Annual Review 2013 Book Aid International in 2013 Book Aid International and our partners medical books and over 16,000 vocational skills books, achieved a great deal in 2013. Thanks to from books on business development to carpentry and UK publishers we were able to provide hairdressing manuals. These categories of books are our partner library services in sub-Saharan particularly in demand and are rarely available or affordable Africa with 563,310 new books with an for our partners. estimated value of £6.8 million. We also Library services for children are at the heart of our work. supported 113 library development projects, provided Throughout 2013 we worked with partners to create six training in librarianship to 142 librarians and teachers and new Children’s Corners in public libraries in Uganda and to supplied grants for the refurbishment of 54 libraries and for provide a School Library in a Box for children in 20 schools the purchase of over 21,000 locally published books. in Tanzania. For both these projects we provided training The generosity of supporters makes all our work possible. in the delivery of library services for children to librarians In 2013 we raised over £1.4m, with individuals generating and teachers. more than half of this amount. Trusts and corporate In 2013 we began working with Kenya National Library funders, community fundraising and income from events Service (KNLS) on a children’s books and e-learning contributed the balance. pilot project. We supplied selected libraries with tablets Volunteers remain essential to the success of Book Aid uploaded with content relevant to the interests of the International and over half of the books we sent in 2013 children and training for both librarians and children in how were stamped or packed by a volunteer. Our Community to use the tablets. This pilot project will help us to evaluate Ambassadors represented us at literary festivals and how children can benefit from digital resources in libraries organised fundraising activities. Thousands of schools and how we may extend access to digital materials to more across the country celebrated World Book Day in March partner libraries in future. by fundraising for Book Aid International, raising a We worked with partners to develop services for users of record £78,353. community libraries in Ethiopia, Uganda and Cameroon. Over two-thirds of the books we provided to partners in We began working with the African Prisons Project to 2013 were for children and ranged from pre-school picture develop library services for prison communities in Uganda, books to textbooks and teenage fiction. We also shipped and we completed a three-year project with KNLS to 60,548 higher education books to universities, polytechnics improve access to medical information for health service and public libraries. We provided partners with 30,071 providers in Kenya.
Nsobe Delopment Trust Campus, Zambia
2 In 2013 we: • provided 563,310 new books to more than 3,000 libraries in sub-Saharan Africa • supported projects benefiting113 public, school and community libraries • provided training for 142 librarians and teachers • supported the refurbishment of 54 libraries • funded the purchase of over 21,000 locally published books
Training for librarians was a key component of all our On behalf of library users across sub-Saharan Africa, our projects in 2013, ensuring that library users can make the partners and all of us in London, I would like to thank best use of their library services. Monitoring and evaluation everyone who makes this invaluable work possible. I hope of both project work and book provision was undertaken you enjoy finding out more about what you helped us to by partners and by Book Aid International staff; the shared achieve in 2013 over the following pages. learning contributes to improvements in our project delivery and book provision programmes.
In 2013 we published Talking to users: a review of our work in five countries, which helped shape our strategy for 2014-2016. Our new strategy focuses on children’s library services, school libraries, community and public libraries Alison Hubert and health information provision and we aim to increase Director the number of books we provide to partners to 700,000 every year by 2016. We will also seek to create greater project sustainability through more local training initiatives and by strengthening relationships with national publishers in countries where we work.
