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2024-03-31-accounts

Welsh Centre for International Affairs 2023-2024 Annual Report Charity number 1156822

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Contents

Contents
Contents 3
Our vision, mission, values and strategy 4
Foreword from our Chief Executive 5
Message from Co-Chairs 6
Introduction to WCIA Programmes 7
Celebrating our strategic achievements 2019-2024 9
Cross programme outcomes 10
Global Learning 11
Global Partnerships 32
Hub Cymru Africa 40
Temple of Peace: The Venue with a Heart 43
Financial overview 45
Structure, governance and management 46
Our partners and funders 48
Reference and administrative details 49
Responsibilities of the Board of Trustees 50
Report of the independent auditors to the members of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs for
the year ended 31 March 2024 51
Statement of financial activities (incorporating the income and expenditure account) for the year
ended 31 March 2024 54
Balance sheet as at 31 March 2024 55
Statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 March 2024 56
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024 57

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Our vision, mission, values and strategy

The Welsh Centre for International Affairs' vision is that everyone in Wales contributes to creating a fairer and more peaceful world . To achieve this, our mission is to inspire learning and action on global issues.

Our mission covers a huge range of subjects. To focus our energies, we think about global issues with reference to some key global principles and frameworks including:

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Foreword from our Chief Executive

Our Chief Executive, Susie Ventris-Field, left the WCIA in March 2024 after many years of taking the organisation from strength to strength. Working with organisations and partners across Wales and the world, she co-created projects and movements to bring Wales to the global stage and support many Welsh people to become global citizens. This work continues as her legacy into the future. We deeply thank Susie for all that she brought to the WCIA and wish her the very best in her new role and the future.

It is my privilege to join the WCIA as its new Chief Executive and become part of a dynamic, skilled and diverse group of people. This report celebrates the dedicated work of our staff, volunteers, ambassadors and partners. They strive to create a world which recognises that the climate and nature emergency requires urgent and fair action, to extend Wales’ long-standing tradition of peace-making and peace-promotion through schools and networks, to connect Welsh citizens to the world through volunteering programmes, and to bring further understanding of the heritage of the Temple of Peace.

2023 marked 50 years since the founding of the WCIA with its first leader Bill Davies. It was opened on 11 October 1973 at Wales’ Temple of Peace by Foreign Office Minister Lady Tweedsmuir to a crowd of 500 , following a 5-year campaign to ‘give Wales a voice in the world’. Celebrating half a century of Welsh action on global issues, our ‘year of activities’ featured heritage talks and workshops, an ‘internationalists get together’ and a thankyou event for Friends and Alumni. We are also focused on looking to the future and the opportunities and challenges of the next half century, leading creative and participatory activities and events with people across Wales to shape our long-term strategic plan.

The world continues to be an incredibly challenging place in terms of climate injustice and destruction, devastating wars and conflicts, and the on-going impact of the UK cost-of-living crisis. There is an overwhelming need to search for sustainable and just solutions for peace and prosperity, to not accept the status quo and to work with communities on campaigns for policy changes that protect the earth and its people.

Some highlights of the year include a record number of entries for the National Peace awards, international teaching and learning with the European Council and Public Health Wales, a pan-Wales pilot in peace Education with Adult Learning Wales, and more than fifty international exchanges for young people facilitated by our Global Learning and Youth Volunteering Team. We are incredibly grateful for the dedication and support of heritage interns and volunteers who, supported by our Heritage Advisor, contributed at least 1840 hours of their time to preserving Wales’ peace heritage for future generations.

Climate Cymru brought hundreds of organisations across Wales together to hold those in power to account, ensure community voices are considered in decisions that affect them and unlock urgent, fair action to address the climate and nature emergencies. Academi Heddwch Cymru continued to build strong partnerships with the European Network of Peace Institutes, including the Flemish Peace Institute. The Temple of Peace & Health has provided the equivalent of around £15,000 in discounted venue hire to charitable and non-profit projects and events during this financial year.

This year , we celebrated the centenary of the Welsh Women’s Peace Appeal, signed by 390,296 women in 1923 -24. The WCIA is dedicated to enhancing global responsibility through the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act and working towards a more just and peaceful world for current and future generations. In the words of the women of the Peace

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Hayley Morgan, Chief Executive.

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Message from Co-Chairs

As we know, change is the only certainty, and this year has demonstrated that for us as an organisation. Despite a period of transition in staffing and strategy, this annual report highlights a year filled with activity, achievement, and celebration.

This is a testament to our resilient and dedicated staff team who, alongside volunteers and partners, have shown remarkable flexibility, creativity, and leadership at all levels. They have remained focused on our objectives during a time of organisational change and against the backdrop of continued global turmoil.

We have said many farewells this year, notably to Susie, who has been at the heart of the organisation as Chief Executive, having initially started as a volunteer many years ago. We are deeply indebted to her for her leadership and positivity. We also handed over our experience of ten years hosting the Hub Cymru Africa to our long-standing friends and partners at SSAP and look forward to continuing to support their excellent work via the Partnership Board.

This annual report reflects on the progress made against our five-year strategy set in 2019, when the world was a very different place. As a Board, we have recognised that the work of the WCIA has become even more urgent and relevant. Now more than ever, we need collaboration and practical, meaningful ways to address the greatest challenges facing Wales and the world. Five years ago, we could not have predicted many of the challenges we face now as we work to set our next strategic vision and objectives. During this strategic period, we have sought opportunities to build pragmatic and positive pathways to action, hosting Academi Heddwch and Climate Cymru to build on our heritage in peace education and global citizenship learning. We have brought to life extraordinary Welsh history through our heritage work at the Temple of Peace, and the incredible effort of the Women's Peace Petition.

As an organisation, we will undoubtedly need the same flexibility, resilience, and hope that we have demonstrated this year and ove r the last five years, underpinned by our values and the same determination as the WCIA’s founder had 50 years ago. We see these strengths in our new Chief Executive, Hayley Morgan, and we are delighted that she has joined the WCIA with a wide range of experience, knowledge, and a passion for peace-making.

As a Board, we have worked to identify ways to strengthen our governance and ways of working to most effectively meet the ambition for the WCIA and on behalf of the Board and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has worked so hard and supported the WCIA during this year.

As we look ahead, we are excited by the prospect of building on the work done to date on shaping our strategic vision, aims and objectives for the next period and look forward to the reconsolidation of our commitment to making a positive impact for current and future generations.

Sara Whittam and Gill Richardson, Co-Chairs.

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Introduction to WCIA Programmes

For each of our programmes, the annual report will summarise how we have performed against our strategic outcomes and illustrate with some case studies, examples and quotes. Here is a brief introduction to our main projects and programmes we refer to in the report. We support all of these through crosscutting communications, policy work and events.

Hub Cymru Africa: A partnership, established in 2015, bringing together Fair-Trade Wales, Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP), Wales and Africa Health Links Network (WaAHLN) and the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA). WCIA hosted the HCA partnership until the end of March 2024 when hosting was transferred to SSAP. The HCA Partnership has several projects:

Peace Schools: Accreditation scheme designed with teachers and learners to embed peace education in the curriculum and ethos of schools. We run an annual conference to celebrate and share achievements of Peace Schools.

Young PeaceMakers Awards: An annual Award to recognise the achievements of young people in supporting Global Citizenship and Peace. We run this in partnership with Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.

Youth Climate Ambassadors and MockCOP: In partnership with Size of Wales, we run model UN climate change conferences (COP - Conference of the Parties) and support a group of youth climate ambassadors. The Youth Climate Ambassadors are now well established as a group.

Climate Cymru: Network of organisations and individuals campaigning for a net zero and nature positive Wales and global climate justice. Hosted by WCIA, it has several projects and also receives funding from partners to support the work:

The Future we want in 2121: Erasmus+ project where pupils travel to the deep past and distant future to explore the future they would like to see.

Academi Heddwch : We host Academi Heddwch - a partnership including all the universities in Wales. The purpose of Academi strong tradition of peace-making and peacepromotion. Through an independent community of researchers in related fields, Academi Heddwch is working to place peace firmly on the national agenda.

On an international stage Academi Heddwch is joining a global network of peace institutes and has already developed close relationships with several such institutes. The overall aims of Academi Heddwch are to ensure that:

ChangeMakers: Supports young ChangeMakers school and youth groups to develop global citizenship learning and action, and to deliver professional learning in ethical, informed citizenship. Funded by British Council Education Programme.

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Academi Heddwch has Welsh Government funding to support the international strategy and also hosts the Petition project.

Becoming a Peace School : Erasmus+ funded project to share best practice in peace education and develop the Peace Schools scheme.

Am I European? : Erasmus+ funded project to support pupils to explore and share their own and their families' national and European identities.

Representing the International sector at Third Sector Partnership Council (TSPC): WCIA represents the International Sector at TSPC to take issues and opportunities from the sector to Welsh Government.

International Exchange: Supporting individual and group international exchange opportunities both to and from Wales to help people develop global citizenship skills, build peace and solidarity. This work is funded by the European Solidarity Corps and Taith. WCIA are Taith Champions for Youth and Schools so we also help organisations to make Taith applications.

Peace and internationalist heritage: Preserving and sharing the peace and internationalist heritage in Wales, particularly the Temple of Peace collections.

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Celebrating our strategic achievements 2019-2024

2023-24 is the final year of our five-year strategy so before celebrating the achievements of the year, here are some highlights of how we performed against the goals we set ourselves.

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Cross programme outcomes

All of our projects and programmes contribute towards our core strategic outcomes which, in turn, contribute towards our mission and vision. Key achievements this year were:

In this report, we explore the achievements, challenges and learning against our strategic objectives in each of our three programmes.

Through Global Learning, we aspire to everyone in Wales acting as global citizens at home, at work, in education and in their communities.

We support active citizens to work collectively here in Wales (Global Action) and with partners across the world (Global Partnership) towards a fairer, more peaceful and more sustainable future.

n our five-year strategy a year early.

Over this final year, we continued to deepen, expand and strengthen our work.

We focused on engaging people across Wales to help design our next strategy - a longer term, even more ambitious strategy for future generations.

measure our impact and understand how we can progress towards a Wales where everyone is an active global citizen and we can claim to be a globally responsible nation.

Find out more at www.wcia.org.uk.

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Global Learning

We promote global learning to prepare Wales for our shared future.

these issues are re levant to all of our lives. We build people’s skills and confidence to explore different perspectives and then take informed action. In this way, we want everyone in Wales to feel they can make a difference on these shared challenges.

Progress summary

Summary of Global Learning quantitative achievements

Other achievements against global learning outcomes include:

research and education through our schools network and Academi Heddwch, and supporting Global Citizenship in non-formal settings through Taith.

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Learner Conferences and Events

Climate Action

In partnership with British Council, the 2023-2024 programme for young people involved 100 students from 8 schools across Wales in a live-action Climate Simulation at the Senedd in November 2023. This event was sponsored by Senedd Member Julie James who also appeared at the event and allowed us to explore solutions to climate change with five existing and three new schools/colleges.

The event allowed us to engage with schools and young people from across Wales, enabling discussions with Senedd Members and even making the local news.

Young people creating change in Wales and the world

This year, the Changemakers Conference (concluding the 2022-2023 cycle) took place face to face for the first time since 2019. We were delighted to be able to bring our students and teachers back together and to offer them a day where they could connect with other changemaker groups as well as charities and other decision makers.

The Conference attracted over 100 students and teachers to the Temple of Peace with an age ranging between 7 and 24.

At the conference, there were workshops by Size of Wales, Fair Trade Wales and the Peace Education Network. All participants pledged to take action including reducing conflict in their school, working collaboratively to develop sustainable solutions in their schools and investigating the roles we can all play in being heroes when conflicts escalate.

The 22-23 ChangeMakers programme started in September 2023. This year, we worked with Malpas Court Primary School, near Newport, Bryngwyn Secondary (Carmarthen), the Youth Climate Ambassadors and the Youth Peace Ambassadors.

Secretary General speaks to the Assembled Nations in our Climate Simulation event, November 2023

Students described how they appreciated the opportunity to think critically about the importance of action being taken through different negotiation rounds and being able to see the outcome of their work in real time with the MIT software. One said:

Involving the Youth Climate Ambassadors also allowed us to cascade to a wider range of schools and organisations as it encouraged inter-school working and put us in touch with different groups working on similar themes.

High Secretary General

Many students from these events were eager to join our Youth Ambassador programmes and sign up to future climate events as a consequence. Teachers also contacted us after the event to find out more about the work we are doing:

often” C eri Type, Rhydywaun

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Opening welcomes and address at the Changemakers Conference 2023

During the project, students designed and carried out their own change programmes. Through peer to peer learning, school sharing and links made to networks, the programme this year reached 4240 learners and 356,000 individuals across Wales.

For the 23-24 academic changemaker programme, we have developed Changemaker projects with:

Between them, the schools conducted visits and learned about global issues in their local area, met online with holocaust survivors and thought about the roles we all play in empowering or disempowering others, held webinars and launched petitions to change opinions. One learner said:

Peace School Alaw Primary map the places in the world in need of peaceful interventions October 2022

Peace Ambassadors Gather at the Senedd for their Classroom to Community Conference in November 2023

Peace Education - Whole-school Approaches

Th e WCIA’s Peace Schools’ Scheme has continued to flourish and grow this year, with now over 50 primary and secondary schools in Wales signed up to the scheme. The team is currently undertaking a review of

schools’ progress, with a view to gathering evidence of impact for pupils, schools and communities. Online INSET sessions will then be held to recruit further schools.

Peace Conference

The 8th annual Wales Peace Schools conference took place at the Senedd in November 2023, welcoming over 100 children and teachers from 10 schools across South Wales, alongside community youth group leaders, to explore the theme ‘From Classroom to Community The purpose of the event was to discuss sustainable and meaningful educational change with and for the next generation of peacemakers in Wales.

