2019 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS
NOTE FROM THE FOUNDERS 1 YEMEN - COUNTRY PROFILE 12 WHO, WHY & WHERE: MISSION & ETHOS 2 - OUR WORK & IMPACT 13
THE SCOOP STORY 3 IRELAND - COUNTRY PROFILE 14 VISION & CURRENT OPERATIONS 4 - OUR WORK & IMPACT 15
SCOOP IN 2019 5 OTHER PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD 18
SYRIA EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS 25 - COUNTRY PROFILE 6 - OUR WORK & IMPACT 7 MEDIA COVERAGE 24
IRAQ SPECIAL THANKS TO 25 - COUNTRY PROFILE 8 - OUR WORK & IMPACT 9 FINANCIALS 26 NOTE FROM THE FOUNDERS
If 2018 was a year of great change for us here at SCOOP offers young people in situ and distant learning courses in 2019 was most definitely the year of growth and innovation. coding, design, programming, music production and school It was also the year of our 10th birthday so it was fitting subjects. that we found a new drive and a more focused mission, creating perhaps one of the most exciting and innovative We also ran our most successful Art Auction to date, programmes to date. The SCOOP iT Programme. In addition running a special 10th year anniversary version, raising to this we gained some amazing and dedicated new board a rather incredible €52,000 on the day, smashing our members and additions to the team. previous record for an auction. Through the creation and initial piloting of the SCOOP iT Our donor community The SCOOP Crew continued to grow Programme (which aims to create online education systems too, becoming the backbone of the organisation, and the that transcend borders or the poverty that a lot of humans ideas continue to flow into 2020. are born into) we renewed our drive and energy and found We cannot thank enough each donor, volunteer and legend ourselves with a new mission and purpose. who helped us along the way. We just hope we can repay The team grew too. Artist Shane Sutton continued his your kindness by creating a hard working, transparent incredible work which started with the creation of the Art and innovative organisation with the ability to change Programme in the Bajed Kandala Camp in Iraq and has led thousands of young people’s lives. to the founding of the iT Programme. Karen Regan joined the gang and now heads up our Events & Fundraising team Onwards and upwards! and the Board stepped up a few gears with the addition of Dylan Cannon (Google), Colin Farmer (Unthink creative agency) and Rebecca McLaughlin joining the team and Calvin & Andy Sweeney helping us use our time, energy and ideas more effectively. Founders of SCOOP [email protected] After 10 years of building schools, supporting educational [email protected] projects in the Developing World and 3 years working in the Middle East, we realised how we could best help the young people living in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, and this was through the creation of our iT Programme. This project
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 1 WHO, WHY & WHERE
MISSION: No child should live in poverty or danger, wherever they are born or the circumstances they are born into. It is the great failure of mankind that innocent children are born into abject poverty or into displacement camps. At SCOOP we are on a mission to build a kinder world for the next generation and to help anyone we can, anyone who is hurting around the world through no fault of their own. ETHOS: Poverty and war are the ultimate failures of mankind, pipped only by our ability to ignore these man made catastrophes. But while the solutions to these problems are complex, the moral premise is simple: be sound - We need to help those that are in need of it. At SCOOP we do that by supporting grass root organisations working tirelessly on the frontlines who are lacking support and resources. Like us, they are the little guy fighting the odds, so we support them in any way we can, giving them the support they need to carry out their life changing work and the support to be able to grow and ultimately help more people.
A student in the school in Prey Ponror, Cambodia. SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 2 The SCOOP Story
SCOOP started in 2009 with a small group of like-minded friends throwing club nights, tables quizzes and small art auctions to help home and educate street children in Cambodia and India. But we have grown since to support doctors in war zones, IDP’s & refugees fleeing danger and addressing the homeless crisis here in Ireland.
We also want to provide a platform for young people in Ireland to get involved with helping change the world for the better. We also believe in raising funds in a positive manner, steering away from manipulative advertising, bucket shaking or other draconian methods.
We treat each cent we raise like our benefactors would and treat each donor with respect, as they are the backbone of our organisation and allow us to carry out the work we do.
Class at the 3rd school built in Cambodia.
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VISION & CURRENT OPERATIONS Ireland
Syria India India Iraq
Yemen Cambodia
Kenya
VISION: Our vision is to create a kinder, more nurturing world for the next generation. To create educational systems that transcend borders, class or the limiting circumstances most of the planet find themselves born into. Whether it is educating impoverished children or supporting those forgotten and living indefinitely in camps or supporting mobile clinics in war zones, we want to help those who are on the front lines saving lives and those who are changing the fates of those less fortunate, whether it be from danger or unbreakable poverty cycles, for they are the real change makers and deserve all the support we can give them.
