Bafta has achieved its five-year membership diversity targets across minority ethnic groups, deaf, disabled and neurodivergent members and those who identify as LGB+.
As of 2025, Bafta has achieved its membership target of 20% minority ethnic groups (actual figure 19.85%); 12% deaf, disabled and neurodivergent (actual 12.84%) and 10% LGB+ (actual 13.29%).
However, although 51% of new members joining since 2020 identify as women, the organisation has not reached its overall 50% gender target, with 43% of Bafta members identifying as women.
The targets were first set in 2020 following the outcry over the lack of racial representation in the Bafta film nominations that year and the organisation’s subsequent extensive industry consultation on inclusion.
Progress
The 2025 survey required all members to resubmit their responses for the first time since the 2020-21 diversity survey. In the interim years, only new members have been required to submit responses.
The 2020-21 membership survey results showed 37.4% of members were women, 12.2% were from minority ethnic groups, 5.3% reported having a disability, and 9.7% identified as LGBTQI+.
Bafta is now reporting sexual orientation as LGB+, in line with how the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) describes collectable data. The survey now has two questions on gender identity – ‘what best describes your gender?’ and ‘is your gender the same as the gender you were assigned at birth?’.
The gender figures presented are based on an individual’s identifying gender, not gender assigned at birth.
A socio-economic background target was not set in 2020. Bafta started asking this question in 2023. Currently, 19% of members are from working-class backgrounds, with 21% of all members joining since 2020 identifying in this group – the same as 2024.
Future targets
Bafta will increase its target for deaf, disabled and neurodivergent members to 18% by 2030 (based on the UK working age population 2024); look in more depth at the representation of people of colour in senior industry leader roles; aim for gender parity, with a particular focus on increasing women in the games sector and in craft roles where current representation is lower than 40%; and continue to promote careers in the screen industries to those from working class backgrounds, with a target of 25% new members from low socio-economic backgrounds by 2030 (currently 21%).
In total 10,000 BAFTA members vote in the annual Bafta awards across film, games and television, with 8,300 film voters, 1,700 games voters, 6,000 TV voters and 782 new full members.
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