FILM NATION UK

Registered charity 1154030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTO FILM

Children's and young people's film education (5 to 19 years).

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE USE OF FILM AS A LEARNING TOOL.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF FILM, IN PARTICULAR AMONG CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES, FACILITIES AND EVENTS AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £30,915 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £6,509,691 and total expenditure of £6,478,776. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves increased to £1,380,475, which meets the stated policy target of retaining at least £1,000,000 to cover three months of ongoing overheads. The auditor confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ERIC FELLNER CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Mensah · trustee of 1 other charity
• BARBARA DANA BROCCOLI · trustee of 2 other charities
• Colin Jeffrey Needham
• Danielle Lewis-Egonu
• Elizabeth Ann Mitchell
• Grainne McKenna
• John Anthony Graydon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Valerie Chan
• LISA A BRYER
• Lisa Williams
• Nira Park
• Veronika Kwan Vandenberg

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON FILM SCHOOL LIMITED.

• LONDON FILM SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.9m
• SOUTHWOLD FILM SOCIETY income £51k
• THE NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN income £4.0m
• THE NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL income £25.0m
• WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL LTD income £139k
• FOUNTAINS OF KNOWLEDGE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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