MEDICINEMA

Registered charity 1058197 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17089912 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS, INFIRMITY AND OLD AGE BY PROVIDING CINEMATIC AND KINDRED ENTERTAINMENT IN HOSPITALS, RESIDENTIAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS OF A SIMILAR NATURE; AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK, INFIRM OR ELDERLY PATIENTS OR RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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 £84k
• Harborough Cinema income £56k
• THE CINEMA MUSEUM income £232k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• Understanding Dementia income £83k
• INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL ETHICS income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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