Trustee report - Daniel Phelan Trust year ending 31[st] December 2023
Registration
The Daniel Phelan Trust was registered as a charity on 1[st] June 2021
Trustee details
Chair: Cathy Phelan
3 Rectory Grove, London SW4 0DX
Treasurer: Matthew Nolan
6, Sassoon Walk, Marlborough SN8 1UQ
Delroy Corinaldi
81, Thurlstone Road, London SE27 0PE
New Trustee -Matthew Riviere
Apartment 704, Pheonix Heights,
4 Mastmaker Road, London E14 9AJ
Aims
The Daniel Phelan Trust was set up in memory of Daniel Phelan. Specifically, to promote good journalistic practice and to create pathways to encourage young people to consider a career in journalism.
Public benefit
The trust is mindful of the lack of diversity in the journalistic profession – currently 86% of professional journalists come from white ethnic groups. We are also mindful of the importance of speaking truth to power in any healthy democracy. We aim to encourage young people from unrepresented communities to find a voice and to consider a career in journalism.
Meetings
Board meetings were held on 7.3.23 and 1.8.23
A discussion meeting was held with members of the Civil Society Media team on 26.7.23 to review the proposed internship programme.
Activities
Writing competition – this project was undertaken as planned with all entries received by January 31[st] 2023 and the judging process completed prior to the Easter period.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
First prize year 8-10 Chloe Veylon, Alleyn’s School (£500)
First Prize year 11-12 Zakir Kabir, Dulwich College (£500)
Runner up Nzilani Hayes, Elmgreen School (£250)
The winning pupils were awarded with a John Lewis voucher and a framed certificate. Each school was match funded in respect of the individual prize won.
Learning and development – despite repeated attempts via email and ‘phone to encourage a wide variety of schools to enter the competition, take up in the state school sector was poor. Whilst efforts to improve our communications and understanding of educational processes must be undertaken, it was felt that the overwhelming factor in the low take up was the crisis situation in the state sector at the current time. Staff shortages and pressures in every dimension following Covid have surely been a factor. It is also nigh on impossible to introduce extracurricular items to an already stressed timetable given the pressure of Ofsted inspections etc.
Going forward, we are intending to continue the competition in partnership with charities and organisations who have a direct connection with the required constituency of applicants as opposed to an open entry model.
It was also thought that the designing of a teaching module to introduce some of the key principles of journalism would be helpful.
Internship programme
Much work has been undertaken to design a short but effective introduction to content making in the publishing sector. The programme will be undertaken at Civil Society Media in Clapham, South London and will comprise of a 5-week involvement of paid work - 2 days per week. Each intern will undertake a series of tasks in each content making department including: news, event programming and marketing. It is thought that employing two interns simultaneously would be beneficial all round.
Partnerships
In line with thinking around the writing competition entry process, we are intending to pilot the internship scheme through another suitable organisation. We are currently in talks with Journo Recourses with this in mind.
Website update
All activities have been updated on our website.
Sponsorship
The trust has provided a premium sponsorship for membership of Journo Recourses for one year costing £600.00
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1/1/2023 | To | 12/31/2023 | ||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
| A1 Receipts Catharine Watkins annual donation 5,000 Civil SocietyMedia annual donation 5,000 - - - - - 10,000 - - Sub total - Total receipts 10,000 A3 Payments Journo resources sponsorship 600 Writingcompetitionjudging 688 Voucherprizes 1,034 Competitionprizes 1,250 Internshipresrach 825 Sub total 4,397 - - Sub total - Total payments 4,397 Net of receipts/(payments) 5,603 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 13,251 Cash funds this year end 18,854 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 5,000 5,000 - - - - - - 10,000 - - - 10,000 600 688 1,034 1,250 825 - - - - 4,397 - - - 4,397 5,603 - 13,251 18,854 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use |
Details Balance at 31st December 2021 Details Details Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ 18,854 - - 18,854 OK to nearest £ - - - - - - Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates |
to nearest £ - - - - OK to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds Restricted funds Amount due (optional) |
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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