Books from Book Aid International arrive at MA Ali Secondary School in Somaliland A Human Rights student in the National Library of Uganda
3 Libraries for children For so many children in Africa, a public or community Children’s Corners: Open Doors library may be the only place to study or read for To mark our 60th anniversary, we aim to create 60 pleasure or to find books other than in schools, and Children’s Corners in public libraries in six sub-Saharan even there they may be in very short supply. However, African countries by 2017, so that hundreds of thousands libraries are underfunded and many do not have much of children can read and enjoy books in English and local in the way of books, resources or librarians trained to languages suitable for their age and reading ability. work with children. This is why we are working so hard with partners to improve children’s library services, creating child-friendly spaces - Children’s Corners - in I come to the library every day after public libraries. school and even during holidays with my “brother to read, play, make friends and Children’s Corners in Uganda grow up as a child with lots of great ideas. In 2013, in partnership with the National Library Service Victor, Meru Library Children’s Corner, Kenya ” of Uganda (NLU), we created new Children’s Corners in six public libraries. Librarians from each library have taken Training for librarians part in training to give them the skills and confidence to work effectively with children. Training for librarians is integral to the creation of each Children’s Corner and is a key component of our work to Each library has received new books from the UK, small improve services for children. grants from Book Aid International to purchase locally In 2013 we created a Children’s Corner in Okahandja, published books and for library renovations, toys and Namibia, in partnership with Namibia Library and Archive children’s furniture. The Children’s Corners are now bright Services. Few librarians in Namibia have had specialised and welcoming, with staff engaging well with children and training in working with children, so in November 2013 we enthusiastically delivering a range of activities with local provided training for 29 school and community librarians schools. The libraries are already seeing significantly more to build their confidence when working with children and children visiting and joining the library. to develop new activities that encourage parents, carers We are very grateful to the Headley Trust for their support and teachers to bring children to the library. for this project. We are very grateful to Aggreko Plc for their support Case Study: for this training. Paidha Children’s Corner Paidha lies in the Northern Region of Uganda on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a particularly hard to access area of
the country. Mercy Nikuma Mercy Nikuma has been running the library for the past three years and has been delighted with the changes made through the project. She used a grant from Book Aid International to buy desks, chairs, shelving, mats, games and toys for children. Mercy also commissioned a local artist to paint a large mural on the wall, taken from a picture in a book within the library collection.
Children’s librarian training in Namibia
4 Introducing digital technology for The kids require only children in libraries the basic training. They Book Aid International and Kenya National Library Service “navigate and explore (KNLS) began working together in 2013 on a three-year better than us! We are project piloting the use of hand-held computers (tablets) in three selected libraries. The project is giving children training 20 children the opportunity to use technology for reading and for from Kaaga School for educational games and activities. The library runs activities the Deaf who are so for children with special needs which are benefitting local gifted in understanding children and schools. how the tablets operate. We also have 10 children with autism who We were delighted to work with Kenyan NGO e-Limu, visit the library every day… it’s a joy to which is providing educational digital content for the tablets, including curriculum material, supplementary watch them navigate the tablets without reading from local authors and educational games. e-Limu much assistance! facilitated the first digital training workshop at Meru Computers are not readily available at Library in December 2013. This workshop gave project home or school so the library has become librarians and a group of 29 children the opportunity to a digital centre where children can gain learn how the computers worked, how they can use them to help with their homework, and the different learning computer skills and also explore and games they can play on them. access information of their choice. At present, many of the areas where we work cannot access Books are still essential to our users digital content; despite rapid technological advances in because they are romantic, you can fall sub-Saharan Africa, internet access is largely restricted in love with a book, hold it, caress it and to cities while vast rural areas do not have electricity, let share it with friends. The books in the alone reliable access to the internet. However, by the library can also be borrowed so the reader end of 2015 this pilot project will give us the experience can enjoy reading it at home. In schools, and skills to develop similar projects where there is the library books are used for library lessons infrastructure to support them. and to help promote a reading culture. We are very grateful to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for Richard Wanjohi, Chief Librarian, Meru Library, Kenya their support for this project. ”
Digital pilot project, Kenya Children play educational games on a tablet in Meru Library, Kenya
