SOMERSET FILM AND VIDEO LTD

Registered charity 1095587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Digital and media film development agency: community media centre; open to public three days per week for facilities, equipment and tuition; offering a wide range of film and digital media services to the public either free of charge or at affordable rates; running training courses; working with hard to reach groups; working with local schools and colleges and community groups

Objects

THE COMPANYS OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR, IN MOVING IMAGE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE ALL PARTS OF SOMERSET, BATH, DEVON AND DORSET.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £10,225 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £918,980 to £908,755. However, the trustees confirm that the charity has continued to secure funding and maintains an adequate level of free income reserves, with unrestricted funds held at £904,151. The financial position is supported by significant tangible fixed assets valued at £824,110, primarily related to property improvements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £48k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 3.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Terry Pearce
• Dylan Paul Martlew
• Irena Gaetana Hubble-Brezowski
• JAMES GODMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pauline Annette Burr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Paul Goodenough
• Robert Charles Franklin
• SUSAN MARY ISHERWOOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Thomas James P Barnes

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Devon · Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED.

• SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED income £1.5m
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• THE RIO CENTRE (DALSTON) LIMITED income £1.0m
• MEDIA ARCHIVE OF CENTRAL ENGLAND LIMITED income £322k
• MEDICAL AID FILMS LIMITED income £84k
• THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR SOMERSET income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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