BERWICK FILM & MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1174274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(a) To promote appreciation of and education in the arts, crafts & associated technologies, especially but not exclusively those of the cinema & moving image (b) To educate the public by encouraging the creative participation in the arts and crafts of cinema, video & moving image (c)To educate the public in the history, aesthetics and theory of moving image in all their aspects.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small unrestricted deficit of £276 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £35,909. This figure is below the trustees' stated target policy of £52,000, which the trustees aim to reach within two to three years. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05622380

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.

• ROBSON, Andrew George, Dr — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• CARROLL, Siobhan Grace — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• GNAGNIKO, Rachel Ameyo Capri — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• WESTON, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• INGAWANIJ, May Adadol — director, appointed 01/06/2022on trustee list
• MOODY, Luke William — director, appointed 18/05/2020on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Laura Helen Ann — director, appointed 16/11/2016on trustee list
• HARDIE, Christopher — director, appointed 16/11/2016on trustee list
• KAY, Elisa Sian — secretary, appointed 25/01/2024

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LAURA HELEN ANN SIMPSONchair
• Andrew George Robson
• Christopher Hardie · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Paul Weston
• Luke William Moody
• Professor May Adadol Ingawanij
• Rachel Ameyo Capri Gnagniko
• Siobhan Grace Carroll

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

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 BFI TRUST.

• BFI TRUST income £2.0m
• TYNESIDE CINEMA income £3.5m
• CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEW PARK LIMITED income £802k
• WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL LTD income £139k
• SIGNAL FILM & MEDIA LIMITED income £1.5m
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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