5 Libraries support better education Libraries are invaluable to so many people in Africa We are delighted that the project will be expanding to a who are in education or needing to access up-to- further 10 schools in Pemba and 15 in Kagera on mainland date information for their professional activities. We Tanzania in 2014. support libraries in learning environments such as schools, universities and hospitals as well as providing The library in a box project has been a educational books to public and community libraries. saviour as the school did not have books “before. Children are starting to build a School Library in a Box reading culture through borrowing books. Our School Library in a Box project provides portable Pemba school teacher libraries to schools that do not have a building that can ” house a library, in partnership with Zanzibar Library We are very grateful to Tauheedul Relief Trust for their Services (ZLS) and VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas). support for this project in 2013. Since it began in 2007 the project has given over 36,000 children in 70 schools in isolated communities in Tanzania Local publishers donate books access to a library of books in English and Swahili. Over 200 teachers have been trained to make the best use of Following an introduction by Book Aid International, our their new libraries. partner in Cameroon, EISERVI (Education Information Services International), secured a donation of over 83,000 In 2013 we extended the School Library in a Box project school curriculum books from local publisher COSMOS. to 20 schools on Pemba Island, the second largest island in We funded the distribution of these books to primary and the Zanzibar archipelago. secondary schools in remote areas of Cameroon. The people of Pemba rely primarily on subsistence farming EISERVI approached other local publishers and the Anucam and small-scale fishing for a living, with many surviving Foundation donated a further 20,000 books. As a result of on less than US$1 a day. There is only one public library the publicity generated, World Wildlife Fund in Cameroon on the island, serving the population of over 300,000. will support the distribution of these donated books. Many children on Pemba had never visited a library and some had never seen a storybook before the Book Aid Thousands of Cameroonian children will benefit from this International and ZLS partnership. collaboration which is a wonderful example of a partner As well as providing book boxes to each school, we trained securing local support in order to create a more sustainable 40 teachers (two from each school) in basic school library approach to library development. We are glad to have management and to deliver activities to encourage reading played a small part in achieving this. in the classroom. A volunteer education specialist is We are grateful to the Mace legacy for funding the producing a training manual for teachers. distribution of some of these books.
School Library in a Box, Pemba, Tanzania Fourteen-year-old Rahmatu borrows Gulliver’s Travels from her school library in Cameroon to read to her siblings
6 Higher education, health and Case Study: Conflict Resolution vocational books Ignatius Stephen Chiketa, Chief Mashayamombe, The tertiary education sector in Africa is expanding rapidly. graduated as Master of Science in Peace, Leadership and In 2013 we provided 61,548 higher education books to partner libraries. We also provided over 16,000 vocational Conflict Resolution from Zimbabwe Open University in books to a wide range of libraries. Demand was particularly November 2013 at the age of 78. high for books relating to technical skills such as plumbing, Chief Mashayamombe presides over a large area south carpentry, brickwork, metalwork, engineering, electronics. west of Harare, Zimbabwe and undertook this course Happily we received some generous donations of books in these subjects at the end the year which we will send to because he wanted to improve his knowledge and skills partners in 2014. to manage disputes amongst his people and to live in harmony with neighbouring chiefdoms. In 2013 we provided partners with over 30,000 highly valued medical textbooks. For many of our partners the Chief Mashayamombe told us that books from Book medical and health books we provide constitute the vast Aid International were essential to his success in his majority of their collection and are an essential resource studies. He mentioned two books in particular that for health practitioners - from doctors and nurses to were invaluable: Peace and Conflict Studies (Barash and community health workers and traditional healers. Some Webelle) published by SAGE publications and Peace of the books we provide are for people in communities where there may not be a medical practitioner. We also and Conflict Resolution in Africa (Editor: Francis, D.J.) purchase specialist titles where there is demand and we published by Zed Books. are able to secure funding.
HIV/AIDS books This degree is relevant to my work as a We purchased and shipped over 600 HIV/AIDS readers traditional leader. Every case that I hear, I and some 500 related health and medical titles for young “try to emphasise on peace before I refer it people to libraries in Uganda in 2013. These books present for trial. The relevance of my degree is on important information about living with and protecting conflict resolution. We go to the root cause against HIV/AIDS in a format that is accessible and and after completing a case I make sure engaging for young people. The books were sent to two that contesting parties reconcile where the public libraries and two community libraries in the Uganda Community Libraries Association network which offer offender asks for forgiveness. My major services for young people and provide health information ambition is to be a good leader and a role for users. model for my people. We are grateful to the Mercury Phoenix Trust for their Chief Mashayamombe, Zimbabwe” support for this project.