The conference successfully showcased the perspectives and initiatives of young peacemakers in Wales, demonstrating their active role in promoting peace within schools and communities. By welcoming attendees of all ages, the conference promoted intergenerational dialogue and encouraged broader participation.

Two Young Peace Ambassadors (YPAs) supported the development and the delivery of the Conference.

Participating ‘Peace Schools’ included Primaries Stebonheath (Llanelli), St Gwladys (Bargoed), Clytha (Newport), Alaw (RCT), West Park (Porthcawl), and secondaries Bryngwyn (Llanelli), Cwm Rhymni (Caerphilly), Cynffig and Pencoed Comps (Bridgend).

The event was financially supported by Academi Heddwch, and the Sallie Davies Memorial Trust, with input from Quaker Peace & Social Witness.

Senedd Members themselves contributed to the event over the day, opened by Cross Party Group for Peace and Reconciliation Chair Mabon ap Gwynfor, and with Education Minister Jeremy Miles giving the keynote address over lunch also taking the time to chat to young peace ambassadors about their work, and what they would like to see from Welsh Government.

Many pupils took the opportunity to do a tour of the building, to watch the Senedd ‘in action’ from the viewing gallery, and to find out how they as young people can influence and feed into the workings of government in Wales.

a Peace School’ Erasmus Project

During the week of 23[rd] May 2023, 20 students and 12 staff from Romania and Wales took part in the final intercultural visit of this project.

Visiting students took part in a workshop on antiracism run by Show Racism the Red Card at Cyfarthfa High School, Merthyr, and learnt about Wales’ Message of Peace and Goodwill. They also spent a day in the Temple of Peace, during which they learnt about debate around how to stop the war in Ukraine. Wales’ Peace Heritage and engaged in a Model UN

The Model UN debate was also a highlight for the students, prompting positive comments.

“I’ve | earnt how to negotiate and how debate works “I’ve learnt how to be diplomatic and how to solve problems in a diplomatic way.

The visit to the Temple affected the students deeply. Two students from Romania were so inspired that they were prompted to ask ‘How do we get to work here?!’

Youth Ambassador makes a crane for peace

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Participating schools were given a booklet describing how they could set up and run a Model UN in their own contexts.

All the outcomes of this project were achieved. A comprehensive Toolkit on how to become a Peace School is now ready to go online, as well as 5 teacher training modules . Each participating school / partner produced an evaluation report on the impact of their participation in the project, as well as a policy paper which they could use to convince policy makers of the value of peace education in their settings. The school visits made a lasting impact on pupils.

Messages from the two Welsh Schools’ policy papers were clear. Both schools recommended that Peace education should be a mandatory element of the new curriculum for Wales.

We should continue to have a funded, nationally recognised Peace Schools project in Wales.

A key learning point that emerged from the evaluation reports is how important it is to raise awareness of being a Peace School amongst all stakeholders and that it takes time and consistent work to build up a peaceful ethos.

Building a peaceful society exercise at Cyfarthfa High, May 2022

Young Pe

The Young Peacemakers Awards was once again hosted at the Llangollen International Musical Festival in July 2023, generously supported by Academi Heddwch Cymru. Over 60 entries were received from individual young people, schools and community groups across Wales. The Awards were presented by Welsh Counsel General Mick Antoniw.

also improve the accessibility of the event by hosting it in a hybrid fashion and by covering participants travel costs to Llangollen.

Young Peace Organisation of the Year was awarded to Peer Action Network for the excellent work they have done to empower young people themselves to research and understand causes of violence in their lives and to work for more cohesive, safer communities in Wales. The Young Peacemakers of the Year trophy was awarded to Alaw Primary School for the fantastic work they have done and continue to do on the alive for a new generation of peacemakers. Women’s Peace petition, bringing this amazing story

We will raise the profile of the Awards in 2024 by ensuring that it happens on the main stage. We will

Rebecca at the Young Peacemakers Awards in Llangollen, 2023

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Young Peace Ambassadors

The Young Peace Ambassadors role was first developed in 2022, the aim of which is to enable a group of motivated young people to gain knowledge, skills and experiences around peacebuilding and to get their voices heard as young advocates for peace in Wales. To date 19 young people have been involved with the scheme.

During the academic year 2022 23, the group (7 members) received training, spoke at events and had opportunities to take part in conferences and workcamps in Germany and Belgium.

implement in their schools, colleges or communities in the coming months. The group has also been invited to share their work so far at the Changemakers Conference in July 2024.

A number of students applied to be Peace Ambassadors after having taken part in positive experiences such as international exchange visits.

We have learnt that it’s important to support the group to be autonomous in terms of electing their own chair and secretary and deciding on their own projects. It’s also important not to over-burden young people later in the academic year, when the stress of exams occurs.

Participants in the Adult Learning Wales course learn how many of the Sustainable Development Goals relate to Peace.

By December 2023, it was felt that we should re-launch the project and recruit a new group of Ambassadors. The current group (12 members) have all developed project ideas which we aim to support them to

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Adult Learning

This year, our programme included a significant range of adult provision which included more than 60 adult learners in total.

face to face sessions. The Peace Education Coordinator then supported ALW tutors to adapt and develop an online version of the course, which they delivered in Spring, 2024.

Adult Learning Wales

Following the creation of a Memorandum of Understanding between the WCIA and Adult Learning Wales (ALW), a Peace Education (Adult) curriculum was developed and piloted during 2022 24 in partnership with members of the local community in Llandrindod Wells as one of six Welsh Government

After a period of consultation, the pilot curriculum ran between September and December 2023, including 10

An estimated 30 people attended a consultation day and 15 took part in the course between September 2023 and March 2024, in person and online.

In-depth evaluation of the course was carried out via a baseline questionnaire and more qualitative questions. Responses to the question: ‘One thing I’ve gained from this course’ included:

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a“ Huge insight into conflict and my behaviour

a“ Impetus to take action and keep moving

As part of the evaluation, participants were asked to think what they would say to someone if they had a few seconds to describe the course e.g in a lift. Responses included:

India and we worked with them to develop their understanding of culture shock, safeguarding and appreciative inquiry. They described the training as

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Public Health Wales

M“ Wonderful course; learn about inner peace, nonconflictual language, international peace issues wy

“ Chance to explore together about peace at all levels and have a really inspirational experience, giving hope wy and vision .

Some members of the group have gone on to form a local initiative to develop a peace and sustainability centre in their area.

Pre-Departure Training

In April 2023, we supported delivery of Pre-Departure Training for twenty university students from Cardiff. The students were heading to Thailand, Japan and

In March 2024, we continued building on our collaboration with Public Health Wales to raise understanding of Global Citizenship and how this relates to healthcare in Wales. Our team were able to deliver lectures and training to more than 30 trainee mental health nurses, who considered the impact of globalisation on their clients and how best to tackle it. Students described the lecture as a wonderful opportunity

a“ It was such a great way to look at this kind of topic. I really hope we can take these ideas on the road! A (Florence, Mental Health trainee Nurse, Cardiff)

Professional Learning

This year, we trained and supported more than 120 teachers through our wide range of CPD offers and programmes. We were able to continue offering training for our peace schools and extend our work on peace and conflict through a Peer Mediation training for teachers and schools. In addition, we were successful in becoming the Taith Champions for the schools’ sector, a grant which saw us collaborating with more than 40 schools in Wales and working with fifteen to develop applications for International Exchanges.

Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) in schools and was made possible by funding from South Wales Quakers. Peer mediation is a practical, hands-on way to integrate the necessary skills for peacebuilding into a school or community setting. The model developed focused on a 4 training the trainer , approach. So far 20 staff from 11 schools from across South Wales have been trained to deliver social and emotional wellbeing, conflict resolution and peer

Continuous Professional Development - Peace Schools and Global Citizenship

In June 2023, our Global Learning team were able to offer professional training which had a dual focus on peace education and the ethical citizenship purpose of the new curriculum. The event had 37 teacher sign ups and many of those teachers became part of our upcoming projects on Global Citizenship and Peace Education.

Peer Mediation

This is a partnership project between WCIA and Quakers in Britain, involving a member of staff who has been engaged to disseminate sustainable models of peer mediation in schools in the UK. The project has built on and included work previously undertaken by WCIA to develop and pilot a child-friendly version of

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mediation skills to their pupils and to set up and oversee a peer mediation scheme in their schools.

Staff who attended the training in January 2024 have gone on to deliver sessions to at least 300 pupils, with some staff including whole year groups where that was felt to be beneficial.

The training in January 2024 was a great success. All participants engaged brilliantly in the training and were enthusiastic to implement peer mediation in their schools.

Adjectives used to describe the training included ‘practical, valuable, and thought - provoking’. Asked what they learnt, one teacher remarked:

I have learned a fun way of delivering peer mediator training, and how to upskill children to become peer mediators.

Another participant described the most useful aspect of the training as:

Providing the training through the activities so that it is clear what the lessons/training could look like within my school. I very much enjoyed the approach and how informative the training was.

Since the training we have kept in touch with the schools and had one online catch-up, as well as gathering baseline questionnaires.

For the next training, which will take place in June 2024, some changes have been made to to ensure it’s inclusive. (A special school will be part of the next training session). Further evaluation and monitoring will take place after the second training, and we hope to bring all participants together for a major good practice conference at the Senedd in January 2025.

Interdependence and Globalisation

In May 2023, we had the opportunity to offer CPD to our colleagues at the European Council through a series of seminars and activities. The group working towards Global Education Week came from a wide range of organisations working in Global Citizenship across Europe _ more than 20 different stakeholders from different organisations. The group was interested in how to develop a linked approach to topics and we looked at how to use facilitation techniques during Global Education Week to allow participants to explore interdependence for themselves. Our work was featured in the following November as an example of a “good practice” case study.

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Resources

The return of the Women’s Peace Petition (1923 - 24) to Wales and sharing the story of its creation a hundred years ago has been one of the highlights of the year. Between August 2023 and March 2024, the Peace Education Coordinator has worked with Ffion Fielding, Project Manager for the Women’s Peace Petition project and Luned Hunter at the Urdd to create educational resources.

The aim of these resources is to enable children and young people to learn about the story of the women who created the original petition and their vision for world peace in an interactive and engaging way. On the basis of this engagement a further aim is to encourage young people to reflect on what they can do

for peace today, and to create their own projects as active peacemakers and global citizens.

Two quality resources were produced on time to raise awareness of the Women’s Peace Petition and to support children and young people in learning about the story and acting on it. Perhaps the main success was to work with the Urdd on this year’s Message of Peace and Goodwill which is based on the peace petition. This meant that schools automatically engaged with the education resources as a way of preparing to share the Message of Peace and Goodwill this year.

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Further work is being planned to develop a pilot project with a specific number of schools in the autumn term, , using the resource developed for the Women’s Peace Petition project. This will help to raise awareness of the resource, to ensure it is used, and gain feedback on it. A further aim is to link this work with the Peace Schools Scheme and to support groups of children and young people to undertake projects to create change in their schools and communities.

A key lesson is the importance of promoting resources and ensuring that they are being used by developing activities and projects based on them.

International Visits and Events

Members of the Global Learning team supported young people to take part in 2 main international projects with a focus on peace and global citizenship, funded by Taith. These were:

The Germany trip in particular was transformative for participants. Ten young people aged 16-21 years old from across Wales attended this programme. All participants:

There is a synergy between projects such as these and other strands of work the Global Learning team is involved in. Two of the young people who attended the Germany visit are now Young Peace Ambassadors. Another two worked together to coordinate the Peace Conference in November 2023.

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One young person said:

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WCIA Communications 2023-24

These statistics are for our @WCIA social media platforms.

This year saw the end of the outstanding European Solidarity Corps volunteering projects which meant we said goodbye to our communications volunteers. Anastasiia and Robin were a key part of the marketing and communications team, being able to attend external events, manage social media and create engaging ongoing content to meet our strategic aims. The conclusion of their placements coincided with a restructuring of the way in which we manage marketing and communications, with individual representatives from each programme taking a lead on , their teams marketing and comms, overseen and coordinated by Tom Weiser. Whilst there have been challenges with this new system, we have seen some

powerful content created by the WCIA communications team.

This included a comprehensive article put together by Craig Owens in October providing historical context on Israel and Palestine and calling for a ceasefire Craig has also supported communications on the Women’s Peace Petition centenary, for example Voices from the Petition and the Annie ’ s Diary 100 series. The Annie’s Diary series culminated in coverage of a Senedd debate led by Sioned Williams MS which marked the centenary of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition’s extraordinary campaign.

Our website analytics showed good levels of engagement, and our social media showing steady growth year on year.

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Challenges and lessons

Team changes: The team continued to grow, evolve & change this year across all Programmes. It was exciting to see the Academi Heddwch Cymru team expand, particularly through the Women's Peace Petition Project which enabled us to deliver a much wider programme of peace heritage outreach. After over ten years of service, in March 2024, we said goodbye to our Chief Executive, Susie Ventris-Field. Susie has a new role with Oasis Cardiff. We are Incredibly grateful for Susie's significant contribution to the WCIA, starting out as a volunteer and going on to lead the charity. Understandably, such a big change brings challenges across the team but we are looking forward to a new chapter in our journey under new leadership.

Equality, diversity & inclusion: We made a renewed commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights this year. We worked collaboratively across the team, with volunteers and trustees to review our existing policy, considered how we measure our impact and developed an action plan. The team valued the opportunity to reflect on this work, creating

safe spaces for sharing and discussion. We have much to learn and we commit to ensure this work remains a priority.

Funding environment: The loss of European funding, coupled with cuts to Taith budgets, greatly impacted on our ability to support every young person in Wales to have global citizenship opportunities. In an extremely difficult funding environment, including cuts to government budgets which resulted in further uncertainty, the team worked tirelessly to access a funds from a wide variety of funders. Whilst we are grateful for all of these funds, considerable time is needed to secure and manage them. Short term funding and delays in funding decisions cause stress and anxiety across the team with many staff members on low hours and/or short-term contracts. We hope a more cohesive and longer-term strategy and new brand will help us collaborate more effectively across all programmes to bring in larger and more secure funds.

