Common questions about The Film and Television Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Film and Television Charity a good charity? +
The Film and Television Charity scores 64 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 66% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Film and Television Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Film and Television Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1099660). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1099660&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Film and Television Charity's charity number? +
The Film and Television Charity's charity number is 1099660. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Film and Television Charity's charity rating? +
The Film and Television Charity scores 64 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Film and Television Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Film and Television Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Film and Television Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 66% of The Film and Television Charity's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Film and Television Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 34% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 35% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Film and Television Charity. The Film and Television Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Film and Television Charity receive? +
The Film and Television Charity reported £2.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are The Film and Television Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-13). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Film and Television Charity based? +
The Film and Television Charity's registered contact address is in London (W1F 9AD). It tells the regulator it operates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Film and Television Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Film and Television Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Film and Television Charity's money come from? +
The Film and Television Charity reported £2.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.8m (69%), investments £437k (16%), trading and fundraising events £293k (11%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £13k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Film and Television Charity? +
The register records The Film and Television Charity as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Film and Television Charity's trustees paid? +
The Film and Television Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was The Film and Television Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Film and Television Charity: The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.
When was The Film and Television Charity registered as a charity? +
The Film and Television Charity was entered on the register on 25 September 2003. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04816786).
How does CharityCompare score The Film and Television Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Film and Television Charity's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Film and Television Charity's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.