## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT 2020** 


**www.thestudentview.org** 



## **Contents** 

## **Impact Report** 

## **The Student View (A company limited by guarantee)** 

**The Trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2020.** 

||Founder’s Welcome|4|
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||Foreword from Our Patron|6|
||Chair’s Letter|8|
||Who We Are|10|
||Story So Far|13|
||2019/20 in Numbers|16|
||Our Approach|20|
||Our Work Across the UK|23|
||Our Work in The Great Lockdown|33|
||The Student View Awards 2020|54|
||2020 - 2021: A Look Ahead|58|
||**e’s Annual Report & Accounts**||
||Reference and Administrative Information|64|
||Trustees’ Annual Report including Directors’ Report|65|
||Independent Examiner’s Report|68|
||Statement of Financial Activities|69|
||Balance Sheet|70|
||Notes to the Financial Statements|71|
||Thank Yous|78|



## **Trustee’s Annual Report & Accounts** 



## **Founder’s Welcome** 


If the Coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that online misinformation creates offline harm. Covid-19 health disinformation has also ruthlessly exposed the weaknesses in our digital ecosystem. Senseless witch hunts against telecoms engineers, anti-vaccination conspiracies and anti-mask protests are behaviours that should be more at home in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts than the present day. 

To give young people and wider society a fighting chance to navigate this challenging reality, we must provide them with the critical thinking tools they need to distinguish fact from fiction. In an age in which everybody is a publisher, young people must be trained as consumers and creators of responsible content.  It’s crucial for young people to be able to identify sites they can trust, appraise the content of what they read, and make informed choices about news they share with others. 

## **Solomon Elliott** 

**“At The Student View, we have been training disadvantaged teenagers how to spot misinformation and as local news** 

This year, we are proud that we expanded our local news networks, 14 investigations were published in local newspapers. The Student View also had its first national exclusive published in The Guardian, further expanding our reach and influence. We also shared snippets of our curriculum online. Our lessons were shared on social media, through Twitter threads, Reddit’s first ever Ask Me Anything on misinformation, international conferences as well as articles in national news outlets. 

**reporters, over 150 local news investigations were published in 2019/2020. ”** 

To commemorate the hard work of our reporters, we celebrated the first ever Student View awards virtually. We showcased the best reporters and investigations from our programme. Cash prizes and certificates were given to reporters for their creativity and excellent investigation ideas that ranged from a nasty rat problem in Doncaster to homelessness in Leeds and fly-tipping in Scarborough. 

This is despite schools closing to curb the spread of the Coronavirus and halting in-school workshops  halfway through the financial year. The investigations, editorially led by teenagers attending schools in social mobility “cold spots”, were ghostwritten by our team to ensure their original stories were shared. 

Our student reporters were part of one of the most diverse newsrooms in the country, 66% on pupil premium, 48% from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background and 12% with additional learning needs. In 2019/20, we visited 28 schools in 20 different towns and cities, working with 507 young people - an increase of 20% from the 2018/19, 10 schools newsrooms specifically in social mobility cold spots such as Blackpool, Scarborough and Stoke. 

Thank you for being part of our journey. 


Solomon Elliott Founder and Chief Executive, The Student View 

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## **Foreword from Our Patron** 

The fight against misinformation is one of the most important battles in our lifetime. I believe that without access to factual, trustworthy information democracy is doomed. Nothing has put this more in the foreground than a global pandemic paired with an increasing mistrust in our news industry and public institutions. Working on the Facebook Oversight Board, I have seen first hand how fast false information online can spread. This is why I am proud to be part of The Student View. 

Not only is this grassroots organisation charity vital for our society to thrive by teaching teenagers to spot misinformation, it also empowers schoolchildren from underrepresented backgrounds to share their own stories. 

**“The Students View boasts one of the most diverse newsrooms in the country with 60% of their reporters being from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background.”** 

It has been a pleasure to watch The Student View’s progress from humble beginnings from a project in Solomon’s classroom to a national charity with support from major news organisations and technology companies. I hope many more in the news industry will step forward to support their work. 

I am proud to support The Student View and their vision to create a world of critical media consumers and creators. 



## **Alan Rusbridger** 

Alan Rusbridger Patron, The Student View 

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This financial year has been like no other. Part of the way through our delivery of in-school workshops, the schools and our newsrooms closed to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. The pandemic has forced us to adapt and adjust our work to focus on responding to short term challenges as the long term became unpredictable. 

**“A third of our programme with** _**Financial Times**_ **and the totality of the Google. org-sponsored Newstalks were delivered before the school closures, so every TSV reporter received at least six hours of masterclasses on navigating the digital world safely.”** 

However, our mission to combat misinformation did not stop when the school visits were halted. We took to the internet sharing components of our in-school curriculum with policy makers and journalists on social media, in virtual conferences and through Reddit’s first ever Ask Me Anything on r/teenagers about misinformation. 



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Our next steps must include building on what we have learned during the pandemic and planning ahead to ensure our charity has a more sustainable and dynamic future. 

Thank you to everyone involved with our programmes in 2019/20. 

