Fleming calls for the use of fines, prosecutions and bans on those behind Mad Dog.
For more info: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
In the letter, General Secretary Paul W Fleming calls for the use of fines, prosecutions and bans on those behind Mad Dog.
For more info: www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
February Branch Meet Up, on Zoom.
Details will be emailed to members.
We hope to see you virtually!
Details will be emailed to members.
We hope to see you virtually!
February 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
February Branch Meet Up, on Zoom.
Details will be emailed to members.
We hope to see you virtually!
Details will be emailed to members.
We hope to see you virtually!
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⚠️ New research shows that social clubs are under threat ‼️
Social clubs are a vital infrastructure that has preserved and developed variety entertainment for generations, and provides crucial opportunities for working-class performers to break into the cultural and creative industries.
Social clubs are a vital infrastructure that has preserved and developed variety entertainment for generations, and provides crucial opportunities for working-class performers to break into the cultural and creative industries.
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
⚠️ New research shows that social clubs are under threat ‼️
Social clubs are a vital infrastructure that has preserved and developed variety entertainment for generations, and provides crucial opportunities for working-class performers to break into the cultural and creative industries.
Social clubs are a vital infrastructure that has preserved and developed variety entertainment for generations, and provides crucial opportunities for working-class performers to break into the cultural and creative industries.
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Equity members, activists and the arts community of Northern Ireland came together last night at The MAC Belfast to fight for the future of arts in NI and #ResistThecuts to funding. Thanks to everyone who came along and has supported the campaign and to The MAC for having us!
February 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Equity members, activists and the arts community of Northern Ireland came together last night at The MAC Belfast to fight for the future of arts in NI and #ResistThecuts to funding. Thanks to everyone who came along and has supported the campaign and to The MAC for having us!
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We are in contact with ITV about the planned reduction of soap episodes.
We will defend continuing drama and campaign to secure the long-term future of these programmes which are so crucial to the health of UK production.
Full story 👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
We will defend continuing drama and campaign to secure the long-term future of these programmes which are so crucial to the health of UK production.
Full story 👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
Equity responds to planned reduction of ITV soap episodes
Equity says ITV soap cuts announced today (Tuesday 4 February) add to the “difficult time in UK continuing dramas”. While ITV has told Equity that regular cast member numbers should not be cut as a di...
www.equity.org.uk
February 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We are in contact with ITV about the planned reduction of soap episodes.
We will defend continuing drama and campaign to secure the long-term future of these programmes which are so crucial to the health of UK production.
Full story 👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
We will defend continuing drama and campaign to secure the long-term future of these programmes which are so crucial to the health of UK production.
Full story 👇
www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/eq...
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🚨 @equityuk.bsky.social's BIG AUDIO AUDIT CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 31st, FOLKS 🚨
Help us to help you by gathering information to better our negotiations.
Find all the survey sections in our Insta Highlights here:
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
RTs appreciated.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
Help us to help you by gathering information to better our negotiations.
Find all the survey sections in our Insta Highlights here:
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
RTs appreciated.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
🚨 @equityuk.bsky.social's BIG AUDIO AUDIT needs YOU🚨
We need your help in finding out what members are currently being paid for various types of audio work, which will then inform our negotiations for fairer rates of pay.
The survey sections can be found here:
www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/eq...
We need your help in finding out what members are currently being paid for various types of audio work, which will then inform our negotiations for fairer rates of pay.
The survey sections can be found here:
www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/eq...
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🚨 @equityuk.bsky.social's BIG AUDIO AUDIT CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 31st, FOLKS 🚨
Help us to help you by gathering information to better our negotiations.
Find all the survey sections in our Insta Highlights here:
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
RTs appreciated.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
Help us to help you by gathering information to better our negotiations.
Find all the survey sections in our Insta Highlights here:
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...
RTs appreciated.
Thank you. 🙏🏻
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Equity's President Lynda Rooke explains why we need to move from resilience to resistance. Listen now 🎧👇
Episode 3 of the Performance Science podcast is now available! Join Charlotte Penton-Smith, CEO of the Royal Society of Musicians, & @lyndarooke.bsky.social, President of @equityuk.bsky.social, as they unpack the challenges of freelancing in the creative industries.
🎧Listen now: bit.ly/CPSpodcast1
🎧Listen now: bit.ly/CPSpodcast1
January 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Equity's President Lynda Rooke explains why we need to move from resilience to resistance. Listen now 🎧👇
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🚨 Training opportunity 🚨
Access to Work is a resource that helps create a more accessible work environment.
This webinar provides top tips on getting access support in place to assist your artistic practice.
24 February, 2pm-4.30pm, online
Find out more 👇
www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
Access to Work is a resource that helps create a more accessible work environment.
This webinar provides top tips on getting access support in place to assist your artistic practice.
24 February, 2pm-4.30pm, online
Find out more 👇
www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
Introduction to Access to Work | Equity
Access to Work is a resource that helps to create a more accessible work environment. It provides grants to remove barriers that disabled people face in undertaking paid employment. Monday 24th Febru...
www.equity.org.uk
January 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🚨 Training opportunity 🚨
Access to Work is a resource that helps create a more accessible work environment.
This webinar provides top tips on getting access support in place to assist your artistic practice.
24 February, 2pm-4.30pm, online
Find out more 👇
www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
Access to Work is a resource that helps create a more accessible work environment.
This webinar provides top tips on getting access support in place to assist your artistic practice.
24 February, 2pm-4.30pm, online
Find out more 👇
www.equity.org.uk/get-involved...
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Some members believe that Equity only provides support and advice to members when they’re working under a union agreement. This isn't true!
The fact that member-related work is not under a union agreement is even more reason why you may need support from your union.
The fact that member-related work is not under a union agreement is even more reason why you may need support from your union.
January 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Some members believe that Equity only provides support and advice to members when they’re working under a union agreement. This isn't true!
The fact that member-related work is not under a union agreement is even more reason why you may need support from your union.
The fact that member-related work is not under a union agreement is even more reason why you may need support from your union.