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BIENNIAL REPORTAPRIL 2017 – MARCH 2019

Calm...Aware…

Standing Strong…

Balanced…

Cover photo: Take Five whole school celebration event at Worksop Priory C of E Primary Academy during Mental Health Week 2018.Inside cover photos: Take Five Ambassadors and teachers from St Luke’s C of E Primary, Worksop and Redlands Primary Worksop.

CONTENTS1) FORWARD

2) ABOUT EACH AMAZING BREATH WHO WE ARE WHAT WE DO CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OUR STRATEGY OUR VISION

3) OUR REACH AND SCALE

4) CASE STUDIES Church Vale Primary School, Nottinghamshire Misterton Primary School, Nottinghamshire Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast

5) OUR SUPPORTERS

6) INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

7) CONTACTS

EACH AMAZING BREATH CIC ANNUAL REPORT 2017 – 2019 PAGE 3

Take Five Ambassadors from Ligoniel Primary, Belfast


Rise and Shine: This is one of the very first Take Five Practice cards designed by children. It was designed by one of the Year 6 Ambassadors at Worksop Priory C of E Primary Academy and its title beautifully sums up what Each Amazing Breath is all about

FORWARDWelcome to Each Amazing Breath’s Biennial Report.

Actually, welcome to Each Amazing Breath’s first ever ‘annual’ type report!

We founded Each Amazing Breath in 2014 on a shoestring and for the last 5 years we have focussed our intention, and attention, on helping thousands of people feel stronger and more resilient. It has been an amazing journey and along the way we have had the privilege to gather around us an exceptional team of people, whether they be the team that work directly for Each Amazing Breath, or so many wonderful friends, schools, supporters and funders.

Each year we have produced all the statutory annual reports we have to provide as a not for profit CIC, however we have never had the capacity to pause, and really celebrate Each Amazing Breath and produce something a little more outward facing.

It is our hope that not only does this report inspire confidence in us as an organisation, but that it celebrates how possible it is for thousands and thousands of children to have the internal skills to feel their own strength and personal capacity. For these young people to know that they can carry these skills with them throughout their lives, no matter what their background, or the challenges they face.

The future is bright. Children are growing stronger, and this report (which we choose to share impact of the last two years) shares a glimpse of this.

Mark Lilly, Founding DirectorEach Amazing Breath CIC

Helen Whitney, Founding DirectorEach Amazing Breath CIC


Take Five Ambassador from Ligoniel Primary, Belfast, leading her whole school in a Take Five practice


ABOUT EACH AMAZING BREATHWHO WE AREEach Amazing Breath is a not for profit organisation that specialises in resilience and capacity building.

We offer a range of Services to help foster strength, focus, creativity, and vitality in diverse settings, including work, school, home, and community so that everyone, including people with significant challenges, can grow stronger and more resilient.

Our approach facilitates needs-based mindful resilience building, and tailors a range of skills such as breathing, grounding, and awareness – tools based in practical mindfulness that can be owned, valued, and sustainably, safely, and practically applied into people’s daily lives.

WHAT WE DOWe offer a range of services including a resilience building programme called Take Five. Take Five is a safe, universal resilience building skill set based on breathing, grounding, and awareness. We deliver this programme in schools and community settings.

Our whole school resilience-building programme is a carefully crafted, needs-based approach that over a period of 12 to 18 months trains and supports schools to sustainably embed the impactful Take Five practices in both universal and targeted settings within every school.

Our approach is suitable for primary, secondary, and special schools. and where developmentally appropriate, we empower the children to play a proactive part in leading practices and sustaining the programme.

125 Take Five Ambassadors from 7 schools in Worksop, Nottinghamshire gather at a Take Five celebration event. Together these children lead over 2,000 of their peers in resilience building each school day.

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIESWe have seen our Whole School Resilience Building Programme consistently bring alive amazing impacts. We never grow tired of hearing about this impact as the children share with us, their teachers and their families, their sense of efficacy, vitality and their growing ability to self-manage.


