GLOW

Applications for Glow open on 1st November 2025.

Have you been running screenings for at least a year or more? Looking to develop a specific skill or project? Apply for Glow, our online training programme and bursary to support your community cinema’s next steps!

Glow will help you build on the knowledge and experience you have already gained from running screenings in your community with three focused online coaching sessions with the friendly Cinema For All team. You will also receive a £300 bursary to boost you in the direction you are going in next and help you achieve your goal.

One of the three focused coaching sessions will be on the topic of fundraising and will be held with your fellow Glow cohort, to help share tips and learning. You can choose from the following menu for the two remaining coaching sessions:

• Developing your marketing – building a strategy that suits you, strengthening your message and marketing planning.
• Curating your film programme – audience research, honing your vision and opportunities.
• More Accessible – ideas and information on accessibility of screenings and spaces to welcome more audiences.
• Organisational strength – looking after and building on the longevity of your cinema on the inner aspect e.g. volunteers, venue and evaluation.
• Outdoor screenings – tips and advice on running an outdoor screening.
• Reaching out to your wider your community – advice and planning to support you on your outreach project.
• Special events – tips, advice and ideas on creating memorable screenings with additional activity.
• Venue and equipment – refresh your skills or train a team member in screening equipment, how it works and making your screenings cinematic.

Glow also includes an online welcome session to meet your coach and set goals (up to 30 minutes) as well as a reflection session to evaluate your experience on Glow. As the coaching takes place online, you and any of your team can attend together and sessions can be spaced out over the three months (January – March 2026). Each workshop comes with a PowerPoint that you will work through with your coach and you will receive a copy of this so you can return to it at your convenience, along with useful resources.

A previous Glow participant said:

“‘[The coaching was] Down to earth and approachable – informative and flexible. Short and digestible focussed sessions that were crafted to our needs”

How to apply:

• Applications open on 1^st November 2025.
• Deadline for applications is midnight on 1^st December 2025. You will be informed no later than the 16^th December 2025, if your application has been successful.
• Coaching takes place online via Zoom between January – March 2026.
• Your community cinema must have been running at least 12 months to take part in Glow.
• Your community cinema must be volunteer-led and not for profit
• Apply by completing our short application form or by submitting an audio or video recording answering the questions from the form. If you apply by a recording, please email this to info@cinemaforall.org.uk.
• If you have any access requirements and would prefer to apply another way, please contact info@cinemaforall.org.uk
• Cinema For All values diversity and we encourage applications from people of African or Caribbean heritage, people of South, East and South East Asian heritage, people who experience racism, LGBTQI+ people and people with disabilities.

This programme is funded by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.