We provided health information titles to Kawempe Youth Library in Uganda Chief Mashayamombe (right) at his graduation in Zimbabwe 2013
7 Libraries support stronger communities Community libraries are vital resource centres for Library management training people in areas where there is no public library. Many Book Aid International provided library management community libraries are owned and managed locally in training for 22 community librarians from the Network both rural and urban areas, as well as in more isolated of Community Librarians in Cameroon in partnership with communities such as refugee camps and prisons. Education Information Services International (EISERVI). We provide new books, small grants to refurbish library The training addressed a wide range of issues relevant to buildings and purchase locally-published books, and community librarians who may be involved in setting up, librarianship training for staff. We support community maintaining or supporting a library. Participants explored libraries in Uganda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and issues relating to the creation of community libraries Tanzania. that are centres of knowledge, including the design and Community libraries in Ethiopia planning of library spaces and the acquisition of library materials and books. Library management topics were Ethiopia is undergoing rapid social, economic and political also covered, such as book processing, shelving and care, transformation. There are very few public libraries in effective customer services and activities that could support Ethiopia, the price of books is soaring and the new regional revenue generation, building community support, library capitals are calling for modern services, including libraries. promotion, advocacy and marketing. In 2013 we launched a project in partnership with Ethiopia Knowledge and Technolgy Transfer Services (EKTTS) and During the short time I have served six Ethiopian regional Bureaux of Culture and Tourism to in the Limbe City Council Library, I have establish public libraries in six regional cities in Ethiopia “noticed that there are a great number of over three years. Children will have a safe place to read things I do not know and cannot do. I have and study, especially in the evenings, at weekends and in simply used common sense in running the school holidays, and adults will have books and information library. This training has come in to show to improve income generating skills and to take care of me beyond common sense and give me family health. the skills I need to serve as a manager in a library. In 2013 we sent the first 10,000 books for the project. Book Aid International is raising funds to support librarian Mrs Nana Edith” nee Motanga, Library Manager, Limbe City Council Library, Cameroon training and the purchase of materials in local languages. We aim to supply a further 50,000 books in 2014-15. We are grateful to Reed Elsevier for funding this training.
The librarian at Kibiti Community Library, Tanzania Child reading at Petit Dan and Sarah Orphanage, Cameroon, where there is a community library
8 Refugee communities Library services for prisons In 2013 we provided 5,470 books to community libraries in In 2013 we began a project in partnership with the African Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps in Kenya. The camps Prisons Project (APP) to support library services for the house hundreds of thousands of refugees from at least community of Gulu Prison, Northern Uganda which has a ten different African countries, many of whom have been population of nearly 800 inmates including 53 women and resident for up to two decades. The books we send are their children. We also support prison libraries in Kenya, distributed to small community, school and NGO libraries Zimbabwe and Cameroon. within the camps by our partner Windle Trust Kenya. First, a dark, damp storage area was transformed into a These libraries provide an invaluable resource for people room for the library. Following consultation with inmates living in the camps. They support them to continue their the new library was stocked with 1,100 new books from education and provide a quiet space for study and reading Book Aid International. We also provided funds for the for pleasure in a place that has a severe shortage of purchase of 1,000 books locally, including Ugandan community spaces or resources. curriculum textbooks and books in local languages. Until this partnership the prison had no books. We provided training in library management for 20 inmates and two Case Study: Education in a prison officers. The library now provides the only quiet refugee camp environment in the prison compound where inmates and Samira is 23 and lives alone in Kakuma Refugee Camp staff can study or simply read for pleasure. in Kenya where she works in a pharmacy to support Satellite libraries are now being set up at three other prisons herself. Samira loves story books as they offer an escape. in northern Uganda, all of which will receive support from Her current favourite is a Jane Eyre reader. Samira also Book Aid International. borrows academic books from the tiny library that her English teacher has set up, largely with books provided by Book Aid International. Samira is a committed Before I was arrested I had hoped to student and attends English lessons twice a week. She attend [librarian] training and now… I feel “motivated to start my own library after my is also studying community development. She wants to be a doctor and hopes to be able to convert her Somali time in prison. Edema – a male prisoner at Gulu Prison in Uganda school qualifications to the Kenyan equivalent in order ” to apply for a scholarship to attend a university beyond We are grateful to the Evan Cornish Foundation and Reed the confines of the refugee camp. Elsevier for their support for this project.
