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 2024:

They will pay their interns/placements on a rolling or fixed-term contract at least the Living Wage – currently £13.15ph in London and £12ph 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

Point of contact: Emma Krall

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

elvis

Signed up:
March 2017

Point of contact:
Rob Griffiths

Fallon

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Nick Bell

FCB Inferno

Signed up:
July 2020

Point of contact:
Pip Foster & Nicky Dawson

50sport

Signed up:
March 2022

Point of contact:
Dan Burman & Rosie Wood

Forever Beta

Signed up:
March 2018

Point of contact:
Jono Benson

George and Dragon

Signed up:
December 2016

Point of contact:
Helen Thomas

fivebyfive

Signed up:
Sept 2020

Point of contact:
Katie Whittam-Hayes

Fox & Hare

Signed up:
Oct 2021

Point of contact:
Ben Golding

frukt

Signed up:
March 2022

Point of contact:
Sarah Knight

good

Signed up:
Feb 2016

Point of contact:
Reuben Turner

grey

Signed up:
May 2017

Point of contact:
Anna Sachdev

harbour

Signed up:
Dec 2021

Point of contact:
Jackie Bicknell

hatched

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Lee Casey

havas

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Jade Douse

house337

Signed up:
Nov 2019

Point of contact:
Abraham Oonimole

houseofgreenland

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Martin De Fleurian

Hugo and Cat

Signed up:
July 2016

Point of contact:
Sara Cerutti-Payne

hype collective

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Simon Lucey

ID-Agency

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Paul Parsons

Innocean Worldwide

Signed up:
July 2017

Point of contact:
Liam Graham

impero

Signed up:
Sept 2021

Point of contact:
Ade Yeo

isobel

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Ben Stump

Signed up:
June 2022

Point of contact:
Dan Madden

iris

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Freya Sorrell & Harriet Shurville

liveandbreathe

Signed up:
June 2020

Point of contact:
Jenny Longsmith

logo83

Signed up:
Nov 2019

Point of contact:
Dan Boyles

leo burnett

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Faye Packman

lida

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Tia Rowles

luckygenerals

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Danny Brooke-Taylor

Life

Signed up:
April 2019

Point of contact:
Rachel Deacon

M&CSaatchi-SportandEntertainment

Signed up:
Oct 2018

Point of contact:
Rebecca Malkin

mc saatchi

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Ben Golik & Clare Clarke

Mccan Birmingham

Signed up:
Jan 2021

Point of contact:
Charlotte Banks

McgarryBowen

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Paul Jordan

Momentum

Signed up:
Jan 2019

Point of contact:
Anna Scholes

Mirum

Signed up:
July 2020

Point of contact:
Nellie Tandoh & Mona Ajaz-Zaidi

Mother London

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
TBC

mrpresident

Signed up:
Nov 2019

Point of contact:
Mizzy Lees

MRM

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Natalie Heinsen

mullenlowe

Signed up:
Jan 2017

Point of contact:
Tina Fiandaca

Neon

Signed up:
May 2017

Point of contact:
Dana Robertson

now

Signed up:
Jan 2019

Point of contact:
Anna Scholes

oliver

Signed up:
March 2017

Point of contact:
Stuart Martin

octagon

Signed up:
March 2022

Point of contact:
Sarah Knight

ogilvy

Signed up:
March 2022

Point of contact:
Sophie Austin &
Gemma Wise

Proximity London

Signed up:
Oct 2017

Point of contact:
Vickie Farrell

Signed up:
May 2017

Point of contact:
Shaheed Peera

Portas

Signed up:
Nov 2019

Point of contact:
Mark Nicholson

Publicis

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

sense

Signed up:
Sept 2017

Point of contact:
Adam Curry 

saatchi and saatchi

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Andy Jex

sapient

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Mark Hunter

snap

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Hannah Levy

the and partnership

Signed up:
June 2017

Point of contact:
Fern Nott

stlukes

Signed up:
June 2017

Point of contact:
Roy Hyndman

tbwa

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Peter Souter

ceg

Signed up:
Sept 2020

Point of contact:
Jill English

vccp

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
HR

trbr

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Richard Megson

transmission

Signed up:
June 2019

Point of contact:
Gary Williams

Wasserman

Signed up:
March 2017

Point of contact:
Cris Cicirello

Signed up:
Sept 2022

Point of contact:
Charlotte Fenney

Wavemaker

Signed up:
May 2018

Point of contact:
Clare Alger

wrg

Signed up:
Sept 2020

Point of contact:
Christopher Edwards

was

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Karen Grunwald

wieden Kennedy

Signed up:
June 2015

Point of contact:
Amy Dunlop

Wunderman-Thompson

Signed up:
June 2019

Point of contact:
Simon Sworn

LEADING THE WAY TO IMPROVING INDUSTRY PAY, SINCE 2015.