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The Baring Foundation

Report on Activities

2005


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The Baring FoundationCouncil of Management and Staff

Council of Management

Tessa Baring C.B.E. (Chair)

Mark Baring

Geoffrey Barnett O.B.E. (Treasurer)

Ann Buchanan

Nicholas Deakin C.B.E. (From July 2005)

Martin Findlay (Vice Chair)

Amanda Jordan O.B.E.Janet Lewis-Jones

Jim Peers

Ranjit Sondhi C.B.E.

Christopher Steane

Myles Wickstead C.B.E. (From March 2006)

Staff

Director: David Cutler

Assistant Director: Matthew Smerdon

Finance and IT Officer: Barbara Allerhand

Administration Officer: Zo Kaye (Until June 2005)

Administration Officer: Terry Skelhorn

Administration Officer: Valerie Cadoret (from July 2005)

Visiting Fellow: Marketa Dolezel

Advisers

Policy Voluntary sector International Arts

Julia Unwin O.B.E. Nikki Eastwood Dr John Twigg Phyllida Shaw

Hannah Reynolds Dr Christine Wallace

Claire Walters

Address


60 London Wall

London EC2M 5TQ

Telephone: 020 7767 1348

Fax: 020 7767 7121

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.baringfoundation.org.uk

Registered charity 258583


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Contents

Purpose and Values 3

Chairmans Statement 4

Directors Report 6

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programme 8

Core costs grants 10

Project grants 11

International Programme 14

Arts Programme 17

Core cost grants 18

Special Initiatives 20

Museums and Volunteers Action Research 20

Parents with Learning Difficulties and their Children 20

Publications and Events 21

Villiers Park Educational Trust 22

Appendix 1 23

Appendix 2 23

Financial Summary 31

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Ourgrant of

16,690 is helpingPhotoVoice produce anddisseminate a manual to

teach organisations how tocarry out participatoryphotography projects

with vulnerablepeople.

The Baring Foundation's support has been

invaluable to PhotoVoice over the last year. It has

enabled us to not only increase our capacity to

deliver more participatory photography projects

but also to promote and share good practice.

Tiffany Fairey, Co-Founder/Director of Operations.


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Purpose and Values


Our Purpose

is to improve the quality of life of people suffering disadvantage and discrimination.We aim to achieve this through making grants to strengthen voluntary sector organisationswhich serve them directly or indirectly and by the added value we bring to this.

Our Values

We:

Believe in the fundamental value to society of an independentand effective voluntary sector;

Use our funds to strengthen voluntary sector organisations,responding flexibly, creatively and pragmatically to their needsand with a determination to achieve value for money;

Put high value on learning from organisations and theirbeneficiaries. We seek to add value to our grants by encouragingthe communication of knowledge through a variety of means,including influencing others;

Seek to build positive, purposeful relationships with grantrecipients, as well as with other grant makers;

Aim to treat grant-seekers and recipients with courtesy and

respect; being as accessible as possible within clear programmeguidelines and maintaining consistently high standards ofadministrative efficiency.

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Chairmans Statement

During the year covered by this report of our activities there has been unprecedentedinterest in the wider charitable sector about grant giving trusts and foundations, their roleand their effectiveness. The main thrust has been to remind us that we are uniquelyindependent, and can do what we like with our money within the legal boundaries. It hasbeen suggested that because our funds only account for about 10% of the income of thevoluntary sector as a whole, we should be using them carefully and strategically formaximum impact. There has also been criticism about the lack of collaboration betweengrant givers, meaning that we do not reach our potential to bring about change in society,

and about the traditional model of responsiveness to demand. Although there is nothingvery new to us in any of this, the debate is welcome and invigorating. It provides usefulbackground to measure ourselves against; provokes us to question what we have decidedindependently to do, and judge for ourselves if the original reasoning still stands up.

During 2005 we continued to run our same three main grant giving programmes:Strengthening the Voluntary Sector, the Arts and International Development, and a fullaccount of how our funding was spread in these areas is given in the report that follows.We have also retained our Statement of Purpose and Values which is set out on theprevious page; and it has been a pleasant surprise to have found it of genuine practical usein helping us come to decisions about what we want to do in the future, and also increating for us a greater feeling of cohesion between the different strands of our work.

New Focus

Because the number of charities we can help is very limited, we are trying to increase theeffect of our funding by analysing and learning from what we do, and sharing the lessons.This is more successful when there is some common ground between our grants. Partly forthis reason, but also to keep the failure rate of applications within acceptable limits, wehave decided from next year to focus our Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programmemore sharply. It will still be helping charities that serve the needs of disadvantaged peopleto strengthen their organisations, but it will have an extra, narrower focus. This willconfine our funding to those organisational developments that will help charities,including those funded by statutory agencies, to retain their independence fromgovernment both in respect of the services they provide, and in their role of campaigning

for change where necessary.

Relationship between the Voluntary Sector and Government

This decision is based on our fundamental belief in the importance of a strong,independent voluntary sector, which is able to pursue its own purposes on behalf of thepeople it serves. Government funding to the sector has grown again this year, and itsstated intention is to hand over the delivery of more public services to the voluntary sectorin the future, as indeed is that of the Opposition. While this is welcome in that it meanscharities can do more of what they do well, some are finding that it has created pressureon their ability to retain their culture and values, as well as their primary focus on usersneeds. This is particularly the case for those who are coping with crippling accountabilityregimes, unreliable contracts, and continually changing Government priorities.

