THE CINEMA MUSEUM

Registered charity 293285 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5120743 · Wikipedia

The museum is open by appointment to visitors, researchers and historians. Film screenings are given throughout the year. We work with educational institutions on joint projects. We work with film archives on preservation projects. Items from the collection are made available on loan to other institutions for exhibitions. We run seasonal programmes of events which are listed on our website.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, INCLUDING DRAMA, MUSIC, SINGING, ILLUSTRATION, LITERATURE FILM PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND ANY COMBINATION OF THESE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted net current assets of £48,129 at year-end, which is below the trustees' policy target of £71,000–£107,000 due to essential building repairs. The charity reported a net income of £14,896 for the year and has sufficient net current assets to meet day-to-day operations, with no material uncertainties regarding its 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Cinema Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY DENIS FLETCHER
• JONATHAN REES DAVIES
• MARTIN CHARLES HUMPHRIES
• MARY ELIZABETH WALDY
• RONALD GRAEME GRANT
• Thomas Stannard

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

Operates in: 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 THE CINEMA THEATRE ASSOCIATION.

• THE CINEMA THEATRE ASSOCIATION income £56k
• TYNESIDE CINEMA income £3.5m
• INDEPENDENT CINEMA OFFICE income £1.7m
• CHICHESTER CINEMA AT NEW PARK LIMITED income £802k
• THE MEETING HOUSE ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £121k
• THE CINEMA ORGAN SOCIETY income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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