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|Glossary ofacronyms<br>and abbreviations||||
|Administrative<br>details||||
|Chief Executive's Statement||||
|Sununary<br>ofkey achievements||||
|Strategy 2019-22. Vision, goals, purpose,|aims/activities|||
|Proposals for change 2019-2022||||
|Approach<br>and Methodology||10||
|Patticipants<br>and partners||||
|Looking back||14||
|Summary ofour courses||16||
|Achievements<br>in relation to our goals and|aims|19||
|Looking ahead||22||
|Trustees and Governance||24||
|Organisational<br>strategy||25||
|Organisational<br>management||25||
|Main risks dealt with at board level||25||
|Board meetings k other activities||||
|Trustee Induction KTraining||26||
|Statement<br>on public benefit||26||
|Reserves Policy||26||
|Governing<br>document||26||
|Statement of Trustees'<br>Responsibilities||27||
|Accounts||||
|Independent<br>Examiners<br>Report||28||
|Statement ofFinancial Activities||30||
|Balance Sheet||31||
|Notes||32||
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|CPD|Continued<br>Professional<br>Development||
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|EAL|English as an Additional<br>Language||
|EFA|English for Action (EFALondon)||
|ESOL|English for Speakers of Other Languages||
|ESL|English as a Second Language||
|FE|Further Education||
|HASL|Housing Action Southwark<br>and Lambeth||
|NATECLA|National<br>Association for Teaching English and other Community|Languages|
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|NEON|New Economy Organisers<br>Network||
|NOCN|National<br>Open College Network||
|QTLS|Qualified Teacher Learning<br>and Skills||
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|Original objective for year:|||Achieved'|
|Raise f360,000 in<br>order|to<br>make<br>the||We raised 6623,418 this was a lot more than we|
|change we want to make.|||planned,<br>partly due to the large amount of Covid-|
||||19emergency<br>funding<br>(around 6210,000)|
|Secure funding<br>to continue|our|work in|We<br>distributed<br>our<br>covid-funding<br>and<br>core|
|our six existing community|hubs,|running|funding<br>across<br>our hubs<br>and<br>ran<br>at least<br>two|
|at least two courses<br>with|two|sessions|courses aweek in seven hubs,|
|each at each hub.||||
|Raise money to set up at least two groups|||Thanks<br>to Brent Council<br>and Edward<br>Harvist|
|(two<br>sessions<br>each)<br>for|around<br>40||Foundation<br>we ran eight classes in Brent from|
|participants<br>in Brent|||February 2021.|
|Expand<br>our online classes,|online<br>social||We more or less camed out completely<br>online,|
|spaces<br>and<br>online<br>meetings|in|order to|adding<br>several<br>new courses, especially<br>in Brent.|
|support<br>our<br>communities|in|case<br>we|We were forced to carry out the London Citizens|
|cannot<br>return<br>t<br>classrooms|in|the near|Mayoral<br>Accountability<br>Assembly<br>online|
|future.|||including<br>almost all the preparation.|
|Develop<br>our external<br>communications<br>in|||We recruited Stephanie Habib who brings alot of|
|order to support<br>our strategic<br>objectives|||expertise<br>in media<br>and communications<br>to join|
|such<br>as<br>promote<br>training,||amplify|Amira<br>Elwakil<br>in<br>our<br>communications<br>team.|
|participants'<br>voices, extend|our|network|Together<br>they<br>have<br>improved<br>the<br>quality,|
|and take action.|||quantity<br>and<br>impact<br>of<br>our<br>comms<br>work,|
||||supporting<br>our campaigning<br>and the promotion of|
||||our training<br>in particular.|
|Develop<br>links<br>with<br>organisations<br>and|||This has been one of the<br>things<br>aided<br>by the|
|practitioners<br>outside|of|London,|pandemic<br>and<br>the<br>sudden<br>change<br>in|
|identifying<br>two<br>cities<br>for|training<br>and||communication,<br>Several of our<br>'community<br>of|
|support.|||practice'<br>members<br>are from outside London, We|
||||ran trainings<br>for groups<br>in Sheffield<br>and Bristol|
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||||||||||||and<br>included<br>individual<br>trainees<br>from<br>several|
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||||||||||||other cities in the UK and even beyond.|
|Continue|working||with|ESOL policy-makers||||||in|Mayor Sadiq Khan has agreed to set up a staf ed,|
|London|and|Secure agreements|||||from the new||||multilingual<br>website<br>for ESOL in London. We|
|Mayor of London to improve||||||ESOL.|||||also worked<br>closely<br>with<br>Deputy<br>Mayor<br>Jules|
||||||||||||Pipe<br>who<br>attended<br>our<br>OLoveESOLevent<br>in|
||||||||||||September 2020, along with 158ofour students,|
||||||||||||teachers and allies.|
|Develop|and|support||the|patticipatory||||ESOL||We kicked<br>off our<br>'community<br>of practice',|
|teaching|conununity||through|||a|monthly||online||monthly<br>meet-ups involving 40practitioners<br>over|
|meet-up,|training||for|individuals,||||at|least|8|the year. Annual<br>conference<br>in May included 42|
|external|trainings||for|groups|||and|our|annual||teachers<br>and v lunteers.<br>We statured<br>our training|
|conference.|||||||||||for individuals<br>programme<br>in May, running<br>three|
||||||||||||one<br>day courses<br>for 32 people.<br>We ran eight|
||||||||||||external<br>training<br>sessions<br>for groups<br>including,|
||||||||||||ELATT, Learning<br>Unlimited,<br>Caras, Savte and|
||||||||||||The Beacon Centre|
|Nearly achieved objective:||||||||||||
||Original objective||||for year:||||||Achieved?|
|More students||take collective|||action|||outside the|||Students took action to demand<br>better ESOL|
|classroom|on|the issues||they|care about,||||||provision<br>and coordination<br>in London, equal|
||||||||||||access to healthcare<br>for migrants,<br>including<br>the|
||||||||||||Council, but it was ayear where in-person|
||||||||||||organising<br>and action was very difficult.|
|Over 500participants|||attend||our||courses||||482 people attended<br>at least 5 sessions and|
||||||||||||several ofthese attended<br>more than one course.|
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||Original objective||||for||year:||||Achieved?|
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|Summ|ary<br>ofour c|ary<br>ofour c|ary<br>ofour c|ourses in|2020-21||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Group and|Location|||Teacher(s)|Number|Number|of|Funder|||
||||||ofhours|participants'|||||
|Greenwich|online<br>1|||Lucie|90|23||The<br>National||Lottery|
|||||||||Community||Fund:|
|||||||||Reaching Communities|||
|Greenwich|online 2|||Anne|90|17||see above|||
|Groundwork||1,Greenwich||Lucie|90|14||Groundwork|||
|Groundwork||2 Greenwich|||90|14||see above|||
|Greenwich||conversation|||72|21||National||Lottery|
|Club||||||||Community|Fund||
|Southwark|Saturday||school|Adela|90|63||USS|||
|(morning)||||Kasia|90||||||
|Southwark|Saturday||School|Adela|90|23||National<br>Lottery||/ Barrow|
|2 (afternoon)||||||||Cadbury|||
|Surrey Square||1 (online)||Adela|90|21||National Lottety,||USS|
|Surrey Square||2 (online)||Amira|90|23||Barrow Cadbury|||
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|Salvation|Army,||Kasia|180|21||||||
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|Bermondsey<br>South|||Kasia|180|19|AMIF|||||
|Children' s|Centre,||||||||||
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|SouthBank Academy|||Dermot|24|14|Southbank|Academy||||
|Tower Hamlets<br>online<br>1|||Sylwia|60||Sport London|||||
|Tower Hamlets<br>online 2|||Sheeva|60||SportLondon|||||
|Chisenhale<br>School,|Tower||Becky|180|23|Hemp||Smith/Sport|||
|Hamlets<br>(online)||||||London|||||
|St Paul's<br>Primary|School,||Amira|90||Tower Hamlets|||Council|/|
|Tower Hamlets<br>(online)||||||Sport London|||||
|Sacred<br>Heart|Primary||Dermot|90|43|BigLotteries,||City Bridge|||
|School, Battersea (online)|||||||||||
|Griffin<br>Primary|School,||Anne|90|16|See above|||||
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|Hemy<br>Cavendish|Primary||Dermot|90|33|Walcot|||||
|School, Streathatn<br>(online)||||||Foundation/Barrow|||||
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|St. Anne's<br>Primary|School,|||90|18|Walcot|Foundation|||/|
|Lambeth<br>(online)||||||Banow Cadbury|||||
|Henry<br>Fawcett<br>Children'||s|Verushka|150|13|AMIF|||||
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|Latin|American|American|American|Women' s|Women' s|Women' s|Anne|180|16|COLtd,||Economist|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Aid, Hackney<br>(Anne)||||||||||charitable|trust,|Allen and|
