On 24th December 2021, Street Child was delighted to publish our annual report and accounts for the year 2020/21 which saw a record £11.1m of programmes. The near doubling of programme scale in the midst of a global pandemic is an incredible achievement. To read the Annual Report in full please click here.
Some of our highlights of the year, which can be found on page six of the report, included:
Drawing on the charity’s unique health crisis experience from the 2014/15 Ebola pandemic, Street Child knew fast, community-level action was vital. We were one of the very first international charities to formally launch a Covid-19 appeal and by the end of September 2021 our response had reached 5.6m people with information and/or services to help them cope with the pandemic.
In September 2020 AET, a 60-year old charity with outstanding programmes in Somalia and South Sudan as well as a proud track-record in Kenya and Uganda, became the fourth charity since 2018 to formally join Street Child as a legal subsidiary. Street Child are incredibly excited to work with AET staff to multiply impact for children in Somalia and South Sudan in particular – 2 countries with some of the world’s worst education indicators.
In the face of the pandemic, Street Child UK delivered a record £11.1m of programmes in 2020/21 – up from a previous high of £6.6m in 2019/20. Whilst Street Child worked across 17 countries, three-quarters of our spend was in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Uganda and Nepal where our teams delivered mighty, high-impact programmes. There was recognition of our outstanding impact in Nepal where Street Child’s ‘Marginalised No More’ education programme was the only programme graded A+ across DFID/FCDO’s global ‘Leave No Girl Behind’ portfolio.
In 2020/21 Street Child secured approximately £15m in fresh funds raised and brand new funding commitments for current and future years – for Street Child UK, our sister entities and direct to our partners. We were honoured to have our first three opportunities to partner with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). We were also thrilled to expand our relationship with Education Cannot Wait (ECW) with a new grant in Afghanistan, continuation of AET programmes in Somalia and in particular the award of $7m to a Street Child/NRC consortiam in Nigeria which is a massive endorsement of the strength and reputation Street Child has built in the Boko Haram conflict zone.
Street Child’s new venture in Cameroon made massive progress, in particular with the opportunity to support our lead national partner LUKMEF to deliver substantial child and general protection programmes from UNICEF, supporting 4,500 children. As the year ended the new team in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique were also preparing to support partners deliver a major UNICEF-funded child protection programme. The integration of AET gives Street Child running starts in South Sudan and Somalia and a new GPE grant enabled Street Child to start in Myanmar.
The COVID crisis has challenged every person and organisation on the planet. Programmatically Street Child delivered our most intensive and impactful year to date, scaling and adapting our work to support children and communities who we knew needed us more than ever. This was achieved from a reduced ‘core’ cost- base and without strain on the organisation’s financial health. Organisationally, despite a precipitous fall in unrestricted income, forcing a range of tough cost-control measures affecting all parts of the organisation, we still managed to post a modest unrestricted surplus – maintaining our reserve levels in their target range.
To read the Annual Report in full please click here.