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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE BRITISH FEDERATION OF FILM SOCIETIES

To support, sustain and develop the community cinema movement in the UK and to deliver public value to community cinema audiences throughout the UK.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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
31/03/23£307£337£-30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£272£248£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£263£273£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20£266£317£-51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
?31/03/19£338£338£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£266£227£39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£269£280£-10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£284£260£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£298£236£62n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£153£157£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13*£163£139£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12*£153£94£58n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/11£105£90£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£123£108£15n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09*£135£144£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/08£84£84£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07£67£89£-23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06*£30£131£-100n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£152£134£18n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04*£116£124£-8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 46 years

www.cinemaforall.org.uk

info@cinemaforall.org.uk

01142210314

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • 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
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies (Cinema For All)
£2,800 13/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies (Cinema For All)
£14,000 12/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies (Cinema For All)
£84,000 22/10/2019
36
Towards core costs to support the organisation’s strategic work building the capacity of communities to run their own cinemas in underserved locations.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies (Cinema For All)
£25,085 17/03/2014
Towards costs associated with increasing the diversity of community cinema audiences, volunteers and programmers in Scotland, North West and South West England.
Tudor Trust - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies
£70,000 18/08/2013
over eighteen months towards a new post, and equipment, to develop and strengthen community cinema in three specific areas of the UK
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to British Federation of Film Societies (Cinema For All)
£70,000 22/09/2011
Towards the salary of the managing director.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-73
  • ANDREW ORMSTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Business Consultant
  • BENJAMIN MARK JOHNSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: General Manager
  • CARMEN CHLOIE PADDOCK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Publications Editor
  • JULIE MARIE ROBERTS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Customer Service Manager
  • PATRICK FRANCIS CAMPBELL Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Group Treasurer
  • PAULA STOTT Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Active Retirement
  • RICO RAYMOND KEVIN LLOYD JOHNSON-SINCLAIR Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Race Equality Lead
  • RUI JIN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Programmer & Film Marketing Specialis
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/11/1978, number: 276633
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/09/1978, number: 01391200
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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 23 days late, AR12: 388 days late, AR09: 1 days late, AR06: 9 days late, AR04: 40 days late,
Main office

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UNIT 411 THE WORKSTATION
15 PATERNOSTER ROW
SHEFFIELD
S1 2BX

Objectives

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF AND TO ENCOURAGE THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN FILM AS AN ART AND AS A MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ENLIGHTENMENT; AND 2) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF FILMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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