FILM AND VIDEO UMBRELLA

Registered charity 1165046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FVU

Film and Video Umbrella works with museums, galleries and other cultural partners to commission, produce, curate and present artists' moving-image works for diverse audiences across the UK. Our outreach work focusses on audiences in areas where arts provision and engagement levels are low. We work closely with artists to support, develop and expand their practice.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:(1) PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE VISUAL ARTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ARTS OF FILM, VIDEO AND THE MOVING IMAGE BY:(A) THE PROMOTION OF AND CHAMPIONING OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL EXCELLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM, VIDEO AND / OR THE MOVING IMAGE;(B) ENABLING THE CREATION OF WORKS OF ARTISTIC MERIT IN FILM, VIDEO AND / OR THE MOVING IMAGE; AND(C) FACILITATING AND PRESENTING THOSE ARTISTIC WORKS TO A VARIED AND WIDESPREAD AUDIENCE AND SECURING A PRESENCE FOR THOSE ARTISTIC WORKS IN THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN;(2) ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE VISUAL ARTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) FACILITATING GREATER PUBLIC ACCESS TO ARTISTIC WORK IN FILM, VIDEO AND / OR THE MOVING IMAGE;(B) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF A WIDER UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL PRACTICE IN FILM, VIDEO AND THE MOVING IMAGE; AND(C) CULTIVATING AND IMPROVING PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL LITERACY IN FILM, VIDEO AND THE MOVING IMAGE.

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: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 5% to £445,304, while total expenditure was £465,624, resulting in a net deficit for the year. The charity retains unrestricted reserves of £174,378, which the trustees describe as representing six months of staff and operating costs, alongside designated funds for specific projects and reserves.

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 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Margaret Foxchair
• Adebowale Amon
• Exodus Riley Crooks
• Georgia Neve
• Kajal Kothari
• Louis Max Nixon
• Myvanwy Alethea Paula Evans
• Professor Susan Alexis Regine Collins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah May Brown

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FILM AND VIDEO WORKSHOP.

• THE FILM AND VIDEO WORKSHOP income £35k
• CANTERBURY UMBRELLA income £109k
• WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL LTD income £139k
• CLAPHAM FILM UNIT income £73k
• OXFORD FILM AND VIDEO MAKERS LIMITED income £148k
• SOUTHWOLD FILM SOCIETY income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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