Legal & Administrative Information 2

Contents

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Chairperson’s Reports 3

Manager’s Reports 3

Trustees’ Annual Report 4

Statement of Financial Activities 10

Balance Sheet 11

Accounting Policies and Notes to the financial statements 12

Independent Examiner’s Report 17

Legal & Administrative Information

Trustees Caroline Jackson (Chairperson)

John Hammond (Vice Chair)

Lyndsey Beckett (Treasurer)

Chris Hart

Peter Hopwood

Helen Ashman

Angela Onek

Donna Hurford (resigned 16th June 2011)

Secretary Rebecca Marsden

Charity Registration No. 1107471

Company Registration No. 05143051

Registered Office 24a New St

Lancaster

Lancashire

LA1 1EG

Accountants Moore and Smalley LLP

Priory Close

St Mary’s Gate

Lancaster

Lancashire

LA1 1XB

Bankers Royal Bank of Scotland

2 New St

Lancaster

Lancashire

LA1 1EG

Solicitors Oglethorpe, Sturton & Gillibrand Solicitors

16 Castle Park

Lancaster

Lancashire

LA1 1YG

Chairperson’s Report

The past year, my first as Chair of Global Link, has been a fascinating and challenging time. The organisation has packed a great deal of development into its relatively short history and it has been my privilege to get to know staff, trustees and the development education world a good deal better over the last year. Donna, as she retired last year as Chair, assured me I would be privileged to work with the team here, and she was right. Those who are part of Global Link, whether staff, volunteers or trustees are wonderfully generous, talented and committed bunch and it is clear that this one small organisation contributes a huge amount to its local and wider community. The internal organisation of Global Link has been very professional and we have seen some significant areas tackled – including the Health and Safety audit and plan for the offices and the introduction of a new finance reports which gives us trustees more information.

The on-going work of Global Link has been marked by some fascinating, fun and cutting edge projects, from the malaria mosquitoes playing football in Larks in the Park to the wonderful monologues and visuals created for the Witches project with Stepping Stones Nigeria and installed in the Ashton Memorial. Much of this is achieved with the help of volunteers and of trustees so thanks go to everyone involved for making it all so successful.

Unfortunately the situation with grant funding has worsened and the year has been marked by a large number of applications with little success. Current funding is running down and the hours of work for members of staff are reducing. Trustees have been ably assisted to make decisions over how to allocate the little funding available but to maintain the running of the organisation has required the use of reserve funds. We look forward to next year with awareness that greater changes may be to come yet with a hope and belief that the spirit and commitment of all involved in Global Link will carry us through.

Caroline Jackson

Manager’s Report

Like for many organisations, this year has been challenging for Global Link. We have seen many of our partner organisations reduce their staff, or even close. With massive public sector funding cuts, including to the Development Awareness Fund, after March 2013 Global Link no longer has access to the funding that enabled us to grow from employing 2 part-time Resource Centre staff in the mid-1990s to employing 7 (mostly part-time) staff this year, with a national reach through our Escape to Safety exhibition .

While we have successfully been generating approximately a quarter of our own income through the sale of our educational services in the past few years, this year in response to the wider economic and environmental climate we have started to explore the possibility of developing a new social enterprise arm to our services. Thanks to local PIP Social Enterprise funding, we are conducting market research and developing a business plan that may enable us to develop a Woodland Management, tree planting and sustainable skills training social enterprise.

In terms of educational delivery we have continued to inspire young people and adults, and change practice. We were pleased to appoint Lenny St. Jean this year to help deliver the global youth work, though sadly this is only until July 2012. The DAF-funded project, raising awareness of the MDGs amongst youth workers and young people in the North West, has been particularly successful this year, both in terms of reaching its training and workshop targets, but also in supporting young people in moving from awareness about global poverty and inequality, to taking action for global justice. We have encouraged deeper thinking about global development through the CAFOD-funded ‘Understanding Development’ course, which prepares CAFOD volunteers for a development study trip in Brazil this summer. We have continued to inspire trainee teachers to include a global dimension to their teaching through our DFID-funded Initial Teacher Education project, which concluded in March 2012. In partnership with Stepping Stones Nigeria we also created a new multi-media exhibition ‘Witch Hunts: then and now’, which links the Pendle Witch trials and hangings in 1612 with the persecution of children in Southern Nigeria accused of witchcraft, and scapegoating of the ‘different’ and vulnerable in our own UK society in 2012.

