Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

CLAPHAM FILM UNIT

Clapham Film Unit provides training and equipment to enable people to tell their own stories on film. We keep an archive of the work created and organise screenings. We provide advice about fund raising, employment and further study in the media industry. We provide a network of filmmakers and a mentor system.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
05/04/23£77£78£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/22£3£11£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/21£39£26£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/20£21£27£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/19£36£30£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/18£40£40£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/17£27£40£-12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/16£27£28£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/15£37£22£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/14£5£14£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/13*£41£39£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/12£20£17£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/11*£16£14£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
05/04/10£19£19£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 16 years

claphamfilmunit.com

claphamfilmunit@gmail.com

07971284794

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and volunteering
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Calderdale, Devon, Essex, Lancashire, Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£75,014
Greater London Authority£25,000
City Bridge Trust£10,250
National Lottery Community Fund£2,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Clapham Film Unit
£25,000 14/03/2023
Building on their Test and Nurture grant, Clapham Film Unit will install a mural in Lambeth to celebrate Women Activists and murals painted in the 1970's and 1980's, whose work is rapidly disappearing.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£46,853 24/05/2022
Finding the Pathways/Right to Roam
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£16,661 30/03/2022
Essex Craft Society Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Film in the community
£2,500 16/08/2021
This funding will be used to connect local filmmakers with their communities to bring isolated people together to share their stories and experiences that will be developed into short films for screening at a community event.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£10,250 19/05/2020
A grant of £10,250 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£11,500 11/05/2020
COVID19 Clapham Film Unit
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£10,000 05/09/2019
Bringing the Archive to Life
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£10,000 09/05/2018
The Pullenites
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£34,900 27/04/2017
The Last Clarion House
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£30,200 14/01/2016
For what we are about to lose...
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Clapham Film Unit
£30,500 09/07/2014
These Dangerous Women celebrating, commemorating the women who tried to stop the first World War
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

  • DEBORAH KERMODE
  • FRASER BURCHILL
  • SARAH PIETSCH Appointed: 2015
  • SHAREENA HILL (Chair) Appointed: 2015
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/02/2009, number: 1128259
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR13: 0 days late, AR11: 4 days late,
Main office

1 PLATO ROAD
LONDON
SW2 5UP

Objectives

TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY ANDECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF LONDON IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY AREBETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLYIN SOCIETY

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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