**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From April 1[st] 2020 To March 31[st] 2021**
## **Charity name: PAPER REPUBLIC**
## **Charity registration number: 1182259**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the
purposes of the charity
as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|3. Objects
The objects of the CIO are restricted
specifically for the public benefit to
promote the art of Chinese literature in
English translation and to advance
education in such literature, in particular
but not exclusively by the provision of:
3.1 translated literature
3.2 information and educational resources;
3.3 advice, training and mentoring for
translators of Chinese literature into
English;
3.4 public events.
In this clause “Chinese literature” means
literature written in Chinese, irrespective of
the author’s country of origin or residence.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public benefit, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services
identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17
and 1.19|_Activities For Readers (relates to 3.1 and_
_3.2 above)_
• We produced our annual Roll Call of
Chinese fiction and poetry in translation,
2021.
• We revived and rejuvenated our fortnightly
Newsletter with news, reviews and events in
the world of Chinese authors and their
translators and publishers.
• We continued to work on the preparation of
the Paper Republic Guide to Contemporary
Chinese Literature, with a view to
publication in early 2022.
_For Translators (relates to 3.3)_
•
We ran a Sunday Sentence online
translation game, a practice exercise for
emerging translators.
•
We ran a translation slam event for
emerging translators in partnership with
Aberdeen University Confucius Institute.
•
We partnered with Translation Exchange at
Queen’s College Oxford and with the
Stephen Spender Trust to provide
translation materials for school children.|
|||_Public-facing events (relates to 3.4)_
We gave a variety of public talks online
introducing Chinese literature in
translation.|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees, in making decisions about the
activities of Paper Republic, have had due
regard to the commission’s public benefit
guidance when exercising any powers or
duties to which the guidance is relevant.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The management team at Paper Republic
work as volunteers. Additionally, we
recruited three volunteers to help with
editing the Paper Republic Guide to
Chinese Literature, and seven volunteers
who contributed author biographies for the
Guide.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference
|Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to society
as a whole.|Para 1.20|_Activities for Readers_
•
The Paper Republic Newsletter saw a new lease
of life this year and has become a regular round-
up of all events, news and reviews of Chinese
translated literature. It is available free on our
website, on social media, and now also via
subscription to anyone interested.**Benefits to the**
**wider public**: it presents an eclectic mix of
literary news, and has been praised by our
trustees as particularly interesting and well-
designed.
•
The Paper Republic Guide to Contemporary
Chinese Literature is a 320 page book consisting
of essays on aspects of Chinese fiction combined
with biographies of contemporary writers. UK-
resident writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo has
written an introduction. Editing and proof-reading
was completed during 2020-2021 and publication
(in print and in e-pub format) is planned for 2021-
2022.**Benefits to the wider public**: this guide
has been assembled by writers, translators and
experts in the field and provides a unique
overview for would-be readers of Chinese
literature in translation.
_For Translators_
•
We reported on our Read Paper Republic
Epidemic stories series in our Annual Report
2019-20. We also reported on our partnership
with Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing to
run the Give-it-a-go translation project (GIAG),
as a result of which a total of 124 emerging and
would-be literary translators from twenty
countries and five continents participated in four
lively online workshops run by the Paper
Republic team over one weekend. The resulting
collaborative translation, ‘Forty Days in
Quarantine: How a month in isolation brought
me closer to my parents’ became number five in
the Read Paper Republic: Epidemic series,
published for general readers on our website in
May 2020.**Benefits to literary translators:**
these workshops proved that online tutorials and
debates can work, even with large numbers of
participants, and can inspire those interested in
starting, or keen to improve the quality of their
literary translation from Chinese.
•
As a follow-up, we ran the**Sunday Sentence**
**online translation game,**in which we posted
on the PR website and social medias (Twitter &
Facebook) a sentence taken from a Chinese
literary work that poses particular challenges in
translation. Translators of all levels are invited
to contribute a translation in the comment
section and discuss the particular difficulties or
interesting elements of the translation process.