While the Compact has made a very important start in clarifying the relationship betweenGovernment and the charity sector, there is a long way to go in improving relations. Full

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cost recovery is still a mirage, and many charities working in partnership with localauthorities continue to find themselves subsidising public services from voluntary funds.The creation of the role of Compact Commissioner is a welcome step forward. An evenmore important step would be more charities themselves developing the confidence to usethe Compact more often and being able to negotiate more robustly with statutoryagencies, and challenge them where necessary. We hope that our new programme willcontribute to progress in this area; not just for the individual charities that we decide tofund, but also for the wider sector. This we will try to do by engaging more closely withthe charities we fund, bringing them together to exchange ideas and pulling out strategiesfor making the most of relationships with government in all its guises, mitigating some ofthe most destructive practices, avoiding common pitfalls, and reassuring charities that theycan still speak out on behalf of their users where necessary.

Relationship with ING

Once again we continued to enjoy the use of free space within the City of London offices

of ING Bank, and to draw on the bank for administrative support in a number ofdifferent ways. We are very conscious of these benefits, which enhance our ability to addvalue to our grants to charities, and our grateful thanks go to John Howland Jackson,CEO UK and Ireland for his personal interest and to all other members of the bank staffwho helped us during the year.

We have also taken great pleasure in our involvement as co-funders with two ING projectsthis year. Community Cantata composed by Jonathan Dove and performed inChristchurch, Spitalfields, and Invisible City which involved girls from the Hackneyschool Haggerston Girls, with artists and volunteers from ING who visited iconic Citybuildings, and created art for a selling exhibition at ING and for their GCSE exams.

Governance

This year we sadly said goodbye to Anthony Loehnis, a long-serving Trustee, who hascontributed greatly to our work, particularly latterly in his role as Chairman of theInvestment Committee. We are very grateful to him for all he has done for the Foundationover the years.

Having undertaken a skills audit of our Council of Management to identify those areas ofexpertise which we needed to strengthen, we successfully recruited two new Trustees whohave already made their mark on our thinking and our practices. Geoffrey Barnett, whohas wide experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors, with a main focus onfinance, has become our first Honorary Treasurer, and has joined our International GrantsCommittee. Nicholas Deakin, former civil servant, Professor of Social Policy, and Chair of

the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector, has joined our Strengthening theVoluntary Sector Grants Committee.

A good move has been to transfer all our main grant giving into the committees this yearwhich has freed up our time at Council meetings to have more in-depth, strategicdiscussions from which I think we have benefited greatly.

It has been a busy and interesting year. My heartfelt thanks go to David Cutler, ourDirector, for his great support and hard work; also to our small group of staff withoutwhom nothing would happen, our advisers for their wise counsel, and all the Trustees, fortheir unfailing commitment and their enthusiasm.

Tessa BaringMarch 2006

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Directors Report

2005 was a year of consolidation for the Foundation. Armed with the values expressed atthe front of this Report, Trustees and staff have considered how we can achieve more inthe field we have been ploughing for almost a decade support for the voluntary sectorby improving its effectiveness and so empowering disadvantaged people and communities.

Much thought has been given as to how we streamline our three main grant programmes:Strengthening the Voluntary Sector (STVS), the Arts and International Development.Next year these programmes will have more features in common:

Application through an open access procedure, a light touch first stage followed bygrants given once a year at a second stage;

Greater focus and clarity on a theme;

Larger, longer and hence fewer, grants;

More concentration on how we can add value to our grant making, especially throughlearning and dissemination.

For the last two years in the Report on Activities I have talked about adding value to ourgrant making. It is a phrase capable of many definitions, so here are a few examples of

what we have done this year:

Networking:all groups which we have given a large grant to are invited at least twice a year forseminars on issues of general interest and there are also a number of more specificmeetings through the year;

Signposting applicants and recipients to other resources:both through the information we give out as well as funding some organisations toprovide these resources such as the Collaborative Working Unit at the National Councilfor Voluntary Organisations and the Cranfield Trust;

Learning:in January we brought together organisations which we have funded in Latin America andin Africa and the result is a new free publication, Filling Gaps and Making Spaces:Strengthening Civil Society in Unstable Situations;

Policy Development:the Foundation is supporting two Special Initiatives which we hope will makecontributions in very different areas: a better deal for parents with learning difficulties andtheir children, and the use of volunteers by museums;

Involvement in broad discussions on grant making:the Foundation is participating in reviews of the work of independent funders onorganisational development and on international development. This year I was privilegedto join the Executive Committee of the Association of Charitable Foundations.

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Of course this work remains, in a literal sense, marginal and the great majority ofresources remain focused on grants given directly to voluntary organisations.

Since 2000 we have followed a total return strategy both for the management of ourinvestment fund and for arriving at the amount available to fund grants and to meet ourexpenses. This amount includes both income arising on the portfolio and an element oflong term capital growth and has been based on a percentage (4.5%) of the value of thetotal investment averaged over the preceding three years.

After extensive discussion, the Foundation reached an important agreement with VilliersPark Educational Trust (VPET) regarding our relationship going forward. The terms ofthe agreement include a framework for VPET to report to the Foundation and formallycommit us to a ten year funding agreement expiring in 2014. In common with practice forall other grants this amount was provided for in full when the agreement was reached.Hence it is shown below in the grants table and the balance sheet at the back of thisreport contains the figure for the full liability.

Below, at a glance, is our main grant making for the year.

Programme Type of grant Number of grants Value of grants

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Core 5 375,000

Project 57 608,854

Learning Fund 2 13,000

Other support 2 3,000

International Core and Block 6 448,572

Other Support 2 1,428

Arts Core 7 450,000

Other Support 2 6,500

Parents with Learning Difficulties 2 13,000

Villiers Park Educational Trust 1 5,035,000

Trustees Discretionary 2 1,500

Total 88 6,955,854

We were particularly sorry this year to say goodbye to Zo Kaye, Administrative Officer,who had worked with the Foundation for over eleven years. Zo had special responsibilityfor work with the Trustees and the Director and her dedication, unflappability andintelligence meant that her work was flawless. Valerie Cadoret joins us to take on thisdemanding role. We are a small team and I am often astonished how, somehow, so muchis achieved by my colleagues on such slender resources. Many thanks then to BarbaraAllerhand, Terry Skelhorn and Matthew Smerdon. The Foundation is blessed too withhighly knowledgeable advisers and my thanks also go to Nikki Eastwood, HannahReynolds, Phyllida Shaw, John Twigg, Tina Wallace, Claire Walters and Julia Unwin.

