Creating culture and jobs
We make a crucial creative and economic contribution to the creative industries in the UK and Europe.
Every year, we air thousands of hours of original programming, including award-winning shows, made here in the UK. In 2022, we invested £500 million to make unmissable TV and over the last few years, we’ve aired hundreds of original shows. We partner with new voices to tell stories that are loved by our customers, and audiences across the world. Sky Studios Elstree, our state-of-the-art film and TV studio near London, will attract around £3 billion in production investment to the UK in its first five years alone. We also broadcast some of our channels, free-to-air, so everyone can enjoy them, free of charge. All this has a big impact on our shared culture.
Across the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria, Sky contributes billions of Euros to national GDP and supports hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Changing the game
We're playing our part in sport
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Helping people to fulfil their potential
Sky Up is our social impact programme, designed to help people fulfil their potential. Through Sky Up, we make a difference in three important ways. We give people access to the internet. We work with schools to raise young people’s aspirations. And we give people from all walks of life the chance to build rewarding careers in media and tech. By 2025, we aim to have supported 250,000 people, through Sky Up.
Sky Up is part of Comcast’s $1 billion commitment to help close the digital divide and create opportunities for the next generation.
Working for a sustainable world
Sky Zero is our environmental impact programme, our company-wide effort to build a low carbon economy and inspire positive change for the planet. It’s about creating change, fast, from designing tech with energy efficiency and recyclability in mind, to working with our partners and suppliers to support a just transition to a low-carbon world. Through our TV, we’re raising awareness of the climate crisis and mobilising others to take action.
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At Sky, we're a major producer of ambitious, original film and TV, made here in the UK and Europe. We're also a tech business, building platforms, hardware and apps to transform your entertainment experience, for the better. Through our work, we support the creative industries and create highly skilled jobs.
We're also determined to make a positive impact on the world. So across Sky, we support two important causes. Through Sky Up, we help people fulfil their potential by giving them access to the internet and opportunities in our industry. And through Sky Zero, we're slashing our carbon emissions and inspiring others to do the same. Find out more about how we use our ways of working and our influence to further these two important causes below.
Ambitious for people and planet
Impact
To help limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, our targets must be credible and verifiable, and reduce carbon emissions in real terms. Our SBTi-approved target is to halve our absolute carbon emissions by 2030 and covers emissions from our own operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and our entire value chain (Scope 3).
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Regular, transparent reporting is a key part of our commitment to be a responsible business.
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Thousands of Sky volunteers give their time and energy to support good causes in our local communities, every year. Our volunteers work with over 40 charity partners to help improve people’s lives and to protect the planet. Sky Cares is part of Comcast Cares Day, which inspires more than 100,000 volunteers across the world to make a difference.
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We respect and uphold the rights and wellbeing of everyone we reach through our activities and operations. Our human rights leadership group allows representatives from across the business to come together to identify and address issues and opportunities.
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We believe in a more inclusive society. That shapes the way we create film and TV, design products and services, select our partners and recruit people to join our team. We’re creating a workplace culture where our people can be themselves and succeed.
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We make a difference through our ways of working. We focus on areas where we can make the biggest impact, or use our influence to create better outcomes. We are committed to the United Nations Global Compact, and its principles on the environment, human rights, labour and anti-corruption.
Doing Business Better
Creating Inclusivity
Respecting Human Rights
Giving Back
Reducing Emissions
Reports and Policies
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Helping people to fulfil their potential
Creating culture and jobs
Working for a sustainable world
Helping people to fulfil their potential
Creating culture and jobs
Working for a sustainable world
Sky Studios Elstree opens Sky Up Academy to inspire 10,000...
How sport makes us happier, healthier and better connected
Doing Business Better
Creating Inclusivity
We respect and uphold the rights and wellbeing of everyone we reach through our activities and operations. Our human rights leadership group allows representatives from across the business to come together to identify and address issues and opportunities.
Respecting Human Rights
Find out more
Thousands of Sky volunteers give their time and energy to support good causes in our local communities, every year. Our volunteers work with over 40 charity partners to help improve people’s lives and to protect the planet. Sky Cares is part of Comcast Cares Day, which inspires more than 100,000 volunteers across the world to make a difference.
Giving Back
Regular, transparent reporting is a key part of our commitment to be a responsible business.
Reports and Policies
Find out more
10 years of inspiring moments, transforming lives and building confidence Sky Up Academy Studios offers hands on learning immersive experience for children to create their own TV content and bring their ideas to life.
Game Changing: How sport makes us happier, healthier and better connected
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Read our 2023 Social Impact Update
Latest highlights
10 years of inspiring moments, transforming lives and building confidence Sky Up Academy Studios offers hands on learning immersive experience for children to create their own TV content and bring their ideas to life.