Samira’s identity has been protected for security reasons The chief librarian at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison, Kenya
9 Figures in brackets show the total number of books sent to each country
Book Aid International in 2013 sending books that change lives
Eritrea
Ethiopia South Sudan Cameroon Eritrea Somalia & Uganda Kenya Somaliland Ethiopia South Sudan Cameroon Somalia & Uganda Kenya Somaliland Tanzania
Tanzania
Malawi Zambia Malawi Namibia ZimbabweZambia
Namibia Zimbabwe
Syria China
The Occupied Pakistan Palestinian Territories India
Israel Jordan
Egypt Sri Lanka (10,116)
Syria China 10 The Occupied Pakistan Palestinian Territories India
Israel Jordan
Egypt Sri Lanka (10,116) Cameroon (49,043) Kenya (79,992) Malawi (46,452) Eritrea (13,113) In addition to distributing 49,043 We began a two-year project The Malawi National Library We sent 4,355 books to the Library Book Aid International books, our with the Kenya National Library Service continues to distribute and Information Association of partner Education Information Service (KNLS) to create 10 more books to their network of Eritrea for distribution and an Services International (EISERVI) Children’s Corners in public branch libraries and schools. additional 8,758 to the negotiated donations from libraries. Within this project, we In 2013 libraries were assessed Ministry of Education Cameroon publishers of over launched our first digital pilot and selected for the first of five for distribution to 100,000 textbooks for Cameroonian project. Training for both library Children’s Corners to commence schools in Eritrea. schools. We supported EISERVI to staff and children has ensured full in 2014. deliver training for library staff in 22 ownership of the project by users. of the community libraries in their KNLS distributed books to libraries network. across Kenya, with Book Aid International books constituting over half those distributed.
Ethiopia (31,797) Namibia (29,008) Occupied Palestinian Three partners in Ethiopia – the We supported the establishment Territories (23,386) British Council, CODE Ethiopia of a Children’s Corner in the In addition to the regular and Ethiopian Knowledge and Okahandja public library. The distribution of books through the Technology Transfer Society opportunity was taken to provide British Council and the Tamer (EKTTS) – distributed over 30,000 training in children’s services to Institute of Community books. We partnered with EKTTS library staff beyond those working Education, funding was to develop public libraries in at Okahandja and nearly 30 staff received in 2013 for rural Ethiopia. We sent 10,000 attended the three day training. We the production of 300 books for libraries in Tigray and sent 12,576 books to school libraries individual education Oromiya. This project was a and 9,847 to community libraries kits for distribution to joint collaboration with EKTTS, through the Namibia Libraries and children when schools the Regional Bureaux of Culture Archive Service. were closed during and Tourism and Computer Aid emergencies. International.
South Sudan (10,131) Tanzania (78,425) Uganda (88,639) Zambia (37,690) Books were distributed in 2013 2013 saw the continuation of the Book Aid International worked on Books were distributed through by our partner African Educational School Library in a Box projects a number of projects in Uganda a range of partners in Zambia. Trust to the Resource and Open in both Kagera in mainland during the course of 2013. Six In the Copperbelt the Lions Learning Centres and libraries Tanzania and in Zanzibar. This new libraries established bright, Club distributed 3,000 books in their network. The ongoing year the Kagera project included welcoming Children’s Corners to a range of public and school conflict situation in South Sudan schools in the very poor islands with new books from the UK and libraries. Over 14,000 books were will be monitored to ensure the of Bumbire and Mazinga in Lake purchased locally. A prison library sent to the Forum for African books can reach their intended Victoria. Tanzania Library Services was established in Gulu with a Women Educationalists of Zambia libraries and readers. Board libraries were identified range of books to support prisoners (FAWEZA) mobile library service for the 2014 Children’s Corners in their literacy and further studies. which provides books to secondary programme. Additionally 10 community libraries schools in five Zambian provinces. were supported with training and books to improve the services they provide to their communities.
Zimbabwe (50,500) Somalia and Somaliland (25,134) Two distribution committees Books were distributed to the African Educational Trust is Book operate in Zimbabwe, one in six regions of Somaliland by our Aid International’s distribution Harare and one in Bulawayo. In partner African Educational Trust. partner in Puntland. In 2013 they 2013 they jointly distributed Book Libraries receiving books were distributed books to 54 pre- and Aid International books to 15 in 13 primary schools (with 39 primary schools, 12 secondary public libraries, 88 pre- and primary satellite libraries), 12 secondary schools, 18 higher education schools, 31 secondary schools, nine schools, six community libraries, institutions and four special higher education institutions, seven nine vocational colleges, seven interest libraries. NGOs, one government and one universities and two non- prison library. These books continue government organisations. to support organisations that often have no other means of procuring new books.