However, as we have seen the replicability of these impacts in school after school, we have grown in our sense of responsibility to reach more schools, and more children in Nottinghamshire and indeed in other parts of the UK. As a result of these dual factors; celebrating the joy of the impact and imperative to reach more children, have interwoven and as a small, but highly motivated team, we have had to find ways forward.

In 2018, Nottinghamshire Community Foundation (NCF), helped us address one of the main challenges through supporting us practically in helping to secure

some critically important unrestricted ‘core’ funding. Please see page 14 of this report for more information about these funders.

OUR STRATEGY – is to eventually become redundant!Our strategy is to:

• Help everyone, including people with the greatest challenges, to safely embrace and self-apply, skills that foster strength and capacity

• Help organisations to sustainability embed resilience building

Our work is highly needs based, which allows us to work in co-designed ways to embed new patterns that facilitate moving towards self-sustainment and reduced reliance on us as an organisation.

OUR VISIONBy the time Take Five is alive, and embedded in a school, the ripples of the impact of Take Five are usually well established. E.g:

• Children are sharing Take Five with their families

• Schools are asking to work with us to deliver a Take Five parent/carer programme

• Community organisations approach us to run our Take Five in the Community programmes

• Public Bodies approach us about ‘Whole Parish’ or ‘Whole District’ Approaches

This repeated pattern has greatly shaped Each Amazing Breath’s emerging ‘Whole Community Resilience Building Vision’ and we are now actively working with our partners to proactivity play our role in our shared agenda of fostering strong, healthy and vital communities.

This emerging vision is highly inclusive. We know that it can only fully come alive through working together. Through amazing schools, far seeing third sector organisations, public bodies and funders sharing a vision of new, strength and vitality-based, patterns in communities. Especially in communities where, perhaps, patterns of apathy, dependency and echoes of past traumas are very present daily challenges

Take Five practice in year 6 in Worksop Priory C of E Primary Academy

No Worries Breathing: Designed by Year 6 Take Five Ambassador at Ranby Primary School.


REACH AND SCALE OF IMPACT between April 2017 – March 2019

SCALE OF IMPACTYoung people impacted 10,800 children in Nottinghamshire

560 children in Belfast 200 children in Lincolnshire

Organisations impacted 51 schools benefiting from our whole school resilience building programme

Parents and carers impacted 36 families benfiting from parnet/carers learning how to ‘Take Five’

LOCATION OF IMPACT46 Schools in Nottinghamshire

2 Schools in Lincolnshire

3 Schools in Belfast

SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPACT 970 children trained as Take Five ambassadors

210 Children Trained as Trainers

REACH OF IMPACTSchool – impact ripples out, year on year as children join reception classes

Young people – once Take Five in ‘owned’ it is a life skill they can carry with them wherever they go

Whole Community impact – when schools are rippling the impact, young people ‘own’ their own ability to self-regulate, children are sharing with their families, and parents/carers are attending Take Five programmes, then whole communities are impacted. The children see this very clearly. Here is a montage of thoughts from 125 Take Five Ambassadors from Worksop on the long-term impact of Take Five on their town.


NATURE AND DEPTH OF IMPACTQuantitative data and qualitative stories and voices abound from our work. Here are some examples:

Qualitative and qualitative impact report on Take Five at Ligoniel Primary, in Belfast

Quantitative survey of impact on 200 children over 5 weeks

Voices of children, staff, parents, funders and community workers shared in 19 short films

Staff training feedback from 237 staff (Early Help staff from Surestart Centres,

Family Support Teams, Looked After Children Managers etc), plus Teachers from

16 schools)

Voices of staff sharing their experience of the training and how they are bringing it alive in frontline situations captured in 18

short films

Depth of impact beautifully articulated by three Year 12 Students at Retford Post 16 Centre

A Celebration in Film of Take Five at Misterton Primary

Voices of the children film

Plus 4 films of head teacher

And

4 films of the SENCO/Behaviour Manager

In July 2018, 17 Take Five Ambassadors from 3 schools in Worksop prepared a presentation about the impact of Take Five and their ideas about what Worksop would be like if the whole town did Take Five.

