Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

FOUR CORNERS LIMITED 

We are an educational charity and unique centre for film and photography devoted to artistic and technical excellence. For 30 years we've been nurturing talent in an environment where award winning artists work alongside new talent. We are London's longest established centre for independent film production and training, and provide access to some of the best professional darkrooms in London.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £1,354,416 available, equivalent to 26 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Established: 44 years

www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk

info@fourcornersfilm.co.uk

02089816111

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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 Volun-
teers
31/03/23£648£613£34£0£2,169£1,35426.51010
31/03/22£622£536£86£0£2,135£1,24827.91212
31/03/21£606£470£136£6£2,049£1,23831.7712
31/03/20£467£452£15n/an/an/an/an/a12
31/03/19£420£495£-74n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£450£435£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£532£428£103£96£1,202£62217.480
31/03/16*£352£326£26£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£371£362£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£294£317£-23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£418£413£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£328£350£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11*£377£385£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£429£389£40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£221£337£-116£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£406£468£-62£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£630£195£436£27£1,005£1328.150
31/03/06*£776£274£502£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£428£243£186£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£240£227£13£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 62%
Reserves/Spending: 26.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 2.5
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 10 employees
  • 10 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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£112,780
DCMS£51,600
City Bridge Trust£50,223
The Foyle Foundation£25,000
National Lottery Community Fund£19,700
Co-Operative Group£7,944
The Clothworkers Foundation£7,700
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Four Corners Limited
£112,780 28/09/2023
The People’s Gallery: community photography and film in East London
National Lottery Community Fund - Bengali Photography Archive
£9,820 16/12/2022
This project will create a new permanent archive of approximately 750 photographs and 15-20 oral histories made by Bangladeshi people living in Tower Hamlets. The project will promote Bengali history ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Four Corners
£1,785 22/10/2022
Our Zoom film school trainees will work with local residents to create a film about food banks and their experiences of feeding themselves and their families during the pandemic.
DCMS - ALB-Historic England-Everyday Heritage: Bengali Photography Archive
£6,600 16/08/2022
Everyday Heritage: Bengali Photography Archive
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 08/02/2022
towards a new creative and professional development programme for independent artists and practitioners who work with photography and moving image
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Four Corners Ltd
£4,200 06/12/2021
£4,200 to fund an advisory group and access audit and design appraisal to inform Four Corners' plans to develop additional, accessible training facilities and gallery space.
National Lottery Community Fund - Brick Lane 1978 community film
£9,880 12/11/2021
The funding will be used to complete a new community-led film about the history of the Brick Lane Bangladeshi community in the 1970s. It will look at the largely Bengali population and tackle issues ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Four Corners
£2,731 23/10/2021
Our film production trainees would make a film showing how Bromley-By-Bow Centre has met the needs of its most vulnerable communities during Covid-19, highlighting community strengths and weaknesses.
DCMS - Culture Recovery Fund: Continuity Support
£45,000 22/10/2021
To support cultural organisations who have received funding from the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme, in the first or second rounds, and can clearly demonstrate the financial need for further ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Four Corners Ltd
£8,813 08/12/2020
0
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Four Corners Centre for Film and Photography
£3,429 24/10/2020
We would like to buy video cameras for our film-making trainees to create films promoting local charities' causes.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Four Corners Ltd
£16,300 02/09/2020
towards the costs outlined in your application of developing workshop space for safe social distancing and the cost of a facilities and business assistant for six-months
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Four Corners Limited
£20,910 11/06/2020
£20,910 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the application, in order to carry on providing support to Londoners.
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 Four Corners Ltd
£5,000 24/04/2020
Opportunities, education and skills development of creative talent for artists with financing challenges or disability support requirements
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Four Corners
£7,700 03/09/2019
purchase of cameras, lighting and a laptop for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Tower Hamlets
National Lottery Community Fund - Aldgate East Our Neighbourhood
£10,000 18/04/2019
12
The project will produce a short film that will celebrate the local community by bringing together volunteers and residents with diverse backgrounds. The aim is to promote the learning of new skills ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Four Corners
£100,000 06/12/2017
The Women's Hall: celebrating the East London suffragettes
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Four Corners Limited
£37,000 08/09/2017
£37,000 to support the cost of the market research, staff, training and consultancy costs for the first two periods of the development of the Fifth Corner. An initial payment of £4,000 will be made ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Four Corners
£100,000 05/05/2016
Four Corners archive project
National Lottery Community Fund - The Real Substance project
£10,000 15/04/2015
12
The group will use the funding to create a documentary about legal highs which will be produced by ex-offenders for the benefit of the local community. This will support beneficiaries in gaining an ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Futures
£174,352 11/02/2010
36
This existing project will target residents in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and give them skills and experience in order to improve their ability to secure long term employment in the film and ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/1980, number: 279945
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/01/1970, number: 00148359
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • 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
  • 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; AR16: 3 days late, AR14: 5 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR08: 56 days late, AR07: 133 days late, AR06: 116 days late, AR05: 226 days late, AR04: 115 days late,
Main office

121 ROMAN ROAD
LONDON
E2 0QN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL FILMS AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, BALLET, MUSIC, SINGING, LITERATURE, SCULPTURE, PAINTING AND FILM MAKING.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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