## **Chair’s Letter** 


Jo Binding Chair of Trustees, The Student View 

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## **Our Vision** 

We are working towards creating a world of media literate creators and consumers. 

## **Our Mission** 

TSV is a media literacy charity using the power of journalism to give young people a chance to share their world through words. We train schoolchildren as local news reporters across the UK. 

**Why is our work so important now?** 

1. News Illteracy 

2. Exclusion 

3. Local News Deserts 

## **Who We Are** 

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## NEWS ILLITERACY 

## EXCLUSION 

## LOCAL NEWS DESERTS 

98% of children and young people in the UK cannot spot the difference between a real and 98[[1]] 

98% of children and young people in the UK cannot spot the difference between a real and fake news story.[[1]] 

43% of leading news journalists were privately educated, yet this accounts for 7% of the 43 country’s schoolchildren.[2] 62% of the UK’s local authority districts have no daily local newspaper coverage.[3] 62 

## **Story So Far** 

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1 All Party Parliamentary Group on Literacy, 2018 

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> 3 Joint Industry Currency for Regional Media Research, 2019 

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## **28 newsrooms launched in 2019/20, 100 newsrooms since September 2016** 


**507 journalists trained this year, 1,589 since September 2016** 


**Newsrooms in 20 towns and cities across England and Wales** 



**10 schools newsrooms specifically in 158 investigations published, 14 social mobility cold spots in local newspapers, one national exclusive** 

## **2019/20 in Numbers** 

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## **Shared Learnings:** 

## **Creating Engaging Lessons** 

## **Curated Curriculum** 

Training young people to be media literate and think critically during a time of uncertainty and rampant misinformation 

Our budding journalists enjoyed a rich curriculum inside and outside the classroom, complete with complex skills such as spotting misinformation and discerning the difference between fact and opinion 

## **Skills Focused** 

## **Our Approach** 

Equipping young people with the tools to analyse data in order to write their own local news articles and opinion pieces 

## **Real-life Impact** 

Investigations inspired by the views of young people from underrepresented groups were shared by local news organisations and community groups 

**Making an Impact in Underserved Communities** The voices of young people were amplified as local newspapers published their investigations 

**Adapting to Evolving Situations** 

Our approach was transformed to address the ongoing situation surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic, moving from - an in school workshop to a - digital only platform 

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Our Work Across the UK




**Google.org 2019/20:** 





Our Programme Manager, Robin Brinkworth, led our media literacy workshops and newsgathering work. Grace Holliday, our Digital Platforms Editor sub-edited and published our stories. The programme was delivered to 142 young people from September 2019 to March 2020 before mandatory school closures. 

5 Social Mobility Cold Spots: Doncaster, Norwich, Cambridge, Stoke-OnTrent, Blackpool 

12 Towns and Cities across England and Wales: Birmingham, Blackpool, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Doncaster, Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich, Scarborough, Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent 

142 TSV Reporters (Pupils) 



We worked with local news journalists to deliver media literacy training to TSV reporters to support them to develop their own local news investigations. 

**We completed the final year of our two-year programme with Google. org training teenagers as local news reporters across the UK.** 

Particular thanks to Laura Doward, Madhav Chinappa, Matt Cooke, Anneka Sharpeley and Benedicte Autret at Google. 

99 local news investigations published, 4 in local newspapers 

16 School Newsrooms 

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## **Public Service Broadcasting Partners** 

## **Channel 5 News x The Student View** 


In October 2019, Channel 5 News Editor Cait Fitzsimons joined The Student View at a NewsTalks workshop in Perry Barr, Birmingham. 

A group of 10 TSV reporters received news literacy training and co-created 4 local news investigations on topics such as homelessness, knife crime and drug offences. 


## **Public Service Broadcasting Partners** 


## **BBC Radio York x The Student View** 

In January 2020, The Student View partnered with BBC North to give teenagers the chance to launch their own local news investigations in Leeds and Scarborough. 26 TSV reporters received news literacy training and co-created 12 local news investigations with BBC Radio York’s Editor, Richard Edwards. TSV reporters investigated local business closures, rough sleeping and environmental waste. In March 2020, TSV reporters from Leeds and Scarborough shared their findings with listeners on BBC Radio York. 


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## **What the TSV Journalists Had to Say** 

## **Verdict on the Programme** 

Students who stated that they would recommend 86% The Student View programme to friends Students who stated that they had not done anything 77% like The Student View programme before 

## **News Perceptions** 

Students who did not feel that young people’s 78% concerns were presented in the news Students who felt that they did not hear 69% from people from their local area in the news Students who felt that the news is too negative 69% Students who stated TV news as the source 78% they trusted the most 

## **Impact** 

**Quantitative impact research conducted before and after the programme highlighted:** 

- TSV reporters improved their understanding 71% of students correctly identifed what of fake news and key research tools. Boolean search question, FOI request and 71 

71% of students correctly identifed what Boolean search question, FOI request and reverse image search meant after the workshop 

TSV reporters improved their understanding 

- 76% 85% 

- of students felt they could of students felt they could 

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76% 85% of students felt they could of students felt they could tell if someone was stating tell if someone was stating facts or their opinion before facts or their opinion after the programme the programme 

