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British Film Institute: Finance

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The British Film Institute’s (BFI) ten year strategy, Screen Culture 2033, sets out the core principle for the work of the BFI to reach across all of our nation.

The below table sets out the number of applications to the BFI for both their National Lottery funding and their government-provided Grant-in-Aid funding, broken down by region, in the past three years (2019-2022). The table also sets out the number of awards given over each of those years, also broken down by region based on beneficiary location (drawn from postcode data, in accordance with the methodology agreed with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport).

Region	2019-20		2020-21		2021-22		3-Year TOTAL
	Applications	Awards	Applications	Awards	Applications	Awards	Applications	Awards
ENGLAND East Midlands	4,708	5,397	15,043	8,175	5,013	5,339	24,763	18,911
ENGLAND Eastern	7,644	9,247	10,463	12,046	22,533	10,559	40,640	31,852
ENGLAND London	143,213	17,814	138,301	24,541	152,278	18,405	433,793	60,760
ENGLAND North East	1,935	2,301	1,099	2,159	2,705	2,720	5,740	7,180
ENGLAND North West	7,953	6,133	11,773	6,297	18,170	7,155	37,896	19,585
ENGLAND South East	19,484	8,445	20,407	10,630	18,800	11,473	58,692	30,548
ENGLAND South West	9,707	5,520	13,548	8,261	10,341	7,191	33,595	20,972
ENGLAND West Midlands	11,406	6,022	12,375	5,823	5,717	6,714	29,499	18,559
ENGLAND Yorkshire & Humberside	9,088	6,190	9,993	7,247	11,384	7,610	30,465	21,047
NORTHERN IRELAND	10,495	6,253	10,925	5,737	11,281	8,095	32,702	20,085
SCOTLAND	7,618	5,059	5,619	3,841	7,285	5,912	20,522	14,812
WALES	3,399	3,172	4,307	2,345	6,562	3,422	14,268	8,939
Total	236,652	81,553	253,854	97,102	272,067	94,595	762,572	273,250

To note, given the assessment process, applications may be made in one year, and processed or awarded in the following year. Therefore, a direct correlation cannot be established between the applications and awards made in any single year.

Extrapolated from the figures in the above table, the below table further provides the proportion of applications and awards over the three years 2019 - 2022, broken down per region.

Region	Proportion of Applications (over 3 years)	Proportion of Awards (over 3 years)
ENGLAND East Midlands	3%	7%
ENGLAND Eastern	5%	12%
ENGLAND London	57%	22%
ENGLAND North East	1%	3%
ENGLAND North West	5%	7%
ENGLAND South East	8%	11%
ENGLAND South West	4%	8%
ENGLAND West Midlands	4%	7%
ENGLAND Yorkshire & Humberside	4%	8%
NORTHERN IRELAND	4%	7%
SCOTLAND	3%	5%
WALES	2%	3%

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

180973

Session

2022-23

Subjects

British Film Institute Finance

Contains statistics

Yes

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