Annual Report 2006 - Partnership for Children

Partnership for Children
Annual Report 2006

our world
Iceland
Public Health Institute
Norway
Voksne for Barn
Lithuania
Vaiko Labui
India
Sangath Society for Child
Development and Family
Guidance, Goa
Canada
CRISE at the University
of Quebec at Montreal
USA
YCS, New Jersey
Launching: Spring 2007
Poland
CMPPP (Methodological Centre of
Psycho-Pedagogical Assistance)
Denmark
Odense Socialpædagogiske
Seminarium
Brazil
ASEC (Association for
Children’s Emotional
Health)
England and Wales
Dudley, Durham, Northumberland,
Southampton and Warwickshire Local
Education Authorities
Spelthorne Confederation
Sunfield School
Howell’s School, Llandaff
China -
Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Institiute
of Education
In 2006, Partnership for Children
helped 39,244 children in 10 countries.
Cover: Two boys taking part in Zippy’s Friends in Kitigan, Quebec, Canada.
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our work
Partnership for Children promotes the
emotional wellbeing of children and
young people throughout the world.
Our main activity is Zippy’s Friends, a
school-based programme that helps six
and seven year old children to develop
coping skills. The programme is unusual
because it helps children from different
countries and cultures – from Surrey to
São Paulo, Iceland to India. In 2006,
the number of children enrolled grew
by 56 per cent.
Zippy’s Friends is based on extensive
research, and helps children learn how
to identify and talk about their feelings,
how to make friends, how to resolve
conflicts and how to cope with change
and loss. The programme has been
professionally evaluated, and has been
featured in two publications by the
World Health Organisation.
We also run a website which provides
information and resources for parents
and teachers of young children
– www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk –
and are working with Booktrust
to produce a list of recommended
storybooks.
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our work
south and north america
Todd Ouida
Brazil is now our largest country
programme. In 2006, the number of
children enrolled in Amigos do Zippy
shot up to 15,776, a tenfold increase
over the previous year. The programme
spread outside São Paulo and was run in
a wide range of communities, including
some favela or slum schools. Sorocaba
became the first city in the world to
run Zippy’s Friends in all of its primary
schools.
In Canada, we are working in the
province of Quebec, and the number of
children enrolled in Les Amis de Zippy
rose by more than 300 per cent.
For the first time, classes were also
run with English-speaking children
in a Native Canadian area north of
Montreal.
We reached agreement with Youth
Consultation Service (YCS) of New
Jersey to run a first US pilot of Zippy’s
Friends in 2007. This was made possible
by the enthusiasm and generosity of
The Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation,
which commemorates and celebrates
the life of Todd Ouida, who died in the
attack on the World Trade Center in
2001.
Brazilian flower of friendship
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our work
asia
Director Chris Bale and
Prof Lorna Chan of the
Hong Kong Institute
of Education present
a first Chinese set of
Zippy’s Friends teaching
materials to Prof Zhu Jia
Xiong of Shanghai’s East
China Normal University.
A Zippy’s Friends class
at Anganwadi 34 in
Candolim, Goa
In China, there was again very strong
growth in Hong Kong, with the number
of children enrolled rising by 73 per
cent. A Chinese-language website was
set up to promote the programme and
to strengthen communication between
teachers. The Hong Kong Institute
of Education, which manages Zippy’s
Friends, also teamed up with the East
China Normal University to launch the
programme in Shanghai. In both
places, HSBC provided very generous
sponsorship. About 1,000 children were
enrolled for the first year in Shanghai,
and in a city of more than 20 million
people there is enormous scope for
expansion.
In India, we work in Goa with Sangath
Society for Child Development and
Family Guidance, which first ran Zippy’s
Friends in English-speaking schools and
then moved into schools teaching in
Konkani. The Indian education system
has a strong focus on academic results,
and it is not easy to persuade schools
of the need to promote children’s
mental and emotional health. Sangath
has been looking at alternative settings
for Zippy’s Friends, and in 2006 began
classes in community pre-schools, or
anganwadis.
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A first national conference
was organised in Poland
for trainers and teachers
of Przyjaciele Zippiego.
The programme grew
strongly throughout the
year, with 7,851 children
enrolled.
Recognising feelings, a resource produced
by Sunfield School
our work
In Norway, Zippy’s venner was
approved for use in schools across the
country, and included in the National
Action Plan for mental health in
schools.
Lithuania recorded another year of
solid development, with the programme
expanding to all ten counties. The
number of children enrolled rose yet
again to 8,525. The British Embassy
in Vilnius and the British Chamber of
Commerce in Lithuania both gave
generous support, and the IKI chain of
supermarkets agreed to sponsor Zipio
draugai for three years from 2007.
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In England, we began an interesting
collaboration with Sunfield School,
which is adapting Zippy’s Friends for
children with severe and complex
learning difficulties. A first national
workshop was organised for Zippy’s
Friends coordinators, and Howell’s
School, Llandaff, became the first school
to run the programme in Wales.
There was no significant growth during
the year in Denmark, due to the
retirement of the original co-ordinator,
but prospects for 2007 are brighter.
Iceland has the smallest population
of all Zippy’s Friends countries, but the
programme developed steadily in 2006
and five times more children took part.
A Zippy’s Friends class in Iceland
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our people
our friends
Tania Paris and her team
at Associação Pela Saúde
Emocional de Crianças in
Brazil achieved phenomenal
results in 2006, training
hundreds of teachers and
enrolling 15,776 children in
Amigos do Zippy.
Mette Ystgaard, one of
our founding Trustees,
retired from the Board
this year but continues to
be involved as leader of a
major evaluation of Zippy’s
Friends in Norway.