## **A Case Study: Police Car Chases in Bradford** 


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**The Student View teamed up with The Bradford Telegraph and Argus on an investigation after a Freedom of Information request to the West Yorkshire Police found there were almost 400 vehicle chases in 2018.** 

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_We thought it was a really good idea...it’s exactly the sort of thing that people are interested in and affects people’s daily lives._ 

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_**Claire Earley, reporter, Telegraph & Argus speaking about a TSV investigation into police car chases in Bradford**_ 

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“ _Before The Student View came in I think I assumed it would be about opinion based articles, I didn’t realise it would be much more factual._ _**Chaerelle Ashley, English Teacher at**_ ” _**Dixons Allerton Academy**_ “ _I really didn’t expect it to be like this, I thought it was just going to be an organisation where they come in and probably do 75% of the work. Normally we’re not given a voice, people think you’re too young, go over your opinion and don’t really listen to you. Wherever it (our article) got published it had our name written underneath it._ 

_**Ismail, aged 14**_ ” 

## **Our Work in The Great Lockdown** 

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**Halfway through the academic year, the Coronavirus pandemic put a stop to in-school newsroom visits for The Student View. The team moved to a digitalonly approach teaming up with partners around the globe to address the challenges of coronavirus misinformation.** During the first coronavirus lockdown, The Student View became digital-only because the schools closed their doors to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This meant some of our workshops were cut short but we continued to share their investigation ideas and our curriculum online. Our digital work reached more than 100,000 people overall and we educated young people across the world from Haiti, Nigeria, India, Finland and Afghanistan about misinformation and digital safety. 

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Each school had one session before the schools closed to curb the spread of Coronavirus. Investigations inspired by the students’ ideas were then written and shared by our Community Reporter, Caitlin Webb. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, our team was quick to adapt. 

## **The Student View x Financial Times Partnership** 

The programme was delivered to 201 young people from September 2019 to March 2019. School newsrooms were launched in ten London schools teaching students how to generate stories as well as helping them to understand what journalism is, and in particular how to spot misinformation. 

We learnt how fewer visits did not impact our ability to make sure the voices of our student reporters were still shared. It instead gave us more time to develop our local news partnerships so more of their stories were published in local newspapers. This also gave us the opportunity to reach out and discuss these investigations with decision makers in their boroughs, such as MPs and councillors, through email and Twitter. 


Thanks to Finola McDonnell, Abbie Scott and Jon Slade for making this partnership possible. 


## **FT 2019/20:** 


10 School Newsrooms 


201 TSV Reporters (Pupils) 


71% of students were on Pupil Premium 


61% of students were female and 39% were male 


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**Headlines from the TSV Student Reporters** 



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## **Impact** 

## **We asked the teachers for the feedback and this is what they told us:** 

Teachers who felt students were given an opportunity that 100% they would not normally have the chance to take part in Teacher who agreed their students were given transferable 100% media literacy skills they need to identify misinformation Teachers who believe transferable media literacy 89% skills are not in the national curriculum 

“ _The FT is pleased to partner with The Student View, an impressive organisation that champions integrity, diversity and education. FT journalists are proud to be able to support students as they learn how accurate, impartial journalism plays a vital role in society and our local communities._ _**Abbie Scott, FT Deputy Managing Editor**_ ” “ _It was a shame how the workshops finished early but great that the team at the Student View stayed in touch and still shared the investigations of our students. Our group of year 9 and 10 pupils still took away a lot of skills from the workshops and got the chance to discuss and form opinions about their local area, which was a great opportunity._ 

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_**Georgie Wills, Head of English, City of London Academy, Southwark**_ 

## **Local News Partnerships** 


The brilliant ideas of our teenage reporters were published by our partners at local news organisations across the country. 


These investigations are shaping the public conversation on issues that matter to them most. 


We would like to thank Toby Porter at South London Press, Lindsay Jones at Barking & Dagenham Post, Robyn Vinter at The Yorkshire Post, Max Feldman at KCW London, and André Langlois at the Brent and Kilburn Times for sharing these stories. 



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## **Virtual Lessons** 

**Each week we posted an aspect of our curriculum in the form of digestible Twitter threads, with over 65K impressions in the first month.** 



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## **Hero of the Week** 

**To commend the hard work of reporters and researchers during the pandemic to dispel misinformation, we spotlighted their efforts on our Twitter profile, selecting a hero once a week.** 

## **Some of our heroes were:** 


## **Marianna Spring** 

Marianna is a specialist reporter for the BBC covering disinformation and social media. Her work helps young people and wider society to make sense of the ‘infodemic’. 


## **Nadine White** 

Nadine leads HuffPost’s coverage of race in the UK. She won the prize for the best Covid-19 coverage at Engine MHP’s 30 to Watch Young Journalist Awards.  Her reporting included an investigation on safety for bus drivers during the pandemic and systemic racism in health care. 





## **The Full Fact Team** 

We celebrated the team at Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity which has revolutionised the search for truth. Will Moy and his team worked around the clock to distinguish fact from fiction about Coronavirus. 

