British Universities Film & Video Council

The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) is a representative body promoting the production, study and use of moving image, sound and related media for learning and research. It is a company limited by guarantee, with charity status, serving schools, colleges and post compulsory education interests in the UK.

Founded in 1948 as the British Universities Film Council, the BUFC was established by a group of academic staff from various subject disciplines across the arts, humanities and sciences. In the 1960s the BUFC was allocated core funding from government as a grant-in-aid body of the British Film Institute (BFI). In 1982 the Council left the BFI with the remit to engage with UK higher education, changed its title to British Universities Film & Video Council and obtained recurrent core grant direct from the Department for Education and Science. In the early 1990s, with the re-organisation of UK higher education funding, the BUFVC's PES line was moved to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and was paid over via The Open University. On 12 February 2007 the BUFVC became a 'related body' of HEFCE receiving core grant under Section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 with oversight from the Jisc. It now has more than 200 subscribing member institutions in the UK.

The BUFVC is governed by a board of fourteen trustees comprising at least ten elected names and up to four appointed names including one trustee appointed by HEFCE. At least one third of the trustees step down and/or are re-elected each year. Trustees are normally nominated and elected from the subscribing membership.

The BUFVC employs sixteen staff and operates in a mixed economy of earned income (from subscriptions, publications sales, events, courses and screenings), from core grant-in-aid support, and from research grants and sponsorship. It is an independent body with its own self-contained offices in central London.

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