# Small charities: win film about your organisation by top film-maker

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/09/26/small-charities-win-film-about-your-organisation-top-filmmaker/
- Published: 2012-09-26T06:20:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Media Trust has launched this year’s Untold Stories, the initiative that will 
let up to 15 small charities across the UK benefit from having a top film-maker 
create a film about them. They can then use the film for fundraising, campaigning,
and publicity.**

The films will also be broadcast on Community Channel next spring.

Untold Stories matches the selected charities to an experienced volunteer filmmaker
who will research, plan and produce a short, high quality film “at a fraction of
the normal cost”. Applicants must be able to put £1,000 towards the production of
the film.

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The scheme is supported again by Sainsbury’s and now by Google. The latter will 
provide advice to the charities about how to achieve maximum online exposure for
their films.

The scheme is now open for applications from charities, not-for-profits or voluntary
organisations with an annual turnover of less than £2 million. **Applications close
at midday on 22 October 2012.**

Caroline Diehl, Chief Executive, Media Trust, said: “Film is a powerful method for
communicating a message and this is a rare opportunity for small charities to receive
support from a professional volunteer filmmaker.”

[Untold Stories](http://www.mediatrust.org/get-support/untold-stories-2012/) has
been operating for eight years, during which time it has yielded over 175 films 
for small charities. The Media Trust estimates that it has attracted the equivalent
of more than £1,250,000 in donated time and resources from the media industry.

One of the films made last year was for [Hi Kent](http://www.hikent.org.uk), a charity
for deaf and hard of hearing people:

_[Video at http://www.youtube.com/embed/JptfwRQwEyU no longer available]_

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