Company 16185639
Governance
The board, the asset lock, the policies, the filings, and two disclosures we would rather print than have you find elsewhere.
The company, and the lock on it
Screen Sisters CIC, company number 16185639, incorporated January 2025 as a community interest company limited by guarantee. No shares, no shareholders.
Registered office and base: G06 Annexe Building, 3 Mills Studios, London E3 3DU. Not VAT registered. Regulated by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies, not the Charity Commission.
Done — the asset lock. Assets and surplus are locked to the community purpose. No director or backer can take them out, and on a wind-up what remains passes to another asset-locked body. That is why trading income can fund fully funded places.
The board
Two directors, both named at Companies House, both legally responsible: Rizwan Wadan, founder, and Nina Karwalska, co-founder. What each leads.
A board of two is thin and we say so. Opening — an independent non-executive director is being recruited and an advisory council formed. Nobody is named here until appointed.
Two things we would rather print than have you find
We share a director with Futures in Film CIC, the community interest company we collaborate with. It is public at Companies House and you should not have to go there to learn it. The companies are legally separate — separate boards, money, risk and participant records — and where one person sits on both sides of an arrangement, he takes no part in deciding it.
Several written agreements between those companies are still being put in place. Equipment, space and the joint programme have been worked to in practice and not all yet signed. That work is running. Until an agreement exists, this site describes the arrangement rather than the asset, and nothing another company owns is offered here as ours.
Policies: what exists, and what is still being written
An honest register is worth more to you than an impressive one.
- Done, board-approved. Safeguarding for adults, with a named lead and deputy. Consent, media permissions and image use. Health, safety and risk assessment. Code of conduct.
- Being written. ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) registration, the appropriate policy document for the special category data we hold, and an impact assessment for the referral route, which does not open until all three are finished. Privacy.
- Being written. Safeguarding for under-18s, safer recruitment, whistleblowing, and complaints in published form. Ask for any policy by name at team@screensisters.org.uk and we will send it, or say it is still in draft.
Safeguarding, and how to complain
Concerns go to Nina Karwalska, Designated Safeguarding Lead, at nina@screensisters.org.uk, or any practitioner on the day. Rizwan Wadan is deputy, and the route where a concern involves the Lead. In immediate danger, 999 comes first.
If a concern involves both directors, do not come to us. Escalation inside a two-director company is not a route: go to the local authority adult safeguarding team, or the police. Otherwise email team@screensisters.org.uk with Complaint in the subject line; we answer within our one timing promise, signed policy or not.
A portrait of both directors, cleared for a funder or journalist to use without asking us.
Not yet taken. A half-day at the base would cover it.
What we file
Two statutory filings anyone can read without asking us, and one we publish anyway.
Annual accounts and the CIC34 community interest report go to Companies House and are public: what the company did for the community, who benefited, what the directors were paid. The first falls due in our first filing period. We also write our own organisational report, including what did not work — done for the most recent year, sent on request.