Mission Accomplished

CREATIVE. MEDIA. TRAINING. BUSINESS.

We train entrepreneurs and screen and creative freelancers, turning creative ideas into thriving businesses. Since 2008, we have delivered a wide range of in-person and online training programmes.

Our team harnesses a rare mix of creative, academic, and business experience to help transform creative concepts into business realities.

Mission Accomplished’s CEO, Alison Grade, has over 15 years’ senior-level experience in international television and film production, rights management, and strategy. Alongside her formal academic training, she is a Nesta-accredited Creative Enterprise Trainer and the author of the Penguin bestseller The Freelance Bible. In 2025, Alison was named as Inspirational Educator at the West Midlands Combined Authority Adult Learning Awards and recognised as a Creative Talent Champion at the We Are Creative Awards.

Alison has built a team of seasoned TV and film professionals who deliver courses that develop creative freelancers’ careers.

Since 2018, Mission Accomplished has worked with a range of organisations including ScreenSkills, Create Central, West Midlands Combined Authority, BFI, Northern Ireland Screen, British Council, Culture Central, Warner Bros, Sky, Film London, and many other partners across the UK screen and creative industries. Together, we have delivered a portfolio of high-impact training courses, including:

Create Central and Other Partners

• TV and Film Fusion – Create Central (2023 – Current)
• Next Generation Creatives: Discover! Creative Careers (2024 – Programme running until March 2026)
• Early to Mid-Level Upskilling in Film and TV – Create Central (2025)
• Learn to Lead in Film and TV: Step Up to HOD – Create Central (2023 – Current)

ScreenSkills

• Unscripted Development AP Training Programme (2025 – Present)
• Unscripted Development Researcher Training Programme (2025 – Present)
• First Time Feature Film Producers Training Programme (Sep 2024 – Feb 2025)
• Unscripted Development Researcher Training Programme (Sep 2023 – Jun 2024)
• Unscripted Step Up to Development Producer (Sep 2023 – Jun 2024)
• HETV Northern Ireland – Communication Skills for Production Office Team Members (Sep 2023 – Feb 2024)
• HETV Northern Ireland – Step Up to Script Supervisor (Sep 2023 – Dec 2023)
• Unscripted TV: Development Summits for Development Teams – Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast and London (2023)
• Unscripted TV Development: Free Online Short Courses (2023)
• Freelance Toolkit for Unscripted with Alison Grade (2023)
• Step Up to Line Producer in Children’s TV (Live Action) x 2 (2023)
• Leadership and Management Essentials (2023)
• Guiding Principles of Departmental Budgeting x 2 (2022–2023, continuing into 2024–2025)
• Return to Work in Craft and Tech x 2 (2022–2023)
• ScreenSkills Select Employability Events (2022–2023)
• Script Supervisor for Film – Birmingham, Leeds (2022)
• Trainee Finder – Working as a Freelancer in Film and TV (2022)
• Get Into Film and TV West Midlands (2022)
• Spotlight on Department as part of wider Trainee Finder Recruitment Events for HETV (2022)
• Unscripted: Development Researcher Training Programme (2022)
• Step Up to 1st AD in Film and/or HETV (2021–2022)
• Series of Employability Events for ScreenSkills Select University Courses (2021–2022)
• Skills to Screen Midlands (2021)
• First Aid for Film Freelancers x 2 (2020–2021)
• Re-written The Freelance Toolkit (2020)
• Leadership and Management in Film x 2 (2019–2020)
• Development of ScreenSkills Select Employability Training Days (2020)
• Film Bootcamps (Jan 2018, Nov 2018, Nov 2019)