David CutlerMarch 2006

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Strengthening the Voluntary Sector

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This programme makes two forms of grants to strengthen the voluntary sector: projectand core costs grants. The grants are geographically restricted to national organisationsworking in England and Wales and to local ones working in London, Merseyside,Cornwall and Devon.

Arising from discussion in the Trustees strategy day in February, the Foundation has beenconsidering ways in which this programme can be further improved and focused.From 2006, the two types of grant will be merged into a single pot of 900,000 for

organisational development. These grants, in common with other programmes, will beopen to applications from organisations working in the UK and be subject to a two stageannual process. Grants will be up to five years in duration and range from 20,000 to100,000.

Much thought has gone into the focus for next years programme. To start off with, wewere fortunate to host a Visiting Fellow from a German/Polish Foundation based inPrague, Marketa Dolezel. This Fellowship was for six weeks and was coordinated andsponsored by the Bosch Foundation. Marketa examined what sources of funding there arefor organisational development for charities and the results of her very thorough work canbe seen on our website.

Next, the Trustees discussed a number of options for narrowing our focus during the

forthcoming year and chose to consider thoroughly ways of strengthening theindependence of voluntary sector organisations, especially in the ways they negotiate withall forms of government. This issue has come to the fore with the new significance of thepublic sector as the largest single source of funding for the voluntary sector. Foundationstaff then consulted thirty organisations and experts on the sector as to the draftguidelines for the new programme. The programme was launched in March 2006. It isour intention with this programme, as with our other two main programmes, to find waysin which we can add value to our grant making, for example through networking andevaluation.

A summary of expenditure for this years programme is found below with detailsfollowing in the next two sections.

Scheme Amount approved Amount approved Amount approved

in 2005 in 2004 in 2003

Core costs 375,000 849,000 0

Project grants 608,854 434,150 426,989

Learning Fund 13,000 55,967 136,000

Total 996,854 1,339,117 562,989


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Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Grants Committee

Committee Members

Baring Foundation:Ann Buchanan ChairTessa BaringAmanda JordanNicholas Deakin From July 2005Christopher Steane

Staff Lead:David Cutler Core costs grantsMatthew Smerdon Project grants

Advisers:

Nikki EastwoodHannah ReynoldsClaire Walters

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Photo

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Ourgrant of 14,537

is helping Ruralnet UKpromote collaboration

through ICT by designing andimplementing an action research

project that observed a process ofengaging and working withorganisations new to using

ICT for collaborationthrough training

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Core Costs Grants

These grants are for a maximum of 75,000 over three years. For organisations with anincome of less than 250,000 a grant will not be more than 10% of this figure. The grantsare intended for a charity to become more organisationally effective over this period.Applications are by invitation only. As with the Arts programme, the Foundation decidedthat the initial award of a grant is better made by a Committee rather than the fullCouncil and this happened for the first time this year.

The theme selected this year by the Foundation was charities which make other charities

more organisationally effective. A longlist of eighteen organisations was reduced byTrustees to a shortlist of ten organisations which were invited to apply and which wereinterviewed by the Director. Fewer core costs grants were given this year than in previousyears and the money used instead on STVS project grants in recognition of the hugepressure on that fund.

The following five organisations were awarded grants:

Black Training and Enterprise Group

Community Foundation for Merseyside

Groundswell UK

Ruralnet UK

The Young Foundation.

Two organisations chose to use their grants for specific initiatives. The CommunityFoundation for Merseyside, with the agreement of the Charity Commission and part-funding from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England, will work on using monies fromdormant and inactive trusts. The Young Foundation is establishing an initiative,Launchpad, to set up new organisations to meet pressing social needs.

In addition second year instalments of grants were made to thirteen organisations givencore grants in 2004.

The fund in this form closed at the end of 2005.

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Core Grants: Key Facts

Summary of applications and grants

2005 2004 2003

Number of applications invited 10 0

Number of grants made 5 13 0

Total value of grants 375,000 849,000 0

Largest grant 75,000 75,000 0

Smallest grant 75,000 39,000 0

Average grant 75,000 65,308 0


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Project Grants

In 2005, the Foundation made 57 new grants for projects to make a significant and lastingimprovement to one or more charitys organisational effectiveness. There was a furthersharp increase in demand as expressed by the total number of applications received.

The great majority of these grants were for improvements within a single organisationthough a few have been for projects aimed at a wider group. Examples of the latterincluded Kairos in Soho where the Chief Executive looked at the need for a review ofsupport for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender voluntary sector and a grant to

the Bosnian and Herzegovina UK Network to provide business planning training toBosnian community groups.

Throughout the year we sought to make a number of improvements to the service whichwe offer applicants, for instance through more specific feedback and by better signpostingto other funders or forms of pro bono support.

The fund in this form closed at the end of 2005.

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Project Grants: Key Facts


2005 2004 2003

Number of applications 572 413 371

Number of eligible applications 389 294 314

Number of grants 57 55 58

Success rate of eligible applications 15% 19% 19%

Total value of grants 608,854 434,150 426,989

Largest grant 22,500 20,000 15,000

Smallest grant 1,500 1,500 2,000

Average grant 10,682 7,894 7,362

Distribution of grant sizes 45% of grants 70% of grants 70% of grants

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What kinds of organisations have been funded?

