Open sessions from BFI Film Audience Network
BFI FAN members from across the UK are invited to join a series of open webinars as part of the Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model programme.
Running every two weeks in November and December, this series of open webinars will cover some of the key topics that have been raised within the core workshops of the Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model programme:
- Financial reporting and planning
- Using data to understand and grow your audiences
- Strategic fundraising
Running during 2024, normally for a closed group of selected participants, Revisiting Your Cinema Business Model is a workshop-based, practical training programme for BFI Film Audience Network members who want to develop a sustainable business model that will enable their organisations to survive and thrive in the long term.
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.
REGISTERProgramme
Financial reporting and planning: 5 November, 10:00 to 12:00
Steve Mapp (Former CEO, Broadway Cinema) will be leading the first open webinar, highlighting key factors which must be considered to ensure a business is viable. Additionally, the session will cover the key financial information to be reported on, providing guidance on what to do with that information once it has been collected.
Using data to understand and grow your audiences: 19 November, 10:00 to 12:00
Audience data can come from a host of different sources, but how can you find the elements that are meaningful to an organisation? Flo Carr (Associate Director, Indigo) will be delving through the data cinemas should be collecting, how to collect it securely and how to use the insights to drive a business forward.
Strategic fundraising: 3 December, 10:00 to 12:00
For the final session, Catharine Des Forges (Director, Independent Cinema Office) will host a masterclass on the primary funding sources available to exhibitors, covering the realistic potential for continuing or increasing grant assistance and applying to Trust and Foundations.
Cost
Each session costs £10 to attend. A discounted rate of £25 is available for those who wish to attend all three sessions.
Bursary Support
If you would like to apply for additional support to attend (whether towards the cost of your fees, childcare or other) you may be eligible for a bursary from your local Film Hub.
Speakers
Steve Mapp (former CEO, Broadway Cinema)
Steve was Chief Executive of Broadway Cinema, Nottingham from 2008 until retiring in June 2023. Joining in 1990, he was originally appointed to set up the Finance and Development departments for the then-newly established media centre, leading the development and implementation of successive Business Plans. He managed over £8m of phased capital developments to expand and improve facilities, raising investments from ERDF, National Lottery, regional agencies and sponsorships. Steve oversaw a merger with film training organisation Intermedia and the establishment of Broadway as the lead organisation for Film Hub Midlands in a partnership with Flatpack. He established Broadway as an ACE NPO to become a key regional centre that supports the training and development of creative talent who use new technologies in their practice. Steve led Broadway through 14 months of closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, securing Cultural Recovery Funding, introducing remote working and a restructuring of the organisation, leading to a successful reopening in May 2021.
Flo Carr (Associate Director, Indigo Ltd)
Flo is an experienced marketing and CRM professional with a passion for audience development. She has worked in a wide range of marketing, communications and venue management roles in arts and cultural organisations in London and Cambridge. Her previous roles include Head of Communications and Marketing at Arcola Theatre, Marketing & CRM Manager at English National Opera and Press & Marketing Manager at Cambridge Live. Having collaborated with Katy Raines to deliver our extensive programme of audience sentiment tracking research during Covid, Flo joined Indigo full time in November 2020.
Catharine Des Forges (Director, Independent Cinema Office)
Catharine started her career as a Film Exhibition Officer at the BFI and has worked with many venues over the last 30 years both as a funder, consultant and advisor as well as a period spent at Arts Council England in a similar role. She set up the ICO in 2003 and took it from a start-up with 3 members of staff and 10 months worth of funding to the present day, with a capital asset and a turnover of just under £2m. Over the years she has led on funding strategy and organisational development and has raised millions of pounds from organisations such as BFI, ACE, Esmee Fairbairn, Creative Europe, Screen Skills and numerous film institutes and other partners. She is an advisory board member for Be The Business (www.bethebusiness.com).
How to apply
REGISTEREach webinar costs £10 to attend or you can access a pass for all three webinars for the cost of £25.
The webinars will be recorded, so if you are unable to attend the events live, the recording will be shared with all registrants shortly after the event takes place.
