INFORMAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE

NOVEMBER 2005-JANUARY 2006

INCOME

Donations received

for these 2 Tours: £16,380.58

EXPENDITURE

Travel: £5,326.95

Fees to performers: 2,000.00

Equipment: 1,025.21

Living costs abroad 5,100.00

Sundry: 25.00

TOTAL: £13,477.16

WE ESTIMATE THAT WE WORKED WITH 2,500 CHILDREN IN SRI LANKA IN CAMPS (ALL RECEIVING WORKSHOPS AS WELL AS SHOWS - A 3 HOUR SESSION, USUALLY) AND WE ESTIMATE THAT WE RAN SHOWS FOR MORE THAN 9,000 IN THAILAND IN SCHOOLS (APPROXIMATELY 1,700 OF WHOM ALSO RECEIVED 1-HOUR BADGE-MAKING, JUGGLING AND CIRCUS SKILLS WORKSHOPS).

SO A TOTAL OF 11,500 CHILDREN WERE REACHED AT A TOTAL COST OF £13,477.16 - A COST OF £1.17 PER CHILD - WHICH IS NOT A LOT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND SEE HOW HAPPY THEY WERE!

Left over from Nov 05-Jan 06 Tours donations: £2,903.42

Left over from Mar/May 05 Tours donations: £2,814.67

New donation received £2,500.00

TOTAL CASH IN HAND: £8,218.09

PLANS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2006:

With these remaining monies, before we start fundraising for more funds, we are going to run 3 small mini-Tours, each costing less than £2,500:

1) A Mini-Tour of Sri Lanka in March 06: As we do not have a lot of worked booked in schools for the second half of the Spring Term 2006, we have decided to second Paddy and Charlie to Children's World International and send them to Sri Lanka again in March. At the start and the end of their Tour they will be working for 4 days on the West coast with Impakt, and during the middle period they will be working with IOM on the East coast - this area was deemed too troubled to work in during November and December, and CWI is delighted to be undertaking more work there (some work was previously undertaken in the East in March and May 2005). (THIS TOUR NOW VERY SATISFACTORILY COMPLETED - WE WILL DO A TOT-UP BUT THERE WERE VERY LARGE AUDIENCES IN THE EAST, AND WE THINK THAT MORE THAN 5,000 CHILDREN RECEIVED 2-HOUR SESSIONS OF PERFORMANCE AND LARGE-SCALE DANCE/GAME ACTIVITIES.

2) A Mini-Tour and Recce of Aceh in April 2006: CWI's Director, Arabella Churchill and her juggling maestro husband, Haggis Mcleod are visiting Australia for 5 days for Bella's son's wedding, and on the way back they will be undertaking a Performance and Play Tour in Aceh (which was the part of the world most severely hit by the tsunami - the death toll here was huge, and the damage vast), in the hope of setting up a bigger Tour there later this year. Now, 15 months after the tsunami, there are 450,000 still homeless in Aceh, most of them living in tented camps or barracks, and it seems that the need there is even greater than in Sri Lanka.

3) A further Mini-Tour of Sri Lanka in June/July 2006: Because Arabella and Haggis are being given free flights to attend the Mount Lavinia Hotel Bi-centenary celebrations, it is possible for them to go and run another Tour there on the East (and maybe North as well) coast in June/July 2006 at very little cost.

Between these 3 Tours we will be able to work with very large numbers of children for very little money. We will then sit down and plan our next Tour (which we are almost certain will be in Aceh, as it seems the situation is still tremendously bad there, and that our morale-boosting work is much needed). We will then be launching a campaign to raise more funds for future Tours. We do hope you will help us then! Please click on "HOW TO DONATE" to your right at the end of the diary dates, or ring the Children's World office on 01458 832925.

We are very proud of how we can make a little money go a long, long way and do a great deal of good.