With Christmas only a couple of weeks away I’m delighted to report that Together For Cinema has had another wonderful year. There is still much to do to close things off, and of course there is lots to do to prepare for the coming year. However, the great news is that with the support of our industry we’ve been able to deliver another eight cinema rooms to good causes and have created a wonderful new website called GivingBack.tech to repurpose excess AV equipment to good causes. More of this later…
However, as this is a quarterly update, I’d better cover what we’ve been up to for the last three months…
As you can see there’s been lots going on and we’re set for another great year in 2026. A year where we can all continue to help make a difference in our community. Thank you to all in our industry who play a part in making this happen.
Have a very Merry Christmas and I wish you, your business and your family and friends a very Happy and Healthy 2026.
Best wishes for now,
Ian
Ian Morrish
Founder and Managing Director, Together For Cinema CIC
At the start of the year we had eight installations scheduled for 2025, we added another to take us to nine and then two were postponed until 2026, so our delivery for this year was seven new cinema rooms.
The installations below are listed in their completion date:-
We are hugely grateful to the installers listed above for kindly taking on these installations and I am sure that they will find their journey to making a difference a rewarding one. As we all know, the key to making these installations happen is a good installer and I reckon we have some of the very best listed above. Thanks again to you all.
2026 is already looking very busy! The list of twelve potential beneficiary venues below will no doubt change over the coming months, but we would expect to look at completing at least another seven or eight installations in 2026.
We are of course in touch with many other venues and have a strong pipeline to call on. However, if you know of any charitable family care venue that could benefit from our offering, please do let me know.
Looking ahead we already have installations booked in for both 2027 and 2028 so the journey will continue, as long as we keep securing your support – with this in mind…
It’s now time for our 2025 Charitable Partners to renew (or maybe even increase!) their annual support of Together For Cinema CIC.
We know it’s been a challenging year and we expect that a few companies will not be able to continue their partnership. Closures, merges or just limited funds will govern this and we are of course understanding that we will lose some support. It is therefore vital that we secure some new Charitable Partners to help us continue to develop our journey.
With this in mind, and if you’re not already – can you help and become a new Charitable Partner of Together For Cinema?
Over the last 12 months Together For Cinema, in collaboration with the AV industry, has delivered up to, and I hope beyond, expectation. For this delivery to continue into 2026 and beyond we need continued support, increased support and new support funding.
We are more than aware that times are challenging at the moment but if we’re able to secure ‘a little from a lot’, it makes a huge difference. Currently we have about 75 Charitable Partners and our target for 2026 is 90. If this happened we would be in good shape, and would be able to continue to develop other channels to give back to our community.
With the above in mind, and if you’re not already supporting, please can I ask you to consider becoming one of our Charitable Partners. Our current list reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of our industry and you can see the list of those already committed on our website by clicking here.
With the above in mind the levels at which you, and/or your industry contacts can support are as follows:-
Please contact Ian Morrish at ian@togetherforcinema.co.uk to discuss what options are open to you, and what difference you can help make.
We have some very exciting plans for 2026 and Together For Cinema, but the difference we make to so many lives can only continue with your support…
For any small Charity or Community Interest Company ‘that little bit extra’ secured by fundraising is important for so many reasons. Of course the financial benefits are obvious but the increased PR, the potential coming together of an industry community and of course the fun factor are all important add-ons to helping make a difference.
The last three months have seen some positive steps with our fundraising progress. Firstly, on November 3rd, I went to the Peerless-AV offices in Frogmore, Near St. Albans and was presented with a cheque for £12,448, this being the proceeds from their Charitable Golf Day held on September 10th at Moor Park Golf Club. We are so very grateful to Keith Dutch and his team and of course to all those that took part in the day. The sum raised will make such a positive difference to several of our installations and make sure we see lots of happy smiling faces at our openings in 2026.
Following on from our £1,000 Community Hero monthly award from Selco Builders Warehouse we were delighted to be told that we had made it to their list of ten finalists for their annual Community Hero Award. To win this would be amazing and would also bring in £10,000 of vital extra funding. There are second and third prizes as well. Beyond the money, to have national recognition that what we’re doing is received well and supported by an organisation like Selco Builders would extend our community reach and would of course be great PR. Winning would further drive us on to continue to deliver positive change in the community and hopefully make our next installation that little bit easier to complete. The results will be in mid-December and we’re all keeping our fingers crossed.
At the beginning of December we also applied for a grant from the Focus Foundation and I’m optimistic that we might be considered for all or part of the request. Demand for any organisation giving money away is high, and there really are so many wonderful causes, but we must try and try we have… I’ll keep you posted.
As you can tell it’s been a busy and successful time with regards to our fundraising, but I’m pleased that now I can focus on preparing for the coming year.
The purpose of the website is:-
“…to repurpose AV equipment to good causes. It will connect donors such as manufacturers, distributors, integrators, and corporates with registered charities and CICs seeking second-hand, discontinued, or B-stock equipment.”
…and it is now finished and in its initial test stage! Please go to www.GivingBack.tech and take a look.
This site can only work and develop if we all embrace it and help make it work…
With this in mind please can you:-
NB. Our initial contact with the charities and CIC’s won’t be until March 2026 so please earmark the items in your warehouse for the GB.t website.
In the meantime if you have any feedback, or feel we can improve the site, please do let us know.
Together For Cinema continues to gather momentum, and I find it amazing that it’s not yet 3 years of us being a registered Community Interest Company. This success is due to so many factors, but the strongest of which is the comprehensive and widespread industry support, for which myself and my co-directors are truly grateful.
Our next Directors meeting will be before Christmas and we have so many positives to reflect on but also so much to discuss to further the positive difference we can all make. We all have certain charities that means something very personal to us, but to make a positive difference by giving back to the community what we all take for granted day in day out, is now a social responsibility that we must continue to deliver.
The GivingBack.tech website is an extremely exciting development and one that will take time to really have an impact. However, rather than chatting about it, we’ve ‘got up and got in’ with it and I am optimistic that we have created a medium that will develop into a high traffic industry to good cause channel to give back, and of course repurpose excess AV equipment that might otherwise have been binned and ultimately landfilled.
If you want to look at Partnering with us on the GivingBack.tech journey, be you from the Pro, Commercial or Residential AV sectors, please contact me directly and we can discuss how we can work together.
Beyond this, if you’re not already part of our extended community please contact Ian Morrish to find out how you can help.
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