About the Trust

The Cambridge Film Trust is a registered charity that fosters film culture and education primarily in Cambridge and the Eastern region but also throughout the UK.

We deliver a broad portfolio of screenings, special events and tailor-made projects which enable people to be moved by, learn about and interact with film.  The highlight of our year-round programme of events is the Cambridge Film Festival, undoubtedly the most innovative in the country.

With our passion and expertise, we develop outreach initiatives to reach the widest possible audience. Since 2008, we have been advising on a youth-led project to bring back cinema to a local community outside Cambridge called Sawston.

We also operate a trading subsidiary, Cambridge Film Projects, which specialises in outdoor screenings and innovative film presentation.

Our mission

As a registered charity, the Cambridge Film Trust has a mandate to promote film culture and education for the benefit of the public.  Specifically, our objectives are to:

• promote, develop and maintain the appreciation of and education in the art, craft, technology and theatrical experience of film and video, including contemporary and historical, local, national and world cinema
• encourage the appreciation and study of the theory, history, aesthetics and practice of film and video making and the film and video industries and the associated activities of film and video journalism, publishing and distribution both by and for the public and by and for pupils, students, researchers and teaching staff at schools, colleges and universities in Cambridgeshire, the UK and elsewhere
• promote the appreciation of and education and research in film and video and other objects beneficial to the community through undertaking, facilitating and/or promoting the preservation of film and video and/or through providing or assisting with the provision of public screenings of film and video

Full details of the Trust and its charitable status are recorded on the Charity Commission website. Our registered charity number is 1120059.