THE INDEPENDENT FILM TRUST

Registered charity 1105749 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The IFT acts to advance the cause of independent filmmaking, for instance by encouraging emerging talent through the provision of training scholarships, and by helping the disadvantaged through training in various aspects of filmmaking.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE WORK OF CULTURAL MERIT IN THE FIELD OF FILM PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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

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

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2025 (received 10/11/2026, 103 days after the 30/07/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2024 (received 08/08/2025, 9 days after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 13/11/2024, 106 days after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 31/07/2023, 1 day after the 30/07/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elliot Grovechair

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

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

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