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2022-03-31-accounts

Charity No: 1177973

Trustees Annual Report & Financial Statements

Letter from Founder Trustees

Dear friends of RockStone & Pebbles,

Table of Contents:

01 LETTER FROM FOUNDER TRUSTEES

02-09 1. ABOUT US

10-31 2. OUR WORK

32-37 3. OUR FUTURE

46-47 TRUSTEES’ STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY 48-49 THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This Annual Report marks an end of a chapter and for us at RSP it feels like an end of an era! We have spent years developing, building, experimenting and learning intensively, knowing that the launch pad of our charity must be set on strong foundations if we hope to make sustainable positive changes in the lives of children now and for generations to come.

In this reporting period, we spent time continuously honing our Theory of Change, and by version 15 we sighed a deep sigh of relief knowing we were clear about the change we are trying to make! We pulled together all our learnings, feedback, successes and failures of the last four years together and faced the reality of what we have set ourselves up to do. Those who know us well will know that we’re not afraid of a challenge, and with that impetus we put together our next 3-year strategy.

The learning, the challenging and experimenting will never end, but we will now move forward on the basis of a strong foundation to dream from. Whilst we dream, we stay firm in our resolve to find new ways to collaborate, challenge our assumptions and listen to the voices of the children who we aim to support through providing them opportunities to access their fundamental right to play.

Amongst all of this, we also found time to create and innovate with our partners. We are especially excited about the play project we started working on in collaboration with our South African based partner, MADaboutART, which is still in progress as at this reporting date. The children at MAD are co-creating a narrative artwork advocating on their right to play which will result in an 8 metre long banner that we plan to share widely! We will take this and use it as an advocacy tool moving forward. With another partner, On Call Africa (OCA), we had the wonderful opportunity to learn from the young Master’s students who researched the benefits of play in health promotion and shared their findings and recommendations with members of OCA, local health partners, and RSP.

And it’s always fun to get our own hands dirty while connecting and playing with old friends and we were able to do exactly that when we reconnected with Lynda who gave us an APT (Appropriate Paper Technology) refresher course. Our partner, Kimmy, joined the RSP trustees at these sessions and is currently working with RSP to take this fun, sustainable and empowering technology to children in Whitstable (UK) this year.

We hope you enjoy reading about the rest of what we have been up to!

Thank you all for your engagement, interest and contributions to RSP that have been fundamental in shaping RSP as the organisation it is today.

Best wishes, Juliette & Meera

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RSP Values

Our values inspire and guide the way we operate and interact with others

Collaboration: We believe that lasting change can only come through collaborative working and shared learnings

Transparency: We share information openly and honestly; we learn from our mistakes and reflect on our learnings

Innovation: We encourage creative, experimental efforts and explore local solutions that can be co-created resourcefully, by thinking outside the box

RSP Vision, Mission

Vision:

A sustainable future created through play, collaboration and shared learnings

Mission:

Enhance and create spaces that facilitate learning, innovation, collaboration, and positively impact the lives of vulnerable children through enabling their right to play

Diversity: We honour and embrace people’s fundamental right to be different and unique

Respect: We strive to treat people with consideration and care

04 WHAT WE DO 05 RSP THEORY OF CHANGE

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08-09 REFERENCE & ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS ABOUT US

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What we do
At RSP, our work is focused on enabling
children to recognise, access and enjoy
their fundamental right to play…
… because we believe that play is the best way
that children learn, innovate and thrive.
Our Theory of Change
guides our work and explains why
we focus on the activities we do
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Theory of Change Children’s
Right to Play
is a Human Right
Article31UNCRC
The CHANGE we are seeking to make:
#PlayMatters
#Play
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All children can recognise, access and enjoy their fundamental right to play

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A. Improved & increased
play opportunities and
spaces for children
B. Increased awareness C. Increased civil
& engagement on society capacity and
the importance of impetus to facilitate
and right to play children’s right to play
HOW we believe that change will happen
WHAT WE DO to create the change we are seeking:
A. Play Projects - initiating, implementing, funding
EXCELLENCE
&
SUSTAINABILITY
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A. Play Projects - initiating, implementing, funding
B. Advocacy - positively influencing public opinion
C. Capacity Building - sharing resources, knowledge,
skills & opportunities
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Our robust organisation structure and the strong
Collaborative Partnerships we build facilitate our work
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LEARNING & COLLABORATION
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OUR APPROACH & FOUNDATIONS

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RSP Strategy

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Collaboration

Collaboration sits at the core of our vision and drives the way we work. We believe that open sharing - of information, knowledge, skills, resources, and opportunities - is the the catalyst to creating lasting and positive change.

We invest time and resources collaborating, building frameworks and seeking opportunities to support one another in achieving our aims. At RSP, we continue to learn and adapt how best to form collaborative partnerships, and build a movement of people and organisations that support one another in achieving their aims.

