## **The Ideas Partnership UK**
Charitable Incorporated Organization Registered Charity No. 1161389
## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
_**1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021**_
## **Reference and administrative details**
## _Name:_
The Ideas Partnership UK (commonly ‘TIPUK’)
_Registration no.:_
Registered Charity Number 1161389, with the UK Charity Commission, 22nd April 2015
_Address:_
17 The Terrace, Port Isaac, Cornwall PL29 3SG
: _Trustees on date of approval of report_ Elizabeth Katherine Gowing Keith Robert Hill Sybille Idrac Raphael Aurelie Viard-Cretat Nicola Jane Williams Robert John Wilton
The CIO has no corporate trustees, and no trustee has held title to property belonging to the CIO during the reporting period nor on the date of approval of the report.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
TIPUK is a Charitable Incorporated Organization (CIO) governed by its Constitution, which uses the Charity Commission’s ‘Foundation Model’ template, and was developed with Charity Commission guidance during the process of registering, validated by them and formed part of the basis of the original registration. It has not been amended. Additional policies/procedures, including on grant-making, elaborate but do not supersede the Constitution. The Constitution describes the process for the proposal and approval of new Trustees by the existing set.
## **Objectives and Activities**
As registered with the Charity Commission, the objects of The Ideas
Partnership UK (hereafter ‘TIPUK’) are, for the public benefit, by the making of grants and raising awareness using social media:
(1) the promotion of community capacity building to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the social and economically disadvantaged community of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian community in Kosovo and South Eastern Europe, in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society;
(2) the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in social and economically disadvantaged communities in South Eastern Europe; (3) the promotion of the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in South Eastern Europe;
(4) to advance the education (including social and physical training) of people under the age of 25 years in South Eastern Europe in such ways as the charity trustees think fit;
(5) to advance the education of people in South Eastern Europe in the traditional folk cultures of the region.
In this, the sixth year of its operation, TIPUK’s activities continued largely unchanged.
1. TIPUK collected money – a combination of one-off and regular donations – in its UK bank account, as the basis for its funding of activities to advance its objects.
2. Consistent with its procedures and objects as defined by its Constitution and Grant-Making Policy, in 2020-21 the CIO offered grants from these funds, for work in south-eastern Europe, to advance its objects.
i) The Ideas Partnership charity in Kosovo submitted an application to renew the arrangement for support from the previous year. Their report on the previous year showed a sustained and very distinctive track record of project activities, support and community empowerment delivered for the most disadvantaged beneficiaries, in a cross section of areas clearly consistent with the objects of the CIO, and continued organizational learning and development. They proposed for 2020-21 a package of work based around educational and community-building activities among the members, especially children, of the most disadvantaged ethnic minority groups in the country, incorporating bursaries to support the further and professional education of members of marginalized communities, a programme to identify and support potential teachers from minority communities currently under-represented in the profession, and potential future community leaders, and a ‘young social workers’ programme to support the community and raise awareness. Based on this application, and aware above all of the very substantial compatibility of the
applicants’ activities and plans with the objects of the CIO, the Trustees agreed to maintain a Fund, the Community Empowerment Kosovo Fund, to gather donations to be granted to this beneficiary for the advancement of their work. UK donors aware of this work could choose to specify that their donations were for this destination, and such donations were placed in the Fund. The Trustees further agreed that a proportion of the general donations received would be allocated to the Community Empowerment Kosovo Fund. Transfers from the Fund were made to the beneficiaries during the year, and at the end of the year the beneficiaries submitted a full report of their activities and their impact.
3. Under TIPUK’s ‘micro-project’ facility, offering grants of up to €500 through a simplified process (which nevertheless maintains the CIO’s insistence on consistency of values and objects and safeguarding), two grants were made:
i) €500 to the Nehemiah institution in Albania for the distribution of educational materials and food packages to families in need (during the time of the pandemic);
ii) €350 to a teenage girl from a marginalized ethnic minority community in Kosovo to publish a book of her writing focused on the values and needs of young people like her, also on the understanding that she would conduct a creative workshop with others in her community.
