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2022-12-31-accounts

Annual Report

01.01.22– 31.12.22

Shropshire Bookfest aims to inspire, encourage and nurture in primary school-aged children a love of reading for pleasure and creative writing.

Reference and Administration Details:

Shropshire Bookfest Registered Charity Number: 1120177

Principal Address: Chaney Plough, Exfords Green, Longden, Shrewsbury, SY5 8HH

Constitution adopted: 21st May 2007

Trustees:

Sophie Peach (Chair), Jane Payton.(Acting Chair from Jan 2023) Sian Marshall (Treasurer), Elly Winter, Lucy Morris, Katy Rink, Annabel Warburg (Secretary), Paul Kirkbright

Officers nominated at Trustees’ meeting (AGM) held 8[th] December 2022:

Katy Rink resigned March 2023

Paul Kirkbright resigned June 2022

Additional Committee Members:

Joanna Hughes (Co-ordinator for Book Award and Readers to Writers from 01.10.12), Alison McGowan (School Co-ordinator), Nelia Byers, Jo Prosser, Ann Spandrzyk, Jackie Hampson, Julie Holmwood, Jan Elms, and Val Green

Structure, Governance and Management:

The charity continues to be operated by an elected committee of 7 Trustees, with non-trustee members providing additional assistance and expertise.

A self-employed coordinator, Joanna Hughes, continued in her position as Project and Marketing Coordinator, responsible for the organisation and planning of school-based projects, with major decisions agreed by the Trustees.

Alison McGowan completed her fifth full year in the post of School Coordinator (self-employed) and continues to work alongside Joanna, providing child-centred materials suitable for use in the classroom.

The major operational risks to which the charity is exposed, as identified by the Trustees, have been reviewed and systems have been established to manage and mitigate those risks. A full Covid-19 policy to protect volunteers and schools was drawn up and circulated to all members of Bookfest.

All events/financial decisions are presented to the Board of Trustees for approval with estimated budgets.

Objectives:

In pursuit of the charity’s aims and objectives, Shropshire Bookfest works with teachers, literacy coordinators, children, authors and specialists in reading, drama and art to support and enhance the literacy curriculum in primary schools by developing, running and promoting creative projects that support and extend children skills and enjoyment in reading and creative writing. These projects shall be open to all, irrespective of academic ability, nationality, religious opinion, political party, race, colour, gender or sexual orientation.

The main vehicle by which these objectives are achieved is through a structure of biennial classroom-based projects for Shropshire primary schools. In 2022 it was the turn of Book Award and Picture Book Award that aim to help and encourage all children to develop a love of reading and express their views on contemporary fiction - regardless of reading ability.

Key objectives for the year were:

Achievements and Performance:

Book Award 2022

Financial Summary:

Project Timeline Overview:

Key Statistics:

*Schools signed up in September 2021, project was launched to teachers in December 2021

The Project:

Book Award is run every two years, in alternate years to the Readers to Writers project.

It is aimed at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin primary schools.

In September 2021, the Bookfest Book Award 2022 Steering Group contacted over 70 primary schools across Shropshire who either asked to be on the database or who have taken part in Bookfest projects before, including some from Telford & Wrekin, to invite them to take part in Book Award 2022.

The uptake in Book Award 2022 was the highest yet:

Year Total Schools Total Pupils 2010 15 600 2012 23 700 2014 27 964 2016 28 1076 2018 32 1876 (incl 17 schools - 633 pupils from Picture Book Award) 2020 40 2434 (incl 26 schools - 1002 pupils from Picture Book Award) 2022 46 3066 (including 26 schools - 1286 pupils from Picture Book Award 2022)

Governance/Management:

The project was overseen by Chair of Trustees, Sophie Peach, Ali McGowan (Bookfest School Coordinator - paid, freelance) and Joanna Hughes (Marketing Co-ordinator - paid, freelance) and also by Jane Payton (Trustee - volunteer) - these 4 people also had a number of schools each to manage as volunteer School Co-ordinators. There were an additional 4 volunteer School Co-ordinators who were assigned a number of schools each to manage throughout the delivery of the project. A further 5 volunteers provided advice, support and back up throughout the project.

