During the past quarter we delivered facilitation and training contracts for old and new clients in the UK, Dubai and Macedonia. We also ran six public ToP facilitation training courses in Gateshead, Manchester and London, plus an in-house course delivered by associates under license in Keighley.

We also continued to manage the ongoing

Feminist Webs project, and began to promote and market in the UK the new “Kumi” approach for enabling social transformation in conflict. The first two-day “Introduction to Kumi” course was held in Nottingham in November 2011.

In Africa, ICA:UK’s Village Volunteers scheme sponsored a strategic planning process for one of our partners in Kenya and also the first meeting of what is now called the East Africa ToP Network.

We are supporting ICA Togo in the implementation of the DFID-funded programme working with community schools.

Our own organisational development has been helped considerably by three volunteers working with us, focusing on book-keeping, branding and marketing. We have put in place a new Contact Relationship Management system. We are also recruiting new Trustees for the Board and preparing for our Annual Conference and General Meeting on 21st January 2012.

And all of this against a challenging economic background...

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