Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has provided the background for the launch of a major new initiative to support people with disabilities gaining work in broadcasting.

Channel 4 are looking for disabled people who love sport to join the Rio 2016 Paralympics team in a variety of production roles.

And in an advert premiered on Channel 4 on Friday evening (30 January), Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park provided the setting for a call out for applicants to apply for the prestigious Rio Production Training Scheme. 

The broadcaster is investing £500,000 in two major new talent initiatives to support the broadcaster’s commitment to ensure that 10% of the production team working on its coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games are people with disabilities.

The Rio Production Training Scheme is now open for applications and will see 24 trainees with disabilities employed for 12 months at production companies in the roles of Junior AP, Production Co-ordinator or Technical Assistant. In addition to structured work experience within their placed company the trainees will receive specialist production training facilitated by Channel 4. Subject to passing a final assessment the trainees will be hired by Sunset+Vine as part of the production team for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.