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Annual Report 01 April 2012 - 31 March 2013


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English PEN promotes the freedomto write and the freedom to read

We believe that everyone in the world should be

free and able to share information and ideas throughwriting. Freedom of expression is a universal right.It allows us to hold the powerful to account, to developnew ideas and understanding and to express ourselvescreatively. Around the world, writers are persecutedand imprisoned simply because they have used wordsto share information or ideas. We support such writersthrough our Writers at Risk programme.

As well as the wonderful benets that words canbring, people can also use them to cause harm.So we support some legal restraints on free expression.We are committed to evidence-based policy in thisarea and we oppose unnecessary and disproportionaterestraints on free expression through our UK freespeech campaigns.

We believe that words are usually best answered withmore words. That is why we seek not only to campaignagainst censorship, but also to equip people with themeans to enjoy the freedom to write. We supportpeople who are excluded from mainstream society and whose voices might not otherwise be heard through our Readers & Writers programme.

And we seek to bring as much of the worlds writing to

as many readers as possible in our own country so thatwe can all join in the global exchange of informationand ideas. We support publishers and translators ofinternational literature and their growing readership through our Writers in Translation programme.

English PEN consists of an active community of writersand readers who join us as members and friends.Since 1921, we have been at the heart of the worldwidewriters association, PEN International. In England, webring our members and other supporters togetherthrough a wide programme of events and prizes,both in London and around the country.

About English PEN

Presidents Statement

Introduction to English PENsmain achievements this year

Campaigning for writers at riskaround the world

Campaigning in the UK

Lifting barriers to reading and writing

Bringing readers more outstandingwriting in translation

Celebrating writers of merit and courage

Fundraising activities

Grants and donations

Annual Accounts 2011/12

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Cover photo: Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek thanks 2012 PEN/Pinter prize-winner Carol Ann Duy forselecting her as International Writer of Courage. British Library, October 2012 George Torode


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The year was book-ended on the one hand by the marketfocus of The London Book Fair in April 2012, which wasChina, and our preparations for the market focus of thefollowing years Fair, which was Turkey.

Our three-day programme for the China-themed PENLiterary Caf in April 2012 welcomed a diverse groupranging from Bi Feiyu to Jung Chang. It was precededby a full-day symposium programmed at the Free Word

Centre called China Inside Out, where we welcomeda number of dissident writers from China who werenot part of the ocial London Book Fair programme.The day was funded by the Free Word Centres strategiccommissioning fund which we acknowledge withthanks. We cooperated with the Independent ChinesePEN Centre, securing a small presence at the Fair at thelast minute. Together we staged an impromptu closingceremony of readings from the works of imprisonedwriter Liu Xiabo and Tibetan and Uighur authors.

In November Gillian Slovo and PENs new directorJo Glanville were invited to visit Turkey as part of theBritish Councils delegation ahead of London BookFair 2013. The trip became the foundation for anextensive focus on Turkish writers at risk, the scopeof which is not limited to the London Book Fair 2013but is embedded across our programming work,including an event at Hackneys Arcola Theatrereaching out to the Turkish diaspora in London anda roundtable with Turkish writers and thinkers at theLondon School of Economics.

A campaign which caught the imagination of ourmembers and supporters was English PENs call largely via social media for a literary response tothe news that members of the Russian punk collectivePussy Riot had been arrested for staging a protest in aMoscow cathedral, denouncing the Russian OrthodoxChurchs support for President Vladimir Putin.To rally support for Pussy Riot in the run-up to theirappeal hearing, English PEN launched Poems for

Pussy Riot, inviting poets from all over the world towrite a creative response to the case. Within weekswe received more than 100 submissions which weposted as daily tributes to the band on our website.We subsequently published Catechism: Poems forPussy Riot, an e-book collection of contributionsedited by poets Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe andSophie Mayer. A print-on-demand paperback was alsoavailable to order, all proceeds going to the PussyRiot Support Fund and the English PEN Writers at RiskProgramme. The campaign continues.

On an upbeat note, English PEN was delighted towelcome to our London oce two writers on whosebehalf our members have campaigned over a dicultperiod of years. The rst was the irrepressible Burmesesatirist and activist Zarganar, sentenced to 35 years inprison for speaking out against the regime, released inthe prisoner amnesty of 2011; the second, journalistand author Lydia Cacho, who endured kidnap andtorture in her native Mexico for her writing; bravelyshe was in London to launch a new book. Both continueto write and speak out courageously at considerablepersonal risk. We salute them.

Campaigning for writers at riskaround the world

The year started with the announcement of theDefamation Bill in the Queens Speech in May 2012;it ended (though not without suspenseful twists andturns) with the passing of the Defamation Act 2013.

For the last four years the Libel Reform Campaign,in which English PEN partnered with Index onCensorship and Sense About Science, has called forreforms which would produce a less expensive andcomplicated libel law that would reduce constraintson free speech worldwide.

The new Act is a major milestone for libel law in the21st century. A central pillar of reform is the newpublic interest defence. English PEN and the LibelReform Campaign lobbied on this point until thelast, seeking to make the defence as clear and assimple as possible. Signicantly a formidable list ofBritains most distinguished writers, all PEN members*,signed an open letter to party leaders to save thelegislation when it was threatened by a late intervention

in the House of Lords. The letter received extensivemedia coverage and the threat was withdrawn, leavingthe way clear to pass the new Act.

Whilst we celebrate the success of our campaign forlibel reform, there is still work to do. The governmentand the judiciary need to be persuaded to develop newearly resolution procedures for libel cases and we areawaiting the publication of detailed regulations, settingout procedures available for web hosts and anonymouscommenting online. Crucially, the Northern IrelandAssembly has not yet adopted the Act. So the campaigncontinues.

*Signatories were:

Lisa Appignanesi, Jack Arnott, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Amanda Craig,

Margaret Drabble, Antonia Fraser, Michael Frayn, Stephen Fry, Victoria

Glendinning, Mark Haddon, David Hare, Ronald Harwood, Michael

Holroyd, Howard Jacobson, Hisham Matar, Ian McEwan, Susie Orbach,

Salman Rushdie, Philippe Sands, Will Self, Kamila Shamsie, Gillian Slovo,

Ali Smith, Tom Stoppard, Claire Tomalin, Raleigh Trevelyan.

Campaigning for freedom of expressionin the UK


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Protest against treatment of Pussy Riot members,outside Moscow Embassy, London Robert Sharp

If there was to be ablueprint for how civicsociety in this country cancontribute in a positive andconstructive manner to how

Parliament decides on thelaws of the land, then thehistory of the DefamationAct 2013 would surely be it.Sadiq Khan,Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

I congratulate you on the eectiveness of your campaign andwhat you have achieved, and I know that we will be able to counton your continued engagement as we bring the Act into eect.Lord McNally,Minister of State, Ministry of Justice


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English PENs Readers & Writers programme is thefastest growing and most diverse of our programmes.Its aims are to deliver high quality lifelong learningopportunities to disadvantaged groups of beneciariesin England and Wales. We determine disadvantagedby identifying communities that lack the resourcesrequired to develop such capabilities amongst theirmembers. Or they might be closed communitieswhere the freedom to write and the freedom toread are aected by prejudice and misperception.We use creative writing often interwoven with otherpractices such as translation or storytelling as a safespace in which people can explore themselves andthe world they are in, helping to build bridges withinthe wider community through literature and freedomof expression.

This year, encouraged by the Arts Councils Catalyst grant,we enhanced our work with young people, refugeesand prisoners by piloting new work with two newgroups of beneciaries we identied inside dierentdisadvantaged social groups: returning soldiers andolder people in care. Within our core programme

we created 250 (up 39% on last year) two-hourcreative writing workshops in community settingsacross the UK reaching a total of 5,000 beneciaries.The workshops were led by 70 diverse writersincluding poets Warsan Shire, John Hegley andDzifa Benson as part of English PENs culturaleducation programme known as Readers & Writers.Fifty young people achieved a Bronze Arts Award.

with the support of the Monument Trust,we staged writers workshops in 20 prisons acrossthe UK, working with 17 dierent writers fromdiverse backgrounds, including Courttia Newland,Alex Wheatle, Sheree Mack, Gerry Ryan,Bidisha, Simon Mole and John Siddique.

for the second time, we ran a creative writingcompetition for prisoners in England and Wales.Judged by novelist and PEN Member Mark Haddon,the competition drew 400 entries from 60 prisonestates. A booklet of the winning and best entrieswas published both in print and as an e-bookentitled The Gates of Ytan, the title of thewinning entry.

for the rst time, we commissioned independentresearch into the impact of the programme both onits beneciaries and on its writer-facilitators.

Disadvantagedcommunities in Englandnd their voice

English PENs established work supporting publishersof translated literature to reach more readers inEngland and Wales received a huge boost in April 2012when Arts Council England entrusted us with 120,000,ring-fenced to launch a parallel programme.

The new programme called PEN Translates! provedimmediately popular with applicants. We awardedgrants to ten new titles in translation from languages

as varied as Galician, Belarusian and Japanese.

Meanwhile our more established programme PEN Promotes! funded by Bloomberg LP, enjoyeda spectacular year. The eight award-winning titlesproved highly newsworthy and included A Woman inthe Crossreby Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, translatedfrom the Arabic by Max Weiss, published by HausPublications (Samar went on to win the PEN/PinterInternational Writer of Courage award, see page 8);Bones Will Crow, 15 contemporary Burmese poets,translated and edited by James Byrne and Ko Ko Thett,published by Arc Publications, the rst anthology ofBurmese poetry published in the West, launched withgreat excitement in a year which saw the visit to Britainof Aung San Suu Kyi.

The World Record, by various poets and translators fromaround the world, edited by Neil Astley and Anna Selby,published by Bloodaxe Books was celebrated duringthe London 2012 Festival and became a centrepiecefor English PEN and PEN Internationals collaborationat the Southbanks Poetry Parnassus in June.

In all cases, the programme enabled the writers to visitEngland and tour a number of locations and cities topromote outstanding literature, gaining new readers.

In partnership with the Free Word Centre and otherpartners, we staged, for the third time, an InternationalTranslation Day, a full-day conference bringing togethertranslators, writers, academics and interested membersof the public. This year, owing to popular demand, wemoved to a larger venue, Kings Place, London. Publisher

Christopher MacLehose opened the event which setout this year to evaluate the success of new initiativeswithin the translation industry over recent years.

Online we published 56 literary dispatches from writersaround the world in our PEN Atlas series. These are shortfeatures giving readers a avour of the experience ofwriters inside their respective countries. Contributorsincluded Selma Dabbagh (UK), Jeet Thayil (India),Khaled Khalifa (Syria), Lydia Cacho (Mexico) and AyferTun (Turkey). An edited e-book featuring a selectionof PEN Atlas dispatches was launched at InternationalTranslation Day.

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Mentor Jason Archie and a youngperson from Copland Community

School at the launch of the Make MyDay Diary George Torode

Seeing individualswho were scared toenter the room for fearof being asked to writenot only pick up a penand participate but,when their time was up,continue scribbling awaywas fantastic.Independent survey respondent

Saskia SchmidtBurmese poet Htein Lin performsat the launch of Bones Will Crow


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English PENs public programme showcases, throughdiscussion, debate and performance, the besttalent among our growing membership of writers,journali sts, editors, publisher s a nd translator s, andincludes where possible invitations to those writersat risk on whose behalf we campaign.

2012 was distinguished as a year packed withcultural activities commissioned as part of the

London 2012 Festival during the Olympic andParalympic Games. English PEN participated in theFestival with a partnership with PEN Internationalat the Southbanks spectacularly ambitious PoetryParnassus. Here poets from all around the worldwere invited to London to perform.

English PEN hosted a panel discussion on exileand audience featuring Jack Mapanje (Malawi),Syl Cheney Coker (Sierra Leone), Iman Mersal (Egypt)and Kosal Khiev (Cambodia), all poets who featurein The World Record anthology, winner of anEnglish PEN Writers in Translation award andlaunched at the same occasion. We were particularlydelighted to welcome on stage Zarganar, Burmesesatirist and activist, who was able to receivebelatedly and in person his award as PEN/PinterWriter of Courage 2011.

The PEN/Pinter Prize 2012 was won by Carol Ann Duywho delighted us at the award ceremony at theBritish Library on 8 October with a poetry reading,accompanied by musician John Sampson on a selectionof exotic wind instruments. Carol Ann chose Syrianwriter and journalist Samar Yazbek as the yearsPEN/Pinter International Writer of Courage.Samar was able to receive her prize in person and gave amoving speech which received wide play in the media.

Antonia Fraser, widow of Harold Pinter in whose honourthe prize is named, presented both awards.

In January we hosted Inspirations to a packed houseat The Tricycle Theatre where premium-priced seatsraised 5,000 for English PEN. We were privilegedthat Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney agreed to appearalongside Simon Armitage to introduce the poetry andprose which had most inspired them in their work andin their lives. It was an uplifting occasion, supportedwith wonderful readings by actors Charles Danceand Jenny Jules.

The PEN Ackerley Prize for a literary autobiography,traditionally presented at English PENs summerparty for members and friends, was won this year byDuncan Fallowell for his book How to Disappear:a memoir for mists(Ditto Press).

Celebrating writersof merit and courage

The year got off to a tremendous start. Not only didwe hear that we had received a three-fold increase infunding from Arts Council England, including a newring-fenced grant to help fund literary translation,but we were successful with our applicationfor ACE Catalyst funding. The Catalyst grantprovides us with 210,000 over three years andis offered on the condition that English PENdevelops capacity to drive up its income from

memberships, donations, trusts and foundations.We were hugely gratified too to learn at the start ofthe year that our valued corporate funder BloombergLP was more than doubling the annual grant theyextend to our Writers in Translation work to 50,000per year, enabling our promotion of new translatedtitles to increase in scale.

In May 2013 we staged a major fundraising eventwhich had been almost one year in the planning.Called First Editions, Second Thoughts and hostedby Sothebys, London, this took the form of an auctionof 50 contemporary rst editions, annotated by theirauthors. We would like to acknowledge the support ofEnglish PEN trustee Rick Gekoski who worked tirelesslyto make this project happen and our partner Sothebys,London. Still more we would like to thank the authors,most of whom are long-term PEN members, whocontributed their annotated work. The auction raised anet amount of 342,000 for the charitys beneciariesand future development.

Arts Council England agreed to match a proportionof these funds through the Catalyst grant we wereawarded at the beginning of the year. The remainderof the Catalyst grant was accomplished through thefundraising eorts of the Readers & Writers programmeteam which succeeded in raising new funds for newprogramme activity from trusts and foundations.

The PEN Quiz, in association with Four Colman Getty,

now in its 11th year, kept pace with previous yearsdespite austere economic times for our stakeholdersand delivered a net contribution of 21,000.

We remain, however, dependent upon the recurrentrevenue of our loyal membership of supporters.We saw growth of 11% on the previous year.We are grateful to the continuing support of ourcorporate partners known as Silver PEN partners which include Faber, HarperCollins, Penguin, HachetteUK, Random House and the London Book Fair.

Other funders include Calouste GulbenkianFoundation, Clore Dueld Foundation, Esme Fairbairn,European Commission Representation in the UK,John Lyons Charity, MB Reckitt Trust, Open SocietyFoundations, the Prisoners of Conscience Fund,Swan Mountain Trust, the Limbourne Trust, the LogosTrust, the Monument Trust, the Pack Foundation,the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the Vodafone Foundation.

Fundraising activities


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Seamus Heaney, Jenny Jules, Charles Danceand Simon Armitage at Inspirations,Tricycle Theatre, London in January

George Torode

We remain dependent upon the recurrent revenueof our loyal membership. We saw growth of 11%

on last year.

Sothebys auctioneer Harry Dalmeny rouses biddersat First Editions, Second ThoughtsGeorge Torode


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Grants and donations

English PEN Annual Report 01 April 2012 - 31 March 2013

The Members and Friends of English PEN

English PEN would like to thank all thosewho have supported us this year:

Trusts & Foundations:

Arts Council England

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Clore Dueld Foundation

Esme Fairbairn Foundation

European Commission

Representation in the UK

John Lyons Charity

MB Reckitt Trust

Open Society Foundations

The Prisoners of Conscience Fund

Swan Mountain Trust

The Limbourne Trust

The Logos Trust

The Monument Trust

The Neil Kreitman Foundation

The Pack Foundation

The Sigrid Rausing Trust

The Vodafone Foundation

Silver PEN Partners:

Canongate

Faber & Faber

Hachette UK

HarperCollins

London Book Fair

Penguin Books

Random House

Simon & Schuster

Corporate Donors:

Bloomberg LP

Four Colman Getty

Sothebys, London

FT Weekend

J Safra Brokerage Ltd

Benefactors:

Sir Christopher Bland

Felix Dennis

Ken and Barbara Follett

Ruth Maxted

Judy Piatkus

Ronald Harwood

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Photo George Torode


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Report of the Trusteesand Financial Statements

for the year ended31 March 2013

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Structure, governance and management

English PENs registration as a charity on 26th August2008 marked the Charity Commissions acceptanceof the organisations public benet, throughout itsactivities. The Charity Commission agreed with thetrustees that writers, authors, editors, publishers andother persons similarly engaged throughout the worldconstitute a particularly vulnerable class of beneciaries.This ruling enables English PEN to concentrate itsresources most eectively on this beneciary class, whilstbeneting the public generally.

The Charity Commissions Board made three noteworthypoints in their review of English PENs application forcharitable status. They ruled that the Commission isentitled to look beyond the expressed objects whenconsidering whether an organisation is charitable; thatthe Commission is able to consider past activities asinformative but not determinative of charitable status;and that public benet must be assessed in relation toeach individual object in turn.

This means in practice that the public benet of EnglishPENs work has been exhaustively demonstrated acrossall of its activities.

The Charity Commission also rearmed the guidancein publication RR12, that international advocacy ofhuman rights is a means of promoting human rightsas it is understood in charity law and that this includesadvocating the adoption of, and compliance with,international and regional codes of human rights.Coupled with English PENs clear internal proceduresfor assessing the scale of a human rights threat beforeengaging in political campaigning, this guidance gives thecharity exibility to allocate its resources to campaigns asand when appropriate in pursuit of its charitable objects.

Statement of trusteesresponsibilitiesThe trustees (who are also the directors of English PENfor the purposes of company law) are responsible forpreparing the Report of the Trustees and the nancialstatements in accordance with applicable law and UnitedKingdom Accounting Standards (United KingdomGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare nancialstatements for each nancial year which give a trueand fair view of the state of aairs of the charitablecompany and of the incoming resources and applicationof resources, including the income and expenditure, ofthe charitable company for that period. In preparingthose nancial statements, the trustees are required to:

select suitable accounting policies andthen apply them consistently;

observe the methods and principles in theCharity SORP;

make judgements and estimates that arereasonable and prudent;

prepare the nancial statements on the goingconcern basis unless it is inappropriate to

presume that the charitable company willcontinue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accountingrecords which disclose with reasonable accuracy at anytime the nancial position of the charitable company andto enable them to ensure that the nancial statementscomply with the Companies Act 2006. They are alsoresponsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitablecompany and hence for taking reasonable steps for theprevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.In so far as the trustees are aware:

there is no relevant audit information of which thecharitable companys auditors are unaware; and

the trustees have taken all steps that they oughtto have taken to make themselves aware of anyrelevant audit information and to establish thatthe auditors are aware of that information.

Statement as to disclosureof information to auditorsSo far as the trustees are aware, there is no relevantinformation (as dened by Section 418 of the CompaniesAct 2006) of which the charitable companys auditors areunaware, and each trustee has taken all the steps that

they ought to have taken as a trustee in order to makethem aware of any audit information and to establishthat the charitable companys auditors are aware of thatinformation.

Auditors

The auditors, Messrs. Grant Harrod Parkinson LLP, will beproposed for re-appointment at the forthcoming AnnualGeneral Meeting.

On behalf of the board:

G Slovo President 17th September 2013

Public benet


Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document,a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company,limited by guarantee, as dened by the CompaniesAct 2006. English PEN was incorporated on 17 March2006 and registered as a charity on 26 August 2008.The company was established under a Memorandumof Association which established the objects and

powers of the charitable company and is governedunder its Articles of Association and a deed oftrust. The company is one limited by guaranteeas dened by the Companies Act 1985, and in theevent of the company being wound up members arerequired to contribute an amount not exceeding 1.

Recruitment and appointmentof new trustees

The Articles of Association of English PEN allow forthe election of between ve and eighteen trustees,to serve up to a maximum of two three-year terms,with an additional three spaces for co-options.Trustees are elected by and from among EnglishPENs members at the Annual General Meeting.

Induction and training of new trustees

All new trustees are provided with the Memorandumand Articles of Association of English PEN, and a copyof the Charity Commissions guidance on the role andresponsibilities of trustees. At an annual away day,all trustees come together to monitor the charitysprogress, to agree future targets for development,and to monitor their own performance as a board.

Organisational structure

Membership of English PEN is open to all includingpoets, playwrights, essayists, editors, novelists andtheir translators who share the organisations aims ofpromoting literature and human rights. Members havethe right to stand and vote in elections to the Board,ensuring a high standard of internal transparency andaccountability. The Board of trustees, chaired by the

president, is responsible for the organisations goodgovernance, and delegates day-to-day managementresponsibility to the director, who oversees the work ofsta and volunteers. The Board also delegates specicfunctions to the Management Committee, the Readers& Writers Committee, the Writers at Risk Committeeand the Writers in Translation Committee, each ofwhich has Terms of Reference setting out its purpose,membership and reporting structure.

Related parties

English PEN is the founding centre of PEN International,and has voting rights at the Assembly of Delegates,which constitutes PEN Internationals Annual GeneralMeeting. English PEN is also one of eight foundingmembers of the Free Word Centre. Whilst Free Wordprovides English PEN with a physical home, and thecapacity for far closer working relationships withorganisations in the literature, literacy and free speechcharitable sectors, it has no authority over EnglishPENs organisational strategy or internal policies.All founding members have observer status at FreeWord Board meetings.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review therisks to which the charity is exposed and to ensureappropriate controls are in place to provide reasonableassurance against fraud and error.

Reserves Policy

It is the charitys policy to hold reserves to coveroperating costs for six months. Current reserves aresucient.

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Annual accounts 2012-2013

English PEN Annual Report 01 April 2012 - 31 March 2013

The Trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with

the nancial statements on the charity for the year ended 31 March 2013. The Trustees have adopted the provisions of

the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued in March 2005.

Annual Report 01 April 2012 - 31 March 2013 English PEN

The Board of Trustees

R S Abdulla MBE

C V Bigland

J L Evans

R Gekoski

C L Goodings

D Hahn

E A Homan

R Holmes

A T Hopkinson

C Jarvis

B P W Kernon

R N Kent

C M King

L F M Mackie

D P Miller

H Matar

B A Qureshi

P Sands

R Schwartz

K N Shamsie

F S Shihab

G Slovo (Chair)

S J Tripathi

Director

Deputy Director

Registered Oce

Company Number

Charity Number

Auditors

Bankers

Report of the Independent Auditorsto the Members of English PEN

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We have audited the nancial statements of English PENfor the year ended 31 March 2013 on pages 18 to 28.The nancial reporting framework that has been appliedin their preparation is applicable law and the FinancialReporting Standard for Smaller Entities (eective April2008) (United Kingdom Generally Accepted AccountingPractice applicable to Smaller Entities).

This report is made solely to the charitable companysmembers, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 ofPart 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit workhas been undertaken so that we might state to thecharitable companys members those matters we arerequired to state to them in an auditors report and forno other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law,we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyoneother than the charitable company and the charitablecompanys members as a body, for our audit work, forthis report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Respective responsibilities oftrustees and auditorsAs explained more fully in the Statement of TrusteesResponsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directorsof the charitable company for the purposes of companylaw) are responsible for the preparation of the nancialstatements and for being satised that they give a trueand fair view.

Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion onthe nancial statements in accordance with applicablelaw and International Standards on Auditing (UK andIreland). Those standards require us to comply with theAuditing Practices Boards Ethical Standards for Auditors,including APB Ethical Standard - Provisions Avalible forSmall Entities (Revised), in the circumstances set out innote 13 to the nancial statements.

Scope of the audit of thenancial statementsAn audit involves obtaining evidence about the amountsand disclosures in the nancial statements sucient togive reasonable assurance that the nancial statementsare free from material misstatement, whether causedby fraud or error. This includes an assessment of:whether the accounting policies are appropriate to thecharitable companys circumstances and have beenconsistently applied and adequately disclosed; thereasonableness of signicant accounting estimatesmade by the trustees; and the overall presentation ofthe nancial statements. In addition, we read all thenancial and non-nancial information in the Report ofthe Trustees to identify material inconsistencies withthe audited nancial statements. If we become aware ofany apparent material misstatements or inconsistencieswe consider the implications for our report.

Opinion on nancialstatementsIn our opinion the nancial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of thecharitable companys aairs as at 31 March 2013and of its incoming resources and application ofresources, including its income and expenditure,for the year then ended;

have been properly prepared in accordance withUnited Kingdom Generally Accepted AccountingPractice; and

have been prepared in accordance with therequirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Opinion on other matterprescribed by theCompanies Act 2006In our opinion the information given in the Reportof the Trustees for the nancial year for which thenancial statements are prepared is consistent withthe nancial statements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception:

We have nothing to report in respect of the followingmatters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us toreport to you if, in our opinion:

adequate accounting records have not been keptor returns adequate for our audit have not beenreceived from branches not visited by us; or

the nancial statements are not in agreement withthe accounting records and returns; or

certain disclosures of trustees remunerationspecied by law are not made; or

we have not received all the information andexplanations we require for our audit; or

the trustees were not entitled to prepare the nancialstatements in accordance with the small companiesregime and take advantage of the small companiesexemption in preparing the Report of the Trustees.

Jeremy Harrod FCCA (Senior Statutory Auditor)for and on behalf of Grant Harrod Parkinson LLPChartered AccountantsStatutory Auditors49A High StreetRuislipMiddlesexHA4 7BD

17th September 2013

Resigned 3 December 2012


Appointed 3 December 2012


Appointed 3 December 2012

Jo Glanville

Heather Norman Sderlind

Free Word Centre

60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA

05747142 (England and Wales)

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Grant Harrod Parkinson LLP

Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors

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Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 7BD

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Income & expenditure

UnrestrictedFunds

RestrictedFunds

TotalFunds

Year ended2012

TotalFunds

Year ended2013

Note

The notes on pages 20 to 28 form part of these nancial statements.

None of the companys activities were acquired or discontinued during the nancial period.

The company has no recognised gains or losses other than these dealt with in the above

Statement of Financial Activities.

Balance sheet

6,348

185,079

191,427

109,874

111,066

220,940

(123,428)

97,512

288,939

Fixed Assets

Tangible assets

Investments

Current Assets

Debtors

Cash at bank and in hand

Creditors

Amounts falling due within one year

Net Current Assets

Total Assets Less Current Liabilities

Funds

Restricted

Unrestricted

0

0

0

0

109,244

109,244

0

109,244

109,244

5,948

185,079

191,027

66,664

159,837

226,501

(141,336)

85,165

276,192

14,570

261,622

276,192

6,348

185,079

191,427

109,874

220,310

330,184

(123,428)

206,756

398,183

109,244

288,939

398,183

5

6

7

8

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UnrestrictedFunds

RestrictedFunds

2012 Totalfunds

2013 Totalfunds

Note

The notes on pages 20 to 28 form part of these nancial statements

These nancial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relatingto small charitable companies and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (eective April 2008).

The nancial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and were approved by the Board of Trustees on 17th September 2013

Gillian Slovo Barry KernonChair Treasurer

Company Registration Number: 05747142

107,627

54,545

10,021

117

227,610

3,555

403,475

42,531

(2,400)

0

0

0

322,375

13,652

0

376,158

27,317

0

27,317

261,622

288,939

0

0

0

0

394,533

0

394,533

0

118,091

50,380

135,837

51,017

(55,466)

0

0

299,859

94,674

0

94,674

14,570

109,244

110,134

50,813

9,716

48

451,134

30,739

652,584

30,991

74,641

48,530

43,316

146,992

252,616

13,462

0

610,548

42,036

2,825

44,861

231,331

276,192

107,627

54,545

10,021

117

622,143

3,555

798,008

42,531

115,691

50,380

135,837

51,017

266,909

13,652

0

676,017

121,991

0

121,991

276,192

398,183

2

3,4

6

Incoming Resources

Incoming resources from generated Funds

Voluntary income

Activities for generating funds

Income from investments

Bank interest receivable

Incoming resources from charitable activities

Grants receivable

Other income

Total Incoming Resources

Resources Expended

Cost of Generating Funds:

Costs of generating voluntary income

Charitable Activities

Readers and Writers

Writers at Risk

Writers in Translation

Campaigns

Other Charitable expenditure

Governance costs

Other resources expended

Total Resources Expended

Net Income/(Outgoing Resources)

Other recognised Gains and losses

Gain/(Loss) on revaluation of investments

Net Movement in funds for the year

Funds Brought Forward

Funds Carried Forward


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1 Accounting policies 2 Grants receivable

Restricted

Allan & Nesta Ferguson

Arts Council of England

AB Charitable Trust

Bloomberg L.P.

Booktrust



Esme Fairbairn

European Commission

John Lyons Charity

MB Reckitt Trust

Nigel May

Open Society Foundation

Other Restricted Grants

PEN Pinter Prize Fund

Scotshill Trust

Swan Mountain Trust

Nueld Foundation

Phoenix Charitable Foundation

The Limbourne Trust

The Logos Trust

The Monument TrustThe Pack Foundation



Unrestricted

Arts Council of England - Revenue

Arts Council of England - GftA

The Neil Kreitman Foundation

Other grants

Total Grants Receivable

0

0

7,500

0

1,000

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

15,000

0

0

0

10,000

0

0

00

25,000

0

58,500

0

0

0

0

0

58,500

15,000

0

7,500

15,000

0

0

9,500

0

14,407

15,000

0

1,500

73,964

0

5,000

2,500

0

99,500

5,000

4,000

0

016,000

45,833

2,750

348,454

70,130

34,200

10,000

4,350

118,680

467,134

0

120,000

0

50,000

0

30,000

0

27,083

18,456

19,500

8,000

0

60,720

2,774

5,000

0

1,000

0

0

5,000

1,000

16,0005,000

25,000

0

394,533

110,000

107,610

10,000

0

227,610

622,143

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

20,000

0

0

0

0

0

0

00

25,000

0

45,000

0

0

0

0

0

45,000

Grantsreceived

Deferredincomecarried

forward

Total 2012

Total 2013

Deferredincome

broughtforward

Basis of Accounting

The nancial statements have been prepared underthe historical cost convention, with the exception ofinvestments which are included at market value, asmodied by the revaluation of certain assets and inaccordance with the Financial Reporting Standardfor Smaller Entities (eective April 2008), theCompanies Act 2006 and the requirements of theStatement of Recommended Practice, Accountingand Reporting by Charities.

The following principal accounting policies, whichare unchanged from the previous year, have beenconsistently applied in preparing these nancialstatements.

Incoming Resources

Grants, subscriptions and donations are accountedfor on an receipts basis, other income on an accrualsbasis, except for certain advance payments receivedat the end of the nancial year in respect of activitiesto take place in the following nancial year, whichare carried forward in the nancial statements asdeferred income. Other income is accounted for on anaccruals basis.

Resources Expended

All expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basisand has been classied under headings that aggregateall costs related to the category. Wherever possiblecosts are directly attributed to these headings.Costs common to more than one area are apportionedon the basis of sta time.

Governance costs are those incurred in the governanceof the charity and are primarily associated with theconstitutional and statutory requirements.

Fund Accounting

Restricted funds are funds which are to be usedin accordance with specic restrictions imposed bythe donor.

Unrestricted funds are funds which are available foruse at the discretion of the trustees in futherance ofthe general objects of the charity.

Designated funds represent amounts set aside by theTrustees from unrestricted income to meet specicpurposes.

Tangible Fixed Assets

Items with a value greater than 250 are capitalised.Tangible xed assets are stated at cost lessaccumulated depreciation. Provision is made fordepreciation on all tangible assets at rates calculatedto write o the cost of each asset over its expecteduseful life, as follows:

Fixtures, ttings, computers & software - 25% perannum on a reducing balance basis

Investments

Investments are stated at market value as at thebalance sheet date. Any gain or loss on revaluation is

taken to the Statement of Financial Activities in theperiod to which they relate.

Pension Costs

Pension contributions payable to employee denedcontribution pension schemes are charged to theStatement of Financial Aairs in the period to whichthey relate.

20 21

0

120,000

7,500

50,000

1,000

30,000

0

27,083

18,456

19,500

8,000

-

60,720

2,774

0

-

1,000

0

10,000

5,000

1,000

16,0005,000

25,000

-

408,033

110,000

107,610

10,000

0

227,610

635,643


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2012

48,688

176

196

41

450

0

0

(8)

0

658

4

0

0

17

0

158

0

0

50,380

48,530

Staf Costs (note 3)

Temps/recruitment/training

Rent and other oce costs

Printing and design

Travel, subsistence and entertaining

Advertising and marketing

Writers fees and expenses

Grants to Writers

Campaign costs

Prizes, events/workshops

and room hire

Research and Professional Costs

Audit costs

Accountancy costs

Bank charges

Depreciation

Subscriptions, publications

and conferences

Bad debt

Miscellaneous expenses

Total Resources Expended

and Support Costs

2012

57,713

0

418

1,069

224

0

15,164

54,609

0

4,278

1,440

0

0

85

0

54

0

783

135,837

43,316

Total resources expended

161,427

5,301

57,088

12,416

5,005

1,975

1,005

500

0

44,906

48

0

415

923

2,100

15,369

0

962

309,440

283,607

16,288

0

1,008

324

542

0

0

0

32,185

598

0

0

0

17

0

55

0

0

51,017

146,992

42,116

514

2,162

8,858

6,936

0

44,041

0

0

4,491

4,000

0

0

42

0

2,531

0

0

115,691

74,641

Writersat Risk

Writers inTranslation

OtherCharitable

Expenditure

Campaigns

Readers& Writers

0

39

721

3,626

1,307

0

0

0

0

1,694

0

5,100

0

22

0

719

0

424

13,652

13,462

326,232

6,030

61,593

26,334

14,464

1,975

60,210

55,101

32,185

56,625

5,492

5,100

415

1,106

2,100

18,886

0

2,169

676,017

610,548

291,439

6,846

73,136

24,342

16,178

881

38,715

12,663

19,926

43,476

52,337

5,650

7,018

723

550

14,461

760

1,447

610,548

2013

2012

Governance




2013Sta are allocated as follows:

Wages and salaries

Social security costs

Pension costs

Readers and Writers sta

Writers at Risk sta

Writers in Translation sta

Campaigns sta

Other charitable activities

Management and Administration

Total

20122013The aggregate payroll costs were

261,390

25,676

4,373

291,439

1.5

1.5

2.0

1.0

2.5

2.0

10.5

283,887

27,268

15,077

326,232

2.0

1.5

1.5

0.5

2.0

2.0

9.5

During the year 4 trustees were reimbursed 936 expenses for travel (2012 : 841 to 4 trustees).

During the year, 4 trustees received a total of 680 for translation work (2012 : nil).

No employee received an annual remuneration in excess of 60,000 (2012: nil).

The total number of employees calculated on a full time equivalent basis during the year was 9.5 (2012 - 10.5).

3 Sta costs

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Cost

At 1 April 2012

Additions

Disposals

At 31 March 2013

Depreciation

At 1 April 2012

Charge for the year

At 31 March 2013

Net Book Value

At 31 March 2013

At 31 March 2012

Fittings, Computers and Software

9,924

2,500

0

12,424

3,976

2,100

0

6,076

6,348

5,948

Market value as at 1 April

Unrealised gain on investment

Market Value as at 31 March

Historical Cost

2012

2013

182,254

2,825

185,079

158,548

185,079

0

185,079

158,548

5 Tangible xed assets

City of London Inv Trust

M&G Investment (Charifund)

COIF Fixed Interest (CCLA)

Cost 2013Market Value 2013

43,792

55,047

86,240

185,079

Market Value 2012 Cost 2012

31,397

44,160

82,901

158,458

43,792

55,047

86,240

185,079

31,397

44,160

82,901

158,458

Trade debtors

FEST Auction costs paid in advance

Other debtors

2012

2013

32,375

0

34,289

66,664

20,850

29,558

59,466

109,874

Trade creditors

Social security and other taxes

Deferred income - Restricted

Deferred income - Voluntary

Accruals and other creditors

2012

2013

63,336

6,348

45,000

4,600

22,052

141,336

24,898

8,412

58,500

0

31,619

123,429

8 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

24 25

6 Fixed asset investments

7 Debtors


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26 27

9 Restricted funds

120,000

50,000

30,000

0

27,083

18,456

19,500

8,000

60,720

2,774

5,000

0

1,000

5,000

1,000

16,000

5,000

25,000

0

394,533

Arts Council of England

Bloomberg L.P.



Esme Fairbairn Foundation

European Commission

John Lyons Charity

MB Reckitt Trust

Open Society Foundations

Other Restricted Grants

PEN Pinter Prize Fund

Prisoners of Conscience

Swan Mountain Trust

The Limbourne Trust

The Logos Trust

The Monument Trust

The Pack Foundation



41,432

43,697

26,714

975

21,446

17,236

15,639

7,000

62,456

2,774

5,000

517

1,000

5,000

1,000

15,853

5,000

25,000

2,120

299,859

78,568

10,490

3,286

0

5,637

1,220

6,241

1,000

0

0

0

2,655

0

0

0

147

0

0

0

109,244

0

4,187

0

975

0

0

2,380

0

1,736

0

0

3,172

0

0

0

0

0

0

2,120

14,570

IncomingResources

ResourcesExpended

Balanceat 2013

Balance at2012

Bloomberg LPcontributed to English PENs Writers inTranslation PEN Promotes!programme. Bloomberg is aglobal business and nancial news organisation whosephilanthropic arm supports literacy and the arts amongother interests, with an emphasis on global reach,eective engagement and innovation.

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundationfunded ourBrave NewVoicesprogramme, which gave 30 young people fromrefugee backgrounds the chance to write creativelyand learn translation skills. The project resulted invideo learning resources which PEN will promote toteachers and youth clubs in the next year.

The Clore Dueld Foundationfunded a project (underthe Readers & Writers programme) called Wish YouWere Here, which linked up a disadvantaged schoolin Islington with a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone,bringing young people together through creative letterwriting and global citizenship.

The Esme Fairbairn Foundation funded our SpeakFor Yourself! training programme for young peoplefrom disadvantaged backgrounds. The programmeresulted in the young people creating their own freespeech projects.

The European Commission Representation in theUnited Kingdomfunded a project (under the Readers& Writers programme) called Big Writing For A SmallWorld, which enabled English PEN to work in tenrefugee centres across the country, bringing writerstogether with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.

John Lyons Charityfunded the youth element of theBig Writing For A Small Worldproject, enabling EnglishPEN to bring a high quality literature programme to 40young people from disadvantaged schools in Brent.

The M B Reckitt Trustfunded our Faith in Free Speechproject, which gave young people and faith expertsthe chance to explore how religion and free speechcome together. The project resulted in video learningresources being made which PEN will promote toteachers and youth clubs in the next year.

The Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund providesa block grant which English PEN distributes to helpsupport the parents, spouses and children of writerswho are censored by imprisonment (or the threat ofimprisonment).

Open Society Foundationscontributed to English PENsUK campaign for libel reform. Established by GeorgeSoros, the OSF works to build vibrant and tolerantdemocracies whose governments are accountable totheir citizens.

The Monument Trust funded (under the Readers &Writers programme) our ongoing work in Englishprisons, sending writers inside to run workshops andgive readings. We get publishers to send the writersbooks in to the prison and the whole experienceis inspiring and uplifting for the people whoexperience it.

The Sigrid Rausing Trustfunded English PENs ongoingwork with Writers at Risk around the world. The trustis a grant-giving foundation founded by Sigrid Rausingto support the international human rights movement.

The Vodafone Foundation provided funds for the

employment of a student intern.


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English PENFree Word Centre

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Editor

Heather Norman Sderlind

Design

Brett Biedscheid, statetostate.co.uk

Printed by Aldgate Press

English PEN is a company limited by

guarantee, number 5747142 and a

registered charity, number 1125610Limited Liability

185,079

0

185,079

General Unrestricted Funds

Restricted Funds

Total Funds

97,512

109,244

206,756

261,622

14,570

276,192

288,939

109,244

398,183

6,348

0

6,348

Investments

NetCurrent

Assets

Total 2012

Total 2013

TangibleFixed Assets

10 Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds - Group

English PEN is a company limited by guarantee. Liability is limited to 1 per member.

As at 31 March 2013 there were 1,300 members.

Operating Lease Commitments

At 31 March 2013 English PEN had annual commitments of 2,002 under an operating lease expiring within 2-5 years.

APB Ethical Standard -Provisions Available for Small Entities

In common with many other business of our size and nature we use our auditors to prepare and submit returns to the tax

authorities, and to assist in the preparation of the nancial statements.


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Registered Company Number

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Registered Charity Number1125610

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