The Anne Frank Trust UK Realising Ambition Report 1 THE ANNE FRANK TRUST UK REALISING AMBITION REPORT A Realising Ambition Report The Anne Frank Trust UK THE ANNE FRANK TRUST: 2 WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO 24 EVALUATIONS CONDUCTED EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 28 KNOWLEDGE OUR PROGRAMME 4 30 SKILLS 5 OUR REACH 33 CONFIDENCE WHY WE CHOSE OUR 6 REPLICATION AREAS 36 ATTITUDES SUPPORT FROM 10 THE CONSORTIUM LESSONS LEARNT FROM 40 EVALUATING IMPACT 13 OUR HEALTH CONTENTS CONTENTS CONCLUSION 16 REPLICATION 42 OUR STRATEGIC PLANS 20 MEASURING IMPACT 43 22 METHODOLOGY 44 THANK YOU 2 Realising Ambition Report The Anne Frank Trust UK The Anne Frank Trust UK Realising Ambition Report 3 THE ANNE EXECUTIVE FRANK TRUST UK SUMMARY “Every child has the potential to succeed in life but each year thousands of young people across the UK enter the Who we are and what we do criminal justice system for the first time.” – Big Lottery “In Realising Ambition the Big Lottery Fund has invested base has allowed us to monitor the quality of our service [in] projects, such as the Anne Frank Schools and and ensured that we have the intended impact on our Ambassadors programme, which have already proven programme’s beneficiaries; increasing their positive and OUR VISION their effectiveness in diverting young people from pro-social behaviour whilst reducing negative attitudes. pathways into crime so they can fulfil their true potential.” This report details the journey that our organisation – Big Lottery has undertaken during this period and the fundamental A society safe from prejudice and discrimination The Big Lottery Fund provided £25 million under lessons that have been learnt as a result of this process. Realising Ambition to transform outcomes for children It will examine these themes in relation to four areas: and young people. This was used to support a portfolio of 25 projects over three to five years. 1 The replication of the Anne Frank Schools A consortium of organisations was set up to manage and Ambassadors programme and support the projects, which was led by Catch22 WHO WE ARE and included Substance, the Dartington Social Research Unit, and The Young Foundation. 2 The support the Anne Frank Trust received and our resultant growth as an organisation An education charity that empowers young people with the The Anne Frank Trust was awarded £836,478 overall knowledge, skills and confidence to challenge all forms of towards replicating the Anne Frank Schools and prejudice and discrimination Ambassadors programme across five regions in the UK 3 The lessons learnt about our programme and over a five year period, from April 2012 to March 2017. measuring impact The Realising Ambition programme has been highly formative to the Anne Frank Trust’s growth over the past five years. We have witnessed how the principles 4 The future plans and direction of our charity OUR MISSION of replicating an evidence based approach has allowed us to broaden our reach whilst increasing our impact and has provided us with the opportunity of reaching Reflecting on the key lessons learnt about our To use Anne Frank’s life and diary to empower young more young people in a wider geographical area of the programme, organisation and the process of people with the knowledge, skills and confidence to country. Support from the consortium has underpinned replication has proved to be very instructive in the challenge all forms of prejudice and discrimination this whole process and provided us with the tools and development of our charity’s practice and goals. expertise to make our interventions successful. It has also been key to the nurturing of our organisation’s health, enabling the Anne Frank Trust to recurrently consider our own practice and future progress. We have also observed how the creation of a robust evidence 4 Realising Ambition Report The Anne Frank Trust UK The Anne Frank Trust UK Realising Ambition Report 5 OUR OUR PROGRAMME REACH WE WORKED IN The programme that the Anne Frank Trust 2 Educational Workshops 136 replicated as part of Realising Ambition The Anne Frank Trust educator delivers a series of SCHOOLS was the London Schools and Ambassadors workshops to students on five different themes: Programme; a home grown project developed Understanding Prejudice by the Anne Frank Trust UK in 2006. Responsibility and Resistance Human Rights Under Realising Ambition it was renamed the Identity and Diversity Anne Frank Schools and Ambassadors programme Historical Context and ran for the duration of a year, across three consecutive terms. The programme comprised of The final core element happens outside school at a 33,274 three core elements: later date. YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDED OUR 1 Peer Guiding of the Anne Frank: A History 3 Anne Frank Ambassadors programme WORKSHOPS for Today (HfT) Exhibition Six to ten Peer