New for Big Book Award 2022:

Following consultation with primary school teachers and with contacts at OFSTED who highlighted the focus on the spoken language within the national curriculum, Bookfest introduced a new strand to Big Book Award. In partnering up with Pentabus Theatre – the nation’s leading rural touring theatre company based in Shropshire - a wide-ranging competition was devised for children to encourage them onto a stage, behind a microphone or in front of the camera to talk about the Book Award 2022

shortlisted books for The Creative Response Competition . Bespoke workshops were produced by Pentabus for teachers and pupils to access and learn these new skills.

Big Book Award 2022 Cost Structure to Schools:

To ensure access to the Book Award 2022 project for any sized primary school was as fair and as accessible as possible, the cost to schools remained unchanged (at the same level for Book Award

Both cost levels for Big Book Award 2022 gave every school and their pupils:

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2018) with two levels of investment: £10 per pupil which included attendance at the Awards Ceremony at Theatre Severn or £4 per pupil not including awards ceremony attendance. Each school was charged a one-off school registration fee of £150.

Picture Book Award 2022 Cost Structure to Schools:

Again keeping costs unchanged since 2018, each school signing up to Picture Book Award 2022 paid a oneoff school registration fee of £125 plus £4 for every pupil. This provided:

Big Book Award 2022 Project Launch:

Owing to the ongoing uncertainty and anxiety surrounding Covid-19 relating to public safety within large gatherings of people, government restrictions on seating and safe spaces in venues such as theatres, cinemas and lecture halls in 2021, it was decided not to run the conference for teachers in November 2021 at the University Centre Shrewsbury to

launch the project and distribute the materials to the teachers.

Instead, Ali McGowan – Schools Co-ordinator – delivered two films in December 2021 for teachers to access and prepare for the start of term in January 2022:

How to Make the Most Out of Book Award 2022

launch FOR TEACHERS and Big Book Award 2022 launch FOR PUPILS , to launch the project, reveal the shortlisted books and highlight the support and expertise readily on hand from Bookfest throughout the following months.

In December 2021, the volunteers from the Book Award Steering Group took to the road and personally delivered over 1,300 copies of the shortlisted books and all the support materials for the teachers to every one of the 42 primary schools across the county who were taking part in Big Book Award 2022. Together with the launch films, this enabled teachers to prepare lesson plans based on the project ahead of the start of term in January 2022.

‘Bites’ Films

Based on the successful and positive feedback from schools during Schools’ Week 2021 where communication and motivation to teachers and pupils was conveyed by a series of short and informative and fun films called ‘Bookfest Bites’, it was decided to repeat the format for Big Book Award 2022.

Again, Ali McGowan put together a series of films throughout January to March to share the work, displays, comments, thoughts of pupils as they moved through the project. Together with the Teacher Pack, this resource helped keep teachers and pupils fully immersed in the project and developed a county-wide community spirit to the project. The films can be viewed on the Shropshire Bookfest YouTube Channel - Shropshire Bookfest – YouTube

Art CPD:

Reflecting on the effectiveness and positive feedback from previous Art CPD sessions delivered by Bookfest, this was again made available for teachers. Covid-19 infections sadly prevented full attendance. However, those that were able to attend found the 2-hour session from 4pm on 15th February 2022 led by Sasha Morris-Bhatia offered teachers support, encouragement and practical ideas to take back to the classroom for children to implement when preparing their art competition entries.

Pentabus Theatre Workshops:

Thanks to some energetic fundraising, Bookfest was able to offer support to teachers and their pupils by way of specially designed drama workshops by Pentabus Theatre. These filmed, bite-sized workshops were devised by industry-leading theatre practitioners, which provided a range of ideas to help children improvise, devise and script drama in response to the six shortlisted books and enter their work into the ‘Creative Response Competition’. Schools were able to access this resource throughout the Spring Term.

