24 Greencoat Place, London., SW1P 1RD, UKtel: 020-7798 6000, www.f-4-f.org, F4F@london.iofc.orgIssue 35 February 2004

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In this issue...Z. Borbulevich: My Action for Life 1 A new Moldovan/UK project 5‘What is essential’ by Bhav Patel 2 ‘Where does the money come from’ by J. Paine 7‘What happened to them?!’ by Milan Balan 3 News from the Treasurer 7Vision and Values in British schools 4 F4F 2003 Review 8

Foundations for Freedom Newsletter

Now it has beenthe fourth month of“Action for Life“ (AfL)program, when, for thefirst time, I’m awareenough to stand backand observe myself, mythoughts, feelings, anddecisions. It has beena long rough way to getto this point. Though Ido realise that it is justthe very beginning ofmy journey of self-dis-covery, self-transforma-tion, self-realisation.

I was verystressed out when Icame on AfL. Though Idid not realise it at thattime I didn’t realisehow stressful thewhole previous year,which I spent in UK, was, as well. It was diffi-cult physically and psychologically. “Butthat’s the way life should be”, I used to say tomyself. I left no time, space or chance for my-self to contemplate, to analyse, to becomemore aware of all the events and conse-quences in my life. I was living on inertia,feeling that I could not go on like that anylonger, but being afraid to ask myself what’snext, afraid to discover that I would not havethe answer, though I had to extend the bor-ders of my world somehow. And the answerfound me – Action for Life! Decided!

I packed my stuff in UK (in a typicalstressful way) and took off to Ukraine for twoweeks (before going to India), where I had to

face another psycho-logical turmoil – “bat-tle” with my familywho could not under-stand why I wouldwant to participate inAfL.

So, India! I ar-rived there still havingmy parents’, relatives’,even UK employer’svoices shouting ateach other in myhead - demanding,blaming, trying toconvince me not to go,giving all possible in-structions. That ishow I felt when Istarted my AfL jour-ney.

The first 4 daysin “Asia Plateau”

(MRA/IC centre in India) were the most diffi-cult ones. It was a time of adaptation, innerstruggle: what am I doing here? What shall Ibe doing here for the next 9 months? Wasthat the right thing to do to come here?

You may wonder what’s happened tome… I was so eager to discover more aboutthis world, to get the “bigger picture”, but Iimmediately got scared once this opportunitywas given to me. Fear of unknown! Fear ofleaving my comfort zone! Or fear of reality,which might easily break my expectations orrather dreams about the world I am living in!

But I chose to face my destiny (insteadof hiding behind its back), to accept its invi-tation and the offering which life was gener-

Zoryana’s infamous smile!

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After twomonths in hotsunny sweaty In-dia, I was hopingto see snow inMoldova. I arrivedto see a whitelandscape andwas told I missedmost of the snow.Then it hap-pened, a hugesnowstorm andover a metre ofsnow! I was sohappy, I havenever seen suchweather in mylife and was gladmy Angel gaveme my wish! Istayed for two

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL

ously giving me, to look into the narrow streets and corners of the life.During the first month in Asia Plateau I have been happily indulged into friends-

making, team-building, practising my Quiet Time, going through all possible trainings (Hindilessons, yoga classes, singing etc.), learning from, sharing about, sometimes struggling withother’s cultural differences. I realised that in the given circumstances we could only surviveon 5 absolute principles: closeness, honesty, support, sensitivity and love, which leads ussmoothly over all roughness.

Ready! Steady! Go! The Outreaches!Huge, dusty, crowded, noisy cities, meetings every day, lots of new faces, theories,

exciting dinners and the most dreadful and unforgettable experience – Bombay trains! Dirty,half naked children running around and begging for money; polluted beaches, endlessslums, scary stories about cheating, intimidation and corruption. It all made me feel sohelpless and disappointed. I felt so guilty and struggled with the questions: How can one behappy if all this is happening in the world? How can we (AfL) help in this situation? Wouldn’tit be better to use the money we raised for Action for Life to build schools for the underprivi-leged?

It took me some time to understand that we are not here to solve the problems or todeal with them directly, but rather to understand why, when and how it all came about andhow change can be initiated. Initially I did not want to listen to long theoretical speechesabout how bad the situation really was. I wanted solutions right there and then.

Now all my doubts, insecurities and questions have been washed away through ourinteractions with student NGO’s, experience in rural areas, staying in Ashrams, interactionwith the Center for dialogue and reconciliation and through all the people we met and fromevery smile that we were given.I left my “either/or” attitude behind. Now I no longer perceive the world as either black orwhite. There are many more colours to it. Life can be learned again and again; there is noend to it. Peace!

Zoryana Borbulevich (Lviv, Ukraine)

Catia The Dog and her friend

weeks, which wasnot enough time.Catching up withfriends and seeinghow they are do-ing as a team wasmy main objective.