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Global Action

We inspire global action in communities and organisations in Wales.

We support communities and institutions to unite behind global action within Wales. This means putting our expertise and networks behind homegrown campaigns and activities, celebrating their achievements and supporting organisations to be more globally responsible.

Progress summary

Climate action in Wales

Climate Cymru was launched in 2021 to take voices from Wales to COP26 and was so successful in bringing together hundreds of organisations who have a desire to take climate action that, since then, the movement has gone from strength to strength. Climate Cymru is hosted by WCIA and led by an advisory group comprising representatives from partner organisations, and individual ambassadors. Campaigning successes are a credit to the incredible organisations, volunteers, ambassadors and individuals across Wales, who work tirelessly for urgent, fair action to address the climate and nature emergencies. We are proud to host this campaign to highlight and amplify the amazing work happening across Wales. Highlights of Climate Cymru’s achievements appear on page 29.

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Human Rights

On 7[th] December 2023, on behalf of Welsh Government, we were delighted to host over 100 participants at the Temple of Peace & Health to mark the 75[th] anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Three Welsh Government Ministers spoke at the event, reaffirming Wales’ commitment to Human Rights. The event also included roundtable discussions with Human Rights Defenders with lived experience of

championing human rights in Wales and globally. Music was provided by a Ukrainian Bandurist duo as well as Oasis One World Choir. Participants contributed to discussions on how we can work together to strengthen human rights in Wales and beyond. Jon Alexander, author of Citizens , provided a key note speech on how a citizen approach could support the next 75 years of human rights.

Visit to Wales by young people from Palestine, hosted by WCIA & Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Creating a globally responsible Wales

WCIA ’s work championing the Well-being of Future Generations Act and in particular the globally responsible Wales goal has continued this year.

We support those responsible for delivering the Act to take action towards this goal. Examples include:

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Volunteering team

The year 2023/2024 was truly a transitional one for the volunteering team. We saw the conclusion of all the outstanding European Solidarity Corps (ESC) and European funded projects. We demonstrated our longstanding expertise and organising skills as we took up the role of Taith Champion for both the Youth Sector, as well as the School Sector. We said goodbye to 2 longstanding members of staff, Vicky and Dan, as well as welcoming Chris onboard as our new volunteer administrator and are thankful to have Michi back on a more full-time basis as our Taith Champions Coordinator.

“ Other than that, I gained a new awareness of other cultures - not only Mexico but I also learnt through the other volunteers about their own culture and the countries that they are from. wy

programme, we were able to send 40 young people from Wales on short-, medium- and long-term volunteering projects all over the world, from Peace Heritage placements in Denmark, to Turtle conservation projects in Mexico.

This is in addition to the 35 students we continue to send in partnership with Cardiff University Global Opportunities department on placements in India, Thailand and Japan. Many of these students have expressed a desire to continue their international and domestic volunteering journey with WCIA on their return.

Through the Taith programme, we were also able to welcome 20 young people from all over the world to Wales. We organised a peace and futures thinking workcamp in Bridgend in summer 2023 and welcomed a group of young Palestinians to Wales in February 2024 on a volunteering placement in partnership with the Urdd.

As we look forward to our final summer with Taith funded placements we are in a healthy position to fulfil the majority of our remaining funded placements by the end of August 2024.

Emily was an undergraduate student from Swansea University who signed up initially for a Taith-funded placement in Belgium through Academi Heddwch and the Flemish Peace Institute in May 2023. She subsequently applied for and was accepted on a month-long volunteering placement in Mexico that summer.

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The most common volunteering placements were within heritage, communications, Climate Cymru and Hub Cymru Africa.

Communications volunteers

We continued to benefit from the communications support of our final hosted European Solidarity Corps.

Hosting volunteers

2023-24 has been a successful year in our international exchange programme. In spite of the sunsetting of our ESC volunteers who had been a key part of the WCIA communications team. We were fortunate enough to have 7 volunteers from Ukraine, Russia and Italy contributing to the communications and heritage team for much of 2023. WCIA became a host under the Homes for Ukraine scheme in order to host Ukrainian volunteers. Additionally, we saw volunteers joining WCIA from Estonia and Mexico as part of the Taith mobility programme, contributing to the work of WCIA in Summer 2023.

The long-term volunteers with the support of the heritage advisor created an exhibition that was displayed publicly in Wales over a few weeks in 3 different locations: Temple of Peace in Cardiff, Gregynog Hall in Mid Wales and at the International

M“ The most important thing I learned is to not make assumptions about people, how to hold a respectful discussion when not everybody agrees with one another, and that peace starts within oneself."

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Eisteddfod in Llangollen, which made the exhibition visible for over 30,000 people.

addressed culture shock, problem solving, safeguarding and personal health & safety.

We were able to follow up on this pre-departure training with a post volunteering debrief session, which saw the volunteers critically assess their volunteering placement and identify ways in which they developed both personally and professionally from their time. As an accredited provider of the Youth Cymru Youth Achievement Awards, we were thrilled that 2 young people from Cardiff University who undertook & achieved the award.

Our long-term volunteer beside Caerphilly castle

Four of the participants of this project received the Young Peacemakers Award 2023 in the category “Young Global Citizens”. Counsel General Mick Antoniw presented the ‘peace volunteering’ award to the ESC Volunteers during the Eisteddfod.

In October 2022, WCIA successfully applied for Pathway 2 funding under the Taith Programme. which funds projects supporting international partnership . . , and strategic collaboration. WCIA’s two -year project will collaborate with international partner Faith and Cooperation Foundation (FEC), an NGO based in Portugal working for over 32 years towards social change.

Furthermore, thanks to the Taith programme, we welcomed 9 young people from the EU, Mexico, Peru to Bridgend to attend a Future thinking workcamp organised by WCIA staff. This workcamp saw these international young people live and work with young Welsh people envisioning and considering paths to a more desired shared future.

February 2024 saw WCIA, in conjunction with the Urdd, welcome a group of 6 young people from Palestine on a visit to Wales for 4 days. The young people spent time touring the Senedd building, meeting with Ministers and other Senedd members to discuss their lives and how the people of Wales can do more to support the people of Palestine. After this, the young people were welcomed by the Urdd Gobaith to work on their annual Message of Peace and Goodwill.

Pre-departure training and debriefs

In 23-24, WCIA delivered pre-departure training for all outgoing Taith volunteers. These 1 day, in person or online sessions sought to equip volunteers with some of the skills and abilities to better prepare themselves for undertaking international exchange. These sessions focus on understanding and appreciating what cultures are, the underlying customs and conventions that make them up, as well as being able to find the strengths in differences. Sessions also

The project will develop essential training for successful international volunteering placements in an accessible, digital format covering pre-departure and Debrief training.

The training will be freely accessible online for all young people and youth organisations across Wales and we intend to reach at least 150 young people across Wales and Portugal.

So far, WCIA and FEC have implemented data gathering into their ongoing pre-departure training programmes and will collate their findings following the summer of 2024, to develop these new resources to be published in Spring 2025.

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Achievements by WCIA and partners as Sector Organising Body for Taith

Taith Champions

Following the successful “Sector Organising Bodies” pilot initiative in 22-23, WCIA won the tender and was announced Taith Champion in September 2023 to continue supporting the Youth Sector across Wales to engage with the Welsh Government s Taith Programme. Taith offers young people, staff and volunteers from Welsh youth organisations and local authority youth services opportunities to participate in transformative and life changing volunteering abroad, giving participants the chance to develop new skills and experience new cultures and languages. Taith encourages participation from people from underrepresented groups including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people and people with additional learning needs.

Susie Ventris-Field, WCIA Chief Executive, said:

‘We are absolutely thr illed to be able to continue working with Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Service (CWVYS) and the Taith team to ensure as many young people as possible, from across all backgrounds, have the opportunity for life-changing international exchange between Wales and the world.

We believe these opportunities provide a unique personal development opportunity for young people, and create intercultural links, lifelong connections and solidarity between people across the world, ultimately contributing to peace. We’re committed to working with youth sector organisations to enable them to develop and deliver Taith applications that are tailored to the young people they work with, and to help them to build both the systems and confidence to successfully coordinate i nternational mobilities.”

Together with our partner CWVYS we have been reaching far and wide to raise awareness of the Taith Programme. Through events, meetings and fairs we have spoken about Taith and its different funding opportunities to over 850 people. We have also reached more than 8800 through online content on our website, newsletter, and social media.

Since September 2023, WCIA delivered 3 different webinars, including a Pathway 1 introduction webinar, a Project Idea sharing webinar and a Q&A Pathway 1 webinar shortly before the application deadline in March. All three have been received very well and we supported over 71 participants in total.

We have supported 29 Youth Organisations across Wales to inform them about Taith, to help with project ideas and support project delivery. Furthermore, we gave very intense 1:1 support to 16 of these Youth Organisations applying for Pathway 1 and Pathway 2 projects. The feedback has been very positive:

process, it was brilliant to be able to ask questions about the process and support to complete the application prior to submission. It was really helpful to clarify certain areas of the application that we weren’t sure about. (... ) Michaela was proactive in offering support, generous in terms of the time given,

For the Pathway 1 deadline in March 2024 Taith recorded the highest number of application submissions since the start of the programme. All project applications submitted were working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people and people with additional learning needs.

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Outreach Work

In the last year the outreach work of the global learning and global action teams saw us reach 305 direct beneficiaries within school settings and over 1200 indirect beneficiaries. We have set up new partnerships with Cardiff Metropolitan University to assist in sending 15 young people on individual international placements, through the Taith funding mechanism. Staff members attended outreach sessions at 4 college groups: Cardiff and Vale, Pembrokeshire, Sir Gar and Coleg y Cymoedd. We had direct referrals from several local authorities including

Gwynedd, Powys, Flintshire and Denbighshire. As part of future planning to build on the work done in individual and group placements, WCIA is creating a short media piece about a group of young people from the Cardiff area undertaking their first international exchange. For many of them this was their first trip out of the country. Outside of this direct work, WCIA had a presence at numerous third party events including Gofod3, the Urdd Eisteddfod and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.

Preserving peace heritage for future generations

We continued monthly Archive-a-thons, Temple Tours and archive days with the support of interns and volunteers , to preserve and share Wales’ peace heritage for current and future generations. Volunteers made exceptional progress digitising and cataloguing the heritage in the Temple of Peace including materials from the UNA Exchange Archives, The Minnie James Collection, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, Heritage of Dolen Cymru and the Bureau of Information Posters.

We are incredibly grateful for the dedication and support of heritage interns and volunteers who contributed at least 1840 hours of their time to preserving Wales’ peace heritage for future generations. A full list of projects undertaken by student volunteers can be accessed here.

I was enraptured by the stories of these young men, and as they were close to my age at the time of writing, it was all too easy to visualise myself in their shoes - to imagine the harsh, brutal reality of war on the western front. I want to thank everyone at the WCIA for being so incredibly welcoming and excited to share in their knowledge and pa ssions.” Sam Mutter, Minnie James Collection project

" On a personal level, I was both happy and surprised to realise how much my hometown of Merthyr Tydfil appeared in the Temple’s history, and in the histories of peace movements in Wales." Tom Chambers, Temple Heritage Placement

"To say I enjoyed my placement is an understatement. My time with the WCIA has been an incredible insight into the archive and heritag e sectors, and it’s given also grown and learned so much from the wonderful me achance to be a part ofsomething amazing. I’ve team, and I’m gratefulfor all the support and guidance. Enjoy looking through the Dolen Cymru archives!” Khai Noor Shahmir, Dolen Cymru 40th Anniversary archives project placement

"Much was already known of Mrs James and her and figurehead who opened Wales' Temple of Peace. In November 2023, her descendants reunited at the Temple with a collection of her postcards and letters - passed down from her sons, who each fought in the trenches of WW1 and tragically died, either directly or indirectly, as a result of World War One.

NHS 75 & Temple 85 celebrations

As part of celebrations to mark 75 years of the NHS and th anniversary, we hosted the launch of the book ‘The First NHS’ by author Emma Snow and a discussion panel.

As part of Remembrance Day, we hosted A48 Theatre Company’s performance of the play Aviatrix by Jim Blythe.

As mentioned previously, ESC International Youth Volunteers from Russia and Ukraine produced an exhibition for the Llangollen International Eisteddfod

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displayed at Gregynog Hall and in the Temple of Peace. This thought-provoking exhibition of carefully curated

Ann Shabbaz, representing members of SGI-UK Wales and the Marches, said:

“ W e’re delighted to have found what feels like the right peace publications and books, that have been very ‘spiritual home’ for this important collection of generously donated by our members.”

In collaboration with Cytûn and with kind support from their members, we have begun planning for the 2025 Churches Peace Appeal Centenary. This has included research and a short film created by Cardiff University student, Abby Craig-Jones.

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peace heritage from Wales, invited viewers to learn from our past to create a more peaceful future.

This year we are extremely grateful to Soka Gakkai International Wales who gifted a significant collection of contemporary books on peace building, inner development and co-operation to the Temple of Peace Library.

Members of SGI Wales donating books to Temple Library

Challenges and lessons

Funding: Climate Cymru offers exceptional value to a funder, with a massive network at a campaigner's fingertips, and a lean and impact-driven way of working that is inspiring real change. Despite this, funding remains a real challenge. To charge the network a mandatory membership would make it exclusive, and mean losing breadth and diversity. Some

easily packaged into an appealing grant application for Trusts and Foundations. For example, having dedicated policy capacity, has been identified as an important need by the network, and would help unlock much wider and more inclusive participation in policy development and facing front line services. These are things we will take into account in future programme design.