The films, which can be accessed here Bookfest (shropshirebookfest.co.uk), by Pentabus Theatre covered:

We paid for a Pentabus workshop in school which the children absolutely loved and proved extremely helpful with regards to our creative response movie trailer. Hinstock Primary School .

Pentabus Theatre also offered all Book Award 2022 participating schools

the opportunity for one of their industry professionals to come into the classroom to deliver a choice of bespoke, 1 - hour workshops with their pupils. These sessions were offered exclusively to Book Award 2022 schools at £150 per session.

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The grand finale at
Theatre Severn was
epic...and the
children absolutely
loved it.
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Big Book Award Awards Ceremony:

560 pupils and 42 teachers from 17 of the 42 schools taking part in Big Book Award 2022 attended the Awards Ceremony at Theatre Severn on Thursday 28[th] April 2022. The whole event was live streamed to all schools, with many classes choosing to make the morning into an Oscars-styled event with popcorn and balloons.

Bookfest volunteers, led by Trustee Lucy Morris, produced a banner for every one of the 42 schools that took part which were hung around the auditorium, giving the space a very welcoming feel to all the schools attending and watching online.

Mari Izzard, who had delivered one of the Pentabus online drama workshops, was co-presenter on stage with Bookfest’s Ali McGowan and together they formed a formidable, high energy and slick presenting team during the two-hour event. Mari also delivered six short pieces of drama linked to each of

the six shortlisted books, some with audience participation and props.

Sadly, due to immovable prior engagements, illness and unforeseen circumstances, three of the shortlisted authors were unable to be present on stage at the event. However, two of them (Nizrana Farook – The Boy Who Met a Whale and Lisa Thompson – The Small Things ) managed in a very short space of time to submit excellently executed pre-recorded pieces to camera, including answers to questions that had been sent from pupils. This gave a welcome change of pace during the event.

Patron Martin Brown was guest presenter on stage to hand out the prizes to the Art Competition and gave a hugely positive and joyful speech about the importance of illustration in stories: https://youtu.be/jQshBC2vUNg

Creative Response Competition:

Linking with the Pentabus Theatre online drama workshops, the criteria for this competition had evolved from previously simply a film trailer competition to a piece of work in the form of any one of the following based on any one of the six shortlisted books:

  1. A soliloquy

  2. A three-minute whistle-stop narrative

  3. A radio drama

  4. A dialogue

  5. An additional scene

Whilst several classes did venture into the newer forms of creative responses, it was clear that pupils felt most comfortable producing film trailer entries. Nevertheless, the quality of all the entries (33 entries from 13 schools) was extremely high. Drama professionals from Pentabus Theatre made the final judging decision and the company’s Artistic Director, Elle While, awarded the prizes as follows:

Winner: Indigo Exham, Carly Stewart and Isla Metliss from Longden CE Primary School: The Small Things

Runner Up #1: Class 3 from Cheswardine Primary School: SkyWake Invasion

Runner Up #2: Hay-Yee Hilton from Packwood Haugh School: Twitch

Runner Up #3: Jack Kinnersley, Lottie Frith, Emily Wootton and Laila Beech from Castlefields Primary School, Bridgnorth: The Boy Who Met a Whale

These films can be viewed here: Bookfest (shropshirebookfest.co.uk)

Letter Writing Competition:

22 schools sent nearly 600 entries into this competition where children wrote a letter giving a piece of advice from/to a character in any one

of the shortlisted titles. Every school that entered had a school winner and six ‘top’ winners were then selected from these. The winning letter, by Erin Hogan, was read out by author Tim Tilley, much to the obvious joy of the winner! The winning letters were:

Overall Winner:

Erin Hogan from St Winefride’s School based on Harklights

Runners Up:

Nathaniel Hale from Lilleshall based on The Boy who Met a Whale Grace Fellowes from St John’s Catholic Primary School based on The Small Things Rosie Cashmore from Rushbury CE Primary School based on SkyWake Invasion Georgia Davison from Shrewsbury High Prep School based on No Country Edie Bell from Prestfelde School based on Twitch

Art Competition:

24 schools submitted entries to this, where children had been asked to produce a picture illustrating a scene from one of the shortlisted books. The judging panel included Sasha Morris-Bhatia, Art CPD instructor.

