Talk Education Partnership Registered Charity in England and Wales No. 1170858
TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT For the Financial Year 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
Trustees’ Annual Report 2019–20
Talk Education Partnership
1) Reference and Administrative Details
Charity name:
Talk Education Partnership
Other name/s the charity uses: TEP Registered charity number: 1170858 Charity’s principal address: International House 24 Holborn Viaduct London United Kingdom EC1A 2BN
Charity Trustees for period of report:
| Trustee Name | Office(if any) | Term(s) of Office | Name of person / body entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| William Knapman |
Chair | 20/12/2016 - 20/12/2019 20/12/2019–20/12/2022 |
First Trustees (Charity Registration Date: 20/12/2016) Re-appointed by Board of Trustees |
| Linda Watts | 20/12/2016 - 20/12/2018 20/12/2018 - 20/12/2021 |
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| Rebecca Procter |
16/08/2018 - 16/08/2021 | Board of Trustees |
2) Structure, Governance and Management
Type of governing document: Constitution How the charity is constituted: Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Trustee selection method (e.g. appointed by, elected by): appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened board meeting of the charity trustees.
TEP is managed by its Board of Trustees and has no employed staff.
3) Objectives and Activities
The objects of the Talk Education Partnership (TEP) are:
“For the benefit of the public, the advancement of education in East Africa by providing an international network of communication for sharing effective pedagogy and providing and assisting in the provision of educational resources and infrastructure.”
TEP is supporting a number of locally led initiatives working to enhance standards of primary education in Tororo district, Uganda. These include:
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Supporting the development of free Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training for primary educators with the aim of improving practice in the classroom and strengthening local networks for sharing effective pedagogies.
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Supporting the development of key school facilities.
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From time to time supporting co-curricular activities in collaboration with schools and communities.
Summary of main activities for the 2019–2020 financial year:
- Providing a small grant in September 2019 to local partners working to enhance standards of primary education in Tororo district, Uganda.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit: The Board of Trustees have had regard to
the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
4) Achievements and Performance
Throughout the 2019–20 financial year, we continued to support our local partners Talk Education Uganda (TEU), who are working to enhance standards of primary education in Tororo district. In September 2019, we provided a small grant to TEU to fund a number of ongoing Continuing Professional Development projects, including creating positive learning environments and using talk as a tool for learning in primary classrooms, and promoting phonics as a method for teaching reading skills. The grant also included funding for monitoring the outcomes of the Rural Schools Water Project (RSW), which in the previous financial year delivered sponsorships for the installation of mainsconnected water tanks at five rural primary schools in Tororo district.
In contrast to previous grants made to support local initiatives in Tororo district, the September 2019 grant had a uniquely broad scope (encompassing both TEU programming and administration costs planned over the course of three months), and set in place new, more structured requirements for progress reporting and financial accounting on the part of TEU. Furthermore, we worked to establish a structured, deliberative process for scoping and agreeing the grant, culminating in the signing of a partnership agreement. As such, the September 2019 grant was an important step towards establishing a more structured approach to project funding and ensuring the effective management of limited resources.
The September 2019 grant funded 14 CPD training sessions developing positive learning environments and advocating talk as a tool for learning in primary classrooms. Instructors involved in this training reported that many of the teachers involved were highly engaged and promoting learner participation in lessons, including in some cases through the application of visible thinking routines. The grant also funded a further 13 training sessions on phonics as a method for teaching reading skills. The instructor involved in this training reported that most of the schools involved were actively implementing phonics (some timetabling regular phonics lessons), and in some cases there were noticeable improvements in learners’ confidence with pronouncing and blending sounds. Instructors involved in both training projects reported that key challenges were limited learning resources (incl. reading materials), congested classrooms affecting the quality of learning, and transferring of teachers.
We encountered huge challenges in November/December 2019, when local RSW monitoring reports raised concerns that three of the water tank stands sponsored in 2018 had become weak and unstable. Following technical assessments by a local building contractor, we took immediate action to support schools in removing the stands in question, ensuring they could present no risk to the safety
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of pupils and staff (this also meant that the water systems were no longer functioning). This was bitterly disappointing given the huge effort undertaken in 2018 to sponsor these water tanks and support schools in accessing safe drinking water on site. In early 2020 we began exploring possible ways forward to sponsor the rebuilding of these systems and ensure long-term durability. This work was still ongoing at the end of the financial year.
