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24 August 2020
Major broadcasters and TV industry bodies have signed up to take part in historic…
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Andrew Pakes · 21 August 2020
The fiasco around the calculation of A-level results earlier this month clearly has huge…
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21 August 2020
As the head of Bectu, the arts and entertainment trade union, I have been in the privileged…
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Emily Walls, self-employed freelance technical stage manager, Bectu member and author of blog 20 Aug 2020
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Emily Walls, self-employed freelance technical stage manager · 20 August 2020
On 28th July, the Arts Council CEO Derren Henley announced additional resources to fund…
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April 27, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces micro loan for small businesses. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Credit Simon Walker HM Treasury
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19 August 2020
Over 120 organisations including Bectu have signed a letter to the Treasury calling on the…
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Lighting designer and Bectu member John Rogers (wearing glasses) on the #WeMakeEvents protest boat trip on Tuesday 11 August 2020 with his friend Koy Neminathan, sales Director of Avolites Ltd and a PLASA board member.
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John Rogers, live events lighting designer/technician · 14 August 2020
The devil makes work for idle hands, or so the saying goes. In the small hours of a Sunday…
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Bectu members took part in the #WeMakeEvents #RedAlert protest on 11 August highlighting the economic crisis facing the live events sector. Photo shows the Tate Modern lit up in red
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13 August 2020
The news that the arts, entertainment and recreation industry has seen the largest…
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12 August 2020
Bectu has written to culture secretary Oliver Dowden outlining challenges theatres and the…
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10 August 2020
Damian Collins MP and 22 other MPs from across the south east of England have written to…
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April 27, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces micro loan for small businesses. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Credit Simon Walker HM Treasury
7 August 2020
The general secretary of Bectu’s parent union Prospect has written to Chancellor…
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