This report shares what happened when they delivered their presentation to Councillors at Nottinghamshire County Council, Paddy Tipping, Police and Crime Commissioner and Bassetlaw District Council.


CASE STUDY 1Church Vale Primary School and Foundation Unit – building resilience through Take FiveIn 2017 Church Vale Primary School and Foundation Unit embarked on a Whole School resilience building programme called Take Five. The programme was funded by Nottinghamshire County Council and the impact of the programme was captured by various films funded by Vibrant Warsop CIC.

The Big Warsop Strengthening Communities Programme funded films to showcase the resilience building in Warsop

Click here to hear a Year 5 pupil explain in 40 seconds what it means to be resilient

https://vimeo.com/315225357








“At Church Vale the children have really understood the purpose of ‘Take Five’. They describe themselves as being more resilient and having a strategy for when things overwhelm them. This was evident during the 2018 SATs tests. Our children find tests hard, they historically do not cope well, they do not achieve their potential and have in the past resorted to their default defeatist attitude. Not this year! The children reported using ‘Take Five’ before, during and after the tests because of this they were more resilient, more buoyant and then exceeded our expectations in their results. Increasing reading by 28% and bringing our school in line with national results. This was a fantastic result for this cohort of children and we lay responsibility for the success in the way that ‘Take Five ’ has changed the way our children think.”Jo Yardley, Head Teacher, Church Vale Primary school

Click here to see the full film of the whole school – Foundation to Year 6 doing Take Five The children are simply AMAZING!


What shoots of inspiration they are – our vision is that all young people in Warsop will feel strong, resilient and full of life as these children – what an amazing place Warsop is growing into!




CASE STUDY 2Children at Misterton Primary and Nursery School share their insights into how Take Five is helping them ‘Grow Stronger and More Resilient’

‘It’s helped me in football to calm down so that I don’t like have a go at people and get into trouble, …before Take Five I used to get all angry and like have a go at people and then get told off, then banned and it like helps me with calming down, taking myself away from the situation.’

‘…like I never knew this was a thing at the start. I just thought you could just normal breath and I got like stressed and stuff but when they teach me it, it really helps me.’

Some examples of Take Five practice cards designed by the children during the ‘Yellow Phase’ of the Whole School Resilience Building programme

Click Here to view 4-minute film of the children sharing their insights




Headteacher, Mrs. Jane Cappleman-Jackson, explains the impact of Take Five across Misterton Primary and Nursery School

‘...Take Five really gavethe children that capacityto deal with things themselves...”


46 seconds

‘...we do feel that Take Fivehas had a positive effecton attendance...”


47 seconds

‘...Take Five actually saves us ahuge amount of time and reallyfocuses our teachers on learning...”


45 seconds

‘...really developing the sustainability of Take Five through the school.So it will keep on going...”


46 seconds






CASE STUDY 3

Ligoniel Primary schoolExamples of quantitative impact from a 5-week impact study

Please note – LPPSS means Low Pre-Practice Self-Score. Basically, these are the children who are struggling the most at the point of measurement.

Impact on ability to concentrateOn average, across all weeks, all Year 3 students, reported a 15% increase in ability to concentrate pre-post practice

On average, across all weeks, Year 3 LPPSS students, reported a 23.3% increase in concentration pre-post practice

Reduction in stress in the bodyOn average, across all weeks, all Years 3 students, reported a 22.7% reduction in stress in the body pre-post practice

On average, across all weeks, LPPSS students, reported a 34.2% reduction in stress in the body pre-post practice

Feeling Positive about themselvesOn average, across all weeks, all Year 6 students, reported a 6.7% increase in feeling positive about themselves, pre-post practice

On average, across all weeks, Year 6 LPPSS students, reported a 10% increase in feeling positive about themselves, pre-post practice

Watch this film to see what the amazing children at Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast think of Take Five: https://vimeo.com/239440548


Take Five Ambassadors at Ligoniel Primary School16 Take Five Ambassadors at Ligoniel Primary were awarded their Take Five Ambassador Badges and Certificates by The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Nuala McAllister.

