As the original live event technicians' welfare fund, Stagehand has been supporting people in need for 25 years.
They offer help and support to live event production workers based in the UK or predominantly working out of the UK who cannot work for a period of time due to serious physical or mental illness or injury.
To donate to Stagehand, please visit the charity's Just Giving Page
In cases of genuine hardship
Under certain circumstances and in genuine cases of hardship, Stagehand can provide small grants for emergency relief.
The charity also supports training and re-training which may be needed as a result of an injury or illness resulting in loss of or time off from work.
If you require assistance, please get in touch to see what support is available. Email hello@stagehand.org.uk or assistance is also available via WhatsApp here.
You can also visit the website here: https://www.stagehand.org.uk/
Phone Number:
0161 4230228
Backup Tech (The Technical Entertainment Charity) is the UK’s registered charity that provides financial support to industry technical professionals, crew/production personnel and people working in the technical supply chain across the UK entertainment industry specifically live events, music touring, theatre and broadcast.
Initially setup in the early 2000’s (under the name Lite Relief) Backup was founded by the industry for the industry. Over the years Backup has expanded its remit to match the times, changes and challenges faced by industry colleagues, this includes financial support via medical grants hardship grants during Covid, access to wellbeing aid and helping to promote awareness around mental health and wellbeing through access to training.
Medical Grants are tailored to an individual’s needs and can include essential living costs, medical related expenses, advice, re-training and travel.
Hardship Grants are tailored to help people who find themselves in financial difficulty, with short-term financial support.
Backup works with potential recipients to fully understand the support needed and ensure that help is targeted effectively.
Backup will stay in contact with recipients and provide ongoing support.
Additionally, Backup is passionate about helping provide Wellbeing Support facilitating a number of initiatives in and around wellbeing:
- 24hr Helpline for centralised access point for both urgent and non-urgent wellbeing support.
- Grants for dedicated councillor sessions
- A Bursary for freelancers to access a free Mental Health First Aider training course
- Financial support for of the industry initiative to give freelances access to a free Addiction and Recovery Aware training workshop
- A dedicated website wellbeing resource page of both industry and public wellbeing support services including helplines, group networks and industry assistance organisations