CURRENT For the last 10 years we have supported grass root At home in Ireland our StreetSmart campaign raises much OPERATIONS: organisations working in Cambodia, India, Syria, Iraq, needed funds to tackle the homeless crisis by raising Yemen, Kenya and at home in Ireland. The Cambodian, funds through restaurants, donating the funds to small to Indian and Kenyan projects focus on the welfare, education medium sized grass root projects working on the front lines. and development of impoverished children; The projects in Syria, Iraq and Yemen focus on supporting doctors, ambulances and clinics working in various locations or camps for IDP’s.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 4 SCOOP IN 2019 Young people in the IT programme, Bajed Kandala, Iraq.
CURRENT OPERATIONS
In 2019 & 2020 the main focus of our work will be around the continued growth and development of the iT Programme, which we aim to bring to all the countries we have partner organisations in, including Ireland and for those living in Direct Provision.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 5 COUNTRY PROFILE
SYRIA Population: 18.27M *
Refugees and People Of Concern to UNHCR
5.66M Registered Refugees*** 2010*** 1.31M 13.1M People in Need*** 2019** 5.9M 6.6M Internally Displaced***
60M ECONOMY COLLAPSE EDUCATION COLLAPSE : 10 FEMALES : 10 MALES
PRIMARY GROSS ENROL. RATION (F/M PER 100 POP.) 28M 2010* 120 18M FEMALE 11M 2017** 78.7 2M 1M 2010* 124.4 MALE 2010** 2017* 2010** 2017* 2010** 2017* 2017** 81.4 GDP IMPORTS EXPORTS
Sources: * UN,2017 / ** UN, 2019 / ***UNHCR, 2018 SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 6 OUR WORK & IMPACT IN SYRIA
In response to the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, SCOOP set up an online platform raising over €18,000.
WE GOT TO PURCHASE: Medication and clothes en route to Qamishlo, Syria. 488kg 500kg OF MEDICINE OF WINTER CLOTHING
ITEMS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO SEVERAL HOSPITALS, HOMES AND CLINICS WITH CASH GIFTS IN KIND GIVEN TO: 125 families WHO LOST THEIR BREADWINNERS.
€2,000 WAS ALSO DONATED TO THE KURDISH RED CRESCENT.
Calvin at the main hospital, Qamishlo, Syria.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 7 COUNTRY PROFILE IRAQ 13.1 million 1.4 million PEOPLE OF CONCERN ** INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE SINCE 2014 *** 233,370 97,640 PEOPLE OF CONCERN RECEIVED INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE RECEIVED CORE RELIEF ITEMS **** CORE RELIEF AND SEASONAL ITEMS ****
39,500 SYRIAN REFUGEE ASSISTED 15,210 RECEIVED PRIMARY EDUCATION SUPPORT
15 UNSTABLE ECONOMY 10 GDP (%)* 5 0
-5 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Sources: * The World Bank Data - Iraq / **UNHCR Population Stats, 2018 / ***UNHCR, 2018 / ****UNHCR Iraq SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 8 OUR WORK & IMPACT IN IRAQ
TOTAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT SENT TO KURDISTAN €25,824
JHK (JOINT HELP FOR KURDISTAN) CLINIC SUPPORT:
AVG. 2,000 PERSONS PER MONTH.
PROGRAMMES:
ART PSYCHO-SOCIAL IT & EDUCATION 90 55 70 PERSONS PERSONS PERSONS
60 YOUNG PEOPLE, 10 STAFF
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Bajed Kandala Camp for displaced persons (Iraqi Kurdistan) and The SCOOP iT Programme
We have been working alongside Swedish NGO Joint Help for Kurdistan for the last 3 years, supporting a wide range of medical and humanitarian projects in and around Bajed Kandala camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 2017 we started the Psychological Support Programme, aimed at helping women and children who have returned from ISIS captivity.
In partnership with:
Dr. Nemam of Join Help for Kurdistan.
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SCOOP Art & IT Programmes
This led to the creation of the Art Programme in 2018, which was a progression from the Psychological Support Programme, but largely aimed to help children and young people express themselves and beat the boredom of life in the camp.
On Shane Sutton’s 2nd trip to the camp he spoke to his students and it was identified that they wanted to learn IT and computer skills. Further research found that the education curriculums available in the camp, particularly the curriculum provided by the Baghdad government was heavily flawed, offering students three hours of schooling a day largely delivered by unqualified volunteers.
