**PODIUM.ME ANNUAL REPORT OF ACTIVITY 2022-2023** 

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## **MESSAGE FROM EDITOR CAMILLA BYK** 

This year has been full of surprises, we have had many alumnae coming back to tell their stories of how Podium has helped them in their careers, as well as producing our first ever drama which was then picked up by the BBC. 

Another highlight was representing Podium at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, speaking about how to find global audio stories, something that has come to define Podium in the media space. 

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## **PODIUM OBJECTIVES** 

**PODIUM PROVIDES MENTORING AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES TO A WIDE RANGE OF YOUNG PEOPLE. WE PROVIDE A PLATFORM THAT ALLOWS THEM TO SHARE VIEWS, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE, ALONGSIDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO PODCASTS AND FIND JOBS AND FURTHER THEIR CAREERS IN THE MEDIA. PODIUM HAS A NO-SELECTION NO-REJECTION POLICY THEREFORE PROVIDING MAXIMUM BENEFIT TO ALL. YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN ANY ASPECT OF JOURNALISM, FEATURE PRODUCTION, NEWS, DRAMA, MUSIC, OR PODCAST PRODUCTION CAN APPLY TO DO AN INTERNSHIP WITH PODIUM.** 

**INTERNSHIPS ARE ARRANGED WITH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS. REGULAR WORKSHOPS TAKE PLACE WITH VISITING SPEAKERS TO GIVE TRAINING ON PRODUCTION SKILLS AND DRAMA WRITING SKILLS.  THESE TAKE PLACE EITHER INDEPENDENTLY OR AT THE INVITATION OF UNIVERSITIES OR SCHOOLS.** 



## **OUR ALUMNAE** 

## **Who We Are** 

Camilla Byk and Annabel Merrett founded Podium.me in 2012 as a way of enabling the stories of the under 25s to be heard 

Teodora Intern 2017 

Shanice Podium Journalist 2014 

George Podium Journalist 2013-2016 

## **How does Podium.me work?** 

Alumnae 

Teodora is a Romanian journalist who completed her internship with Podium.me 

Shanice attended Podium’s first ever training day and is now a journalist in the Bahamas 

We have a no selection no rejection policy for anyone aged 16-25 

They get to pitch an idea for a podcast and we help them to record, edit and broadcast it 

We create networking opportunities for young people to find work and experience in the media industry 

George reported for Podium when he was a student and is now a freelance reporter 

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Groups and individuals worked with April 2022 - March 2023 


Instagram lives: Joel Br RJ Simona Ra Omima Es Jewel Br Em Rea Rachel Ak Tony Fa Pha Pooja Ch Miriam A 

## WORKED WITH: 

MARIA K NEWS DECODER PODCAST ONLINE 

INTERNATIONAL BOOTCAMP PARTICIPANTS SFX SIXTH FORM ARIAS JUDGES 

MIRIAM UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX POOJA UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX PODIUM INTERNS OKRE SUMMIT SPEAKERS CONTENT IS QUEEN RADIO ACADEMY EVENTS MY BNK JANAE WORK EXPERIENCE JULY IN-PERSON PODCAST WORKSHOP SAVE THE CHILDREN RACHEL A DIVERSITY PODCAST RA FESTIVAL REUTERS ANNIVERSARY EVENT BRITISH JOURNALISM REVIEW 



## **GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND OUTREACH Perugia, Italy** 

Camilla Byk and Podium trustee Jane Barrett pitched a session for the IJF Internatonal Journalism Festival in Perugia.  A podcast of the event was made with the voices of the attendees from Ukraine, Italy, France, Poland, Romania and Vietnam who were all under 25 



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## **REPORT. LTD** 

## **OUR PROJECTS IN 2022/23** 



## **Diversity podcast** 

Partnered with Rachel Akili to make a bespoke podcast on cutural differences 

**School careers events** 

Invited to speak at various schools to inspire young people to consider journalism as a career 



## **Instagram Lives** 

Giulia Ciccolella produced a series of Instagram Lives with inspiring Podium presenters and producers. 

Jewel Atedou Bright, Podium intern now setting up Nigerian state podcast with all his UK expereince 

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## **REPORT. LTD** 

## **OUR PROJECTS IN 2023** 



**Podcast Bootcamp co-creation** Bootcamp delivered with our interns Mariam and Pooja in partnership with  News Decoder in Paris 

**School work experience** 

Regular work experience students join the Podium team throughout the year to produce their own podcast and learn new skills 



## **Okre Summit** 

Participated in Okre event with our interns supporting and speaking on the platform 

**Global interns** Lilly produced audio for Podium with entrepreneurs and artists in Burundi 

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**GIULIA C HAS BEEN EMPLOYED ON PODIUM’S SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY AND TRAINING PODIUM JOURNALISTS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS.** 


## **INSTAGRAM** 

**WE IDENTIFIED THAT PODIUM’S SOCIAL MEDIA WAS AN AREA THAT NEEDED WORKING ON. SINCE GIULIA HAS STARTED WORKING WITH PODIUM.ME WE HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT LEAP INTO BEING RECOGNISED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUTTING OUT REGULAR CONTENT THAT ENGAGES WITH OUR CURRENT AUDIENCE AND IS ATTRACTING NEW FOLLOWERS.  PODIUM ALUMNI HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH TO COMMENT ON THE NEW HOUSE STYLE AND FREQUENCY OF PODCASTS.  THERE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN ENGAGEMENT AND REACH.** 



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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Podium.me**|||||**1160250**|||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||
||||1-Apr-22||||31-Mar-23||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|Fees|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**2,463**||
|Donation|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**3,350**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**5,813**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**5,813**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Insurance/compliance|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**1,180**||
|Contractor cost|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**2,730**||
|Online storage|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**304**||
|Training/Events|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**1,115**||
|Travel|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Marketing|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**62**||
|21C Fox Workshops|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**5,391**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**5,391**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**422**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**31,572**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**31,994**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**31,994**||**-**||
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||**_Total cash funds_**||||**31,994**||**-**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||63,988||||
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||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||
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**CC16a Last year to the nearest £ 2,504 - - - - - - - 2,504 - 0 - 0 2,504 999 714 339 148 - - - - - 2,200 - 0 2,200 304 - 31,268 31,572 Endowment funds to nearest £ - -** 

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**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)** Date of approval 


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