TOGETHER FOR CINEMA

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2023!

Founder Ian Morrish, provides EI readers with another update in the development of Together For Cinema.

Summer started quietly but the last two holiday months have been extremely busy with lots of development, lots of planning and lots of progress. Since May there have been four new cinema completions, three full installations and a refurbishment, and we have one installation that is in progress - we are planning for our final installation in November. This will be eight completed projects for 2022, seven in children’s hospices and one in a Children’s Foundation. By the end of 2022 we will have completed 37 cinema room installations at a normal ‘paid for’ value of £900,000. 2023 is looking good and we will hit the £1,000,000 mark. We are already talking to seven locations about cinema room installations – five at children’s hospices, a disabled centre for children and young adults, and the Resources For Autism centre in North London.

We will soon attend the AV User Group networking event in London and already have two interesting meetings lined. Needless to say we were again at the fabulous EI Live! show and we are grateful for their comprehensive and continued support delivering a stand with furniture as well as graphics and a table at the Smart Building Awards.

On the admin side we are now looking at three, seven and 10-year plans, budgets and forecasts, and lots of exciting things are scheduled in this.

2023 PLANS

For 2023 we currently have seven installations in discussion. As with all plans, we have to be subject to change and since our last report two have been postponed to 2024, but two more have come in so we’re still on our target of seven installations. The current installation plan is as follows:

Butterwick Children’s Hospice, Stockton-onTees. Installer: TBC.

Cherry Trees, East Clandon. Installer: TBC. Ellenor Hospice for Children and Adults, Gravesend. Installer: TBC.

Hope House Children’s Hospices, Oswestry. Installer: TBC.

Resources for Autism, London. Installer: TBC. Richard House Children’s Hospice, London. Installer: TBC.

Robin House Children’s Hospice, Ballach. Installer: TBC. With seven installations we need seven installers and seven more projectors, screens, AVR’s, speaker packages, racks, control, lighting etc, so please do what you can to help and spread the word to those installers, manufacturers and distributors who might be able to donate. Together For Cinema now has 47 industry sponsors at varying levels of commitment, and we are hugely grateful to every single one. However, we need more sponsors and more revenue to maintain and further the level of what we do, how we do it and how we promote it. We operate on a very tight budget with limited expenses and ‘do the best we can’ to make a difference and promote this difference to our industry and beyond. But there is so much more that we can do, and much of this ‘more that we can do’ needs funding.

For example, every install now needs certain items, and some of which we need to purchase at trade price. These were not considered 12 months ago but are now a ‘must install’ for every room. We have spent over £10,000 on these unbudgeted items and have made the budget work this year but we really do need to generate extra funds to cover these for 2023, and to make our cinema room deliveries as amazing as they can be. There’s little point in compromising on something so important that is so impactful to so many for so many years. Can you possibly up your level of sponsorship commitment?

Can you possibly consider becoming a firsttime sponsor of Together For Cinema? All our 2022 sponsors can be seen on our website at https://togetherforcinema.co.uk/our-sponsorsand-partners/, along with all the other partners, companies and individuals that help make Together For Cinema happen. As an industry united we are really making a difference and this good work must continue. Please help if you can.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of Together For Cinema please email me at ian@ad-con.uk or call me on 07768 398007.

Packages start from as little as £500/year and you will receive a Together For Cinema sponsor pack and some social and trade media exposure. It’s in our interests to announce your commitment to Together For Cinema.

Dougie Mac Children’s Hospice in one of projects completed this year

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