Panos Institute
Executive Director: James Deane
Media & Communications: Mark Covey
9 White Lion Street, London N1 9PD
Tel: 0207 278 1111 Fax: 0207 278 0345
E-mail: markc@panoslondon.org.uk
Set up in 1998 with bureaux around the world, Panos-London's mission is to work with media to enable developing countries to shape and communicate their own development agendas through informed public debate. Produces independent, authoritative, trustworthy information from a range of perspectives, largely generated from people in developing countries to promote and catalyse public debate on issues of key concern to people in those regions. Provides training and runs large (often govt-funded projects in developing countries); has a network of more than 400 local journalists around the world.
Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT)
Chief Executive: John McVay
45 Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HJ
Tel: 020 7331 6000 Fax: 020 7331 6700
PACT in Scotland
249 West George Street, Glasgow G2 4QE
Tel: 0141 222 4880 Fax: 0141 222 4881
E-mail: john@pact.co.uk
Founded in 1991, PACT is the only trade association in the UK representing independent television, feature film, animation and interactive media production companies. Has is its own charitable training subsidiary:
Independent Production Training Fund
Chair: Philip Clarke, Feelgood Fiction
C/o PACT, 45 Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HJ
Tel: 020 7331 6000 Fax: 020 7331 6700
A charity that collects and distributes training funds for the UK independent TV production sector. Created by the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) in 1993, the IPTF is controlled by a Board of independent TV producers, and raises a voluntary levy on independent television productions.
Public Broadcasting for Multicultural Europe (PBME)
PO Box 8323, London W12 6BP
Tel: 0208 579 5600 Fax: 0208 566 5581
E-mail: pbme@antenna.nl
European initiative supported by BBC Education and BBC Television-Equal Opportunities (UK), BRTN (Belgium), NOS (Netherlands), STOA (Netherlands) and University of Luton (UK) to promote the role of public broadcasting in the development of a multicultural Europe and to increase the participation of black and ethnic minority people in broadcasting; to formulate guidelines which enable broadcasters to avoid negative and stereotypical portrayal of black in broadcasting; to strive towards high quality multicultural mainstream programming which promotes harmonious relations between ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic groups; to share good practice in establishing equal opportunities within European organisations; to develop joint strategies for education and social action broadcasting as a means of countering racism and xenophobia within Europe; to establish networks to facilitate the above. Involved in a variety of projects.
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