THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE — grant history

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Latest income

£128.1m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

—

Accounts grants total

£11.8m

extracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The BFI provides funding for film and TV development and production, skills development, and audience development. Specific application processes are linked via 'Find out more' on their funding pages, but the provided text does not detail the specific forms, emails, or invitation-only status for these grants.

Summarised from www.bfi.org.uk · www.bfi.org.uk/funding-industry · www.bfi.org.uk/news/bfi-supported-escapes-make-cinema-free-accessible-nationwide-with-over-100-national-lottery-funded-screenings-i-swear on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

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LEICESTER ARTS CENTRE LIMITED “Awarding funds from the National Lottery, the BFI supports Phoenix so that we can expand the reach, depth and breadth of”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Overseas Aid/famine Relief (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Albania (1 grantee)
Algeria (1 grantee)
Argentina (1 grantee)
Armenia (1 grantee)
Australia (1 grantee)
Austria (1 grantee)
Azerbaijan (1 grantee)
Bahrain (1 grantee)
Bangladesh (1 grantee)
Afghanistan (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
London (Cinemas)	FY2022	£8.0m	Culture Recovery Fund
Yorkshire and The Humber (Cinemas)	FY2022	£4.8m	Culture Recovery Fund
South East (Cinemas)	FY2022	£4.3m	Culture Recovery Fund
East (Cinemas)	FY2022	£4.1m	Culture Recovery Fund
South West (Cinemas)	FY2022	£4.0m	Culture Recovery Fund
North West (Cinemas)	FY2022	£3.3m	Culture Recovery Fund
East Midlands (Cinemas)	FY2022	£2.8m	Culture Recovery Fund
West Midlands (Cinemas)	FY2022	£2.2m	Culture Recovery Fund
BFI – Heritage 2022	FY2022	£1.9m	Section 27 Dispensation Award
BFI – London Film Festival	FY2022	£1.4m	Section 27 Dispensation Award
Arts and Humanities Research Council	FY2022	£652k	AHRC Capability for Collections Fund Grant – Conservation Centre
North East (Cinemas)	FY2022	£346k	Culture Recovery Fund
Friends of the BFI	FY2022	£145k	Related Party Transactions (Director Francesca Vinti)
Arts and Humanities Research Council	FY2022	£135k	AHRC Capability for Collections Fund Grant – Library and Conservation
BAFTA	FY2022	£94k	Lottery Award
StudioCanal Ltd	FY2022	£60k	Related Party Award (Head of Audience Fund Ben Luxford)
StudioCanal Ltd	FY2022	£60k	Related Party Award (Governor Idris Elba)
Pinewood Studios	FY2022	£57k	Related Party Transactions (Governor Andrew Smith)
British Council	FY2022	£47k	Related Party Transactions (Director Tricia Tuttle)
British Council	FY2022	£17k	Related Party Transactions (Director Tricia Tuttle)

About this data

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