We have applied for funding to continue our projects and services in the coming years and keep our fingers crossed that some of these will be successful!

Gisela Renolds

Trustee’s Report

Structure, Governance & Management

The charity is a company limited by guarantee and is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 2nd June 2004. The Trustees are also the directors for the purpose of company law, and selection is through election at the Annual General Meeting. Up to two trustees can also be co-opted by the Executive Committee. All Trustees retire at the following Annual General Meeting and may be re-elected. None of the Trustees have any beneficial interest in the company.

All of the Trustees are members of the company and guarantee to contribute £10 in the event of a winding up. The Trustees are responsible for the overall management of the organisation, for strategic development and policy agreement. Daily operational activities of the charity organisational are delegated to an internal manager who reports to the Trustees at regular intervals.

Staff

Gisela Renolds Centre Manager

Serena Mansfield Finance & Office Manager

Anthony Finnerty Global Education Worker

Joe Howson Global Youth Work and Escape to Safety Projects Co-ordinator

Lenny St-Jean Global Youth Worker (from September 2011)

Dan Tierney IT & Projects Support Worker

Scott Chandler Projects & Marketing Support Worker (from February 2012)

Nick Beddoe Cleaner

Volunteers

Lucy Bailey

Alex Broadway

Anna Clayton

Bernard Deeks

Karena Kyne

Tania Milnes

Joana Pais

Russell Patterson

Ruth Self

Richard Silman

We are also grateful for the support of the following people who have supported our activities:

Michelle Cooke (University of Cumbria Youth & Community Student Placement)

Arts & the Global Dimension Artists

Saburi Adebesin

Susan Aggarwal

Joseph Ayavoro

Michelle Ayavoro

Emmanuel Bajiiji

Kerris Cassey-St. Pierre

Akiel Chinelo

Ahmed El Hassan

Asif Iqubal

Chanje Kunda

Lucky Mayo

Pippa Pixley

Helen Renner

Adisa Saburi

Jo Ann Saltiga

Melusi Tshuma

Global Youth Work Project

Neil Adams

Tom Broadway

Robert Beardsworth

David Hall

Mary Hall

Bob Hirst

Gerard Howson

Mark Rotherham

Margaret Smith

Keith Smith

Harm-Jan Frike

Donna Worthington

Witch Hunts: Then and Now Exhibition

Lucy Bergman

Norma Colton

Gary Foxcroft

Hilli McManus

Shireshead Studios

Sophie Tindjong

Aims, Objectives and Activities

‘Creative Learning and Action for a Fair and Sustainable World’

Aims

Increased awareness of the global dimension and increased empowerment of people to make changes for a more fair and sustainable world.

The global dimension includes the 8 key concepts of global interdependence, values and perceptions, sustainable development, social justice, diversity, citizenship, human rights, and conflict resolution.

Objectives

1. Raise the local profile of global development, environment and social justice issues and perspectives.

2. Be a leading global education and community cohesion facilitator, providing creative, arts-based and participatory learning experiences, through training, workshops, resources and exhibitions.

3. Be a thriving social enterprise with diverse and sustainable sources of income.

4. Be a community facilitator, raising global awareness and supporting action for change.

In furtherance of these objectives, Global Link produces resources and delivers workshops, training and events in the formal and informal education sectors.

Activities

We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. These activities fit within the following descriptions of charitable purposes as set out in the Charities Act, for the benefit of the public:

· The advancement of education.

· The advancement of citizenship.