2005 2004 2003

Type of % of % of % of % of % of % of organisation number of value of number of value of number of value of

grants grants grants grants grants grants

Community and 35 40 29 32 31 29

economic

development

Cultural and 5 3 7 5 2 1

recreational

Education and 12 11 20 19 14 14

training

Environmental 0 0 2 2 3 2Health 8 9 4 3 16 17

Housing 0 0 4 6 5 5

Social care 23 20 27 25 20 24

Other 16 17 7 8 9 8

Total 100 100 100 100 100 100

What kinds of activity have been funded?

2005 2004 2003Type of % of % of % of % of % of % of activity number of value of number of value of number of value of


Changes to 14 13 7 9 7 9

structure

Greater user 7 9 11 9 10 7

involvement

Improved systems 30 27 19 18 33 34

New skills or 14 18 9 9 14 16

knowledge

Quality assurance 5 5 9 10 5 5

Strategic or 28 26 38 37 26 23

business planning

Other 2 2 7 8 5 6

Total 100 100 100 100 100 100


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How have the grants been distributed geographically?

2005 2004 2003

Country or % of % of % of % of % of % of region number of value of number of value of number of value of


England and Wales 46 50 35 35 28 29

England only 7 8 9 8 9 10

Wales 2 1 2 1 0 0

London 35 30 29 33 36 35

Cornwall 2 2 7 6 2 4

Devon 2 2 7 7 5 4

Cornwall and Devon 0 0 0 0 3 4Merseyside 5 4 9 7 15 13

International 2 3 2 3 2 1

beneficiaries

Total 100 100 100 100 100 100

Ourgrant of 8,450supports HackneyCity Farm in theirstrategic planning.

Photo

courtesyofHackneyCityFarm

The grant from the Baring Foundation has had a significant impact on the

Farms strategic development. It has enabled us to access professional support

and advice moulding our ideas and enthusiasm into a solid business plan.

This kind of grant is central to the success of our project.

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International Programme

This was the fifth year of the Foundations revised international programme and the

second year in which it has been run in collaboration with the John Ellerman Foundation.The aim of the programme was to improve the effectiveness of non-governmentalorganisations in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America which are dealing with problemsarising from long-term migration and displacement. Grants were given up to 240,000over three years to UK registered charities working with partners in the affected countries.The John Ellerman Foundation added 150,000 for work in Africa to the 450,000 givenby the Baring Foundation. A Memorandum of Understanding governs this joint venturebetween the two foundations.

We began the year with the most ambitious event we have so far held. The first thirteenorganisations which we have funded under this programme were brought together at ouroffices in London. Most importantly field officers flew in to take part in the meetings.On the first day a workshop was held to share experiences between the fundedorganisations. Following this we held a day-long seminar for an invited group of guests,

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Ourgrant of 148,128,over three years, is

supporting the Child SoldiersCoalition Educational and

Research Trust to establish andsupport a network of West Africanorganisations seeking to stop theuse of child soldiers and support

the reintegration of formerchild soldiers into

society.

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including other funders, to hear presentations from the charities. Particular thanks are dueto Nicholas Baring who conceived this idea and chaired both events. What we heardinspired and moved us, reaffirming our commitment to this work. A full report of theseminar has now been published called, Filling Gaps and Making Spaces: StrengtheningCivil Society in Unstable Situations. This publication was edited by our InternationalAdviser, John Twigg who also contributed an introduction, conclusion andrecommendations. Filling Gaps and Making Spaces is available free and, like all ourpublications, can be downloaded in full from our website.

Also in January, in response to the tsunami, we conducted a small study which combinedthe concerns of our international work with our domestic Strengthening the VoluntarySector programme. A researcher, Ellie Robinson, looked at the work undertaken by UKdiaspora organisations to support communities affected by the tsunami. This report whichcan be found on our website, resulted in closer connections with these groups.

A further event in May was held for the Joint International Committee to hear the results

of the evaluations of the first three organisations funded under this programme: PENHA(Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa), South Sudan WomensConcern and Education Action International. We require all major grant recipients toundertake an independent evaluation at the end of the project we have funded. These canalso be found on our website. Even greater emphasis will be placed on evaluation in thefuture.

Competition for grants this year was heavier than ever. 61 applications were received forthe first stage of our two stage process. Eight organisations were shortlisted for interview.Unusually we gave out six grants but many of these were smaller than hitherto. Thelargest grant (148,128) went to the Child Soldiers Coalition Educational and ResearchTrust to establish and support a network of West African organisations. Village AiD

received 92,143 to support partner agencies in Ghana and Sierra Leone working withyoung people. Reason Partnership (75,000) and South Sudan Women Concern (SSWC)(71,425) have both been funded by us before. Reason Partnership will extend its work inPeru on post-traumatic stress disorder to new areas and SSWC will capacity build 30groups of displaced women and support the reintegration of child soldiers. Oxfam GBreceived 30,938 for livelihood development with women in Port Sudan and TransformAfrica also received 30,938 to capacity build NGOs in Sierra Leone. Shortlistedorganisations which do not get a grant are given 1,000 in recognition of the largeamount of work needed to get to the final stage.

In addition, second and third year instalments were made to five organisations.

The Foundation is taking a more active role more generally regarding international

development. David Cutler, the Director, has become the co-convenor of the InterestGroup of the Association of Charitable Foundations on this subject and in October wehosted a meeting for foundations on the topic of investing in Africa post the Commissionfor Africa. The Baring Foundation is taking part in an initiative by the NuffieldFoundation considering commissioning a review of how small and medium-sizedfoundations are funding overseas.