Overall Winner: Emily Wootton from Castlefields Primary School Bridgnorth – Twitch

2nd Place: Indigo Exham from Longden CE Primary School – Harklights

3[rd] Place: Erin Jones from St Winefride’s School – The Small Things

4th Place: Libby Drury-Scott from Lilleshall Primary School – SkyWake Invasion

Voting:

With children having cast their votes in March, the overall winner of the Big Book Award 2022 was No Country by Joe Brady and Patrice Aggs. This was a first for Shropshire Bookfest in that a graphic novel not only featured in the shortlist but also won. No Country is set in a future Britain where civil war rages and democracy is dead, with a powerful message as it follows one family as they try to find safety and a new home. It is clear that the children have been and continue to be touched by crisis situations raging in areas of conflict across the world such as Ukraine, and this book has offered them a channel to express their understanding of this.

Joe Brady gave an impassioned acceptance speech at the Awards Ceremony, acknowledging the empathy, understanding and creativity shown by all the children who took part in the project. The speech can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/wODGHQegEv8

…it’s like Ukraine so we can support the book (really well done). Henry Bell, Longnor CE Primary School

No Country is an incredible story full of heart stopping moments. I was dragged into it and I could not stop reading it . Arabella Windsor – Packwood Haugh School

Big Book Award Post-Project Feedback:

During the last week of April 2022, all 42 schools who took part in Big Book Award 2022 were sent a short feedback survey to complete using Survey Monkey. 24 schools responded, giving an excellent source of feedback data on the effectiveness of the project.

1. Please indicate the general effect the Big Book Award 2022 had on your pupils:

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Engaged reluctant readers
Encouraged children to read more than usual
Challenged the 'greater depth' pupils
Created a positive impact on attitudes towards
reading
Encouraged more 'book talk' in class
Enabled pupils to read books they wouldn't normally
choose
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Low Medium High
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2. Would you recommend Big Book Award to other primary school teachers?

3. Overall how would you rate the Big Book Award project for your pupils

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Excellent
Very good
Good
Average
Poor
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Picture Book Award:

At the beginning of March 2022, 46 picture books submitted by publishers to the longlist were shared between 8 primary schools, who were tasked with selecting a shortlist of 4 books:

Art Competition:

Pupils were invited to submit a picture illustrating a scene/character from one of the shortlisted books, using any medium including collage.

424 entries from 12 schools were received. A winner was chosen from each school that entered. Their prize was an art box, certificate and their artwork presented back to them in a frame. Bookfest coordinators visited all these schools to help present the prizes to the pupils.

Class Response Competition:

Schools were encouraged to submit a response to any one of the shortlisted titles. This could take any format such as a class display, scrapbook, a collective piece of artwork, a song or a poem, a film or even a re-enactment of the story using puppets or themselves.

Longnor CE Primary School class display

Voting:

Pupils were given clear and easy to use voting forms asking them to choose their favourite book from the shortlist.

Picture Book Award 2022 Winner

With over 1000 pupils from the 26 schools taking part casting their votes on 1[st] July, the winning book

was announced on 6[th] July. The author and illustrator sent in a gently chaotic and grateful acceptance speech: https://youtu.be/sIpIIA64HdM

It was lovely for the children to see both the author and illustrator in person, to be able to put a face to the name.

We really liked hearing from the author and there was much excitement when waiting for the big reveal.

Picture Book Award Post-Project Feedback

At the close of the Picture Book Award project, all 26 schools who took part in Picture Book Award 2022 were sent a short feedback survey to complete, with 16 responding.

1. Please indicate the effect that Picture Book Award 2022 had on your pupils:

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Engaged reluctant readers
Encouraged children to read more than usual
Challenged the Gifted and Talented readers
Created a positive impact on attitudes towards
reading
Encouraged more 'book talk' in class
Enabled pupils to read books they wouldn't normally
choose
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Low Medium High
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2. Would your school consider taking part again in Picture Book Award (2024)?

