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Registered charity (CIO) · Sheffield

International Documentary Festival Sheffield

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
sheffdocfest.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND TRAINING, IN THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY CINEMA, FILM, AND NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FIELD OF FILM AND IN ALL OTHER FORMS OF RELATED ARTISTIC OR CREATIVE WORK; AND3.1.2 TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND HERITAGE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO DOCUMENTARY FILM AND ALL RELATED DISCIPLINES.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

15 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 13General Charitable Purposes 2Economic/community Development/employment 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 3Other services 2Tech and media 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

20 from 15 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1184849
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 09 AUG 2019CONVERSION 01 OCT 2019
Contact on the register
01142765141 · info@sheffdocfest.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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