Broadcast has published its Best Places to Work in TV 2025 report.
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Award-winning animation production studio, A Productions, has been named one of the UK’s Best Places to Work in TV 2025. This marks the third time the Bristol-based company has been awarded the coveted accolade by leading industry website and magazine, Broadcast. The survey recognises the employers that are “doing things right and creating cultures that make employees proud to be a part of them”.
Training schemes, employee benefits and company culture are among the key factors that determine the Best Places to Work in TV. A special report based on the survey has published, with 32 companies having made the cut.
We pride ourselves in ensuring that A Productions is a diverse, inclusive and enjoyable place to work, where everyone can fulfil their potential and feel valued. It’s important to us to engage staff regularly in sharing their feedback and shaping the way we run the company, with our team’s wellbeing central to our ethos.
Katherine McQueen, Joint Managing Director at A Productions
A Productions invests significantly in its team with a dedicated welfare manager who offers staff 1:1 support; flexible working policies; an extensive mentoring programme; regular social events; a virtual suggestion box; and a half day Friday ‘wellness afternoon’ for staff every month in addition to holiday, among many other initiatives.
The studio has established an ever-evolving equality, diversity & inclusion programme, which includes: unconscious bias training and regular workshops for staff on topics such as neurodiversity and mental health; outreach work with schools, colleges and universities; recruitment via non-traditional routes; and apprenticeships, internships and placement opportunities. A Productions recently offered a free animation course to budding animators who were all newcomers to the industry, with two participants offered a role at the end.
A Productions is a creative-led animation production studio that makes iconic children’s content for TV and film for audiences in the UK and around the world, with the development of its own original, creator-driven content core to its long-term strategy.
The studio has worked on many notable shows including: JoJo and Gran Gran, produced by BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions in association with A Productions for CBeebies; Love Monster for CBeebies; Sesame Street animated specials, Furry Friends Forever: Elmo gets a Puppy and The Monster at the End of This Story, for Sesame Workshop, and segment animations for the iconic Sesame Street series; as well as Pip and Posy Let’s Learn, produced by Magic Light Pictures for Sky Kids with animation services provided by A Productions.
A Productions is also working on My Friend Maisy, starring the globally-loved characters from the bestselling Maisy books. BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions and Trustbridge Entertainment are co-producing My Friend Maisy, with animation created by A Productions and Karrot working together.
The Best Places to Work Survey asks companies’ management about pay and best practices, while employees are asked to share their views on areas such as leadership and planning, training, development and resources, role satisfaction and environment. The scores are weighted in favour of the employees’ responses.