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|Brent|1|-|Sep 20|-|July|21|Robin|97.5|22|Edward Hatwist|||
|(Monday|||evening|online-|||||||||
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|Brent|2|-|Feb 20|-July||21|Maria|55|16|EFA|/ Brent NCIL||
|(Monday|||morning||online-||||||||
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|Brent|3|-|Sep 20|-|July|21|Robin|97,5|15|EFA|/Brent NCIL||
|(Tuesday|||morning||online-||||||||
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|Brent|4|-|Feb 20|-July||21|Fatime|55||EFA / Brent NCIL|||
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|Brent|5|—Feb 20||-July||21|Robin|55|13|EFA / Brent NCIL|||
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|Brent|6|-|Feb 20|-July||21|Fatime|55|23|EFA / Brent NCIL|||
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|Brent|7|-|Feb 20|-|July|21|Mat%a / Robin|55||EFA / Brent NCIL|||
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|Brent|8|-|Feb 20|-|July|21|Fatime|45||EFA / Brent NCIL|||
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|Income and Endowments|from:||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||139,163|398,855|538,018|28,071|209,850|237,921|
|Charitable<br>activities|||85,400||85,400|53,175||53,175|
|Total income|||224,563|398,855|623,418|81,246|209,850|291,096|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||(148,075)|(350,360)|(498,435)|(75,737)|(232,048)|(307,785)|
|Other expenditure|||(75)||(75)||||
|Total expenditure|||~243,230)|(350,330)|~408,520)|(75,737)|(232,048)|~307,785)|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||76,413|48,495|124,908|5,509|(22,198)|(16,689)|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds|||||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||95,618|14,341|109,959|90,109|36,539|126,648|
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|Debtors|||||79,598|45,448|
|Cash at bank and||in|hand||167,972|115,769|
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|Creditors: Amounts|||falling due within one year|12|(12,703)|(51,258)|
|Net assets|||||234,867|109,959|
|Funds ofthe charity:|||||||
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|Restricted<br>funds|||||62,836|14,341|
|Unrestricted<br>income|||funds||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||172,031|95,618|
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|Donations<br>from individuals|||2,648||2,648|2,621|
|Grants,<br>including<br>capital grants;|||||||
|The Company of Community|||||||
|Organisers||||||11,563|
|City Bridge Wave|||18,450|18,463|36,913|9,231|
|Trusts and foundations|||15,795||15,795|1,700|
|Tudor Trust|||2,270||2,270|20,000|
|Erasmus<br>Plus||||17,331|17,331|13,527|
|United St Saviour Southwark||||20,000|20,000|40,332|
|East End Community<br>Foundation||||5,000|5,000||
|People's<br>Health Trust||||||15,344|
|Walcot Foundation||||13,846|13,846|25,000|
|NCIL Brent||||25,531|25,531||
|The National<br>Lottery Community|||||||
|Fund||||49,649|49,649|47,067|
|London Catalyst||||||1,500|
|The London Community|Fund|||||5,000|
|Wakefield 5Tetley - Surrey|||||||
|Docks Farm||||||836|
|Network for Social Change||||||20,000|
|Groundwork<br>London||||15,639|15,639||
|Hackney<br>Parochial<br>Charities||||9,270|9,270||
|Sport<br>L ndon (Comic r lief)||||55,375|55,375||
|Barrow Cadbury Trust||||50,000|50,000||
|Charles S.French Charitable||Trust||5,000|5,000||
|29th May 1961Charitable|Trust|||3,000|3,000||
|Comic Relief Project Delivery-|||||||
|Hackney||||4,000|4,000||
|Ben Ogden Trust||||2,304|2,304||
|Edward<br>Harvist<br>Fund||||5,000|5,000||
|The National<br>Lottery Community|||||||
|Fund<br>—Covid 19response||||79,447|79,447||
|GFC UK Phoenix||||20,000|20,000||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||||General|2021|2020|
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|Courses and|classes|||||7,372|7,372|5,000|
|Contractual|income||from government||or public||||
|authorities||||||78,028|78,028|48,175|
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|Consultants<br>fees||and|creche support||||10,570|26,867|
|Conferences<br>and||workshops|||||11,969|613|
|Books and course materials|||||||120|1,235|
|Subscriptions|||||||5,130|2,120|
