Make a Move Fund

The Make a Move Fund is administered by ScreenSkills. The scheme is provided by the High End TV Skills Fund.

The Make a Move Fund is designed to support on-the-job training for people identified by TV productions as ready to move up into a more senior role with some support. The idea is that at the end of the training the individual would be able to apply for their next job at the next grade up.

Individuals on Make a Move are not trainees, but part of a scheme to encourage and promote professional development.

High-end TV Skills Fund-contributing productions can apply for up to £15,000 per production and can be claimed in two ways:

• If more than one individual is being stepped up, or
• If the individual being proposed is stepping up to the following senior roles: Producer, Line Producer or a Head of Department.

For productions supporting only one individual outside those roles above the maximum contribution is £10,000 per production for one individual.

Additional funds are also available for:

• Craft and Tech step ups - up to £2,500 per production.
• Post production step up - up to £10,000 per production for teams who are supporting any grade to move into a post supervisor or post coordinator role.

The scheme is targeted at UK-based individuals working on high-end TV productions, who have been identified as being ready to move into a more senior role.

Make a move will support all grades, but actively encourages applications for those 'step ups' highlighted below as skill shortages:

• Production accountant
• Assistant accountant
• Line producer
• Production co-ordinator
• 1st AD
• 2nd AD
• 3rd AD
• Location manager
• Unit Manager
• Location Assistant
• Art Director
• Grip
• Editor

Individuals can only participate in Make a Move after being put forward by their employer. Potential participants must be considered ready to move up to their next career grade and be able to commit to the work, training, mentoring and additional responsibility required for this to happen.

The funder is unable to fund retrospective claims.

The funder cannot support individuals who are already working within the grade they are about to move up to, unless there is a robust case that the 'moving up' will mean they are working differently.

Individuals who have previously been supported through Make a Move or a similar stepping up scheme in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can only be put forward every two years to be moved up to their next role.

The funding is flexible and can be used to cover:

• Salaries
• Travel and accommodation
• Mentoring
• Shadowing
• Attendance at short courses