For charities & arts organisations
Stories that move people to give
Fundraising films, impact stories and trustee podcasts for charities and arts organisations across Sussex and Hampshire, produced at our barn near Chichester and priced with third-sector budgets in mind.
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In short: Granary Digital produces fundraising films, impact stories and podcasts for charities and arts organisations at a studio near Chichester. Half-day shoots from £1,250+VAT and podcast sessions from £39/hour, with the plan sized to third-sector budgets.
Donors give to stories, funders give to evidence
Every charity communicator carries the same double brief. The public gives when a story lands in the chest: one person, told honestly, without the swelling music that makes audiences flinch. Funders and trustees want the other register: outcomes, numbers, a credible organisation. Film handles both, and it is cheaper to shoot them on the same day than to commission them apart.
We have seen this from close up. Reach Charity recorded Honest Talk with Lottie in our podcast suite, a series on dating with a limb difference, and it did what good charity media does: put a real voice in front of people who needed to hear it.
Budgets are the constraint, so the plan respects them. One well-planned half day can produce a fundraising film, an impact piece for the grant report and clips for the campaign. Priced plainly, quoted before you commit, no agency theatre.
What the sector makes here
Story for the public, evidence for the funders, voice for the cause.
Fundraising & impact films
One story told well beats montage every time. Beneficiary and volunteer films with proper consent care, cut long for the appeal page and short for the campaign.
The organisation's podcast
Trustee conversations, beneficiary voices and sector interviews from £39/hour with an engineer. The cheapest way for a charity to publish regularly, and every episode becomes clips.
Arts & season content
Season trailers, rehearsal films and artist interviews for theatres, galleries and festivals. Audience-facing work that sells tickets, and Arts Council-facing work that evidences reach.
A story told with dignity.
How it works
1. Brief call
Twenty minutes on what you do, who you want to reach and what the content is for. Free, and useful even if you never book.
2. The plan
We map a shot list and a running order to your calendar, so the day is booked against real posts and real campaigns.
3. The day
You and your people come to the barn. We direct, film and photograph the lot. Most clients say it is the easiest shoot they have done.
4. Edit & deliver
Cut, graded, captioned and sized per platform, delivered through a shared gallery ready to publish.
Priced for the sector
Half-Day Starter — the appeal shoot
Half a day with one specialist, planned to feed the appeal, the report and the socials from the same session. Podcast sessions run from £39/hour with an engineer. Tell us the budget honestly and we will build the plan to it.
Get a quote- Half a day at the studio
- One specialist: videographer or photographer
- Planned to serve appeal, report and social at once
- An edited batch, around 10 to 15 assets
- Podcast sessions from £39/hour
Larger campaign films are scoped as Content Days from £2,950+VAT when the funding is in place.
One barn. Four studios. Every format on one site.
A barn near Chichester with a podcast suite, a film stage and honest pricing. Third-sector work is planned to the budget, not the other way round.
Everything on this page is delivered by the Content Studio, our done-for-you production team: one brief call, one plan, one invoice. Rather hire the room and bring your own crew? See the rate card.
Charity appeal shoot · from £1,250 +VAT
Questions we get asked
Do you offer charity rates?
We price the plan to the budget rather than discounting a rate card: a tightly planned half day often does what a loose full day would, and we will say so on the brief call. Registered charities should tell us their number and their budget upfront.
How do you approach beneficiary consent?
Carefully and in writing, with your safeguarding lead involved. Contributors see the questions beforehand, can stop at any time, and approve their appearance in the final cut. A story told with dignity outperforms one extracted without it, on every measure.
Can trustees or service users record a podcast without experience?
Yes. An engineer runs every session, questions are agreed in advance, and the edit removes the stumbles. The Reach Charity series recorded here is a good example of first-time voices carrying a show.
Can the film serve the grant report too?
It should. Interviews shot for the appeal can be cut a second way around outcomes and numbers for funders, which is why we plan both cuts before the shoot rather than discovering the need after it.
What does it cost?
From £1,250+VAT for a half-day shoot, podcast sessions from £39/hour, campaign productions from £2,950+VAT. Everything is quoted before you commit.