THE
PLACEMENT
POVERTY
PLEDGE
For too long the creative industry had been guilty of paying interns too little, and keeping them on for too long as a cheap source of labour.
So since 2015 we’ve set out to improve that.
We’ve currently got 88 agencies across the UK officially signed up to pay at least the UK Living Wage or London Living Wage.
EVERY AGENCY ON THE PLEDGE HAS AGREED THAT AS OF JAN 2025:
They will pay their interns/placements on a rolling or fixed-term contract at least the Living Wage – currently £13.85ph in London and £12.60ph across the UK.
After three months of being on a rolling contract it will revert to a freelance rate of at least £150 a day.
Signed up:
Aug 2021
Point of contact:
Alex White
Signed up:
July 2017
Point of contact:
Lucy Freedman
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Paul Brazier
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Ravi Vasdev
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Anna Carpen
Signed up:
July 2022
Signed up:
June 2019
Point of contact:
Charlotte Anderson
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Rosie Bardales
Signed up:
Jan 2017
Point of contact:
Stef Jones
Signed up:
Oct 2016
Point of contact:
Lizzy Minns
Signed up:
Oct 2016
Point of contact:
Caroline Paris
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Andy Fowler
Signed up:
June 2023
Point of contact:
Jade Delaney
Signed up:
July 2018
Point of contact:
Aaron Cole
Signed up:
Feb 2016
Point of contact:
Lynne Harris
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Stu Outhwaite-Noel
Signed up:
July 2019
Point of contact:
TBC
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Chris Woodward
Signed up:
Aug 2018
Point of contact:
Clare Baker
Signed up:
March 2017
Point of contact:
Rob Griffiths
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Nick Bell
Signed up:
July 2020
Point of contact:
Pip Foster & Nicky Dawson
Signed up:
March 2022
Point of contact:
Dan Burman & Rosie Wood
Signed up:
March 2018
Point of contact:
Jono Benson
Signed up:
December 2016
Point of contact:
Helen Thomas
Signed up:
Sept 2020
Point of contact:
Katie Whittam-Hayes
Signed up:
Oct 2021
Point of contact:
Ben Golding
Signed up:
March 2022
Point of contact:
Sarah Knight
Signed up:
Feb 2016
Point of contact:
Reuben Turner
Signed up:
May 2017
Point of contact:
Anna Sachdev
Signed up:
Dec 2021
Point of contact:
Jackie Bicknell
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Lee Casey
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Jade Douse
Signed up:
Nov 2019
Point of contact:
Abraham Oonimole
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Martin De Fleurian
Signed up:
July 2016
Point of contact:
Sara Cerutti-Payne
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Simon Lucey
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Paul Parsons
Signed up:
July 2017
Point of contact:
Liam Graham
Signed up:
Sept 2021
Point of contact:
Ade Yeo
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Ben Stump
Signed up:
June 2022
Point of contact:
Dan Madden
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Freya Sorrell & Harriet Shurville
Signed up:
June 2020
Point of contact:
Jenny Longsmith
Signed up:
Nov 2019
Point of contact:
Dan Boyles
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Faye Packman
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Tia Rowles
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Danny Brooke-Taylor
Signed up:
April 2019
Point of contact:
Rachel Deacon
Signed up:
Oct 2018
Point of contact:
Rebecca Malkin
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Ben Golik & Clare Clarke
Signed up:
Jan 2021
Point of contact:
Charlotte Banks
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Paul Jordan
Signed up:
Jan 2019
Point of contact:
Anna Scholes
Signed up:
July 2020
Point of contact:
Nellie Tandoh & Mona Ajaz-Zaidi
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
TBC
Signed up:
Nov 2019
Point of contact:
Mizzy Lees
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Natalie Heinsen
Signed up:
Jan 2017
Point of contact:
Tina Fiandaca
Signed up:
May 2017
Point of contact:
Dana Robertson
Signed up:
Jan 2019
Point of contact:
Anna Scholes
Signed up:
March 2017
Point of contact:
Stuart Martin
Signed up:
March 2022
Point of contact:
Sarah Knight
Signed up:
March 2022
Point of contact:
Sophie Austin &
Gemma Wise
Signed up:
Oct 2017
Point of contact:
Vickie Farrell
Signed up:
May 2017
Point of contact:
Shaheed Peera
Signed up:
Nov 2019
Point of contact:
Mark Nicholson
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Andy Bird & Eliane Robbins-Hallam
Signed up:
May 2017
Point of contact:
Shaheed Peera
Signed up:
Jan 2017
Point of contact:
Dan de Lord
Signed up:
Nov 2021
Point of contact:
Sarah Cheema-Gouldbourn
Signed up:
Nov 2021
Point of contact:
Linda Playfoot
Signed up:
May 2019
Point of contact:
Emily Duncan
Signed up:
Sept 2017
Point of contact:
Adam Curry
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Andy Jex
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Mark Hunter
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Hannah Levy
Signed up:
June 2017
Point of contact:
Fern Nott
Signed up:
June 2017
Point of contact:
Roy Hyndman
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Peter Souter
Signed up:
Sept 2020
Point of contact:
Jill English
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
HR
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Richard Megson
Signed up:
June 2019
Point of contact:
Gary Williams
Signed up:
March 2017
Point of contact:
Cris Cicirello
Signed up:
Sept 2022
Point of contact:
Charlotte Fenney
Signed up:
May 2018
Point of contact:
Clare Alger
Signed up:
Sept 2020
Point of contact:
Christopher Edwards
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Karen Grunwald
Signed up:
June 2015
Point of contact:
Amy Dunlop
Signed up:
June 2019
Point of contact:
Simon Sworn