4. Prompted by the new restrictions of the pandemic, the CIO devised a new ‘nano-project’ grant of up to €200 for activities by young people related to pandemic good practice, encouraging applications by video rather than text to broaden accessibility. This led to two grants, one for a video messaging campaign among minority teenagers among whom the official channels are particularly ineffective, and one for a campaign of hand-made message masks.
5. Another application was received in March 2021 and still under discussion at the end of the reporting year; its subsequent approval and successful implementation will be covered in the next Annual Report. Other applications were rejected or not pursued by applicants, following Trustee discussion and sometimes preliminary exploration, based on doubts about compatibility with the CIO’s objects or about the credibility of the proposal. Trustees also continued to follow-up on the activities and impact of grants made to other beneficiaries before the start of the reporting year.
TIPUK continues to develop its processes and habits based on experience. In this year it has continued the more frequent meetings of a sub-committee of the Trustees to consider and review implementation of grants, in addition to full Trustee meetings. In the one case where there is an ongoing relationship with a beneficiary, the CIO continues its annual monitoring of personal data
compliance and arrangements for reporting any ad hoc problems, consistent with the General Regulation on Data Protection. The CIO continues to require beneficiaries to demonstrate satisfactory safeguarding habits and procedures as a condition of a grant, and if appropriate looks to help them strengthen their approach. The CIO also continues to seek opportunities for its engagement to help beneficiary organizations to develop as well as implement positive activities.
## **Achievements and Performance**
Grants of money raised by TIPUK continue to have practical ground-level impact on the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in social and economically disadvantaged communities in South Eastern Europe, to empower disadvantaged communities, and to pursue good work in education, environment and cultural heritage.
1. Disbursements from the Community Empowerment Kosovo Fund (also incorporating money still to be transferred from the Fund at the end of the previous reporting year) enabled a sustained programme of support to particularly marginalized minority communities, not only aiding but also empowering them and thereby contributing to wider social cohesion, and helped a young and volunteer-centred NGO to continue to learn and develop. TIPUK’s funding enabled: two kindergartens to function, as well as a weekround programme of educational and social support activities; the provision of healthy snacks to children generally ill-nourished and less aware of healthy eating; the expansion of proven educational and community support activities to two new districts of the country; an overall increase in participation; nine students to continue participate in education thanks to bursaries, with two completing Bachelor’s degrees in nursing and teaching (where minority representation is particularly needed and will reinforce the benefit to the community); an expansion of the ‘little teachers’/future leaders initiative, promoting participation and community-originated solutions to local problems; and targeted support in healthcare, interventions against early marriage and more general social support to the most needy. Beneficiary figures show a total of 712 individuals participating in their educational and other activities. There is a female majority at all levels: kindergarten, school-age and especially in adult literacy - this is particularly meaningful in a society where patriarchal discrimination is still powerful. This year also showed engagement with a more diverse set of ethnic minority communities. The beneficiary continues to focus on child evaluation (not as consistent in Kosovo as it should be) and thus differentiated support to those who need it. The signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding with a partner local authority reflects a new formalization of activities. The beneficiary took new steps to focus on staff professional satisfaction and development. As the pandemic took hold, the beneficiary organization was able to provide essential advice, targeted support and some
continuation of education, none of which would have been available to the community otherwise. In general, the beneficiary was able to show that their work had advanced three of TIPUK’s objects - community capacity-building, relief of poverty and education.
2. As agreed at the end of the previous reporting year, the Autism Association of Kosovo participated in some (UK-based) training with CIO support and, at Trustee request, shared their learning not only with their own beneficiaries but also with other NGOs in Kosovo. This spread some important new ideas among a constituency that generally has not been able to keep pace with international best practice. COVID-forced changes to implementation meant that some grant money was left over, and this was returned to the CIO by the beneficiary.
3. Through a grant to the Nehemiah school in Albania, during the particular pressures of the global pandemic 60 rural families in the south-east of the country received educational materials for their children and 11 families in especial need received food packages. The Nehemiah participants involved in the distribution were also prompted positively to broaden their perspective and attitude to the world around them.
4. A teenage girl from a marginalized ethnic minority community in Kosovo was empowered to get her creativity into print and to share her ideas and spirit with others like her.
5. Through TIPUK’s new nano-grants, young people were empowered to implement their ideas i) for a video messaging campaign and ii) for hand-made masks with messages to stimulate participation, awareness and pandemic good practice.
These details have been drawn from beneficiary reporting, submitted in accordance with grant agreement, supplemented by CIO Trustee visits. These are all meaningful achievements in the context of TIPUK's stated objects, specifically numbers 1, 2 and 4, focused on capacity building and improvement of the conditions of life of disadvantaged communities, and education.
Organizationally, TIPUK maintained some successful aspects of procedure: i) the CIO raised a substantial amount of donated funding, and disbursed it in a way that led to tangible benefits for beneficiaries, consistent with the CIO's objects. The CIO applied its Constitution and Grant-Making Policy, with positive impact and without difficulty. The Trustees exercised their right to ask further questions of applicants before agreeing to a grant, helping to develop a more robust agreement;
ii) the CIO this year continued to benefit from the provisions of Gift Aid, receiving reimbursement for donations made during 2018-19. This maximizes
the benefits of existing fund-raising, and reinforces credibility with donors; iii) the more focused and regular Trustees’ meeting to review project applications and implementation has continued to facilitate more efficient decision-making and beneficiary relations. Face-to-face engagement with beneficiaries where possible and appropriate, and consistent with safeguarding policy, has enabled more strongly-grounded and nuanced decisions, and pro bono advice and support, further upholding the CIO’s intent to empower beneficiaries. The CIO has continue to look to the development as well as support of beneficiaries, encouraging appropriate project enhancements and good practices.
## **Financial Review**
At the end of the reporting period the CIO had £16,384.43 in its current account. The CIO has no other bank accounts. The CIO has no investments, nor other assets. The CIO’s income is almost entirely from small private donations, many of them regular.
Accounts have been prepared for financial year 2020-21. Consistent with the requirements of the Charity Commission, the accounts have been formally reviewed by an Independent Examiner, who in his report dated 7th January 2022 confirms that he has found no material matters giving cause to believe that in any material respect accounting records were not kept in accordance with relevant legislation or that the accounts do not accord with the accounting records; he notes that he has no concerns and has come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
The CIO has no formal policy on holding reserves. With the exception of negligible administrative costs, the only CIO’s only outgoings are grants approved by the Trustees, so the Trustees do not judge a formal reserve necessary.
With no outstanding obligations, a positive balance in its current account, and a set of regular monthly donations, at the date of approving the report and accounts there is no uncertainty about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
No fund or subsidiary undertaking is materially in deficit.
## _Exemptions from disclosure_
TIPUK neither seeks nor exercises any exemption from disclosure for this report.
_Funds held as custodian trustee on behalf of others_ The Trustees of TIPUK have agreed to receive in the UK and transfer to Kosovo money earned by a social enterprise in Kosovo. The Trustees judged that the work of the social enterprise was consistent with the objects of TIPUK. TIPUK charges no fee for this convenience. Consistent with the Statement Of Recommended Practice, these transactions are not treated as income or expenditure in the accounts of the CIO.
## **Trustees’ Approval**
In approving this report, the Trustees of TIPUK confirm that in exercising their powers or duties they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission.