The year ended with a joint review of the programme conducted by the Director of theJohn Ellerman Foundation (Tim Glass) and the Director of the Baring Foundation. On thebasis of this the Trustees have decided to make a number of changes to the programme in2006, including focusing funding in sub-Saharan Africa and extending the duration ofgrants to five years. However the basis of the programme, capacity building Southern

NGOs to deal with issues arising from migration, will remain the same.

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International Grants Committee

Committee MembersBaring Foundation:Nicholas Baring Chair, retired June 2005Mark Baring Until June 2005Ranjit Sondhi Chair, from July 2005Tessa BaringGeoffrey Barnett From July 2005

Staff Lead:David Cutler

Advisers:Dr John TwiggDr Christine Wallace

The John Ellerman Foundation:Dr John HemmingLady Sarah Riddell

Staff Lead:Tim Glass

In 2005 The John Ellerman Foundation jointly funded with the Baring Foundationorganisations working in Sub Saharan Africa. The John Ellerman Foundation providedan additional 150,000 towards five of the six grants mentioned below.

International Grants: Key Facts


2005 2004 2003

Number of applications 61 48 57

Number of eligible applications 61 48 56

Number of grants 6 4 3

Success rate of eligible applications 10% 8% 5%


Largest grant 148,128 196,642 185,000

Smallest grant 30,938 57,143 156,000

Average grant 74,762 126,085 168,452

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Arts Programme

The overall aim of the programme is to support the provision of opportunities toparticipate in the arts in educational and community settings, especially for individuals orgroups whose access to the arts is limited.

Last year the small or project grants fund for the arts closed. Phyllida Shaw, our ArtsAdviser, undertook a review of the programme from 1997-2004. During that time 535grants were made totalling 1.74 million. This report is available in full at our websiteand has been sent to other arts funders.

In common with our other programmes the Foundation is keen to see how it can increasethe impact of the grants which it makes. This has happened to some extent already, forinstance by starting a Special Initiative on museums and volunteering reported more fullyon page 20. Another example has been hosting and funding a series of masterclasses forarts organisations in the use of IT delivered by the Worshipful Company of InformationTechnologists.

In 2006 we will go further. The organisations which we give grants to for their work withrefugees will be offered a number of supported opportunities to exchange practice.

Also in common with our other programmes, the arts programme will be an open access,two stage programme for arts organisations anywhere in the UK. The theme of arts

organisations working with refugees and asylum seekers has been selected for the thirdyear running.

Arts Programme Core Cost grants: Key Facts

Scheme Amount approved Amount approved Amount approved

in 2005 in 2004 in 2003

Core costs 450,000 420,000 315,000

Museums* 0 15,000 45,000

Total 450,000 435,000 360,000

* The Museums and Volunteers Action Research funding was a new initiative in 2003.The 2004 grant of 15,000 was for research work connected with the 2003 Museumsfunding.


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Core Cost Grants

The Baring Foundation decided this year that initial grants are best made in Committeesrather than at full Council meetings, so for the first time, the Arts Committee awardedcore costs grants. For the second year the theme of arts organisations working withrefugees and asylum seekers was chosen. Seven new grants were awarded to a value of450,000 compared with 420,000 last year and 315,000 in 2003.

The following grants were awarded:

National Museums Liverpool

Oval House

Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts

Photovoice

Refugees and Arts Initiative

Sound It Out Community Music Limited

Theatr Fforwm Cymru

The grant to National Museums Liverpool is in fact for four museums in a consortium(Sunderland, Salford, and Leicester as well as Liverpool). At 180,000 it is the largest corecosts grant we have made under the Arts Programme.

The grants are being used in a variety of ways and the selected organisations work in arange of media including music, theatre and photography.

The Foundation paid a first instalment to one organisation and paid second and thirdinstalments to twelve organisations for grants given in preceding years.

Arts Grant Committee

Jim Peers ChairTessa BaringMark BaringMartin FindlayJanet Lewis-Jones

Staff Lead:David Cutler

Adviser:Phyllida Shaw

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Arts Programme Core Costs Grants: Key Facts


2005 2004 2003

Number of applications invited 9 8 7

Number of grants made 7 6 7


Largest grant 180,000 75,000 45,000

Smallest grant 15,000 45,000 45,000

Average grant 64,286 70,000 45,000

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Ourgrant of

45,000, over threeyears, is supporting

Theatr Fforwn Cymru inits work with refugees

and asylumseekers.

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Special Initiatives

The Baring Foundation, from time to time, takes up an area of work which lies outsideour main programmes. We believe that we should occasionally use our funds flexibly tolook at significant and interesting new areas of work.

Museums and Volunteers Action Research

In 2003 after a competitive process, three grants were made to museums to allow them toexplore different ways of using, or enhancing their use, of volunteers. The three museums

were: the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston, Fairfax House in York and theEgypt Centre at the University of Wales, Swansea. They come from the three maincategories of museum: local authority, independent and university-based. In 2004, after atendering process, a contract was let to the Institute of Volunteering Research (IVR) tomonitor and evaluate the progress of these grants. A steering group meets composed ofexternal experts and Trustees, chaired by Trustee Ranjit Sondhi. In October, staff andvolunteers from all three museums gave presentations at a seminar for each other and forthe steering group. A literature review of material on museums and volunteering by IVR isto be found on our website and a full publication is planned for next year.

Parents with Learning Difficulties and their Children

Last year, the Foundation launched an ambitious initiative with the aim of creating a

better deal for parents with learning difficulties and their children. Many more peoplewith learning difficulties now live in the community and so are more likely to becomeparents than in previous generations. However support for them has lagged behind thisdevelopment with the result that, in many cases, children are taken into care, when, givenadequate information and services they could have remained with their parents.

