A little help from our friends
Even a small cinema group like ours incurs regular running costs. As a non-profit, volunteer run community group, we rely on support from our paying audience and from local and national funding schemes. We got started with the help of  a small grant from the Eric wright trust, And with the help from Trinity Baptist Church letting us use the building we are in, We have also been grateful to Asda  Foundation They gave us a Large Community Grant to refurb our first world war nissen hut we currently use for the cinema. We also became a member of Filmbank media who gave us some invaluable advice and on how to set up as a community cinema, how to book screening licenses. Since then, we’ve maintained our membership with Filmbank media, and continue to learn from their helpful team.

​As well as general support Asda also awarded us a number of small financial grants over the years. These have usually been geared towards specific expenses, like marketing and promotion. For larger, ongoing costs, we have been lucky to receive funding awards from a number of other organisations. These funds have gone towards the purchase and upkeep of our screening equipment and supplementing the cost of the screening licenses required to show films to a public audience. We are very grateful to you, our audience members, and to all of our funding supporters.  in the future we hope to bring family-oriented film events, mini-festivals, young people’s screenings, and themed, ‘immersive’ extravaganzas to the area along with a newly purchased outdoor screen for cinema under the stars in the summer of 2023.