22 | North Belfast News 1 July 2017

PUPILS at Ligoniel PrimarySchool recently celebratedtheir ‘Take Five at School’initiative with a celebrationevent.

The children had theopportunity to showcase theskills learnt to help them feelmore focused, calmer and incontrol with newly appointedLord Mayor of Belfast,Councillor Nuala McAllister,in attendance.

‘Take Five at School’ is askill set delivered by EachAmazing Breath CIC. It usesbreathing, grounding andawareness techniques thatcan be used in very shortperiods of time, from between30 seconds and five minutes acouple of times a day.

The techniques helpstudents in a variety of waysincluding helping thechildren feel more confident,more resilient, better able toconcentrate and better ableto get on with each other.

Ligoniel Primary Schooldecided to become part of the‘Take Five at School’ NorthBelfast pilot in December2016 when the projectfunding was confirmed viathe North Belfast District

High-fives at Ligoniel PS after ‘Take Five’ success

PIONEERING: Ligoniel PS pupils were presented with their certificates for ‘Take Five at School’ by Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister

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Principal Lynsey Stewartsaid: “Ligoniel PrimarySchool places importance onsupporting each child to be asresilient as possible, so they

can access their learning andmeet their potential.

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ability to make gooddecisions and exploreinnovative ideas as a possiblemeans to improve outcomesfor children. Ligoniel PrimarySchool are delighted by theway Take Five at School ishelping us achieve this.”

The initiative has been part

of the daily routine for thewhole school from Primary 1to 7 at Ligoniel PrimarySchool since March 2017. Thepractices are used at leasttwice a day for a couple ofminutes, often first thing inthe morning, when thechildren arrive in school, and

again after the lunch break. Their Take Five at School

Champion, teacher DanielleMcManus, worked closelywith Justine Brown, BelfastHealth and Social Care Trustand Dympna Johnston,Greater Shankill Partnership,who are leading on the NorthBelfast Pilot in partnershipwith Each Amazing Breath tobring the practices alive inthe school.

Sixteen pupils fromPrimary 3 to 6 were chosen totrain as ‘ake Five at SchoolAmbassadors. The childrenwere taught how to teach thepractices in other classesacross the school by EachAmazing Breath trainers.

Lord Mayor NualaMcAllister was on hand toaward the pupils their well-earned Certificates ofAchievement as Take FiveAmbassadors.

“The Take Five at Schoolproject makes a valuablecontribution to communitysafety in North Belfast bygiving our children the skillsto deal with difficultsituations both in school andin community, and to managestress and anger in a positiveway,” added Nuala.

“The North Belfast DPCSPis glad to have supportedsuch an important project.”

For more information onthe Take Five at School NorthBelfast Project Lead, emailJustine Brown [email protected].

Resilience building practice card resources designed by the 16 AmbassadorsYears P3 and P4

Years P5 and P6

For more information on ‘Take Five’ and Each Amazing Breath CIC please visit

www.eachamazingbreath.org

Animal Breathing

Designed by EAB and Beth, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P3 Take Five AmbassadorAnimal Breathing – 170© Each Amazing Breath CIC



Designed by EAB and Codie, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P3 Take Five AmbassadorRainbow Breathing - 177 © Each Amazing Breath CIC

Rainbow Breathing



Designed by EAB and Stefan, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P3 Take Five AmbassadorThe Wall Breathing – 180© Each Amazing Breath CIC

The Wall Breathing



Designed by EAB and Flynn, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P3 Take Five AmbassadorThe Rhino Practice – 181© Each Amazing Breath CIC

The RhinoPractice



Sly Fox Practice

Designed by EAB and Elizabeth, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P4 Take Five AmbassadorSly Fox Practice - 178© Each Amazing Breath CIC



Designed by EAB and Christen-Eve, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P4 Take Five Ambassador Gymnastics Breathing – 171© Each Amazing Breath CIC

Gymnastics Breathing



Designed by EAB and Jake, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P4 Take Five AmbassadorColour Breathing – 173© Each Amazing Breath CIC

Colour Breathing



Designed by EAB and Noah, Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast - P4 Take Five AmbassadorGrounding Practice – 184© Each Amazing Breath CIC

Grounding Practice


OUR SUPPORTERSCORE FUNDERSIn 2018 we received a grant from The Jones 1984 Charitable Trust and this has been pivotal to expanding our work and reaching more schools in Nottinghamshire. As a result of this grant we have already secured a further 35 schools in Nottinghamshire in the academic year 2019-20 (more on this in our next annual report). This means Take Five will be in about 20% of Nottinghamshire’s primary schools – so still much to do here!