Archives volunteers and placements catalogue and digitise the library

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Portmeirion Beach, Gwynedd

Climate Cymru is a movement that spans Welsh society including universities, unions, businesses, schools, social enterprises, institutions, community groups, charities, and active citizens.

It was set up in 2021 to platform Wales at COP26. By April 2024, Climate Cymru had reached over 15,000 individuals and signed up over 100 ambassadors & volunteers and 365 organisations, to the movement in support of our shared values representing an enormous cross-section of Welsh society. Climate Cymru is likely to be the largest partner network of its kind in the UK.

Climate Cymru represents a diverse range of backgrounds, ages, and ethnicities from every corner

of Wales. C entral to Climate Cymru’s way of bringing those voices to the corridors of power.

interested in taking climate action to help co-create our campaigns, projects and activities.

This year we brought together partners across sectors and regions of Wales. We promoted their work, connected them to funding opportunities and amplified their campaigns. For example, we facilitated over 500 organizational sign ups to open letters on a wide range of topics including unlocking international climate finance for the w orld’s most vulnerable people, microplastics and air pollution.

"The projects in Wales are like trees growing all over Wales and Climate Cymru is the mycelia which connect all the t

Climate Cymru has three broad areas of work:

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Our campaigns

Warm this Winter promotes shared causes and solutions such as low-cost renewables and a mass scale-up of energy efficiency, to bring about decisive real-world changes.

ambitious climate plans, including all levels of government and Wales' key institutions and organisations. The aim is for Wales to lead the way by becoming the first Race to Zero nation, transforming action for climate change and providing a pathway of joined-up action that could inspire the world to follow.

Great Big Green Week and The Green Tour

Great Big Green Week (10th-18th June 2023) saw the largest collection of environmental events that have ever happened in Wales - 150 events, celebrating community climate action, and connecting people.

Warm this Winter campaigners with Jenny Rathbone MS outside the Senedd

The Climate Cymru Green Tour visited 13 partner events in total, in communities across Wales, including Swansea, St David s, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Wrexham, Newport and Cardiff. We shone a light on community solutions to the climate & nature crisis, and events and activities were well received throughout the week. The Tour also engaged politicians around Wales, including the First Minister for Wales.

Running our Green Tour alongside Great Big Green Week meant we could build on last year’s Great Big Green Week by promoting the amazing work of our partners within their communities. We encouraged them to deliver Great Big Green Week events in partnership with other organisations within their communities.

15,000 people attended Great Big Green Week events in Wales, 40% of whom had not previously attended an environmental event. Digital reach for the tour and events on Climate Cymru’s channels was 150,000 and collective reach across all the participants many times higher.

Race to Zero Cymru

Race to Zero is a global framework for ambitious, robust, 1.5-degree-aligned climate action aiming to deliver a healthier, fairer zero-carbon world. The campaign aims to encourage Welsh society to become aligned with comprehensive, and

Great Big Green Week talk at a primary school

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Nature Positive

Climate Cymru is campaigning for a Nature Positive future in Wales and around the World so that by 2030, we will see an increase in nature, instead of a decrease, as currently predicted. A key stepping stone for that is a Nature Positive Bill in Wales.

Imagine Action

Imagine Action was born out of a broad concern from the Climate Cymru movement about an escalating culture war and destructive narratives surrounding climate action. After an extensive co-creation and research period we formed a plan for a multi-year campaign and initiated a soft launch. Imagine Action aims to give communities and people of Wales a platform and opportunity to rewrite the story of the nature and climate emergencies in Wales; changing narratives, shifting societal values and inspiring action across the country. We continue to apply Imagine Action principles to our content and campaigns including ~~—___~~ Cysyllltiad and our Race to Zero Cymru campaign video.

Young Climate Ambassadors for Wales

This year Climate Cymru became the home of the Young Climate Ambassadors for Wales and after securing funding for and recruiting a coordinator, they recruited several new Ambassadors. They are busy establishing their campaign objectives for the coming year.

Climate Cymru volunteers

Discussing Nature Positive with First Minister, Mark Drakeford

Our new volunteer programme was designed by volunteers to be a flexible, accessible introduction to Climate work and a gateway to other Cymru’s voluntary opportunities. Although the programme is still very new (April 2024), it is already making huge contributions towards our aspirations to ensure underrepresented voices are at the heart of our narratives. We have reactivated our existing volunteer cohort, attracted new volunteers and provided passionate volunteers with a route into the climate movement in Wales.

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Global Partnerships

We build global partnerships connecting Wales and the world.

We support worldwide partnerships that strengthen Wales as an outwardlooking and globally responsible nation. We support international friendship and mutual cooperation, and we coordinate and strengthen Welsh international development activity. We want people in Wales to be proud of and recognised for their connections with the rest of the world.

Progress summary

Outcomes under Global Partnerships this year include:

Wales for Peace in the world

This year, before the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel had taken place on October 7th, Sir Vincent Fean spoke at an event at the Temple to explore pathways to a just peace in Palestine. After 7[th] October, we brought together a range of resources and perspectives to support the people of Wales to better understand the historic context behind the Israel-Palestine conflict.

In partnership with Welsh Government, we held an event in December 2023 to mark 75[th] anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event included opening speeches from three Welsh Government Ministers, a key note speech from author of Citizens, Jon Alexander and personal testimony from human rights defenders. Following the success of the Wales Values Statement ahead of the Qatar Football Worldcup, this year we have worked with partners to develop a high-level values statement for all international engagement work.

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Showcasing Wales ) peace heritage to the world

We were delighted this year to be invited to welcome international visitors to the Temple of Peace and to attend international events with the aim of sharing Wales’ heritage and learning from others. Some highlights from this year include:

As part of the summer archives project, the following collections were digitised and catalogued making them available to researchers across the world.

HE Javier Figueroa, the Argentine Ambassador to the UK visits the Temple of Peace

Outgoing volunteers

In Summer 2023, 25 Cardiff University Students participated in projects in India, Thailand and Japan.

In partnership with the Global Opportunities Department of Cardiff University, WCIA welcomed 30 students to the Pre-Departure Training in May 2023. The training explored topics including Appreciative Inquiry, culture shock, ethics and principles, safeguarding and the history and nature of international volunteering projects.

A total of 12 students went to Thailand, hosted by our international partner VSA Thailand. They were based in a boarding school with more than 1000 children from disadvantaged backgrounds, assisting the teachers in English classes and after-school activities. Our Thai partner reported that the children of the school are benefitting from the exchange by improving their English and having the opportunity to meet people from other countries:

Thai project partner.

Our International partner FSL India hosted 9 students, who were based in Dharmashala. The volunteers focused on digital literacy education, renovation, environment and waste management, and creating awareness among tourists, community and school children about waste management through rivercleaning and tree plantation.

Our partner NICE in Japan hosted 4 students on 2 environmental projects in Yoichi and Kuromatsunai. The volunteers based in Yoichi immersed themselves into the Bunamori Nature school that was established in 1998 to promote environmental education. The other group engaged with the activities of the Hokkaido Eco-village Promote Project to promote a sustainable lifestyle and society.

The 25 students who went abroad reflected on their experiences in a debrief event. The students gained skills during their placements saying they felt more confident, and more able to work on their own ideas and projects. They felt more confident planning & taking action on global issues. In 2024, another cohort of Cardiff University students will be undertaking the same placements in India, Thailand and Japan.

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Ayesha who went to Thailand said:

increased. I found a lot of the problem-solving skills I gained through the project were transferable My confidence has improved a lot through this placement which has allowed me to go for employment

In 2023, we saw another busy year and supported young people on international placements, with group placements to Belgium and Denmark, and 15 young people took the opportunity provided by the Welsh me to undertake

individual international volunteering placements in: Mexico, Peru, Estonia, Portugal, Germany and France. For several of these young people these trips were their first experience in international volunteering. Their testimonies are a tribute to the powerful transformational ability of international volunteering.

The year 2024 will be the last year in which young people can take up fully funded international volunteering placements through the Taith mobility programme and we are well on track to fulfil all of our available placements sending around 50 young people on a mixture of group and individual placements.

Partner network

All our international exchanges and volunteering abroad projects would not be possible without our brilliant international partners. Most of them are members of the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations (Alliance).

WCIA has been a founding member of this network since its inception over 40 years ago. In 2023-24 almost all outgoing volunteers have been hosted by a partner of the Alliance and most of our incoming volunteers to Wales are sent by our partners. WCIA continues to

support the network by joining events and working groups.

Our Chief Executive, Susie, volunteered to fulfil the role of auditor for the Alliance, Dan was part of the teams external relations for the Alliance and Chris attended the Technical Meeting in Spain in 2023. This gave him the chance to meet our partners in person and exchange projects and agreements. Chris also attended training events organised by the Alliance throughout the year.

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’ _ Academi Heddwch Cymru Wales Peace Institute

We are extremely grateful that Dr Rowan Williams will continue to Chair the Academi Heddwch Cymru (AHC) partnership for the next three years, and that Professor Mererid Hopwood will remain as Secretary, for the next two years. Academi Heddwch Cymru has revised and renewed the Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the alliance between AHC and the founding partners. Academi Heddwch Cymru was also re-elected -Party Group on as Secretariat for the Senedd’s Cross Peace and Reconciliation.

This year, thanks to continued funding from Welsh Government, Academi Heddwch Cymru has appointed a Project Development Manager, an Academic Research Network Lead and two Project Coordinators. In addition, Heritage Lottery Funding enabled the recruitment of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition

Project Manager and four Community Outreach Officers for the Peace Petition Project.

Academi Heddwch Secretary Professor Mererid Hopwood opens the ‘Peace Lecture’ at Llangollen International Eisteddfod in July 2023

Research Network

Academi Heddwch has made significant progress to create a network of peace researchers in Wales through facilitating discussions and forums in the following events:

Research Festival: The Pursuit of Peace

Academi Heddwch Research Network Lead, Professor Colin McInnes, organised and chaired a successful panel entitled Llwybrau tuag at Heddwch / Pathways to Peace at the festival. The panelists: Dr Jenny Mathers, Professor Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Dr Tomás Irish and Professor John Harrington shared their experience and thoughts with an audience of approximately 25 people, made up of students, academics, members of the public and online participants.

Environment, Climate and Peace Environment Platform Wales (EPW) and Academi Heddwch Collaborative Workshops

Following the scoping meeting in 2023 a more focused planning meeting was held online in January with the core group of Welsh researchers. This identified a programme of activities building up to a report (due summer/autumn 2024). Ideas were finessed in a meeting between AHC and EPW in February before the first activity, a workshop identifying risks and mitigations for Wales. This was facilitated by the Dialogue Centre in Aberystwyth University and was also attended by a reporter from the BBC climate change team.

Academi Heddwch / Learned Society of Wales (LSW) - Sandpit session for Early Career Researchers (ECR) on the theme ‘Pathways to Peace’ A sandpit is where a cross disciplinary group of academics & practitioners come together for a short time to create new projects around a given theme. The Pathways to Peace sandpit involved researchers from across Welsh universities, and one international ECR currently based in Wales. The intention was two-fold: to begin to develop a network of early career researchers interested in questions of peace; and to outline a possible research programme. The first will be further developed at the LSW’s annual meeting of ECRs in June. The second outlined an interest in how community-based initiatives can develop grassroots approaches to peace building and is being further developed by the Academic Research Network lead at the AHC in conjunction with staff at University of Wales Trinity St David.

75% of the early career researchers gave the workshop a rating of 5/5 .

Feedback included the following comments:

engaged in various scholarly areas, are interested in

of disciplines and universities to discuss a common theme - I can't think of any other space where I've had

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The Gaza Conflict Prospects for Peace? Webinar and Roundtable was held in response to the widespread public interest and concern in the ongoing conflict in Gaza. It involved three participants from Welsh Universities and Professor Paul Rogers (Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and arguably the UK’s leading peace researcher over the past 30 years). In addition to 90 registered attendees , the webinar was recorded and is available online.

The Wales Peace Research Network has already attracted 80 members since its launch. The Network is

open to anyone in Wales, or to members of peace institutes internationally, who has an interest in peace research whether based in a University, an official organisation, third sector or individual.

Membership of the Network will allow AHC to keep members informed of its work, invite members to events they might be interested in, and to ensure that all those interested in peace can contribute to the research being undertaken in Wales.

Engagement

Academi Heddwch Cymru (AHC) supported the WCIA global learning team to strengthen the Peace Schools Network in Wales , by delivering cross sector engagement events such as the Peace Schools Conference which was attended by 100 children and supported by Cross Party Group for Peace and Reconciliation Chair, Mabon ap Gwynfor, and the previous Education & Welsh Language Minister, Jeremy Miles. AHC also supported the Young Peacemakers Awards at Llangollen International Musical Festival which had received over 60 entries from individual young people, schools and community groups across Wales. The winners of the various categories were presented with awards by the Counsel General for Wales, Mick Antoniw. AHC was also responsible for organising the festival’s annual Peace Lecture which was delivered by the authors of a book on the history of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition entitled Yr Ap ê l / The Appeal : Dr Jenny Mathers, Catrin Stevens, Meg Elis, Dr Siân Rhiannon Williams, Dr Eirlys Barker, Jill Evans and Professor Mererid Hopwood.

AHC worked in collaboration with fellow Welsh Government strategic partners, namely Wales Arts International , Urdd Gobaith Cymru and the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner on projects and conferences such as Pwythau Bychain (artistic response to the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition), Message of Peace & Goodwill and Wales Summit of the Future respectively. AHC commissioned two pieces of objective, baseline research : Wales as a Nation of Peace and a Peace Education Review . These will present recommendations for shaping policy and practice in Wales , with the Well-being of Future Generations Act being central to the research. The Wales as a Nation of Peace research includes a framework for involving people in a national conversation on peace.

