The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Registered charity 216726 Registered since 1963

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland

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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.

14 trustees on the board

3.8y median 3.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 14General Charitable Purposes 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.

Tech and media 34Finance 12Professional services 5

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£29.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 23.6 in 2020

215 from 127 in 2020
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.
0%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.bafta.org
Emailgovernance@bafta.org
Phone02077340022
Address195 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W1J 9LN

Finances

£29,313,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£17,737,000£11,737,000
2021£17,008,000£13,130,000
2022£24,982,000£24,580,000
2023£25,888,000£27,778,000
2024£29,313,000£30,119,000

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides ServicesOther Charitable Activities

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND CULTIVATE AND IMPROVE PUBLIC TASTE IN THE VISUAL ARTS IN PARTICULAR BY STIMULATING ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE PRODUCTION WORK IN THE FIELD OF FILM AND TELEVISION AND OTHER EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATION MEDIA AND BY ENCOURAGING A HIGH STANDARD OF ARTS AND TECHNIQUE IN PERSONS ENGAGED IN SUCH PRODUCTION AND BY ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING THE RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STANDARD OF THE ART, SCIENCES AND TECHNIQUES OF PRODUCING IN FILM, TELEVISION AND OTHER EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATION MEDIA.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 31/12/1958AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/1960AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/01/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/06/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/06/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/06/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/04/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/07/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04/07/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/07/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/2015 AS AMENDED ON 04 JUN 2018 AS AMENDED ON 01 JUN 2020 AS AMENDED ON 01 JUN 2020 AS AMENDED ON 09 JUN 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 JUN 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26 JUN 2023 as amended on 23 Sept 2024 as amended on 29 Sept 2025

Trustees (14)

14trustees
57median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (the) · 00617869 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 31/12/1958

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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