WORLDwrite
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]
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 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 - Bloomburg; City Parochial Foundation; Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
- London Behind the Scenes - Paul Hamlyn Foundation; Wates Foundation.[5]
In 2008, the City Parochial Foundation gave £85,000 towards the launch of Worldbytes.[6]
In 2009, the Esmee Fairabirn 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”. [7]
People
- Graham Barnfield, Education Officer
- Steve Daley, Irish Co-ordinator
- Ceri Dingle, Director
- Andy Hirst, Arts Co-ordinator/ previously trustee
- Kirk Leech, Trustee
- Toby Marshall, Trustee
- Reshmi Parag, Trustee
- Viv Regan, Assistant Director
- Patrick Hayes, Volunteer Co-ordinator
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
- ↑ "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
- ↑ "Home page", WORLDwrite website, accessed 8 May 2010
- ↑ "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
- ↑ London Behind the Scens - Trainer Bios, WORLDwrite website, acc 19 Jan 2011
- ↑ "WORLDwrite Annual Report 2008/9", Charity Commission website,
- ↑ Groups funded Trust for London website acc 5 Feb 2011
- ↑ [ http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/grants2009/main.html Citizenship or community development] Esmee Fairbairn website acc 5 Feb 2011