## **Poorna Bell** 

Poorna shared her experience catching Covid-19 at the beginning of 2020 to raise awareness of the seriousness of the illness but also share the long-term effects that she experienced.  During the pandemic, she also spoke to communities affected such as the deaf, lonely and those struggling with addiction and mental health. Her courageous and heartbreaking coverage of mental health and suicide after her husband took his life has been praised and commended. She has written two books, “In Search of Silence” and “Chase The Rainbow” with a third on the way in 2021. 

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## **Impact Outside of the Classroom** 

## **TSV Alumni Work Experience (September, 2019)** 

The Student View taught Adam Abdullah during a workshop in 2017 at his school, Addey and Stanhope in New Cross, Lewisham. Adam reached out to The Student View to further his journalistic ambitions, having already been published by Vice, he then took two week’s work experience at the Financial Times. One of his opinion pieces was then published! Click the Financial Times logo to read it. 

Our founder, Solomon Elliott regularly shared his thought leadership at international conferences and in the national media. 

## **One Young World 2019 (October, 2019)** 


**Global Media Literacy Summit (September, 2019)** Solomon Elliott joined leaders in the field for Google’s first media literacy conference as part of the Google News Initiative. Santi Indra Astuti from Mafindo in Indonesia, Masato Kajimoto from The University of Hong Kong and Jussi Toivanen, Chief Communications Specialist at the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office were among the other guest speakers at the events. Solomon showcased our work empowering students to become critical consumers of the news in front of a busy conference room at Google’s London headquarters and called for the industry to form a Global Media Literacy Network. 

Solomon was selected as one of 30 exceptional young leaders around the world to be a Delegate Speaker at the One Young World Summit. Speakers included Sir John Major, Sadiq Khan and J.K. Rowling. Solomon spoke at a plenary session “Media Freedom” about how freedom of speech is a right that belongs to everyone including the students at The Student View, whose voices are not represented in the media. He spoke alongside activists including Bill Browder and Waad Al Kateab, an award-winning Syrian journalist who documented the horrors of Aleppo for Channel 4 News in the film ‘For Sama’.  Waad was among Time’s 100 most influential people in 2020. 

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## **Forbes Feature (March, 2020)** 

Tommy Williams from Forbes interviewed Solomon as part of his blog sharing the stories of diverse, underrepresented people making a difference. Solomon shared his motivations for setting up The Student View as his own personal experiences as a secondary school teacher in an inner-city high school. Click the Forbes logo to read it. 

## **ITN Day (November, 2019)** 

Pupils from Chiswick School in west London had the opportunity to have a tour and an insider look behind the scenes of the ITN studios. Reporter Ruth Liptrot guided the visitors on what it is like to be a broadcast journalist before the pupils had a go at reading news bulletins in front of the camera themselves. 

## **The Student View x Thomson Reuters Foundation (April, 2020)** 

## **Newsrewired, (November, 2019)** 

Solomon Elliott virtually met up with the CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation, Antonio Zappulla to discuss on Facebook how misinformation about coronavirus poses a huge threat to society. This was part of One Young World’s Together Apart series. Other speakers on the series included Lewis Hamilton, Terry Crews and Alesha Dixon. 

As part of an journalism.co.uk conference, Solomon spoke on a panel entitled “How quality journalism can thrive in an age of disinformation”. He spoke alongside First Draft’s managing director Jenni Sargent, Hazel Baker, global head of user-generated content at Reuters, and Jack Goodman from the BBC’s Reality Check team. 



## **Ask Me Anything (April, 2020)** 

The Student View launched Reddit’s first ever r/Teenagers AMA (Ask me Anything) about coronavirus misinformation, working with PBS StudentReportingLabs and the Poynter Institute’s MediaWise. Our Reddit AMA received 700+ upvotes and 140 comments from users across the world. Click the Twitter logo to read some comments it. 


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## **Deloitte Millennial Survey (June, 2020)** 

## **Journalism.co.uk (April, 2020)** 

During The Great Lockdown, students were being educated from home as schools closed to halt the spread of coronavirus. Solomon reflected on the first month of school closures and proposed changing the curriculum in schools to ensure all children can critically evaluate information online. Click the Journalism.co.uk logo to read what he said. 



Our founder Solomon Elliott discussed a survey of more than 18,000 millennials and Gen Zs with markets reporter for CNBC Kate Rooney, Shreya Mantha, founder and CEO of Foundation for Girls, Derrick Emsley, the co-founder and CEO of clothing brand Tentree and Global marketing manager at Deloitte Global, Meredith Gonsalves. The group discussed the impact of the pandemic on young people, including their mental health, job prospects and trust in the media. 

## **The Student View x Cognition X (June, 2020)** 

The 2020 Cognition X Festival showcased the work of global leaders such as Health Secretary Matt Hancock, former Prime Minister Tony Blair and 68th US Secretary of State John Kerry during a threeday virtual conference. Solomon joined Katie Arthur from Kids Code Jeunesse on a panel called “Tools for Talent: Two organisations empowering the next generation” hosted by Hayley Mulenda, a fellow ambassador for One Young World. 