11 Book Aid International in 2013
Books We provided our partners with 563,310 new books. The majority of these books were donated by 24 UK publishers and were worth an estimated £6.8 million. In addition, we supported our partners to purchase over 21,000 locally published books and to secure donations of over 100,000 books from local publishers.
Libraries Our work reached over 3,000 libraries in sub-Saharan Africa and 54 libraries were transformed by refurbishments we funded. 113 public, school and community libraries benefitted from library development projects we supported, and 142 librarians and teachers undertook training provided by Book Aid International.
Support Donors gave a total of £1,413,552 towards our work in 2013.
Individual supporters generated over £747,000 for us and the remainder of our funding was generated by trusts and corporate supporters, community fundraising and events.
Schools and colleges raised £78,353 for us over World Book Day in 2013 and 14 Community Ambassadors raised funds and awareness for us in their local area. More than 50 volunteers stamped and packed over half the books we sent to partners in 2013.
12 13 Book Aid International Finance Statement facts and figures Trustees’ Statement The Board of Trustees confirms the financial information that appears on this page is a summary of information extracted from the full annual accounts Patrons, council members and which were approved. This summary does not contain sufficient information other officials to allow a full understanding of the financial affairs of the charity. For further information, the full accounts, the auditor’s report and the report of the Patron: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM Trustees should be consulted. President: Nigel Newton Vice President: Professor Kingo Mchombu Copies of the full report and accounts may be obtained, free of charge, from Book Aid International. They can also be downloaded from www.bookaid.org. BOARD A copy of this document, upon which the auditors have reported without Chair: Philip Walters MBE qualification, has been delivered to the Charity Commission and to the Honorary Treasurer: Fergus Cass FCMA Registrar of Companies. Julie Brittain Ed Bowers Rosie Glazebrook Shoba Ponnappa OBE Philip Walters MBE, Chair Kate Phillips OBE By order of the Trustees Alec Russell (retired 20 June 2013) 26 June 2014 Tony Worthington Director: Alison Hubert Independent Auditors’ statement to the Members of Book Aid Company Secretary: Anthony Campbell (until 15 November 2013) International We have examined the summary financial information for the year ended Books sent in 2013 according to 31 December 2013. subject area Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditor The trustees are responsible for preparing the summary financial information in Children & Teenagers 167,755 accordance with applicable United Kingdom law. Secondary Textbooks 113,149 Primary Textbooks 90,329 Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the Higher Education 61,548 summary financial information within the Finance Statement with the full Leisure Reading 51,848 annual financial statements and the Trustees’ Report, and its compliance with Medicine 30,071 the relevant requirements of section 427 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Teacher Training 16,238 regulations made there under. Vocational Skills 16,026 E.F.L 10,640 We also read the other information contained in the Finance Statement and Law 3,821 consider the implications for our report if we become aware of any apparent Reference 1,885 misstatements or material inconsistencies with the summary financial statement. TOTAL 563,310 Our report has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and for no other purpose. No person is entitled to rely on this report unless such a person is a person entitled to rely upon this report by virtue of and for the purpose of the Companies Act 2006 or has been expressly authorised to do so by our prior written consent. Save as above, we do not accept responsibility for this report to any other person or for any other purpose Income breakdown and we hereby expressly disclaim any and all such liability. Charitable trusts & NGOs £357,072 Basis of opinion Government bodies £0 We conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin 2008/3 ‘The auditors’ Companies £209,899 Community sources £99,244 statement on summary financial statement in the United Kingdom’ issued Individuals *£747,337 by the Financial Reporting Council. Our report on the charity’s full annual Total voluntary income £1,413,552 financial statements describes the basis of our opinion on those financial Activities for generating funds £12,224 statements and on the Trustees’ Report. Investment income £4,877 Other incoming resources £11,192 Opinion Total cash income £1,441,845 In our opinion the summary financial statement is consistent with the full Value of donated books £6,816,721 annual financial statements and the Trustees’ Report of Book Aid International TOTAL INCOME £8,258, 566 for the year ended 31 December 2013 and complies with the applicable (*Including legacies and gift aid) requirements of section 427 of the Companies Act 2006, and the regulations made there under. Expenditure breakdown Fundraising Cost of generating funds £571,221 BDO LLP, Statutory Auditor Activities for generating funds £21,704 London Total cost of generating funds £592,925 Charitable activities United Kingdom Access to information £815,010 7 July 2014 Use of donated books £6,816,721 Training and learning £90,437 BDO LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales Advocacy £48,266 (with registered number OC305127) Total cost of charitable activities £7,770,434 Governance costs £28,894 TOTAL EXPENDITURE £8,392,253 For detailed accounts go to www.bookaid.org/publications
14 Partner list This is a full list of our overseas partners who receive books from us directly. In many cases, they also act as distributing agents for other organisations and libraries. Through our partners we reached over 3,000 libraries in 2013. We could not do our work without them and we would like to thank them all for their support.