Dr Rowan Williams & Pamela Hiley

European Network of Peace Institutes as well as creating international partnerships, namely with the Norwegian Taiji Centre. In May 2023, AHC and the WCIA, with the support of the Welsh Government, welcomed 40 members of the Norwegian Taiji Centre to Wales as part of their 40[th] Anniversary Jubilee Celebrations. A conference was held on the 19[th] of May at the Temple of Peace and Health to bring ‘New perspectives and learning on the nature of peace’, with the Taiji practice aiming to support Wales on its journey to becoming a Nation of Sanctuary and a Nation of Peace. The delegation was welcomed by the then First Minister, Mark Drakeford, who opened the event. In September 2023, Academi Heddwch Project Development Manager, Dr Bethan Siân Jones, represented the Academi at the Norwegian Taiji Centre’s International Symposium Celebrating Taiji for Health and Peace, held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. She said:

It was a true pleasure and inspiration to be with you in this very warm country of yours and in your superb building and with your clear and wonderful anti-war mission. Combining talks, discussions and taiji practice turned out to function even better than hoped for

AHC continued to build relationships with other Peace Institutes such as the Flemish Peace Institute and the

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Peace Petition Project

opportunities for engagement for example with the Llangeitho Community Council; RCT County Borough ‘ +d Council; Abberation’, an LGBTQ+ arts and culture organisation in Aberystwyth, and Community House in Newport.

Inspire a new generation of peace activists who work towards the vision of Wales as a Nation of Peace and of a warless world

WCIA and Academi Heddwch Cymru supported the Women’s Peace Petition Partn ership in a successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), and was awarded a grant of £249K to deliver. the Women’s, Peace Petition Project until the end of 2024. This Project complements the work of the National Library, funded by Welsh Government, to conserve, digitise and catalogue the Petition and develop a platform for people to transcribe the petition contents. The community outreach enabled by the NHLF grant has ensured that we have been able to meet the original objectives detailed below.

We have run many of our events in conjunction with the peace movement in Wales, and we are grateful for their support of our work. For the National Eisteddfod in 2023, we were supported to form a part of the . . . partnership based in the ‘Peace tent’ which gave staff members and volunteers from ‘Heddwch Nain Mamgu’8 the opportunity to speak to a large number of visitors, to share the story of the petition and to take the details of anyone interested in volunteering through our mailing list system. Heddwch Nain Mamgu also produced a ‘trialogue’ between three women from three eras, presented on the Maes.

Mark 2023/24 working with Welsh and international the centenary of the Women’s Peace Petition in partners.

The project partnership has worked consistently to support each s activities throughout the process, and meets on a monthly basis, under the leadership of oe Academi Heddwch. We have also been able to expand on the original bid partnership to broaden our scope and ensure that we have the support that we need to be able to fulfil the projects, as well as create relationships that can be nurtured by WCIA and Academi Heddwch after the period of the project. Highlights include inviting Merched y Wawr, the Women’s Institute and the Urdd to join the partnershi nu Jo! P P board. Merched y Wawr have provided us with space at their events to share information about the project and to recruit. volunteers. The Women’s , Institute. gave us a key note slot in their annual national conference, which again provided us with opportunities to recruit volunteers and to talk about our offer, and we worked closely with the Urdd to c reate this year’s message of peace and goodwill, inspired by the centenary.

Other new national partnerships include Archives Wales, the Union of Independent chapels, Cytun, Oxfam Cymru, and Wales Arts International.

On a local level, our outreach officers have worked with a variety of community groups to create

Heddwch Nain Mamgu triologue at National Eisteddfod 2023 , . On international women s day we worked with community activists from south Cardiff and Oxfam Cymru to create a ‘peace activist flash mob’ ; a group of women from variety of backgrounds met on the steps of the National Museum sharing campaign information and expressing support for each other. This was inspired by the petition, in particular the reference to how the intention was ‘non political’. As part of this , Oxfam Cymru launched a declaration that members of the public could sign up to, using the petition as inspiration, to show dedication and support for the creation of ‘a warless world’. This work will be developed in 2024 alongside the work on the national conversation framework for peace developed by Academi Heddwch.

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to chapels, to national conferences!): 10 archive-based workshops: 15 ‘national invitation to transcribe’ information sharing events and 12 craft & art-based workshops. During the remainder of the project we will further develop our relationships with some of these groups in order to help produce local ‘community responses’ to the petition: such as supportingthe artist Bethan M Hughes to produce an embroidered art work with communities around Conwy and in America to form part of the Llangollen community exhibition.

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Engage and support a large-scale, collective transcription effort that will give global access to the Women’s Peace Petition as a key part of Wales’ peace heritage for current and future generations.

A transcription tool developed by the National Library was ‘soft launched’ in December2023. Our team wrote clear, accessible guidance to its use, provided weekly online training and support sessions for new volunteers, and acted as a first port of call for all enquiries. Before the tool was launched we were able to use WCIA digital systems to create a mailing list for those who expressed an interest in volunteering across all events run by partners, and so by December we already had our first 100 volunteers in place. The number of regular, active volunteers has now exceeded 200, and as all digitised pages have become available through the National Library’s website . The transcription tool has been thoroughly tested and we hope to launch a media push in June 2024 to further increase this number.

Support the development of educational materials , . : and encourage schools, young people’s organisations & community groups to participate in centenary activities and events.

Schools activism workshop at St Fagans Museum

As well as our school resources produced as part of the project, we also gained funding from the Urdd to write the schools resources to accompany this year’s message of peace and goodwill. We supported the writing of the message with knowledge about the petition, and encouraged the young women to search and understand more about its history. We worked in partnership with the learning team at St Fagan s National History Museum to create a workshop for visiting schools based on the current exhibition of the chest and the petition, alongside Greenham Common collections. We also worked with two schools in the Llangollen area to create a special parade banner and community exhibition for the Dory Gallery during the

Transcribers get together at Temple of Peace

S upport the Women’s Peace Petition Partnership to develop and deliver bilingual, vibrant, cultural and historical interpretation events and activities to celebrate the centenary attracting diverse communities.

In terms of events we have exceeded the project plan: with around 30 talks to groups (in venues from pubs,

Thread of Peace workshop in Ruthin

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International Eisteddfod period. We have further plans to work with young Amgueddfa Cymru producers to create a banner for peace to accompany the chest exhibition in its next iteration in the Riverside Gallery.

O young student feminists with Mererid Hopwood in Aberystwyth University, based on the activism of the petition story.

Academi Heddwch Partners

Academi Heddwch Cymru is hosted by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (WCIA) and the founding partners are WCIA, Learned Society of Wales, Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff University, Cardiff

University, University of South Wales, Swansea University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

It is supported by representatives from the Peace Movement in Wales, Race Council Wales, Urdd Gobaith Cymru and the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.

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Hub Cymru Africa

About the Partnership

Hub Cymru Africa (HCA) is a partnership formed in 2015 between Fair Trade Wales, Sub Saharan Africa Advisory Panel, Wales and Africa Health Links Network, and Welsh Centre for International Affairs.

HCA’s work is overseen by the Partnership Board, formed by board members from each of the organisations, and was hosted by the WCIA until 31[st] March 2024.

HCA works across civil society, bringing together charities, individuals, and organisations around core organisational themes. Partners are united around the delivery of global solidarity and work together on sustainable development, fair trade, climate change, health, livelihoods, and equalities, gender, race, and intergenerational justice.

During 2023-24, HCA were funded by Welsh Government and Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (via Bond).

The year 2023-24 was a significant year for the Partnership, it marked the end of a three-year Welsh Government funding programme and, ten years after the founding of the Partnership, the Sub Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP) stepped into the role of hostpartner from 1st April 2024. WCIA is delighted to be working with SSAP as the new hosts. We remain committed to the vision, mission & goals of the Partnership and will continue as a member of the Partnership moving forward.

The staff and trustees of WCIA would like to thank and pay tribute to the incredible work of the Hub Cymru Africa team and the leadership of Claire O’Shea as Head of Partnerships. We outline here, the key achievements of Hub Cymru Africa over the 3-year funded period and look forward to seeing how the

Partnership will build on this work in the future with an African diaspora-led organisation at the helm.

In March 2024, the HCA Partnership came together for an event at the Senedd to celebrate 3 years of global solidarity. Over the 3 years HCA supported 402 different organisations, working in over 40 African countries. The HCA Volunteering Programme has also supported over 40 volunteers from Wales, a third of whom were from the African diaspora, in gaining experience in international development.

HCA strategy

Vision, Mission, and Goals

HCA’s vision is a globally responsible Wales that acts in solidarity with the people of Africa.

HCA’s mission is to catalyse change, contributing to global development outcomes by supporting the Wales and Africa communities.

To achieve this vision and mission, HCA agreed on three priority goals:

Goal 1 Building a stronger, more effective sector

HCA continues to support the sector in Wales through bespoke events and training sessions. Over the course of 23-24 a total of 800 people attended HCA events and training sessions. These included sessions on mental health and safeguarding.

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Mental Health

In July 2023, 26 participants joined a shared learning event in North Wales focussed on learning from the highly successful Betsi-Quthing link Mental Health Stakeholder training project. The event was funded via the Wales and Africa programme, hosted by the North Wales African Society and jointly organised by Wales and Africa Health Links Network and HCA.

actions of HCA to support organisations. I will make a more conscious effort to actively engage in anti-

Fundraising efforts at the Sudan Fundraising Bazaar June 2023

Goal 3 Making the case for global solidarity

Tebello, John & Ntebo Delivering Mental Health Programmes in Lesotho event

Safeguarding

Safeguarding remains a priority for Hub Cymru Africa and is the bedrock of best practice. HCA continues to deliver bespoke training for the sector including:

Goal 2 Support the community HCA works with to become anti-racist and actively inclusive

Anti-Racist Charter

This year HCA has seen a 30% increase in groups that have signed the Anti-Racist Charter. HCA developed more self-led tools which enabled access for people that were unable to attend training or events. HCA and SSAP worked closely with Wales members of the British Association of Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS) Fairtrade Network UK who became a signatory to the Charter. HCA and SSAP were invited to deliver a workshop at the BAFTS 2023 Conference which received positive feedback from attendees:

"I felt challenged by my own ignorance around racism or lack of action around anti-racism, inspired by the

The 2023 Global Solidarity Summit was held In Treforest in May and themed (Re)Connecting Communities. Key-note speakers included Kaleidoscope Trust executive director Lady Phyll and television presenter and producer Mo Jannah.

To stand in solidary with those affected by the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the Sudan Revolution Support Group Cardiff held a fundraising bazaar in June. It was held in association with HCA, SSAP, the NON-PLACE Collective and Umbrella Art Collective Cardiff. Hosted by G39, the event brought together 80 people from the Sudanese diaspora and others. The event raised awareness about the conflict and raised funds for the Sudan Doctors Union.

Wales and Africa

In March 2024, HCA hosted a cross party celebration of the Wales and Africa Community at an event in the Senedd. Chief Executive of SSAP, Fadhili Maghiya said,

The Wales and Africa programme has grown from strength to strength over the years. I’m looking forward to continuing this work and building on our successes as the new hosts of the HCA Partnership

HCA hosted a fringe event at the Welsh Conservative party conference in Newport in May 2023 alongside Joel James MS. The question posed at the event was 'What is the future of Wales-led international development?'.

Volunteering

Careers in t are

hard to access and competitive. HCA supports people to get involved in the global solidarity sector here in Wales and gain experience and skills in international development. During the course of 23-24, HCA

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supported 18 volunteers who provided the global solidarity sector with 587 volunteer hours.

One of HCA’s volunteers Harry who volunteers with Giakonda Solar Schools said:

"Hub Cymru Africa has done incredible work supporting charities like Giakonda, I always felt supported by the team at Hub Cymru Africa, and would highly recommend volunteering in any way you can with them

Vaughan Gething & Martha at the Wales and Africa celebration event March 2024

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Temple of Peace: The Venue with a Heart

Venue for commmunity and global issues

We have given the equivalent of around £15,000 in discounted venue hire to charitable and non-profit projects and events during this financial year.

These included a Bengali and Persian New Year events, a Glitter Cymru pride event, youth music performances, and arts events, such as drama performances and art exhibitions.

They include, the Spectrum of Sight exhibition supported by Disability Arts Cymru and hosted by artist Bridie Doyle-Roberts; a one-day immersive art installation exploring how we see, what we see and what it means to be an artist when the visual world is getting lost in the dark.

Filming and other events

classes, and the continued Candlelight Concerts all being regular bookings through the year. The organisers at Fever have expanded their offering to include Mindful Glow sound bath events alongside the Candlelight Concerts, which have also proven to be popular.

Awareness of the building is noticeably increasing, with many people saying they came across the venue via Google search. This has been helped by listings on directory websites with good rankings and reputations.

Filming bookings at the Temple of Peace were reduced due to the writer’s strike . Now this has been resolved enquiries are coming in regularly again. Small scale filming projects still went ahead and we had documentary interviews filmed for BBC Sport, S4C and independent studios.

Wedding bookings have increased and we held 18 weddings and engagement parties throughout the year, as well as four celebrations of life. We hosted over 20 external meetings and conferences during the year and also a memorial service for minority ethnic and commonwealth servicemen and women, as well as a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony. We were also the venue of choice for the Artes Mundi prize announcement.

Repeat bookings from clients have continued to increase, with salsa classes, drama performances, yoga

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Trading at the Temple of Peace

[our][trading][at][the][ Temple] Much[of] i le is ‘primary purpose’ trading it provides an income while contributing to is ‘p our core purposes.

For example, we rent out office space to other international charities, and offer discounted hire rates to charities and grassroots groups hiring out the venue for educational activities or events.

We also hire out the venue for weddings and parties, in the hope that as many people as possible learn about the Temple of Peace and understand its place in Welsh internationalism & peacebuilding, past and present.