Yes – 100%

Full list of participating schools in Book Award 2022

School Big Book Award
(Years 5, 6)		 Picture Book Award
(R, Years 1, 2)
1 AdderleyC/E PrimarySchool √
2 AlveleyPrimarySchool √
3 Baschurch C/E PrimarySchool √ √
4 Bicton C/E PrimarySchool √
5 Castlefields PrimarySchool,Bridgnorth √ √
6 Cheswardine PrimarySchool √ √
7 ClaverleyC/E PrimarySchool √
8 Clee Hill Academy √
9 Condover C/E PrimarySchool √
10 Crowmoor PrimarySchool √ √
11 Ellesmere PrimarySchool √
12 Gobowen PrimarySchool √
13 Greenacres PrimarySchool √ √
14 Greenfields PrimarySchool √ √
15 Harlescott Junior School √
16 Hinstock PrimarySchool √ √
17 Lilleshall PrimarySchool √ √
18 Longden C/E PrimarySchool √ √
19 Longnor C/E PrimarySchool √ √
20 Lower Heath C/E PrimarySchool √ √
21 Martin Wilson PrimarySchool √ √
22 Meole Brace C/E PrimarySchool √ √
23 Mereside C/E PrimarySchool √
24 Moreton SayC/E PrimarySchool √
25 Mount Pleasant PrimarySchool √ √
26 Muxton PrimarySchool √
27 Norton-in-Hales C/E PrimarySchool √
28 Oxon C/E PrimarySchool √
29 Packwood Haugh School √
30 Prestfelde School √ √
31 Priorslee Academy √ √
32 RushburyC/E PrimarySchool √ √
33 ShrewsburyHigh PrepSchool √
34 St Andrew's C/E PrimarySchool,Nesscliffe √
35 St Edward’s C/E PrimarySchool √
36 St John's Catholic PrimarySchool,Bridgnorth √
37 St Laurence's C/E PrimarySchool Ludlow √ √
38 St Lawrence C/E PrimarySchool Church Stretton √ √
39 St Leonards C/E PrimarySchool,Bridgnorth √
40 St Mary's Catholic PrimarySchool,Madeley √ √
41 St Mary's C/E PrimarySchool(Shawbury) √
42 St. Winefride's School √
43 Tilstock C/E PrimarySchool √
44 The Wilfred Owen School √ √
45 West Felton C/E PrimarySchool √
46 Severndale Specialist Academy √ √

Leading in Reading:

Leading in Reading is an ambassador scheme designed by Shropshire Bookfest, in partnership with the University Centre Shrewsbury. The aim of the scheme is to recognise and showcase primary schools who embrace Shropshire Bookfest’s school-based projects and demonstrate creativity, imagination and success in harnessing a culture of reading for pleasure in their pupils. Three more primary schools were accredited as Leading in Reading schools in 2022. They were awarded their accreditation by Patron Piers Torday during the Big Book Award 2022

awards ceremony. Piers also gave a thought-provoking speech - https://youtu.be/o5-8P-2wAW0

The three schools who had been successful in their applications earlier in the year for the accreditation were:

Hinstock Primary School

Mount Pleasant Primary School

Packwood Haugh School

Readers to Writers 2023:

Budget Summary:

Project Timeline Overview:

Key Statistics:

The Project:

Previously known as Schools’ Week, Readers to Writers is run every two years, in alternate years to Book Award.

Readers to Writers is an eight-month long project taking place between November and June and is aimed at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin primary schools. Drawing on the unique skills, experience and insight of children’s authors, who deliver special writing workshops to each class taking part, the project focuses on helping teachers support children in the classroom with their creative writing skills. By the end of the project, every pupil will have written their very own book! Everyone is encouraged to enter their book into a Shropshire-wide creative writing competition.

