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Registered charity · London

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £29m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.bafta.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£29m£30m
  • 2023£26m£28m
  • 2022£25m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2021£17m£13m
  • 2020£18m£12m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

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.

Grants received

2 grants · £220,200 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

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

7.3y
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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
216726
Status
Registered
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
Companies House
Company number 00617869 · Active
Contact on the register
02077340022 · governance@bafta.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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