History

The Children’s Media Foundation is the successor to three previous organisations concerned with children and media in the UK.

The Children’s Media Foundation was previously known as the Children’s Film and Television Foundation (CFTF), and before that, the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF).

The CFF was set up to produce children’s feature films using a proportion of funding made available by the Eady Levy on cinema tickets. It made 170 films from the 1950’s to the 1980s.

The other organisation which led to the set-up of the Children’s Media Foundation was the campaign group Save Kids’ TV.

The Children’s Media Foundation is an amalgam of the campaign and lobbying commitment of Save Kids’ TV and the long-term commitment to children’s content represented by the Children’s Film Foundation.