Approved by the Trustees (individual electronic correspondence available) on 19th January 2022
and submitted on their behalf by
Robert Wilton Trustee 20th January 2022
## **THE IDEAS PARTNERSHIP UK**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDING**
**31st MARCH 2021**
**CHARITY COMMISSION REFERENCE 1161389**
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## **THE IDEAS PARTNERSHIP UK STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31 MARCH 2021**
|**FIXED ASSETS**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at Bank
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
Creditors|**GENERAL FUND**
**COMMUNITY**
**EMPOWERMENT**
**KOSOVO FUND**
**£**
**£**
13,864
2,520
13,864
2,520|**GENERAL FUND**
**COMMUNITY**
**EMPOWERMENT**
**KOSOVO FUND**
**£**
**£**
13,864
2,520
13,864
2,520|**TOTAL 2021**
**£**
16,384
16,384|**TOTAL 2021**
**£**
16,384
16,384|**TOTAL 2020**
**£**
65,526
65,526|**TOTAL 2020**
**£**
65,526
65,526|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**
**£**
13,864
2,520
13,864
2,520||**£**
16,384
16,384||**£**
65,526
65,526||
||||||||
|**REPRESENTED BY**
Opening Balance of Funds
Adjustment to Funds (note 8)
Surplus/Deficit for the year|13,864
2,520||16,384||65,526||
||10,900
54,626
-19,448
19,448
22,412
-71,554||65,526
0
-49,142||11,756
0
53,770||
||13,864
2,520||16,384||65,526||
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## **THE IDEAS PARTNERSHIP UK RECEIPTS AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR TO 31 MARCH 2021**
|**INCOME**
Gift Aid
Gifts
Interest
**EXPENDITURE**
Grants
Expenses
SURPLUS/DEFICIT OF FUNDS FOR THE YEAR
SURPLUS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
TRANSFER BETWEEN FUNDS
SURPLUS FUND CARRIED FORWARD|**2020/21**
**2019/20**
**£**
**£**
17450
12008
6301
9587
23751
21595
1021
2190
318
608
1339
2798
22412
18797
10900
9695
-19448
-17592
13864
10900
**GENERAL FUND**|**2020/21**
**2019/20**
**£**
**£**
6919
26280
26178
33084
33097
59364
104651
24391
104651
24391
-71554
34973
54626
2061
19448
17592
2520
54626
**COMMUNITY**
**EMPOWERMENT KOSOVO**
**FUND**|**2020/21**
**2019/20**
**£**
**£**
24369
38288
32479
42671
0
0
**TOTAL**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||56848
80959|
||||105672
26581
318
608|
||||105990
27189|
||||-49142
53770
65526
11756
0
0|
||||16384
65526|
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# **THE IDEAS PARTNERSHIP UK NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
The accounts are prepared on a cash basis with fixed assets recorded in the notes to the accounts.
Accounts are prepared to the year ending 31st March.
## **2. ADMINISTRATION**
The Trustees do not charge any fees for their administration of the Charity
## **3. INVESTMENT POLICY**
The investment policy of the trust is conservative having regard to the funds available.
## **4. REGISTRATION**
The Ideas Partnership UK was registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 22 April 2015.
## **5 THE TIP FUNDS**
The Ideas Partnership maintains two fund accounts:
A General Fund (GEN)
The Community Empowerment Kosovo Fund (CEK)
Gifts nominated directly for the Community Empowerment Kosovo Fund are credited to that fund account. The disposition of gifts for the General Fund is determined by the Trustees.
## **6 TAX REFUNDS**
The Charity is entitled to claim for refund of tax paid on Gift Aid donations. Such gifts together with associated tax refunds are shown in the accounts as 'Gift Aid'. Actual receipts claimed and received from HMRC in 2019/20 totalled £3,665.91 and relate to donations in 2018/19.
The estimated value of claims related to 2020/21 Gift Aid is £5,175.60; the actual receipt will be shown in the accounts once received.
Other gifts include donations processed through charitable giving agencies; the tax refund element of these gifts is not separately identified.
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## **7 FIXED ASSETS**
No fixed assets are currently held.
## **8 TRANSFER BETWEEN FUNDS**
During the year the Trustees transferred £19,447.87 from the General Fund to the CEK Fund.
## **9 DESIGNATED REMITTANCES**
TIPUK occasionally receives payments for goods sold by social enterprises in Kosovo. These are remitted in full to the enterprise and are not shown in the income and expenditure of TIPUK. The amounts are: 2020/21 2019/20 Sa Pune £1,693.00 £638.87
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the trustees/** The Ideas Partnership UK **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 31 March 2021 **Charity no** 1161389 **ended (if any)**
**Set out on pages** 1 to 5
- I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2021.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 07/01/2022 **Signed: Name:** Alan Wilfred Packer **Relevant professional** FCCA (retd) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 18 Tweed Green Peebles EH45 8AR
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**October 2018**
**IER**