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Financial overview

The financial result for the year ended 31 March 2024 was a deficit of £36,098 (FY 22-23 £43,905 surplus). WCIA generated income of £1.52 million in the year (FY 22/23 £1.32m) and expenditure was £1.56m (FY 22/23 £1.23m).

Grant income continues to be the principal source (82%) of funding for the charity, with grant income for FY 23/24 of £1.25m (FY 22/23 of £1.06m). The increased grant funding was primarily due to the various strands of the Taith work which brought in a total of £205k (see p 71 for details) and the National Lottery Heritage funded Women’s Peace Petition (£101k) (see p 70 for details). As can be seen in Note 14, WCIA has been successful in obtaining a broad range of grants which is a testament to the WCIA team. Whilst pleasing, it demonstrates the challenges of the funding environment (see pgs 70-71), where the income is generated from multiple short-term grants, which take time both to secure and manage. Note 14 demonstrates that the majority of WCIA’s grant funding is from small short-term grants, mostly that are received and spent in-year. With the European Solidarity Corps and Hub Cymru Africa funding ending in FY 23/24, it demonstrates the challenging funding environment, and WCIA is expecting its income to decrease substantially in FY 24/25 with a total budgeted income of £1.06m.

WCIA generated a deficit of £36k for the year which was mostly (£20k) as a result of expenditure on grantrelated activities where the restricted income had been recognised in the prior year.

WCIA is keen to maximise its unrestricted income, and our venue income (£143k in FY 23/24) remains an

important source of unrestricted income. However, the income has still not returned to the pre-COVID levels of income as yet (FY 19/20 £254k). Venue income remains reliant on large events (exhibitions, filming, weddings) as bookings for conferences and meetings have not returned to pre-Covid levels.

As of 31 March 2024, WCIA had net assets of £743k (compared to £779k in FY 22-23). Of this, £183k is restricted and £184k is designated leaving £376k in general funds. Our reserves are within the range required by our Reserves Policy which requires free reserves of £350k - £450k to be held. The loss of the various funding streams will reduce the overheads that are generated to cover core costs, and may require some reserve spend. WCIA is keen to explore other funding opportunities to continue its work in international exchange, but reserves are needed to cover the funding gap left by ESC which will only be exacerbated when the Taith projects come to an end in 24/25.

During the year, the board took the decision to close a property fund that was not performing well and was difficult to access as it had a six-month notice period, releasing £101k cash (see cashflow on page 56). The cash management has been improved during the year by opening a savings platform account that allows WCIA to hold cash in savings accounts of various notice periods, improving its access to readily available cash and taking advantage of the higher interest rate environment by putting cash that is not needed imminently into notice accounts and therefore increasing the amount of interest earnt.

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Structure, governance and management

The WCIA is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. It was previously a charitable trust before being incorporated in April 2014 (Charity Number 1156822).

The Risk policy and Risk Register overseen by the Finance & Risk Committee and appear as a fixed item on the Trustee Board Meeting agenda.

The three primary risks as of the end of the financial year were:

Words used by staff to describe WCIA

It is not a company and is therefore registered with the Charity Commission but not at Companies House. our Governing document is the Constitution.

A staff team coordinates the WCIA’s activities on a day to day basis, with the support of the Chief Executive and Senior Management Team. There is additional support from volunteers. All our activities are undertaken to further our charitable purposes for the benefit of the public. The Trustees use Charity Commission guidance on public benefit (Charities Act 2006 section 4).

WCIA hold investments managed by Charles Stanley in line with our Ethical Investment Policy. Risk is set at Medium Low and the investment objective is to produce a balance of capital growth and income. The Finance and Risk Committee meet annually with the Investment Manager and liaise with the staff team about issues arising from Investment Reports.

The trustees have established three sub-committees to assist in the oversight of the Charity. These are the Governance Committee, Finance & Risk Committee and the Staffing Committee.

Finance & Risk Committee

The Finance and Risk Committee review our reserves levels and cash flow quarterly ahead of Board meetings to ensure they are adequate to fulfil our continuing obligations. The Finance and Risk Committee then report any risks or concerns to the Board for discussion and/or approval.

The WCIA has a Reserves Policy which states that we maintain a free reserve level of between £350,000 - £450,000 which is sufficient for 4 months of operation. If reserves levels reach £350,000 it will trigger an urgent discussion by the Finance and Risk Committee and action approved by full board to ensure the minimum level is retained.

Trustee away days

Trustees have an annual away day to complete a Governance Health Check and feed into strategic plans.

This year, we had a workshop to help develop a new brand to accompany the long-term new strategy that we are working on.

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Governance Committee

The Governance Committee ensures the overall governance of the charity is sound. They oversee the recruitment of new trustees, re-election of officers and trustees and succession planning. They also monitor and review the policy review process, safeguarding incidents and implementation of actions identified in the annual Governance Health Check.

When they join us, trustees have a robust induction to introduce them to the WCIA and their role as trustees. They are asked to complete a declaration of any potential conflict of interests and to sign the Terms of Reference. Conflicts of interest are reviewed and updated at every Trustee meeting. There are regular opportunities for trustees to attend our events, and we have a training budget to help meet professional development needs as they arise.

Charity Commission and Wales Council for Voluntary Action documentation is distributed as reference material for trustees when of direct relevance. The Constitution provides for the recruitment and appointment of new trustees when individual terms of

office come to an end. The Board of Trustees has a policy for the open selection and recruitment of trustees, emphasising the need for a broad base of knowledge and experience to match our diverse range of activities. There is also a policy for the election of officers from among the trustees.

This year, three safeguarding incidents were reported and closed according to our policy and procedure. There were no fundraising complaints. There were no reportable data breaches.

Staffing Committee

The Staffing Committee oversee matters relating to staffing including recruitment of new staff, restructures, and other HR processes. They annually review pay in line with the Competency Framework and Pay Policy. They also lead on reviews of the Competency Framework and Pay Policy where required. All staff salaries are set with reference to the Pay Policy and Competency Framework.

There were between 32 to 40 staff members during the financial year.

Susie Ventris-Field surrounded by the Trustees in front of the Temple of Peace

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Our partners and funders

During the year, the WCIA collaborated with a wide range of public, private and third sector organisations to achieve We recognise that a huge amount of our work builds on the inspiring contributions of other organisations and individuals.

Thank you!

who support our work, as

partners, donors, funders and customers, including:

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Reference and administrative details

Welsh Centre for International Affairs

Registered name Welsh Centre for International Affairs Registered Charity Number 1156822 Registered Office Temple of Peace King Edward VII Avenue Cardiff CF10 3AP Trustees Emma West resigned 1 August 2023 Martin Fidler Jones resigned 25 September 2024 Eira Jepson resigned 24 April 2024 Felicitie Wells Catherine Oprava Nirushan Sudarsan Martin Pollard Catrin Edwards resigned 7 March 2024 Sara Whittam Raphael Esu resigned 7 March 2024 Alex Williams Nick Christoforou Rev Carol Wardman - Resigned 2 December 2024 Cerian Eluned Sine Black Gill Richardson Philip Champness appointed 6 June 2023 and resigned 3 December 2024 Key management personnel Hayley Morgan Chief Executive from July 2024 Susie Ventris-Field Chief Executive to March 2024 Shaela Ismail Head of Finance Hayley Richards Head of Programme Development & Policy Claire O'Shea Head of HCA Partnership Amber Demetrius Head of Global Learning Sam Ward Head of Climate Cymru Vicky Court - Volunteer Programme Manager to February 2024 Auditors Azets Audit Services Ty Derw Lime Tree Court Cardiff Gate Business Park Cardiff CF23 8AB Investment advisers Charles Stanley & Co. Limited 55 Bishopsgate London EC2N 3AS Bankers Co-operative Bank 16-17 High Street Cardiff CF10 1AX

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Responsibilities of the Board of Trustees

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that year.

In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping sufficient accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They 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.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the charity and financial information included on the charity's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Auditors

Azets Audit Services were re-appointed as the charity’s auditors during the year and have expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 16 December 2024 and signed on its behalf by:

NAME - Sara Whittam

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Report of the independent auditors to the members of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs for the year ended 31 March 2024

Opinion

We have audited

31 March 2024 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows and the notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion, the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, indi concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the statement of trustees' responsibilities, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud.

We obtain and update our understanding of the entity, its activities, its control environment, and likely future developments, including in relation to the legal and regulatory framework applicable and how the entity is complying with that framework. Based on this understanding, we identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. This includes consideration of the risk of acts by the entity that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud.

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, including fraud, we designed procedures which included:

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Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

Other matters

Your attention is drawn to the fact that the charity has prepared financial statements in accordance with "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (as amended) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has now been withdrawn.

This has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with current Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

Use of our report

This rep ort is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Azets Audit Services

Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors

Ty Derw

Lime Tree Court

Cardiff Gate Business Park

Cardiff

CF23 8AB

16 December 2024 Date ......................................

Azets Audit Services is eligible for appointment as auditor of the charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under of section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.

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Statement of financial activities (incorporating the income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2024

Note
Unrestricte
d funds
£
Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
3
6,935
Charitable activities
4
Global Learning
7,500
Global Action
45,931
Global Partnership
-
Venue
142,729
Core
48,929
Other trading activities
5
1,102
Investments
6
10,842
Total income and endowments
263,968
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
7
2,926
Charitable activities
8
286,182
Total expenditure
289,108
Transfers between funds
3,500
Net gains/(losses) on investments
11
11,015
Net movement in funds
(10,625)
Reconciliation of Funds
Total funds brought forward
14,16
570,900
Total funds carried forward
14,16
560,275		 Restricted
funds
£
6,549
108,269
743,313
379,600
-
15,972
-
-
1,253,703
-
1,275,676
1,275,676
(3,500)
-
(25,473)
208,555
183,082		 Total
funds
2024
£
13,484
115,769
789,244
379,600
142,729
64,901
1,102
10,842
1,517,671
2,926
1,561,858
1,564,784
-
11,015
(36,098)
779,455
743,357		 Total
funds
2023
£
3,723
96,354
540,672
469,240
166,891
29,814
-
12,414
1,319,108
3,055
1,227,447
1,230,502
-
(44,701)
43,905
735,550
779,455

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 57-77 form part of the financial statements

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Balance sheet as at 31 March 2024

2024 2023
Note £ £ £ £
Fixed assets:
Tangible assets 10 - 93
Investments 11 236,524 313,340
236,524 313,433
Current assets:
Debtors 12 45,524 84,978
Cash at bank and in hand 701,416 713,623
746,940 798,601
Liabilities:
Creditors: Amounts falling due within
one year 13 (240,107) (332,579)
Net current assets 506,833 466,022
Net assets 743,357 779,455
The funds of the charity:
Restricted income funds 14 183,082 208,555
Unrestricted funds:
Designated funds 15 184,539 189,132
General funds 16 375,736 381,768
560,275 570,900
Total charity funds 743,357 779,455

These financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 16 December 2024.

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Statement of cash flows for the year ended 31 March 2024

Note
Net cash provided by operating activities
17
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchase of investments
Proceeds from the sale of investments
Investment income received
Net cash provided by/ (used in) investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities:
Repayment of borrowings
(Decrease)/Increase in borrowing
Net cash used in financing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting
period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period		 2024
£
(110,880)
(19,240)
101,157
10,842
92,759
-
-
-
(18,121)
729,029
710,908		 2023
£
184,179
(19,070)
80,575
12,414
73,919
-
(16,750)
(16,750)
241,348
487,681
729,029

The notes on pages 57-77 form part of the financial statements

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Notes to the financial statements for the year

ended 31 March 2024

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Charity information

Welsh Centre for International Affairs is a charitable incorporated organisation whose principal office is Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AP.

1.1.Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the charity's governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)". The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

The financial statements have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a true and fair view. This departure has involved following the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities applying FRS 102 rather than the version of the Statement of Recommended Practice which is referred to in the Regulations but which has since been withdrawn.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

1.2.Going concern

At the time of approving the financial statements, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, the trustees continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The Trustees have reviewed and considered relevant information, including the annual budget and future cash flows in making their assessment and have concluded that they can continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.

1.3.Charitable funds

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of their charitable objectives.

Designated funds comprise funds which have been set aside at the discretion of the trustees for specific purposes.

The purposes and uses of the designated funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements.

Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements.

1.4.Income

Income is recognised when the charity is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received.

Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once the charity has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation.

Income from the supply of services and room hire is recognised with the delivery of the contracted service provided. Any amounts invoiced in advance are deferred.

Income from grants, whether 'capital' grants or 'revenue' grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be

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received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred, Capital grants are released to the Statement of Financial Activities in the year of receipt. Fixed assets relating to capital grants are capitalised, and depreciation charged is offset against grant income, in a restricted fund.

Income from interest and dividends is recognised when its receipt is probable and the amount receivable can be measured reliably.

Dividends are accrued when the shareholder's right to receive payment is established. Measurement is at the fair value receivable.

1.5.Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

Raising funds solely relate to amounts paid for investment management.

Expenditure on charitable activities includ

The charity is not registered for VAT and all income and expenditure is therefore VAT inclusive.

All costs are allocated between the expenditure categories in the Statement of Financial Activities on a basis designed to reflect the use of the resource. Costs relating to a particular activity are allocated directly while others are apportioned on an appropriate basis, consistent with the use of resources.

Support and Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice.

Grants payable are payments made to third parties in the furtherance of the charitable objectives of the charity. The grants are recognised where the trustees have agreed to pay the grant and the recipient has a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant, provided they comply with the terms of the agreement. Grants offered subject to terms and conditions which have not been met at the year-end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.

1.6.Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Fixtures and fittings 25% on cost

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is recognised in net income/(expenditure) for the year.

Individual fixed assets costing £1,000 or more are initially recorded at cost.

1.7.Fixed asset investments

Fixed asset investments are initially measured at transaction price excluding transaction costs, and are subsequently measured at fair value at each reporting date. Changes in fair value are recognised in net income/(expenditure) for the year. Transaction costs are expensed as incurred.

