**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. ● _"The team-teaching aspect of this has taken this initiative to an innovative level."_ ## **PUBLICATIONS** - 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. - 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, · · **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**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**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 £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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1|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**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**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**67,751**||||**61,837**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||||**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**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| |Mac PC|**984**||**-**|||**-**||**984**||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |**_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**|| |---|---|---|---| |**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**
**-**
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OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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General
**983.99**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Dr Timothy Sayer|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||Dr Timothy Sayer|| ||||| ||||| ||2||04/02/2023| ## **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|Charity Name
The Hands Up Project| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31/3/2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1170272| ||||| ||1-2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| ||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31 / 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.||| - **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have - **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: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - 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 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **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). 2 **Oct 2018** **IER** **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . None 3 **Oct 2018** **IER**