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## **Shaping the National Conversation** 

**We published guidance on how to spot misinformation with The Mirror. This campaign was read 28,000 times on Facebook and received 3,600 page views on The Mirror’s website. A national investigation into how many young people under 18 were both victims and suspects of ‘revenge porn’ was published in The Guardian.** 

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The Student View Awards 2020

Read Amir & Connor’s Report 

**To commemorate the hard work of the TSV reporters, we held our first ever awards virtually. We had several categories of Highly Commended reporting, and then two major award categories, both of which came with a £250 cash prize.** 

**Highly Commended Reporting** Read Romano’s Report Northern reporting: Callum from Meadowhead School in Sheffield for his reporting on knife crime in Sheffield. Read Read Callum’s Taybad & **Social Affairs Reporting** Report Summayah’s Report Also nominated: Romano from Meadowhead School in Sheffield and Martina from City of Norwich School in Norwich, both writing about homelessness. 

Taybad & Summayah from Broadway School in Birmingham for their reporting on homelessness. Dan & Jimmy from Meadowhead School in Sheffield for their reporting on Sheffield Council’s response to climate change. Beth & Hazel from George Pindar School and Graham School in Scarborough for their reporting on fly-tipping. 

Read Dan & Jimmy’s Report 

**Crime Reporting** 

Thomas from Unity Academy Blackpool for his reporting on burglaries in Claremont, an area of Blackpool. 

Read Thomas’ Report 

Read Beth & Hazel’s Report 

Read Bethany’s Report 

## **Best Article Idea** 

Bethany from Astrea Academy Woodfields in Doncaster for highlighting Doncaster’s rather grim rat and pest problem. Sid and Ruby from Coop Academy in Stoke for picking out child welfare and fostering as a concern in their city. 

Read Sid & Ruby’s Report 

**Best Scoop** 

Hasnain and Bilal from Coop Academy in Stoke for their reporting on exploitation and modern slavery. 

Read Hasnain & Bilal’s Report 

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## **1. Digital Only** 

We will be working with schools to create digital newsrooms as our team continues to work virtually during the pandemic to ensure everyone is safe. 

## **2. Sharing Best Practices** 

We will be working with our partners in our field through the News Literacy Network, chaired by the National Literacy Trust as well as being a founding member of the Global Digital Media Literacy Network, alongside MediaWise (USA), Chequeado (Latin America) and the International FactChecking Network. 


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**3. Scaling our local newsroom model to all boroughs in London with the** _**Financial Times**_ 

We will launch the My Voice London programme, a network of 32 school newsrooms in London and four city-wide investigations created in partnership with RADAR AI. 

## **4. Increasing Our Influence** 

We will be teaming up with parliamentarians to form an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Media Literacy to develop a public policy solution to make Britain the safest place in the world to be online. 

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**Charity No. 1172656** 

## **Registered Office** 

Impact Brixton 17a Electric Lane Brixton London SW9 8LA 

## **Directors and Trustees** 

The Directors of the charitable company are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law. 

The following Directors and Trustees served during the year 2019/20: 

J. Binding (Chair) D. Clark (Treasurer) 

J. Burrows 

M. Cole B. Cummings G. Sharpe-Newton A. Phillips 

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Crossley Group Star House, Star Hill Rochester Kent ME1 1UX 

## **Trustees’ Annual Report including Directors’ Report** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

The Student View was incorporated in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee on 27th January 2015 and was registered with the Charity Commission on 11th April 2017. This report includes the Directors’ Report as required by company law. 

The Student View is established for charitable purposes to provide media literacy education to young people from low – income communities. 

The Trustees have a duty to consider public benefit guidance as published by the Charity Commission. The Trustees are aware of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit reporting and are satisfied that the activities of The Student View meet the requirements for them to be considered as being provided for the public benefit. We have demonstrated how we have worked towards our charitable purposes in the sections below. 

The Student View is a news literacy charity training schoolchildren across England as investigative local news reporters. Our workshops introduce young people aged 11-18 from hard to reach backgrounds (many with the pupil premium) to the social media landscape, train them on how to spot misinformation and to understand the differences between fact and opinion. We work with journalists across different types of media and right across the political spectrum to teach young people the skills of a junior reporter. 

We select schools in underprivileged areas and deliver 3 workshops over a total of 12 hours working with a facilitator and a volunteer journalist. The curriculum includes topics on the role of news, what a journalist does, what is misinformation and how to spot it and other topics. The journalist encourages the children (we call them TSV reporters) to consider what local news issues matter to them and to develop their thinking enough that desk research or Freedom of Information (FOI) requests might be made to help quantify the story. Where interesting stories are identified we work with media partners to help secure coverage for the stories with the child’s name as a byline. 

Our work reaches not just underprivileged children, but also seeks to influence the media to consider how they might better represent these ‘hardest to reach’ children and communities. 

## **Achievements and Performace** 

In 2019/20 we conducted two major projects which were funded by the FT and Google.org. Please see the partner spotlight sections for details on the programmes and their impact. Please see the 2019/20 in numbers section for details on our combined activities. 

