## **The Mikhulu Trust Registered - Charity Number 1,158,733** 

## **Annual Report – 1 December 2020 - 30 November 2021** 

## **Trustees:** 

Peter Cooper Lynne Murray Cathy Creswell Nicholas Dowdall 

## **Address:** 

85 Church Way Oxford Iffley OX4 4EF 

## **Review of Objectives for 2020-2021** 

- _i. Continue to support DBS trials around the world._ During the period we supported trials in Brazil, Turkey, France, Sweden, Colombia and the UK.  Some of these have been successfully completed and others are ongoing. A number of journal articles are currently in submission. 

- _ii. Continue to submit journal articles._ We continue to publish with others, such as the Brazil and South Africa groups, as well as publishing papers on our own UK book-sharing research.  Two significant publications are listed below. 

- _iii. Continue to support the Mikhulu Child Development Trust (MCDT) in South Africa in the production of wordless picture book and their other activities._ Two to three new wordless books continue to be produced annually in South Africa. These are widely distributed in South Africa and are used elsewhere (e.g., in Italy). See https://mikhulutrust.org/what-we-do/wordless-picture-books/ for an account of progress with creating new wordless books; and see https://mikhulutrust.org/annual-reports/ for the MCDT’s 2021 annual report. 

## **Objectives for 2021-2022** 

- _i. Continue to support DBS trials around the world._ 

- _ii. Continue to support the MCDT in all its activities iii. Support book-sharing around Italy._ 

## **Financial Report** 

There was no income or expenditure during the period. Balance as of 30 November 2020 = £23,025.29 Balance as of 30 November 2021 =  £23,025.59 

## **Two Publications** 

Dowdall, N., Murray, L., Skeen, S., Marlow, M., De Pascalis, L., Gardner, F., Tomlinson, M. & Cooper, P.J. (2021) Book-Sharing for Parenting and Child Development in South Africa: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Child Development,.92, 2252-2267. 

Murray, L., Rayson, H.,  Ferrari, P.F., Wass, S.V. & Cooper, P.J. (2022) Dialogic BookSharing as a Privileged Intersubjective Space. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 2022.