Governance/Management:

The project is being overseen by Chair of Trustees, Sophie Peach and acting Chair of Trustees, Jane Payton), Ali McGowan (Bookfest School Co-ordinator - paid, freelance) and Joanna Hughes (Marketing

Co-ordinator - paid, freelance); these 4 people also had a number of schools each to manage as volunteer School Co-ordinators. There were an additional 4 volunteer School Co-ordinators who were

assigned a number of schools each to manage throughout the delivery of the project. A further 5 volunteers provided advice, support and back-up throughout the project.

Cost Structure to Schools:

The Workshop Authors:

Publishers, authors and agents were contacted in July 2022 and asked to submit their proposals to deliver one-hour creative writing workshops for their preferred age group (KS1, KS2 - Years 3 & 4 and/or

KS2 - Years 5 & 6) together with two or three suggested titles to support their content and on-going mentorship. It was made very clear that the focus of the workshops that would be delivered during the week 30[th] January – 3[rd] February 2023 was to be on giving pupils the relevant skills and inspiration to help them prepare and create their own story for the competition. Authors were guaranteed at least

two days’ work at a fee equivalent to a standard three in-school workshops per day structure - whether the workshops would be in the classroom, live via Zoom or pre-recorded.

The extensive longlist of submissions was carefully reviewed and researched by Joanna, Ali and Jane and an eventual panel of nine children’s authors were placed on the project, their skills and styles having been carefully matched with schools and classes. It was useful that Bookfest has a good understanding of so many schools in the county, which allows for such bespoke and personal management of this aspect of the project, and that the authors responded to their brief with clarity and honesty. The nine authors selected were:

Peter Bently Jack Meggitt-Phillips Tracey Corderoy Ross Montgomery Gareth P Jones Sam Sedgman Josh Lacey Eloise Williams Jenny McLachlan

Project Launch – Teachers’ Conference:

Every school that signed up to the project could send one teacher from every class that was booked to do the project to a whole-day conference/CPD.

This conference is the only one of its kind in Shropshire for primary school teachers and brings the county’s teaching community together with a panel of nationally renowned speakers. The day focused on:

“Good to refresh one’s ideas and network – other teachers also have experience one can learn from and have good contacts. It has become increasingly difficult with train strikes and increased fuel prices to meet authors and others who are interested in fostering creative writing.” Conference delegate

The conference was held on 16[th] November 2022 and was generously hosted by the University Centre Shrewsbury.

The following three leaders in children’s literature led workshops throughout the day which meant that every delegate could attend each session, giving them a wholly rounded day of pedagogy:

MARTIN BROWN:

Patron of Shropshire Bookfest, Martin Brown is probably best known for being the illustrator of the phenomenally successful Horrible Histories series – still going after nearly 30 years, it has sold over 30 million copies.

In Martin’s workshops he talked about how the distinction between text and image is an artificial one and how images can be used to write stories, not just illustrate them. He shared how illustrators ‘author’ their pictures – or rather, how everybody does. How imagery alone has been used as the storyteller for centuries. How today some narrative books have no text all. And how editorial cartoons use imagery as a way to avoid spelling out those thousand long-winded words. Then he guided teachers in investigating how kids use pictures to tell stories and how they might use the pictures in their heads to write a narrative in sentences and how to use those pictures in their heads as illustrations for those written narratives.

NICOLA DAVIES:

Nicola Davies is the author of more than 80 books for children, picture books, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, many of which have been published in more than 12 different languages. Her work focuses on the natural world and our relationship to it.

In Nicola’s workshop, delegates took part in tasks that encouraged a playful approach to words. They were asked to put ideas of right and wrong, of good grammar and good sense, to one side. No-one could say what the ‘outcomes’ of this were going to be, because that’s another feature of creative work: its results are, and should be, entirely unpredictable. Poems were written, collaborations made with a neighbour and shared pieces that celebrated the value of play, invention and pleasure – key components of any creative endeavour – were produced.

ADAM GUILLAIN :

Adam started his teaching career working in primary schools in London before travelling to Tanzania to work on a teacher training programme with Voluntary Services Overseas. On returning to the UK, he started writing and has gone on to write over 200 books for children. Adam is a former writer-inresidence at The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre and is the co-founder of Storytelling Schools.