Our Collaboration Framework has greatly supported our aims

Working collaboratively with other organisations and individuals has enabled us to increase the impact we are seeking to make. We have found that effective collaboration requires a deeply considered approach towards each other’s needs, and takes time, but in the longer term it is highly efficient and has enabled RSP to make a positive difference in many communities and more children’s lives than we would have been able to do so alone.

Partnership Collaboration Framework:

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Synergetic
How RSP benefts benefts How Partner benefts
Enabling Children’s
Right to Play:
Increasing / Improving play spaces
Increasing awareness & engagement on
benefits of and right to play
Influencing change on a wider level
Learning more
about PLAY
through skills / knowledge &Stronger RSP
expertise shared by partner
partner throughStronger
by RSP
capacity building provided
Children they work with are
positively impacted throughincreased focus of playin organisation
Financial stability
& income diversity
to partnerthrough subsidised
service fee charges
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Sustainability

Building organisational sustainability for us means setting strong foundations, developing sustainable programmes and partnerships, and maintaining financial sustainability. See how we have done this on pages 28-31.

We aspire to make a lasting positive difference in the lives of the children that our work impacts, in a way that echoes through and provides many children with opportunities to play, for generations to come.

Learning

We are a learning organisation focused on building and sharing knowledge and skills, braving new ideas, collaborating widely, and constantly modifying our behaviour based on new learnings and insights.

Excellence

We are committed to being an excellent organisation and providing quality assurance across all areas of our work. We do this through challenging ourselves, each other and learning together; being accountable; representing RSP in a way that aligns with our values; aligning our behaviour with our aims and goals; taking a considered approach; and communicating transparently and openly with our stakeholders.

Build genuinely collaborative partnerships Share skills, knowledge & successes Develop & freely share resources

PLAY together

Share credible 3[rd] party information & resources

Build diversity & INNOVATE

Open feedback

LEARN and grow together

Challenge each other

Set shared goals

Connect &

Collaborate

…organisations to organisations

We facilitate collaborations between organisations that can grow and learn from one another

…people & organisations We assess the needs and skills of the people and organisations in our network supporting and connecting them to add value to one another

…people to people

We connect the people in our network to share skills and learn from one another

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Reference & Administrative Details

Charity Name: RockStone & Pebbles (RSP)

Charity Registration Number: 1177973 Charity Registration Date: 16 April 2018 Registered Offce: 8 Cyclamen Road, Kent BR8 8HJ

Trustees: Juliette Liebi, Meera Patel, Anna Petruccelli

Structure, Governance & Management

Governing document

The charity was established and set up as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 16 April 2018. It is governed by its constitution which sets out the objectives and powers of this CIO.

Recruitment & Appointment of new trustees

The constitution stipulates a minimum of two trustees, there is no maximum number of trustees that must be appointed. Apart from the founding charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. Trustees will be recruited on the basis of the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.

Management

The founders, Juliette Liebi and Meera Patel, who are also trustees, manage most of the operations and activities of the charity on a voluntary basis. They work in big charities, on short term contracts, as finance consultants in their professional lives, ensuring that they are able to plan and dedicate sufficient time to RSP on a regular basis. They are supported by a third trustee, Anna Petrucelli, and other volunteers in the management of RSP.

Risk Management

The trustees carry out their duty to identify and review the risks the charity is exposed to and ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place to provide assurance on the charity’s compliance and continuance. The trustees recently formalised the Risk Management framework and will begin to measure and manage risks through a Risk Register to facilitate a robust and sustainable organisation.

RSP Charitable Purposes for Public Benefit

RSP Charitable Purposes

Our charitable objects are as summarised below:

(i) The prevention or relief of poverty anywhere in the world

At RSP we do this by trying to positively impact the lives of vulnerable children by helping them access their fundamental right to play as enshrined in Article31 UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)

(ii) To promote the efficiency and effectiveness of other initiatives working towards objectives similar to (i) above

We adopt a deeply collaborative approach and partner with other value aligned organisations and initiatives where we can find synergy and enable each other to better meet each other’s aims: through sharing skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities.

RSP Public Benefit Statement

RSP purposes satisfy the public benefit requirements, in line with the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. There has been no harm or private benefits arising from carrying out these purposes.

RSP provided public benefit this year by:

(i) Positively impacting the lives of vulnerable and excluded children across the world by facilitating increased and improved access to their right to play.

(ii) Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of non profit organisations and initiatives by sharing capacity building expertise in the areas of charity governance, operations and statutory reporting.

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YEAR 4 ACHIEVEMENTS & ACTIVITIES:

Enabling children’s right to play

16-17 ACTIVITIES WITH OUR PARTNER OCA

18-19 RSP’S APT PLAY PROGRAMME

20-25 BUILDING WIDER AWARENESS & ENGAGEMENT ON CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO PLAY

Building Organisational Sustainability

26-29 BUILDING ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY 30-31 REPORTING ON YEAR 4 OBJECTIVES

2. OUR WORK

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COLLABORATING WITH PARTNER ORGANISATIONS

This section provides an overview, and some examples, of how RSP works with partners. See how we have built awareness and engagement on the importance of and right to play, and built our partners’ capacity and impetus to facilitate play in children’s lives. In the following sections, we will cover some of the projects and partnership activities we are doing to facilitate children’s right to play.

Building engagement and infuencing partners to bring PLAY more centrally into their strategies:

Child Rights and You (CRY) is a charity that has been protecting the rights of children, and building happier and healthier childhoods for children in India since 1979.

The MiChi project was set up by a group of passionate individuals in India. The project’s aim is to develop positive interventions to support vulnerable children illegally employed in MICA mining in the Jharkhand region MiChi of Eastern India. The project team will provide funding and are partnering with CRY to realise this project.

Our relationship with CRY and the MiChi team began in early 2021. We have RSP since explored collaborative opportunities facilitated with them and engaged in numerous the incorporation discussions on the benefits and right to of play centrally play, and how this could be more strongly into the incorporated into their strategies and MiChi project approaches. RSP have also shared charity specific expertise and “We [CRY] have been using play as a tool knowledge so far, perhaps we should consider with these using it as an approach” teams. - Puja Marwaha, CEO of CRY

RSP facilitated the incorporation of play centrally into the MiChi project

‘…the high level of engagement and positive feedback from stakeholders [through carrying out play activities and developing games] has led to the integration of play into our model health service package, and adoption in our strategy … I’m very excited to have play so clearly documented in our strategy ’ - Ben Margetts, CEO of OCA

MADaboutART (MAD) is a charity that supports vulnerable young people affected by HIV/AIDS by using art as a platform for healing and igniting hope and imagination.

MAD’s centre based in the township near Knysna, South Africa has been a haven and safe space for thousands of vulnerable children for over the last 20 years. For some of these children MAD provides the only decent meal they receive in a day.

Our relationship with MAD began even before RSP was set up as a registered charity and continues to date. RSP have helped to bring PLAY into focus and make it a priority in MAD.

Before our partnership began many moons ago…. MAD was carrying out play activities but play, and the right to play, was not a strategic focus in their organisation.

We started our partnership by providing governance and financial capacity building expertise to MAD. We continue to support MAD’s Annual statutory reporting requirements by producing their Annual Accounts and providing critical feedback on their Annual Reports.

Now… the value of and right to PLAY have become centrally embedded at MAD

On Call Africa (OCA) is a charity that provides health services to remote communities in Zambia . They are supported by volunteer doctors from the UK in the running of medical clinics, and training community health workers

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51 29 50 125 children workshops sessions Hours participating with children

RSP-MAD Play Programme:

providing children opportunities to understand, enjoy and advocate on their right to play

Created and Designed by: RSP & MAD Funded by: RSP

It was incredible to see these kids take their own initiative and make these toys following the right to play workshops that were run in this programme

MEL frameworks and analysis by: RSP Communications (videos, media) by: RSP Implemented by: MAD (Feb22-Sep22)

PROGRAMME DESIGN:

Children’s feedback following play workshops focused on negotiation as a foundation for building advocacy skills…

Workshop facilitator feedback:

Artists and children working - Creative design together to design a banner workshops advocating on the importance of and right to play

- Final planned output - 1 metre x 8 metre banner

The fnal piece will be a PAINTED BANNER, a narrative advocacy piece on children’s right to play - made of eight 1 x 1 metre panels that can stand alone or together to use for future advocacy activities. This is expected to be completed around September 2022. Phase 2 of our project together will involve taking the banner out with children to communities to build awareness, engagement and inspiration to facilitate children’s right to play.

…on learning about the right to play ‘Now we can tell people and our parents we are not ‘just’ playing. We have a right to do fun things. Play keeps us out of trouble, makes us smile’.

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MADaboutART (MAD) support young people affected by HIV/AIDS through
using art as a platform for healing and igniting hope and imagination
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Workshops run at the MADaboutART centre based in the township near Knysna, SA
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RSP-OCA Partnership Activities

On Call Africa (OCA) is a charity that provides health services to remote communities in Zambia

80 3 3 children participating Games Masters in play activities developed dissertations

IMPROVING & INCREASING PLAY OPPORTUNITIES & SPACES FOR CHILDREN

Our partnership agreement with OCA included a commitment by OCA to trial play interventions within the rural communities that they work with in Zambia.

‘ The play activity was an opportunity for the OCA staff to trial this kind of intervention while also getting to know the community youths and understand what they know about sanitation, thus helping us to shape our future health promotion activities’

One of the ways they did this was by carrying out a project at the Kanyanga Basic School which is based in a remote rural area in the Southern Province of Zambia.

- from OCA Project Report

‘ The schools were very excited to have us and welcomed the idea of this project…’ - from OCA Project Report

DEVELOPING GAMES

Board Game

Food Pyramid Game

Answer true / false Place food cut outs on Find answers to health-related pyramid based on prompts, health-related questions on cards to e.g. ‘makes bones strong’ questions in the get to finish point and sesame seeds word search

BUILDING SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, RESOURCES, AWARENESS, ENGAGEMENT & IMPETUS to facilitate children’s right to play

Evidence-based IEC materials:

‘O Age appropriate physical play improves children’s physical well-being … Alexander, Frohlich, and Fusco (2014) emphasized the importance of giving voice to children during research on play, and by interviewing children (in Canada), they found that forcing too much physical activities during play can actually take out the joy of children.

The value of using play and participatory approaches to promote health and wellbeing in Zambia

Literary reviews and studies carried out, and dissertations produced by 3 University of London (UCL) Masters’ students.

O The physical movement and social interaction that happen during play help children maintain the emotional well-being (Wood, 2005). Burdette and Whitaker (2005) state that “free play has the potential to improve many aspects of emotional wellbeing such as minimizing anxiety, depression, aggression, and sleep problems.” …

Summarised and presented in an online group session. Wonderful advocacy on the value of play in children’s lives.

O … Nabie (2015) conducted interviews with teachers in Ghana, and found that they perceived that the use of traditional games can develop cognitive skills and allow children to learn mathematics better than just reading the textbook.

This work was initiated and developed as a direct result of our partnership activities with OCA.

O Play can improve children’s social well-being in different ways. For instance, play can “develop agency, empathy, imagination, and learn to deal with uncertainty (Mardell et al., 2019). Phetlhu (2014) states that role-play allows children to internalize and understand perspectives of other people.

Thank you:

Allyssa Opferbeck from USA Ayako Terao from Japan Haya Solaiman from Syria

Many studies demonstrate how play can be used to promote health education amongst children and how they increased their knowledge and led to better health seeking behaviours …’

PLAY has been integrated into OCA’s 5 year strategy

- Excerpt from Ayako Terao’s dissertation: ‘Promoting health and well-being: the possibility of incorporating play into rural Zambian primary school contexts’

Aug-21: OCA using play to assess and improve health behaviours

Play activities and games carried out by OCA in rural Zambian communities

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WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH APT

RSP PROGRAMME: APPROPRIATE PAPER TECHNOLOGY (APT) FOR PLAY SOLUTIONS

RSP are planning to develop and create APT solutions in the play space and carry this programme forward over a long-term basis.

Using APT to create PLAY solutions

This year we started creating and designing our 2[nd] APT play project, for children and young people in Whitstable, with our project partner, Kimmy Spreadborough, which is planned to be implemented at Whitstable based charity, Far Skate Academy , this year.

WHAT IS APT?

Appropriate paper technology (APT) is an innovative, low cost, sustainable solution for making durable products (such as stools, chairs, etc) that uses only paper, cardboard and glue made from flour and water.

OUR JOURNEY WITH APT

2018 - Introduced to our now partner charity, High Hopes for Children , Lynda and APT through our partner charity The Rotary Club of the Northdowns

Charities like High Hopes for Children (HHfC) and Cerebral Palsy Africa have used APT as an affordable, viable solution for making bespoke furniture for children with disabilities in the global south.

2019 - 2 RSP trustees were provided training on APT by Lynda over 2 days

2020 - RSP carried out a 1[st] APT project at The Somerville charity . We ran 2 workshops:

(1) Train the trainer workshop

A special, heartfelt thank you to Lynda Baxter, play expert, and founder and trustee of our partner charity HHfC for the numerous trainings and support she has provided to RSP over the years.

2021 - RSP started developing our 2[nd] APT project , engaging teacher and play worker, Kimmy Spreadborough , as the project facilitator.

HHfC carry out programmes that support rural communities in Uganda

Examples of chair and stools made using APT, with Lynda demonstrating the robustness of these products (above)

Lynda Baxter has also worked in other countries such as Moldova to introduce APT as a solution for supporting people with disabilities.

& training RSP members on APT (below)

Lynda training RSP trustees & RSP project partner, Kimmy, on APT

Kimmy receiving refresher training. She was initially trained during our first APT project.

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INCREASING AWARENESS & ENGAGEMENT

THE IMPORTANCE OF AND RIGHT TO PLAY

COLLABORATING WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

RSP engaging with Castellon City Council in Spain to initiate a long-term partnership that aims to position Castellón de la Plana as an excellent example of a ‘Child Friendly City’, and carry out collaborative projects that enable children to access their fundamental right to play.

Spain

Zambia In Zambia , building influence through our partner, On Call Africa (OCA) . OCA work closely with the Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) and are advocating for the inclusion of play in the community health unit and child health unit planning at MoH.

USING ART TO CREATE INTEREST & ENGAGEMENT

Kenya based artist, Niketa Fazal , has been creating art and supporting RSP to build awareness and engagement on children’s right to play with her amazing talent since we set up as a charity.

Kenya

Her paintings, which we have used in all our Annual Reports, help us communicate more clearly what is sometimes difficult to share in words!

In June 2021, Niketa conducted an exhibition in Nairobi, Kenya showcasing some of the work she has created for RSP

SIGN POSTING PLAY RESEARCH, RESOURCES, EVENTS, etc

Using RSP’s highly collaborative approach we shared high quality, credible play information, resources and research for the purpose of increasing awareness and wider engagement, and creating civil society impetus, to facilitate children’s right to play.

20 Signposts to other organisations’ PLAY research / resources / events / activities

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INCREASING AWARENESS & ENGAGEMENT

THE IMPORTANCE OF AND RIGHT TO PLAY

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Post Impressions

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PLAY

letthemplay

Children

are some of the most vulnerable people in the world and too many are being threatened and / or limited through inequality, and lack of rights and basic needs being met.

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PLAY IS CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE

PLAY IS A RIGHT

*UNCRC - United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

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MATTERS

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Research also indicates that play deprivation can negatively impact brain growth, through gradual loss of electrical activity in the brain which will stunt growth; and epigenetical studies show that the effects on one generation can echo through and affect later generations

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BUILDING ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Our Collaboration Strategy forms the backbone of our organisational strategy.These achievements are largely a result of our collaborative approach which sits at the heart of the way we work and a key RSP strength.

A GROWING MOVEMENT

Engagement Level of supporters: Engagement Level of supporters: Supporter numbers Supporter numbers Supporter numbers Supporter numbers
2021-22
Yr.4		 2020-21
Yr.3		 2019-20
Yr.2		 2018-19
Yr.1
1 Champions / advocatesof the work RSP does 7 6 6 3
2 Highly engaged supporterssupporting RSP’s work 14 14 13 11
3 Engaged supporterssharing their time / providing a
financial commitment to RSP		 34 35 40 15
4 Supporters who regularly engagebut do not provide
time / financial commitments to RSP		 26 16 12 15
5 Supporters with some level of engagement 110 67 56 68
6 Light touch supporters on social media 248 208 60
TOTAL Number of RSP Supporters 439 346 187 112

In Years 1-3 In Year 4 90% 57% of our supporters of our new supporters were from our were from the direct networks wider public

BUILDING A ROBUST ORGANISATION

SETTING A 3 YEAR STRATEGY:

This year, we took time to reflect and assimilate our learnings over the last four years and set a 3-year strategy for the upcoming period: 01 April 2022 - 31 March 2025 . We also developed new supporting strategies and honed existing ones.

These strategies steer RSP on a focused course, mitigate the risk of drifting off mission and help us work more effectively and efficiently to achieve the change we are seeking to make.

STRENGTHENING RSP

POLICIES - we set policies with care and consideration to provide clear guiding principles that drive behaviours and foster a culture that embodies our values

GOVERNANCE - continually learning and building trustee board capacity

FRAMEWORKS This year… 6 - our strategies are Policies supported by operational 10 frameworks that facilitate developed, including: decision making and help us Trustee Meetings Safeguarding Policy achieve our strategic goals GDPR Policy New! Risk Policy TEAM SESSIONS Risk Register - we had our first online group 11 People team session this year with our close volunteers, RSP Associates, participating in the team session who share their time freely with RSP

Participants’ feedback:

‘Really enjoyed this session thanks for a lovely Saturday morning - gathering together, seeing the cumulative impact that the work over the past year has had distilled and summarised (Loved the Mad About Art video!!) - very well facilitated/ explained - a collective understanding of where we're going / who we all are and what we have to contribute - I liked the blue sky thinking exercise…’

‘…wonderful. I really enjoyed the two-minute elevator pitch activity as it almost put me in a spot to really think about RSP from an overarching view and reflect on all of the amazing work that has been done so far’

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BUILDING ORGANISATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY

RSP 4 YEAR HISTORY:

Collaborated with 10 organisations

and continuing partnerships to date with

6

across 8 countries

Raised:

£30,580

Spent: £3,551

Year 1 11 regular donors

Now 27 regular donors

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PARTNERSHIPS

Guided by our Collaboration Strategy we have sought synergetic opportunities with other organisations and people which align with RSP’s vision, mission and aims, over the last four years.

This has enabled RSP to learn, grow and become the organisation it is today. Through this journey we have achieved more than we had imagined we could. We learnt that collaboration may take time but it is highly effective and cost efficient. This strategy also helped RSP build financial sustainability.

BUILDING FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

In the first four years, we set our strategy to build financial reserves as we build our organisational foundations. It was important for us to avoid mission drift or rush into projects and programmes without taking a considered approach, as we were in the process of building our organisation and formulating our strategy. We intentionally decided to focus on value for money solutions, and to grow our learnings. The 3-year strategy that we set this year assimilates our learnings to date and will involve expending resources on highly value adding activities in this next strategy period.

The kindness of our donors and the high level of committed giving we receive from regular donors means that we are now in a stronger position to plan more impactful programmes that enable more children across the world to access their fundamental right to play; as well as build long term organisational sustainability.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMMES

At RSP, we aim to develop sustainable programmes that do not become RSP dependent. The RSP way is to take a deeply considered approach when developing and designing programmes, with the objective of maximising the positive impact that can be made. Our working methods include: setting partership agreements, clearly defining programme objectives; planning outputs and desired outcomes within a project plan; agreeing timelines and areas of responsibility; and identifying and planning resource and training needs appropriately.

NEW!

RSP INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME - CREATING CHANGE MAKERS

We have developed the concept and vision of our Creating Change RSP will pilot this Makers Internship Programme paid internship - to help young people become real programme in Year 5 change makers through harnessing to test the long term their passion, and giving them a viability of such a space to share and develop their programme natural talents, build new skills, and use their voices.

Supporting young people Bringing youth voices to RSP Building RSP operational capacity “Play is the highest form of research” “Play is the answer to the question, ‘How does anything new come about?” “Whoever wants to understand much must play much” “Without play, life just doesn’t taste good”

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

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CONNECTING & COLLABORATING

Year 4 Objectives & Achievements

MEETING YEAR 4 OBJECTIVES

Objectives set in Year 4:

  1. Promote a learning exchange on right to play between partners, supporters and collaborators

  2. Work with our partners to develop evidence-based and accessible IEC resources on the benefits and right to play, and share them freely

  3. Facilitate skills sharing amongst partners on charity capacity building, operations and governance

  4. Launch RSP website - target not met last year

  5. Develop a three year strategy for RSP to implement in years 2022-2025 (RSP years 5-7)

This year our achievements surpassed the objectives set in most areas, as demonstrated through this report.

We met and exceeded our targets against objectives 1 and 3 in many ways. Our partnership with OCA facilitated the realisation of objective 2. Meeting objective 5 was a big achievement and greatly strengthened RSP. The launch of the website, objective 4, was carried forward from the previous year and still remains pending. We will continue working on the website design to align it with the new strategy.

Developing evidence based and accessible Learning exchange IEC resources on right to play Studies and literary Our 1[st] APT workshop in reviews on the value 2019 informed the design of play carried out by of our 2[nd] APT play project University of London this year (p.19). (UCL) Master’s students who delivered three OCA incorporated play dissertations, through in their new strategy our partnership with (p.12-13) and CRY OCA (p.17). started thinking about using play as an approach Objective 2 rather than a mere tool (p.12). MAD carried out workshops with children Skills sharing & and adults to build capacity building understanding on the right to play (p.14-15). Highlights: Supporting

right to play (p.14-15). Highlights: Supporting MAD with compliance Objective 1 and statutory reporting needs. Providing the MiChi project with 3 year strategy charity specific expertise. developed and Working with partners implemented to co-develop MEL frameworks and tools. Objective 5 Objective 3

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UK
Spain
India
Thailand
Uganda
Kenya
Countries where we
Zambia
have established
partners
Countries where we
are exploring
partnerships
South Africa
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3 OUR FUTURE

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In this strategy period (2022-2025)

In this 3-year strategy period (Apr22 - Mar25), we will …

Some ideas that emerged from our team session with our volunteers:

Nurture and
build
grassroots
models of
community
owned play
spaces		 Develop
a crowd
sourced
map of
playgrounds		 Create
resources for
parents to
help them
encourage
PLAY in all
forms		 Hold
governments
accountable
to their
commitment
to Article31 of
the UNCRC		 Build a
library of
resources
and
tools

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Guided by our learnings and Theory of Change we will continue to…
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Enable children’s right to PLAY
Improve & increase
play opportunities
and spaces
for children
Increase awareness Increase civil society
and engagement on capacity & impetus
the importance of and to facilitate children’s
right to PLAY right to play
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Year 5 Objectives (Apr22-Mar23)

  1. Create and implement, with active participation from RSP members, at least one play project with children to provide them with opportunities to exercise and learn about their right to play.

  2. Facilitate advocacy activities widely using the painted, narrative banner, that has been co-created with children in South Africa.

  3. Deliver a second Appropriate Paper Technology (APT) workshop with young people, based on our learnings from the 2019 pilot APT workshop we carried out, to provide them with a playful opportunity to learn, play with a new adaptable technology, and build new skills through the power of play.

  4. Introduce youth voices into RSP and develop and pilot an Internship Programme, Creating Changemakers, that supports young people and provides them with meaningful and relevant work experience, that also supports the aims of RSP

  5. Visit and promote innovative play initiatives carried out by grassroots organisations to build a movement and find synergies for crosscountry and cross-organisational skills sharing and collaborations

RSP SWOT ANALYSIS:

Strengths

Weaknesses

High level of professional charity specific experience and expertise amongst trustees Defined Theory of Change (ToC) Diverse impact RSP Collaboration Strategy Strong partnerships Robust Organisational Foundations Diverse income + Lack of Donor dependency

RSP capacity constraints High reliance on founders Lack of people / time resources to: Optimise our existing supporter base Communicate more widely Play with ideas more

Opportunities

Threats

Connect with more value aligned people & organisations

Miss opportunities / unable to maximise existing opportunities due to insufficient resources

Build synergies & facilitate collaborations

Insufficient resources to grow operational and management capacity

Create learning spaces to share information, knowledge, skills, resources and opportunities

Partnership discontinuation without sufficient resources & commitment from both sides

Work with local councils & government bodies to help them meet their commitment to Article31 - children’s right to play

Founder dependent organisation

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KEY LEARNINGS & CHALLENGES

KEY LEARNINGS TO DATE

KEY CHALLENGES

In recent years, the increased level of compliance and reporting requirements within the charity sector has contributed to increased resources needs within charities. The current climate has also led to a decline in personal wealth and added strain on people’s lives, which creates related volunteering challenges. Charities are no longer able to simply rely on people’s goodwill to create sustainable programmes.

How we are managing this: Taking the time to build strong organisational foundations, through developing clear strategies and frameworks, has greatly supported RSP. Strategies and frameworks initially take time to develop but they also enable quicker decision making and a flexible approach, which allows us to take on new opportunities, as well as move on quickly from things that don’t work.

High dependence on co-founders (also trustees) for delivery of charitable activities, communications and raising funds

The founders, who are also the trustees, continue to commit a high level of time resources to RSP. In proportionate terms, they commit about an equivalent time that half a full time staff member would, on a voluntary basis.

How we are managing this: The founders have committed to investing higher levels of personal time and resources to build the charity to a stable position, whilst finding innovative ways and dedicated people who are passionate about children’s right to play to the support the organisation.

Inability to explore new or optimise on all existing opportunities due to above challenges

How we are managing this: In addition to the other actions we are taking, we find ways to use our Collaboration Strategy to meet our different needs.

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ACCOUNTS

FINANCIAL REVIEW

RSP FINANCIAL POSITION AS AT 31.03.2022

Year 4 total income received by RSP was £8,305 (Year 3: £8,542) and total costs amounted to £2,345 (Year 3: £461), resulting in a net income of £5,960 (Year 3: £8,081).

This year marks the end of our 4[th] year and the beginning of our new 3-year strategy. In the first four years, we worked to build our foundations, focus on solutions that brought value for money, and grow our reserves and learnings. This year the expenditure increased and will continue to do so, in this next strategy period, as we begin investing in and carrying out more value adding activities.

The strong current position we are in, thanks to the kindness and support of our supporters, allows us to now take our learnings and programmes to the next level. Contributions by volunteers also continue to support RSP. These contributions are not represented in the accounts as they cannot be reliably measured on a financial basis; they are instead reflected in the disclosure notes to the accounts (p.44).

RSP Sources of funds:

Comparing income from different sources over the years 2018-2022:

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RSP Reserves Policy & Position

Reserves are held to be used in the future in furtherance of our stated purposes.

As at 31st March 2022, we hold a reserves balance of £27,050 (Year 2: £21,090). Our policy, for the first four years of operation, as we built our organisational foundations and strategy, was to build up our reserves and seek value for money solutions, during this critical learning period.

With the commencement of our 3-year strategy, we plan to expend higher levels of resources: in programmatic areas in proportion to value and impact of such programmes; and in operational areas to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the charity.

At RSP we have so far created minimal to no co-dependencies, as we do not employ staff and hire premises, and our project participants are not reliant on our existence. In this way, our minimal reserves requirements are negligible. However, the RSP way is to try and maximise the positive impact we are able to make through our activities, and to build long term organisational sustainability, and for this we will continue to maintain a level of reserves that can enable us to optimise opportunities, and plan ahead with confidence and assurance.

We will re-assess our minimum reserves requirement at the end of this strategy period, expected to end as at the end of March 2025.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (SOFA)

For the year ended 31 March 2022

Note 1: These costs include a grant of £1,650 to our partner charity, MADaboutART, for the collaborative play project we initiated this year (p.14-15). £500 of this remains payable as at the end of this reporting period and has been included as part of our creditors in Note 3. Governance costs of £47.75 that are related to travel and subsistence reimbursements related to trustee meetings are also included within here.

Four Year Summary: 2022 2021 2020 2019
Total Income 8,305 8,542 5,563 8,170
Total Expenditure -2,345 -481 -680 -45

Net Income		 5,960 8,081 **4,883 ** 8,125
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BALANCE SHEET

As at 31 March 2022

Note 2: Fixed Assets includes only IT equipment.: cost £1,499 less depreciation £300

Note 3: Creditors include (i) Grant payable of £500 (related to Note 1), (ii) Fixed assets accrual of £1,499, and (iii) Governance costs accrual of £15

Four Year Summary: 2022 2021 2020 2019
Total Available Charity Funds **27,050 ** **21,090 ** **13,009 ** 8,125
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DISCLOSURES TO ACCOUNTS

Disclosures to the Accounts:

1. Contributions by Volunteers

2. Accounting Policies

a) Statutory information

RockStone & Pebbles (RSP) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Further details are given in the ‘Reference & Administrative Details’ section (p.8-9).

b) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 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 2015) - (Charities SORP FRS 102), and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view.

c) Public beneft entity The charity is a public benefit entity. The ‘RSP Public Benefit Statement’ on p.9 demonstrates how RSP meets the definition of a public benefit entity.

d) Going concern The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

g) Grants payable

Grants payable are made to third parties in furtherance of the charity’s objects. Grants are accounted for when either the recipient has a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant and the Trustees have agreed to pay the grant without condition, or the recipient has a reasonable expectation that they will receive a grant and that any condition attaching to the grant is outside of the control of the charity.

h) Staff costs There have been no paid staff during this financial year.

i) Fund accounting

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund. There have been no restricted funds received or spent during this period.

Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received without conditions attached and can be used for any purposes related to the charitable purposes of RSP.

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. There have been no designated funds allocated during the period

j) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under: Costs of raising funds that relate to the costs incurred by the charity in inducing third parties to make voluntary contributions to it, as well as the cost of any activities with a fundraising purpose; and charitable activities costs which includes the running costs undertaken to further the purposes of the charity and direct costs of charitable activities undertaken. Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

k) Cash at bank and in hand Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition.

l) Tangible fxed assets

Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £500. Depreciation costs are allocated to activities on the basis of the use of the related assets in those activities and are calculated on a straight-line basis (over a 5 year period for IT equipment)

m) Debtors

e) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably.

f) Donations of gifts, services and facilities

In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), volunteer time is not recognised in the Financial Statements as the value cannot be reliably measured. Refer to Disclosure 1 above for information on volunteer contributions.

Debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due, there have been no debtors recognised during this period.

n) Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the future transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably.

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Trustees’ Statement of Responsibility

Building a movement…

The trustees of RockStone & Pebbles (RSP) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the Annual Accounts in accordance with applicable law - Charities SORP (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 – which give a true and fair view of the charity’s activities.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees must:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records and for safeguarding the assets of the charity by maintaining robust internal controls to mitigate the risk of fraud, error and other irregularities.

The trustees accept and carry out these responsibilities.

Approval of Trustees Annual Report

The Trustees’ Annual Report has been approved and signed by all trustees of the charity, RockStone & Pebbles, on 26 July 2022:

Juliette Liebi

Co-founder & trustee

Meera Patel

Co-founder & trustee

Anna Petruccelli

Joined as trustee in February 2020

…through creating engagement and impetus to facilitate children’s right to play

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Special Thanks & Acknowledgements

Celebrating the people and organisations that have supported and inspired us throughout our foundational period. As we launch our new 3-year strategy, we thank you for being part of our journey and inspiring us to become more than we imagined.

To our wonderful donors who provide RSP with the ability and stability to carry out our work.

To our inspiring partners for the work they do and their engagement to include play more centrally into their organisations & commitment to activities that enhance the aims of RSP.

To our dedicated RSP Associates who kindly volunteer their expertise / time freely to RSP.

To the other generous organisations and people who contribute time / expertise / services freely to RSP.

And to all those working to positively impact children’s lives through enabling their right to play

Thank you to these partners for their continued support & collaboration:

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MiChi
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Rajesh Patel

Thank you for value adding contributions to RSP in our first strategy period:

A special thank you to RSP Asssociates who shared their time freely with RSP in this year:

Cathy-Mae Karelse - team building support Dalia Abu Yassien - governance support - Daniel Thorndyke programme support Jemma Tarnas - programme support Michael Hill - support on communications Niketa Fazal - all paintings to date SarahThorndyke - proof reading Stacey Goodhew - gift aid administration Trishna Patel - strategy setting

Anam Patel, Astrid Weinmann, Beth Benedict, Jake Grout Smith, Janoah Augustyn, Louise Alexander, Malcolm Spence, Marian Navarro, Mary-Ann Ephgrave, Ramila Patel, Rita Lopez Garcia, Sanjay Jare, Segun Olowookere, Steve Eddy, Sue Wicks

A warm welcome to Stacey, who joined us in this reporting period !

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Niketa
Trishna
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All paintings created and sponsored by Niketa Fazal

How to support RSP:

Donate - small regular donations of £3-5/month especially make a difference in helping us build organisational sustainability and to plan ahead

Bank A/C: RockStone & Pebbles Sort Code: 23-05-80 Account Number: 29219257

Raise income for us without spending a penny! Register with EasyFundraising - select us as your preferred charity and carry on your online shopping as usual

Volunteer - share your unique talents and expertise with RSP.

Be a play champion - promote the benefits and right to play within your networks. Share useful information & resources

Connect us - with people & organisations who want to facilitate children’s right to play

Spread the word - that #playmatters and follow us on our social media pages.

The cost of this booklet has been sponsored by the trustees and not by the charity

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Trustees Annual Report & Financial Statements