· The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution, and the promotion of racial harmony, equality and diversity.

· The advancement of environmental protection or improvement.

Raising Awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through Global Youth Work

This has been an exciting and challenging project engaging young people, youth workers, and teachers in global issues relating to the Millennium Development Goals. We have developed new participatory and innovative methodologies, including outdoor simulations about poverty and refugees, UN Summits and an urban street game related to the MDGs. We have adapted the simulations to a variety of contexts and learning environments. We have exceeded targets this year engaging with 1032 young people and teachers in these activities, whilst at the same time gathering vital evidence that these methodologies have increased the participants’ knowledge and understanding of global poverty and the MDGs in some way. 130 young people have also been entered for an accredited AQA award as a result of taking part in the global youth work activities.

This project is being delivered in partnership with Lancashire Global Education Centre (LGEC) in Preston who are training youth workers and trainee youth workers’ to be able to deliver global youth work. This year 23 trainee youth workers and 38 professional youth workers received global youth work training and support.

Southern Artists and the Global Dimension

This project is funded by the Arts Council to develop the capacity of artists with roots in the global south (i.e. Africa, Asia and Latin America) to work in schools and the wider community. We have provided training and employment opportunities in schools and local libraries, and have created an online global artist network of artists in the North West who deliver workshops incorporating aspects of the global dimension through their various art forms.

The main focus in year two was to promote and administer subsidies for schools in the North West, of which all 40 were allocated. Artists delivered workshops to over 1300 pupils and 48 teachers. In September 2011, we delivered an artists training day in Preston and commissioned illustrations for the promotional flyer. Artists also delivered an additional 13 sessions in Lancashire Libraries as part of Black History Month in October 2011, reaching 300 young people. In December 2011 we delivered a Storytelling INSET to teachers and distributed 4000 flyers to schools across the North West. We also produced four films of the artists in action, to promote them on the Global Artists Network website. The Arts Council agreed to extend the project and offer a further 20 subsidies to schools until July 2012

Escape to Safety & Community Cohesion

The Escape to Safety exhibition has been booked by seven venues this year across the UK and approximately 2500 people experienced the exhibition and/or community cohesion workshops. Demand for the Escape to Safety exhibition has been low this year. We received a number of enquiries about the Fortress Europe exhibition but no bookings were made. A survey of hirers revealed that the major reason for the low demand is cuts to departmental and organisational budgets. The exhibition requires considerable investment to maintain both the mechanical and visual dimensions of the resource.

We have delivered community cohesion and asylum days in schools. Exploring the way we see and understand the world, unpacking our sense of personal and national identity has fascinated staff and pupils alike with staff reporting that our workshops have changed their perception of themselves and the way they deliver diversity education. However, demand for diversity and community cohesion workshops has also dropped this year.

Philosophy for Communities (P4C)

The methodology of philosophical enquiry as a tool for improving communication and helping disparate groups find areas of engagement has been used with three highly contrasting groups with the aim of promoting community cohesion. During the year that the project has run six different groups have had various levels of involvement. At the close of the project there are three: a group of young Polish people (average age 14), a group of people over the age of 55 and a small group of Sixth form students. Numerous issues and ideas have been explored but the culminating event was designed around “My Morecambe/My Lancaster”. Together the participants reflected on their community and their place within it.

Trucking with Climate Change (TWCC) & Sustainability Education

Arnside Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty funded the exhibition, allowing Global Link to take TWCC to primary schools in Silverdale, Warton, Arnside and Yealand and run workshops alongside the exhibition. Although there were difficulties with some of the bookings and the locations, the project was successfully carried out and about 300 children and many parents were able to increase their knowledge of the causes and effects of climate change and look at ways of more sustainable living.

Teachers and Teaching Assistants from all four schools also went through the exhibition and were themselves instrumental in getting the children to connect our behaviour and issues of environmental pollution and of climate change. The exhibition is near the end of its useful life and the most cost effective and environmentally sound way of decommissioning it will be sought.