Everyone waswell, and the teamI believe is adjust-ing to most of itspeople being injobs. This is a bigstep for an indi-vidual, to go fromStudent to Work,and I believe it isalso a big step forthe team. Some ofthe team will alsocome back thisyear after getting

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Ukraine’s future...

training abroad, and I know this will have an impact. Overall, I felt all was as it should be,and that continued support is ESSENTIAL.

My biggest inspiration was seeing Didi’s project, an Elderly Day Care Centre. Didi, ayogic nun, came to Moldova with nothing. Moving forward in Faith, and not willing to payone bribe, she has managed to get the funding and start a brilliant Centre that providesfood, showers, leisure activities, and clothes-washing facilities, for the under-privileged oldpeople of a village. Many local people and companies have given their help and materials forfree! For me, this is true MRA at work, going forward trusting the Spirit…………….and theSpirit answered!

My commitment to Moldova is to support the people there and go at least once a year.Beyond projects, these friendships/relationships are important to me, and an essential partof life. I am hoping to go back to Action for Life soon, and after that looking to my Angel forguidance. Thank you ALL for trying, “trying” is a sign of hope and courage.

Bhavesh Patel (UK)

The first Changing Course in Romania,which took place in Ocna Sugatag in May lastyear, was the event that produced some re-ally interesting changes in the participants’lives. Seven months later here is what hashappened in these people’s lives (the major-ity - teachers) in Romania.

Carmen is an experienced teacher in ahigh school. She had not had the courage togo on trips with her students. She was afraidto take up this responsibility and had not doneit since she started teaching. After The Chang-ing Course Carmen has overcome her fear -in the past 7 months she organised 6 excur-sions, in and outside our county, for studentsand teachers.

Maria is a history teacher. She comesfrom a village in Maramures, and for a longtime she wanted to move to the capital city,Bucharest, for her own professional develop-ment. She did not feel ready - her fear andlack of confidence had stopped her movingfurther. Now she has gained enough self-con-fidence and overcome her fear and she isready to go.

Gabi is an art teacher. She has cometo Baia Mare from distance of 300 km. BeforeThe Changing Course she was ready to gohome. ‘Who am I?’ was her main concern.Now she has found her identity near thefriends of change. She has decided to stay inBaia Mare.

Milan is an inspector in education andorthodox priest: “After the Changing CourseI learned that ‘to share’ is an essential verbin the work I am doing. Sharing is a kind ofspecial communication. Since then I prefer

to communicate by ‘sharing the feelings’. Iconsider this being necessary for my moralrefreshment and perhaps for moral changein the world.”

A more subtle issue was an exercise ofcourage and democracy by Suzi, Marian andDumitru (religion teachers in our town BaiaMare). Before the Changing Course they hadnot had the courage to speak out their mindin the teachers’ meetings in Baia Mare. Eve-ryone was afraid of the co-ordinating teacherof teachers’ professional development in BaiaMare (an elderly lady). She was appointed andsustained by some local high-ranking people.The problems appeared when this lady startedaddressing public offences, unfoundedly, tosome of our colleagues and made numerousinjustices in school contests. The teachershave not approved of her attitude, but shecould not be officially superseded. The threeteachers have found a way of protestingagainst these abuses and expressed theiropinions democratically (they had the initia-tive of change, peaceably). First they came upwith the proposal of organising a new teach-ers’ workshop group of the religion teachersin Baia Mare apart from the existing one. Thisnew group has been approved. Then, theteachers one by one started joining the sec-ond professional group and, in approximately2 months, 52 teachers joined the secondgroup and in the first one only five teachersremained. Now the leader of the first group(lady x) has been left by those whom she hadoffended. This lady still has the responsibil-ity of organising the school contests. Everyyear more than half the prizes in these con-

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tests were gained by lady x’s students- the best ones. Each time there was the suspicion thatlady x made some abuses like: she had stated the subjects by herself and told them to herstudents before the contest or she entered the contest rooms and gave her students somehints or she identified her students’ papers and overestimated them etc.

This year something unforeseen came up. During a general meeting, Suzi, Marian andDumitru, had the guts to express themselves and had the following proposal - every step ofthe school contests to be organised by lot. This means the subjects for the contest were notto be made up under lady x’ s co-ordination, but by more groups of teachers. On the day ofthe contest the subjects will be chosen by odds. The surveying teachers will be chosen byodds. The examiners will be named by lot. The teachers gathered there agreed with theproposal, they voted it positively and so lady x lost control over the school contests. It ap-peared interesting to me that lady x seeing these reactions started correcting her attitudetowards her colleagues and became more kind. I remembered that the Indian people be-came a power peaceably, the British authorities began to respect them and change theirattitudes.

What happened in Baia Mare, in the teachers’ group is an unimportant event to society,but it is an important democratic exercise for Suzi, Marian and Dumitru. They have under-stood and applied this democratic principle simply and neatly - change in the world beginswith a change in you!

Milan Balan (Romania)

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Taking my steps and walking my life

Almost a year ago someone helped meto change my rocky mountains into featherfull hills, helped me to find the sparkle in mysoul and gave me the spirit for my life. Forsome of us it might sound ‘cheesy’, but Iguess we all know what I am talking about.