Calvin and Shane travelled out again in November 2019. With Two boys with their finished work. support from Coder-Dojo and Dropbox, they shipped ten Mac Book Pros to the camp and built an IT centre/classroom. Pilot classes were delivered in coding, graphic design and general computing. Online computing classes were delivered by volunteers in Google HQ in Dublin and online academic physics classes were delivered by a teacher in Erbil, Iraq.
Further partnerships were forged in Ireland with St Patrick’s DCU, Ableton, UCDVO and NextRoll to fully launch the programme in January 2020.
Support from:
Dylan, Sarah and Joe from Google facilitating the first distant online course to the camp from Google HQ in Dublin. SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 11 COUNTRY PROFILE
YEMEN TOTAL POPULATION: 28.25 MILLION
OF TOTAL POPULATION ARE OF TOTAL POPULATION ARE IN NEED OF HUMANITARIAN WITHOUT ACCESS TO SAFE 80% ASSISTANCE * 70% WATER AND SANITATION * ▲9% SINCE 2018 ▲10% SINCE 2018
OF TOTAL POPULATION ARE OF TOTAL POPULATION ARE WITHOUT ACCESS TO THREATENED BY STARVATION * 2 in 3 ADEQUATE HEALTHCARE * 71% ▲18% SINCE 2018
MORE THAN 2 MILLION CHILDREN ARE OUT OF SCHOOL * 360,000 CHILDREN SUFFER FROM SEVERE MALNUTRITION *
Sources: * UNHCR, 2019 - YEMEN SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 12 OUR WORK & IMPACT IN YEMEN
Fundraisers for Global Response Management (GRM)
SCOOP partnered up with American NGO - Global Response Management to assist them in their response to the crisis in Yemen. SCOOP put on two fundraisers which raised over €8,072. This money was used by GRM to conduct surveys south of Husaydah for the UN who had no access to the area.
In partnership with:
The GRM team arriving in Hudaydah, Yemen
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IRELAND
+10,000 HOMELESS PEOPLE FOR SIX CONSECUTIVE MONTHS*** WITH UP TO 40% BEING CHILDREN* IN 2019
1,250 FAMILIES HOMELESS IN 2019**
NOT INCLUDED IN THESE FIGURES PEOPLE SLEEPING ROUGH OR SURVIVING IN SQUATS, WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN REFUGES, PEOPLE IN DIRECT PROVISION AND THE THE HIDDEN HOMELESS PEOPLE STAYING WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS AS THEY HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
*Focus Ireland 2018
**Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government - figure is an average of the data across the 12 months
*** Homelessness figures above 10,000 for sixth month in a row - TheJournal.ie
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StreetSmart had 16 restaurants participating in 2019 raising over €20,000! These funds will be distributed among our partner services in Ireland and to develop our kitchen training project in 2020 aimed at homeless young people, those at risk of homelessness and those exiting the care system.
Participating Restaurants:
777 Charlotte Quay Dillingers Yamamori Butchers Grill Klaw Cafe The Winding Stair Hang Dai Woollen Mills Vermillion The Legal Eagle Old Street The Washerwoman Dublin Pizza Company Coppinger Row Bar 1661
TOTAL RAISED: €20,497
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 15 OTHER PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD
OUR KIDS IN KENYA MULHOLLAND CHILDREN’S HOME IN TANZANIA School / orphanage, Kajiado, Kenya. One of the artists who has contributed to pretty much every art auction We purchased a new van for the orphanage and school to help them in the last 10 years - Adrienne M. Finnerty, alongside her mother, had save on the crippling costs of transporting the kids around through the dream and vision to build a home and school for orphaned children public transport. This saving would allow them to improve the living living in Mbeya in Tanzania. First we made a donation towards the quarters (53 kids) and the school itself, which were originally set up 9 construction of the school, and then we helped pay for the chairs and years ago. desks for the school.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 16 OTHER PROJECTS AROUND THE WORLD
CAIRDE KHMER GAA CLUB PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
In 2018 & 2019 we sponsored the budding new GAA club in Phnom Penh, set up by long term SCOOP collaborator - photographer Conor Wall, originally from Cork but who has made Cambodia his new home the last 12 years or so. Fellow Corkonian Peter Downey is also a co- founder and he was in fact the 3rd ever long term volunteer we sent abroad, and he too fell in love with the country and has made it his home.
Both being very talented soccer players, and proud gaelic players, they set about setting up the country’s first GAA Club in 2017, with SCOOP sponsoring them since 2018.
