Duke of Edinburgh Film & TV Inclusion Award Finalist 2025
Together with a group of other Film & TV professionals, Production Manager Katie Player launched the pressure group Underlying Health Conditions (UHC). The movement aims to make the Film & TV industry more accessible by providing a blueprint for meaningful change, which all industry leaders should support and ensure is met. The group stated that disabled people are not disabled by their impairments but by the attitude and geography of the society in which they live. It is society itself that’s disabling when it makes transport impossible to share, when it shows little flexibility in the workplace, and when it is built around the needs of certain people rather than the needs of all.
"Katie is paving the way for future disabled front and behind-the-scenes professionals, by taking on facilities companies and studios to ensure they start implementing changes to make the spaces in which we, as an industry, operate more inclusive and accessible."
