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Page 1: Annual Review 2011/12

Children and Families Across Borders

Annual Review 2011/12

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It is estimated that 24% of children in the UK care system have family overseas.

CFAB has the unique capacity to reunite these children with their families...

CONTENTSChairman’s Introduction ...................................................... 3Introduction ......................................................................... 5Key Highlights ...................................................................... 6Advice Line ............. ............................................................. 8UK City Spotlight ................................................................. 9Child Trafficking .................................................................. 11Child Protection .................................................................. 12Children in Care .................................................................. 13Travel Assistance Project ................................................... 14Professional Training Programme .................................... 15Financial Summary ............................................................ 16Fundraising Highlights ...................................................... 17Looking Ahead ................................................................... 18Special Thanks ...................................................... ............. 19

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Chairman’s IntroductionFor CFAB, the year of 2011-2012 was one of outstanding achievement and significant success – but also the year when some alarm bells began to ring.

Our journey so far

Andy Elvin and his staff received the highest number of cases in the recent history of our charity. This seemingly inexorable rise in the demand for CFAB’s inter-country social welfare service is a tribute to the enormous effort made by our CEO and staff to engage with private individuals and our local authority clients around the UK and raise awareness on issues, such as the increasingly problematic situation regarding child trafficking in the UK.

Yet we do not believe it is just down to this. Official statistics reveal that the UK is the single most globally-dependent economy in the Western World. The UK is home to countless international business organisations and - of even greater relevance to CFAB – it is home to literally millions of families whose make-up is transnational (i.e. the core family comprises more than one nationality). All of us at CFAB recognise that the make-up of the UK population is of enormous benefit to it’s economy and culture but it does have the effect of continuously increasing the financial pressures on our charity.

During the financial year just ended on 31st March 2012, the amount of voluntary income generated by our volunteers and staff exceeded all known records for our charity. This would be a remarkable achievement at any time, but to achieve this during the worst recession the UK has known for decades is a huge tribute to the energy, initiative, enthusiasm and dedication of our volunteers and supporters. Like many other charitable bodies we are enormously grateful for the help we receive from Trusts & Foundations and individual donors. But what makes CFAB’s fundraising special is the series of brilliant events, co-ordinated by our staff and led by voluntary committees often chaired by one of our Trustees.

Meanwhile, we continued our programme to engage more closely with local authorities and other service users. We also stepped-up the pressure during our regular meetings with all relevant government departments to ensure the issues we deal with are taken into account in policy planning; and we took our message to the media with many appearances by our CEO on TV and in the print media.

The Trustee Board also formed two sub groups (Finance & Staffing and Social Work ) to discuss and improve areas of operation within the charity. There were also further adjustments made to CFAB’s appeal launched in 2010 which changed its working name to the Development Board and will now encompass all areas of CFAB’s fundraising and act as the third sub group: The Fundraising Development Board. The Board will act as an “engine room” for CFAB’s income generation, both producing and implementing ideas for sustainable growth.

Looking ahead

Now for those alarm bells I mentioned at the outset.

All of us at CFAB remain confident that our volunteers and supporters will ensure we continue to raise high levels of income through our fundraising efforts, even if not at 2011’s record levels. However, we are increasingly concerned about maintaining existing levels of statutory income.

During 2012 we intend to engage local authorities in a discussion about cost sharing that will seek to share this burden more equally. As regards central government support, we are disturbed to hear that the ‘funding line’ for our National Advice Line will end this year and we will do all in our power to persuade the DfE that this is a truly national and vital source of expertise that cannot be funded any other way. We and our clients have already been badly let down by the government this year by the lamentable decision to close down the Travel Assistance Scheme, which has assisted immigrant adults to permanently resettle outside the UK for almost 40 years and in the process saved ‘UK Plc’ very many £Millions.

However, I end with a promise. We at CFAB will not be deterred by any difficulties we encounter. All of us remain as determined as ever to make significant progress towards achieving our goal to substantially improve our ability to deliver help to those people, often young children, whose personal circumstances demand that we are successful.

