THE HANDS UP PROJECT CHARITY COMMISSION REPORT APRIL 2021-APRIL 2022
WEEKLY LINK UPS AROUND THE WORLD
- Schools across Palestine linked up in weekly sessions with volunteers across the world for storytelling, conversation and cultural exchange through the shared medium of the English language. This meant that up to 500 children were benefiting every week meeting new people, sharing their lives with their peers and using creativity and self-expression to develop mutual understanding.
REMOTE THEATRE
- Young Palestinians performed their groundbreaking lockdown plays to international audiences. Not only did they perform with their peers in Palestine but in a new development, they began to perform with a cast from around the world. On Nelson Mandela day, the cast included children from Argentina, Spain, Romania and Palestine.
The international cast of Live Your Life
The international cast of Welcome to Earth , 2021 first place winners in our annual Lockdown Theatre competition
BRITISH COUNCI ELTons AWARD FOR LOCAL INNOVATION
In November 2021, HUP won the prestigious British Council ELTons award for Local Innovation. The Teamteaching for Facebook Live initiative was developed in partnership with UNRWA Gaza in response to Palestinian school closures during the first semester in 2020/2021 These Palestinian English Curriculum sessions (each accessed by many hundreds of Grades 1-9 learners and their families) were led jointly by a Palestinian English teacher and an English teacher in another country.
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"The team-teaching aspect of this has taken this initiative to an innovative level."
PUBLICATIONS
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The Hands Up Project published 2 books; Doing Remote Theatre , a comprehensive guide to performing remote theatre as part of a programme of second language learning which contains 28 short plays written especially for remote performance by well-known names in the world of ELT, and Grandma’s Bird, a bilingual Arabic-English children’s story, written & illustrated by young Palestinian artist, Malak Mattar.
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The Play as a Living, Breathing Ever-Evolving Entity - an article co-written by Palestinian teacher Hanaa Mansour and Hands Up Project founder Nick Bilborough was published in the journal Humanising Language Teaching https://www.hltmag.co.uk/jun21/play-as-a-living
VISIT TO PALESTINE
Nick Bilborough’s long-awaited and much-postponed trip to Palestine finally took place in January/February 2022. He was able to visit schools throughout Palestine and to deliver the prize of 74 tablets to the winners of the 2019 Remote Theatre competition to ensure that the children can continue to write their inspiring plays. He also gave the children and their teachers copies of Popcorn, the book published by HUP containing their plays.
He was also able to place the ELTons trophy in the hands of the rightful winners, the teachers who planned and executed the brilliant initiative.
2021 LOCKDOWN THEATRE COMPETITION
The winners of the 2021 Lockdown Theatre competition I can smell her , One World, Different Stories and Welcome to Earth were presented with custom made movie posters as part of their prize,
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The Hands Up Project
1170272
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For the period 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 To from
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 17,230 - - - 5,000 8,000 6,130 12,000 - - 19,391 - 67,751 - - - 67,751 108 54,777 2,085 953 671 4,453 999 3,919 6,911 - 50 360 23 203 1,589 77,001 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 17,230 - - - 5,000 8,000 6,130 12,000 - - 19,391 - - - - - - - - 67,751 - - - 67,751 108 - 54,777 - 2,085 - - - - - - 953 671 - 4,453 999 3,919 6,911 - 50 - - 360 23 - 203 - 1,589 77,001 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| Donations -general | 17,230 | 9,707 | |||
| Donations - Speak UpLondon | - | 1,333 | |||
| Donations - Menter Lawen | - | 4,251 | |||
| Donations - Shieka Maryam Khalid | - | 9,999 | |||
| Donations - MJ Volkovitsch | 5,000 | 5,477 | |||
| Donations - Digital Theatre | 8,000 | - | |||
| Donations - Universityof Stirling | 6,130 | - | |||
| Donations - Greenall Florent | 12,000 | 9,000 | |||
| Donations - WendyArnold | - | 1,000 | |||
| Donations - Sol Sha One | - | 2,000 | |||
| Donations - IHB TR Centre | 19,391 | - | |||
| CupSponsorship | |||||
| Conference Bookings | |||||
| Book Sales | 114 | ||||
| Talk fees | 1,850 | ||||
| Sundryincome | |||||
| Gift aid | |||||
| EUgrant | 17,106 | ||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
67,751 | 61,837 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 61,837 | |||||
Bank charges |
108 | 70 | |||
| Zoom fees | |||||
| Sub contract labour | 54,777 | 39,534 | |||
| Wages and PAYE | |||||
| IATFL expenses | 2,085 | ||||
| Gaza expenses | |||||
| Balkans trips expenses | 70 | ||||
| Food for kids and teachers | |||||
| Winner's expenses | |||||
| Drama Club expenses | |||||
| Talks / trainingexpenses | |||||
| Office expenses | 953 | 833 | |||
| Web expenses | 671 | 878 | |||
| Subscriptions | 190 | ||||
| Other Palestine expenses | 4,453 | - | |||
| Palestine travel expenses | 999 | - | |||
| Tablets for Palestine | 3,919 | - | |||
| Book cost | 6,911 | 1,154 | |||
| Travel expenses | - 50 | ||||
| Refugee conference expenses | |||||
| Hotels | |||||
| Professional fees | 360 | 585 | |||
| General expenses | 23 | - | |||
| Equipment | 66 | ||||
| Printingandpostage | 203 | ||||
| Advertising | 155 | ||||
| Exchange rate variance | 1,589 | - | |||
| **Sub total ** | 77,001 | 43,535 | |||
| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) | 04/02/2023 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
| A4 Asset and investment | ||||||||||
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| purchases, (see table) | ||||||||||
| Mac PC | 984 | - | - | 984 | ||||||
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| **Sub total ** | 984 | - | - | 984 | - | |||||
| Total payments | 77,985 | - | - | 77,985 | 43,535 | |||||
| Net of receipts/(payments) | - 10,234 | - | - | - 10,234 | 18,302 | |||||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 40,650 | - | - | 40,650 | 22,348 | |||||
| Cash funds this year end | 30,416 | - | - | 30,416 | 40,650 |
| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets CCXX R2 accounts (SS) |
Signature Details Details CAF Bank WiseBusiness Euro account Santander account Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Mac PC 2 |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 16,331 - 11,605 - 2,480 - 30,416 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) General 983.99 - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - Print Name Dr Timothy Sayer |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| Dr Timothy Sayer | |||
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Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
| Report to the trustees/ members of On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages Responsibilities and basis of report |
Charity Name The Hands Up Project |
Charity Name The Hands Up Project |
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| 31/3/2022 | Charity no (if any) |
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| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended31 / 03 / 2022. As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. |
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Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
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examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
Due to the nature of the charity, it is not always possible to obtain receipts for individual items of expenditure while in Palestine. On that basis it is has not been possible to verify every item of cash expenditure sample tested to the underlying documentation. Total petty cash expenditure in Palestine in the year ended 31 March 2022 was £1,791.20.
I have no other concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
M R Russell
Date: 4-2-22
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Oct 2018
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Name: Martin Russell
Relevant professional ACCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: Acland House 21 Victoria Park Road Exeter
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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Oct 2018
IER
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
None
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Oct 2018
IER