No Boundaries working with the Media
In October 2023, No Boundaries delivered training to all the staff in S4C at their head offices in Carmarthenshire. The training led to some honest and frank discussions about racism and its effects.
The training lasted half a day and covered various areas around anti-racism. Some of the areas we covered in the training included racial microaggressions, unconscious bias, stereotypes over the years in terms of the characters on TV and media and how it may have influenced people through the generations. This was largely perpetrated by TV shows that were on from the 1960’s-1990’s, with TV shows such as Little Britain, Love Thy Neighbour, and In Sickness and in Health. Mostly quite popular and widely loved TV shows.
The training facilitated plenty of group discussions through the morning and looked at possible solutions on how to move forward and build an anti-racist society.
Due to the success of this training session, S4C facilitated a further rollout of these sessions to companies and partners that they were associated with. This training was then delivered to company heads, senior producers, series producers, producers and production managers and line producers of all the production companies associated with S4C.
As part of the partnership with S4C, we started our delivery with The Tinopolis Group who are an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. The company produces over 4,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters.
The training was delivered at both of their sites in Llanelli and Caernarfon. All of the staff were involved in the anti-racism training. Heno TV presenters Rhodri Owen and Angharad Mair were among the staff who attended the training.
Further training was then delivered through TAC (Teledwyr Annibynnol Cymru); they represent independent TV production in Wales. They also provide a wide range of support to this sector. The training through TAC was delivered at the Cardiff Storyboard Museum and at Bangor University.
We then finished off our training with the media industry in Wales with sessions with Boom Cymru; the sessions were delivered at their offices in Cardiff Bay. The training was attended by all their staff and the feedback suggested the training was well received.
"No Boundaries offered us an opportunity to explore our own feelings and emotions about Anti-Racism, and to better understand how we can influence and interact with the people we meet. The sessions opened our eyes to the lives and experiences of others and reminded us of our responsibility in society to call out injustice, of all kinds, wherever we see it"
Tinopolis staff member