1.8.Impairment of fixed assets

At each reporting end date, the charity reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any).

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1.9.Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.

1.10. Financial instruments

Financial instruments are recognised in the charity's balance sheet when the charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Derecognition of financial assets

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the charity transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Derecognition of financial liabilities

1.11. Leases Rentals payable under operating leases, are charged as an expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the relevant lease.

1.12. Taxation

As a registered charity, the charity is entitled to the exemption from taxation in respect of income and capital gains received with sections 521-536 of the Income Tax Act 2007 and section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects purposes only.

1.13. Employee benefits

The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.

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Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the charity is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

2. CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES AND JUDGEMENTS

e required to make judgements, estimates and

assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

3. INCOME FROM DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

3.
INCOME FROM DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
Unrestricted
funds
£
Donations
6,935
6,935		 Restricted
funds
£
6,549
6,549		 Total
2024
£
13,484
13,484		 Total
2023
£
3,723
3,723

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Global
Learning
£
Service and delivery
income
7,500
Grants
108,269
Rents and room hire
-
115,769
Unrestricted
7,500
Restricted
108,269
115,769
Grants
Aberystwyth University:
Audio Visual
Academi Heddwch:
Supporting Peace
Education
15,000
Adult Learning Wales
7,006
Becky Garnault
Foundation: Young
Peacemakers
activities
-
Bond DflD
-
Bond DfID/FCDO Aid
Connect Grant
-
British Council: Change-
makers
15,000
Cardiff University
Student Support and
Wellbeing Division:
Santander Placement
grant
-
The Climate Coalition -
Great Big Green
Week materials,
translation and
support
-
Climate Justice
Coalition
-
Council for Wales of
Voluntary Youth
Services
-		 Global
Action
£
46,931
742,314
-
789,244
45,931
743,314
789,244
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2,000
2,660
-		 Global
Partner
£
-
379,600
-
379,600
-
379,600
379,600
-
-
-
-
20,600
-
-
-
-
-		 Venue
£
-
-
142,729
142,729
142,729
-
142,729
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Core
£
48,929
15,972
-
64,901
48,929
15,972
64,901
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total
2024
£
103,359
1,246,155
142,729
1,492,243
245,089
1,247,154
1,492,243
15,000
7,006
-
-
20,600
15,000
-
2,000
2,660
-		 Total
2023
£
78,832
1,057,248
166,891
1,302,971
245,723
1,057,248
1,302,971
749
-
-
500
18,803
-
15,000
1,000
-
-
32,429

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES (continued)

Global Global Global Total Total
Learning Action Partner Venue Core 2024 2023
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
Cymdeithas Y Cymod:
Peace Schools - - - - - - 675
DfID SCCF FCDO UK
Direct - - - - - - 48,935
Dolen Cymru - Dolen
Cymru
40th
Anniversary Heritage
Research Project - - - - 2,000 2,000 -
Erasmus: Am I
European? (554) - - - - (554) 5,072
Erasmus: Becoming a
Peace School 1,140 - - - - 1,140 -
Erasmus+: Raising
Capacities for Global
Steps - - - - - - 2,244
Erasmus: My Place,
Your Place, Our Place - - - - - - 6,059
Erasmus: Peace Schools - - - - - - 7,509
Erasmus: Time Travel 9,083 - - - - 9,083 3,414
European Solidarity
Corps: Heritage
advisor delivering
complementary
activities - - - - 1,600 1,600 -
European Solidarity
Corps: Building
Solidarity - - - - - - 21,371
European Solidarity
Corps: Still European - 47,815 - - - 47,815 74,189
European Solidarity
Corps: Engaging with
European and Welsh
Heritage - 52,938 - - - 52,938 42,000
European Solidarity
Corps: Erasmus+
Volunteering
accreditation - - - - - - 11,734
European Solidarity
Corps: Welsh
Government:
Anastasiia Myronchuk - 2,982 - - - 2,982 -

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES (continued)

Global Global Global Total Total
Learning Action Partner Venue Core 2024 2023
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
Great Big Green Week
Scheme (Climate
MVMT) - - - - - - 6,100
Gwendoline &
Margaret Davies
Charity: Temple
Archives Project - - - - - - 10,000
Joseph Rowntree
Charitable Trust - 62,014 - - - 62,014 73,782
Media Trust - Agreed
fee for collaboration
and filming - 400 - - - 400 -
National Debate Team:
Debating Grant - - - - - - 4,671
National Heritage
Lottery Fund:
Women's Peace
Petition - 101,198 - - - 101,198 -
National Lottery
Community Fund -
Climate Cymru Green
Tour grant Project ID:
20240132 - 10,000 - - - 10,000 -
National Lottery
Community Fund:
Great Big Green Week - - - - - - 9,998
North Wales Wildlife
Trust - Contribution
to the Nature Positive
Campaign - 5,000 - - - 5,000 -
Oxfam Great Britain -
Oxfam DEAR Green
Tour '23 - 10,000 - - - 10,000 -
Oxfam Great Britain:
Race to Zero grant - 20,000 - - - 20,000 10,000
Quaker Meeting House
- Peer Meditation
project 9,263 - - - - 9,263 -
RSPB Cymru - Climate
Cymru Nature
Positive Campaign,
5th Feb - 30 April
2024 - 8,000 - - - 8,000 -

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES (continued)

Global Global Global Total Total
Learning Action Partner Venue Core 2024 2023
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
RSPB: Nature Positive
Campaign - - - - - - 9,676
Size of Wales: MockCop - - - - - - 20,000
Size of Wales: US
Embassy Trip - - - - - - 1,440
Taith Champions:
Schools 31,379 - - - - 31,379 -
Taith Champions: Youth - 31,500 - - - 31,500 -
Taith Pathway - - - - - - 3,915
Taith Pathway 1 - 119,935 - - - 119,935 -
Taith Pathway 2 - 22,209 - - - 22,209 -
The Climate Coalition -
Great Big Green Week
Wales - 3,000 - - - 3,000 -
THE SOCIAL CHANGE -
Climate Cymru Uplift
grant WTW BAME - 19,999 - - - 19,999 -
THE SOCIAL CHANGE -
Climate Cymru Uplift
grant (Phase 3) - total
grant £35k. £5k for
23/24 and £30k for
24/25 - 5,000 - - - 5,000 -
The Social Change
Agency - - - - - - 31,240
University of Wales
Trinity St David -
Lampeter Society
Lecture - - - - 372 372 -
Uplift Top up grant 22-
23 - 3,187 - - - 3,187 -
Uplift UK - Warm this
Winter Wales
campaign 2023-24 - 35,000 - - - 35,000 -
Waterloo Foundation
Digital Development
grant - - - - - - 27,502
Waterloo Foundation
Global Day of Action
grant - 855 - - - 855 -
WCVA: Third Sector
Partnership Council - 3,501 - - - 3,501 3,501

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4. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES (continued)

WCVA - Volunteering
Wales Main Grant -
Climate Cymru
Welsh Government:
Academi Heddwch
Welsh Government:
Academi Heddwch:
International
Relations Through
Public Diplomacy
Welsh Government:
Academi Heddwch:
Supporting Peace
Education
Welsh Government:
Academi Heddwch:
Strategic Voluntary
Youth Work
Organisations
Welsh Government:
HCA
Welsh Government:
HCA Wales and Africa
Welsh Government:
Homes for Ukraine
Welsh Government -
Human Rights Day
Event
Welsh Government -
ILO
Welsh Government:
SVYWO Grant (50%
split with GA)
Welsh Government:
SVYWO Grant (50%
split with GL)
WWF: Great Big Green
Week
WWF: Green Tour		 Global
Learning
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
20,952
-
-
-
108,269		 Global
Action
£
11,250
-
140,918
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
20,952
-
-
742,313		 Global
Partner
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
359,000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
379,600		 Venue
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Core
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12,000
-
-
-
-
-
15,972		 Total
2024
£
11,250
-
140,918
-
-
-
359,000
-
12,000
-
20,952
20,952
-
-
1,246,154		 Total
2023
£
-
129,781
-
5,000
38,040
349,000
-
1,619
-
25,000
-
-
2,000
3,300
1,057,248

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5. INCOME FROM OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted
funds
£
Other income
1,102
1,102
6. INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS
Unrestricted
funds
£
Dividend income
9,029
Bank interest
1,813
10,842
7. EXPENDITURE ON RAISING FUNDS
Investment costs
8. EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
Direct
Support
£
£
Global Learning
96,186
9,618
Global Action
570,637
57,060
Global Partnership
252,901
25,289
Support, communication
and representation
41,285
4,128
Venue costs
75,153
7,515
Core/Heritage
330,467
33,044
Other
37,068
3,707
1,403,700
140,361		 Restricted
funds
£
-
-
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
Governance
£
1,220
7,235
3,206
523
953
4,190
470
17,797

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Support and governance costs

t and governance costs
Support staff
Office running costs
Bank fees & charges
Audit and accountancy fees
Legal and professional
Governance		 2024
£
121,014
19,114
232
16,938
200
659
158,157		 2023
£
113,157
21,905
143
9,270
2,047
679
147,201

9. ANALYSIS OF STAFF COSTS, TRUSTEE REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES, AND THE COST OF KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

Trustees

None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration or benefits from the charity during the current or prior year.

Two trustees were reimbursed a total of £536 for expenses in relation to travel and subsistence during the current year (2023: £145).

Employees

The average number of employees during the year was:

Charitable activities
Support
Employment costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension costs		 2024
No
31
6		 2023
No
25
5
37 30
2024
£
844,260
74,715
37,846
956,821		 2023
£
674,666
55,676
30,149
760,491

Key management personnel

During the year Welsh Centre for International Affairs paid key management gross salaries totalling £310,783 (2023: £257,652).

There were no employees whose annual remuneration was £60,000 or more.

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10. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

ANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Cost
At 1 April 2023
At 31 March 2024
Depreciation
At 1 April 2023
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2024
Net book values
At 31 March 2024
At 31 March 2023		 Fixtures
and
fittings
£
19,053
19,053
18,960
93
19,053
-
93		 Total
£
19,053
19,053
18,960
93
19,053
-
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11. INVESTMENTS

Listed
Investments
Unlisted
investments
£
£
Balance B/F
297,934
15,406
Additions
19,240
-
Disposals
(101,322)
-
Valuation Changes
11,180
-
Cash movement
-
(5,914)
Balance carried forward
227,032
9,492
Carrying amount
At 31 March 2024
227,032
9,492
At 31 March 2023
297,934
15,406		 Total
£
313,340
19,240
(101,322)
11,180
(5,914)
236,524
236,524
313,340

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12. DEBTORS

Trade debtors
Prepayments and accrued Income
13. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Trade Creditors
Social Security and Other Taxes
Accruals
Deferred Income
Other Creditors
Deferred income
Balance brought forward
Income received in the year
Income released in the year
Balance carried forward		 Total
2024
£
13,204
32,320
45,524
Total
2024
£
14,173
-
14,644
150,415
60,875
240,107
2024
£
240,552
1,298,747
(1,388,884)
150,415		 Total
2023
£
21,948
63,030
84,978
Total
2023
£
5,968
15,538
9,000
240,552
61,521
332,579
2023
£
179,745
251,040
(190,233)
240,552

Deferred income relates to grant funding that can only be recognised when the associated expenditure has been incurred.

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS

Balance Balance
as at Transfer as at
1 April between 31 March
2023 Income Expenditure funds 2024
£ £ £ £ £
Academi Heddwch: Supporting Peace
Education - 15,000 (15,000) - -
Adult Learning Wales - 7,006 (7,006) - -
Bond DflD 2 749 20,600 (21,349) - -
British Council: Change-makers - 15,000 (15,000) - -
Climate Coalition - Great Big Green Week
materials, translation and support - 2,000 (2,000) - -
Climate Coalition - Great Big Green Week
Wales - 3,000 (3,000) - -
Climate Justice Coalition - 2,660 (2,660) - -
DFID
SCCF		 272 - - (272) -
Dolen Cymru - Dolen Cymru
40th
Anniversary Heritage Research Project - 2,000 (2,000) - -
Erasmus: Am I European? - (554) 554 - -
Erasmus: Becoming a Peace School - 1,140 (1,140) - -
Erasmus: Time Travel - 9,083 (9,083) -
European Solidarity Corps: Heritage advisor
delivering complementary activities - 1,600 (1,600) - -
European Solidarity CORPS: Engaging with
European and Welsh Heritage - 52,938 (52,938) - -
European Solidarity CORPS: Still European - 47,815 (47,815) - -
European Solidarity Corps: Welsh
Government: Anastasiia Myronchuk - 2,982 (2,982) - -
Goronwy Jones Memorial Fund 6,611 448 - - 7,059
Heritage Churches Appeal - 6,000 - - 6,000
International Brigade Association Fund 581 - (581) - -
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust 20,453 62,014 (79,304) - 3,163
Media Trust - Agreed fee for collaboration and
filming - 400 (400) - -
Menter Academi Heddwch 3,300 547 - - 3,847
National Heritage Lottery Fund: Women's
Peace Petition - 101,198 (101,198) - -
National Lottery Community Fund - Climate
Cymru Green Tour grant Project ID:
20240132 - 10,000 (2,279) - 7,721
North Wales Wildlife Trust - Contribution to
the Nature Positive Campaign - 5,000 (5,000) - -
Oxfam: Globally Responsible Wales
Conference 2,706 - (2,706) - -
Oxfam Great Britain - Oxfam DEAR Green Tour
'23 - 10,000 (10,000) - -
Oxfam Great Britain - Race to Zero Grant - 20,000 (19,820) - 180

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)