In this session, Adam got the whole room moving about, collaborating on a shared story and offered a wealth of ideas, top tips, prompts and practical activities that teachers were thrilled that they could use in classrooms across all the age ranges.

The day offered plenty of opportunity for peer-to-peer chat and discussions with the speakers. Hinstock Primary School (a Leading in Reading school) showcased examples of how this project had in the past transformed the attitudes to writing for pleasure in their pupils. Ali McGowan gave inspirational motivation to the teachers about how Bookfest could support them and their pupils, together with the upcoming programme of in-school author-led workshops throughout the project.

School Bookings:

It was hugely exciting to realise that any concerns about schools being able to embrace this project due to post-Covid fatigue and pressure on budgets were quickly dispelled, as 29 primary schools signed up to the project well ahead of the deadline of October 2022. The project has a limited capacity based on the number of workshops/classes Bookfest is able to service during the five days in January/February 2023, given the large geographical size of the county. These are the primary schools who are taking part:

R/Year1/Year 2 Years 3/4 Years 5/6
1.
Alveley Primary School		 √
2.
Baschurch CE Primary School		 √
3.
Castlefields Primary School, Bridgnorth		 √
4.
Cheswardine Primary & Nursery School		 √ √ √
5.
Condover CE Primary School		 √
6.
Gobowen Primary School		 √ √
7.
Greenfields Primary School		 √
8.
Hadnall CE Primary School		 √
9.
Hinstock Primary School		 √ √ √
10. Hodnet Primary School √
11. John Wilkinson Primary & Nursery School √
12. Lilleshall Primary School √ √
13. Longden CE Primary School √ √
14. Mount Pleasant Primary School √
15. Muxton Primary School √
16. Norton in Hales Primary School √ √
17. Oxon Primary School √
18. Packwood Haugh School √
19. Prees CE Primary School √
20. Priorslee Academy √
21. Rushbury CE Primary School √ √ √
22. Shortwood Primary School √ √
23. Shrewsbury High Junior School √
24. St Lawrence Primary School Ch Stretton √
25. St Leonard’s Primary School, Bridgnorth √
26. St Mary’s Catholic Primary School √
27. St Winefride’s School √
28. Weston Rhyn Primary School √ √
29. Whixall CE Primary School √

Materials into Schools:

In December 2022, Bookfest volunteers personally delivered all the books for every pupil by the authors assigned to the classes, background information on the format of the author workshops, the blank books for the competition entries and printed Teacher Pack booklets, thus giving teachers a head start in preparing their pupils ahead of the author-led workshops in January/February 2023.

Teacher Resource Centre:

This facility on the website was set up and ready in December 2022 and holds the following information for teachers to access throughout the duration of the project:

Planning Settings Characters Illustrations Editing

Finance I rinancial dec•sicb are Pfesented to the Trustees for IpW￿al with detailed and ac¢w•te belr preyred for all elernents ol the yearfs e¥eAts. Shropshlre Bookfest complaed the year wlth • trfal b4•rte 01 £52.679. A￿-t￿nCe￿ lor a reseThe att￿1 that had been applied for wlth CAF was the arn￿nI ot Ell.0￿. Th15 had been Set as#le to co¥er the cost5 of a fi¥e-yaily YbOte 4Ydrade and ￿ cover budiete(I can(e114tion costs In the event that a project had to be ¢ancelled part.way Ihrouth 01Th￿¥. The acc¢￿￿t$ for 1022 will be subrnfft•d to • rea￿lered Indepen￿nI FI￿￿(11 Examinr. Reserves Policy 5hropshlre 8ooktest 15 a re8lstere(I ch•rlty set up In 2CLV. rt opefates actoss the county of Shropshlre and has afi •nnual Income ol around f 52,LX(J. 01 th15 £52.IJXI. appro>Jrnately £lS.IXKI comes Irom local wmary schools. Tht chaiity has no ljxed assets and •ll propcts ale overseen by part.time. self.employed cowdinatofs who work on an annuèl iollbni'•8reement'. E•th ye•f the ¢h•rity wry•bdes one wolect lor Shropshlre primary schools f¢xused on proYid¢ni • cre•ifv• Initiati¥e io help support te•cher5 in encoyf41ry cfv"Idr•n to d•¥elop • love of readlri and wriiin8 for pleasure. ShTopthr• Oooktqsi hos ¥eseThs of Ell.￿. The Trust¢e5 thscussed the lollowlw l•(tOfS In •rItr￿ at thdr reservès polKy.' Money should only be kept In fesér¥e for speofit reasons. Trnstee5 Kknole4e that should not be hoarded,. It Is also clear that sen51ble planniry fof &￿•M wenis should be catered lor. The Board ol Trustees a8reod that the m•in invesimeni that fecurrs every INe years is the rth7•mp ol the website. Therelore £5k has been set ayde this co￿. The Kle• ol • wehite redes1￿ w•5 di5(ussed In 2012 and It was declded ihat no mai¢y tr•èrh4ul w•s necess•ry. This ¥ftll be rnvlsffed on an annual b1￿5. Shropshire 8ookfe5t has no flxed overh••ds, bul b•s•d ffi an w•r•y month 11 wa5 hlt approprlat• tg keep two months. runnin¢ C￿15 In reser¥e1£6kl Policy.. it is the pdicy of Shropshire Bookft5t to keep the fNèvff•fly webslt¢ upd•ie corts •nd two months, runnin8 tosts In reser%Y to cover unloreseen enwyndes. ThertloTe the resems account now has a balance of Éllk. The Trustees declare that they ha¥e appro¥ed the Trusttes, RepM abDve. SiBn*d behall ol the Charitrfs Tnjstees.. NAME SIAN K4ARSHALL JANE PAYTON SIGNATURE Orwinal swned 2 Lt. 8 . ￿13 . PO%TION Treasurer Oriiin•l Sw•d 2sI Actxi8 Ch•lr

CHARITY COMMISSIO FOP E14GIANO AND VIALE Recei tsand ents accounts CC18a JlllVJQY4 Section A Receipts and paymenls funds Enéowrnenr Al R•e•l Irkkpt 5.7 ARI $2.D•7 Slq•7 7.41¢1 v•r￿ ￿r i.J•i 4n 477 p.•Ji T.•J7 Sub to 7.•Jl 41.¥7 Sub tot•1 Tot•lp•fvTrnts N•t olr•¢•lptrfp•ym•ntsi l J17 AO Tpxnth b•￿••￿ A6 C•h lund• L••t >•w •nd Cuh lund• rh1• y•w•nd 52,17• 15131z£zi CCXX Rl {SSI

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unre¥rncted R•siricted FrydowEneni fvn B1 C••h Iw 52.579 nelJ,.5 fuvK B4 A••e¢• r•laln•d lor th• charit￿$ o¥m ui• 85 Ll•bMIII•• PAYIIY4 CGXX R2 •¢a4mty ISSI IfyW102J

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustse81 Shropshire Bookfest On accounts for the year end 31 December 2022 Charfty no Ilf any) 11201TT S•t out on pag•s I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity Iyhe Trusf) for the year ended 3111212021. Re$pon$lbllllles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of rnport of the accounts in accordance wtth the requirements of the Charities A 2011 fthe Acr). I r8POrt in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying oul my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under se(#ion 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention ( ") in connection with the 8xamination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ wilh section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with th8 accounting records Independent oxaminorfs statement I have no concems and have come across no ot￿r matters In Connection with the examination to which attention should b8 drawn in order to enab16 a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Pleas8 delete the words in the braGkets rf they do not appty. Slgn•d: 17/Lk1202S Namo: C Moe1wyn-W￿lllaMS Relevant profosslonal qualifi¢ation($} or body (If any): Bsc FCA Addm•: TCA Accountants. Third Floor, 21 St Mary's Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1 ED IER October 2018