THE FILM AND TELEVISION CHARITY

Registered charity 1099660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CTBF, THE CINEMA AND TELEVISION BENEVOLENT FUND

Relief of poverty and hardship for those who have worked in the film, cinema or commercial television industries.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net deficit of £1,485,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income. However, the Trustees confirm the Charity has sufficient resources, including £10,974,000 in liquid investments and cash, to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04816786

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Film and Television Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marcus Ryder — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BBC — “Our Principal Partners are: BBC” (source page)
• Apple — “Our Major Partners are: Apple” (source page)
• Banijay — “Our Industry Partners are: Banijay” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TAVERNIER, Claire Elisabeth — director, appointed 28/09/2023on trustee list
• HOYLE, Emma Louise — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• BOSWORTH, Catherine Jane — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• CHALMERS, Robin Michael — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• CLARK, Peter Stanton — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• GOOD, Kirsty Adele Davida — director, appointed 24/03/2022on trustee list
• GILKES ROMERO, Juliet — director, appointed 05/12/2019not on trustee list
• ADESUNLOYE, Joseph Adejuwon — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• PUTT, Sara Michele — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• GILL, Sukhjeet Kaur — director, appointed 21/11/2019not on trustee list
• DE SOUSA CAIRES, Alan David — secretary, appointed 20/03/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: The Cinema And Television Benevolent Fund — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 03/11/2015.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 69.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLAIRE TAVERNIER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Catherine Jane Bosworth
• Emma Louise Hoyle
• Joseph Adesunloye
• Juliet Gilkes Romero · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsty Adele Davida Good
• Peter Stanton Clark
• Robin Michael cHALMERS
• Sara Putt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suki Gill

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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 ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND.

• THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND income £679k
• ROYAL VARIETY CHARITY income £4.9m
• THE ACTORS' BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.9m
• THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS income £29.3m
• BFI TRUST income £2.0m
• LONDON FILM SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.9m

Side by side with its peers

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