5) Financial Review
The charity’s principal sources of funds this year:
| - | One-off Donations | £1,257 |
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| - | Regular Giving | £1,200 |
Cash funds at financial year end:
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Unrestricted £4,358
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- Restricted £500
The charity does not have a reserves policy.
6) Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
| Trustee Name | Position (Secretary, Chair etc) |
Signature | Date |
| William Knapman | Chair | 30/06/2021 | |
| Linda Watts | Trustee | 30/06/2021 |
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| Talk Education Partnership | Talk Education Partnership | Talk Education Partnership | Talk Education Partnership | Talk Education Partnership | No 1170858 | No 1170858 | CC16a | ||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | |||||||||
| For the period from |
01/Sep/2019 | To | 31/Aug/2020 | ||||||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
Total funds | Last year | |||||
| to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | |||||
| A1 Receipts | |||||||||
| One-off Donations | 1,257 | - | - | 1,257 | 1,822 | ||||
| Regular Giving | 1,200 | - | - | 1,200 | 1,175 | ||||
| Fundraising | - 0 | - | - | - | 172 | ||||
| CharityBoxes | - 0 | - | - | - | 229 | ||||
| Grants | - 0 | - | - | - | 500 | ||||
| Gift Aid | - 0 | - | - | - | 1,312 | ||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Sub total_(Gross income for AR) _ | 2,457 |
- | - | 2,457 | 5,210 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | - 0 | |||||
| Sub total | - 0 |
- 0 | - 0 | - | - 0 | ||||
| **Total receipts ** | 2,457 |
- 0 | - 0 | 2,457 | 5,210 | ||||
| A3 Payments | |||||||||
| Activities in Uganda | 2,581 | - | - | 2,581 | 8,796 | ||||
| UK Admin | 133 | - | - | 133 | 124 | ||||
| Other | 47 | - | - | 47 | 96 | ||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| - 0 | - | - | - | - | |||||
| **Sub total ** | 2,761 |
- | - | 2,761 | 9,016 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases,(see table) |
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| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| - 0 | - 0 | - 0 | - | ||||||
| **Sub total ** | -0 |
-0 | -0 | - | - 0 | ||||
| **Totalpayments ** | 2,761 |
- 0 | - 0 | 2,761 | 9,016 | ||||
| **Net of receipts/(payments) ** | - 304 |
- | - | - 304 |
- 3,806 |
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| A5 Transfers between funds | - 0 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| A6 Cash funds lastyear end | 4,663 | 500 | - | 5,163 | 8,968 | ||||
| **Cash funds thisyear end ** | 4,358 |
500 | - | 4,858 | 5,163 | ||||
| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |||||||||
| Categories | Details | Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
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| to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | |||||||
| B1 Cash funds | Cash funds | 4,358 | 500 | - | |||||
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| Total cash funds | 4,358 | 500 | - | ||||||
| (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
OK | OK | |||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
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| Details | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | to nearest £ | ||||||
| B2 Other monetary assets | None | - | - | - | |||||
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Cost (optional) | Current value (optional) |
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| B3 Investment assets | None | - | - | ||||||
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| B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use |
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| B5 Liabilities | None | - | |||||||
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| Error in receipts and payments (2018/19) The 2018/19 accounts recorded donations received in TEP’s PayPal account net of fees charged by PayPal. These fees were not recorded in payments. As a result receipts and payments were understated in 2018/19 by £46.15. This omission has been corrected in the 2019/20 accounts and last year’s figures have been restated. Error in receipts and cash funds (2018/19) The 2018/19 accounts recorded £50.42 of cash in TEP’s PayPal as a receipt. This amount was in fact a cash balance brought forward. As a result the 2018/19 accounts overstated receipts and understated cash funds last year by £50.42. This has been corrected in the last year column of the 2019/20 accounts by removing the overstated income from Regular Giving Receipts and including it in cash funds last year end. |
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature | Print Name | Date of approval | ||||||
| WILLIAM KNAPMAN | 30/06/2021 | ||||||||
| LINDA WATTS | 30/06/2021 |