Lime teamed up with ITV Granada, the BBC and agency Vision and Media to support the Media Foundation Placement scheme which enabled 20 people from black and Asian backgrounds gain entry into the Media.

During this highly successful year-long scheme, the trainees worked within the broad range of ITV Granada, BBC and Lime Pictures' departments - including the regional newsroom, factual and entertainment, web development, content production and drama. The media industry as a whole is renowned for not representing the national or regional make up of society, in terms of ethnicity and the MFPS was determined to redress the current imbalance and was therefore pleased that the vast majority of trainees went on to find full-time permanent employment in the industry. There is still so much more work to be done however and Lime Pictures is fully supportive of any initiatives which worked towards achieving a diverse workforce and is continually, actively, seeing partners to achieve this aim.

Second Light Tech Lab - First Light's Skills Development Programme

Once such partner Lime has recently teamed up with is First Light who help young people from all backgrounds to develop their skills, talent, creativity, confidence and entrepreneurial capabilities. Second Light is First Light's skills development programme for young people aged 16-25 yrs and is devised to support the UK's Film Industry's efforts to develop a technically informed, diverse and skilled workforce representative of the UK population.

Lime is looking forward to welcoming the placements through the Second Light Tech Lab in late Spring/early Summer.