NFTS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1061561 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To help raise and manage funds to support the National Film and Television School (NFTS)

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLIC'S EDUCATION IN FILM, TELEVISION, AND OTHER MEDIA, IN PARTICULAR AT OR SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds unrestricted reserves of £121,056 against a stated policy target of a minimum investment portfolio of £3m, with total reserves at £6.8m. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing significant headroom above the minimum reserve level and expected investment performance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~156.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (47% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JUDITH CHAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN LOUIS
• Steve Mertz

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL.

• THE NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL income £25.0m
• LONDON FILM SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.9m
• ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY income £5.1m
• THE TIFFIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £745k
• NER FOUNDATION income £606k
• FILM NATION UK income £6.5m

Side by side with its peers

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