In early 2019 we also secured an invaluable grant from The Fore Foundation. This too was unrestricted ‘core’ funding, and this has allowed us to consider our national reach and we now have a proactive strategy in place as a result, so watch this space as Each Amazing Breath takes its next steps to reach more schools outside Nottinghamshire.

During this two-year period, we have also received highly valued and important core funding from the following:

• Charles Littlewood Trust

• Thomas Farr Trust

• 1 % Matters

• A very special gift from Taeke’s friends and family

• Acorn fund

PROJECT BASED FUNDERS:Nottinghamshire County Council Bassetlaw Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) Bassetlaw District Council (BDC) Belfast City Council (BCC) Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership (BPCSF) Big Warsop JMF Fund Police and Crime Commissioner – Youth Social Action Award The Wheatcroft Fund

KEY PARTNERS:Nottinghamshire Community Foundation (NCF) 51 schools – their staff and the children Vibrant Warsop CIC (VW)

Elected Members at PCC, NCC, BDC, Special thanks to Paddy Tipping, Police and Crime Commissioner and the following Councillors: Councillor Wallace, Councillor Rostance, Councillor Gilfoyle, Councillor Whithead at NCC and Councillor Greaves and Councillor Shaw at BDC

Officers and staff at NCC, BCCG, NCF, BHSCT, BDC, VW

EAB team: Lesley Howard, Julie Christian, Kathryn Bell, Kate O’Dell, Jes Hill, Glen Powell

THANK YOU ALL!


INCOME AND EXPENDITUREReporting period: 1st April 2017 – 31st March 2019

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 2018-2019 2017-2018

Total Income £100,544 £121,480

Merchandise £1,470 £384

Sales £6,740 £3,050

Restricted Funding £75,334 £118,046

Unrestricted grants £16,000 -

Donations £1,000 -

Total Expenditure £98,121 £120,660

Overheads £8,046 £9,342

Marketing & Promotion £9,487 £12,413

Staffing & directors £74,018 £92,077

Professional & accountancy £3,294 £4,354

Depreciation £0 £161

Events £1,441 £1,916

Merchandise £1,835 £397

Excess of Income over Expenditure £2,423 £820

BALANCE SHEET 2018-2019 2017-2018

Total Assets £43,626 £23,084

Total Liabilities £25,023 £6,904

Net Assets (Reserves) £18,603 £16,180


THE WALL BREATHING

The Wall Breathing: Take Five Practice card designed by a Take Five Ambassador at Ligoniel Primary School, Belfast.


A Take Five Ambassador from Sir Edmund Hillary Primary School leads a Take Five practice for Ambassadors from his own school and Sparken Hill Academy.

EACH AMAZING BREATHThis biennial report aims to provider the reader with an inspiring overview of the work of Each Amazing Breath CIC between April 2017 and March 2019.

The report shares the words of children and schools, so alongside all sorts of facts and figures about Each Amazing Breath as a not for profit organisation, we are sure the reader will be delighted by the strength, positivity and vitality the children share. It is infectious and uplifting and provides clear evidence of their growing strength and resilience.

For more information contact:

[email protected]

Each Amazing Breath CICRegistered Office: 70–72 Nottingham Road Mansfield Nottinghamshire NG18 1BN

© Each Amazing Breath CIC June 2019Not for profit Community Interest Company based in Nottinghamshire

Image: Children at Sparken Hill Academy at a Take Five celebration event during Mental Health Awareness Week, 2018

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