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The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF 

Trustees’ Report & Consolidated 

Financial Statements 

31 December 2008 


2005 ANNUAL REVIEW 

Company no. 3663181 

Charity no. 1072612

Company no. 3663181 

Charity no. 1072612 

The United Kingdom Committee for 

UNICEF 

Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements 

31 December 2008


Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements 

For the year ended 31 December 2008 

Contents 

Reference and administrative details...........................................................................2 

Report of the Trustees...................................................................................................3 

Objectives of UNICEF UK ............................................................................................3 

Activities and achievements in 2008............................................................................6 

Looking ahead ...........................................................................................................26 

Financial review .........................................................................................................28 

Governance ...............................................................................................................31 

Statement of responsibilities of the Trustees ............................................................33 

Independent auditors’ report......................................................................................35 

Consolidated statement of financial activities ...........................................................37 

Balance sheets.............................................................................................................38 

Consolidated cash flow statement .............................................................................39 

Notes to the financial statements...............................................................................40


Report of the Trustees 


Reference and administrative details 

Status 

The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF (also known as UNICEF UK) is a 

charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 5 November 1998 and 

registered as a charity on 26 November 1998. This is the successor body to the 

former unincorporated committee founded in 1956. 

Governing document 

The organisation was founded under a memorandum of association that established 

the objects and powers of the organisation and is governed under its articles of 

association. 

Company number 3663181 

Charity number 1072612 

Registered office and operational address 

30a Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DU 

President 

Lord Puttnam CBE 

Officers 

David L Stanton 

Gerison Lansdown 

Christopher Lovell 

Brian Smith 

Executive Team 

David Bull 

William Cottle 

Fiona Hesselden 

Anita Tiessen 

Andrew Radford 

Chair 

Vice-Chair 

Vice-Chair 

Treasurer 

Executive Director 

Deputy Executive Director, Finance and Services 

Deputy Executive Director, Fundraising 

Deputy Executive Director, Communications 

and Programme 

Associate Director, Projects and Planning 

Principal bankers 

HSBC Bank plc, 133 Regent Street, London W1A 4BQ 

Principal solicitors 

Russell-Cooke, 2 Putney Hill, London SW15 6AB 

Auditors 

Sayer Vincent, Chartered accountants and registered auditors 

8 Angel Gate, City Road, London EC1V 2SJ 

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The Trustees present their annual report and the audited financial statements for the 

year ended 31 December 2008. 

Reference and administrative information set out on page 2 forms part of this report. 

The financial statements comply with the current statutory requirements, the 

memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended 

Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued by the Charity Commission 

in 2005. 

Objectives of UNICEF UK 

UNICEF is the world’s leading organisation working for children and their rights. We 

work with families, local communities, partners and governments in more than 190 

countries to help every child realise their full potential. 

UNICEF UK’s vision is a world fit for children. 

Our mission is to champion children’s rights and to win support and raise money for 

our work with children everywhere. 

To achieve our mission, we have six core values: 

• To be child focused, putting the best interests of children at the heart of 

everything we do, involving children and including them in decisions that affect 

them 

• To be rights based, reflecting the spirit of the UN Convention on the Rights of 

the Child in everything we do 

• To be effective, acting professionally and delivering on our promises, using 

money effectively to meet and exceed people’s expectations, achieving tangible 

improvements for children and providing timely and useful feedback 

• To be cooperative, listening and understanding other viewpoints and working 

with other organisations to build a world fit for children 

• To be challenging, both of ourselves to be more effective, creative and 

innovative, and challenging others to think and act differently towards children 

• To act with integrity, being open and honest in the way we work with each 

other and those outside UNICEF, being candid in our reports on the state of the 

world’s children and refusing to compromise our beliefs in the pursuit of a world 

fit for children. 

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UNICEF UK’s main objectives for 2008 were to: 

• Make £31.1 million available for programmes for children worldwide. 

• Raise £2.1 million for the children and AIDS campaign, call for action and 

resources on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), and to 

remind the UK Government of its funding promises. 

• Launch our involvement in the delivery of International Inspiration, the 

international social legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 

which aims to transform the lives of 12 million children and young people in 20 

countries through physical education, sport and play. 

• Influence Government to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child 

(CRC), to improve policies on child well-being and to protect children trafficked 

into the UK. 

• Ensure young people were involved in the production of the Government’s CRC 

report and that it included the important issues affecting children’s rights in the 

UK. 

• Expand programmes to improve child well-being in the UK; make 45 new Baby 

Friendly awards to hospitals, health centres and universities; accredit 49 new 

Rights Respecting Schools; research different approaches to improve child wellbeing. 

• Research into and report on the impacts of climate change on children and work 

to ensure that policy and actions to address those impacts have children at their 

heart; to audit and minimise our own environmental impact and report on our 

progress. 

Globally, UNICEF has five key priorities for children in the years 2006–2011: 

a. Young child survival and development 

Every hour of every day, more than 1,000 children under the age of five die 1 . Most of 

these deaths can be easily prevented by low-cost, low-tech solutions. Every year, 

UNICEF saves the lives of many children by vaccinating against illnesses such as 

measles, providing proper food and clean water, enabling mothers to receive proper 

health care during pregnancy, and supplying families with mosquito nets treated 

with insect repellent. Simple solutions save lives. In support of Millennium 

Development Goal 4, by 2015 we aim to reduce the mortality rate of children under 

the age of five by two-thirds. 

b. Basic education and gender equality 

Globally, more than 93 million children 2 , the majority of whom are girls, lack the 

benefits of primary education. Education enhances lives. It ends generational cycles 

of poverty and disease and provides the means for sustainable development. 

Education is a basic human right, vital to personal and social development and wellbeing. 

UNICEF works to ensure quality basic education for all children with an 

emphasis on gender equality and eliminating disparities of all kinds. In support of 

1 Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review, Number 6, December 

2007, UNICEF, New York, p. 18. [In 2006, 9.7 million children died before their fifth birthday.] 

2 Ibid, p. 12. 

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Millennium Development Goal 2, by 2015 we aim to ensure that all boys and girls 

complete a full course of primary education. 

c. HIV and children 

In 2007, more than 330,000 babies were born with HIV, 2 million children were living 

with HIV, and 15 million children had lost one or both parents to AIDS. 3 UNICEF’s 

global campaign Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS has four key aims: to prevent 

mother-to-child transmission of HIV; to provide children with life-saving anti-retroviral 

medicine; to prevent new infections among young people; and to protect, care for 

and support orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV. These key aims 

support Millennium Development Goal 6: to halt and begin to reverse the spread of 

HIV by 2015. 

d. Child protection 

There are tens of millions of children living on the streets, more than 150 million 

children working in dangerous conditions, more than 250,000 child soldiers, and 

about 1.2 million children trafficked each year 4 . These statistics disguise the impact 

on individual children, denied an education and vulnerable to violence, abuse and 

exploitation. UNICEF works to promote and protect the rights of all children, 

providing support to help children leave the streets or dangerous work and gain an 

education. We demobilise child soldiers, reintegrating them into family and 

community life by providing counselling, education and training. We also reunite 

trafficked children with their families and campaign for governments to pass and 

enforce strong laws against child trafficking. 

e. Policy, partnership and participation for children 

UNICEF aims to put children and the reduction of child poverty at the centre of social 

and economic policy. We seek to influence and work alongside decision makers and 

policy makers. UNICEF also publishes findings from its emergency and development 

work and conducts research into the situation of children worldwide. We debate, 

discuss and form partnerships with civil society, policy makers and governments in 

order to ensure that children are a priority in legislation and budget allocation. 

In addition to these five key priorities, we have an ongoing commitment to protect, 

care for and support children during times of emergency. 

3 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, 

UNAIDS, Geneva, August 2008, p. 218. 

4 Child labour and child trafficking: A Future without Child Labour, International Labour 

Organization, Geneva, 2002, p. 32. Child soldiers: ‘Era of Application: Instituting a compliance 

and enforcement regime for CAAC’, Tunnu, Olara A., Statement before the Security Council, 

New York, 23 February 2005, p. 3. ‘Children on the streets’: The State of the World’s 

Children 2006: Excluded and Invisible, UNICEF, New York, 2006. 

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Children in emergencies 

For more than 60 years, UNICEF has been a leader in providing life-saving assistance 

and protection for children caught up in emergencies around the globe. With a 

permanent presence in more than 190 countries, UNICEF is poised to respond 

rapidly wherever and whenever disaster strikes, delivering life-saving help for 

children in the key areas of health and nutrition, water and sanitation, education, 

child protection, coordination and logistics. 

Activities and achievements in 2008 

a. Young child survival and development 

UNICEF UK raised nearly £6.4 million to support our vital work in child survival and 

development in the developing world – preventing the needless deaths of babies 

and infants below the age of five. 

End Water Poverty 

More than 125 million children under the age of 5 lack safe drinking water and 280 

million do not have adequate sanitation facilities 5 . As a result, it is estimated that 

more than 4,800 children die every day from diarrhoea primarily caused by poor 

sanitation and contaminated drinking water. 6 

In 2008, we joined the End Water Poverty coalition to campaign on this issue and 

press for Government commitment to tackle the crisis. In September, the coalition 

handed in a petition of 70,000 names to Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for 

International Development, urging him to take action on water and sanitation at the 

Millennium Development Goals Conference in New York. The UK Government then 

announced the launch of a “global framework for action” that contains many of the 

elements of our campaign calls. The framework includes an initial investment of 

£106 million to support the development and implementation of national plans to 

meet the Millennium Development Goals in 20 countries. The Department for 

International Development (DFID) has asked UNICEF to convene the first annual 

high-level meeting to monitor and drive progress in the sector. In October, DFID 

launched its policy on water and sanitation that includes a commitment to provide 

£200 million each year for the next five years. 

Water and sanitation, Papua New Guinea 

We sent more than £144,000 from Guernsey Overseas Aid, Isle of Man Overseas 

Aid and Jersey Overseas Aid and leveraged three times this amount from the EU for 

water and sanitation facilities in Papua New Guinea. This enabled us to provide 

facilities for 72 schools and 18 health centres in rural areas of the Eastern Highlands 

province of Papua New Guinea, benefiting nearly 100,000 people. The money helped 

5 Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation, Number 5, September 2006, 

UNICEF, New York, p. 2. 

6 The World Health Report 2007, A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st 

Century, World Health Organization, Geneva, p. 4. 

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to install hand pumps and build rainwater catchment systems so that children have 

clean water even in areas where there is little rainfall. Water committees have also 

been set up so that schoolchildren and other members of the community are able to 

maintain and repair the new facilities. 

Water, Ecuador 

The Rainforest Foundation, founded by UNICEF UK Ambassador Trudie Styler and 

her husband Sting, donated US $130,000 for a UNICEF-supported programme to 

provide clean water for 17,000 women and children in Ecuador. Sixty water tanks 

were installed in the Ecuadorian Amazon, delivering clean water to a hospital, health 

care centre and two schools, benefiting 9,000 children mainly from indigenous 

tribes. 

Tetanus 

Every year, maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) kills around 128,000 newborn 

babies and up to 30,000 mothers worldwide. 7 Caused by tetanus spores present in 

unsanitary conditions during childbirth, the disease spreads rapidly throughout the 

body. UNICEF is part of a global drive to eliminate deaths from MNT. 

For a third consecutive year, Pampers UK supported UNICEF’s immunisation work in 

this area. In the last three months of 2008, there was a donation of 3.5 pence to 

UNICEF UK for every pack of Pampers nappies sold – the cost of a tetanus 

vaccination for one baby. The campaign was also supported by Fairy, Tesco and 

Boots. The money from this initiative will provide more than 17 million vaccines, 

helping save the lives of many thousands of mothers and babies. 

Each year, MNT kills around 5,500 infants in Cambodia. 8 Since 2003, thanks to the 

Big Lottery Fund, UNICEF has been able to vaccinate over 1 million women of childbearing 

age and provide immunisation training for more than 11,000 traditional birth 

attendants in Cambodia. This programme has dramatically reduced the number of 

neonatal tetanus deaths in Cambodia, protecting over 375,000 newborns. 

