Board Report and Financial Statements Year Ended 31 December 2013 Eaquals Board Report Year Ended 31 December 2013
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Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality in Language Services Board report and financial statements Year ended 31 December 2013 Eaquals Board Report Year ended 31 December 2013 Reference Information Board Members Accreditation Panel Ludka Kotarska Chair Valérie Clochard ELS-Bell Poland Eurocentres Lausanne Mila Angelova Vice-Chair, elected 19 April 2013 Lyndy Cronin AVO-Bell, Bulgaria Martyn Ellis Walter Denz Vice Chair John Haagensen Liden & Denz, Russia Eurocentres London Ian Powney Treasurer and Company Secretary Sue Hackett International House Trust/London QQI, Ireland Peter Brown Varbinka Hadjidimitrova British School of Trieste AVO-Bell, Bulgaria Michael Carrier Laura Muresan Cambridge English Language Assessment QUEST, Romania Jacek Czlonkowski elected 19 April 2013 Sue Sheerin PASE, Polish Association Axel Freudenfeld to 19 April 2013 Management and Administration Team Wojciech Graniczewski Gama College of English Sarah Aitken Executive Director from 4 March 2013 Director of Accreditation Frank Heyworth Susanna Dammann Services Manager Brian North Vice Chair to 19 April 2013 Anna Andor Eurocentres Foundation Vivi Koszegi Administrative Assistant Joanna Watson elected 19 April 2013 Registration Office Eaquals Ombudsman 16 Stukeley Street Hans W Blaasch Covent Garden London UK Independent Examiners WC2B 5LQ Garside & Co LLP Chartered Accountants 6 Vigo Street Mayfair London UK W1S 3HF Secratariat PO Box 95 Budapest H-1301 Hungary Solicitors Russell-Cooke Company Registration Number 2 Putney Hill Putney London UK SW15 6AB 7727406 Incorporated in England and Wales on 3 August 2011 Bankers Barclays Bank Charity Registration Number 1 Churchill Place Canary Wharf London UK E14 5HP 1143547 (UK) i © Eaquals 2014 www.eaquals.org Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality in Language Services Board report and financial statements Year ended 31 December 2013 Reference information i Contents 1 Eaquals membership 2 Introduction 5 Inspection, accreditation and support for quality development 6 Associate Members and Project Partners 7 Conferences 7 Projects 8 Partnerships 10 Recognition and participation in the wider community 11 Strategic report 15 - Specific achievements in 2013 - Objectives for 2014 - Reserves - Risk management Structure and governance 17 Statement of board members’ responsibilities 18 Independent examiner’s report 19 Statement of financial activities 20 Balance sheet 21 Notes to the financial statements 22 © Eaquals 2014 www.eaquals.org 1 Eaquals Board Report Year ended 31 December 2013 Eaquals Membership Founder F Joined 2013 * Joined 2014 to date # Accredited Members ESL PROLOG - Berlin # Eurocentres Berlin Austria GLS Campus Berlin Eton Institute – Vienna * Greece Bosnia & Herzegovina Doukas School - The Department of Foreign Languages Anglia V Cambridge Centar Hungary DIALOGOS International House Budapest Bulgaria Ireland AVO Bell School of English Alpha College of English Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre * China Centre of English Studies iMandarin Language Training Institute Cork Language Centre International (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou) Emerald Cultural Institute, Dublin * Galway Cultural Institute Croatia International House Dublin KEZELE-School of Foreign Languages and Business Communication Italy Skola stranih jezika - Ziger alpha beta piccadilly F Cyprus (North) British School of Trieste CLM-Bell Girne American University Foundation English School * Dilit International House Czech Republic EF Centro Linguistico, Rome AKCENT International House Prague Eurocentres Firenze International Language School S.r.l. Rome, Milan # Egypt Lord Byron College International House Cairo * Kazakhstan France Study Inn AlphaB Institut Linguistique Centre International d'Antibes Kosovo EF Ecole Internationale de Francais - Nice New Age School EF Ecole Internationale de Francais - Paris Eurocentres Amboise Latvia Eurocentres La Rochelle Education Centre DURBE Eurocentres Paris Libya IFALPES * International House Tripoli IS Aix-en-Provence * Luxembourg Germany PROLINGUA Language Centre did deutsch-institut Berlin did deutsch-institut Frankfurt Malta did deutsch-institut Munchen EF International Language Centres, Malta Eduard-von-Hallberger -Institut, Freudenstadt European School of English - Malta EF Internationale Sprachschule Munchen 2 © Eaquals 2014 www.eaquals.org Eaquals Board Report Year ended 31 December 2013 Montenegro business language centre blc Oxford Centar International Language Centre - Podgorica ESL-Ecole Suisse de Langues Eurocentres Foundation F Poland Eurocentres Lausanne Bell Warsaw Hull's School Sprachen und Lernen GmbH Gama College of English (formerly Bell Krakow) inlingua Sprachschule Basel Language Studies International, Zurich Qatar TLC - The Language Company Qatar International Academy for Security Studies (QIASS), Language School * Turkey Izmir University of Economics - School of Foreign Romania Languages Britanica Learning Centre (formerly Bell Bucharest) Yuce Schools International House Bucharest Ukraine Russia Odessa Language Study Centre (OLSC) Liden & Denz Language Centre, Moscow Liden & Denz Language Centre, St Petersburg United Arab Emirates YES Yekaterinburg English School Eton Institute (Dubai & Abu Dhabi) International House Dubai * Serbia Tom & Emma School of English United Kingdom Bloomsbury International Spain Centre of English Studies, Wimbledon Bourtsoukli Language School Centre of English Studies, Worthing British Institute of Seville F EF International School of English Cambridge CLIC-IH Sevilla EF Centro Internacional de Idiomas, Madrid English in Action EF ESCUELA INTERNACIONAL de ESPAÑOL SA, Eurocentres Bournemouth Barcelona Eurocentres Brighton EF International Language Centres, Malaga Eurocentres Cambridge Hispania, escuela de español * Eurocentres London Central International House Barcelona Eurocentres London Eltham International House Madrid Experience English: Edinburgh Language Centre International House Santander International House Valladolid Experience English: English Language Centre York Lacunza, International House - San Sebastian F Experience English: Hampstead School of English Lenguas Vivas * Experience English: Manchester Academy of English * Malaca Instituto International House London F International House Newcastle South Africa NILE, Norwich Institute for Language Education EF International Language School Cape Town NOVAMOVA International Language School Good Hope Studies # Oxford House College Switzerland Oxford House College, Oxford Centre Alpha Sprachstudio AG Richard Language College Bell Switzerland SA St Giles International Eastbourne * © Eaquals 2014 www.eaquals.org 3 Eaquals Board Report Year ended 31 December 2013 Eaquals Membership (continued) Joined 2013 * Joined 2014 to date # Associate Members Portugal Camões, Instituto da Cooperacão e da Lingua Austria CEBS - Center fuer berifsbezogene Sprachen * Romania Romanian Association for Quality Language Services Bulgaria (QUEST) OPTIMA, The Bulgarian Association of Quality Language Services Serbia YALS (Association of Language Schools of Serbia) Croatia CAFL - The Association for Foreign Languages at the Spain Croatian Chamber of Economy Instituto Cervantes PRIMA United Kingdom Czech Republic British Council ACERT - Association of Certified Language Schools (CZ) Cambridge English Language Assessment City & Guilds Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Foreign and Commonwealth Office Language Policy and MAQS- Macedonian Association for Quality Language Standards (FCO) Services Guided e-Learning # France International House World Organisation Oxford University Press Centre International d etudes pedagogiques (CIEP) * Pearson Education Germany Trinity College London g.a.s.t. -TestDaF-Institut * Goethe-Institut HQ telc GmbH * Project Partners Greece Italy QLS - Panhellenic Association of Accredited Quality Centro di Ricerca e di Servizio DITALS Language Schools CVCL (Universita per Stranieri di Perugia) Ireland Switzerland Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund Italy Turkey AISLi, the Italian Association of Quality Language Schools School of Languages, Sabanci University Poland United Arab Emirates PASE, Polish Association for Standards in Language Zayed University Education 4 © Eaquals 2014 www.eaquals.org Eaquals Board Report Year ended 31 December 2013 Introduction The members of the board, who are the directors of the company (“the association”) for the purposes of UK company law and trustees for the purposes of UK charity law, present their statutory annual report which includes the information set out on pages 1 to 6 and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2013. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on pages 24 and 25 and comply with the association’s Articles of Association, applicable laws and the requirements of the revised Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP): Accounting and Reporting by Charities, issued in 2005. All of the association’s activities are charitable; the objects of the association are the advancement of education for the public benefit, in particular to improve the provision and quality of modern language education and cultural understanding for students of languages and cultures by: • developing and promoting quality standards for the teaching and testing of modern languages, cultural awareness and associated skills; • providing accreditation against these standards for providers of language education and related services; • providing training and support for teachers