The Club not only promotes gaelic games, but it also offers free training to Cambodians interested, and when the gang went to Kuala Lumpur in November for the Asian Gaelic Games, there were Cambodians in the squad who had never left their home country in their lives - the Cairde Khmer gang helping them get their passports also.
And that’s not all the good news from Kuala Lumpur - they walked away with a ton of silverware as one of their teams won the Men’s Junior Cairde Khmer after winning the Pan-Asian Gaelic Games in Malaysia. Football Championship and the whole club won Club of the Year. To top it all off they also brought home 1 Men’s All Star Award, 1 Men’s Fair Play Award, 2 Ladies Junior Plate Medals and 1 Senior Hurling Medal. They also fielded the first all Khmer team who played an exhibition match against Malaysia’s Orang Eire team.
We are honoured to back such a positive and community nurturing club. Cambodia Abú!
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 17 EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS
10TH ANNIVERSARY ART AUCTION
Back in 2009 we ran our first major event, which was a live art auction of 90 artworks, largely from street artists or fine art artists who were known to any of the 4-5 team members. One of our founding board members - George Gerard Mealy stepped in to be our auctioneer. He remains on the board and as our resident auctioneer to this day.
10 years later, we ran a very special art auction, not only because it smashed the €50k mark for the first, but because the event was dedicated to the life and memory of Andy & Calvin’s Mum Gaye, who was the inspiration for setting up SCOOP in the first place. Gaye was the heart and soul at the first auction in 2009, and she would have been mega proud to see how far we had become in terms of events / auction abilities, but also as an organisation.
The exhibition was held in the beautiful Copperhouse Gallery off Synge St in Dublin, and the auction itself was held in the Gatsby inspired function room in The Iveagh Garden Hotel on Harcourt St, only a few doors up from the old Harcourt St Children’s Hospital where Gaye trained to be a nurse when she first moved to Dublin as a 17 year old in 1968. Andy & Calvin with Duda’s Artwork. Highlights included incredible artworks from Shane Sutton, Duda, Leah Hewson, Francis Matthews, Kate Beagan, Conor Bereen, Jim Fitzpatrick, Margo Banks, Juliana Scodeler plus 5 signed books from Eamon Doyle.
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10TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE DISC VINYL COMPILATION
Working alongside The Dublin Vinyl Factory we created a limited edition double disc vinyl compilation featuring our favourite musicians and DJs we had the pleasure of working with in our first 10 years. The result is an eclectic compilation of the best Irish music, across a wide range of genres, that you probably haven’t heard!
Featuring: Le Galaxie, Ships, Zaska, Contour, The Candidates, Pursued by Dogs, Barq, Slowburn, Diamond Dagger, Cynema, Why-Axis, Carriages, Cfit, Swords, Robotnik and all the way from the UK The Chris Woods Groove Orchestra. SCOOP co-founder David Uda aka Duda created the cover in black and white so kids, young and old, can colour it in.
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10TH BIRTHDAY @ LOST LANE
At SCOOP we love throwing parties so we picked the awesome new venue Lost Lane off Dublin’s Grafton St to throw our 10th Birthday Bash. The night featured blistering DJ sets from Kormac, le Galaxie, Lolz, Louis Scully, Dave Nuremberg and Djackulate, with incredible visuals from Tim Redfern.
BERLIN BAR TAKEOVER
We kicked the year off in style with a whopper gig in Berlin Bar on Dame St (Dublin) featuring sets from Contour, Fingerz, Pursued by Dogs, while our own Calvin James and Deadbots supplied the tunes from the turntables.
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YEMENADE TABLE QUIZ
Our second event of the year was our annual quiz which has record numbers, taking place in BelloBar in the basement of the The Lower Deck in Portobello. 140 people showed up to test their knowledge against our YEMENADE NIGHT (GALWAY) quiz master Charly Egan! SCOOP were back down in Galway for the second year running, this time to support GRM in Yemen. Graham Dolan arranged a full venue takeover of the Electric venue with 13 of Galway’s finest volunteering sets.
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KNOCKOUT GAMES @ KNOCKANSTOCKAN CALVIN AS HUMAN BOOK AT THE UCD OVERSEAS VOLUNTEERS ANNUAL FORUM In July we were honoured to collaborate with the biggest Calvin was invited to University College Dublin Volunteers small festival in Ireland - Knockanstockan as we created Overseas (UCDVO) annual forum to talk to students an obstacle course to host The Knockout Games! and other NGOs on the work conducted by SCOOP, particularly in relation to our work with the Yazidi The festival which takes place beside Blessington Lake in community. Wicklow features 100s of independent acts and is one of the best festivals of the summer.
