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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Company no. 05471322 Charity no. 1118602

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements 30 November 2020

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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Legal and administrative information Legal and administrative information
For the year ended 30 November 2020
Company number 05471322
Charity number 1118602
Registered office address 37 Laurie Grove
London, SE14 6NH
United Kingdom
Operational address 37 Laurie Grove
London, SE14 6NH
United Kingdom
Secretary Joseph Farrell
Trustees Trustees, who are also Directors under Company Law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report were:
Isabel Hilton (Chair)
Andy Mueller-Maguhn
Barbora Bukovska
Eyal Weizman
Gill Phillips
Iona Craig
Joseph Farrell
Martin Tomkinson
Bankers Charities Aid Foundation Bank (CAF Bank)
25 Kings Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Malling
Kent, ME19 4JQ
Accountants Solid Limited
410 Davina House
137-149 Goswell Road
London EC1V 7ET

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Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Report of the trustees

For the year ended 30 November 2020


The Trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2020.

Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (issued in March 2005).

Structure and governance

The Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited (CIJ) is a company limited by guarantee. It was incorporated on 3rd June 2005 and registered as a charity on 29 March 2007. The serving trustees agree to contribute an amount not exceeding £10 in the event of the company being dissolved while he or she is a member, or within twelve months after he or she ceases to be a member.

Management and control

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall management and control of the Charity. Operationally, day to day responsibility for running the CIJ lies with the Charity Director James Harkin supported by staff.

Aims and Objectives

The CIJ is an educational charity, a think-tank and experimental laboratory, set up:

Achievements, and main projects, programmes and activity of FY20:

The Covid-19 crisis greatly shaped this reported period. While terrible for all our communities in many ways, it has presented the CIJ with a unique opportunity to accelerate our move towards online training in our programmes, and distribute our training and reach more widely both geographically and demographically.

The financial stability we had achieved by the time the pandemic began afforded us the space to react confidently to the crisis and flourish in circumstances in which, without a stable base, we might have foundered. We grabbed that opportunity with both hands and focused our efforts on the conversion of our training from the physical classroom to the virtual one, developing a robust and comprehensive curriculum of online courses. The expertise of our core staffing and network of trainers made this transition swift and successful.

This year’s substantial progress can be grouped generally into Training & Initiatives , Events & Conferences , Ancillary Activities , and Infrastructure & Organisation .

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1. Training and Initiatives

Like the majority of businesses in the UK, the CIJ switched to remote working in the middle of March 2020. Being small and nimble the transition was quick and seamless, and it wasn’t long before we shifted our activity focus and priorities to online training and events. We were very intent on making the best from a crisis, and what ensued was an intensely productive period of R&D and trialling in order to develop our training offer - thinking of Covid-19 not just defensively, to mitigate its temporary effects, but using it as an opportunity to experiment with all our training programmes to see how, in conjunction with our new website, we could help reinvent journalism education online.

As soon as the confinement was enforced, we started working with our team of external trainers to practice how to teach online, in the belief that doing so will benefit all our work in the future. It was no small task. Our training is effective because it is hands-on, in-depth and highly participatory. We couldn’t just record some videos and call it CIJ training. Equally, sending passive material and expecting participants to master it all on their own at home wasn’t the answer either. What we planned to offer is online training in small groups, a kind of Oxbridge tutorial approach allowing for direct contact with the trainer, together with practical exercises to practice what you’ve learnt and larger groups where the content is less hands-on, but the methods are just as interactive. We chose Zoom as our hosting platform and developed and finessed this new online training provision during the early part of 2020, allowing us to run a range of sold-out training courses over the summer.

Our Access To Tools (ATT) programme was the first training programme we successfully translated online after the Covid crisis hit in March 2020. We were delivering our first online versions of the training as early as April 2020 to freelance journalists across the country.

During Financial Year 2020, we delivered over 25 ATT workshops, reaching local newsrooms across the UK.

January 2020 marked the start of our ‘ Collaborative Community Journalism Project ’, a two-year project funded by Trust for London and aimed at extending the innovation we’ve fostered in community investigative journalism around the country into London.