Quaker Meeting House - Peer Meditation
project
RSPB Cymru - Climate Cymru Nature Positive
Campaign, 5th Feb - 30 April 2024
RSPB: Nature Positive Campaign
Sallie Davies Memorial Fund
Taith Champions: Schools
Taith Champions: Youth
Taith Pathway 1
Taith Pathway 2
THE SOCIAL CHANGE - Climate Cymru Uplift
grant WTW BAME
THE SOCIAL CHANGE - Climate Cymru Uplift
grant (Phase 3) - total grant £35k. £5k for
23/24 and £30k for 24/25
University of Wales Trinity St David - Lampeter
Society Lecture
Uplift (Social Change Nest): Energy Campaign
Uplift Top up grant 22-23
Uplift UK - Warm this Winter Wales campaign
2023-24
Waterloo Foundation - Digital Development
Waterloo Foundation - Global Day of Action
grant
WCVA: Third Sector Partnership Council
WCVA - Volunteering Wales Main Grant -
Climate Cymru
Welsh Government
ILO
Welsh Government - Wales and Africa
Welsh Government: Academi Heddwch:
International Relations Through Public
Diplomacy Soft Power Action Plan
Welsh Government - Human Rights Day Event
Welsh Government: SVYWO Grant (50% split
with GA)
Welsh Government: SVYWO Grant (50% split
with GL)
Total restricted funds		 Balance
as at
1 April
2023
£
-
-
6,787
13,768
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10,322
-
-
283
-
-
-
20,722
24,774
97,227
-
-
-
208,555		 Income
Expenditure
£
£
9263
(5,665)
8,000
(3,298)
-
(6,787)
555
(730)
31,379
(31,379)
31,500
(31,500)
119,935
(119,935)
22,209
(22,209)
19,999
(182)
5,000
(1,842)
372
(372)
-
(10,322)
3,187
(3,187)
35,000
(25,962)
-
-
855
(855)
3,501
(3,501)
11,250
-
-
(20,722)
359,000
(380,829)
140,918
(148,188)
12,000
(12,000)
20,952
(20,952)
20,952
(20,952)
1,253,703
(1,275,676)		 Transfer
between
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(283)
-
-
-
-
(2,945)
-
-
-
-
(3,500)		 Balance
as at
31 March
2024
£
3,598
4,702
-
13,593
-
-
-
-
19,817
3,158
-
-
-
9,038
-
-
-
11,250
-
-
89,957
-
-
-
183,082

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)

Previous year

14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)
Previous year
Balance Balance
as at Transfer as at
1 April between 31 March
2022 Income Expenditure funds 2023
£ £ £ £ £
Aberystwyth University: Audio Visual - 749 (749) - -
Academi Heddwch: Supporting Peace
Education - 5,000 (5,000) - -
Becky Garnault Foundation: Young
Peacemakers activities - 500 (500) - -
Bond DflD/FCDO 3,683 3,353 (7,036) - -
Bond DflD 2 - 15,450 (14,701) - 749
British Council: Change-makers - 15,000 (15,000) - -
Cardiff University Student Support and
Wellbeing Division: Santander Placement
grant - 1,000 (1,000) - -
Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services - 32,429 (32,429) - -
Cymdeithas Y Cymod: Peace Schools - 675 (675) - -
DFID - SCCF (16) 48,935 (48,647) - 272
Erasmus: Am I European? - 5,072 (5,072) - -
Erasmus: My Place, Your Place, Our Place - 6,059 (6,059) - -
Erasmus: Peace Schools - 7,509 (7,509) - -
Erasmus: Raising Capacities for Global Steps - 2,244 (2,244) - -
Erasmus: Time Travel - 3,414 (3,414) - -
European Solidarity CORPS: Engaging with
European and Welsh Heritage - 42,000 (42,000) - -
European Solidarity Corps: Erasmus+
Volunteering accreditation - 11,734 (11,734) - -
European Solidarity CORPS: Still European - 74,189 (74,189) - -
European Solidarity Corps: Strengthening
Solidarity in Europe - 21,371 (21,371) - -
Goronwy Jones Memorial Fund 6,611 - - - 6,611
Great Big Green Week Scheme (Climate
MVMT) - 6,100 (6,100) - -
Gwendoline & Margaret Davies Charity:
Temple Archives Project - 10,000 (10,000) - -
International Brigade Association Fund 581 - - - 581
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust - 73,782 (53,329) - 20,453
Menter Academi Heddwch 3,300 - - - 3,300
National Debate Team: Debating Grant - 4,671 (4,671) - -
National Lottery Community Fund: Great Big
Green Week - 9,998 (9,998) - -
Oxfam: Globally Responsible Wales
Conference - 10,000 (7,294) - 2,706

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)

Previous year

RSPB: Nature Positive Campaign
Sallie Davies Memorial Fund
Size of Wales: MockCop
Size of Wales: US Embassy Trip
Taith Pathway 1
Uplift (Social Change Nest): Energy Campaign
Waterloo Foundation - Digital Development
WCVA: Third Sector Partnership Council
Welsh Government
ILO
Welsh Government - Wales and Africa
Welsh Government - Wales and Africa
Welsh Government: Academi Heddwch:
International Relations Through Public
Diplomacy Soft Power Action Plan
Welsh Government: Academi Heddwch:
Strategic Voluntary Youth Work
Organisations
Welsh Government: Homes for Ukraine
WWF: Great Big Green Week
WWF: Green Tour
Total restricted funds		 Balance
as at
1 April
2022
£
-
14,268
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
34,636
-
18,557
-
-
-
-
81,620		 Income
Expenditure
£
£
9,676
(2,889)
-
(500)
20,000
(20,000)
1,440
(1,440)
3,915
(3,915)
31,240
(20,918)
27,502
(27,219)
3,501
(3,501)
25,000
(4,278)
-
-
349,000
(358,862)
129,781
(51,111)
38,040
(38,040)
1,619
(1,619)
2,000
(2,000)
3,300
(3,300)
1,057,248
(930,313)		 Transfer
between
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Balance
as at
31 March
2023
£
6,787
13,768
-
-
-
10,322
283
-
20,722
34,636
(9,862)
97,227
-
-
-
-
208,555

Academi Heddwch: Supporting Peace Education: We host the Academi Heddwch partnership which receives funding from the Welsh Government. Part of that funding contributes towards peace education

Adult Learning Wales: I n partnership with Adult Learning Wales, we worked with nine adults over twelve weeks between September and December 2023 to explore peace education and how we can use peaceful approaches to diffuse conflict.

Bond FCDO: Funding international development sector

British Council: Changemakers: We work with young changemakers to enable them to make a difference on the global issues that matter to them, and we train teachers in ESDGC.

Climate Coalition: Great Big Green Week Wales Staff time for delivering Great Big Green Week in Wales - a celebration of community climate action & the largest collection of environmental events Wales has ever had.

Climate Justice Coalition: To deliver the Global Day of Action mobilisations in Wales

DFID SCCF: Springboard project to raise standards in the sector

Dolen Cymru - 40th Anniversary Heritage Research Project

Erasmus: Time Travel: Erasmus+ funded project to explore futures techniques in schools

Erasmus: Am I European?: Erasmus+ funded project to support pupils to explore and share their own and their

Erasmus: Becoming a Peace School: Erasmus+ funded project to share best practice in peace education and develop the Peace Schools scheme

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)

European Solidarity Corps: A series of ESC funded international exchange projects including:

Goronwy Jones Memorial Fund: set up for the production of special WCIA publications

Heritage Churches Appeal: to celebrate the Churches centenary in 2025

International Brigade Association Fund: Fund to provide International awareness of young people in Wales

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust: Core funding for Climate Cymru activities with five areas: 1) understanding & acting in a way recognises the interconnection between crises 2) shifting power in society, 3) shifting power in the movement 4) bringing value to the movement 5) demanding climate action.

Media Trust: Climate Cymru Small media project to highlight benefits of working together in a connected way

Menter Academi Heddwch: Restricted funding to support the work of Academi Heddwch

National Heritage Funding to support centenary celebrations of the 1923

National Lottery Community Fund: Climate Cymru Green Tour: An 8-day electric-powered tour of wales visiting communities and celebrating community climate action.

North Wales Wildlife Trust: Contribution to the Nature Positive campaign: Bringing voices together across Welsh society to call for new laws to set us on a pathway to a nature positive Wales

Oxfam Great Britain: Oxfam DEAR Green Tour '23

Oxfam Great Britain: Race to Zero

Quaker Meeting House: Peer Meditation project

RSPB Cymru - Climate Cymru Nature Positive Campaign: Promoting the nature positive grant scheme and supporting people with applications

Sallie Davies Memorial Fund: Restricted fund to support the peace schools conference

Taith Pathway 1: Taith funded International youth exchange programme

Taith Pathway 2: This programme was carried out in partnership with our Portuguese partners FEC and allowed us to first compare different approaches to pre-departure training and then work collaboratively to develop these as online learning modules.

Taith Champions Youth: Using our experience of international exchanges to support other organisations in applying for Taith funding within their youth settings.

Taith Champions Schools: Using our experience of school leadership and programming to support other organisations in applying for Taith funding within their school settings.

University of Wales Trinity St David - Lampeter Society Lecture

Uplift (Social Change Nest): Funding for campaigns including:

Waterloo Foundation: Global Day of Action: To support community expenses and costs for the Global Day of Action in Wales

Welsh Government - Human Rights Day Events

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14. RESTRICTED FUNDS (continued)

Welsh Government: Academi Heddwch: International Relations Through Public Diplomacy Soft Power Action Plan: Funding for Academi Heddwch to deliver parts of the International relations soft power action plan

Welsh Government: Homes for Ukraine: Funding to support the Ukrainian volunteers we hosted on long term placements

Welsh Government: Strategic Voluntary Youth Work Organisations: Funding to increase the reach of our youth and global citizenship work across Wales

Welsh Government: Wales and Africa: Hub Cymru Africa grant to support Wales Africa and Fairtrade work

Welsh Government: ILO: Hub Cymru Africa funding to support international mobilities

WCVA - Volunteering Wales Main Grant - Climate Cymru To kick-start and embed a sustainable volunteer programme

WCVA: Third Sector Partnership Council: Funding to represent the International third sector

15. DESIGNATED FUNDS

Balance at
1 April
2023
£
Development Education
Fund
80,670
Fixed asset fund
93
UNA Exchange
78,369
Strategy Fund
30,000
189,132		 Income
Expenditure
£
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(4,500)
-
(4,500)		 Transfers
Balance at
31 March
2024
£
£
-
80,670
(93)
-
-
78,369
-
25,500
(93)
184,539

Development Education Fund was designated by the Trustees for the development of education/global citizenship education work within the UK.

Fixed asset reserve

Relates to the net book value of the charity's unrestricted fixed assets.

UNA Exchange

Relates to the unrestricted net assets transferred to the charity on 1st April 2020.

Strategy Fund

This relates to developing a new strategy.

Previous year

Balance at
1 April
2022
£
Mrs J T Morgan Travelling
Scholarship
4,992
Development Education
Fund
80,670
Fixed asset fund
371
UNA Exchange
78,369
Strategy Fund
-
164,402		 Income
Expenditure
£
£
-
(4,992)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(4,992)		 Transfers
Balance at
31 March
2023
£
£
-
-
-
80,670
(278)
93
-
78,369
30,000
30,000
29,722
189,132

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16. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Unrestricted Unrestricted Designated Restricted 2024
funds funds funds Total
£ £ £ £
Tangible fixed assets - - - -
Investments 236,524 - - 236,524
Net current assets 139,212 184,539 183,082 506,833
375,736 184,539 183,082 743,357
Previous year
Unrestricted Designated Restricted 2023
funds funds funds Total
£ £ £ £
Tangible fixed assets - 93 - 93
Investments 313,340 - - 313,340
Net current assets 68,428 189,039 208,555 466,022
381,768 189,132 208,555 779,455
17. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE) TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
2024 2023
£ £
Net (expenditure)/income for the reporting period (36,098) 43,905
Adjustments for:
Investments income recognised in the SOFA (10,842) (12,414)
Fair value gains and losses on investments (11,015) 44,701
Depreciation and impairment of tangible fixed assets 93 278
(Increase)/decrease in debtors 39,454 15,085
Increase/(decrease) in creditors (2,335) 31,817
Increase/(decrease) in deferred income (90,137) 60,807
Net cash provided by operating activities (110,880) 184,179
Analysis of Cash and Cash Equivalents
Current accounts 701,416 713,623
Cash equivalents held in investment portfolio 9,492 15,406
Total Cash and Cash Equivalents 710,908 729,029
Analysis of net debt At 1 April Cash As at 31
2023 Flows March 2024
£ £
Cash 729,029 (18,121) 710,908
729,029 (18,121) 710,908

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18. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Income and endowments from:
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Global Learning
Global Action
Global Partnership
Venue
Core
Other trading activities
Investments
Total income and endowments
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net gains/ (losses) on investments
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of Funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 Unrestricted
funds
£
3,723
5,750
43,268
-
166,891
29,814
-
12,414
261,860
3,055
297,134
300,189
(44,701)
(83,030)
653,930
570,900		 Restricted
funds
£
-
90,604
497,404
469,240
-
-
-
-
1,057,248
-
930,313
930,313
-
126,935
81,620
208,555		 Total
funds
2023
£
3,723
96,354
540,672
469,240
166,891
29,814
-
12,414
1,319,108
3,055
1,227,447
1,230,502
(44,701)
43,905
735,550
779,455

19. FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS

At 31 March 2024, the charity had annual commitments under non-cancellable operating leases as follows:

Expiring within one year
Expiring between two and five years		 2024
£
792
3,168
3,960		 2023
£
166
-
166

20. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

There were no disclosable related party transactions during the year (2023: Nil).

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WCIA team on Annual Away Day

We'd like to thank all the partners, funders and volunteers who made our work possible in 2023-24 and in the last five years — we couldn’t have done it without you!

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