The Peace Building CIO
Annual Report 2021-2022
Registered as a charity in September 2019, the ability for The Peace Building to gain momentum as a physical building was put on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns. Instead, a virtual Peace Building website was developed and is very much the place for our museum at this current time. This went live on 27 January 2021, World Holocaust Day.
In 2021 and for much of 2022, The Peace Building has been connecting with local community organisations and venues across East London. This has been done with three objects in mind:
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To seek to run exhibitions in local venues
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To develop initiatives that enable people to reflect on peace
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Identify potential venues where The Peace Building could be located
Due to the aftermath of Covid-19 the ability to gain momentum with each of these objects has faced challenges. Our wish to run exhibitions, currently, this is being done via our virtual website, while we seek suitable venues for real-life ones. Online exhibitions include Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Women in the Northern Ireland Peace Process and ‘Brave Ukraine’.
In 2021 several funding applications were made with the hope to be able to run post lockdown “Breathing Space” sessions with teenagers to reflect on peace. The emphasis was to encourage inner peace and relational peace, which are key attributes in contributing to community peace and world peace. Funding applications were made to: the Tower Hamlets Council Small Grants Fund (East End Community Foundation), Westfield Stratford Creative Futures Fund, the Linder Foundation and the Inlight Trust. Unfortunately these were unsuccessful, which was not surprising as charities have been in great need of funding to help them survive the loss of income caused by two years of lockdowns. Research for future grant-making trusts has taken place and applications will be made to seek funding for peace exhibitions that we agree to run with community partners within East London. This is the next phase of development for The Peace Building.
In the spring of 2022, we were able to set in motion a peace project through a MA in Peace and Conflict student placement, for the production of a peace building resource that can be used by schools and community organisations to creatively explore what it looks like to build peace together in our local communities. It involves people exploring what peace means to them and those around them.
During 2021/2022, we spent time getting to know Kingsley Hall in Bromley by Bow – a community centre with a significant history of peace building and potentially the first peace museum in London. However, although it was enthusiastically agreed that it will be a venue for peace exhibitions and events,
the trustees of Kingsley Hall did not feel in a position to take on the work of creating permanent peace exhibitions.
We made several efforts to engage with partners to bring the Knife Angel sculpture to London, but again…the lockdowns worked against this and we decided to put this idea on the back burner for now. We were unable to get support from the Mayor for London or the Metropolitan Police at this time… knife crime is a very ‘hot topic’ for them.
We continued to produce termly newsletters for our supporters and were pleased to receive donations through our Enthuse/Stripe set up on our website, and have claimed and received Gift Aid for these.
Our Peaceful Schools work continued with a couple of new award winners agreed during the year, even though schools were closed for most of the time. We produced a new free- to-download resource: Exploring Spirituality in Primary Schools by David Holmes. Statistics from our Peaceful Schools and The Peace Building websites are positive with over one thousand users of the Peace Building website, since it went live.
Plans for 2022/2023
On top of the social and economic impact of the pandemic we now have the war in Europe and the cost of living crisis. These could not be more challenging times for a new peace building charity! While digital exhibitions and podcasts are a good way forward we still want to learn how to put on successful inperson exhibitions. These are expensive but well worth having a go at. Our first one will be an exhibition about Sylvia Pankurst and her peace work in the East End and how this related to peace building now.
Thanks must go to
Our Patrons, Ambassadors and Trustees Alison Glasspool - Development Director (freelance) Alice Chesterman - Engagement and Learning Programmes consultant in 2022 Rich Tidmarsh - our website host Keith Henderson - our bookkeeper Jessica Ihejetoh - Oxford House, Bethnal Green Sharon Macbeth – Kingsley Hall Mandy Harilal - Bromley by Bow Centre (BBBC)
Anna Lubelska with Alison Glasspool, October 2022
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