Douglas Lewis CBE, Chairman3

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CFAB believe that every child has the right to grow up in a loving familyChildren and Families Across Borders (CFAB) is the only charity specifically set up to help children, families and vulnerable people whose social welfare problems involve the UK and another country. We provide expert advice and guidance, skilled professional services, and emotional support for anyone affected across international borders, guided by the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

CFAB offer a unique expertise in all international social work matters and our skilled social work team are available to advise, consult, train and support the wider child protection workforce as their caseload becomes ever more international, as well as the ever increasing numbers of private individuals who contact us. Trusted by the UK Government, local authorities and major NGOs such as NSPCC and Save the Children, CFAB has experience gained from over 50 years of being part of an international network present in more than 120 countries across the world.

Our Vision:

To achieve the best outcomes for children and families in the UK who are separated from loved ones across international

borders.

Our Approach: To provide expert services to, and on behalf of, any relevant professional

organisation or individual needing our help and unique knowledge and expertise.

In the last 5 years:10,000 children We have helped more than 10,000 children.

£4,500,000 raisedWith the ongoing loyal support and strong involvement and dedication of our trustees, patrons, donors and supporters, we have raised over £4,500,000 to support this work.

£450 per child This is the average cost to help one child.A small price to change a child’s life

forever.

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Highlights2011/12 was a record year for CFAB providing more services for vulnerable children and families.

The Advice Line provided information to 2019 individuals and professionals. This represents a growth of almost 20% compared to 2010. 479 of these calls turned into cases where we were asked to provide reports and assessments.

CFAB held a very successful Child Protection Lecture in April 2011 on the issue of Child Trafficking into the UK with guest speakers Baroness Butler Sloss and Jim Gamble. Over 80 professionals attended the event.

CFAB launched a brand new website www.cfab.org.uk.

CFAB continue to promote reform of the private fostering regulations and the Child Trafficking regulations with the Children’s Minister at the DFE.

CFAB ran another successful 6 month placement for 3 students from Greenwich University.

CFAB started using a new paperless database system designed specifically for all advice calls and casework, which will streamline the staff team making us more efficient.

CFAB increased its media presence including appearing on BBC Newsnight programme on the issue of Private Fostering.

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The Rank Foundation awarded a grant of £67,000 over a three year period to sponsor a programme to identify and safeguard Privately Fostered children.

We produced new fundraising materials and a fundraising DVD which can be viewed at www.cfab.org.uk/fundraising.

We had our most successful fundraising year to date exceeding £1m and were honoured to be chosen as the beneficiary charity in the First Night Party for Art Antiques London in June 2011.

CFAB’s CEO became a member of the Department For Education’s national working group on child abuse linked to faith or belief. This working group have devised an action plan in response to a number of high profile cases where children were significantly harmed or killed because they were believed by their abusers to be possessed by evil spirits.

Further details can be found on our brand new website

www.cfab.org.uk

CFAB continue to work with the GLA, Met Police, UKBA and fellow NGO’s to promote a robust safeguarding response to the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). CFAB advocate an approach based on identifying those most at risk and taking timely preventative action but also launching child protection investigations and criminal enquiries if FGM is suspected to have taken place.

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Advice Line Enquiries Our National Advice and Information Line is a free and confidential telephone helpline to assist professionals to make appropriate interventions to protect children, offering timely expert advice/guidance on all queries that cross international boundaries. No other UK service offers this vital expertise. CFAB consistently secures a 96% user satisfaction rate at ‘very good’ or ‘excellent.’

Special thanks to Department for Education for their funding

Without CFAB my children would never have been bought back to the UK from Mexico, their role was crucial

Father in parental child abduction case

Impact of Advice Line

Children effectively safeguarded across international borders.

All family options – including those overseas – are properly explored.

Expertise and knowledge regarding international social work issues increased amongst frontline staff.

On a typical day our Advice Line will receive multiple enquiries, covering broad and diverse issues such as:

*A young person picked up by the police who discover she has been trafficked into the country and forced into prostitution.