## **Financial Review** 

This year we successfully completed the 2nd year of the grant for the Google.org ‘Share your Story’ programme. There are no plans to extend the project in its current form. Together with the income from the FT and other supporters (media companies, private schools who sponsor partner state schools, together with smaller donations from individuals) our total income was £190,155 (£147,782 restricted, £42,373 unrestricted) covering delivery, majority of costs are for staff, T&E, fundraising and raising the profile of the charity’s work.. 

Our expenditure covered our fundraising activity, together with the costs of delivering our workshops face to face in different locations across the UK. The amount spent on charitable activities totalled £164,499. The cost includes staff salaries together with travel and associated expenses. 

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Prior to the coronavirus pandemic our strategy this year was to seek to deliver successful programmes working with our partners and to seek to extend our work outside of London to other parts of the UK and in particular to areas deemed to be social mobility cold spots. As these locations are typically further away the costs to deliver each school are higher than those in London. 

The closure of schools meant that we were not able to deliver our programmes in schools for the last four months of the school year. Despite these challenges we were able to work with 27 schools and published 157 local news investigations. We will sustain the charity and its activities in financial year 20/21 by scaling back our costs and delivery. 

For our grant based income we provide regular impact and financial reporting to the donor detailing what we have done and what that activity has cost. 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

The Board of Trustees is composed of five persons who fulfil the statutory duties and responsibilities of Trustees. The Board meets at least quarterly. The Trustees who served on the board during the year are as follows: 

## **Directors and Trustees:** 

**Chair:** 

**Treasurer:** David Clark (Appointed 25.11.2019) 

## **Trustees:** 

Our fundraising strategy was to seek to develop relationships with additional media companies and those involved in the media ecosystem along the same lines as our FT and Google.org partnerships. 

The Trustees discussed the growth strategy for the charity together with the risks and wanted to put their energies into seeking to grow income and impact and to keep costs down. Given the majority of the charity’s income is project-based the focus on fundraising was a key one to secure the charity’s longer term ambitions to scale the reach and impact. 

In mitigating risk the Trustees resolved to keep at least 3-6 months of costs in reserve. At the end of FY19/20 there was £81,067 in free reserves which covers 6 months. 

## **Plans for Future Periods** 

The world changed forever in 2020. For the next academic year, we have developed a digital-only delivery model, to ensure we enable young people to still make their voices heard on issues they care about most. 

The finance strategy for FY20/21 is to focus on fundraising as well as driving further efficiencies in our back office administration and governance work. For FY20/21 our finance strategy is to live within our means, reducing expenditure to meet our income. Our budget has been developed to ensure we break even to meet that goal. We onboarded a fundraising consultant to seek immediate and medium-term income, while devising a five year strategic plan. 

We will seek to develop further media partnerships and share best practice with other media literacy programmes in the UK and beyond. These programmes seek to empower and equip news consumers of all ages with the confidence, knowledge and skills they need to engage critically with news and current affairs. 

We plan to launch an All-Party Parliamentary Group to audit the government’s media literacy strategy in the proposed Online Harms Bill. Aims include establishing national and international standards of high quality media literacy provision as well as assessing the effectiveness of the government’s approach to date. 

During the preparation of this report the Coronavirus crisis was still ongoing. Trustees will assess the impact for future periods as part of the continuous planning work for FY20/21. As part of this Trustees will form a judgement on the potential duration of the control measures and the impact that this may have with the future aims and activities of the charity. 

The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charitable company has adequate resources to continue its operational existence for the foreseeable future, with the continuing support of its funders. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. 

|**Trustees:**||
|---|---|
|Geraldine Sharpe-Newton||
|Angela Phillips||
|James Burrows|(Appointed 25.11.2019)|
|Marverine Cole|(Appointed 25.11.2019)|
|Basia Cummings|(Appointed 25.11.2019)|



**Chief Executive Officer:** Solomon Elliott 

None of the Trustees has any beneficial interest in The Student View. 

Major decisions are made collectively at board meetings, this includes any staff remuneration decisions which are reviewed annually. The Trustees have delegated to the Chair the day to day decisions and governance administration required to help support the CEO in the fundraising and operational activities in running the charity. 

Trustees have indemnity insurance for executive risks, with limit of Indemnity £100,000. 

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. 

The above report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime as set out in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102). 

Signed on behalf of the board 


J. Binding Chair of Trustees 

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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of The Student View** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of The Student View (the charity) for the year ended 31 August 2020. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the trustees of the charity (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (the 2006 Act). 

Having satisfied myself that the financial statements of the charity are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s financial statements carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act). In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act. 

## **Independent examiner’s statement** 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 

2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or 

3. the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act 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; or 

4. the financial statements have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). 

