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Volunteers

Saffron Screen has had tremendous support from local volunteers. Individuals have offered their services to set up and maintain the website, develop an online booking system, manage the accounts, write programme notes, write and edit the bi-monthly programme, and write press releases as well as helping with front of house service. However, since its first year, the cinema has moved from a reliance wholly on volunteers to carry out the day-to-day running of the cinema, to a more balanced approach. Volunteers are still vital to the success of the organisation but a paid cinema manager now ensures the weekly operation of the cinema with a technical manager running the projection side.

More recently the cinema has also taken on a development and marketing manager to underpin fundraising and audience development. This shift to future sustainability continues to be a project, and a balancing exercise, which the organisation is focussing on.

"Broadening horizons and seeing the world differently is - or ought to be - in the remit of film. Which makes ICO culturally significant and to be applauded."

The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100

Independent Cinema Office

3rd Floor, Kenilworth House, 79-80 Margaret Street, London W1W 8TA
T: 020 7636 7120 F: 020 7636 7121 E: info@independentcinemaoffice.org.uk

Registered in England and Wales. Company 5369193.
ICO is a registered charity No. 1109053