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**Trustee Annual Report 2021/2022** 


## **Out of The Box Partnerships CIO** 

## **Charity number:** 11070079 

**Charity Registered address:** 28 Urlwin Street, London, SE5 0NF 

## **Board of Trustees:** 

Libby Graham – Secretary 

Katy Cronin – Treasurer 

Sarah Beeching 

Paul Fletcher 

## **Overview:** 

OTB is a fresh and innovative approach to enabling the development of children, youth and community oriented spaces and Children’s Centres in urban and challenging environments in Ethiopia. The charity was registered in November 2016 and has established formal partnerships with Ethiopia’s leading architecture university (EiABC) and an Ethiopian bamboo construction company. 

In April 2016 phase 1 of the Balderas Condominium Project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was completed. This is comprised of a children’s adventure playground, art installations and a community garden. This was procured via private fundraising and engaged parents, carers and children in an intensive design and implementation process lasting over a year. A second project, a playground for the children of homeless women engaged in precarious occupations to secure an income (begging or prostitution) was completed in April 2017 in partnership with the Fields of Hope Charity at the Yesesfa Mesk Day Care Centre. 

The OTB programme is embodied in the 4 pillars: 

- **Community/partnership engagement –** including design and delivery of projects and ensuring their long-term sustainability (MOUs, play training, appointment of staff where appropriate) 

- **Build/construction –** high quality capital development of facilities (use of local eco-friendly and innovative materials) 

- **Research and knowledge transfer/sharing -** developing networks (impact assessment and evaluation built into all projects) 



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- **Promotion of education, learning and early years provision** – 

through the delivery of playgrounds and purpose build children’s centres 

## **Mission Statement:** 

Out of The Box works to advance education in developing countries through the promotion and provision of inclusive early years and childhood play, learning, health  and  well-being,  within  a  community  development  framework,  and  to improve the environment in which children and their carers live and play in order to prevent poverty and relieve its negative impacts on child development. 

Out of The Box aims to ensure that all children have the opportunity to learn essential life skills and enter school “ready to learn”. The initiatives directly and indirectly aid and foster the educational, social and physical development of the children - the primary beneficiaries. 

## **Values we believe in:** 

- **Promote** - The importance of investing in play, early childhood learning and the provision of youth, community and safe/ social spaces/ facilities in urban and challenging environments 

- **Enable** - Innovative and creative design and delivery from children, communities, Ethiopian architecture students and leading experts in bamboo and locally sourced/recycled materials. 

- **Inspire** - Creative and dynamic partnerships between individuals, communities and organisations in Ethiopia and the UK 

- **Empower** - Children, communities, Resident Associations, students and small scale businesses in the design, construction and long term maintenance of the sites 

## **Key Activities in 2019/20:** 

No activities took place from March 31 2021 to March 31 2022. 



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## **Profit & Loss – Annual Return** 


## **Out of The Box Partnerships CIO** 

**31 March 2020 to 31 March 2021** 

||31 March 21|
|---|---|
|**Income**||
|DonationsReceived|£0|
|**Total Income**|£0|
|**Gross Proft**|£0|
|**Expenditure**||
|Outgoings|£0|
|**Total Expenditure**|£0|