Ran weekly for eight weeks.**Benefits to**|
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**literary translators:** Regularly attracted between 15 and 45 enthusiastic participants and lively debates. • **Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators.** We contracted with the Queen’s College Translation Exchange to provide Chinese-language teaching materials for UK schools, and to administer and judge a translation competition in 2021. The agreement covers two broad areas: 1) producing translation-based language lessons for four successive grades of Chinese students, the first of which is already delivered; 2) setting up a translation competition for the four grades, and judging the entries. This project lasted through May of 2021, and the plan is to continue to develop our partnership through 2021 and 2022. **Benefits to translators:** this whole project has succeeded in introducing young languagelearners across a range of languages, including Chinese, to the enjoyment and importance of literary translation. • **Online Events with Aberdeen University and Confucius Institute:** we ran a translation slam – a collective online translation workshop run over one evening, with students of Chinese and presented a seminar on the short story form in Chinese literature. The success of the both events was such that we were booked to support them in running a complete translation summer school during the summer of 2021. In the words of the organizers: “Our experience of working with Paper Republic on this short seminar series was overwhelmingly positive. It was our first venture into online events and we were very pleasantly surprised by how popular and successful they were.” • **Public-facing events:** We ran our first zoominar with Julia Lovell to introduce her new translation of _Journey to the West_ for members of the public, and two members of the Paper Republic team gave a talk at a Warwickshire Women’s Institute.
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of
fundraising activities
against objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
**Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|In this period, the charity’s income was
TO BE ADDED|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held|Para 1.22|It is the policy of the charity to hold
sufficient reserves to protect the future
operations of the charity, to cover:
a period of low income while remedial
action is taken
an unexpected loss on a project
unforeseen expenditure items
any related costs should the trustees ever
seektomerge orwind up the charity.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1,000 minimum|
|Reasons for holding
zero reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially
in deficit|Para 1.24|none|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|none|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|Grants and donations|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the
principal risks facing the
charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||Constitution|
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|Type of governing
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)|Para
1.25|CIO|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para
1.25|Apart from the first charity trustees, every
trustee has been appointed for a term of
three years by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the charity
trustees.|
|Trustee selection
methods including
details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g. election to post or
name of any person or
body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees|Para
1.25|In selecting individuals for appointment as
charity trustees, the charity trustees have
had regard to the skills, knowledge and
experience needed for the effective
administration of the CIO.|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|This is a new charity. Before they were
appointed, all the trustees were informed of
the charity’s objectives, its planned
activities and its financial situation, and
were given the Charity Commission
guidance for trustees, as well as a copy of
the Paper Republic governing document.|
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|The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Paper Republic|
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|Other name the charity
uses||
|Registered charity
number|1182259|
Charity’s principal 25 Park Avenue, Chelmsford CM1 2AB address
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**|
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|Nicola Harman||||
|Emily Jones||||
|Eric Abrahamsen|Chair of Trustees|||
|Robina Pelham
Burn||||
|Wangzhen Ni||||
|Xinna Wang|Treasurer from
February 2021|||
– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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**whole year**||
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**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**mes and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**mes and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**mes and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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XINNA WANG|ERIC ABRAHAMSEN|
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TRUSTEE AND TREASURER|CHAIR OF TRUSTEES|
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Paper Republic 11
Receipts and payments acco
For the period Period start date
To
from 01/04/2020
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Voluntary receipts 1,340 1,000 -
Charitable activities 1,750 -
Bank interest - - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ 3,090 ] 1,000 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
etc
Total receipts 3,090 1,000 -
A3 Payments
Costs of charitable activities 1,063 - -
Costs of generating voluntary receipts - - -
Governance costs 624 - -
Bank interest and charges 29 - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
Sub total 1,716 - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 1,716 - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,374 1,000 -
A5 Transfers between funds -
A6 Cash funds last year end 4,585 - -
Cash funds this year end 5,959 1,000 -
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of
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Unrestricted
Categories Details funds
to nearest £
B1 Cash funds 5,959
-
-
Total cash funds 5,959
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK
Unrestricted
funds
Details to nearest £
-
B2 Other monetary assets
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
Details asset belongs
B3 Investment assets
Fund to which
Details asset belongs
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
Fund to which
Details liability relates
B5 Liabilities
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## **CC16a**
Period end date 31/04/2021
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Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
2,340 6,339
1,750 5,162
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- -
4,090 11,506
4,090 11,506
1,063 4,733
- 372
624 1,800
29 16
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- -
- -
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1,716 6,921
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1,716 6,921
2,374 4,585
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4,585 -
6,959 4,585
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funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
1,000 -
- -
- -
1,000 -
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funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
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- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
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Name
approval
Wang 16.01.2022
hamsen 16.01.2022
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