SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED

Registered charity 1152012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA

Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£566k

Registered

2013

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£566k

Reserves (reported)

£90k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

Brie Burkeman
Chris Barnes
David Foster
Helen Wall
Jemma Swales
KAREN MARGARET BIRD
KERRY KOLBE · trustee of 1 other charity
Loren Slater · trustee of 1 other charity
Margaret Davis
Natalia Wealleans-Turner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.5m	£566k
31/03/2024	£701k	£563k
31/03/2023	£445k	£522k
31/03/2022	£492k	£518k
31/03/2021	£502k	£350k

Common questions

Who funds SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST, FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£4k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	16/03/2023	£250k	"#DYC Lives through the Lens: The Sankey Photographic Collection"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	21/06/2018	£257k	"Seeing the North with Sankey: Rescuing, sharing and celebrating a unique photographic archive"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	25/05/2017	£50k	"Barrow Market History Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/06/2015	£50k	"Recollecting BarrowÂ’s Boom Years: Lost Journeys on the Furness Railway 1846 to 1970"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	27/09/2011	£48k	"The Cooke's Building - The Early Era of the Department Store"