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• Social purpose broadcaster, Together TV's streaming service has launched
• The broadcaster’s streaming platform is free to use and is available on mobile, tablet and desktop, via the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and watch.togethertv.com. It is also available via the Apple TV and Android TV app stores with more TV apps to follow soon
• The service will encourage users to "Channel Your Inner Good" by providing resources linked to inspiring content they have watched
• This is the first streaming service integrating motivating content along with change-making campaigns at a national scale 
• Premium content on the platform includes household-name series on gardening, homes, food, and travelogues alongside award-winning documentaries, including a recent BAFTA winner funded and supported by Together TV
• TV gardener Danny Clarke and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, whose series Together TV broadcasts, welcome the launch of this new service  

• Our Land, from Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund 2021, wins the award for Best Short Form Programme at the British Academy Television Awards 2022
• Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund was created with the aim to give underrepresented narratives a platform
• The five filmmakers commissioned to create 20-minute documentaries about LGBTQ+: Queer Lives Today are being announced
• The 2022 Diverse Film Fund includes mentors and webinars from media giants including BAFTA, Albert, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, TwoFour Productions and the BBC.

We are excited to announce the filmmakers of our Diverse Film Fund 2022. The theme for this year's filmmakers is Queer Lives Today. They will receive up to £20,000 to make a short 20 minute documentary on this theme, as well as trainings and mentoring from television's finest.

I am sad but excited to announce that I will be stepping down as Chair and Trustee at Together TV this September, and that we are now starting recruitment for our new Chair, to take the Channel’s growth and social impact to the next stage.

Spring is here and with spring comes new beginnings as the weather starts to warm up and plants start to grow. Which means it’s a perfect time to try something new and get involved!

Together TV to distribute 500,000 sunflower seeds to boost well-being and connect communities again.

We were very excited to hear that Alexandra Genova’s Our Land commissioned by Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund has been nominated for the BAFTA Television 2022 Short Form Programme. The ceremony will be hosted Sunday, 8th May.

Monty Don leads us down the world's garden paths in five gardening programmes to share the history, happiness, and joy that gardens bring to people no matter the place or time. Monty Don’s Italian, French, American, Japanese, and Paradise gardens showcase gardens from around the world and can provide you a little inspiration on how to bring the world’s gardens to your own. 

• Judging panel will consist of senior experts from broadcast, production, editorial and charity
• £100k fund will commission five emerging filmmakers to create 20-minute documentaries telling the pivotal unknown stories from the LGBTQ+ community in the UK
• This year's theme is LGBTQ+: Queer Lives Today
• The Diverse Film Fund will provide one-on-one mentoring with senior industry professionals and exclusive webinars with media giants
• Together TV's Diverse Film Fund 2022 applications close on Thursday 31 March 2022 at 12 pm (BST)
• The chosen filmmakers' documentaries will premiere on Together TV in November 2022

BFI Flare co-hosted a webinar with us to discuss Together TV’s Diverse Film Fund, representing diversity in film and TV, and a Q&A for applying for the fund.