Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model 2025 – Open Sessions

Learn key cinema business principles and fundraising skills with new webinars from BFI FAN.

Join us for three expert-led webinars to explore fundamental tools and strategies for your organisation, providing context on the issues cinemas currently face and practical steps to overcome them.

The webinars are available to all BFI FAN members across the UK, and will open up Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model (a 12-month training programme for cinema leaders) to a larger group to explore three core areas:

• Financial reporting and planning
• Finding public and private funding
• Funding sustainable capital developments

Registration for all three webinars is open now. Learn more and save by booking all three for only £25, or book individual sessions for £10 each!

“I have already implemented elements of the training to help me understand choices we make within our business and why those decisions are made” – Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model participant

The Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model open webinars are for all BFI FAN members from across the UK. Not a member? It’s free and easy to join.

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Programme

Financial reporting and planning
Wednesday 4 June 10:00 to 11:00

In this session, we will be joined by Steve Mapp (Former CEO, Broadway Cinema) and David Sin (Head of Cinemas, Independent Cinema Office), who will highlight what factors you need to cover to know if your business is viable. We’ll be covering the key financial information that you need to report on and help you understand what to do with that information once you have collected it.

Finding public and private funding
Wednesday 25 June, 10:00 to 11:00

Following on from the financial reporting and planning session, we will welcome back Steve Mapp (Former CEO, Broadway Cinema), along with Catharine Des Forges (Director, Independent Cinema Office), to help us understand some of the primary potential sources of funding, covering what is the realistic potential for continuing or increasing grant assistance and applying to trust and foundations.

Funding sustainable capital developments
Wednesday 16 July, 10:00 to 11:30

For our final session, we will be joined by cultural and environmental experts from Julie’s Bicycle. In this session, we will cover some of the key tips for acquiring capital funding, with an additional focus on getting funding for wider environmental sustainability initiatives.