As a first step, after a tendering process, the Foundation this year commissioned theNorah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol to conduct a literature review as towhat is known and a mapping exercise on services and in particular good practice. Thiswas undertaken through focus groups of parents, a web questionnaire, interviews withexperts and site visits. The full report will be published in Spring 2006 with an accessibleversion for people with learning difficulties. It will make a series of recommendations to

families and to local and national policy makers.

As a second stage, the Foundation has decided to award 100,000 (supplemented in 2006by a further 200,000 from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation) to one or moreorganisations in 2006 to take this work forward through creating a network forpractitioners and by pressing for the changes recommended in the anticipated report fromthe Norah Fry Centre.

Again a steering group has been created for the initiative. It is chaired by Tessa Baringwith Trustees Ann Buchanan and Nicholas Deakin and includes an external expert, DrOliver Russell.

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Publications and Events

Publications

This year we published Filling Gaps and Making Spaces:Strengthening Civil Society in Unstable Situations which is morefully described in the section on our international programme.

The Foundation has commissioned two consultants, MargaretBolton and Meg Abdy, to produce a report on how foundations,

both in the UK and the USA, fund capacity building ororganisational development in the voluntary sector. Furtherfunding for this project comes from the Northern RockFoundation.

Both of our Special Initiatives will give rise to publications in 2006.

All our reports and publications are free while stocks last and can also be downloaded infull from our website.

Core Costs Club

We have, for a number of years, invited organisations to which we have given large grants

to meet together to discuss issues of generic interest. We sometimes call these gatheringsthe Core Costs Club and find them extremely helpful. The meetings bring to ourattention the challenges facing the sector and keep us in closer touch with charities.Two meetings were held this year. The first was on the topic of sustainable funding and inparticular looked at the new dominance of public sector funding. The second looked atthe values of the voluntary sector. Are they in any way unique to the sector? It wasnotable how organisations at moments of crisis realised how important their values werein shaping their future. These meetings have influenced our thinking on our Strengtheningthe Voluntary Sector programme for 2006.

During 2004 we hosted a number of events:

A full day workshop and a full day seminar on our international programme

Worshipful Company of Information Technologists four masterclasses for artsorganisations on the use of IT

Two meetings for interest groups of the Association of Charitable Foundations: one onreplicating successful projects and one on funding in Africa post the Commission onAfrica

The launch of Fruitful Funding a report for the National Council of VoluntaryOrganisations on engaged philanthropy by Julia Unwin.

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Villers Park Educational Trust

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Villiers Park Educational Trust

Villiers Park Educational Trust (VPET) www.villierspark.org.uk aims to fosterinspirational 14-19 learning and teaching in the UK by facilitating the sharing ofknowledge and best practice between teachers, lecturers and students at school, collegeand university. The Baring Foundation supported it with a core costs grant of 600,000.

In an average year, Villiers Park works with almost two thousand 14-19 year old studentsand their teachers. Many of these see the everyday school experience as effective in termsof delivering examination results but only a very few of them regard it as in any way

inspirational.

Perhaps this is hardly surprising since, as the recent research jointly commissioned byVPET and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation showed, the UK has no system in place forensuring that teachers are given the individualised support and training they need in orderto provide first class learning opportunities for their pupils. It is not easy for teachers tokeep in touch with the latest research developments in their subject or to exchange ideaswith colleagues working in universities. The country lacks an effective strategy to enableteachers to share ideas about the variety of teaching methods that could be used to makelearning exciting for groups containing students of widely differing levels of ability.

Villiers Parks mission is to help find workable solutions to these challenges. Its expertiseenables it to look at the curriculum through the eyes of the countrys most gifted and

talented students who are often frustrated by their situation. In addressing the needs ofthis group effectively, it aims to help teachers reflect on how they can best personalise thelearning of all their pupils.

In order to keep in touch with the needs of students, the Trust organises a variety ofactivities for them. Last year, it ran twenty five-day subject-based residential courses forYear 12/13 students at its Cambridge Centre. These were typically tutored by universityresearch students and lecturers and were open to all members of the National Academyfor Gifted and Talented Youth. 411 students attended these events, and a further 1,312came to one day Masterclasses, often located at universities round the country.

For teachers of 14-19 year old students, the Trust provides subject-based courses and

programmes residential and non-residential that enable them to update their subjectknowledge by working with university lecturers. As part of the programme, tutored byskilled practising teachers, delegates are given the opportunity to widen their teachingrepertoire by exploring a range of learning activities likely to prove inspirational to ablestudents.

Last year, 342 teachers attended 23 courses at the Cambridge Centre and a further 89teachers attended 17 joint student-teacher courses at universities. Villiers Park also rantwo-day residential training programmes for teachers with responsibility for the educationof Gifted and Talented pupils in their schools. These provided teachers with a toolkit ofpractical strategies to use with their colleagues to help them extend the range of theireveryday teaching. The programme is endorsed by the National Academy for Gifted andTalented Youth, which has awarded VPET Core Partner status. Three courses were held in2004-2005 with 57 delegates, and a further 14 delegates from Cambridgeshire LEAschools took part in two separate days of training.


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Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programme Project Grants

Organisation Description Grant ()

National (England and Wales)

Action on Elder Abuse For the purchase of a fundraising database. 7,975

Adopt A Minefield UK To assist with the transition to an independent charity by carrying out 6,000

work to put financial systems in place and train staff to understand

their new roles and responsibilities.

Afghanistan Culture For consultancy fees for producing a business plan and operational 6,000

and Art Association procedures for Refugee TV.

Blind in Business For a new database to improve the effectiveness of the organisation. 4,000

Community Foundation To enable the establishment of beacon foundations. 14,000

Network

Community Hub To evaluate co-location by BASSAC and the Development 12,000

Trusts Association and draw lessons for debates on community

sector infrastructure.

Dial UK To fund 18 months costs of developing and piloting a programme 22,500

for providing member groups with financial systems support.

