Bafta has achieved its five-year membership variety targets throughout minority ethnic teams, deaf, disabled and neurodivergent members and those that determine as LGB+.
As of 2025, Bafta has achieved its membership goal of 20% minority ethnic teams (precise determine 19.85%); 12% deaf, disabled and neurodivergent (precise 12.84%) and 10% LGB+ (precise 13.29%).
Nevertheless, though 51% of recent members becoming a member of since 2020 determine as girls, the organisation has not reached its total 50% gender goal, with 43% of Bafta members figuring out as girls.
The targets had been first set in 2020 following the outcry over the dearth of racial illustration within the Bafta movie nominations that yr and the organisation’s subsequent intensive business session on inclusion.
Progress
The 2025 survey required all members to resubmit their responses for the primary time because the 2020-21 variety survey. Within the interim years, solely new members have been required to submit responses.
The 2020-21 membership survey outcomes confirmed 37.4% of members had been girls, 12.2% had been from minority ethnic teams, 5.3% reported having a incapacity, and 9.7% recognized as LGBTQI+.
Bafta is now reporting sexual orientation as LGB+, consistent with how the UK’s Workplace of Nationwide Statistics (ONS) describes collectable knowledge. The survey now has two questions on gender identification – ‘what greatest describes your gender?’ and ‘is your gender the identical because the gender you had been assigned at start?’.
The gender figures introduced are based mostly on a person’s figuring out gender, not gender assigned at start.
A socio-economic background goal was not set in 2020. Bafta began asking this query in 2023. At the moment, 19% of members are from working-class backgrounds, with 21% of all members becoming a member of since 2020 figuring out on this group – the identical as 2024.
Future targets
Bafta will enhance its goal for deaf, disabled and neurodivergent members to 18% by 2030 (based mostly on the UK working age inhabitants 2024); look in additional depth on the illustration of individuals of color in senior business chief roles; goal for gender parity, with a specific concentrate on rising girls within the video games sector and in craft roles the place present illustration is decrease than 40%; and proceed to advertise careers within the display screen industries to these from working class backgrounds, with a goal of 25% new members from low socio-economic backgrounds by 2030 (at the moment 21%).
In complete 10,000 BAFTA members vote within the annual Bafta awards throughout movie, video games and tv, with 8,300 movie voters, 1,700 video games voters, 6,000 TV voters and 782 new full members.
