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A unionised workplace is a safer and healthier workplace. Since its very beginning, the union movement has been at the forefront of making people’s working lives safer and healthier: that’s as true when it comes to mental health as it is physical health.

The last two years have been difficult for everyone. In particular, the entertainment industry has been hit severely by the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity and its members have endured two years of profound disruption to their normal spheres of activity. In 2020, the union declared an operating deficit of £110,209 as a consequence of distributing £1,249,504 in welfare and subscription grants to its members who were experiencing financial hardship related to the pandemic. In 2021, Equity again had an operating deficit following the decision of the Council to make an extraordinary one-off payment of £2 million into the Equity Staff Pension Scheme.