2021-03-31-accounts - Parallel Histories

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 04 2020 31 03 2021

From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address	Parallel Histories	Parallel Histories


	1174481
	West Winds
	Westbourne Road
	Lancaster
	Postcode LA1 5EF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Hugh Castle	Chair
Patrick Taylor
Abdalkarim Zawawi
Marie José Hunter		Upto August 2020
Clare O Sullivan		From September 2020

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

CIO

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

Appointment

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To advance the education of young people in controversial history topics by means of researching and creating free educational materials including interactive videos and distributing these to teachers

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The main activities undertaken for public benefit are the research, creation and distribution of free educational materials in the form of interactive videos.

The Trustees take action to monitor and ensure that the charity acts to further these objectives in all its activities.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

The charity is reliant on a network of teachers in secondary schools who use Parallel Histories materials teaching method in their classrooms.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

During this year we have been largely insulated from the negative effects of Covid and school closure as our products and services are largely online.

We continued to develop new video product, developed a digital debating programme, raised awareness of the Charity, and added new schools to the network.

We received an income of £70,146 from a mixture of donations, grants and fees for our charitable services. This represents an increase of £14,696 on the previous year.

We have continued to build our public profile: we received press coverage in the Guardian, the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Times and BBC radio and TV news as well as local newspapers. Website users passed 32,000, up from 14000 last year.

In terms of product development, we continued to focus our efforts on shorter debate videos, added ‘chapters’ to our Scottish product and created the first two programmes for our Northern Irish product. We developed a new online interschool debating programme which we launched when schools closed in the spring. During this year we ran debates involving over 400 students from 28 schools.

We launched online CPD for teachers in June and have continued to run regular sessions. By the end of the year, we had trained 155 teachers from 101 schools.

The schools using our products and services this year has greatly increased from 28 to over 160 and our geographical reach across the UK is now much more even. We have run a number of interschool debates connecting schools in the UK with schools in other countries.

We continued to work with partners like Solutions not Sides and the Balfour Project and deliver training modules through the PTI. In addition, we have partnered with a veterans’ charity called Forward Assist to offer debate training which brings together students from our schools with former service women.

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Section E Financial review

The trustees are satisfied with the performance of the charity in its first Brief statement of the period and with the position of the reserves at the end of the period. charity’s policy on reserves It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds at a level which the trustees believe appropriate after considering the future commitments of the charity and the likely administrative costs of the charity in the coming year.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

n/a

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Hugh Castle Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 15/07/2021

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TAR Mareh 2012

Charity Name Parallel Histories

No (if any) 1174481

Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date To from 4/1/2020

Period start date Period end date To 4/1/2020 3/31/2021

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations 14,590 - - 14,590
Grants 25,000 20,805 - 45,805
Fees for charitable services 4,072 - - 4,072
Other 5,679 - - 5,679
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 49,341 20,805 - 70,146
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total receipts 49,341 20,805 - 70,146
A3 Payments
Salaries and wages 23,952 17,075 - 41,027
Administration, printing and web licences 1,490 172 - 1,662
London conference - - - -
Other 7,932 340 - 8,272
Teacher Fellowship 1,250 - - 1,250
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total 34,624 17,587 - 52,211
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total payments 34,624 17,587 - 52,211
Net of receipts/(payments) 14,717 3,218 - 17,935
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 27,619 - - 27,619
Cash funds this year end 42,336 3,218 - 45,554
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

			Unrestricted		Restricted
Categories	Details		funds		funds
B1 Cash funds		*Total cash funds*	to nearest £ 42,336 - - 42,336		to nearest £ 3,218 - - 3,218
	(agree	balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK
			Unrestricted		Restricted
			funds		funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details		to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -
B4 Assets retained for the	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -
charity’s own use					- - - - - - - -
			Fund to which		Amount due
B5 Liabilities	Details		liability relates		- - - - - (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature	Print	Name
			Hugh Castle, Chair of Trustees

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CC16a
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Last year

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to the nearest £
50,100
-
5,350
-
-
-
-
-
55,450
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55,450

22,334 2,494 2,697 2,041 - - - - - 29,566

29,566 25,884 - 1,735 27,619

Endowment funds to nearest £

OK

Endowment funds to nearest £

Current value (optional)

When due (optional)

Date of approval 7/15/2021

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustsesl mombers of Parallel Histories On accounts for the year ended 3110312021 Charity no (if any) 1174481 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'the Trust.) for the year ended 3110312020. Responsibilities and As the charty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basls of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charit16s Act 2011 {llhe Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Twsfs accounts carried out under seGtion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5}{b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention, other than that disclosed below, in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting r)rdS Independent examiner's statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of th8 accounts to be reached. Signed: Dats: 1310712021 Nam8: Elizabeth Bateman Relevant profèssional qualification(s) or body (if any): Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Ac¢ountsnoy (CIPFA) Address: 1 Greenwood Crescent, Bolton-le-sands, Camforth, Lancashire. LA5 8BE Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and gui(lan¢e for examiners). IER October 2018

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER