Shared Area
ANNUAL REPORT
2021
Annual report
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## **CONTENTS** 

|**CONTENTS**|||
|---|---|---|
|Charitable Purpose / Aims of Shared Area:|3||
|Objectives||5|
|Over the Last year:||7|
|Financial Summary||7|







## **SHARED AREA** 

## **Report from the trustees for the reporting year 5[th] April 2021** 

The trustees of Shared Area’s annual report and accounts for the reporting year 2021 . This report complies with the Charities Act 2011. 

## **Charitable Purpose / Aims of Shared Area:** 

The charitable purpose and aim of Shared Area is to provide free education to everyone. We believe that everybody should have access to education regardless of their background, location, or circumstances. We also believe that everybody learns differently. Our aim is to provide content that is accurate, correct, safe and in multiple formats, by working with educators and companies: 

For many years, if you needed to learn, you would go to a library to search for books. Now if you need to learn you turn to search engines. The result is often merely time spent searching through useless content or paid for content. 

“To advance the education of the public, in particular but not exclusively, in uk government key-stage subjects and curriculums, by the provision of structured educational media and learning resources.” 





## **We are building the library of the future!** 

Every lesson, 

on any subject, 

available forever, in any learning style, completely free, 

for anyone to use. Verified as correct! Verified as safe! 

## _**Working With Educators**_ 

_**There are 8.7 million school children in England**_ 


- 4.7 million primary 

- 3.3 million secondary 

- 580,000 independent 

- 130,000 special needs 

## _**There are 450,000 school teachers in England**_ 


- 250,000 primary 

- 200,00 secondary 

_**If each Secondary School Teacher Uploads 1 video and 1 question then this would be over 200,000 Videos and 200,000 Test Questions**_ 






## _**Working With Industry**_ 

If every company uploaded their job descriptions and vacancies: 

We could shape the career choices for not only millions of school children, but also millions of adults looking to re-skill. 

As a nation, and maybe internationally, we would be able to: 



- See all the employment areas that need qualified staff 

- Focus on creating learning resources for these areas to train new people for these jobs 

## **Objectives** 

Our overall objective is to have freely accessible learning and testing content for all subjects at all levels. 


**Our first objective** is Safeguarding. 

## **Safeguarding Content** 






## **Safe For Schools** 

Content needs to be: True, Non-offensive, Relevant for the level of study. To ensure this, teachers will check each other's content and verify all of the above before they are released onto the SFS.SharedArea.org website. This guarantees that content is always **S** afe **F** or **S** chools ( **SFS** ) 






**Our second objective** is to focus the majority of initial effort into covering GCSE Subjects. 

## _**The average learner will sit around 10 GCSEs. This equals around 400 learning requirements (things that can be tested or observed)**_ 

If each teacher spent just one day making and recording one lesson on their specialist subject area, for each of those 400 learning requirements, there would be on average 500 videos/test questions for learners to use. But how to choose from this many videos: 


**Our Third objective** is to focus on how to help people find content that is right for them. 

Using Tags we can categorise the videos to ensure learners find the right learning style for them: 

Example Tags: 

**Fun, exciting, happy, text, talking, animation, pictures, Reading, Watching, Listening, Demonstrations, Through-music, Animations, Worked examples, Conversations, Language, Dialects, Infographics, Metaphors** 

And many more ways to categories learning.. 

_**With 5.4 million secondary school children who can help to tag lessons: That is a lot of help to find the right lessons!**_ 





## **Over the Last year:** 

Over the last year Shared Area has not fund raised and has continued to focus on how to deliver content. It was the intention to launch fund raising and Shared Area as a whole during 2020. Unfortunately this was not possible due to pandemic related illness and caring commitments of all three trustees. We are looking forward to launch in 2022 

## **Financial Summary** 

As Shared area has not begun any fund raising, spent any funds or taken any debts or property, Share Area is currently holding £0 in funds or assets. 

**Shared Area will always ensure compliance and regard to the Charity Commission’s Public Benefit Guidance when exercising its provision of it’s charitable purpose** 

**Please visit www.sharedarea.org for more information.**