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Although the project was officially put on hold until January 2021 due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we nevertheless ran a pilot version of the programme with one of the proposed partner organisations, the Tottenham Community Press. Starting in May 2020 we provided online training, expertise and wider support to staff of the outlet. This included online training in Data Journalism, Investigative Methodology, Open-Source Intelligence, Information Security, use of Freedom of Information Regulations and Company Records. The success of the online format of that pilot led to the decision to resume the programme at full scale as early as January 2021 via the virtual classroom, whether doing it in-person was going to be possible or not.

2. Events and conferences

Part 2 of the series took place on 29 January 2020 at the ICA London.

The usual, campus-based conference attracts between 180 and 220 paid delegates each year. Delegates attend a minimum of one full day and a maximum of three full days of the event, selecting between 60+ courses and talks. This year, around 500 people signed up for the #CIJSummer talks and courses. Over 60% of the audience had never attended #CIJSummer before. The majority mentioned distance, time and affordability as the reason why they had not attended the London-based conference before.

The programme deviated in a variety of ways from our original plan (to host it as a physical event over two days in Paris). The Symposium itself had to be re-named from “Solidarité” to “Collective Intelligence” and re-planned as an online event. Unfortunately this also meant that many of our intended partner organisations fell by the wayside as they reevaluated their priorities, which also meant a dramatic decrease in expected funding and in-kind support. This gap was more than filled by new partnerships with organisations across Europe including Reva & David Logan Foundation grantees the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin, as well as Reporters United in Athens, Documentari Inchieste Giornalismi (DIG) in Modena, and Canal180 in Porto.

3. Ancillary Activities

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£1,411 revenue was generated in FY20 - 136 books sold.

The Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Library

Since our founder Gavin MacFadyen’s death, we’ve built a Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Library at our home in New Cross, which is currently being curated and which offers an entirely original resource of materials on investigative journalism, social and political theory, and anti-fascist campaigning work.

In the context of the pandemic, the physical curation of our catalogue had to be put on hold until such time we could return to the office and resume that work.

4. Infrastructure & Organisation:

At 8 members and one Board observer (Becky Gardiner, faculty member of Goldsmiths, University of London), there is no immediate plan to grow the Board membership any further.

Funding for FY20:

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CIJ funding consists of the following funds:

At the close of FY19, we successfully reached our financial reserves target of £87,000 of our net unrestricted surplus. This sum is the equivalent of 6 months of operating costs and is the target set by the CIJ’s Reserves Policy. This CORE Operational Contingency fund is kept in a dedicated CAF bank account.

Balances of our designated funds as of 01/12/2020:

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Financial Review

Result for the year: Total income for the year was £436,637 (2019: £444,621) of which £403,495 (2019: £350,602) was from donated grants, without which the CIJ would have been unable to generate the current range and volume of training and educational activity.

The Charity's principal sources of unrestricted funding for the year were the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the Google News Initiative, Democracy and Media Foundation (Democratie en Media Stiftung) and Bertha Foundation.

Additional unrestricted income was generated from our scheduled & bespoke training provision, as well as the sales of our CIJ handbooks. A very small proportion of income came from individual donations.

The Charity’s sources of restricted funding for the year were the Reva and David Logan Foundation, and Trust for London.

Total expenditure for the year was £378,839 (2019: £332,015). The increase in expenditure was mainly due to the Logan Symposium, which we hosted in November 2020.

The Charity’s unrestricted surplus balance at the end of FY20 is made of

Investment Powers

CIJ has no investment assets and its cash funds are held in a CAF Bank current account.

Risk Management

The Trustees actively and regularly review the main risks which the CIJ faces. Being able to reach the target set by CIJ’s Financial Reserves Policy of six months’ worth of operating costs addresses the principal risk identified by the Trustees at the end of FY17.

The CIJ maintains a Risk Register. Main risks are reviewed regularly at Board Meetings.

Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees

The trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and the application of resources, including the net income or expenditure, of the charity for the year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

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The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

This report has been prepared in accordance with special provisions of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees:

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Joseph Farrell – Secretary Date ..............
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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Independent Examiner's report

To the members of

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

I report on the accounts for the year ended 30 November 2020.

Responsibilities of the Directors for the preparation of accounts

The Charity’s Trustees (who are also the Directors of the Company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act").

The Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under Section 144 of the Act and that an independent examination is needed. The Charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

It is my responsibility:

Basis of Independent Examiner`s Statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a "true and fair" view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner`s Statement

In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed :
Name
Professional
Qualification
Address
Date
7/23/2021
Mathews Chanza
Associate CharteredManagementAccountant (ACMA)
Solid Limited,Davina House,137-149 Goswell Road,London,EC1V 7ET

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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)

For the year ended 30 November 2020
Note
Incoming resources
2
3
4
Total incoming resources
Resources expended
Charitable activities
#CIJSummer & #CIJRegional Conferences
Products&Services: Scheduled & Bespoke Training
Products&Services: Handbooks & Misc
#CIJLOGAN Talks, Training & Symposium
Management, Fundraising & Operations costs
Governance
Total resources expended
5
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward
Other incoming resources
(handbooks&misc)

Voluntary Income
(events & training sales)
Incoming resources generated
from grants
Restricted
£
5,298
175,275
-
180,573
5,114
28,336
-
78,833
-
-
112,282
68,291
24,100
92,391
Unrestricted
£
24,686
228,220
3,157
256,063
-
167,624
5,841
-
79,030
14,062
266,557
(10,493)
218,090
207,597
2020
Total
£
29,984
403,495
3,157
436,637
5,114
195,960
5,841
78,833
79,030
14,062
378,839
57,798
242,190
299,988
2019
Total
£
81,422
350,602
12,597
444,621
70,246
118,853
9,935
48,520
76,893
7,568
332,015
112,606
129,584
242,190

All the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 10 to the financial statements.

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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Balance sheet

As at 30 November 2020
2020
Note
£
Current assets
Debtors
7
4,929
Cash at bank and in hand
412,830
417,759
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts due within one year
8
(117,771)
Net current assets
Net assets
9
Funds
10
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
a. Designated Funds
Gavin MacFayden Memorial Library
Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary
CORE Operational Contingency
b. Other Unrestricted funds
Total charity funds
2020
£
299,988
299,988
92,391
7,129
13,842
87,000
99,626
299,988
2019
£
1,767
340,064
341,832
(99,641)
242,190
242,190
24,100
8,089
15,891
87,000
107,109
242,190

For the year ending 30 November 2020 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Directors acknowledge their responsibility for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and for the preparation of accounts.

The accounts were approved by the Board of Trustees and were signed on its behalf by:

............................................ Joseph Farrell - Secretary

Date:

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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 November 2020

1. Accounting policies Income

Expenditure and liabilities

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Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity costs categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

2.
Voluntary income
#CIJSummer & #CIJRegional Investigative Journalism Conferences ticket sales
Products&Services: Scheduled and Bespoke Training Income
Total
3.
List of donations
Bertha Foundation
The Lorana Sullivan UK Foundation
Trust for London - Collaborative Community Journalism Project
Democracy & Media Foundation
The David & Elaine Potter Foundation
The Reva & David Logan Foundation - #CIJLOGAN Symposium 2020
Google News Initiative - Access To Tools Training Programme
Google News Initiative
Other donations
Total grants received
4.
Other Incoming resources
Interest received
Total other incoming resources
The Reva & David Logan Foundation
Other Income (Handbook Sales)
Restricted
Funds
2020
£
5,298
5,298
Restricted
Funds
£
16,500
124,435
34,340
175,275
Restricted
Funds
£
-
-
Unrestricted
Funds
2020
£
24,686
24,686
Unrestricted
Funds
£
8,000
73,176
1,790
17,234
128,020
228,220
Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
3,157
3,157

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'CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 November 2020

5. Total resources expended

Total resources expended
Restricted Expenditure(R.E) Unrestricted Expenditure(U.E) 2020 2019
#CIJSummer &
#CIJRegional
Conferences
Access To Tools Training
Programme
#CIJLOGAN Talks,
Training &
Symposium
Total(R.E) Products & Services:
Scheduled & Bespoke
Training
Products & Services:
Handbooks & Misc
Management,
Fundraising &
Operations
Governance
Total(U.E) Total
Expenditure
Total
Expenditure
Bank & Paypal Charges
Books and Publications
Conference fees & subscriptions
Equipment/Insurance
Trainers travel, accommodation, per diems
Bursaries travel, accommodation
Volunteers expenses
Postage
Printing and reproduction
Trainers, Speakers & Professional fees
IT, Telephones & Website
Events - venue hire & catering + AV
Accountancy fees
Staff travel/meals/expenses
Office supplies/Utilities
Staff costs
Staff Training
Fellows/Consultants fees
R&D
Marketingcost
102
636
1,387
1,129
2,674
6,600
2,562
151
0
1,466
-
1,551
20,349
53,025
-
-
20,650
102
-
-
-
3,152
-
-
-
-
11,837
-
151

-
-
752



-

435
300
111

-

300

-

5,978
1,999

27,665

-
6,564

53,345

11,939

-
-

2,937

76,661
3,842
62,646
7,388
156



3,540
752
-
-
-
846
-
300
-
7,977
27,665
6,564
53,345
11,939
-
2,937
150,536
156
-
-
3,540

854

-

-
-

3,998
-

300
-

7,977

39,502

6,564

53,496

1,964

0

0

1,207

17,566

4,865

950

307

904

25,531

5,742

27,457
1,466
13,405

7,825
-
-
74,925
-
-
20,650

-

2,937
225,462

156

-
-

24,190

1,493

2,770

213,076

3,381

0

1,141

15,836
TOTAL 5,114
28,336
78,833
112,282
167,624
5,841
79,030
14,062
266,557 378,839
332,015

Unrestriced Staff costs are allocated according to an estimate of staff time attributed to each activity, breakdown as shown below:

Training (50%), Handbooks & Other products&services (3%), Mngmt, Fundraising & Operations costs (42%), Governance (5%).

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CIJ Accounts 01 December 2019 to 30 November 2020'

Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 November 2020

5. (continued)

6.

7.

8.

9.

Staff costs and numbers
2020
£
Salaries and wages
197,282
Employer's NI
28,180
Total emoluments paid to staff were:
225,462
No employee earned more than £60,000 during the year.
The average monthly number of employees during the year was:
2020
Executive Director
1
Other Staff
3.5
Number of full-time staff
4.5
Taxation
Debtors
2020
Other debtors
4,829
Accrued Income
100
Total
4,929
Creditors: amounts due within one year
2020
Accruals/trade creditors
17,329
Deferred income - Democracy & Media Foundation (Core)
1,439
Deferred income - Bertha Foundation (Core)
0
Deferred income - Trust for London (Restricted: Collaborative Community Journalism Project)
14,100
The Reva & David Logan Foundation (Restricted: Logan Talks, Training & Symposium)
69,324
Google News Initiative (Restricted: Access To Tools Programme)
8,967
Deferred income - Other
6,612
Total
117,771
Analysis of net assets between funds
Restricted
funds
£
£
Net current assets
92,391
325,368
Creditors: amounts falling due 1 year
-
(17,329)
Creditors: deferred Income
-
(100,442)
Net assets at the end of the year
92,391
207,597
No provision has been made for corporation tax in view of the company`s charitable status
Unrestricted funds
2019
£
189,401
23,675
213,076
2019
1.0
3.5
4.5
2019
863
904
1,767
2019
9,295
1410.06
8,000
16,500
24,100
39,480
856
99,641
Total
funds
£
417,759
(17,329)
(100,442)
299,988

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Centre for Investigative Journalism Limited

Notes to the financial statements

For the year ended 30 November 2020

10. Movements in funds The funds of the Charity include restricted funds with the balances below and grants held on trust for specific projects recognised and used in 2020.

a.
The Reva & David Logan Foundation - Talks,Training and Symposium
Trust for London - Collaborative Community Journalism Project
Google News Initiative - Access To Tools Training Programme
#CIJSummer Conference 2020
Total Restricted Funds
b.
Unrestricted Funds
11
Designated funds classification and movement
Gavin McFadyen Memorial Library Fund
Lyra McKee Investigative Journalism Training Bursary fund (2019-2023)
CORE Operational Contingency
Other unrestricted funds
Total Funds
Total Designated Funds
Restricted Funds recognised and used
Opening
Balance
Closing
Balance
£
£
£
£
24,100
124,435
(79,211)
69,324
16,500
(2,400)
14,100
34,340
(25,373)
8,967
5,298
(5,298)
Incoming
resources
Outgoing
resources
24,100
180,573
(112,282)
92,392
218,090
256,063
- (266,557)
207,597
218,090
256,063
- (266,557)
207,597
-
242,190
-
436,637
- (378,839)
299,988
8,089
-
(960)
7,129
15,891
5
(2,054)
13,842
87,000
87,000
110,980
5
(3,014)
107,971

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