CAMEROON Palestinian Technical University Nambi Sseppuuya Community Resource Centre Community Action for Development Palestinian Women’s Research & National Library of Uganda Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association Documentation Centre Pan African Development Education & of Cameroon Tamer Institute of Community Education Advocacy Program Dynamic Action Group University College of Applied Sciences Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda Education Information Services International St Jude Medical and Resource Centre International Centre for Environmental Education PUNTLAND (SOMALIA) Uganda Community Libraries Association & Development Africa Educational Trust Puntland Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network Strategic Humanitarian Services Puntland University of Science and Technology University of Buea ZAMBIA University Institute of the Diocese of Buea SOMALIland Copperbelt University Africa Educational Trust Forum for African Women Educationalists of Zambia ERITREA Disability Action Network Lions Club of Mukuba Library and Information Association of Eritrea New Generation University College Lusaka City Library Ministry of Education NGO Co-ordinating Council SOUTH SUDAN Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia ETHIOPIA Africa Educational Trust University of Zambia, Kitwe Campus British Council Juba Resource and Open Learning Centre University of Zambia, Lusaka Campus CODE Ethiopia Panyagor Resource and Open Learning Centre Zambia Library Service Ethiopia Knowledge & Technology Transfer Society Rumbek Resource and Open Learning Centre Zambia Open Community Schools Yambio Resource and Open Learning Centre Zambian College of Open Learning KENYA Egerton University TANZANIA ZIMBABWE Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology Africana Community Rehabilitation Organization Bulawayo Book Distribution Committee Kenya Medical Training College Civil Aviation Training Centre Bindura University of Science Education Kenya National Library Service College of African Wildlife Management Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation Kenya Prisons Service Community Servers City of Harare Libraries Kenyatta University Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe Maseno University Gunda Foundation Tanzania Chinhoyi University of Technology Mathare Youth Sports Association Ministry of Community Development, Gender Chipinge Community Books Mombasa Polytechnic University College and Children Edward Ndlovu Memorial Library Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism Wildlife Harare Distribution Committee Presbyterian University of East Africa MJUKIZA Kwekwe Polytechnic Shalom House Documentation Centre Mkwawa University College of Education Lupane State University South Eastern University College Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Midlands State University University of Nairobi Mwamko Foundation Mpilo Central Hospital WECARN Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science National Gallery of Zimbabwe Wide Rescue Initiative Organization & Technology National University of Science and Technology Windle Trust Kenya Open University of Tanzania Pharmaceutical Society of Zimbabwe Pemba Public Library Theological College of Zimbabwe MALAWI Pharmaceutical Society of Tanzania University of Zimbabwe Chancellor College, University of Malawi School of Library, Archives & Documentation Studies Women’s University in Africa College of Medicine, University of Malawi Sokoine University of Agriculture Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention Development Action for Marginalised Rural Areas State University of Zanzibar & Rehabilitation Exploits University Stefano Moshi Memorial University College Zimbabwe Library Development Trust Kachimbeka Tanzania Institute of Accountancy Zimbabwe Open University Kamuzu College of Nursing Tanzania Institute of Education Malawi Adventist University Tanzania Library Services Board Malawi National Library Service Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health Malawian Entrepreneurs Development Institute University College of Education Zanzibar Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development