Employment Focus For a consultancy to complete the process of restructuring 7,500

the organisation.

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Appendix 1

Summary of grants agreed in 2005

Type of grant Value ()

Baring Foundation programme grants* 1,919,354

Discretionary grants* 1,500

Villiers Park Educational Trust grant 5,035,000

Total 6,955,854

* These are listed in more detail in

Appendix 2.

Appendix 2

Grants agreed in 2005

Strengthening the Voluntary Sector ProgrammeCore Costs Grants

Organisation Geographical Area Grant ()

Black Training and England and Wales 75,000

Enterprise

Group (BTEG)

Groundswell UK England and Wales 75,000Ruralnet UK England and Wales 75,000

Young Foundation England and Wales 75,000

Community Foundation Merseyside 75,000

for Merseyside

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Fathers Direct To support the transformation of the organisation into a new 13,200

high profile national body.

Groundswell UK To set up a website with online directory of homeless-led self 19,927

help groups.

Inquest Charitable Trust Towards the cost of an external review and redesign of casework, 10,000

statistical and administrative databases.

KIDS VIP Towards the costs of a good practice manual for children's 10,000

visits to prisons.

Kurdish Human Rights Project To implement a new centralised database to support 7,622

KHRP's institutional development.

Law Centres Federation To produce a governance training manual for London Law Centre 11,950

management committees.

One World Trust To increase beneficiary accountability in developing NGOs through 18,667

the development of complaint and response mechanisms.

Peaceworkers UK To re-develop the website into a comprehensive recruitment and 8,620

training gateway.

Place2Be To develop and deliver a management development programme 15,000

to support managers with dual clinical and management responsibilities.

Praxis A programme of staff development accompanying an organisational 10,500

change process.

Reprieve To carry out improvements to IT systems. 8,585

RNID To support the development of the Association of Lipspeakers and 16,068

the Association of Verbatim Speech to Text Reporters over eighteen

months.

Ruralnet UK To promote collaboration through ICT by designing and implementing 14,537

an action research project that will observe a process of engaging and

working with organisations new to using ICT for collaboration througheight training workshops.

Sheila McKechnie Foundation Towards the development of the vision and business plan. 11,380

Streetwise Opera Towards the purchase and installation of QuickBooks accounting 1,500

software.

TimeBank To develop a scheme to provide voluntary sector staff with secondment 15,738

opportunities in media organisations.

VSO To provide grants of 4,000 to five UK diaspora organisations to 20,000

strengthen their capacity to develop international volunteering

programmes.

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YoungMinds Towards purchase of software that will make it possible to provide 10,420

remote e-working for staff, helping to reduce travelling time and

to relieve overcrowding at the London office.

National (England only)

Action for Advocacy To strengthen financial management procedures within the organisation. 13,000

African Initiatives To work with African partners to develop a 5-10 year strategic plan. 14,770

Bosnia & Herzegovina To provide business planning training to Bosnian community groups 12,484

UK Network and provide opportunities for groups to share skills and experience.

Education for Development To develop a database to facilitate the utilisation of local trained 9,580

personnel in developing and delivering adult education programmes.

Cornwall

Victim Support Cornwall To strengthen the financial management of Victim Support Cornwall. 10,853

Devon

Exeter Community Initiatives Towards the costs of developing formal working relationships 11,570

with other organisations.

London

Al-Hasaniya Moroccan For a programme of staff development. 8,500

Womens Centre

Angolan Advice and To purchase, install and train staff to use the AIMS database. 2,408Information Centre

Centre for Research into To increase the research capacity of 25 refugee and migrant groups, 9,162

Economic and Social Trends build links between these groups and academics and promote joint

working.

Child Soldiers Coalition For a strategic review. 7,500

Educational and Research Trust

City Gateway For financial and accountancy training and for a consultancy 10,000

for organisational review and development of a business plan.

Communities Empowerment Towards freeing up staff to implement a business plan. 10,000

Network

Congolese Community To support a training and development programme for the 3,950

Support Group management committee.

Creative and Supportive Trust To carry out a five-year organisational strategy. 7,480

Food Chain Towards the costs of improving the volunteer management system. 5,266

Hackney City Farm For a consultancy to produce a new strategic plan. 8,450


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Kairos in Soho Towards freeing up the CEOs time to carry out a strategic review, 17,706

develop a business plan and carry out development work on wider

organisational development issues in the LGBT sector.

London Advice Services Towards creating a network of staff from BME and mental health 22,455

Alliance organisations to share experience and develop skills in providing

legal representation for clients.

Mind in Harrow For the costs of consultancy to establish the viability of a mental 4,000

health awareness training programme.

PhotoVoice To contribute to the production and dissemination of a PhotoVoice 16,690

manual which will teach organisations how to carry out participatory

photography projects with vulnerable people.

Platform Towards the cost of producing a communications strategy for the 5,000

organisation at a critical point in its development.

St Michael Associates For a consultancy to review current activities and produce a 9,250

three-year development plan.

Starlight Music Academy To fund the production of a business plan and fundraising strategy and 7,130

the design and launch of a website.

TaxAid UK To support one years costs of developing the research capacity 10,000

of the organisation.

Tribal Tree To develop relationships with companies in the music industry through 10,440

piloting a long-term work placement scheme.

Working With Men To develop a five year strategic and business plan. 6,500

Merseyside

Bluecoat Arts Centre Limited For consultation with disabled and deaf people over a full spectrum 10,670

of access issues in the redeveloped arts centre.

Chrysalis Domestic Violence To develop a website providing advice and support to people 4,237

Services experiencing domestic violence.

Disability Advice and 10,000

Information St Helens

Wales

Central African Association To fund a conference bringing together refugee community 9,180

organisations in Wales with UK refugee organisations and statutory

agencies.