Nutrition, Ethiopia 

Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of child mortality in the world: one in eight 

Ethiopian children dies before their fifth birthday 9 . To help prevent these tragic early 

deaths, UNICEF UK is helping to develop the country’s health system. 

Individual supporters provided more than £320,000 to support a health-clinic building 

programme in Oromiya, Ethiopia. Each clinic, staffed by two health workers trained 

by the Government of Ethiopia, will serve a community of 5,000 people. The clinics 

will monitor and provide basic preventative health care to vulnerable children, helping 

to avert malnutrition. 

7 The global burden of disease: 2004 update, World Health Organization, Geneva, 2009, p. 14 

8 Third progress report to the UK Committee for UNICEF on maternal and neonatal tetanus 

elimination, UNICEF Cambodia, February 2007. 

9 The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and newborn health, UNICEF, New York, 

2008, p.117. Under 5 mortality rate = 119 per 1,000 live births. 

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Thanks to a donation of £1.2 million from the Band Aid Trust, we are also building a 

new hospital in Korem, Ethiopia. Korem was the epicentre of the devastating famine 

in 1984–85. This hospital will provide a full range of health services for the 250,000 

people in and around Korem, as well as act as a referral and in-service training centre 

for nearby districts, benefiting a further 1 million people. The hospital is expected to 

have a dramatic long-term impact on child mortality rates in the region. 

Early childhood development, Malawi 

Throughout 2008, TNS employees raised over £140,000 for UNICEF’s work in 

Malawi. The money has helped to support community-based childcare centres, 

which cater to the needs of pre-school age children. The centres provide a place to 

play, early years’ education and nutritious meals for 300,000 children under the age 

of 5. 

The State of the World’s Children 

In 2008 The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF’s annual flagship publication, 

focused on child survival, highlighting strategies that can help reduce the number of 

children who die before their fifth birthday. The report achieved blanket coverage in 

national print and broadcast media, thanks in part to separate visits to Sierra Leone 

by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham and BBC Correspondent Fergus 

Walsh, helping us to raise funds and rally the UK Government to place child survival 

at the heart of the international development agenda and the G8. 

Baby health and nutrition in the UK 

Breastfeeding protects against a wide range of illnesses, including diarrhoea and 

respiratory infections – the two leading killers of babies worldwide. In low-income 

countries, a baby who is not breastfed is six times more likely to die in the first two 

months of life than a baby who receives only mother’s milk. Even in wealthy 

countries, babies are much more likely to suffer serious illnesses if they are not 

breastfed. Research shows that if all babies were breastfed, the NHS would save 

more than £50 million each year in England and Wales because of the reduced costs 

in treating gastroenteritis alone. 10 

Recognising that the support mothers receive in maternity hospitals is crucial to 

successful breastfeeding, the World Health Organization and UNICEF have a joint, 

worldwide programme – the Baby Friendly Initiative. The initiative encourages 

hospitals to ensure that mothers receive proper advice and support in feeding their 

babies. UNICEF UK runs the Baby Friendly Initiative in the UK. 

UK hospitals that receive UNICEF’s prestigious Baby Friendly accreditation increase 

their breastfeeding rates by an average of 10 per cent 11 . During 2008, 69 hospitals, 

10 As quoted in A weak formula for legislation: how loopholes in the law are putting babies at 

risk, UNICEF UK, 2007. 

11 Are breastfeeding rates higher among mothers delivering in Baby Friendly accredited 

maternity units in the UK?, Bartington, S., Griffiths, L., Tate, A., Dezateux, C. and the 

Millennium Cohort Study Child Health Group, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006, 

doi:10.1093/ije/dyl155. 

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health centres and universities received a Baby Friendly award (32 accreditations and 

37 Certificates of Commitment). We also trained more than 3,500 health 

professionals in the UK, which will lead to a higher standard of service to new 

mothers and babies. 

UNICEF UK’s lobbying efforts to raise the profile of the Baby Friendly Initiative 

among politicians and civil servants have pushed breastfeeding up the political 

agenda. Several government strategies now fully endorse the Baby Friendly 

Initiative. The recognition among UK policymakers that breastfeeding has a key role 

to play in addressing health inequalities has led the Department of Health to commit 

to invest £4 million to improve breastfeeding rates, with the support of the Baby 

Friendly Initiative, in 40 Primary Care Trusts with low breastfeeding rates. 

The year also saw a major review of the Baby Friendly Community Initiative, 

involving a wide range of stakeholders including the relevant Royal Colleges and the 

Departments of Health for all four countries of the UK. While in recent years there 

has been a significant improvement in the number of mothers who breastfeed their 

newborn in the UK, there has been little improvement in the continuation rates after 

the first two weeks of breastfeeding. Recognising that exclusive breastfeeding for 

the first six months results in more healthy children and adults, we expanded our 

best practice standards for health visitors, GPs and other community workers to 

encourage them to implement new evidence that supports mothers to continue 

breastfeeding. These standards will encourage the implementation of practices to 

help mothers to breastfeed for longer. 

We also finalised our Baby Friendly accreditation programme for universities. Aimed 

at pre-registration courses in midwifery and health visiting, the programme sets best 

practice standards for educating these health professionals and provides a method 

of assessment and accreditation of courses which meet the standards. Three 

courses were accredited and the awards presented by the Public Health Minister 

Dawn Pimarolo, who called for all universities to work towards the standards. 

Eighteen universities registered their intention to implement the standards during 

2008. The programme will ensure that more mothers and babies receive better 

support for breastfeeding. 

b. Basic education and gender equality 

In 2008, UNICEF UK raised more than £2.5 million for our international programmes 

to help children gain access to education – many for the first time. We also spent 

nearly £1 million promoting child rights and education in the UK. 

Inspiring Young Minds, Brazil 

In April 2008, BT Global Services launched the second phase of the Inspiring Young 

Minds charity partnership with UNICEF. BT made a £500,000 donation to support 

young people in Brazil to use a wide range of communication tools to improve the 

quality of the education in their schools and the services in their communities. Ten 

thousand adolescents in 10 schools, in five of Brazil’s largest cities (São Paulo, Rio 

de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador and Fortaleza) are benefiting from the project. 

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BT employees have also been busy raising additional funds to support sports 

projects that encourage young people to complete their education. 

Primary education, Malawi 

In September, the annual Alliance Ball raised £180,000 for the construction of 40 

classrooms in five primary schools in rural areas of Malawi, as well as the building of 

separate toilets for boys and girls and a water point to provide clean drinking water in 

each of those schools. This will improve the quality of education for at least 5,000 

children each year for the next 40 years. 

Sports and play, Azerbaijan and India 

In the first phase of the International Inspiration project, funds went to Azerbaijan 

and India for the provision of sport equipment and the inclusion of physical education 

and sport activities as part of the quality basic education provided in selected 

schools. 

As a result, 80,000 children will participate in sport and play in Azerbaijan, including 

20,000 children in 35 child-friendly schools. In India, nearly 2,500 schools have been 

targeted in the state of Andhra Pradesh, reaching out to over 600,000 children. 

In India, UNICEF supported the development of an integrated advocacy campaign for 

inclusive sport, focusing especially on girls’ right to play, and the delivery of a 

national strategy for community sport, volunteerism and village-based sporting 

events. 

Girls’ education, India 

UNICEF UK Ambassador Ralph Fiennes’s pledge dinner marking the first West End 

production of the play God of Carnage raised nearly £90,000 to support girls’ 

education in Uttar Pradesh, India. The money will enable more than 400 adolescent 

girls currently out of school to receive an education up to fifth grade. 

Child rights and education in the UK 

UNICEF champions child-centred education based on the UN Convention on the 

Rights of the Child (CRC). 

In 2008, we continued to expand the Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) 

scheme for UK schools. The Award recognises a school’s achievement in 

embedding the CRC in its ethos and curriculum. The expansion of the RRSA scheme 

has been backed by a grant of £500,000 over three years (April 2007–March 2010) 

by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). 

During 2008, 64 new Rights Respecting Schools were accredited, bringing the totals 

to 116 schools with Level 1 accreditation and 15 with Level 2. There are now more 

than 700 schools registered with the RRSA scheme across the UK, reaching more 

than 200,000 children in nursery, infant, junior and secondary schools. 

We have established strategic partnerships with 10 Local Authorities in England, 

Scotland and Northern Ireland, in addition to the five with whom we work through 

the DCSF grant. We are also working in partnership with the National Association of 

Head Teachers (NAHT) to provide professional development for teachers. The NAHT 

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now includes the RRSA as an option in their professional development for school 

leaders. 

The impact of the RRSA is evaluated by the schools and two external researchers. 

Most schools have reported an improvement in peer relationships and a decline in 

bullying and absenteeism. Teachers have reported an improved climate for learning, 

including improved mutual respect. Children state that adults listen to them better 

and take their opinions more seriously. More children see the need to campaign for 

children’s rights around the world. 

c. HIV and children 

Our global Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign is a key priority, 

supported by many events, corporate partners, high-profile supporters, trusts and 

grant-making bodies, and members of the public. The campaign seeks to raise at 

least US$1 billion: one-third from UNICEF national committees like UNICEF UK. Of 

this US$330 million, UNICEF UK aims to contribute £15 million. Since the campaign 

launch in 2005, we have raised more than £11.8 million, including nearly £4.1 million 

in 2008. 

The campaign has four priorities: 

• Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) 

By 2010, offer appropriate services to 80 per cent of women in need 

• Provide anti-retroviral medicine for HIV-positive children 

By 2010, provide either anti-retroviral treatment or cotrimoxazole, or both, to 

80 per cent of children in need 

• Prevent infection in young people 

By 2010, reduce the percentage of young people living with HIV by 25 per 

cent globally 

• Protect, care for and support orphans and other children made vulnerable by 

HIV and AIDS 

By 2010, reach 80 per cent of children most in need 

The Gift 

We continued with the Born Free from HIV phase of our campaign, focusing on 

PMTCT services. Almost every minute of every day, a baby is born with HIV despite 

the fact that this is almost entirely preventable through medical care and treatment. 12 

For Mother’s Day (2 March), we launched The Gift, a powerful short film that drew 

urgent attention to the unwanted gift of HIV that is passed from hundreds of 

thousands of mothers to their babies every year. The film, a dramatisation of a poem 

by Simon Armitage and introduced and narrated by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, called 

for action or donations to ensure that pregnant women with HIV receive the health 

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2008 report on the global AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, New York, p. 33. 

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care they need to help prevent them passing the virus to their babies. In 2007 

RealNetworks donated £200,000 to enable us to make The Gift, and in 2008 CNN 

screened a version of the film almost 2,000 times free of charge on its global news 

channels – this donated air-time was valued at £5.8 million. UNICEF Ambassador 

Jemima Khan and Mathakane Metsing, a mother from Lesotho who was one of the 

first women in Lesotho to receive PMTCT services, helped us launch the film. The 

worldwide media coverage generated by the film and our supporting microsite 

helped to raise money and awareness of UNICEF as the leading organisation 

specifically campaigning for children affected by HIV. 

United for UNICEF 

The United for UNICEF partnership with Manchester United football club, through its 

annual fundraising dinner and other activities, allowed us to send more than 

£100,000 for HIV prevention work in China. This is part of a two-year programme 

with 100 schools in seven provinces each year. The partnership also helped us to 

deliver important HIV prevention messages, In July, UNICEF Ambassador and 

Manchester United player Ryan Giggs joined team-mates Rio Ferdinand and Patrice 

Evra to front a new AIDS-awareness advertising campaign in Sierra Leone. The 

UNICEF-supported campaign ran nationwide on TV, radio and billboards, promoting 

HIV prevention to 3 million young people. In addition, Manchester United players 

visited UNICEF-supported programmes on their pre-season tour of South Africa, 

helping to draw attention to the impact of HIV and AIDS and gender violence on the 

country’s children and young people. 

Unite campaign programmes 

HIV prevention education, South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe 

The Vodafone Group Foundation donated £750,000 to support sport for development 

programmes in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe. The programmes use sport as a 

medium to engage with children, in order to communicate HIV prevention 

messages. Games, role play and sports such as football provide an innovative means 

of delivering vital education both in and out of school, with a particular focus on 

participation by girls and on peer-to-peer education. 

In South Africa, the programme will reach 135 schools through 27 sports and 

recreational facilities that serve a total of 100,000 children. It hopes to reduce drug 

abuse, teenage pregnancy and school-based violence by 40 per cent and provide a 

good practice model that can be extended to all schools in South Africa. 

HIV prevention education, Zambia, Brazil and Azerbaijan 

International Inspiration leveraged 13 £200,000 for the dissemination of information on 

HIV, media campaigns for HIV prevention, and the training of peer leaders and 

community sports coaches on HIV awareness and life skills in Zambia. Radio 

programmes promoting the importance of sport and play for healthy lifestyles were 

broadcast in four provinces of Zambia, with a potential reach of more than 2 million 

children under the age of 14, more than 1 million young people age 15–24, and 

millions of adults. 

13 Some of the funds came directly from UNICEF Headquarters as a contribution to 

International Inspiration. 

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Through International Inspiration, UNICEF UK also provided £145,000 to Brazil for the 

training of more than 7,000 teachers, sports managers and youth volunteers around 

the issues of HIV and community mobilisation through sport. The training will reach 

more than 400,000 children and young people through sport-related activities. 

Further, some of the £142,000 sent to Azerbaijan through International Inspiration 

contributed to the promotion of life-skills based education and the raising of 

awareness on HIV and AIDS. The project included the revision, field testing and 

distribution of the peer education manual All about Health and Sport. The new 

manual now includes specific chapters on the importance of sport and a healthy 

lifestyle for the prevention of HIV. The manual has been piloted in the five high-risk 

districts of Azerbaijan for the training of 31 peer leaders who reached out to more 

than 2,500 adolescents and young people. 

PMTCT, Mozambique 

FTSE contributed £100,000 to support HIV work in Mozambique. The funds were 

used to support two key UNICEF initiatives. First, to increase the availability of 

PMTCT services at health care centres in Gaza, Sofala and Manica province. Second, 

to prevent new infections amongst adolescents and young people through mobile 

units that travelled out to rural areas of Mozambique to convey HIV prevention 

messages through video, dance, drama and community debates. Around 700,000 

people participated in these mobilisation activities in 2008. 

PMTCT, Lesotho 

In 2008 our long-term partner Kodak donated US $100,000 to PMTCT services in 

Lesotho. With their support, UNICEF was able to increase its work with health 

services and train 200 community health workers to ensure that more babies are 

born free from HIV. There are an estimated 12,000 pregnant women with HIV in 

Lesotho. 14 At the start of the Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS campaign, 

around one in ten received PMTCT services. Today, one in three receives the 

medical care that can help them to have babies born free from HIV. 15 

UK campaigning 

In June 2008, we delivered a petition to Government signed by over 80,000 people. 

The petition called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure that the G8 keep its 

promise of money to help prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Since our 

campaign launched in 2005, the number of pregnant women with HIV receiving antiretroviral 

treatment has increased significantly. In 2007, 1 in 3 pregnant women with 

HIV in low- and middle income countries received treatment, compared to only 1 in 

10 women in 2005 16 . While our campaign has achieved significant gains, much 

remains to be done and we continued to lobby the UK Government to ensure that 

14 

Children and AIDS Country Fact Sheets, UNICEF, December 2008, p. 75. 

15 Children and AIDS A Stocktaking Report, UNICEF, December 2006, p. 30.Children and 

AIDS Third Stocktaking Report, UNICEF, December 2008, p. 34. 

16 Children and AIDS Third Stocktaking Report, UNICEF, December 2008, p. 4. 

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PMTCT and children affected by HIV and AIDS were a priority in its new strategy to 

tackle the epidemic. 

The UK Government demonstrated its commitment to PMTCT by including the Unite 

campaign target for PMTCT service coverage in its new strategy for tackling HIV and 

AIDS in low-income countries and listing it as a priority area for action. 

The Department for International Development’s strategy includes a commitment of 

£200 million for social protection, which will help ensure that children affected by 

HIV and AIDS receive better nutrition, health and education. This demonstrates that 

children are a continuing priority for the UK Government. 

Working as part of the Stop AIDS coalition, we also launched a “push for the pool” 

campaign on patent pools, which aims to make the creation of child-friendly 

treatments for HIV easier by making it possible for generic pharmaceutical 

companies to access medicines that are currently under patent. More than 1,000 of 

our campaigners have already signed up to “push for the pool.” 

Since the start of our campaign, the number of children with HIV receiving antiretroviral 

medicine has more than doubled. In 2007, nearly 200,000 children with HIV 

received anti-retroviral treatment, up from 75,000 in 2005. However, much remains 

to be done, as around 90 per cent of children with HIV are still missing out on lifesaving 

treatment. 17 

World AIDS Day 

For World AIDS Day (1 December), we focused on early infant diagnosis of HIV, 

seeking to expand our support for early infant diagnosis in the 13 targeted countries 

that account for 75 per cent of the estimated 1.5 million pregnant women with HIV 

each year and nearly 75 per cent of all children with HIV 18 . 

In 2007, around 270,000 children under the age of 15 died of AIDS-related causes. 19 

Many of these children were never diagnosed with HIV and did not receive proper 

treatment. Most of these early deaths could have been avoided through early 

diagnosis of HIV and timely provision of effective treatment and care. Recent studies 

in South Africa show that starting anti-retroviral treatment in children before 12 

weeks of age reduces mortality rates by 76 per cent. 20 Yet, in 2007, only 8 per cent 

of children born to mothers with HIV were tested before they were two months 

old. 21 

17 Ibid, p. 10. 

18 Towards Universal Access, Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector, 

WHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS, 2008, p. 80. 

19 

2008 report on the global AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS, New York, p. 37. 

20 Towards Universal Access, Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector, 

WHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS, 2008, p. 97. 

21 Ibid., p.79 

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World AIDS Day also saw the launch of the Children and AIDS: Third Stocktaking 

Report. Jointly prepared by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the 

United Nations Population Fund, the report called for increased HIV testing for 

newborns as young as six weeks. 

Youth participation 

Members of our Youth Campaign Action Network (UCAN) and a Youth Adviser 

travelled to the XVII International AIDS conference in Mexico City as well as learning 

more about HIV prevention programmes on a visit to Swaziland, where around one 

in four young women (age 15–24) has HIV. UCAN have contributed to the strategic 

development of our campaign, helping to raise funds and increase the number of 

young campaigners. 

In September, Girlguiding UK launched their Changing the World project, which aims 

to support its 600,000 members to take action on an issue they care about. UNICEF 

UK is one of the 20 partner organisations involved with the project. We created 

engaging resources to encourage girls to learn about HIV and how it affects children 

around the world. The resources will also support Guides to raise awareness and 

money, and to tackle stigma and discrimination around HIV. Early feedback has been 

very positive, with campaigning and fundraising events planned by many Brownies 

and Guides across the UK. 

d. Child protection 

In 2008, we raised over £1 million for our child protection work. This included 

campaigning for the protection of all children, particularly focusing on the prevention 

of child trafficking, and the rescue and rehabilitation of children who have been 

trafficked, forced into labour or enlisted as child soldiers. These funds have enabled 

us to support a variety of projects including: 

Uganda 

After 20 years, the people of northern Uganda continue to suffer the terrible effects 

of civil war. Almost 2 million people have been displaced and are living in camps. In 

Kitgum region, 90 per cent of the population is living in camps 22 . However, a 

ceasefire has endured since August 2006, and the camp populations have begun to 

shift out of the original camps to transition camps nearer to their homes. 

Since 2006, in partnership with the Hunter Foundation, UNICEF has provided or 

rebuilt facilities and services to promote the health and well-being of children and 

their families. We have provided safe water supplies in the camps and trained local 

community leaders to build their own sanitation facilities when they return home. 

We have immunised more than 80 per cent of infants in camps, provided medicines 

and emergency health kits to over 70,000 children in health facilities, built toilets and 

installed and rehabilitated water facilities to benefit about 37,500 children, increased 

the availability of mosquito nets, distributed school supplies to cover the needs of 

more than 300,000 children and nearly 30,000 teachers, and reached 6,000 children 

and young people with life-skills education. 

22 UNICEF Humanitarian Action Uganda, Donor Update, UNICEF, 2004. 

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Foster care, Bulgaria 

There are currently over 8,500 children in institutions in Bulgaria, many living in poor 

conditions and receiving inappropriate care. UNICEF has been working to improve 

and expand the foster care system. The aim is to recruit foster parents for 3,000 

children, enabling them to grow to their full potential in a loving, family environment. 

This project has been supported by our Change for Good partnership with British 

Airways and the Medicor Foundation Liechtenstein. 

Child-friendly spaces, Brazil and Azerbaijan 

The International Inspiration programme is working towards increased access to and 

availability of safe, child-friendly places to play, reducing children’s risk of injury and 

abuse. Thanks to the contribution received in 2008, Azerbaijan and Brazil have 

carried out a baseline survey to identify and assess the quality of existing 

playgrounds and sport facilities, at both school and community level. 

In Brazil, UNICEF supported the assessment of existing places to play and sport 

facilities in 585 municipalities. In light of the findings of such surveys, facilities and 

spaces will be improved from 2009. In Azerbaijan, to date, we have completed two 

playgrounds in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps and begun to improve 21 

other play facilities. Once this process is completed, UNICEF will have increased 

access and participation opportunities for around 20,000 children in mainstream 

schools, 15,000 children in special schools and 8,000 children in IDP camps. 

Child trafficking 

Every year, 1.2 million children are victims of trafficking. 23 The UK is a significant 

transit and destination country for trafficked children. In 2007, the UK Government 

announced that 330 child victims of trafficking had been identified over an 18-month 

period; of these 183 went missing from social services care. 24 Child trafficking is 

largely a hidden crime, so the true number of children trafficked into the UK is likely 

to be much larger. Some of these trafficked children are destined to work in the sex 

industry, as domestic servants and in sweatshops. Even if trafficked children are 

identified, their care and protection is inconsistent, ad hoc and, in some regions, 

completely absent. 

In the last quarter of 2007, UNICEF and ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Child 

Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) produced Rights 

here, Rights now – an influential report setting out recommendations for the 

protection of trafficked children in the UK. One of the report’s principal 

recommendations was that the UK Government lifts its reservation to the UN 

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on matters of nationality and 

immigration. 

23 A Future without Child Labour, International Labour Organization, Geneva, 2002, p. 32. 

24 A Scoping Project on Child Trafficking in the UK, Kapoor, A., Child Exploitation and Online 

Protection (CEOP) Centre on behalf of the Home Office and Border and Immigration Agency, 

London, June 2007, p. 6 and p. 8. 

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In 2008, in response to the report and our continued advocacy work around child 

trafficking, the UK Government withdrew its reservation: a decisive step towards 

ensuring that asylum-seeking children enjoy the same rights as other children. The 

Government also made significant progress towards comprehensive child protection 

legislation for trafficked children by ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on 

Action against Trafficking in Human Beings and adopting the UK Border Agency 

Code of Practice on keeping children safe from harm. 

e. Policy, partnership and participation for children 

Orphans and vulnerable children, Malawi 

More than 4 million Malawian children live in poverty, which is deep, widespread and 

characterised by low literacy rates and food insecurity. Almost half of Malawian 

children under the age of five are stunted due to malnutrition. 25 There is an urgent 

need to protect, care for and support these orphans and vulnerable children. In 

partnership with Comic Relief, UNICEF has been supporting research into 

community-based childcare centres to identify the factors that make effective, 

comprehensive and quality services for these children. By providing a model that can 

be replicated and expanded nationwide, this research will ultimately contribute to 

creating a loving and protective environment for vulnerable children in Malawi. 

Supporting breastfeeding in Africa 

Since 2004, UNICEF has been coordinating the Inter-agency Group on Breastfeeding 

Monitoring’s work with Comic Relief to support research on compliance with the 

International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes in Africa. This is a multicountry 

programme (collaborating with Ministries of Health, UNICEF, WHO and 

other national and international stakeholders) that supports governments to fulfil 

their responsibility to ensure compliance with the Code as a means to improving 

infant health. As a result of research in Botswana and related activity in South Africa, 

the Government of South Africa has produced a draft law which should place 

significant controls on the marketing of formula milk products made in and imported 

from South Africa. This will have a positive effect on infant health throughout the 

region. 

Child well-being in the UK 

In February 2007, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre published the first study of 

childhood across 21 of the world’s industrialised nations. Child Poverty in 

Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries placed the UK at the 

bottom of the child well-being table. In response, UNICEF UK hosted the Child Wellbeing 

in the UK conference, which resulted in the Declaration on Child Well-being 

with a 12-point plan for improvement. 

In 2008, UNICEF Innocenti’s next report The Childcare Transition warned that the 

potential benefits of out-of-home childcare could be lost and social inequalities 

widened if governments in the world’s richest nations do not guarantee high quality 

early years care and education for all, especially the most disadvantaged. 

25 The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and newborn health, UNICEF, New York, 

2008, p.123. 

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Despite the Government’s commitment to pre-school education, the UK still has 

3.9 million children living in poverty and higher rates of infant death and low birth 

weight than many comparable countries. 26 High quality childcare is not yet available 

to all, and parental leave provisions remain inadequate. 

We continue to press the UK Government to spend what is needed both to 

eliminate child poverty and to meet the 10 “benchmark” standards for early 

childhood education and care outlined in The Childcare Transition. 

End child poverty 

On 4 October, UNICEF UK staff, supporters and campaigners joined the 10,000- 

strong End Child Poverty march through Westminster and rallied in Trafalgar Square. 

The event demonstrated wide public support for the campaign and sent a clear 

message to the Prime Minister, calling on him to invest £3 billion in the 2009 budget 

to end child poverty. The Government has subsequently made a commitment to 

enshrine in law the target of eradicating child poverty in the UK by 2020. 

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 

In 2008, the UK Government reported on the progress it has made in implementing 

the CRC to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. As the Government was 

preparing its report to the UN Committee, UNICEF UK worked with UK partners to 

organise a conference for children and young people to share their views with their 

peers, and to talk about their concerns with Government representatives. They gave 

their views on what they thought should happen to make sure the lives of children in 

the UK are improved and that their rights are better respected and protected. 

Youth participation 

We actively encourage child and youth participation in our work, and our UK Youth 

team and Youth Advisers strive to ensure that children know more about their rights 

and receive support as active, global citizens. 

We supported the selection and participation of a team of four young people from 

the UK to the J8 Summit 2008 in Chitose, Japan. Junior 8 takes place prior to the G8 

Summit, and is a unique chance for young people to have their ideas heard by 

leaders of the eight leading industrialised nations. 

Young people from the G8 nations as well as Barbados, Côte d’Ivoire, Iraq, Kyrgyz 

Republic, Mongolia, Nepal and South Africa met to discuss global issues and put 

forward their ideas and recommendations to the G8 leaders. The young delegates 

produced the Chitose Declaration, which covered issues such as climate change, 

poverty and development, and health care. On 8 July, the J8 delegates presented 

the Declaration to the G8 leaders, urging them to take action for young people. 

26 Households below average income, An analysis of the income distribution 1996/97 and 

2006/07, UK Department for Work and Pensions, 2008, p. 64. [3.9 million after housing 

costs.] 

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In March, we formed the UNICEF UK Youth Campaign Action Network (UCAN). The 

network brings together 14 committed young people in order to develop a strategy 

to get more young people in the UK involved with the Unite campaign. UCAN and 

Youth Advisers ran activities on children’s rights at an event at the British Library 

commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Children in emergencies 

UNICEF UK raised nearly £14.8 million to assist the millions of children caught up in 

emergencies in 2008. This sum includes £8.9 million from the Department for 

International Development (DFID), £450,000 from our Change for Good partnership 

with British Airways, and £200,000 from Jersey Overseas Aid. Jersey Overseas Aid 

has now contributed more than £3 million to support our long-term development 

work and emergency relief operations. 

In 2008, UNICEF UK supported 15 countries and regions to help children caught up 

in emergencies. Our Children’s Emergency Fund allows us to deliver a rapid 

response to children in crisis. It means that we can send emergency supplies before 

we have launched a public appeal for funds. It also enables us to help children in socalled 

“silent” emergencies that don’t attract much media attention. Churches 

throughout the UK raised more than £80,000 for the Fund through our Jar of Grace 

appeal. 

Myanmar (Burma), Cyclone Nargis 

On 2 May 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar (Burma), killings ten of thousands 

of people and leaving millions homeless and vulnerable to hunger and disease. It 

was the worst disaster in the country’s history, affecting the lives of an estimated 

2.4 million people. Because of our strong local presence, having staff and supplies 

ready to respond, UNICEF was able to mobilise immediately when the cyclone 

struck. 

Our supporters gave £2.3 million to help children and families affected by Cyclone 

Nargis. Individual donors gave nearly £1.2 million, the John Moores Foundation gave 

more than £100,000 and Orange raised £88,000 from customers and employees. 

British Airways not only gave £300,000, they also donated 95 tonnes of cargo space 

for the relief effort, helping to bring in emergency supplies for the most vulnerable 

children and families. 

The donations helped us to provide more than 87,000 tarpaulins and 60,000 family 

kits for an estimated 400,000 people, as well as 200,000 mosquito nets, diagnostic 

kits and medicine to prevent outbreaks of dengue fever and malaria. Around 390,000 

children also benefited from our support to more than 2,500 schools. Our help 

ranged from providing learning materials to building 1,000 safe learning spaces and 

repairing 800 schools. In addition, more than 18,500 children received psychological 

and social assistance through more than 100 UNICEF-supported child-friendly 

spaces. 

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China, earthquake 

On 12 May, a massive earthquake, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, hit eastern 

Sichuan Province, leaving around 88,000 people dead or missing and nearly 400,000 

injured. More than 120 million people were affected as the earthquake destroyed 

basic infrastructure including roads, bridges, hospitals and hundreds of thousands of 

homes. The disaster hit children especially hard as it struck during the early 

afternoon when children were at school. 

We were able to send £250,000 to help the Government of China in the rescue, 

recovery and reconstruction process. This was made possible by donations from the 

Parthenon Trust, the Prudential and its employees, and many other supporters. Our 

contribution helped to provide health supplies to the 1.4 million women and children 

in affected areas, more than 1,000 tents and 100 pre-fabricated classrooms to 

provide a safe temporary learning environment for 60,000 schoolchildren, and 

teaching and recreational materials for more than 250,000 students in the three 

most seriously affected provinces. UNICEF also established 40 child-friendly spaces 

in Wenchuan and Panzhihua to provide long-term psychological and social support 

for 12,000 children. 

Democratic Republic of Congo, war 

In October, the conflict intensified in the eastern province of North Kivu, forcing 

some 100,000 people to flee their homes – tens of thousands of these people were 

re-displaced as they were already living with host families or in displacement camps. 

At the peak of the crisis, around 250,000 people were displaced, bringing the total 

number of internally displaced to around 1 million – 20 per cent of the entire 

population of North Kivu. 

Thanks to our UK supporters, by the end of 2008 we had sent a total of £600,000 to 

tackle the ongoing crisis, enabling us to provide emergency measles vaccination 

campaigns for 130,000 internally displaced children and host communities. We also 

helped to build some 250 temporary classrooms for 13,750 children in IDP (Internally 

Displaced Persons) camps and host communities. UNICEF also works to reunite 

children with their families. Last year, nearly 1,700 children were separated from 

their families and of these 813 have been reunited with their relatives. We also 

supported 20 child-friendly spaces in IDP camps, allowing 44,000 displaced children 

to regularly participate in recreational and educational activities. In addition, our work 

has resulted in the release of 2,500 children from armed militias. 

Zimbabwe, cholera 

In the maelstrom of a political, economic and humanitarian crisis, Zimbabwe also 

grappled with the largest cholera outbreak in the country’s history. Spiralling inflation, 

political uncertainty, deteriorating infrastructure, erosion of livelihoods, food 

insecurity, rising malnutrition and the impact of the HIV epidemic have had a 

dramatic impact on the well-being of Zimbabwe’s children. 

Since August 2008, the crisis has deteriorated rapidly with the collapse of basic 

public services. Schools and hospitals have closed and water supplies have been 

erratic or unavailable. The net effect on Zimbabwe’s children has been no education, 

lack of health care, no safe drinking water, poor nutrition, and increased morbidity 

and mortality. 

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So far we have raised nearly £100,000 to help respond to the emergency. We have 

supplied and filled 24 5,000-litre water tanks, providing clean water to people in 

urban areas badly affected by cholera. In addition, we distribute daily around 700,000 

litres of water to health centres and cholera treatment clinics. We have also 

delivered basic medical supplies to health facilities, including 43 cholera tents – each 

with 700 cholera beds. 

Crucially, DFID has shown support for UNICEF’s work to fill the gap in the availability 

of vital and essential medicines and medical and surgical supplies across Zimbabwe: 

£5 million was made available at the start of 2008 and a further £6.5 million made 

available for 2009. DFID also committed £1 million to UNICEF’s water, sanitation and 

health preparedness project to help prevent communicable diseases and support the 

coordination of the response by international partners. 

Georgia, conflict 

On 7 August, armed conflict erupted in South Ossetia, Georgia. The violence 

affected large numbers of people in and around South Ossetia, especially in 

Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia. Many were displaced on both sides of the 

Russian and Georgian border, with women and children accounting for the majority 

of those caught in the conflict and seeking safety. It is estimated that at the height 

of the crisis, almost 40,000 children were internally displaced. 

UNICEF UK gave £30,000 to help the emergency relief efforts. As people started 

moving in their thousands to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and other cities, UNICEF 

delivered safe drinking water and other essential supplies, including emergency 

hygiene kits to over 13,000 people in IDP centres. 

To respond to the educational needs of children, UNICEF distributed school-in-a-box 

and sport-in-a-box kits, benefiting up to 78,000 children. We also established childfriendly 

spaces for 3,000 children, conducted a mine education campaign that 

reached up to 46,000 children, and provided training in psychological and social 

support for up to 2,000 education professionals, benefiting up to 40,000 children. 

Ethiopia, malnutrition 

A severe drought in 2008, coupled with high food prices and a lack of international 

relief supplies, led to a nutrition crisis that affected 2.4 million children in Ethiopia. 

More than 137,000 children required treatment in therapeutic feeding centres. 

Including a major donation from the Volant Charitable Trust, UNICEF UK supporters 

gave a total of £750,000 in support of this emergency, which helped UNICEF launch 

one of the largest-ever responses to severe malnutrition. As part of our response, 

we procured more than 4,500 tonnes of ready-to-use therapeutic food to support the 

treatment of 100,000 severely malnourished children every month in the droughtaffected 

regions. 

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Climate change 

Climate change is an urgent global challenge, making it harder to meet the 

Millennium Development Goals. In April, we published Our climate, our children, our 

responsibility, a report demonstrating that the greatest negative impacts of climate 

change will be experienced by children in the poorest communities. The report 

shows that climate change will seriously affect children, due to a wide range of 

impacts including rising malnutrition, diminishing water supplies, increasing disease 

and more frequent and severe storms and floods. 

Following publication of the report, we joined Stop Climate Chaos, a coalition of 80 

NGOs campaigning for greater action on climate change by the UK Government. 

UNICEF UK supporters joined coalition members in successfully calling for a higher 

emission reduction target in the Climate Change Bill (from 60 per cent to 80 per cent 

reduction by 2050), ensuring the target reflects the scientific assessment of the 

reduction needed. 

Recognising our own responsibilities, UNICEF UK started auditing our carbon 

footprint. In 2007, we were responsible for 2,026 tonnes of CO 2 emissions from our 

energy use, travel and paper consumption. This worked out at 13.1 tonnes per full 

time equivalent staff member. For 2008, we set ourselves the target of reducing our 

per capita carbon footprint by 20 per cent and adopted an environmental policy that 

commits us to reducing our consumption of resources, reusing and recycling as 

much as possible and enthusing all staff to be environmental champions. In fact, we 

reduced our carbon footprint by a total of 16 per cent in 2008, to 1,697 tonnes, or 

10.4 tonnes per staff member – a per capita reduction of 21 per cent. 

Rather than offset our emissions, we have chosen to compensate for them by 

funding UNICEF programmes that help communities to adapt to climate change, 

some of which will also help reduce carbon emissions. We spent £140,000 to 

compensate for our 2007 and 2008 footprint. This will provide: 40 schools in 

Mauritania with solar panels as part of a wider environmental education programme; 

100,000 indigenous tree seedlings between 50 schools in Ethiopia, along with 

support for planting and environmental education; rainwater harvesting systems to 

help ensure a clean water supply during droughts for 15 schools in Somalia, and a 

schools-based emergency preparedness programme in Guyana to help deal with 

increasing climate-related natural disasters. 

Core programmes 

Unrestricted funds are especially valuable to UNICEF as they allow us to direct 

money to areas where children’s need is greatest, even if funding has so far been 

inadequate or non-existent. There are three main criteria for allocating unrestricted 

funds to individual countries: the mortality rate of children under the age of 5, the 

gross national product per capita, and the absolute size of the child population. 

Based on these criteria, the global UNICEF Executive Board decides on funding 

proposals for individual country programmes. If approved, a country programme is 

usually five years in length and UNICEF plans carefully with individual governments 

to ensure the best results for children. 

From our 2008 income, the contribution of UNICEF UK to UNICEF’s core 

programmes amounts to over £5.9 million. 

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Raising money for children 

UNICEF is not funded by the UN. Instead, we rely entirely on voluntary contributions 

to support our programmes worldwide. 

Our total income for 2008 was £59.6 million, which allowed us to make £42.9 million 

available for programmes for children. Below are some of our key fundraising 

activities and achievements during the year. 

Soccer Aid 

On 7 September, we held Soccer Aid 2008 at Wembley Stadium, London. This 

followed on from the success of the first Soccer Aid in 2006, conceived by UNICEF 

UK Ambassador and singer Robbie Williams. The 2008 event, screened live on ITV1, 

raised nearly £1.2 million for UNICEF and our partners’ work with vulnerable children. 

The audience watched short appeal films on the projects supported by Soccer Aid 

2008, made by: Ewan McGregor (safe parks for vulnerable children in South Africa), 

David Beckham (child survival in Malawi), James Nesbitt (care for disabled children in 

Georgia), Lucy Liu (helping children affected by the war in the Democratic Republic 

of Congo), Orlando Bloom (safe water for children in Nepal), and Cat Deeley 

(protecting street children in the Philippines). They also were treated to a unique 

game as football legends took to the pitch alongside celebrities (England beat the 

Rest of the World 4–3). Nine-year-old Connor won a Youth Voice Soccer Aid 2008 

competition to report on the match, providing commentary on UNICEF UK websites 

and YouTube. 

International Inspiration 

International Inspiration is the international social legacy of the London 2012 Olympic 

and Paralympic Games. It aims to transform the lives of 12 million children and 

young people of all abilities, in schools and communities across the world, 

particularly in developing countries, through the power of high quality and inclusive 

physical education, sport and play. UNICEF is working alongside UK Sport and the 

British Council to deliver this ambitious project, with the support of the Organising 

Committee for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), the UK 

Government, the British Olympic Foundation and the British Paralympics 

Association. In 2008, International Inspiration transferred more than £520,000 to 

programmes for children. 

By Any Means 

The BBC series By Any Means followed UNICEF UK Ambassador Charley Boorman 

on his journey from Wicklow, Ireland, to Sydney, Australia, using as many different 

forms of transport as possible. The link with UNICEF’s immunisation work soon 

became apparent, as bicycles, motorcycles and even donkeys play a part in helping 

us to deliver vaccines to the most remote communities. Charley visited UNICEF 

immunisation programmes en route and the Telegraph Magazine accompanied 

Charley on an UNICEF immunisation trail. Our By Any Means microsite raised 

£20,000 for child survival, helping us train 22 health workers to administer 

vaccinations to 50,000 children. 

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Day for Change, water and sanitation in Gambia 

More than 3,000 UK schools took part in our 2008 Day for Change initiative, raising 

£300,000 to increase the availability and use of safe drinking water and to improve 

access to sanitation in Gambia. 

Corporate support 

In 2008, corporate partners donated more than £6.7 million with valued support from 

Barclays, Bloomberg, British Airways, BT, Clarks, DHL, Disney, Fairy, FTSE, IKEA, 

ING, Kodak, Manchester United, Pampers, Prudential, Rangers Football Club, 

Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Tesco, TNS and Turner among others. 

Change for Good reached its £25-million milestone in 2008 including a contribution 

of more than £1.3 million for the year. To celebrate Michael Palin unveiled a British 

Airways plane, painted with a commemorative “Change for Good £25 million” logo. 

British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh also marked the celebration by joining 

cabin crew on a field trip to Tanzania, to see the difference the partnership has made 

for vulnerable children. “It was fantastic to see how the money raised by our 

colleagues and customers is making a real difference to the lives of so many 

children. The determination and spirit of the people I’ve met here has demonstrated 

what can be achieved when we act in true partnership”. 

Worldwide, the Check Out for Children partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts 

has raised over $21 million (£14.5 million) since 1995, enabling UNICEF to immunise 

more than 1 million children against the six main killer childhood diseases. In total 

£689,000 was raised from guest donations in hotels in Europe, Africa and the Middle 

East and another £270,000 through employee fundraising, including a sponsored 

three-day cycle ride in France to raise money for child-to-child radio in Mozambique. 

Money from the partnership will fund Children’s Corners in Malawi, where orphaned 

and vulnerable children have the opportunity to play and learn with children of their 

own age, receive health care and some nutritious food, and have a break from their 

day-to-day responsibilities. Donations were also received for UNICEF’s 

immunisation, malaria prevention, and water and sanitation programmes. 

In 2008, the joint IKEA, UNICEF and Save the Children Christmas fundraising 

campaign raised €5.4 million globally, including nearly £150,000 for UNICEF UK from 

IKEA stores in the UK. In November and December, IKEA invited customers to 

support vulnerable children worldwide by purchasing IKEA soft toys. In the UK, IKEA 

donated €1 for every soft toy purchased, which is split between UNICEF and Save 

the Children education projects. Funds from this year’s campaign will be supporting 

UNICEF education programmes in Macedonia, Moldova, Sierra Leone, South Africa, 

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam. 

In November, we launched the Building Young Futures partnership with Barclays. 

The £5 million, three-year partnership aims to support education, employment and 

entrepreneurship projects in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and 

Europe. In addition, the partnership aims to engage Barclays’ employees through a 

programme of volunteering and fundraising to support partnership activities. 

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Also in November, we launched the Journeys for Life partnership with Samsonite. 

As well as making a corporate donation each year, Samsonite are asking customers 

in 26 countries to donate $1/£1/€1 with each purchase and are also asking 

employees to take part in a global fundraising campaign for UNICEF. The five-year 

partnership aims to raise US$5million for UNICEF education programmes globally. 

In October, we announced a new football partnership with the Glasgow Rangers 

Charity Foundation. The football club has committed £300,000 over three years to 

fund an education programme reaching more than 45,000 children in over 200 

schools across 15 states in India. 

Legacies, major supporters, trusts and grant-making bodies 

UNICEF UK achieved our highest-ever legacy income of more than £3.6 million and 

we raised over £1.6 million from major individual supporters. We also received nearly 

£3.6 million from charitable trusts, foundations and other grant-making bodies. In 

addition, we successfully secured a two-year grant from the Big Lottery Fund for 

more than £460,000 (starting 2009) for strengthening child protection in posttsunami 

Thailand. 

In December 2007, we were deeply saddened by the death of former UK Trustee 

Alison Richards. Alison was a great champion for UNICEF, working tirelessly to help 

raise more than £1 million during her tenure at The Pier. A tribute party to Alison 

fittingly raised £32,000 for schools in Angola. 

Fundraising groups and volunteers 

Through volunteering their time and skills on a wide range of innovative events, 

community fundraisers and event organisers raised over £2 million in 2008. 

Team UNICEF runners raised more than £400,000 for the campaign through events 

such as the London Marathon and the Royal Parks Half Marathon, while the Property 

Industry Annual Dinner raised £105,000 for HIV and AIDS programmes in Brazil. 

In 2008, UNICEF UK embarked on its first overseas trek. Twenty-eight intrepid 

UNICEF supporters travelled along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, helping to raise 

more than £100,000 for our young child survival and development programmes in 

Peru. 

Individual fundraising 

We raised nearly £19 million through marketing campaigns to our existing supporters 

and other members of the public. In January, for instance, an appeal to 150,000 

individual supporters raised more than £160,000 to help enable babies to be born 

free from HIV. 

Sales of UNICEF cards and gifts 

Total income from the sales of UNICEF cards and gifts (including donations with 

orders and “Inspired Gifts”) was £2 million. While consumer direct sales increased 

by more than 8 per cent, retail sales fell by 6 per cent and corporate card sales fell by 

21 per cent. Purchases of our Inspired Gifts also fell by 6 per cent to £444,000, the 

first fall since the launch of the initiative in 2005. This appears to be due to the 

impact of the emerging recession during the Christmas period. On a positive note, 

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our new range of eco-friendly and fair-trade sourced gifts proved very popular with 

customers, representing over 10 per cent of total gift sales. Thanks to a successful 

Christmas season, donations with orders increased by nearly 8 per cent. 

New for 2008 was a range of Inspired Gift packs for retail sale, starting with a 

promotion at Selfridges in the run-up to Mother’s Day where 100 per cent of the 

price was passed to UNICEF. In the Christmas season, the gift packs also went on 

sale at Cargo Homeshop and Pier stores alongside our Christmas card ranges, 

allowing us to reach new customers and increase income for children. 

UNICEF can proudly demonstrate that when someone buys an Inspired Gift the 

money will provide that item to vulnerable children or communities around the 

world. Occasionally a similar item may be substituted according to local need; for 

instance, chalks or crayons instead of pencils. 

Here are some of the Inspired Gifts that our supporters bought to improve the lives 

of vulnerable children around the world: 

• 30 sets of baby weighing scales to Nicaragua 

• 688 bicycles to Ghana 

• 78 first aid kits to Afghanistan 

• 394,000 sachets of oral rehydration salts to Myanmar (Burma) 

• Two water pumps installed in Nigeria 

• 3,500 mosquito nets to the Central African Republic 

• 38 school-in-a-box kits to Madagascar 

• Two midwifery kits, including medicine and basic equipment to North Korea 

• More than 75,000 measles vaccines to DR Congo 

• 56,000 sachets of therapeutic peanut paste to treat malnutrition in Ethiopia 

Looking ahead 

UNICEF UK’s five-year plan (2006–10) identifies three main strategic aims: 

• To be the leading champion for children’s rights nationally and internationally, to 

change Government policies to improve children’s lives and to create the 

conditions for children and young people to advocate for their rights; 

• To create a world fit for children, free from AIDS by making the Unite for 

Children, Unite against AIDS campaign our top priority; 

• To significantly increase the money we send to UNICEF programmes, 

demonstrating that UNICEF raises and uses money effectively and that UNICEF 

UK makes a distinctive contribution. 

Impact of the recession 

The anticipated impact of the recession has had a major influence on our plans for 

2009. We do not expect our income to grow during the year and have therefore 

restricted our expenditure to 2008 levels in order to ensure that the maximum 

amount can be allocated to UNICEF’s programmes for children. We will nevertheless 

invest in fundraising in order to ensure that we are able to respond effectively and 

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quickly when the economy begins to improve. The global economic climate has an 

enormous impact on children in low-income countries, making our work at this time 

even more pressing. We are determined to make sure that children’s basic rights are 

fulfilled and plan to make £31.1 million available for programmes for children 

worldwide in 2009. 

Live free from HIV 

In 2009, we will launch the next phase of the Unite campaign, focusing on the 

prevention of HIV among young people age 15–24. This group account for nearly half 

of all new infections worldwide. 27 We aim to raise £2.5 million and involve UNICEF 

youth supporters in the development and delivery of campaign activity. 

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games 

We will continue to develop our strong partnership with UK Sport, the British Council 

the Organising Committee for the London 2012 Olympic Games (LOCOG), the 

Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the Department for International 

Development (DFID), the British Olympic Foundation and the British Paralympic 

Association to deliver International Inspiration, part of the international social legacy 

of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

2009 will be the first full year of the London Olympiad, meaning that we can expect 

increasing attention on International Inspiration, which will expand to provide 

education, protection, child survival and health promotion opportunities to children 

and young people through sport-related programmes in ten countries. We will also 

identify another five countries for the next phase, as we work towards our goal of 

helping 12 million children in 20 countries before the 2012 Games’ Opening 

Ceremony. 

Child rights 

We will refocus our work on realising children’s rights at home and abroad, in 

particular by developing and launching a new child rights based initiative that will 

include a volunteer-led fundraising campaign as well as a repositioning of our UK 

programme work to promote children’s rights at the highest feasible institutional 

level. 

Climate change 

Finally, we will continue to highlight the impact of climate change on children, calling 

for a just settlement at December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, 

and raising new funds to help children adapt to their changing climates. 

27 Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2008 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, 

UNAIDS, Geneva, August 2008, p. 36. 

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Financial review 

Income 

In describing our activities and achievements above, we have reported that UNICEF 

UK’s total income for 2008 was £59.6 million. Our plans for 2009 have been adjusted 

to take into account the current downturn in the worldwide economy, and we will 

monitor the situation carefully so that we can respond quickly to any changes, with a 

view to meeting the overall targets we set in our five-year strategic plan for 2006–10. 

Our 2008 income was an increase of £18.4 million over the previous year’s income. 

This was the result of the continuing generosity of our supporters and our decision 

to increase investment in fundraising. There are some notable individual 

contributions: 

• the donation of airtime by CNN to show our film “The Gift” nearly 2,000 

times worldwide, and the donation of cargo space by British Airways to help 

UNICEF transport supplies to the Myanmar (Burma) cyclone emergency, 

together were worth £5.9 million. 

• the income from DFID for humanitarian emergencies in which UNICEF UK 

was active, both in discussions with DFID and in raising public awareness 

and funds, was £4.9 million higher than in 2007. 

• £1.5 million was received from our previous landlords for agreeing to 

terminate our tenancy 18 months before the end of our lease. 

Costs of generating funds 

Charities have to spend money to raise money. Over the past five years 28 , for all 

donations, UNICEF UK has spent on average 20 pence for every pound raised, while 

for every one pound’s worth of sales of cards and gifts, the average cost has been 

60 pence. In 2008 total fundraising costs were £13.0 million, compared to £10.4 

million in 2007 reflecting the increased investment in direct marketing, new 

fundraising initiatives, and corporate partnerships in particular. 

Charitable expenditure 

Of the total income raised in 2008, £42.9 million was available for programmes to 

benefit children. Of this, £32.9 million was for specific programmes or countries 

chosen by our donors, £5.9 million for UNICEF core programmes and £4.1 million for 

UNICEF UK’s advocacy and education programmes in the UK, including those of the 

Baby Friendly Initiative. 

On average, over the last five years, 75 per cent of UNICEF UK’s gross income was 

available for programmes, after fundraising, sales and administration costs. 

28 A five-year rolling average shows more clearly the charity’s core underlying costs as it 

minimises the impact of one-off or exceptional events such as humanitarian emergencies. 

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Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) 

UNICEF UK is a member of the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB), the 

body for self-regulation of fundraising in the UK. As a member of the FRSB, 

UNICEF adheres to the highest standards of good practice with our 

fundraising. We are also committed to giving the public the comfort of a ‘safety net’ 

provided by the FRSB’s robust complaints system. 

Management and administration and governance costs 

Management and administration costs, calculated in compliance with the previous 

Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2000), amounted to £1.1 

million in 2008 compared to £1.0 million in 2007. Over the last five years, 

management and administration costs amounted to 2 per cent of total income. This 

includes governance costs, which are explained below. 

Under the revised Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and 

Reporting by Charities issued in 2005 (SORP 2005), management and administration 

support costs are allocated between the charity’s functional activities and 

governance costs. As a percentage of total income, governance costs amounted to 

less than 1 per cent in 2008. 

UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited 

The charity’s wholly owned trading subsidiary carries out non-charitable trading 

activities for the charity. During the year, income of £1.19 million (2007: £1.05 

million) was raised from events, corporate sponsorship, commission and royalties. 

After allowing for associated expenditure and management charges, £1.17 million 

(2007: £1.03 million) was covenanted under Gift Aid to UNICEF UK. 

Reserves 

UNICEF UK’s policy on reserves is to: 

Retain an emergency fund to allow for an immediate response to the humanitarian 

needs of children during an emergency, even if income from the relevant appeals 

has not yet been received. 

Maintain a general fund to finance the working capital needs and cover the 

resources invested in fixed assets. UNICEF UK has no need for reserves to provide 

for future programmes, as these are the commitment of UNICEF HQ. Also, the 

charity’s diversified sources of income render unnecessary any large reserves to 

safeguard against a sudden reduction in donations. In 2008, a decision was made to 

increase the general fund with the £1.5 million lease termination payment received 

from UNICEF UK’s previous landlords to reflect the additional fixed assets held as a 

result of the relocation to our new registered office. This has increased the general 

fund from £500,000 to £2 million. This will be released in stages in future years as 

the new fixed assets depreciate. 

At the year end, there was also £53,000 of restricted funds relating to income that is 

for programmes carried out by UNICEF UK and hence has not been paid to UNICEF 

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HQ. A designated fund of £17,000 at the end of 2008 has been set aside for a youth 

participation project to be carried out in the first quarter of 2009. 

Ethical investment policy 

Other than holding money on deposit at the bank for short fixed periods of time, 

UNICEF UK has chosen to hold no investments and no investment properties. Any 

shares or similar investments donated to UNICEF UK are sold immediately so that 

those funds are available for our work for children. Except for amounts held for 

expenditure in the following year, the entire surplus from the year’s activities is 

transferred to UNICEF HQ. Consequently, UNICEF UK’s investment policy means 

that no investments are kept that may be considered unethical. 

For the group personal pension schemes that UNICEF UK has negotiated for our 

employees, we ensure that employees have the option to choose to invest their 

pension funds entirely in ethical investments. 

Changes in assets 

The movements in fixed assets are set out in note 13 to the financial statements. 

The net value of charity’s fixed assets has increased from £283,000 at the end of 

2007 to £2.4 million at the end of 2008. The main components of this increase 

relate to the leasehold property improvements that were necessary when we moved 

office, and the additional office furniture and equipment needed to furnish it. 

UNICEF UK leases the properties from which it operates, and does not own any 

properties for its own use or for investment purposes. 

The cash at bank held by the group at the year end amounted to £6.6 million, 

compared to £5.5 million at the end of 2007. The last 3 months of the year are the 

busiest times for donations and the sale of cards and gifts, which results in higher 

than usual bank balances in December. Additionally, we received a payment for 

surrendering the lease at our previous office just before the year end – the payment 

amounting of £1.5 million was received on 24 December 2008 and was part of the 

bank balance at the year end. Regular transfers are sent to UNICEF headquarters, 

and in the first quarter of 2009 UNICEF UK transferred a further £5.3 million to 

support our work overseas. 

Volunteers 

Our volunteers contribute in many important ways to UNICEF UK’s success and 

achievements. Volunteers including our trustees, advisers, high profile supporters 

and interns donated almost 10,000 hours of their time during 2008. 

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Governance 

UNICEF UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee and governed by a Board of 

Trustees that consists of no less than seven and no more than 16 elected Board 

Members, who are concurrently Directors under Company Law. The Board selects 

from amongst themselves the following officers: a Chair, two Vice-Chairs and a 

Treasurer, and has a power to co-opt not more than six further Trustees for a 

maximum of one year. The maximum term of service for an elected Trustee is six 

consecutive years; officers of the charity can serve for nine consecutive years. 

Thereafter, a year must elapse before re-election or re-appointment to the Board. An 

annual general meeting of members of the charity elects the Board and confirms the 

membership of any Trustees co-opted during the year. 

The Board of Trustees meets five times a year to ensure that UNICEF UK has a clear 

vision, mission and strategic direction and is focused on achieving them. This 

involves monitoring and acting to ensure that performance and impact is achieved, 

as well as being the guardians of our fundamental values and ethos. For example, 

the Board reviews and approves the medium term strategic plans and annual plans 

of the charity, receives and examines reports on the charity’s financial affairs, 

monitors programmatic and fundraising activities, and considers policies and 

procedures in areas such as risk management and legal and regulatory compliance. 

A Management Committee of up to seven of the Trustees meets five times a year 

with delegated authority to give detailed consideration to governance matters and 

make recommendations to the Board. 

The Executive Team has been delegated responsibility for the day-to-day 

management of UNICEF UK and comprises the Executive Director supported by 

three Deputy Executive Directors and an Associate Director. The Deputy Executive 

Directors each have specific responsibility for Finance and Services, Fundraising, 

Communications and Programmes; the Associate Director is responsible for planning 

and new projects. 

Trustees regularly review the membership of the Board and Management 

Committee to ensure that the necessary skills and perspectives needed for effective 

governance are in place, taking account of the need for political impartiality, gender 

balance and representation of the structure of the UK population. In 2006, the 

Trustees commissioned a review of UNICEF UK’s governance arrangements to 

ensure that we continue to meet best practice standards. 

UNICEF UK provides an annual budget for training and support to Trustees and they 

receive regular briefings on their legal responsibilities and duties. All new Trustees 

undergo a thorough induction programme which includes meetings with each of the 

Executive Team, a briefing on their role and responsibilities, and a comprehensive 

set of documents which includes detailed information about UNICEF as well as 

general guidance such as “The Essential Trustee” published by the Charity 

Commission. 

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Risk management 

The Trustees have implemented a formal risk management process to assess 

business risks and implement management strategies as part of UNICEF UK’s fiveyear 

plan. 

A Risk Working Group, comprising the Treasurer and senior members of staff from 

across UNICEF UK, meets quarterly to identify and assess the major risks, and 

recommend and monitor implementation of appropriate actions to manage those 

risks. The group reports at least twice a year to the Trustees. Risk management is 

fully embedded as an integral part of our planning process both at a strategic, 

departmental and project level. 

The top five risks that UNICEF UK considered would have the highest impact, taking 

into account the controls and safeguards we already have in place, were as follows: 

• Information and communication technology compromised by an internal or 

external source restricting UNICEF UK from carrying out its activities; 

• Turnover of staff resulting in the loss of valuable skills or extended vacant 

posts; 

• Misuse of the UNICEF name or logo resulting in an adverse effect on the 

perception of UNICEF; 

• Cessation of a major income source (for example, a high value trust 

supporter, corporate supporter, or high profile supporter); 

• Association with organisations or individuals that act or are perceived to act 

contrary to UNICEF’s principles. 

The risks were satisfactorily managed and there were no operational problems 

encountered during the year. 

Trustees 

The Trustees are also Directors for the purposes of company law. The Trustees who 

served during the year and up to the date of this report were as follows: 


Chair 

Brian Smith 

Treasurer 

Gerison Lansdown 

Vice-Chair 

Christopher Lovell 

Vice-Chair 

Dr Harriet Crabtree OBE 

Professor Lynn Davies 

Mehr Khan Williams (until June 2008) 

Sue MacGregor CBE 

Bruce Mauleverer QC (until June 2008) 

Baroness Morris of Bolton OBE 

Robert Scott (from June 2008) 

Professor Andrew Tomkins 

Baroness Walmsley 

Baroness Whitaker 

Rob Williams (co-opted November 2008) 

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The Trustees are members of the charity. Members of the charity guarantee to 

contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the charity in the event of 

winding up. The total number of such guarantees from Trustees and other members 

at 31 December 2008 was 112 (2007 – 113). The Trustees have no beneficial 

interest in the charity or the group. 

Related parties and connected organisations 

UNICEF UK has a wholly owned trading subsidiary, UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited, 

that carries out non-charitable trading activities for the charity. 

Statement of responsibilities of the trustees 

The Trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year 

which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and group and the 

incoming resources, including the net income or expenditure, of the group for the 

year. In preparing those financial statements the Trustees are required to: 

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; 

• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; 

• state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of 

recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material 

departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and 

• prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is 

inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation. 

The Trustees have overall responsibility for ensuring that the charity has an 

appropriate system of controls, financial and otherwise. They are also responsible for 

keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any 

time, the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial 

statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. They are also responsible for 

safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the 

prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. 

The systems of internal control are designed to provide reasonable, but not absolute, 

assurance against material misstatement or loss. They include: 

• a strategic plan and an annual budget approved by the Trustees. 

• Regular consideration by the Trustees of financial results, variances from 

budgets, non-financial performance indicators and benchmarking reviews. 

• Delegation of authority and segregation of duties. 

• Identification and management of risks. 

Each of the Trustees confirms that to the best of his/her knowledge there is no 

information relevant to the audit of which the auditors are unaware. The Trustees 

also confirm that they have taken all necessary steps to ensure that they themselves 

are aware of all relevant audit information and that this information has been 

communicated to the auditors. 

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Auditors 

Sayer Vincent was re-appointed as the group’s and charity’s auditors during the year 

and expressed their willingness to continue in that capacity. 

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 29 April 2009 and signed on its behalf by 


Chairman 

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Independent auditors’ report 



We have audited the consolidated financial statements of The United Kingdom 

Committee for UNICEF for the year ended 31 December 2008 which comprise the 

consolidated statement of financial activities, balance sheet and related notes. These 

financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies 

set out therein. 

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in 

accordance with section 235 of the Companies Act 1985. Our audit work has been 

undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those 

matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other 

purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume 

responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable 

company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions 

we have formed. 

Respective responsibilities of the trustees and auditors 

The responsibilities of the trustees (who are also the directors of The United 

Kingdom Committee for UNICEF for the purposes of company law) for preparing the 

annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and 

United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted 

Accounting Practice), are set out in the statement of responsibilities of the trustees. 

Our responsibility is to audit the financial statements in accordance with relevant 

legal and regulatory requirements and International Standards on Auditing (UK and 

Ireland). 

We report to you our opinion as to whether the financial statements give a true and 

fair view and are properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985. We 

also report to you whether the information given in the annual report of the trustees 

is consistent with the financial statements. In addition we report to you if, in our 

opinion, the charitable company has not kept proper accounting records, if we have 

not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit, or if 

information specified by law regarding the trustees' remuneration and other 

transactions is not disclosed. 

We read the annual report and consider the implications for our report if we become 

aware of any apparent misstatements within it. 

The maintenance and integrity of The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF's 

website is the responsibility of the trustees; our work does not involve consideration 

of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any 

changes that may have occurred to the financial statements since they were initially 

presented on the website. 

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Basis of opinion 

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK 

and Ireland) issued by the Auditing Practices Board. An audit includes examination, 

on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the financial 

statements. It also includes an assessment of the significant estimates and 

judgements made by the trustees in the preparation of the financial statements, and 

of whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the charitable company's 

circumstances, consistently applied and adequately disclosed. 

We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and 

explanations which we considered necessary in order to provide us with sufficient 

evidence to give reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from 

material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error. In 

forming our opinion we also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of 

information in the financial statements. 

Opinion 

In our opinion: 

• the financial statements give a true and fair view, in accordance with United 

Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, of the group and charitable 

company's state of affairs as at 31 December 2008 and of the group's 

incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and 

expenditure, for the year then ended; and 

• the financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with the 

Companies Act 1985; and 

• the information given in the report of the trustees is consistent with the 

financial statements. 

SAYER VINCENT 

Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors 

May 2009 

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Consolidated statement of financial activities 

(incorporating an income and expenditure account) 


Incoming resources 

2008 2007 

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total 

Notes £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Incoming resources from generated funds: 

Voluntary income 2 12,509 32,322 44,831 32,103 

Government grants 3 - 9,418 9,418 5,454 

UNICEF fundraising development 

11 - 177 177 332 

UNICEF cards and gift sales 4 2,025 5 2,030 2,023 

Investment income 

518 - 518 398 

Incoming resources from charitable activities: 

Advocacy programmes 880 273 1,153 963 

Other incoming resources 1,500 - 1,500 - 

Total incoming resources 17,432 42,195 59,627 41,273 

Resources expended 

Costs of generating funds: 

Costs of generating voluntary income 5 (4,192) (8,853) (13,045) (10,420) 

UNICEF fundraising development 11 - (177) (177) (332) 

UNICEF cards and gifts costs 4 (1,504) - (1,504) (1,493) 

(5,696) (9,030) (14,726) (12,245) 

Charitable activities 

Core UNICEF programmes 6 (5,889) - (5,889) (4,411) 

Specific UNICEF programmes 6,8 - (32,859) (32,859) (20,640) 

Advocacy programmes 6,7 (3,829) (287) (4,116) (3,579) 

(9,718) (33,146) (42,864) (28,630) 

Governance costs 6 (478) - (478) (437) 

Other resources expended (48) - (48) - 

Total resources expended (15,940) (42,176) (58,116) (41,312) 

Net movement in funds 1,492 19 1,511 (39) 

Funds at the start of the year 1,025 34 1,059 1,098 

Funds at the end of the year 2,517 53 2,570 1,059 

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses 

other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in note 18 to the financial statements. 

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Balance sheets 

As at 31 December 2008 

The group 

The committee 

2008 2007 2008 2007 

Note £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Fixed assets 

Tangible fixed assets 13 2,427 283 2,427 283 

Investments 14 - - 20 20 

2,427 283 2,447 303 

Current assets 

Debtors 15 2,942 2,721 3,174 2,916 

Short term deposits 3,042 3,047 3,042 3,047 

Cash at bank and in hand 6,600 5,494 6,348 5,279 

12,584 11,262 12,564 11,242 

Creditors: amounts due within one 

year 

Creditors and accrued charges 16 4,830 2,742 4,830 2,742 

Amounts due to UNICEF 7,611 7,744 7,611 7,744 

12,441 10,486 12,441 10,486 

Net current assets 143 776 123 756 

Net assets 17 2,570 1,059 2,570 1,059 

Funds 18 

Unrestricted funds 

General funds 2,000 500 2,000 500 

Designated funds - Emergency Reserve 500 500 500 500 

- Other 17 25 17 25 

Restricted funds 53 34 53 34 

Total funds 2,570 1,059 2,570 1,059 

The notes on pages 40 to 51 form part of these financial statements. 

These financial statements were approved by the Trustees on 29 April 2009 and were signed on their behalf 

by: 


Chairman 

Brian Smith 

Treasurer 

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Consolidated cash flow statement 



£'000 £'000 

Net incoming / (outgoing) resources for the year 1,511 (39) 

Interest received (518) (398) 

Depreciation of tangible fixed assets 179 182 

Decrease / (increase) in debtors (221) (1,276) 

(Decrease) / increase in creditors 1,957 2,441 

Net cash inflow / (outflow) from operating activities 

2,908 910 

Returns on investments and servicing of finance 

Interest received 518 398 

Capital expenditure 

Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets (2,324) (140) 

Management of liquid resources 

Cash withdrawn from / (placed on) fixed term deposit 5 (3,047) 

Increase / (decrease) in cash 1,107 (1,879) 

Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement in net cash 


£'000 £'000 

Increase / (decrease) in cash 1,107 (1,879) 

Net cash at 1 January 5,494 7,373 

Net cash at 31 December 6,601 5,494 

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Notes to the financial statements 


1. Accounting policies 

a) Basis of preparation 

The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with 

the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP) issued in 

March 2005, applicable accounting standards and the Companies Act 1985. The principal 

accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows: 

b) Basis of consolidation 

UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited is a subsidiary undertaking of UNICEF UK as defined in the SORP 

and therefore all its transactions have been consolidated on a line by line basis. 

c) Incoming resources and resources expended 

All income and expenditure is shown in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA). 

Incoming resources 

All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities when receivable. Gifts 

donated for resale are included as income when they are sold. Legacy income is recognised when it 

becomes reasonably certain that the legacy will be received and the value of the incoming resources 

can be measured with sufficient reliability. Grants are recognised in full in the SOFA in the year in 

which they are receivable. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included. 

Gifts in kind are brought in as incoming resources, and an equal amount recorded as expenditure 

under the appropriate heading in the SOFA. The value attributed to gifts in kind is the open market 

value of the equivalent service or facility. 

Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the 

objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds. 

Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. 

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. 

Costs of Generating Funds 

Resources expended are accounted for on an accruals basis. They include attributable VAT, which 

cannot be recovered. Costs of generating funds comprise those operational costs directly 

attributable to fundraising and sales of UNICEF cards and gifts. These include direct costs, which 

are allocated on an actual basis to the relevant expense heading, salaries and other overhead 

expenses. Added to this is an allocation (based on space, usage or time spent) of the salaries and 

overhead costs of support: 

Charitable Expenditure 

Fundraising 58% 

Cards and Gifts 5% 

Advocacy Programmes 27% 

Governance 10% 

Charitable expenditure is the cost of activities carried out by UNICEF UK in the furtherance of its 

objectives and includes the funds sent to programmes to benefit children. 

Core UNICEF programmes are financed by unearmarked (unrestricted) donations which are used for 

UNICEF general programmes such as immunisation and education. 

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1. Accounting policies (continued) 

Specific UNICEF programmes are specific project or country programmes, chosen by UNICEF UK or 

its donors. 

Advocacy programmes are UNICEF UK’s advocacy and education programmes in the UK, including 

those of the Baby Friendly Initiative. 

Governance costs are incurred in the general running of the charity to provide the governance 

structure which allows the charity to operate and generate the information required for public 

accountability. These costs include the strategic planning process, external audit, costs relating to 

trustee meetings and legal advice for trustees. Also included is an allocation of indirect costs 

involved with supporting the governance activities. 

d) Tangible fixed assets 

Fixed assets are shown at cost less depreciation. Individual fixed assets costing £1,000 or more are 

capitalised at cost. 

Depreciation is calculated so as to write off the cost of fixed assets on a straight line basis over their 

estimated useful lives as follows: 

Leasehold property 20% 

Office equipment 20% 

Computer hardware 33 1 / 3 % 

e) Grants 

Included in the UNICEF UK accounts are contributions from DFID, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of 

Man. The DFID contributions are those to humanitarian emergencies in which UNICEF UK was 

active in 2008 both in discussions with DFID and in raising public awareness and funds. 

The UK Government also made other contributions to UNICEF Headquarters which are not shown in 

UNICEF UK’s accounts on the basis that the above criteria were not met. 

f) Pensions 

The charity operated two defined contribution pension schemes during the year. The assets of the 

schemes are held separately from the charity in independently administered funds. The charge in 

the Statement of Financial Activities is the amount of contributions payable to the pension scheme in 

respect of the accounting period. 

g) Rental 

Rentals payable under operating leases, where substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership 

remain with the lessor, are charged to the statement of financial activities in the year in which they 

fall due. 

h) Foreign currency 

Transactions in foreign currencies are translated at rates prevailing at the date of the transaction. 

Balances denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the rate of exchange prevailing at the 

balance sheet date. 

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2. Voluntary income 2008 2007 

Unrestricted Restricted Total Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Direct marketing 7,999 10,958 18,957 16,120 

Change for Good - 1,274 1,274 1,274 

Check Out for Children - 968 968 826 

Corporate partnerships 136 4,355 4,491 3,075 

Major supporters, charitable trusts and 

foundations* 

547 3,962 4,509 3,786 

Legacies 3,339 278 3,617 2,658 

Fundraising initiatives and regional fundraising 443 1,538 1,981 1,694 

Special events 12 1,673 1,685 2,042 

"Inspired Gifts" donations - 444 444 471 

International Inspiration 2012 - 956 956 - 

Donated services - 5,904 5,904 - 

Other fundraising 33 12 45 157 

Total 12,509 32,322 44,831 32,103 

* Charitable trusts restricted income includes £21,485 (2007 - £190,159) from the Big Lottery Fund. 

3. Government grants 2008 2007 

Total Total 

£'000 £'000 

The Department for Overseas Development (DFID) 8,900 5,037 

The States of Guernsey & Jersey and the Isle of Man 518 417 

Total 9,418 5,454 

All government grants are treated as restricted funds. 

4. UNICEF cards and gifts 2008 2007 

Total Total 

£'000 £'000 

Sales of UNICEF cards and gifts 1,783 1,794 

Donations with orders 247 229 

Total 2,030 2,023 

Less: Costs of selling UNICEF cards and gifts 

Staff costs (181) (194) 

Direct costs (1,095) (1,091) 

Support costs 

(228) (208) 

All income from the sales of cards and gifts is treated as unrestricted funds. 

(1,504) (1,493) 

526 530 

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5. Costs of generating voluntary income 

Staff costs 

Direct costs 

Support 

costs 

(note9) 

2008 

Total 

2007 

Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Direct marketing 493 6,544 1,310 8,347 6,641 

Change for Good 68 173 114 355 424 

Check Out for Children 58 188 114 360 285 

Corporate partnerships 458 393 228 1,079 798 

Special events 51 257 114 422 356 

Major supporters, charitable trusts and 

foundations 

479 223 513 1,215 1,032 

Fundraising initiatives 260 317 342 919 647 

Legacies 59 232 57 348 237 

Total 1,926 8,327 2,792 13,045 10,420 

6. Charitable activities 

Staff costs 

Direct costs 

Support 

costs 

(note9) 


Total 

2007 

Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Core UNICEF programmes - 5,889 - 5,889 4,411 

Specific UNICEF programmes (note 8) - 32,859 - 32,859 20,640 

Advocacy programmes (note 7) 1,770 1,066 1,280 4,116 3,579 

Governance - - 478 478 437 

Total 1,770 39,814 1,758 43,342 29,067 

The direct costs of core programmes and specific programmes are transfers to UNICEF. Specific programme 

transfers are detailed in note 8. 

7. Advocacy programmes expenditure 

Staff costs 

Direct costs 

Support 

costs 

(note9) 


Total 

2007 

Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Development education and youth work 599 460 319 1,378 1,077 

Baby Friendly Initiative 325 313 214 852 700 

Management of information resources 214 49 252 515 511 

Communication of UNICEF's programmes 239 52 205 496 460 

Management of high profile supporters 

129 25 130 284 224 

Campaign and parliamentary work 264 167 160 591 607 

1,770 1,066 1,280 4,116 3,579 

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8. Supplementary programmes 

£32,859,000 was for supplementary programmes (2007: £20,640,000). The main components of expenditure are 

identified below: 


£'000 £'000 

Children in emergencies 14,614 7,224 

Young child survival and development 6,050 6,402 

Basic education and gender equality 2,759 2,462 

HIV and children 8,865 3,963 

Child protection 571 534 

Policy, partnership and participation for children - 55 

32,859 20,640 

9. Support costs 

Fundraising 

and sales Advocacy 

costs programmes Governance 


Total 

2007 

Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Finance 287 122 46 455 524 

Information technology 479 203 76 758 632 

People and development 393 166 62 621 494 

Office management 586 248 93 927 891 

Support services 609 258 96 963 940 

Directorate 666 283 105 1,054 879 

3,020 1,280 478 4,778 4,360 

Other 2008 2007 

Staff costs costs Total Total 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Finance 211 244 455 524 

Information technology 271 487 758 632 

People and development 449 172 621 494 

Office management 235 692 927 891 

Support services 725 238 963 940 

Directorate 685 369 1,054 879 

2,576 2,202 4,778 4,360 

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10. 

Staff costs 

The average weekly number of employees (full-time equivalent) during the year was as 

follows: 


Number Number 

Fundraising 82 74 

Advocacy programmes 68 62 

Support and governance 14 14 

164 150 

Staff costs were as follows: 


£'000 £'000 

Salaries and wages 5,005 4,373 

Social security costs 516 448 

Pension contributions 314 276 

Total salaries' costs 5,835 5,097 

Other staff costs 618 583 

Total staff Costs 6,453 5,680 

Employees with emoluments over £60,000 were as follows: 

No. 

No. 

£80,001 - £90,000 1 1 

£60,001 - £70,000 2 1 

There were 3 employees in the year (2007: 2 employees) with emoluments over £60,000 

who accrued retirement benefits under the charity's defined contribution schemes. The 

combined contributions for the year from UNICEF UK for those employees totalled £19,067. 

The Executive Director's emoluments for 2008, excluding employer's pension costs, 

amounted to £89,520. 

Pension and retirement benefits 

The charity operated two defined contribution pension schemes during the year with Scottish 

Mutual and Friends Provident. The pension cost charge for the period represents 

contributions payable to the schemes and amounted to £314,000 (2007: £276,000). 

There were £nil outstanding contributions at the end of the financial year (2007: £nil). 

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11. UNICEF fundraising development programme 

Expenditure on trading activities and fundraising is undertaken with the following financial 

support provided by UNICEF Headquarters for fundraising market development and 

fundraising research & development activities. 


£'000 £'000 

Market development programme 

Greeting card operation - 67 

Research and development programme 

Donor recruitment 177 89 

Fundraising development programme 

Donor recruitment - 177 

Movements on UNICEF fundraising development programme funds 

177 333 

Market Research and Fundraising 

development development development 

programme programme programme 2008 2007 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

At the start of 

the year 

Funding 

received 

Funding 

available 

Funding 

utilised 

At the end of 

the year 

57 33 30 120 239 

- 177 - 177 333 

57 210 30 297 572 

(57) (210) (30) (297) (452) 

- - - - 120 

The balance at the end of 2007 was included under 'Amounts due to UNICEF' in the balance 

sheet. Funding utilised in the year above the level received is shown as a movement in the 

"Amounts due to UNICEF" balance. 

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12. Net incoming resources for the year 

This is stated after charging: 


£'000 £'000 

Depreciation 179 182 

Trustees' reimbursed expenses 15 16 

Trustees' remuneration Nil Nil 

Auditors' remuneration: 

Audit 26 22 

Other services 4 1 

Operating lease rentals: 

Property 330 497 

During 2008, a trustee (Gerison Lansdown) was appointed following a competitive process to 

prepare background documentation for a future Committee campaign. The remuneration for this 

assignment was £8000. The costs for the remainder of the assignment amounting to £1200 will 

be paid in 2009. Three trustees received reimbursed expenses in 2008 (2007 - 2). 

13. Tangible fixed assets 

The Committee and Group 

Short 

leasehold Office Computer 

property equipment hardware Totals 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Cost 

At the start of the year 333 552 902 1,787 

Additions in the year 1,936 281 107 2,324 

Disposals in the year (280) (277) (357) (914) 

At the end of the year 1,989 556 652 3,197 

Depreciation 

At the start of the year 324 403 777 1,504 

Charge for the year 37 55 87 179 

Disposals (279) (277) (357) (913) 

At the end of the year 82 181 507 770 

Net book value 

At 31 December 2008 1,907 375 145 2,427 

At 1 January 2008 9 149 125 283 

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14. Fixed asset investment 

The charitable company (UNICEF UK) owns the whole of the issued ordinary share capital of the 

subsidiary (UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited), a company registered in England and Wales: 


£'000 £'000 

20,000 £1 ordinary shares UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited at cost 20 20 

UNICEF UK Enterprises Limited is used for non-primary purpose trading activities. All activities 

have been consolidated on a line by line basis in the statement of financial activities. Available 

profits are donated by Gift Aid to UNICEF UK. A summary of the results of the subsidiary is 

shown below: 

Summary profit and loss account (UNICEF UK Enterprises Ltd) 


£'000 £'000 

Turnover 1,184 1,048 

Cost of sales - - 

Gross profit 1,184 1,048 

Administrative expenses (21) (21) 

Interest receivable 6 6 

Operating profit / (loss) 1,169 1,033 

Amount donated by Gift Aid to the charity (1,169) (1,033) 

Retained in the subsidiary - - 

The assets and liabilities of the subsidiary were: 

Current assets 272 473 

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (252) (453) 

Total net assets 20 20 

Aggregate share capital and reserves 20 20 

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15. Debtors 

The group 

The committee 


£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Trade debtors 830 770 830 770 

Other debtors 2,112 1,951 2,092 1,693 

Amounts due from 

subsidiary undertaking - - 252 453 

2,942 2,721 3,174 2,916 

16. Creditors and accrued charges 

The group 

The committee 


£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Trade creditors 3,396 1,405 3,396 1,405 

Other creditors and accruals 1,434 1,337 1,434 1,337 

4,830 2,742 4,830 2,742 

17. Analysis of group net assets between funds 

General 

funds 

Designated 

funds 

Restricted 

funds 

Total 

funds 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Tangible fixed assets 2,427 - - 2,427 

Net current assets (427) 517 53 143 

Net assets at the end of the year 2,000 517 53 2,570 

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18. Movements in funds 

At the start of Total Total At the end 

the year income expenditure of the year 

£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 

Unrestricted funds: 

General funds 500 17,415 (15,915) 2,000 

Designated funds: 

IT projects fund 25 - (25) - 

Youth participation project - 17 - 17 

Emergency fund 500 - - 500 

Total designated funds 525 17 (25) 517 

Total unrestricted 

1,025 17,432 (15,940) 2,517 

Restricted funds: 

Supplementary programmes* - 41,745 (41,745) - 

Advocacy programmes 34 273 (254) 53 

UNICEF fundraising development - 177 (177) - 

Total restricted funds 34 42,195 (42,176) 53 

Total funds 1,059 59,627 (58,116) 2,570 

* Includes £21,485 (2007 - £190,159) income and expenditure from the Big Lottery Fund. 

Purposes of funds 

The general unrestricted fund of £2,000,000 is to finance the purchase of fixed assets and 

working capital for current needs. 

The designated Emergency fund of £500,000 is held to enable rapid transfers to be made to 

UNICEF HQ for immediate needs before appeals are made to donors and funds received in 

response to those emergency appeals. 

Restricted funds are used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. The £53,000 

remaining at the end of 2008 is a restricted fund specifically to deliver a breastfeeding monitoring 

project focused on protecting infant health in Africa. 

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18. Movements in funds (continued) 

UNICEF fundraising development programme funds are provided by UNICEF headquarters for 

market development, research and development and fundraising development programmes. The 

balance at the end of the year is included under 'Amounts due to UNICEF' in the balance sheet. 

19. 

Taxation 

The charity is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for 

charitable purposes. The charity's trading subsidiary, UNICEF UK Enterprises Ltd, covenants all 

its profits to the charity. There is no charge to corporation tax in 2008. 

20. Annual achievements review 

The annual review of UNICEF UK achievements gives details of the support to UNICEF 

programmes provided by UNICEF UK and further narrative on the charity's activities during the 

year. 

Copies of the annual review may be obtained from: 

UNICEF UK 

The Helpdesk 

Kingfisher House 

2 Woodbrook Crescent 

Billericay 

Essex 

CM12 0EQ. 

Telephone 0844 801 2414. 

Email: helpdesk@unicef.org.uk 

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UNICEF UK 

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London EC1V 0DU 

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7490 2388 

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