Alex Pumfrey, Head of U.Okay.’s Movie and TV Charity, to Step Down – The Hollywood Reporter

Alex Pumfrey, the CEO of the U.Okay.’s Movie and TV Charity, is ready to depart the group after almost six years within the submit.

Pumfrey, who joined as CEO in October 2017, has overseen a serious transformation of the charity, together with a full rebrand (it was previously often known as the Cinema and Tv Benevolent Fund), and a shift in its focus from monetary and later life help to psychological well being and wellbeing help for these working behind the scenes throughout the movie and TV trade.

Throughout Pumfrey’s tenure, the charity undertook its first Wanting Glass survey, which revealed in early 2020 that just about 90 p.c of individuals working within the U.Okay.’s movie, TV and cinema industries had skilled psychological well being points, far above the nationwide common. The survey —  which claimed there was a “psychological well being disaster throughout the U.Okay. movie and tv trade” — prompted Pumfrey to guide the creation of a Psychological Well being Taskforce, that includes senior personnel from main movie and TV companies, trade our bodies, and wider stakeholder organizations, who labored collectively to ship new initiatives akin to an recommendation service for bullying and psychological well being toolkit for productions.

It wasn’t lengthy after the primary Wanting Glass survey that the COVID pandemic hit, throughout which the Movie and TV Charity helped increase from than £6 million ($7.2 million) to help greater than 10,000 movie and TV professionals who had misplaced their livelihoods as a result of lockdown and ensuing restrictions on manufacturing. One in 5 of the two,000 recipients of the Covid Emergency Aid fund mentioned they’d have misplaced their house with out the charity’s intervention. 

Since Pumfrey joined in 2017, the variety of shoppers the charity serves has additionally grown greater than 20-fold from 500 to greater than 10,000 per yr; and fundraising revenue has trebled. 

“It has been the best privilege to guide the transformation of the Movie and TV Charity and see the crew’s phenomenal work make our attain and impression soar,” mentioned Pumfrey. “Working in a purpose-driven group amongst superb colleagues is a large pleasure, and I wish to pay tribute to their achievements, because it actually is teamwork. My mission once I arrived in 2017 was to safe the charity’s relevance, impression and monetary sustainability – and I’ll go away glad in a job executed, but in addition excited that there’s a lot extra the charity will go on obtain in its future.” 

Pumfrey will stay on the charity till the top of Might when an interim CEO will likely be introduced. The recruitment of the following chair of trustees will open on March 6, with the brand new chair then anticipated to guide the recruitment of Pumfrey’s substitute.

“During the last six years Alex has led the transformation of the charity, working with the crew and the Board to develop the technique to 2030,” mentioned interim chair of the charity’s board of trustees Andrew Wilson-Mouasher. “Because the group faces into its hundredth yr, it’s now much better geared up to meaningfully assist these working behind the scenes in movie, TV and cinema with the challenges and limitations they face, and the technique that Alex and her crew are actually implementing means it’s well-placed to proceed to fulfill these wants over the following hundred years. I wish to pay tribute to her tireless exhausting work, sturdy spirit, and to her compassion – she received’t be simple to switch however I, and the entire charity’s Trustees, want her the perfect for the longer term.”