Environmental Reporting for BFI National Lottery Awardees 2024/2025
Some BFI National Lottery awardees are required to report on their environmental impacts using Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Tools (CC Tools) as part of their funding requirements — read on and refer to Who needs to report to understand more and check your eligibility.
The guidance below aims to help awardees in reporting on their impacts using the Julie’s Bicycle’s Creative Climate Tools (CC Tools).
This reporting will also help us build a better picture of the environmental impacts of the screen sector ‘beyond production’ and inform the support we provide in the future.
Beyond Carbon
The CC Tools also include a ‘Beyond Carbon’ checklist – a great way to capture how you are putting the principle of environmental sustainability into practice – from environmental commitments and plans to operational good practice and audience engagement. The checklist comprises mainly of multiple choice questions.
Please complete and submit the Beyond Carbon checklist – a new requirement for 2024 – through the CC Tools alongside your carbon footprint to complete your Environmental Impact Reporting.
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You can use the CC Tools at any time, but there are different reporting timelines depending on your project.
Fixed term projects: If you are funded for a fixed term project that doesn’t align with the financial year, you should report as soon as your project is completed and prior to your final drawdown request.
Multi-annual awardees: Your designated reporting window is between 1 May – 30 June 2025. During this time, JB will have a dedicated team on hand with extra guidance and support to ease the process.
Film Academy awardees: Please report by 31st March 2025.
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If your organisation receives BFI National Lottery funding via any of the below programmes then you need to submit one environmental impact report (including both a carbon footprint and Beyond Carbon report) for each year that you receive funding.
If you receive multiple awards from the BFI, you only need to submit one organisational environmental impact report.
For this year’s reporting period you should report on your activity for the last financial year 2024/2025.
Audiences:
- Audience Projects
- Film Audience Network: Film Hub Lead Organisations only (note: there is no reporting requirement for organisations funded through the FHLOs)
- Open Cinema
Screen Heritage:
- Resilience Awards
- Project Awards
Industry Services:
- British Film Commission
- Production Across England
Innovation:
- Innovation Challenge
- Good Work
Education and Skills:
- Careers & Progression
- Young Creatives
- Teaching with Film
- Skills Clusters
- Business Development
Film Academy:
- Film Academy Plus
- Film Academy Courses
Film-making:
- BFI Network
- Documentary Delegation
Report across your whole organisation’s activity, not just your BFI-funded activity. You can make multiple footprints within the CC Tools if it makes sense for your organisation, but it does not need to align to specifically funded activities.
For organisations funded by both the BFI and ACE: Please ensure when signing up you select both ‘BFI’ AND the ‘ACE 23-26 portfolio’ under the ‘Funding portfolio’ section. This ensures your data is reported correctly across both programmes.
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The aim of reporting is to help you develop an understanding of the environmental impacts of your organisation, across both your carbon footprint and Beyond Carbon data. The main impact areas for reporting will depend on your organisation, but may include:
- Energy
- Water
- Waste
- Materials
- Business Travel
- Audience Travel
We recognise that there are various challenges to reporting for different organisations. Plan ahead: you may need to work with colleagues and/or contractors across your organisation to gather data. The expectation is not to have a completely comprehensive carbon footprint. There may be some areas that you are unable to collect data for, and you’ll find plenty of guidance for troubleshooting in our BFI specific FAQs coming soon.
If you cannot report, there are ‘Additional information’ boxes on each page of the CC Tools platform – please provide information there about why you were unable to report.
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When you create an account, please ensure you select ‘BFI’ under the ‘Funding portfolio’ title. (For organisations funded by both the BFI and ACE: Please ensure when signing up you select both ‘BFI’ AND the ‘ACE 23-26 portfolio’ under the ‘Funding portfolio’ section).
Familiar with the Tools?
Log into your account
Never used the Tools, or need a refresher?
Follow the link below to watch our playlist of step by step how-to videos for using the Tools. This resource is in development – more videos are coming soon.
Watch: How to use the CC Tools
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Please read our BFI FAQs page for additional detail.
For any queries relating to reporting beyond this, please contact our team.
BFI FAQs
