Community Interest Company · Bolton, GM

The story's bigger
than the budget.

We make professional video, audio, and photography available to the organisations who actually need it: charities, community groups, and the creatives doing work that matters. Not because it's a nice idea. Because it should've always been this way.

"A world where the quality of a story is not limited by the resources of its teller."
Uncivilised Media Mission
CIC
Legal Structure
Community
Funding
50%
at 30+ hrs/month

Who We Are

Every pound stays
in the work.

We built this as a CIC because the legal structure forces the thing to stay honest. No founder distributions. No investor pressure. The asset lock means that even if we fold, nothing goes back to us. It transfers to another community organisation. That's not a policy position. It's the law we've bound ourselves to.

Editorial independence isn't a paragraph in our values doc. Nobody who funds a project gets a say over what ends up in it. That's the deal, for everyone, no exceptions.

Access over profit
We price to stay solvent and fund the next production, not to take a margin. Community organisations shouldn't need to choose between a decent video and the heating bill.
Nobody buys the edit
Funders and sponsors don't get input on the content. Not a note, not a steer, not a quiet word. The story is the story.
Amplify, don't speak over
We're not here to interpret communities from the outside. We're here to make their own telling of things as loud as it can be.
Same standard, always
The community rate doesn't buy a lesser version of the work. If it's got our name on it, it was done properly.

Why It Works

Built on trust.
Backed by results.

20+
Projects funded
25+
Organisations served
60%
of work at community rate

"We couldn't have told this story without them. The team understood what we needed and delivered something we're genuinely proud of — at a rate that didn't break the bank."

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Sarah Rahman
Director · Bolton Refugee Aid

"Professional, fast, and they genuinely cared about the cause. Our fundraising video got more engagement in a week than anything we'd produced before. Completely transformed how donors see us."

JO
James Okafor
Comms Lead · Greater Manchester Youth Trust

"We came in with a rough idea and left with a finished podcast episode that actually sounds like us. The studio is brilliant — not at all intimidating for first-timers."

PL
Priya Lal
Founder · Deansgate Community Kitchen

Organisations we've worked with

Bolton Council
Bolton CVS
Proper Good Bolton
Back Up North West
Channel 4

Our Space

Professional studio.
Bolton, Greater Manchester.

Lighting rigs, backdrops, podcast setup, and full production equipment. Available for hire at community and commercial rates.

Studio wide shot — lighting, backdrops, space
Podcast recording setup — microphones, booth
Equipment detail — camera, lights, green screen
Studio Hire: £40/hr commercial · £24/hr community. Minimum 2 hours.
Podcast Recording: £200/episode commercial · £120/episode community.
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Our Work

What we actually make.

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