University of Dar es Salaam Mzuzu Technical College Vocational Training Authority Mzuzu University Zanzibar Library Services Pharmaceutical Society of Malawi UGANDA NAMIBIA Africa Educational Trust Polytechnic of Namibia African Prisons Project Sister Namibia Asinaga Uganda The National Library and Archives Service of Namibia Bigkid Foundation Lorna Project University of Namibia Caezaria Complex Public Library FEMRITE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Fortportal International Nursing School Ahliya Palestine University College Forum for African Women Educationalists Uganda Al-Quds University Forum for Women in Democracy Bethlehem University Gulu University Birzeit University Kasiisi Project British Council Kyambogo University Islamic University of Gaza Makerere University Palestine Polytechnic University Mbarara University of Science & Technology
15 With thanks to… We are very grateful for all the support we receive, both financial and in books. We would like to thank the following donors in particular as well as those who wish to remain anonymous: Major supporters 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust INTRAC Smiths Group Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries Johnson Matthey Plc Sobell Foundation Aggreko Plc Lawrence Educational Sonia Friedman Productions Andersen Press Ltd Letterbox Library South Place Ethical Society Argus Media LexisNexis Butterworths Stavros Niarchos Foundation b small publishing Nature Publishing Group Susanna Peake Charitable Trust Baker Books Macmillan Distribution Ltd Tauheedul Relief Trust Bazar International Macmillan Education Taylor & Francis Beatrice Laing Trust Mercury Phoenix Trust Teaching-aids at Low Cost Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation National Union of Teachers Technical Centre for Agricultural & Bertram Group Ltd Nelson Thornes Ltd Rural Cooperation Better World Books One World Publications The Beit Trust British Psychological Society Open Gate Trust The Book People Ltd Cambridge University Press Orion Publishing Group The Fulmer Charitable Trust Centaur Media Plc Oxfam HQ The Galanthus Trust John S Cohen Foundation Oxford University Press The Headley Trust Commonwealth Consortium for Education P F Charitable Trust The Inchcape Foundation Commonwealth Pharmacists Association Pan Macmillan The Law Society Charity Coordination Group Publications Ltd Peacock Charitable Trust The Madeline Mabey Trust (Distribution Centre) Pearson The Peter Alan Dickson Foundation Dischma Charitable Trust Pearson Education The Phyllis Little Memorial Trust Earthscan Publications Ltd Pearson Oxford The Reading Agency Elsevier Penguin UK The Society of Bookmen Eurospan Group Peters Bookselling Services The Tinsley Charitable Trust Frances Lincoln Ltd Practical Action Publishing The Travelling Book Company Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation Press Association Unwin Charitable Trust Global Book Marketing Profile Books Usborne Publishing Ltd Hachette Childrens Books Quercus Publishing Plc Walker Books Ltd Hachette UK Random House Wiley Harlequin, Mills & Boon Ltd Readers Digest The Willoughby Book Club HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Reed Elsevier Zochonis Charitable Trust Headline Richmond Publishing Hodder and Stoughton Rising Stars UK Ltd Hodder Education Sage Publications Ltd Human Kinetics Publishers Scion Publishing
We are also extremely grateful for support from: Beverley Naidoo EDF Energy London Eye Philip Walters MBE Bookbrunch Goat Pizza East Bookish Helen Meixner Publishers Association Booksellers Association James Mayhew Reed Exhibitions Boujis Joanna Lumley OBE FRGS Rob Cornford Cambridge Wordfest John Simpson CBE Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Chitra Merchant Kirsten Grant & the World Book Day Shepherd Neame Clara Vulliamy Committee Southwark Libraries Clifford Chance London Book Fair The Book People Consolidated PR Michael Palin CBE FRGS The Bookseller Damian Barr Natalie Haynes Tony Worthington David Potter National Book Tokens Vestal Vodka Dulwich and Sydenham Hill Golf Course Neil Pearson Eclipse New Internationalist
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