RE-ALLIANCE ANNUAL REPORT: APRIL 2020 - SEPTEMBER 2021 WWW.RE-ALLIANCE.ORG CONTACT@RE-ALLIANCE.ORG ## **Re-Alliance: Key Information** Charity Number 1188936 List of Trustees Ruth Andrade (Chair), Gisele Henriques, Georgina McAllister, Peter Mellett (Treasurer) Registered Address Shawfield; Laughton; Lewes BN8 6BY; United Kingdom Report approved This report was approved on 30/06/22 by Members and Directors and signed on their behalf by Ruth Andrade: Ruth Andrade ## **Structure, governance and management** This is the first annual report for the Charitable Incorporated Organisation Re-Alliance, which registered with the Charity Commission on 6th April 2020. Our governing document was adopted on 30.09.19 and is a Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Since establishment, Re-Alliance has had a small but stable governance of four directors (listed previously) supported by four free-lance staff members who work on a part-time basis. Re-Alliance initially formed as an informal network of humanitarian and development practitioners united by a focus on regenerative practices. Invitations were made within the network for directors and four individuals with a broad range of experience stepped up to fill the roles and were formally appointed on 30th September 2019 in accordance with section 13 of our constitution. Our directors come from employment backgrounds of academia, education, regenerative business and large INGOs and some have voluntary experience in charity governance and development. Our directors invested and demonstrated their skills during the establishment and growth of the organisation including initial meetings, fundraising and pursuit of charity status and recruitment of free-lance staff. While the directors oversee the strategic direction of Re-Alliance, day-to-day responsibilities are delegated to our Co-ordinator and three Operations Managers, who we refer to as the ‘core team’. Financial administration is managed by the core team with all revenue and expenditure inspected and approved quarterly at directors’ meetings. Our treasurer has banking access and inspects bank statements as they are made available. With the exception of one member of staff, the core team and directors have been involved with the organisation since its inception, are deeply motivated to pursue its aims and have overseen the establishment and approval of its constitution, policies and practices, ensuring that there is a thorough shared understanding of its governance and purposes. _Right: Re-Alliance member organisation, JiwNit, at Kamyaak Village in Senegal. Building Treebogs_ ## **Financial review** At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £17,620 These break down as: Unrestricted: £6,648, Restricted: £10,972 At the close of the financial year, Re-Alliance maintained free unrestricted reserves of £6,648, equivalent to 4 months’ running costs. Re-Alliance holds these reserves: to provide a level of working capital that protects the continuity of our core work to provide a level of funding for unexpected opportunities to provide cover for risks such as unforeseen expenditure or unanticipated loss of income. The board of directors will review the above criteria with reference to Re-Alliance’s strategy and Annual Plan and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these. The board of directors may at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets. ## **Public Benefit, Objectives And Activities** Our directors consider that they have complied with the duty (set out in Section 17(3) of the Charities Act 2011) to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Commission. In exercising their powers and duties as directors, the Board considers that the organisation’s strategies, aims and activities they have put in place are for the public benefit and this is fundamental to all areas of our operation in undertaking current activities, planning future activities and measuring outcomes. Our organisational purpose is to advance the education of the public in general (and particularly amongst humanitarian and development professionals) on the subject of regenerative development and to promote research for the public benefit in all aspects of that subject and to publish the useful results. We do this by providing educational services, acting as an umbrella or resource body, providing training, conducting research and through supplementary education. ## **Key Purposes and Aims for the year** **Create and facilitate spaces of mutual learning and support for regenerative practitioners (And those transitioning to regenerative process and practices)** **Build a body of evidence and stories to communicate the effectiveness, authenticity and value of regenerative work** **Leverage support from larger organisations to help deliver regenerative development education and research** ## **Achievements and Performance** The major organisational activities, achievements and performance for 2020-21 follow. All activities were undertaken to further the organisation's charitable purposes for public benefit. **MEMBERSHIP** helps us to increase education, gather evidence, disseminate research, support network development and