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Youth education charity WORLDwrite is associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network. Established in 1991, [1] it promotes a development agenda.

Its website promotes the Battle of Ideas and Spiked as well as blogs by LM network associates Daniel Ben-Ami, Brendan O'Neill and Rob Killick. [2] In 2010, sixty of its young volunteers filmed and participated in over seventy of the Battle of Ideas debates.

The trustees comprise Shirley Lawes, Kirk Leech and Toby Marshall.

Worldwrite has a staff of 5 FTE and an annual turnover of around £150,000. [3]

WORLDwrite's tour guide trainers include LM associates Ceri Dingle, Viv Regan, Alan Hudson, Ian Abley, James Woudhuysen, Munira Mirza, Jim Butcher and Andrew Calcutt. [4]

It claims to "benefit" 2,500 people annually. [5]

It has an permanent video news project, WORLDbytes and a current video history project in East London, London behind the Scenes. These were funded during 2008/9 as follows:

  • Worldbytes - Bloomberg; City Parochial Foundation; Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
  • London Behind the Scenes - Paul Hamlyn Foundation; Wates Foundation.[6]

Details of funding:

In 2008, the City Parochial Foundation gave £85,000 towards the launch of Worldbytes.[7]
In 2009, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation gave £70,671 towards the salary over three years of the assistant director, to run 'WORLDbytes', an “experimental online news magazine channel run by young disadvantaged volunteers”. [8]
In 2008, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation gave £75,000 to London Behind the Scenes.[9]
In 2008/9, the Wates Foundation gave £10,000 towards London Behind the Scenes[10]
In 2009, the Heritage Lottery Foundation gave £25,000 for a Young Roots programme on Sylvia Pankhurst and the Suffragettes.[11]
IN 2009/10 Bloomberg increased its funding to £50,000 from £30,000 the previous year, making its funding larger than the next two largest grants combined.[12]

The accounts are examined by Jane Sandeman.

People


Contact

The WORLDwrite Centre
Millfields Lodge
201 Millfields Road
London, E5 0AL
Tel/Fax: (0044) 020 8985 5435

Website: http://www.worldwrite.org.uk


Notes

  1. "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
  2. "Home page", WORLDwrite website, accessed 8 May 2010
  3. "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
  4. London Behind the Scenes - Trainer Bios, WORLDwrite website, acc 19 Jan 2011
  5. "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2009/10", Charity Commission website,
  6. "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
  7. Groups funded Trust for London website acc 5 Feb 2011
  8. Citizenship or community development Esmee Fairbairn website acc 5 Feb 2011
  9. London behind the scenes Paul Hamlyn Foundation website acc 5 Feb 2011
  10. Wates Foundation accounts 2008/9 Charity Commission website acc 5 Feb 2011
  11. Our projectsHeritage Lottery Commission website, acc 11 Feb 2011
  12. "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2009/10", Charity Commission website,