## **Statement of  Financial Activities** 

## **(including income and expenditure account)** 

**For the year ending 31 August 2020** 

|**Notes**<br>**Income and endowments**<br>**from:**<br>Donations and legacies<br>2<br>Other income<br>3<br>**Total**<br>**Expenditure on:**<br>Raising funds<br>Charitable activities<br>4<br>**Total resources expended**<br>**Net income for the year/**<br>**Net movement in funds**<br>**Fund balances at 1**<br>**September 2019**<br>**Fund balances at 31**<br>**August 2020**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>36,280<br>147,782<br>184,062<br>88,392<br>125,484<br>213,876<br>6,093<br>-<br>6,093<br>128<br>-<br>128|
|---|---|
||42,373<br>147,782<br>190,155<br>88,520<br>125,474<br>214,004<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>1,574<br>-<br>1,574<br>41,956<br>122,543<br>164,499<br>32,686<br>125,484<br>158,170|
||41,956<br>122,543<br>164,499<br>34,260<br>125,484<br>159,774<br>417<br>25,239<br>25,656<br>54,260<br>-<br>54,260<br>80,650<br>-<br>80,650<br>26,390<br>-<br>26,390|
||81,067<br>25,239<br>106,306<br>80,650<br>80,650|



The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. 

All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. 

The statement of financial activities also complies with the requirements for an income and expenditure account under the Companies Act 2006. 

I have no 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 financial statements to be reached. 

Crossley Financial Accounting 

Star House Star Hill Rochester Kent ME1 1UX 

Dated:  17.12.2020 

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## **Balance Sheet** 

## **Notes to the Financial Statements** 

## **(Statement of Financial Position)** 

## **For the year ending 31 August 2020** 

## **At 31 August 2020** 

## **1 Accounting policies** 

|**Notes**<br>**Current assets**<br>Debtors<br>8<br>Cash at bank and in hand<br>**Creditors:**Amount falling due in one year<br>9<br>**Net current assets**<br>**Income funds**<br>Restricted funds<br>10<br>Unrestricted funds<br>**Total funds**|**2020**<br>**£**<br>1,700<br>120,537|**£**<br>106,306|**2019**<br>**£**<br>-<br>202,069|**£**<br>80,650|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||122,237<br>(15,931)||202,069<br>(121,419)||
||||||
|||25,239<br>81,067||-<br>80,650|
|||106,306||80,650|



The company is entitled to the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, for the year ended 31 August 2020. 

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for ensuring that the charity keeps accounting records which comply with section 386 of the Act and for preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company. 

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476. 

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. 

## **Charity information** 

The Student View is a private company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 17A Electric Ln, Brixton, London SW9 8LA. 

## **1.1 Accounting convention** 

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the charity’s [governing document], the Companies Act 2006 and “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)”. The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102. 

The charity has taken advantage of the provisions in the SORP for charities applying FRS 102 Update Bulletin 1 not to prepare a Statement of Cash Flows. 

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £. 

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below. 

## **1.2 Charitable funds** 

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of their charitable objectives. 

Restricted funds are subject to specific conditions by donors as to how they may be used. The purposes and uses of the restricted funds are set out in the notes to the financial statements. 

Endowment funds are subject to specific conditions by donors that the capital must be maintained by the charity. 

## **1.3 Income** 

The financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 12.02.2021 

And signed on its behalf by: 


J. Binding Chair of Trustees 

Income is recognised when the charity is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received. 

Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once the charity has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation. 

## **1.4 Expenditure** 

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates. 

Expenditure on raising funds - These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income, fundraising trading costs and investment management costs. 

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Expenditure on charitable activities - These comprise the costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and services in the furtherance of its objects, including the making of grants and governance costs. 

Governance costs - These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the Charity, including any audit/independent examination fees, costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity, together with a share of other administration costs. 

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. 

## _**Derecognition of financial liabilities**_ 

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the charity’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled. 

Other expenditure - These are support costs not allocated to a particular activity. 

## **2 Donations and legacies** 

## **1.5 Tangible fixed assets** 

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses. 

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases: 

Office equipment 20% straight line 

Assets costing more than £2,000 are capitalised. Assets brought forward from the prior year with cost below £2,000 have been fully written down in the year. 

## **1.6 Financial instruments** 

The charity has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments. 

Financial instruments are recognised in the charity’s balance sheet when the charity becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument. 

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously. 

## _**Basic financial assets**_ 

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised. 

## _**Basic financial liabilities**_ 

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised. 

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method. 

|Donations<br>Partners<br>Grants<br>**Donations**<br>Individuals<br>**Partners**<br>Financial Times<br>Mawsonia<br>Google UK (World News Day)<br>Friends of King’s College<br>DMG Media Ltd<br>Other Commercial Partners<br>**Grants**<br>Google.org (Year 1 & 2)<br>Jenkins Family Foundation<br>Apple Europe Limited|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>20<br>-<br>20<br>100<br>-<br>100<br>36,260<br>-<br>36,260<br>88,292<br>16,667<br>104,959<br>-<br>147,782<br>147,782<br>-<br>108,817<br>108,817|
|---|---|
||36,260<br>147,782<br>184,062<br>88,392<br>125,484<br>213,876|
||20<br>-<br>20<br>100<br>-<br>100|
||20<br>-<br>20<br>100<br>-<br>100|
||27,260<br>-<br>27,260<br>54,520<br>-<br>54,520<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>16,667<br>16,667<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>14,910<br>-<br>14,910<br>4,000<br>-<br>4,000<br>12,000<br>-<br>12,000<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>6,000<br>-<br>6,000<br>5,000<br>-<br>5,000<br>862<br>-<br>862|
||36,260<br>-<br>36,260<br>88,292<br>16,667<br>104,959|
||-<br>119,562<br>119,562<br>-<br>108,817<br>108,817<br>-<br>2,981<br>2,981<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>25,239<br>25,239<br>-<br>-<br>-|
||-<br>147,782<br>147,782<br>-<br>108,817<br>108,817|