engage members in the work of the charity. Our global membership grew to 105 individuals working in the development and humanitarian sectors, education and policy, all with experience implementing regenerative principals in their work. We continued to run bimonthly members’ meetings to facilitate peer-to-peer learning for regenerative practitioners working throughout the world. We started an ongoing contract to facilitate learning circles for an aligned organisation, sharing knowledge between practitioners implementing regenerative projects. **PUBLISHING** learning materials, all freely available on our website, has built a body of evidence and stories to communicate the effectiveness, authenticity and value of regenerative work. Case studies were produced on the following topics: Can Permaculture Play a Positive Role in International Development? Regenerating Soil, Land and Food Systems in Kenya Nepal's First Strawbale House Integrating Compost Toilets, Tree Planting & Soil Building in Rural Senegal Home Garden Competitions in Domiz Refugee Camp Kitchen Gardens, Composting and Organic Farming in a Ugandan Refugee Settlement Building Community Preparedness through Puppetry Alam Santi's Water Harvesting Design _Building Nepal's first strawbale house._ **COLLABORATION** with students from LSE led to the production of a report titled “Regenerative Approaches Explained: Introducing MET – an Evidence-Based Toolkit for Regenerative Programmes”. Created by five LSE graduate students and Re-Alliance, the aim of the report was to understand regeneration, and highlight some beneficial characteristics when applied within the disaster relief field. The purpose of the report was to produce an evidence-based toolkit that can easily adapt to the flexibility of regenerative approaches. **RESEARCH** was conducted into the adoption of regenerative practices in refugee and IDP camps and settlements. The research identified key gaps in guidelines and literature where further research and educational materials are needed, informing the focus of our activities in the future. **ONLINE LEARNING** was facilitated through bimonthly webinars open to all via free registration on our website. Topics included _‘Refugee Led Permaculture Education’_ , _‘What is agroecology’_ and _‘Designing for Resilience and Regeneration’._ Webinars were recording and uploaded to our website to increase their reach. Short videos introducing the theme of regenerative development were also produced and posted on our website and Youtube channel. _Left: Illustration from the LSE/Re-Alliance report_ ## **Grant Funded Projects** The **Radio & Non-digital Communications** project promoted regenerative food growing practices in refugee camps, piloting the use of radio and non-digital forms of communication to promote permaculture and food growing in the Philippines and Kenya. In Kenya, we worked with partners at Kajulu Hills Ecovillages, to design and trial a radio programme, broadcasting 8 episodes of a soap using local actors. The soap told stories of the benefits of growing food with a permaculture approach, advertised a demonstration site in the camp and invited listeners to join an established indigenous seed sharing programme. With Green ReLeaf in the Philippines we worked towards creating a game with emergency food growing information which could be shared with people in remote, disaster-prone locations. A webinar and workshop series **‘Regenerative Practices’** was produced for staff training at a large international aid agency. The series focused on the themes of: The Principles of Regenerative Response; Regenerative Design; Patterns and Tools for Settlements; Permaculture, Home and Community Gardens and Harvesting; Recycling Water for Food Growing and Integrative Approaches. The webinars were well received by staff and led to a further programme managing the teaching of regenerative design practices for creating home, school and community gardens in Syrian IDP camps. The **Re-Alliance film competition** advanced the awareness of regenerative approaches. The project seed-funded the production of 12 short films showcasing inspirational examples of regeneration from eight different countries. These powerful stories of community-based approaches spread messages of hope around the world. It also acted to build the evidence of the effectiveness of regenerative practices. re-alliance.org facebook.com/reallianceorg twitter.com/Re_Alliance_org instagram.com/re_alliance contact@re-alliance.org -] CHARITY COMMISSION: Independent examinerfs FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts Section A Independent EXamin￿S Report Report ¢0 the trusteesl m•mb•rs ol ,' Re- Alliance On accounts for the year •nd•d Ch*rTty no 30 £eptefftbe/ 2ou ￿ lrfanyl 118 593 I rw tr> the tru$to8$ ￿ my oltr* of th? ch•rity I￿* Trusl") lry lh• ￿ar •rthd R•sponsiblliil•s arrfl A$ tho dwnty trusloes ol lh• Tru*. Y￿ ￿ respJ)*bbè for tl* prnparnl •1* af rnport ol tr+è #co)unts ffi •(X*n1￿ce th• of th• Cmnlws A 2011 (the A¢ri l rnport fft r•ip•cl ot my ex￿In•l￿ of Trusyl •et￿nIS r4brTi•d uThJer sectym 145 ol tr*e 2011 Act and in Ca￿￿Thj ¢￿t my e￿nIna1￿. 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