MEDICINEMA

Registered charity 1058197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039704 (OSCR)

THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF STATE OF THE ART CINEMAS IN HOSPITALS AND ANNUAL FILM SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR PATIENTS OF ALL AGES (INCLUDING THOSE IN BEDS & WHEELCHAIRS) THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS. ADMISSION FREE OF CHARGE.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that MediCinema reported a surplus of £384,859 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £2,032,457. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £1,149,763, which the trustees consider appropriate as they exceed the stated policy target of £1,050,000. The trustees and auditors confirm that adequate resources are available to continue operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MediCinema (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Colin Lawrence — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Lysette Cohen — Director of Communications and Marketing (source)
• Jamie Lynch — Director of Development (source)
• Paul Giggal — Chief Operating Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kezia Maria Siobhan Williamschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Lewis
• Anne Louise Parkes
• Crispin Lilly
• Helga Charters
• Lawrence Atkinson
• Michael Burbidge
• Stephen David Bristow

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEDICAL AID FILMS LIMITED.

• MEDICAL AID FILMS LIMITED income £245k
• CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEW PARK LIMITED income £802k
• INDEPENDENT CINEMA OFFICE income £1.7m
• HAILSHAM PAVILION LIMITED income £193k
• PHOENIX CINEMA TRUST LIMITED income £573k
• THE REGENT (CHRISTCHURCH) LIMITED income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.