Guides from each school are invited to 2 Educational workshops apply to become Anne Frank Ambassadors. As Anne 3 Anne Frank Ambassadors programme Frank Ambassadors, the students are expected to be a legacy within their school and share their learning. The first two core elements happen over a two This is achieved through the creation of a lesson or week period in schools: assembly about Anne Frank which explores how the students can relate both to her story and issues of 1 Peer Guiding prejudice and discrimination affecting them today. WE TRAINED A group of 12-20 school students aged 12-14 This is then delivered in their schools and in local are trained by an Anne Frank Trust educator feeder primary schools. to guide their peers around the HfT exhibition, 2,468 which is then on display in their school over a YOUNG PEOPLE To help students in achieving this, the Ambassadors two-week period. The training of these ‘Peer AS PEER GUIDES, receive two further days of training on: Guides’ lasts at least one day and is given at the Anne’s story, the Holocaust and related WITH 990 GOING beginning of the in-school programme. Other contemporary issues ON TO BECOME students, teachers and visitors are then guided The development of personal skills (including ANNE FRANK around the HfT exhibition by the Peer Guides public speaking) as well as assistance in creating AMBASSADORS over the two weeks. a lesson and supporting resources 6 Realising Ambition Report The Anne Frank Trust UK The Anne Frank Trust UK Realising Ambition Report 7 WHY WE Glasgow is home to the majority of the most deprived 5% of areas in Scotland and has historic problems with sectarianism. Our previous work in Scotland, which CHOSE OUR began in 2008, led to the establishment of a relationship with Glasgow Council’s inclusivity councillor who assisted the Anne Frank Trust in the further targeting of REPLICATION particular schools that were seen to be in AREAS need of the programme. Edinburgh has pockets of deprivation around the city. The areas focused on for our programme were the West, North East SCOTLAND Gateshead has a large Sunderland has been affected by high levels of and South East parts of the city, where our Orthodox Jewish deprivation, far-right parties standing in local work was supported by a referral partner community that is elections and has seen a growth in its Asian, from a local council in the west of the city. isolated from, and not refugee and asylum-seeker communities. Prior to understood by, many our programme, there had been a protest against of the local population. the proposed building of a mosque in the city. There have been Dundee also has many areas of multiple incidents of hate crime deprivation. The Anne Frank Trust targeted against this community five schools in this city which are located in in this area. more affluent areas, but draw from multiple NORTH catchment areas, and thus were identified Stockton as a borough by the council as often being overlooked by EAST has areas of affluence funding opportunities. and deprivation that exist alongside each other. At the time of our intervention, 34 County Durham contains towns and villages out of 117 of its areas were with high levels of deprivation, where far- in the 20% most deprived West Lothian is known to have problems right organisations such as the English nationally. Stockton schools with sectarianism. It was the only area in Defence League have taken root and spread recorded 143 incidents of Scotland that the Anne Frank Trust did not Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. racist bullying in 2010-11 have partnerships in, however one of the The area has also experienced high levels of in fewer than 70 schools. teachers that had previously worked with prejudice and discrimination against the Gypsy The Anne Frank Trust was us in Edinburgh had moved to West Calder Traveller community. The Community Cohesion contacted by Fiona Ranson, Academy in West Lothian and supported Officer for South Durham, Neil Stonehouse, who works at Stockton our work there. The programme’s delivery recommended schools that would benefit from Council, to bring our was concentrated in some of the area’s ex- the Anne Frank Trust’s intervention. programme to the area. mining communities. 8 Realising Ambition Report The Anne Frank Trust UK The Anne Frank Trust UK Realising Ambition Report 9 Bradford is an area which Kirklees and Calderdale Sefton is a monocultural The Wirral is a monocultural, contains two different cultures both have two distinct area, with a predominantly predominantly white British area, living side by side: White British cultures living side by white British community. facing high levels of deprivation and Pakistani/ Pakistani-British. side: White British and and unemployment. LGBT The city also experiences high Pakistani/ Pakistani- communities in this area have levels of deprivation, particularly British.