Action for Diversity and Development

Action for Diversity and Development is an independent empowerment body established by music and creative professionals to provide wide-ranging support and resources for those underrepresented in the UK music and creative industry. We are a group of music and creative industry veterans, each passionate and active in campaigning for equality, striving to see more diversity at a senior level, and to ensure more people of colour and women are working across the music industry, running companies and moving up within organisations. We have come together united by a shared history, mind set and understanding of the challenges that face the under represented in the music and creative industries. We want to be that helping hand that wasn’t available to us as we navigated our own paths in sometimes challenging environments. ADD will endeavour to provide support, encouragement and guidance wherever we are able to do so. Our committed focus will be on the underrepresented who face difficulties in the middle years of their careers, as we recognise their current challenge of continued progression from middle to senior management and beyond to significant leadership positions. Our work aims to complement the many great organisations already dedicated to helping people get started in the music and creative industries, and we are committed to ensuring that the pipeline of underrepresented creative and executive talent continues to flow freely.