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Trustee Annual Report 2023/2024
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:
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Community/partnership engagement – including design and delivery of projects and ensuring their long-term sustainability (MOUs, play training, appointment of staff where appropriate)
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Build/construction – high quality capital development of facilities (use of local eco-friendly and innovative materials)
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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
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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:
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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
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Enable - Innovative and creative design and delivery from children, communities, Ethiopian architecture students and leading experts in bamboo and locally sourced/recycled materials.
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Inspire - Creative and dynamic partnerships between individuals, communities and organisations in Ethiopia and the UK
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Empower - Children, communities, Resident Associations, students and small scale businesses in the design, construction and long term maintenance of the sites
Key Activities in 2022/23:
No activities took place from April 2022 to March 31 2023.
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Profit & Loss – Annual Return
Out of The Box Partnerships CIO
1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
31 March 24
| 31 March 24 | |
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| Income | |
| Donations Received | £0 |
| Total Income | £0 |
| Gross Profit | £0 |
| Expenditure | |
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| Outgoings | £0 |
| Total Expenditure | £0 |
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