Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 5

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Strong growth: +2

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly female board: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

SCREENSKILLS LIMITED

We are the industry-led skills body for the UK?s screen-based creative industries, including film, high end and other television, VFX, animation and games.We work across the UK with employers, individuals, learning/training providers, trade associations, unions and government to ensure the screen industries have the skilled workforce they need. We identify training needs and help tackle them.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
One or more trustees receive benefits from the charity
There are 16 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23		£18,388	£17,033	£1,355	£0	£14,111	£2,688	1.9	114
31/03/22		£17,861	£12,954	£4,907	£0	£12,756	£2,103	1.9	75
31/03/21		£11,653	£9,764	£1,889	£0	£7,849	£1,652	2	64
31/03/20		£13,216	£11,847	£1,369	£0	£5,959	£1,006	1	67
31/03/19		£9,478	£9,768	£-290	£0	£4,590	£675	0.8	48
31/03/18	*	£7,966	£7,779	£188	£0	£4,880	£710	1.1	37
31/03/17		£12,442	£13,052	£-610	£0	£4,692	£882	0.8	39
31/03/16		£25,383	£24,629	£753	£0	£5,302	£876	0.4	100
31/03/15	*	£28,246	£26,061	£2,185	£64	£4,549	£555	0.3	106
31/03/14		£28,574	£28,153	£421	£52	£2,364	£451	0.2	107
31/03/13		£14,236	£14,725	£-489	£43	£1,943	£707	0.6	86
31/03/12		£10,264	£10,321	£-57	£35	£2,431	£1,804	2.1	73
31/03/11	*	£12,609	£12,637	£-28	£40	£2,488	£686	0.7	83
31/03/10		£15,106	£14,685	£422	£37	£2,516	£638	0.5	79
31/03/09		£13,871	£17,487	£-3,616	£56	£2,095	£531	0.4	88
31/03/08		£15,970	£15,282	£689	£43	£5,711	£1,032	0.8	90
31/03/07		£15,888	£17,827	£-1,939	£40	£5,023	£657	0.4	90
31/03/06		£14,966	£11,118	£3,847	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/05		£12,517	£11,737	£780	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/03/04	*	£5,951	£5,689	£262	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £150,000-£200,000
Liabilities/Assets: 35%
Liabilities/Income: 42%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 19%
Reserves/Spending: 1.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 2.6

Asset Split ?

Established: 31 years

www.screenskills.com

info@screenskills.com

02077139800

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Technical, vocational and continuing education

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Makes Grants to Individuals
Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

114 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
DCMS - Film & HETV Apprenticeship Pilot
£25,000	01/04/2021	To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry.
Department for Work and Pensions - FSF Partnership SCREENSKILLS LTD
£92,000	01/04/2020	Covid Initiative for transferring skills from airline industry to film industry
DCMS - Creative Skillset
£305,520	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Film & HETV Apprenticeship Pilot
£100,000	14/10/2019	To enable ScreenSkills to offer apprenticeships in film and HETV to a cohort of 20, providing high quality placements and recruiting from diverse groups currently underrepresented in the industry.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Creative Skillset
£326,000	21/05/2013	Archives New Entrants Scheme

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (16)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 41-63

ANITA OVERLAND Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Film And Television Producer

BARRY THOMAS RYAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Production

DR ANNA CELIA MALLETT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Vice President, Physical Production, Emea,Uk, Apac

FIONA MICHELLE CLARKE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Operating Officer

HELEN JANE NORTHROP Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director Of Commercial Affairs

JANE PATRICIA MUIRHEAD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Managing Director

MELANIE SULLIVAN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chief Executive

MARTHA ELLEN BRASS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Television Executive

PATRICIA ELIZABETH BRADY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Human Resources Director

PHILIPPA JANE CHILDS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Deputy General Secretary

SINEAD ROCKS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Media Executive

ARABELLA CLARE MCCABE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Hr & Operations Director

KATHRYN LYNDON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Financial Controller

KEVIN TREHY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Production Executive

LISA MOREEN OPIE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Managing Director

RICHARD JOHNSTON (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Ceo, Other trusteeships: THE HERITAGE OF LONDON TRUST LIMITED, DRIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION, TIMEGIVERS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/11/1992, number: 1015324
Registered at Companies House on 24/01/1991, number: 02576828

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
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

20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR15: 2 days late, AR11: 1 days late, AR04: 33 days late,

Main office

Screen Skills
Ibex House
42-47 Minories
LONDON
EC3N 1DY

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, ADVANCE AND PROVIDE TRAINING AND EDUCATION FOR PERSONS WORKING OR INTENDING TO WORK WHETHER AS EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS IN THE FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION, VIDEO, DIGITAL MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING, DIGITAL IMAGING, ANIMATION, COMPUTER GAMES, PUBLISHING, FACILITIES AND ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES (THE INDUSTRY) AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE FACILITIES SHALL MEAN SPECIALIST TECHNICAL AND SUPPORT SERVICES TO THE CREATIVE MEDIA INDUSTRYTO PROMOTE ADVANCE AND PROVIDE TRAINING AND EDUCATION TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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