|Legal and professional|||fees||||5,004||
|Bad debts written||off|||||1,300||
|Volunteer<br>expenses|||||||90||
|Grant funding|of|activities|||||30,000|20,000|
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|Insurance|||||||154|154|395|
|Telephone||and internet|||||866|866|110|
|Office equipment|||||||10,500|10,500|5,435|
|Printing,|postage||and stationery||||456|456|647|
|Sundries|||||||1,126|1,126|1,342|
|Travel, trips||and|refreshments||||2,687|2,687|3,948|
|Advertising|||||||1,915|1,915||
|Staff entertaining|||(allowable||for tax)||||399|
|Independent||examination|||||2,220|2,220|1,626|
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|Trade debtors||||59,167|23,102|
|Prepayments||||664|746|
|Accrued income||||19,617|21,450|
|Other debtors||||150|150|
|||||79,598|45,448|
|12 Creditors: amounts<br>falling due within one year||||||
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|Other taxation|and|social security||9,598|4,556|
|Other creditors|||||9,995|
|Acc uals||||3,105|4,398|
|Deferre<br>income|||||32,309|
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|Resources deferred||in the period|||32,309|
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|General<br>Funds||||82,170|224,563|(148,150)|158,583||
|Funds - prior period|adjustment|||13,448|||13,448||
|||||95,618|224,563|(148,150)|172,031||
|Restricted|||||||||
|Erasmus<br>Plus|||||17,331|(17,331)|||
|Henry Smith||||13,216||(13,216)|||
|United St, Saviour Southwark|||||20,000|(20,000)|||
|East End Community|Foundation||||5,000|(5,000)|||
|Barrow Cadbury/The|National||||||||
|Lottery Community|Fund||||50,000|(50,000)|||
|Walcot Foundation|||||13,846|(13,846)|||
|NCIL Brent|||||25,531|(16,506)||9,025|
|The National<br>Lottery|Community||||||||
|Fund|||||49,649|(35,711)|13,938||
|City Bridge Wave|||||18,463|(11,842)||6,621|
|London Catalyst||||1,125||(1,125)|||
|Groundwork<br>London|||||15,639|(15,639)|||
|The National<br>Lottery|Community||||||||
|Fund - Covid 19response|||||79,447|(79,447)|||
|Hackney<br>Parochial Charities|||||9,270|||9,270|
|Sport London - Comic Relief|||||55,375|(36,393)|18,982||
|Charles S.French Charitable|||Trust||5,000|||5,000|
|29th May 1961Charitable||Trust|||3,000|(3,000)|||
|Comic Relief Project|Delivery-||||||||
|Hackney|||||4,000|(4,000)|||
|Ben Ogden Trust|||||2,304|(2,304)|||
|Edward<br>Harvist<br>Fund|||||5,000|(5,000)|||
|GFC UK Phoenix|||||20,000|(20,000)|||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||August|2019|resources|expended|July 2020|
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|General<br>Funds|||76,661||81,246|(75,737)|82,170|
|Fu ds - prior period|djustment||13,448||||13,448|
||||90,109||81,246|(75,737)|95,618|
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|Foundation||||5,153||(5,153)||
|Erasmus<br>Plus|||||13,527|(13,527)||
|Henry Smith|||13,216||24,200|(24,200)|13,216|
|United St.Saviour Southwark|||||40,332|(40,332)||
|East End Community|Foundation|||||(417)||
|People's<br>Health Trust||||3,836|15,344|(19,180)||
|The Company of Community||||||||
|Organisers||||2,188|7,813|(10,001)||
|Walcot Foundation||||78|25,000|(25,078)||
|Wandsworth<br>Council||||817||(817)||
|Allen and Overy||||4,167||(4,167)||
|The National<br>Lottery|Community|||||||
|Fund|||||47,067|(47,067)||
|The Economist Group||||6,667||(6,667)||
|City Bridge Wave|||||9,231|(9,231)||
|London Catalyst|||||1,500|(375)|1,125|
|The London Community||Fund|||5,000|(5,000)||
|Wakefield<br>Tetley -|Surrey|||||||
|Docks Farm|||||836|(836)||
|Network for Social Change|||||20,000|(20,000)||
||||36,539||209,850|(232,048)|14,341|
|Total funds|||126,648||291,096|(307,785)|109,959|





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|Current|year||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted||Total funds at|
|||funds|Restricted|31July|
|||General|funds|2021|
|||||f|
|Current|assets|186,031|61,539|247,570|
|Current|liabilities|(12,703)||(12,703)|
|Total net assets||173,328|61,539|234,867|
|Previous|year||||
|||Unrestricted||Total funds at|
|||funds|Restricted|31July|
|||General|funds|2020|
|||E|f|f|
|Current|assets|99,678|61,53|161,217|
|Current|liabilities|(18,949)|(32,309)|(51,258)|
|Totalnet|assets|80,729|29,230|109,959|



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