Partnership for

Good mental health for children - for life

Review of 2012 - 2013

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Introduction Board of Trustees

A role for everyone

Randi Talseth - Chair Simon Armson - Vice Chair Prof Margaret Barry

Tony Skrzypecki Marianne Ubbe

Staff

on treating mental illness. The case

shows

what

for promoting health is socially and

for

economically compelling, and yet it

you

Partnership

Prof Rachel Jenkins Sandra Mak

This Annual Review

Children has done

is so often overlooked.

in the past year to promote the mental

That is why at Partnership for

wellbeing of young children around

Children we promote Good mental

the world. You will see that our

health for children – for life.

Who are we?

What do we do?

How do we do it?

Friends

and

Amigos do Zippy class in Santa Catarina, Brazil

emotional

Zippy’s

health

programme

is

Chris Bale - Director

reaching far and wide, helping more

Zippy’s Friends is one big step in the

Partnership for Children is a charity,

We help children to be mentally

We produce resources for parents

Caroline Egar - Programme Director

children in more countries.

right direction, but if we really want

based in the UK but working to

and emotionally healthy – just as

and teachers of five to 12 year old

to help children we must promote

help young children around the

exercise and good food help them

children.

Caroline Lifford - Projects Coordinator

I visited a small community called

the health and wellbeing of the

world.

to be physically healthy.

Fjell, near Bergen in the west of

Helen Danby - Print and Web Designer

whole school community, reaching

Norway. Zippy’s Friends is running

out to all children, all teachers,

We are the small hub of a huge

All our work is about helping young

world’s most successful mental

in local schools and the children

parents and the wider community

wheel, depending on the skills and

children to deal with difficulties,

health

had all been given Zippy T-shirts to

–and, yes, even the chief officer of

dedication of partners in many

so that they’ll be better able to

with extra resources for children

wear. What pleased and surprised

the council!

countries – national and local

cope with problems and crises as

with learning difficulties. We are

governments, charities, universities

teenagers and adults.

We want

also trialling Apple’s Friends, a

and

them to live full and flourishing

follow-up for slightly older children.

Richard Micallef - Accountant Hayley Maurice - Consultant

me, though, was that the chief officer of the local council was

Mental

wearing one too!

business.

health

is

everybody’s

We run Zippy’s Friends, one of the

teacher

training

colleges,

schools, teachers, parents and children.

programmes,

lives. We produce Good Books for Tough Times, recommending storybooks

On average, countries spend just 2% of their health budgets on mental

The Board of Trustees met in Oslo in May 2013, hosted by our partner agency Voksne for Barn. Here are (clockwise from left) Tony Skrzypecki, Sandra Mak, Caroline Egar, Chris Bale, Simon Armson and Marianne Ubbe.

promotion

health – and most of that is spent

Randi Talseth

not on promoting mental health but

Chair

Together, we create good mental

which can help children who are

health for children – for life.

dealing with difficult feelings and situations. We

Partnership for

also

run

a

website

www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk, offering

advice

for

teachers

and parents on issues such as communication,

bereavement,

bullying and family break-up.

Good mental health for children - for life www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk

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Zippy’s Friends The annual global enrolment of children in Zippy’s Friends grew by two per cent in 2012 and then surged by a further 13% in 2013 to a record 172,035. The total number of children helped by the programme now stands at 872,418.

‘We learned that you have to look after your friends and you have to help others. Also to share, to listen and not to say ugly things to others, to say how we feel, to trust and love. Zippy was the one who taught us all these things.’

More and more children helped Zippy’s Friends is one of the world’s

Colleague Olga Dyachkova was

most popular and successful mental

seriously injured in the same

health promotion programmes for

accident but fortunately has since

young children, helping them to

recovered. Despite this tragedy, the

develop skills for life.

Russian programme has continued to expand.

Children from Spelthorne School, England

Learning that lasts

In 2012 classes started in five more Latin American countries – Chile,

In England, Zippy’s Friends continued

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru and

to help children in 12 areas of

Zippy’s

been

A 2010 study of teenagers in

Uruguay. In Brazil, which started

the country, growing particularly

independently and professionally

Lithuania found that 81% of those

back in 2003, more than 190,000

strongly in Northamptonshire.

evaluated

who had taken part in Zippy’s

Friends in

has many

different

countries and cultures, and the

Friends nine years earlier still

in

findings are remarkably consistent.

remembered the programme, and

Lithuania, celebrated its tenth

They show that the programme

68% said it had helped them to

In the United States, Zippy’s Friends

anniversary in late 2012. Zipio

significantly

overcome difficulties in their lives.

was included on the National

draugai has spread to every county,

emotional literacy and coping skills,

Registry of Evidence-based Programs

reaching 14,000 children annually.

reduces hyperactivity and leads

Informal interviews with teenagers

and Practices (NREPP), paving the

Mauritius

fifth

to improved relationships in the

in Denmark in 2011 produced

way for expansion beyond the

anniversary of Les Amis de Zippy

classroom. Recent studies have also

similarly positive responses.

programme’s current base in New

in August 2013, and classes also

shown that it reduces bullying and

Jersey.

started on the island of Rodrigues.

improves children’s academic skills.

Enrolment in China grew strongly.

Growth in Norway in recent years

But our slogan is: Good mental

had taken part in the programme

Classes started in Tianjin and

has been particularly strong, and

health for children – for life. Do the

five years earlier. They found that

continued in Beijing and Hong Kong.

our partner agency Voksne for

skills which children learn in Zippy’s

96% remembered the programme

In Shanghai, more than 15,000

Barn – Adults for Children – helped

Friends last a lifetime?

and 81% were still using what it

children were enrolled.

to secure funding from the EEA

children

have

now

completed

Amigos do Zippy.

8-year-old boy, Argentina

Vaiko

Labui,

our

partner

for us to launch the programme in

That’s difficult to assess, because

said that it had improved their

‘I’ve been teaching for 24 years and I’ve worked with a lot of programmes which claim to teach children social and emotional competencies. None of them made a difference except for the one I started teaching last year – Zippy’s Friends. This really works!’

Slovakia in late 2013.

the programme is still relatively

communication and listening skills,

Teacher, Netherlands

celebrated

the

improves

children’s

In Mauritius in 2013, researchers interviewed 204 children who

The programme in Russia suffered

young and it is difficult and

given them more self-confidence,

was killed in a road accident.

We hope that Zippy’s Friends will

expensive to follow children for

and increased their self-control and

Lyudmila helped to launch Zippy’s

be launched in at least three more

many years. But some promising

their ability to resolve conflicts.

Friends in Karelia and we were

countries in 2014.

evidence is beginning to emerge.

a tragic loss when Lyudmila Kovru

Drawing by Aistė, Vilnele Kindergarten, Vilnius, Lithuania

taught them. Specifically, children

greatly saddened by her death. www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk

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Partners The spread of Zippy’s Friends would not be possible without the commitment and creativity of our partner agencies around the world. They promote and manage the programme, training teachers and helping young children to flourish.

Argentina Asociación SER+ Belgium ASBL Educa Santé Brazil Associação Pela Saúde Emocional de Crianças (ASEC) Canada The University of Quebec at Montreal, Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia Chile Corporación CreArte China China National Institute for Educational Research, Beijing; East China Normal University, Shanghai; Hong Kong Institute of Education, Dept of Early Childhood Education, Hong Kong Costa Rica Asociación por la Defensa de los Derechos de las Personas Menores de 18 años (DNI) Denmark  Currently seeking new national partner; programme running in schools in Fyn El Salvador Fundación Empresarial para el Desarrollo Educativo (FEPADE) England Girls’ Day School Trust, Spelthorne Confederation of Schools, West Surrey Foundation, schools in Ashford, Kent, and Local Authorities in Durham, Newcastle, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Southampton, Southwark, Sunderland and Warwickshire Iceland Directorate of Health India The Sangath Society for Child Development and Family Guidance Ireland Health Service Executive Lithuania Vaiko Labui Mauritius Institut Cardinal Jean Margéot, Département PsychoSociologie et Counselling Mexico Asociación Programa Lazos, I.A.P., and Fundación Nemi Morocco SEMAS Whole Brain Development Netherlands Stichting Kids en Emotionele Competenties (KEC) Norway Voksne for Barn Panama Fundación Universidad Especializada de las Américas (FUNDAMERICAS) Peru Asociación Kallpa para la Promoción Integral de la Salud y el Desarrollo Poland Centrum Pozytywnej Edukacji (COPE) Russia NGO Sodeistvie Singapore Health Promotion Board, Youth Health Division Slovakia League for Mental Health Trinidad The School Leadership Center of Trinidad and Tobago and Tobago USA Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health, Montclair State University, NJ Uruguay Asociación Civil Gurises Unidos Vietnam The Center for Supporting Community Development (SCDI)

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Key Numbers Zippy’s Friends 2012................... 152,473 children 2013................... 172,035 children To date................ 872,418 children

Countries Children doing Zippy’s Vrienden in the Netherlands now have their own activity books.

Drawing by Wiktoria, Poland.

Cake to celebrate the fifth birthday of Zippy’s Friends in Mauritius.

We organise summer story telling sessions for children in our home town of Kingston upon Thames.

In four countries more than 100,000 children have completed Zippy’s Friends. China................................ 205,754 Brazil................................. 191,636 Poland.............................. 117,286 Lithuania........................... 114,493

Boy in a Zippy’s Friends class in Tianjin, China.

Certificate for children who complete Los Amigos de Zippy in Peru.

Co-ordinator Dr Amanda Wong (front row, fourth from right) joined trainers, teachers, school heads, parents and sponsors at the launch of a book about the development of Zippy’s Friends in Hong Kong.

Two young performers at the fifth anniversary celebration of Zippy’s Friends in Mauritius.

We have renewed the lease on our office in Kingston upon Thames, near London, paying less now than we did ten years ago.

Finances 2012 Income .................. £319,558 2012 Expenditure .......... £317,140 That’s just £2.08 for each child enrolled in Zippy’s Friends in 2012,

Apple the hamster is the star of Apple’s Friends, and Margaret Minchell knits models of him for schools.

Zippy at Home, a parents’ programme already successful in Brazil, is being trialled in Newcastle, England, in partnership with the Quakers’ Newcastle Conflict Resolution Network.

our lowest ever figure.

A Zippy’s Friends class of visually impaired children in Brazil.

The enrolment of children in Zippy’s Friends grew by another 13% in 2013.

We spent 14% less in 2012 than we did in 2002!

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Inclusion Children with learning difficulties can also benefit from Zippy’s Friends. We have produced one set of new resources for children who study in mainstream schools, and another for those with more severe difficulties who study in special schools.

Activities for all A girl with poor language skills

learning difficulties. The pictures

finds it hard to keep up with her

below, for example, help children

classmates.

to differentiate between things that

A hyperactive boy

from a troubled home is disruptive

change and things that don’t.

in school. A girl with autism has difficulty concentrating in a noisy classroom. Despite their difficulties, all

these

children

are able to study in mainstream

schools,

but they will need extra

Charlotte, a pupil at St Joseph’s, Cranleigh, England, a specialist school for children with learning difficulties

‘I’ve looked through all the activities and would use every one of them!’

we offer three alternatives –

Children with more severe and

This year we have begun to see

one for the whole class,

complex difficulties study in special

results. Teachers from 17 special

one for small groups of

schools, and for years these schools

schools have been trained to use

children, and one for

have been saying that addressing

the new resources, and initial

one-to-one

teaching.

their pupils’ mental health and

feedback from the classroom is very

Teachers can choose

emotional wellbeing is one of their

positive. One teacher said: ‘All the

most pressing challenges.

children are more relaxed talking

suitable for the class or a particular child.

Friends

about their feelings now.’ Three years ago, NASS (National Association

That is why we have produced Zippy’s

Off to a promising start

For each activity in Zippy’s Friends

the activity which is most

help if they are to flourish.

Visual aids help children to recognise and understand feelings

and

of

Independent

We were delighted to secure

Non-Maintained

funding for the new resources

Inclusion

Many of the ideas in the Inclusion

Schools

Supplement, a 90-page manual full

Supplement have come from our

Special Schools) gave us some

to

of activities, visual aids and games

partners around the world, and the

seed money to start adapting

professionally evaluated, thanks

to help teachers in mainstream

finished Supplement has now been

Zippy’s Friends to meet this need.

to the generosity of The Judith

schools to include their pupils with

supplied to all of them.

It has been a challenging process.

Trust. The study is due to start in

The phrase ‘learning difficulties’

2014 and report in 2015. If all goes

covers many types and levels of

well, the new resources will then

difficulty and we have tried to

be promoted to all special schools

produce resources to help as many

in the UK and made available to

children as possible. For example,

our international partners.

the

be

independently

and

‘I’d just like to say Thank You for giving us resources which are appropriate for special schools. Most of the time when we go on courses we’re given resources which just aren’t suitable for our children and told ‘good luck,’ whereas you’ve obviously put a lot of time into making these appropriate.’ Assistant Head Teacher,

each of the six stories in Zippy’s Friends has been adapted for four

We are excited by this project,

St John’s Special School,

Emotional Literacy Support

different levels of comprehension.

which is urgently needed and has

Essex, England

Assistant, Southampton,

Up to 12 new activities have

the potential to help large numbers

been developed for each of the

of children with learning difficulties.

England

programme’s 24 sessions.

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Finance Zippy’s Friends

Support

Total in 2012 was enrolment £317,140 of – that’s equivalent toFriends just £2.08 In expenditure 2011, the annual global children in Zippy’s grewforby 34 each completedWe Zippy’s was lessbut than ten be years perchild centwho to 149,603. don’tFriends. yet have Spending final figures for14% 2012, they’ll even

Promoting good mental health is much cheaper than treating mental illness.

ago,higher. even though we are now helping many more children.

small charity like ours. Please help us.

We are very grateful to everyone who supported our This workprogramme in 2012, is so useful my particularly our in Friends work. If I could, I whose regular donations would turn the clock allowed us to keep costs back to down. know it earlier. Significant grants came from: • HSBC Global Education Teacher, Lithuania Programme

But it still costs money, and fund raising is a constant struggle for a

Financial Report January 2012 To December 2012 Statement of Financial Activities For the period ended 31 December 2012

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Unrestricted Funds (£)

Restricted Funds (£)

2012 Total (£)

2011 Total (£)

Incoming resources Voluntary income Charitable activities Investment income

77,443 178,817 420

62,878 -

140,321 178,817 420

130,801 172,264 169

Total incoming resources

256,680

62,878

319,558

303,234

You can see from this Review that we make a little money go a long way. ______________________________________________ Last year, our total expenditure was equivalent to just £2.08 for each child Email __________________________________________ who completed Zippy’s Friends.

Address _______________________________________

Resources expended Charitable activities Governance costs

(243,893) (8,264)

(64,983) -

(308,876) (8,264)

(301,282) (12,030)

Total resources expended

(252,157)

(64,983)

(317,140)

(313,312)

4,523

(2,105)

2,418

(10,078)

Total funds brought forward

131,300

13,799

145,099

155,177

Total funds carried forward

135,823

11,694

147,517

145,099

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• Baily Thomas Charitable Fund • The Funding Network • Fung Yiu King Charitable Foundation • Vivmar Foundation

Net income/(expenditure) for year

Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2012 £ Fixed Assets Tangible assets Current Assets Stock Debtors Cash at bank and in hand

The information shown here is a summary of our annual accounts for 2012. If you would like to see the full Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements, you can view it at www.charity-commission.gov.uk or we will be happy to send you a copy. The full accounts have been audited by David Howard, Chartered Accountants Zippy’s new friend in Tianjin and Statutory Auditors, and received an unqualified report.

Creditors:amounts falling due within one year Net Current Assets Net Assets Funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds

2012 £

£

405

9,270 13,625 155,390 178,285

2011 £

happy, healthy children

I would like to become a Friend. Please send me the form.

Friends support our work by making regular donations – monthly, quarterly or annually – helping us to plan ahead Name _________________________________________ and keep costs down.

8,480 42,885 120,559 171,924

(31,173)

I would like to find out more about leaving a gift in my will. Please send me a copy of your leaflet.

A gift in your will won’t cost you a ______________________________________________ penny now, but one day it will help children to develop the skills they need to cope with problems and difficulties. Email __________________________________________

Become a Friend

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We treat Friends as real friends, not Address _______________________________________ just names on a list. We keep you informed about our work and will never pass on your name to third ______________________________________________ parties. Donations of any amount are very welcome, and can be cancelled Email __________________________________________ or adjusted at any time.

(27,636) 147,112 147,517

144,288 145,099

11,694 135,823 147,517

13,799 131,300 145,099

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One day Zippy’s Friends helps children all over the world, in big schools and small kindergartens, in rural areas and major cities. Programme Director Caroline Egar recalls her visit to one class in Russia earlier this year.

Leningradskaya oblast, Tuesday 14 May 2013 This

was

an

traditional

costumes

and

turtle and rabbit died, but then

exhausting day,

handicrafts) for coffee and pastries.

my mum had my baby brother, so

starting at 8am

I was told that this was a well-

I felt OK’).

and finishing at

off area with 0% unemployment,

11 pm.

Ilona

work coming from a huge chicken

Afterwards teachers said how much

(co-ordinator of

processing factory, plus paper and

they liked the programme and how

Zippy’s Friends

pulp mills.

it was new for Russia. The children

in Russia) met me at the hotel, fresh

Director Chris Bale with a Les Amis de Zippy class at St Pierre RCA Primary School, Mauritius

liked the rules very much and

off the train from Petrozavodsk,

We observed a well-taught Zippy’s

enjoyed enforcing them at home!

and we travelled by three different

Friends session in a large hall, with

The teachers had been afraid of

metro lines all the way to the

two teachers and 14 children.

teaching Module 5, which deals

northern edge of St Petersburg,

There was a warm relationship

with change and loss, but said they

The fact that 172,035 children have

There are similarly sad statistics for

to strengthen our resources for

where we waited at the edge of a

between teachers and children,

now realised that children need

completed Zippy’s Friends this

every country. Details differ from

parents and develop advice for

pavement with no discernible bus

and all contributed at some point.

to talk about these issues.

year is a cause for considerable

place to place, but the need to

schools.

stops. Eventually a rickety bus took

All the children held a small

Principal and Vice-Principal were

satisfaction.

Everyone who has

help children to develop the skills

us another 45 minutes, through

hand-made Zippy, and they had

very supportive of the programme,

supported our work can feel

they will need to cope with life’s

Advocate strongly for the promotion

miles of pine and silver birch forest,

lots of ideas about how to help

and I felt proud that Zippy’s Friends

pleased to have helped a small

challenges is universal.

of children’s mental health.

to the small and dilapidated town of

themselves and others to feel

was so well rooted in this little

charity to have a large impact.

Pervomayskoye.

better if they couldn’t change

Russian backwater!

We will continue to promote

the children to whom it is taught,

The

The bigger picture

While Zippy’s Friends directly helps

But take a wider look at the mental

Zippy’s Friends because we know

raising

We were met off the bus by Galina

pictures of different situations,

Caroline Egar

health of children and young people

that it really helps children. But

influencing policy could indirectly

Smizhova,

there were lots of dead pets (‘Our

Programme Director

a situation.

When they drew

public

awareness

and

and you soon find some darker

we know too that it’s not going to

benefit many more.

and walked through well-worn

numbers. For instance, each year

change the world on its own. In

do both, and to encourage our

apartment blocks until we stopped

in England:

addition, we need to:

partners around the world to do

the

vice-principal,

in front of one of them and were told: ‘This is the school – how do you like it?’

the same. • 31 million schooldays are lost due to bullying • 304,000 children are excluded

Pervomayskaya School was built for 800 children but has a roll of

We want to

Promote the emotional wellbeing of whole school communities.

These are challenging goals for

We have already produced extra

a small charity and will need the

from school, 5,000 of them

resources

children

generosity and support of many

permanently

with learning difficulties, and are

people. But helping young children

trialling Apple’s Friends, a follow-

to live flourishing lives is a goal

up to Zippy’s Friends.

worth fighting for.

only 480. Despite the unpromising

• Suicide is the second biggest cause

exterior, it was fine inside, and we

of death among 15-19 year olds

to

include

We plan

were proudly shown into one of the school’s ‘museums’ (displaying www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk

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Partnership for Children 26-27 Market Place Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1JH UK Tel +44 (0) 20 8974 6004 Website: www.partnershipforchildren.org.uk Email: [email protected] Registered Charity No. 1089810 Company No. 4278914

Front cover: Girl in a Los Amigos de Zippy class in Mexico Back cover: Thank You from some of Zippy’s children – in Chinese, Creole (Mauritius), Danish, Dutch, English, French, Icelandic, Irish, Konkani (Goa, India), Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.