*A local authority seeking an assessment on a family member living overseas as a carer for a child in care in the UK.

*Someone wishing to pass on child protection information regarding a child who has travelled abroad.

CFAB are the only agency who have consistently supported me in trying to ensure my daughter is protected, they have always listened and, more importantly, acted

Mother in an interna-tional child protection case

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2019 enquiries answered by CFAB

Relating to the UK and 124

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UK City SpotlightCFAB offered advice to 120 Local Authorities in 2011-12 and tookcases from 102 Local Authorities.

This map highlights the top 5 cities in the UK to refer cases to CFAB and the number of children who directly benefitted.

CFAB’s work always involves a UK beneficiary.

SURREY

35 children

KENT

35 children

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GLASGOW

30 children

Molly was successfully reunited with her aunt in Spain after suffering abuse from her parents and living in care.

Southern Health Board in Northern Ireland

35 children

Tomas was abducted by his father. CFAB assisted to ensure contact remains between Tomas and his mother and mediated with both parents to ensure the best outcome for Tomas was achieved.

HILLINGDON LONDON

40 children

Paula was picked up at Hea-throw airport suspected of being trafficked into the UK. CFAB located her family back in Nigeria and Paula was reunited with them.

Julie was on the child protection register in the UK before her parents took her on holiday to Turkey. CFAB contacted our correspondents in Turkey to pass on the child protection concern to ensure Julie was protected at all times.

Jason and his sister were placed in care after their mother could no longer care for them. They had grandparents in Australia. CFAB organised an assessment and the children were reunited with them.

*Names have been changed to protect identities

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Child Trafficking is child abuse; the challenge is how to identify victims of child trafficking so that they can be protected by child protection law and procedures.

CFAB estimate that only 10% of the victims of child trafficking in the UK are being identified. We will continue to work with all agencies to ensure that, together, this new and growing form of child abuse is tackled effectively.

Thanks to the generous funding of Comic Relief CFAB was once again able to offer free casework services for a second year to local authorities when the case related to trafficked children.

We also designed and launched a bespoke training course about safeguarding trafficked children for social workers, health, education, police and other NGO’s. This covers what trafficking is, how to identify a trafficked child and how to investigate this form of child abuse and protect the child.

We also continue to highlight the importance of using the Government’s National Referring Mechanism to get accurate data on the numbers of trafficked children in the UK ensuring accurate data is collated regarding trafficking numbers.

Antoine was trafficked into the UK by a man claiming to be his uncle. He came to the attention of a local authority after his uncle beat him and the school noticed the bruising. The local authority contacted CFAB as the child had come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo via Europe. Through information the local authority gained from his uncle, we were also able to highlight that a belief in spirit possession or witchcraft may be the reason for the physical abuse of Antoine.

CFAB helped trace relatives in Europe and search for family in DRC to understand his early life and his journey. We also worked with the local authority to suggest they looked at benefit fraud and they found that the uncle was fraudulently claiming benefits for him and there was no proof they were related.

The uncle was imprisoned for the benefit fraud and faces deportation. Antoine is thriving in foster care but we are continuing to work to trace his family in the DRC, with the hope that it may be possible to reunite them.

Child TraffickingHelping to give trafficked children their childhood back

20 cases referred to CFAB relating to a child trafficked into the UK

Referred from 15 local authorities

Involving 10 countries

As a result CFAB helped to safeguard 60 children

Special thanks to Comic Relief for their funding of this project

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Child protection is the area of work we deal with most frequently here at CFAB. In the past year alone we received 546 enquiries.

Our work is designed to ensure that urgent child protection information is passed quickly and effectively from the UK across international borders. We can alert the authorities overseas as a precautionary measure, or initiate investigations,

or activate protection and restriction measures.

We have experience gained from over 50 years of being part of a network which spans more than 120 countries worldwide giving CFAB local knowledge across the globe. We have expert knowledge of international conventions and social work practices around the world.

Child Protection Ensuring the protection of children across borders

167 cases handled by CFAB concerning a child at risk and in need of protection

Referred from 70 local authorities

Involving 80 countries

Helping to safeguard

approximately 500 children

A young Polish couple, Tomas and Ana, were known to local social services because of serious domestic abuse perpetrated by Tomas. Ana was pregnant and local social services were concerned about the unborn child’s safety once she gave birth. Tomas refused to engage with social services and the mother was unable to recognise the severity of the risks he posed to her and her unborn child.

Before social services could take any steps to safeguard the unborn child’s safety, the couple fled to Poland. Without any contact details in Poland they contacted CFAB to ask for our assistance to send an alert out to hospitals and local authorities in Poland as Ana was due to give birth very soon.

Thanks to CFAB an alert was immediately sent out across Poland. Very soon after, Ana was located at a local hospital. Polish social services in that area were informed and took the necessary steps to ensure the safety and necessary protection of Ana and her new born child.

Ana is now living happily in Poland with her baby girl.

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Children in Care Reuniting Children in Care with their Families Overseas

CFAB regularly deals with cases where children are in the UK care system because their parents are unable to care for them, and who have relatives living overseas that want to offer them a permanent home.

By 2011 CFAB had built up its network to enable 35 UK children to move home and live safely with their extended family members overseas rather than be placed in long term foster care or adopted in the UK.

CFAB is working hard to promote the huge benefits to children of being raised within

their families as an alternative to UK state care. Recent figures show the number of these vulnerable children is increasing and CFAB knows that there is much more that can be done.

Throughout 2011 CFAB began an internal piece of research to look into the outcomes of children who were successfully placed with family members overseas. This research is due to be finished in the Autumn of 2012.

127 cases referred to CFAB concerning children in care in the UK who may have family members overseas

Referred from 40 local authorities

Involving 60 countries

Helping to safeguard 390 children

Sara and her brother Lewis were 3 and 5 years old when they moved to live with a foster family in the UK because their parents were not able to keep them safe. Their maternal uncle and his family who live in Malaysia got in contact with Sara and Lewis’ social worker because they wanted to offer the children a permanent home.

CFAB, in liaison with our colleagues in Malaysia, arranged for the couple to be assessed and supported through this process, and Sara and Lewis are now living safely and happily with their uncle in Malaysia.

If CFAB had not reunited Sara and Lewis with their uncle they would have been at risk of remaining in care or with non-family members, deprived of their right to family life, deprived of any contact with their own relatives, with consequent risks to their personal, emotional, cognitive and behavioural development.

For more information on all the services available at CFAB please visit

www.cfab.org.uk/cfab-services

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Travel Assistance Scheme

Note from Marek Ganther: Project Manager

In March 2012 after some 40 years of operations, the Travel Assistance Scheme was forced to close due to the withdrawal of funding from the Home Office. The Scheme, first introduced in 1970 as a part of the 1970 Immigration Act, had been run by CFAB and provided some financial assistance to UK residents, with full settled status to return to their country of origin.

Although this is a difficult area of work for CFAB, our skills and connections made us perfectly placed to run this project professionally. In the early years the primary beneficiary groups of the scheme were largely from the Caribbean – older people, mostly of pensionable age.

As immigration patterns to the UK have changed, these have also been reflected in the scheme. More recently these countries would include Iraq, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe among others.

For some, the wish to return is often linked to a positive change in the circumstances at “home” – an end to violence, conflict or persecution, a change in political/economic circumstances, family need or sometimes even “pressure”.

However, a significant number of these applicants have also clearly failed to “integrate” successfully. Sometimes the immigrant has been “dispersed” within the UK to a part of the country where they may be socially isolated and integration itself becomes more difficult without the support of community and friends. An increasing number suffer from a range of mental health issues, not all of which can be attributed to their previous experiences.

CFAB offered unique assistance to these individuals giving them the opportunity to return to where they felt happiest.

What next?

CFAB continues to work with the Government to emphasise that in the majority of cases any expenditure is actually recouped through “savings” on benefits, housing, health, education etc. within a matter of 6-8 weeks.

Efforts continue to encourage the Department for Work and Pensions, who were the principal financial beneficiaries of the individuals who were departing under the scheme, to become involved in the restoration of the scheme.

We remain hopeful that the scheme will be restored.

42 enquiries to the scheme in 2011

9 individuals approved for return in 2011

Over the years the scheme has successfully helped over

1,500 cases, leading to the permanent return of over

3,000 individuals to their countries of origin.

Countries individuals returned home to in 2011 - 12

South Africa - 4

Mongolia (1)

Saint Kitts & Nevis (1) Ethiopia (1)

Iraq (1)

Iran (1)

South Africa (4)

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The Department for Education have kindly funded our training for local authorities over the past year. The training focuses on awareness of international social work issues such as identifying and protecting trafficked children, placing children overseas, gathering child protection information from overseas and private fostering of children from overseas. CFAB is the only organisation to offer this training on these issues for free.

Our training programme has demonstrated the significant knowledge and practice gaps that exist in the social work profession and it is vital for the effective protection of children that the workforce is properly trained with up to date knowledge and practice guidance.

These topics are not part of the social work curriculum at BA or MA level despite them being a daily reality for many social workers in the UK. We are working with Greenwich University, again supported by the DfE, to address this issue as a longer term solution.

CFAB has also been lobbying for a proper continuing professional development (CPD) structure for social work as a profession. In the legal profession practitioners need to do a minimum accredited training per year. Social Work does not have a training accreditation body. We are pushing the College of Social Work to take on this role and that social workers cannot practice unless they complete 16 hours of accredited training each year in order to ensure the professional workforce are equipped with the necessary and up to date skills.

Professional TrainingProgramme

Really informative and I have learnt a lot in 2 hours. Lively and interactive approach by really skilled and knowledgeable trainers

Barking and Dagenham Social Worker

This was one of the most interesting training sessions I have ever attended. So much in 2 hours. Very well delivered.

Enfield Social Worker

Special thanks to Department for Education for their funding in this area

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Financial SummaryCFAB has a long track record of working with the Government, but we are increasingly diversifying our funding base.

During the financial year 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012 CFAB’s income exceeded £1million for the first time. Funds came from a variety of sources including user fees and statutory services, Trusts and Foundations, events, donations and government grants.

As always, the major part of our expenditure went into the charity’s core work and projects.

Reserves Policy: The Board of Trustees remains committed to ensure there are reserves for a minimum of 3 months of operating costs.

Income 2011/12£1,143,459

Direct work with children and families

£731,576

Staff costs£375,311

CFAB was fortunate to have been supported by generous funders. Many thanks go to:

** Full Annual Report available on request

Governance costs

£23,285

For every £1 received from Governmnent, CFAB have raised £2 from private donors.

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Our 6th International Child Protection Dinner held at the Swiss Ambassador’s Residence was another resounding success raising more than £120,000. Brilliantly chaired by Mrs Kumari Blakey, 110 guests were welcomed to a champagne reception, three course dinner and entertainment and we are thankful to all our supporters generosity taking part in the live and silent auction.

The ICP dinner also saw the launch of our fundraising film.

CFAB’s debut fashion show at the Swiss Ambassador’s Residence show-casing the Spring/Summer collection of Swiss fashion house Akris raised a fantastic £20,000.

This event welcomed over 100 new guests to the charity and huge thanks are extended to The Ambassador of Switzerland and Mrs Thalmann, and Sarah Palmer for chairing the event.

June 8th 2011 welcomed a very much anticipated evening for CFAB, which had been chosen as the beneficiary charity for the First Night Party at the Art Antiques London Fair. The First Night Party welcomed 500 people to a stunning Champagne Reception and Private View of the Art Antiques Fair, which hosted over 70 leading exhibitors from all across the world. 240 guests then stayed on for a wonderful 3 course dinner and entertainment overlooking the Albert Memorial. The event raised a record breaking £422,843 - our most successful fundraising event to date.

Warmest thanks to the Co Chairs Leni, Lady Miller and Mrs Allison McGrath.

In October 2011 Hannah, Shaziah and Christina, three members of CFAB staff, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and raised £19,575 for CFAB.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest free standing mountain in the world scaling nearly 6,000m above sea level.

The 52nd Spring Fair raised £65,130 at Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Huge thanks to Doug Lewis and his organising committee and all the volunteers

This is the largest and most colourful Charity Fair personally supported by over 100 Diplomatic Missions in London. Over 2,000 Ambassadors, Senior Diplomats and private guests attend the Preview Evening on Tuesday and over 1,000 members of the public and supporters of CFAB visit the Spring Fair on the Wednesday along with the Charity’s Royal Patron HRH Princess Alexandra.

Fundraising Highlights

In the presence of our Royal Patron HRH Princess Alexandra, CFAB was thrilled to hold a reception at Buckingham Palace in the Bow Room. The evening was CFAB’s opportunity to celebrate eve rything that the charity has achieved to date, and to announce our plans for the future. Over 120 people attended the reception.

CFAB is enormously grateful to the ongoing support of HRH Princess Alexandra.

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Looking AheadCFAB’s main focus for the next year 2012/13 is to expand our project work to assist vulnerable children and families.

Some forthcoming aims are:

To launch a new membership scheme for Local Authorities in the UK to access all CFAB’s services for an annual fee, saving them both money and time, and enable more children to be helped.

To closely monitor outcomes for clients to ensure efficacy of service and to further improve our services.

To continue to expand our highly successful training programmes for local authorities and other relevant professionals with the aim of increasing the capacity of professionals to deal effectively with social work issues with an international dimension.FR

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If you are interested in learning more about CFAB’s services please visit our new website at

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CFAB is aware that there are currently no government statistics on the placement of children of female foreign national prisoners. A research project will begin in 2012 with Holloway HMP to collate the data for the current female foreign national population to get a true and up to date picture of the situation.

To propose an innovative child trafficking project to expand on our existing work in this area which will, for the first time, bring safeguarding and social welfare systems together to radically improve identification and protection of all children trafficked within and into the UK.

To commence the unique first of its kind private fostering project developing a ‘train the trainer’ model to reach out to over 50 local authorities in the UK over 3 years. The project will aim to raise awareness of this issue and equip professionals with vital knowledge on what to do when they suspect a child from overseas is living in a private fostering arrangement.

To closely monitor the situation in Libya and seek to restart building relationships once the situation has stabilised.

In the coming year we will continue to work with Central and Local Government to advocate for trafficked children, children from overseas in the UK care system and children in the UK privately fostered from overseas. Our aim is to change practice, guidance and, in some cases, legislation to promote better outcomes for these children.

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Our heartfelt thanks go to :CFAB Patrons

HRH Princess AlexandraSir Anthony Figgis KCVO, CMGMrs Dalal Al-DuwaisanLord LamingLady MiddletonSteve RiderBaroness Scotland PC, QC

CFAB Trustees

Harvey McGrath, PresidentDouglas Lewis CBE, ChairmanSheila Redrupp, TreasurerRobert Hutchinson CBE, Vice ChairmanKumari BlakeyLady BrewerMargaret BryerYvette GayfordLiz Grimsey CBE LVOPam LoftSarah PalmerDr Ali SatarripourAlexander Verdan QCAnn Baxter

Our Supporters

As well as the important income we receive from government and trusts and foundations, we also rely on the generosity of people who give us money from their personal income.

We would like to sincerely thank:

.... . the work of the Development Board and Trustee Sub Committees

.... . all our supporters for their generosity

...... to all our events and fundraising committees and volunteers who have kindly given their time and dedication.......to London’s Diplomatic Community for their ongoing support.......our funders who provide vital assistance and financial support to our organisation........the CFAB team in London and all our colleagues around the world........ICP and Connecting Pictures for CFAB’s Fundraising Film

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Children and Families Across BordersUnit 1.03 Canterbury Court

1-3 Brixton RoadLondon

SW9 6DE

Tel: 020 7735 8941 Fax: 020 7582 0696 Email: [email protected]

www.cfab.org.ukCharity Number: 1085541Company No: 4025539