across all formats and platforms – cinema, TV, DVD & Blu-ray sale or rental, or download. Education and training The UKFC also funded: The Skillset Film Skills Fund which ensured a supply of skilled professionals in line with market demand and aims to build a bigger and better future for the film industry in the UK. As the first-ever comprehensive training strategy for the British film industry, it was launched in September 2003.First Light, a digital short filmmaking scheme that offered children and young people more opportunities to participate in and learn about filmmaking.FILMCLUB, free to all state after school programmes in England, FILMCLUB opened the world of film to school children with free DVDs for screenings, visits from film professionals and an interactive website. Regional and national film activity The UKFC funded nine regional screen agencies via its Regional Investment Fund for England (RIFE)''' which provided funding for production, screen commissions, cinema exhibition, training, archives and education within each English region. These were: EM Media (East Midlands), Film London (Greater London), Northern Film & Media (North East England), North West Vision and Media, (also known as Vision+Media) (North West England), Screen East (East of England), Screen South (South East England), Screen West Midlands (West Midlands), Screen Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber) and South West Screen (South West England). All of them, excluding Film London and Screen Yorkshire, were merged into Creative England as a result of the dissolution of the UKFC in 2010. It also funded three national screen agencies responsible for developing film, television and broadcast new media in other British countries: Scottish Screen (now Creative Scotland/Screen Scotland), Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (now Northern Ireland Screen) and the Film Agency for Wales (now Ffilm Cymru Wales). Film culture and history The UKFC also part-funded the British Film Institute which champions moving image culture, education and cinema heritage to benefit as wide an audience as possible and aims to deepen and encourage public debate about film. The BFI was responsible for delivering that part of the UKFC's strategy "to help UK audiences enjoy the best of British and world cinema". Response to abolition On 26 July 2010 it was announced that the council would be abolished; Actors and professionals including James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Pete Postlethwaite, Damian Lewis, Timothy Spall, Daniel Barber and Ian Holm campaigned against the council's abolition."Daniel Barber condemns UK Film Council abolition", 29