We had a weekend full of absolute bants planned in a purpose built arena hosted by our dear friend the comedian Hugh Cooney and some very special guests.
The Knockout Games included a Slug Race, What an Absolute Spoon, Scarleh’ts Web, Life in the Gutter, Potato P45, a Dry T-shirt comp, a Drag Race (yes you guessed it) and our favourite - GransZimmer. SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 22 EVENTS & FUNDRAISERS
BEAR IN MIND MENTAL HEALTH FORUM @ SUGAR CLUB, DUBLIN Calvin was invited to speak on a panel with Irish artists on mental health.
GOOGLE’S CHRISTMAS MARKET IN DECEMBER
In order to bring our awesome vinyl to xmas shoppers we were delighted to be part of a number of markets in November ADM @ THIRD SPACE & December, most notably Google’s Christmas Market, the Designer Dublin Market at College Green, right beside Trinity Our Annual Donor Meet is an important event for us as it College and The Dublin Vinyl Fair. allows us to connect with our donors and to listen to their feedback and to take their ideas on board. We used 2019’s ADM to introduce Shane Sutton and his SYRIAS VIBES XMAS PARTY @ BIG ROMANCE revolutionary iT Programme idea to the SCOOP Crew Members, sowing the seeds of what would become SCOOP’s main project moving forward. We ended the year in style with a night of DJs (which actually started off with the first official listen of our SF10 - our 10th Food on the night was supplied by Dublin Pizza Anniversary Double Disc Vinyl Compilation) in the vinyl only Company, and the salady stuff came from Third Space, bar that is The Big Romance of Parnell St. Calvin played a few who were so kind to let us use their cafe for free in the tunes alongside DJs Barry Donovan, Pablo, Phil Long & Dave evening. McDonagh.
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This year we worked closely with Burrell PR on our Art Auction campaign which resulted in our most successful auction to date. Burrell also secured several media pieces in print and radio.
Podcast for Primavera Sound
Dermot & Dave Show on TodayFM, with Baz Asmawy
Ryan Tubridy Show with Baz Ashmawy
Kurdistan 24 (local news station) promoting the Art Programme
On the Jennifer Zamparelli show on RTE 2 FM
Totally Dublin feature in November 2019
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 24 SPECIAL THANKS TO
We at SCOOP would like to extend our thanks to our board, our interns, our volunteers, Anne Harrison, every artist, musician, DJ, designer, roadie, driver and retailer who helped us make 2019 our best year yet. Special thanks to Liam Cunningham, Baz Ashmawy, all @ Burrell PR, all @ Dublin Vinyl, Jill & Gill and Knockanstockan Festival.
Massive thanks to our boots, eyes and ears on the ground in all our partner countries, especially all @Joint Help For Kurdistan.
Our partners, new and old. Our SCOOP Crew members. Anyone who turned up at our gigs, shows, talks and auctions, our mystery donors and anyone who has given us a minute.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 25 FINANCIALS
DONATIONS OUTGOINGS €152,646 €144,079
Events 40.4% Projects 45.7%
Tech Company Donations 21.7% Salaries 28.0%
General Donations 16.9% Event Production 16.1%
StreetSmart 14.2% Admin/Legal 5.9%
SCOOP Crew 3.4% Merchandise 4.3%
Merchandise 2.4%
Crowd Funding 1.4%
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 26 BALANCE SHEET CASH FLOW STATEMENT YEAR ENDED 31 DEC 2019 YEAR ENDED 31 DEC 2019
2019 2018 2019 2018
Current Assets Cash flows from operating activities:
Cash at bank 36,529 17,266 Surplus/(deficit) 8,567 -8,651
Liabilities -12,056 -1,359 Adjustments for:
Net Assets 24,473 15,907 Decrease in stock 0 357
Equity 8,567 -8,294 Opening balance 15,907 24,558 Movements in working capital Gain/(Deficit) 8,566 -8,651 Increase in creditors balances 10,697 1,359 Closing balance 24,473 15,907 Cash generated/(used) 19,264 -6,935
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash 19,264 -6,935 equivalents
Cash at the beginning of 17,265 24,200 the financial year
Cash at the end of 36,529 17,265 the financial year This financial information is only for SCOOP Ireland.
SCOOP 2019 ANNUAL REPORT | 27 Dublin, Ireland.
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