Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 10

BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

(a) To promote appreciation of and education in the arts, crafts & associated technologies, especially but not exclusively those of the cinema & moving image (b) To educate the public by encouraging the creative participation in the arts and crafts of cinema, video & moving image (c)To educate the public in the history, aesthetics and theory of moving image in all their aspects.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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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	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£214	£214	£0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/03/22	£195	£200	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	40
31/03/21	£183	£167	£16	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/03/20	£191	£188	£3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	50
31/03/19	£197	£195	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	65
31/03/18	£161	£163	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 7 years
(18 years as a company)

http://bfmaf.org

info@bfmaf.org

01289303355

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Northumberland,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
30 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£71,288
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland	£20,000
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd	£20,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - A grant to Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Ltd
£10,000	29/04/2021	Core costs
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - engaging local children and young people in film, filmmaking and film reviewing in Berwick
£10,000	18/03/2021	engaging local children and young people in film, filmmaking and film reviewing in Berwick
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear & Nthmbrlnd - core costs
£10,000	02/04/2020	core costs
DCMS - National Portfolio Organisation 2018-2022
£71,288	01/04/2020	We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that 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. We invest public money from Government and The National Lottery to help support the sector and to deliver this vision.
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Core costs
£10,000	08/10/2019	Core costs
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Anchor Points: Film Education and Outreach Activity Year 3
£10,000	01/04/2019	Anchor Points: Film Education and Outreach Activity Year 3
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - BFMAF Volunteers 2018
£2,500	16/08/2018	BFMAF Volunteers 2018
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Berwick Generations
£4,000	31/05/2018	Berwick Generations
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland - Anchor Points: Film Education and Outreach Activity Year 2
£10,000	04/01/2018	Anchor Points: Film Education and Outreach Activity Year 2

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How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-68

PROFESSOR MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ Appointed: 2021

LAURA HELEN ANN SIMPSON (Chair) Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Programme Manager

LUKE WILLIAM MOODY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Film Producer And Programmer

MATTHEW STOKES Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Visual Artist

CHRISTOPHER HARDIE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Managing Director, Other trusteeships: BERWICK-UPON-TWEED PRESERVATION TRUST, BERWICK VISITOR CENTRE (WALKERGATE),

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/08/2017, number: 1174274
Registered at Companies House on 14/11/2005, number: 05622380

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

6 returns made; all on time

Main office

Office 211
Berwick Workspace
Boarding School Yard
90 Marygate
BERWICK-UPON-TWEED
TD15 1BN

Objectives

(A)TO PROMOTE APPRECIATION OF AND EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED TECHNOLOGIES, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE OF THE CINEMA AND OTHER FORMS OF MOVING IMAGES, AND INCLUDING THOSE OF MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCING, MIME, GRAPHIC ARTS, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, LITERATURE, POETRY AND ORATORY ARTS. (B) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING THE CREATIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF CINEMA, VIDEO AND OTHER FORMS OF MOVING IMAGES, INCLUDING DIRECTING. SCRIPT-WRITING, FILM EDITING, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SCORE-WRITING, SET AND MODEL MAKING, LIGHTING, FILM AND VIDEO PROJECTION, AND ALL OTHER FILM AND VIDEO-RELATED ARTS AND SKILLS. (C) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY, AESTHETICS AND THEORY OF MOVING IMAGES IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS

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