Board of Trustees
Doro Marden – Chair
Prof Brian Mishara
Jeppe Kristen Toft
Ann Cottis
Prof Peter Paulus
Fenella Rouse
Staff
Chris Bale – Director
Caroline Egar – Programme Manager
Helen White – Administrator
Richard Micallef – Accountant
We are grateful to the foundations,
companies and individuals who
supported our work in 2006. Special
thanks are due to:
• Artemis Trust
• Dulverton Trust
• Education4Peace
• HSBC
• HSBC Education Trust
• Marmot Charitable Trust
• Network for Social Change
• Specialist Schools and
Academies Trust
• Todd Ouida Children’s Foundation
Some supporters preferred to remain
anonymous, and some gave smaller
amounts. We are very grateful to all of
them.
Sun drawn by Simon White, 7
Dan Silas cycled from
London to Paris and
raised almost £2,000.
‘I wanted to help a
smaller charity, and
the fact that this is
for children made it
the obvious choice.’
A new scheme was
launched for Friends,
who support our
work with monthly,
quarterly or annual
donations.
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our accounts
Financial Report January 2006 To December 2006
Statement of Financial Activities
For the period ended Unrestricted Restricted 2006 2005
31 December 2006 Funds (£) Funds (£) Total (£) Total (£)
Incoming resources
Voluntary income 50,698 2,660 53,358 149,125
Charitable activities 45,319 9,475 54,794 67,703
Investment income 1,936 - 1,936 3,503
Total incoming resources 97,953 12,135 110,088 220,331
Resources expended
Charitable expenditure (131,444) (24,127) (155,571) (166,496)
Governance costs (13,307) - (13,307) (14,285)
Total charitable expenditure (144,751) (24,127) (168,878) (180,781)
Net income/(expenditure)
for year
(46,798) (11,992) (58,790) 39,550
Total funds brought forward 78,394 11,992 90,386 50,836
Total funds carried forward 31,596 - 31,596 90,386
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2006
Fixed Assets
2006 2005
£ £ £ £
Tangible assets 558
Current Assets
Stock 1,653 2,049
Debtors 17,239 14,280
Cash at bank and in
hand
Creditors:amounts
falling due within one
year
21,735 81,363
40,627 97,692
(9,031) (7,864)
Net Current Assets 31,596 89,828
Net Assets 31,596 90,386
Funds
Restricted funds - 11,992
Unrestricted funds 31,596 78,394
31,596 90,386
The information presented here is a summary
of information contained in the annual accounts
of Partnership for Children. These summarised
accounts may not contain sufficient information
to allow a full understanding of the financial
affairs of the charity. If you would like a copy
of the statutory financial statements, they may
be obtained from Partnership for Children,
26-27 Market Place, Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey, KT1 1JH, UK. The annual accounts were
approved by the auditors David Howard on 16
May 2007. Their opinion on the accounts was
unqualified.
Signed on behalf of the board of Trustees
Dorothy Marden
Chair of Trustees
Auditors’ Statement to the Trustees of
Partnership for Children We have examined
the summarised financial statements set out
opposite, comprising the Statement of Financial
Activities and Balance Sheet for the period
ended 31st December 2006.
Respective Responsibilities of the
Trustees and Auditors You are responsible
as Trustees for the preparation of the financial
statements. We have agreed to report to you
our opinion on the summarised statements’
consistency with the full financial statements,
on which we provided you with an unqualified
report.
Basis of Opinion We have carried out such
procedures as we consider necessary to
ascertain whether the summarised financial
statements are consistent with the full financial
statements from which they have been
prepared.
Opinion In our opinion the summarised
financial statements are consistent with the full
financial statements for the period ended 31st
December 2006.
David Howard Chartered Accountants and
Registered Auditors
1 Park Road, Hampton Wick, Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey, KT1 4AS
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our finances
our future
2006 was a difficult year financially.
Income dipped to £110,088, following
the unexpected failure of a sponsor.
Costs were cut to £168,879, but that
still left a shortfall of £58,790, which
was covered by funds carried forward
and the Special Reserve.
The financial situation was closely and
regularly monitored, and an external
consultant worked with the Board of
Trustees and staff to consider how to
strengthen the charity’s finances for
the long-term.
Steps are being taken to ensure that
we receive more income from the
global expansion of Zippy’s Friends,
and an appeal was launched to raise
£100,000 to help 100,000 children over
two years.
One significant development during the
year was the conclusion of our grants to
partner agencies in India and Lithuania.
Every Zippy’s Friends programme is
now locally funded.
Plans
In 2007 we aim to:
• Launch Zippy’s Friends in two more
countries
• Support the programme’s expansion
in existing countries
• Update and reprint the Zippy’s Friends
teaching materials
• Re-design and re-launch our website
• Publish a booklet of recommended
storybooks for young children
• Strengthen our financial position
• Recruit new Trustees
Appeal
Partnership for Children is exactly that
– a partnership.
Our plans require the support of
many partners – teachers, parents,
academics, the agencies that run
Zippy’s Friends around the world, other
charities, international networks, and
our sponsors and supporters.
Please consider how you can support
our work and help us to promote the
emotional wellbeing of children around
the world.
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26-27 Market Place, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 1JH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8974 6004
Website: www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk
Email: info@partnershipforchildren.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 1089810
Company No. 4278914
Partnership for Children is a member of:
International Alliance for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Schools (Intercamhs)
International Association for Suicide Prevention
Mental Health Europe
NGO Committee on UNICEF
World Federation for Mental Health
Cover: Children taking part in Zippy’s Friends in (from left) China, Lithuania and India.
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This report is also available online at www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk