For established film offices that want to grow income, improve service standards, and make the evidence-based case for change. Includes all the training, templates, and real-world examples from Foundations, plus six additional sections.
You get the full FOI benchmarking dataset (4 spreadsheets covering revenue, expenses, filming days, and organisations with no income) so you can see exactly what comparable bodies charge and earn.
Advanced pricing strategy covering fee reviews, tiered pricing, and dynamic elements like rush fees and peak surcharges. Operational excellence guidance on service-level standards, KPIs, and cross-department coordination at scale. Large production readiness tools for when a crew of 150 arrives.
Direct quotes and insights from Location Manager interviews. A Growth-specific implementation plan and leadership briefing pack. 5 Growth-adapted templates (including a fee review builder with current vs proposed comparison).
12 months of access
How the toolkit works, what to expect, and how to get the most from it.
What productions need, the types of filming you'll encounter, who you'll deal with, and what Location Managers actually want from you.
Three models for handling filming, from minimum viable to growth-ready. Match your audit results to the right approach for your resources and demand.
The practical processes: handling enquiries, approvals, permits, department coordination, shoot-day management, resident communication, and reinstatement.
Where you're undercharging and how to tell, how to restructure or raise fees without losing bookings, and a framework for handling exceptions at scale.
These spreadsheets contain the raw data from our Freedom of Information research. They cover filming revenue, filming days, expenses, and organisations that reported no income. Together, they let you see what comparable public bodies charge, earn, spend, and how much filming activity they handle.
Use them to benchmark your organisation against peers of a similar type, size, and region. Filter by organisation type (local authority, national park, museum, heritage site) and sort by the metric that matters most to your current question, whether that is income, volume, or cost.
Refining your intake process, setting and publishing service-level standards, cross-department coordination when filming is frequent, and tracking the KPIs that justify your resources.
What changes when a crew of 150 arrives instead of 15. Multi-site deals, multi-week shoots, set dressing and road closures, and a readiness checklist for major productions.
What Location Managers actually think, in their own words. Deep-dive interviews covering what makes them book, what makes them avoid, and how reputations travel.
An advanced 30/60/90-day plan for established offices, how to build the internal case for change with data, a ready-to-adapt leadership briefing pack, and realistic expectations for year one.
Downloadable templates to fill in, adapt, and use internally. These are practical starting points, not finished policies. Adapt them to fit your organisation.
A collection of published fee schedules from UK councils and public bodies, showing how different organisations structure and price their filming charges. These are real documents sourced from publicly available council websites and FOI responses. Use them to see how others present their fees, what they charge for, and how they tier pricing by crew size or production type. They are not templates to copy directly, but practical reference points as you build your own.
Published filming policies and codes of practice from UK councils and public bodies, covering everything from general filming guidelines to specific policies on drone use. These documents were publicly available at the time of collection. Review them to see how other organisations set out their rules, conditions, and expectations for productions filming in their area.
Real filming agreements, terms and conditions, and licence documents used by UK public bodies and cultural institutions. These were sourced from publicly available council and institutional websites. They show how different organisations structure the legal relationship with productions, including liability, insurance, reinstatement, and permitted use. Have your own legal team review any language before adopting it.
Filming application and notification forms published by UK councils. These show what information other organisations ask for at the enquiry stage and how they structure the intake process. Use them as reference when designing your own form, but adapt the fields and format to suit your organisation.
Guides produced by UK public bodies for visiting productions, covering how to make an enquiry, what to expect from the process, local information, and FAQs. These are some of the better examples we found during our research. They show what a genuinely useful filming page looks like when it goes beyond a phone number and an email address.
Published guidance documents covering how road closures, parking suspensions, and traffic management for filming are handled by different UK authorities. Road closures are one of the most complex and time-sensitive elements of location filming, and these documents show how other organisations set out the process, timelines, and responsibilities.
Events policies and frameworks from UK councils that include provisions for filming alongside other outdoor events. These show how some organisations handle filming within a broader events management structure, including charging, health and safety, and stakeholder coordination. Useful if your council manages filming through its events team.