Caroline Roberts-Cherry

Hello, I’m Caroline Roberts-Cherry, Founder

Caroline Roberts Cherry

Caroline Roberts-Cherry

Founder

a little bit about me

Caroline Roberts-Cherry established Saffron Cherry Productions, in Manchester to produce quality Scripted, factual and Kids programming from the North-West for a global market.

She has produced over 800 hours of television. She is an RTS & BAFTA award-winning Producer and Grierson award-winning director with over twenty-five years proven track record of winning new business, delivering quality programmes and developing strong relationships with Key Creative Talent. She has a stellar reputation for Diversity and increasing representation on and off screen of tv professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds, promoting opportunities for women, and broadening the bandwidth for people with a story to tell.

Previous TV roles include Head of Man Possessed, an ITV quiz label, Diversity and Indies Executive for BBC Television, Commissioner BBC Learning, and Executive Producer BBC Children’s and Entertainment.
Caroline Roberts-Cherry sat on the Advisory Committee for England at Ofcom. She was the founder and Chair for the Cultural Diversity Network North 2004 – 2007, and Chair Greater Manchester Employer Coalition 2007-2010. A long standing supporter of the Arts, she was a trustee at the Royal Exchange, Manchester for over ten years, then Trustee at Trustee at The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, now on the board of Opera North. She is an ambassador for the women’s charity Smart Works Mcr, and has been Chair of the Pankhurst Trust, incorporating Women’s Aid Manchester since 2021.

Manchester-born mother of two boys, Caroline is proud to be part of the cohort of women who established Women’s Football at Oxford University; a mean left-back, she played in the first Oxford v Cambridge Women’s Football match (on the winning side!)

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We are keen to support new writers, however our window for unsolicited scripts has now closed and will re-open from October-December 2024

Studio House,
Stockport,
Battersea Rd,
Heaton Mersey,
SK4 3EA

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