International

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England and Wales

Margaret Bolton For a publication Foundations and Organisational Development. 10,000

Julia Unwin Towards the costs of an evaluation of the Collaborative Working 3,000

Unit at the National Council of Voluntary Organisations.


Other Strengthening the Voluntary Sector Programme Grants


England and Wales

Association of Charitable Towards a bursary fund for small trusts to attend the 2005 ACF 1,000

Foundations conference.

Association of Charitable Towards the costs of the production of the Philanthropy UK newsletter. 2,000

Foundations


International Programme Grants


Latin America

Reason Partnership Towards implementation of a national plan to address post-traumatic 75,000

stress disorder among displaced people returning to their homes in

former conflict zones in Peru.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Child Soldiers Coalition To establish and support a network of West African organisations 148,128

Educational and Research Trust seeking to stop the use of child soldiers and support regeneration

of former child soldiers into society.

Oxfam GB Towards providing livelihood and educational opportunities to displaced 30,938

women in shanty towns around Port Sudan.

South Sudan Women Concern Towards capacity building of 30 groups of displaced women in South 71,425

Sudan and provision of support to former child soldiers.


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Transform Africa Towards assistance to build the capacities of NGOs and CBOs in Sierra 30,938

Leone to support the long-term integration of former refugees

and displaced people.

Village AiD To support partner organisations in Ghana and Sierra Leone working 92,143

with displaced and excluded young people.


Other International Grants

Organisation Grant ()

CARE International UK 714

Consortium for Education and Training for Southern Sudan 714


Arts Programme Core Costs Grants


National Museums Liverpool England and Wales 180,000

Oval House London 75,000

Pan Centre for London 45,000

Intercultural Arts

PhotoVoice London 45,000

Refugees and the Arts Initiative London 45,000

Theatr Fforwm Cymru Wales 45,000

Sound It Out Community West Midlands 15,000

Music Limited


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Other Arts Grants


ING Bank N.V Joint funding with ING for two arts projects 4,000

Wimbledon School of Art Re-Inventing Exhibition. 2,500


Special Initiatives Parents with Learning Difficulties and their Children


Norah Fry Research Centre Further funding for the mapping study 5,000

Norah Fry Research Centre Literature review 8,000


Discretionary Grants

Organisation Grant ()

Elizabeth Finn Trust 500

Portsmouth Cathedral Development Trust 1,000



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Financial SummaryThe Baring Foundation (A Company Limited by Guarantee not having a Share Capital)

Statement of financial activities (incorporating an income and expenditure account)For the year ended 31 December 2005

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Statement from the Council of Management of the Baring Foundation

These summarised financial statements contain information from both the Statement of Financial Activities andthe Balance Sheet for the year ended 31 December 2005, but are not the full statutory Report and Accounts. Theymay not contain sufficient information to allow a full understanding of the financial affairs of the Foundation.The full financial statements were approved by the Council on 24 May 2006 and subsequently submitted to theCharity Commission and Companies House. They received an unqualified audit report and copies may beobtained from the Foundations registered office at 60 London Wall, LONDON, EC2M 5TQ.

Signed on behalf of the trustees

Tessa Baring, ChairmanGeoffrey Barnett, Treasurer 24th May 2006

2005 2004Restricted Unrestricted Total Total

Incoming resourcesDonations 6,000 6,000 50Donated services 120,579 120,579 138,017Investment income 1,362,236 1,362,236 1,439,032

Total incoming resources 6,000 1,482,815 1,488,815 1,577,099

Resources expendedCosts of generating funds:

Investment management 274,352 274,352 233,792

274,352 274,352 233,792Charitable expenditure:

Grants payable 6,942,884 6,942,884 3,037,332Support costs 6,000 371,136 377,136 425,995Management and administration 32,061 32,061 39,007

Total resources expended 6,000 7,620,433 7,626,433 3,736,126

Net incoming resources beforerevaluations and investmentasset disposals (6,137,618) (6,137,618) (2,159,027)

Net gain on investments 7,962,366 7,962,366 4,238,563

Net movement in funds 1,824,748 1,824,748 2,079,536

Funds at the start of the year 59,713,138 59,713,138 57,633,602

Funds at the end of the year 61,537,886 61,537,886 59,713,138


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The Baring Foundation (A Company Limited by Guarantee not having a Share Capital)

Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2005

2005 2004

Fixed assetsInvestments 66,619,085 60,709,718

Current assetsDebtors 100,934 102,894Cash at bank and in hand 1,256,005 929,239

1,356,939 1,032,133

Creditors: amounts due within 1 year 1,394,512 1,503,396Villiers Park Educational Trust 540,000

Net current assets (577,573) (471,263)

Total assets less current liabilities 66,041,512 60,238,455

Creditors: amounts due after more than one year 278,626 525,317Villiers Park Educational Trust 4,225,000

Net assets 61,537,886 59,713,138

FundsUnrestricted funds

Revaluation fund 11,211,264 5,527,970

General funds 50,326,622 54,185,168

Total funds 61,537,886 59,713,138

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Independent Auditors Statement to the Council of Management of the Baring FoundationWe have examined the summarised financial statements of the Baring Foundation

Respective responsibilities of Council of Management and auditorsThe Council are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with the

recommendations of the charities SORP.

Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised financial statement with thefull financial statements and Report of the Council of Management. We also read the other information containedin the annual report and consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent misstatementsor material inconsistencies with the summarised financial statements.

Basis of opinionWe conducted our work on accordance with Bulletin 1999/6 the auditors statement on the summary financialstatement issued by the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United Kingdom.

OpinionIn our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements and the Reportof the Council of Management of the Baring Foundation for the year ended 31 December 2005.

Sayer VincentChartered accountants and registered auditors 24th May 2006


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