## **3 Other Income** 

|Other income<br> HMRC Job Retention Scheme|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>-<br>128<br>6,093<br>-|
|---|---|
||6,093<br>128|



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## **4 Charitable Activities** 

|Depreciation and impairment<br>Stafng Costs<br> Website & Platform<br>Travel & Expenses<br> Ofce Space<br>Recruitment<br> Administration<br> Insurance<br>Share of governance costs (see note 5)<br>**Analysis by fund**<br>Unrestricted funds<br> Restricted funds|**2020**<br>**£**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>-<br>498<br>117,069<br>101,359<br>2,435<br>19,304<br>15,061<br>11,144<br>8,738<br>9,415<br>234<br>1,495<br>14,983<br>13,181<br>373<br>325|
|---|---|
||158,893<br>156,721<br>5,606<br>1,449|
||164,499<br>158,170|
||41,956<br>32,686<br>122,543<br>125,484|
||164,499<br>158,170|



## **5 Governance Costs** 

|Accountancy fees<br>Independent examiner<br>fees<br> Other governance costs<br> Analysed between<br>Charitable activities|**Support**<br>**Costs**<br>**£**<br>**Governance**<br>**Costs**<br>**£**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Support**<br>**Costs**<br>**£**<br>**Governance**<br>**Costs**<br>**£**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>-<br>3,026<br>3,026<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>2,580<br>2,580<br>-<br>1,086<br>1,086<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>363<br>363|
|---|---|
||-<br>5,606<br>5,606<br>-<br>1,449<br>1,449|
||-<br>5,606<br>5,606<br>-<br>1,449<br>1,449|



## **8 Debtors** 

|**Debtors**||
|---|---|
|**Amounts falling due within one year:**<br> Prepayments and accrued income<br>**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**<br>Other Taxation and Social Security<br>Other Creditors<br>Accruals and Deferred Income|**2020**<br>**£**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>1,700<br>-|
||**2020**<br>**£**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>11,923<br>-<br>525<br>537<br>3,483<br>120,882|
||15,931<br>121,419|



## **9 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year** 

## **10 Restricted funds** 

The income funds of the charity include restricted funds comprising the following unexpended balances of donations and grants held on trust for specific purposes: 

|Mawsonia<br>Share your Story<br>Jenkins Family Foundation<br> Apple Europe|**Movement in funds**<br>**Movement in funds**<br>**Incoming**<br>**resources**<br>**£**<br>**Resources**<br>**expended**<br>**£**<br>**Balance at**<br>**1 September**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Incoming**<br>**resources**<br>**£**<br>**Resources**<br>**expended**<br>**£**<br>**Balance at**<br>**31 August**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>16,667<br>(16,667)<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>108,817<br>(108,817)<br>-<br>119,562<br>(119,562)<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>2,981<br>(2,981)<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>25,239<br>-<br>25,239|
|---|---|
||125,484<br>(125,484)<br>-<br>147,782<br>(122,543)<br>25,239|



Purposes and restrictions in relation to the funds: 

## Mawsonia 

Funding part of the Programme Manager’s salary 

## Share your Story 

Funding for 30 school newsrooms across England and Wales 

## Jenkins Family Foundation 

## **6 Trustees** 

Funding part of the Programme Manager’s salary 

## Apple Europe 

None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration or benefits from the charity during the year. 

This grant will support a programme called MediaLit – a media literacy programme that will engage young Londoners, particularly from underserved backgrounds, with the tools they need to survive in the age of misinformation. 

## **11 Analysis of net assets between funds** 

## **7 Employees** 

## **Number of employees** 

The average monthly number of employees during the year was: 

||**2020**|**2019**|
|---|---|---|
||**Number**|**Number**|
|Charitable activities|3|2|



There were no employees whose annual remuneration was £60,000 or more. 

|Fund balances at 31 August 2020<br>are represented by: Current assets /<br>(liabilities|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2020**<br>**£**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>**Total funds**<br>**2019**<br>**£**<br>106,306<br>-<br>106,306<br>80,650<br>-<br>80,650|
|---|---|
||106,306<br>-<br>106,306<br>80,650<br>-<br>80,650|



## **12 Related party transactions** 

## **Controlling party** 

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital; thus no single party controls the company. 

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To everyone who volunteered as a journalist
To everyone who helped set up
a school newsroom
To e￿erYone )Nbo introduced
us to new supporters
THANKYOU
To everyone who funded our work
our work online

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