Knowing that there is someone outthere who understands me and who knowsthe feeling inside of your human body, makesme smile and hope for a better world.

Last year, after finishing high school, Ihad a very dizzy future for myself (as it al-ways appears to be that way), but the train oflife never stops and as some of the people Iknow would say: “the angels will give you asign” where to go.

And here the story begins:While ‘jumping and enjoying the fairy

tale in Denmark’ (as I call my six-month timethat I spent over there in autumn 2003), Ilived in the present moment. At some pointanother “bird whispered” and I was invited tobe here where I have already spent one anda half-months - England! For some it is a

d r e a mcountry- a placeto reachfor anda placeto hopefor. Forme it is,first ofall, al o n gpath formy emo-t i o n sand mytime ofsharing,l i s t en -ing, ob-serving,a n dg r o w -ing. Try-ing to find the answer where and why do Irun. Where am I going in my life? What steps

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am I willing to take and how am I willing totake them? Am I “running or walking” my life?

During the first part of the days - itssession time, involving travelling from oneplace to another place, where you are the onewho gives your energy to others. In the eve-nings ‘you’ try to find ‘your’ way of receivingenergy for further moves. Places for that I findaround me. Sometimes its music or the spiritwithin it, sometimes - people who inspire ‘you’with their opinions and experiences, butsometimes its just ‘you’ on your own, tryingto find the energy inside of ‘your’ humanbody. That is the way I enjoy this time overhere in England together with the Initiativesof Change and the School Program Team, to-gether with my soul.

Thank you for the feather hills.

Sandra Lapkovska (Latvia)

We’ve spent half of our time withSchools Programme. I can not believe it. I ei-ther lean towards thinking it’s only startedor everything is ahead, or that I’ve been herefor ages.

We are talking aboutVision and Values inschools. I feel I haveneither myself, or atleast I do not have theformer. I had lookedforward to cominghere, and diving intothis programme andchallenges and soli-tude that it offers. Icame, and dived. Butit doesn’t look like abottom of something;on the contrary, itseems like a top. Be-cause I had been solooking forward to it,and because it hadbeen for a very longtime the top of myaspirations; so now I

feel as if I’m on the top, and everything isbelow, and I am looking all around, and nowI’ve reached this peak, what should I do? De-scend? Fly?

Well I will come back to Russia and pro-ceed studying International Business, whichI had no idea about what it is, and which isn’t

Tanya

something I would be interested in. I’m scaredto have my life like that; I definitely want thereto be more to my life than this. I want guid-ance; I want to talk to the people who standbehind the Course that changed my life sodrastically, that turned me out, freed me,threw me out of myself into the unknown. Atthe same time, I am afraid to meet them andto look them in the eye. I’m afraid that theyknow not more than I know myself. I’m afraidthat I will have to be responsible for my ownsoul, so challenged, so torn into pieces, socrying. I am afraid to be free.

Now, trapped between London and Ox-ford (the toy-like city, where my favouritemusical band comes from, who create des-perately melancholic, sophisticated, exqui-site, bittersweet music), I will take my time tocontemplate. I need to breathe deeply andkeep myself from demanding too much fromother people, especially those I hold so dear.Because, after all, the main thing is Love andGratitude that I feel towards them all, whowelcomed me in their land so gently and Brit-ish-ly. I am afraid (again!) that I will not beable to give back, to cough up, afraid to get indebt. But I have to bring together my Cour-age and Trust. ‘It’s the landscape and thedreamscape’ that I’m in love with. It’s the pro-gramme I follow and the vision I desire to ob-tain.

Tanya Sokolova (Russia)

Since summer 2003 an idea to matchthe needs of Moldovan society and IC ideas/people has emerged within Moldovan ICcommunity. Liliana Botnaru, AndreiTarasenco and Slava Balan took this ideaforward by holding regular meetings to discussit. Following the initial phase of internaldiscussion, the idea was taken to the broaderF4F arena, including the wider IC communityin Moldova, other F4F regions, the UK F4Fteam. A consultation meeting with the aim ofestablishing a Moldovan-UK partnership toelaborate further the project was organizedin London in the beginning of January 2004.

Objectives of the new project are:1. To develop and consolidate internal

structures, intra-organizational

Project

InspiringInitiatives,Building

Partnerships

Smile of the month!

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relations, culture and practices inMoldovan NGOs active in the socialsector and thus to increase theirperformance and efficiency;

2. To establish sustainable partnershiprelations between the social non-governmental sector, on the one side,and governmental agencies/authoritiesand business community, on the otherside;

3. To transfer organizational developmentand partnership building skills frominternational experts into MoldovanNGOs active in social sector.

The project seeks to promote a modelof NGO based on the principles of:

- shared responsibility insideorganization, as opposed toconcentration of information,resources and decision-makingpower around one (even very bright)person;

- personal example, i.e. the organizationand its members shall strictly follow thevalues and principles it is promoting,as opposed to applying “doublestandards”;

- service and commitment, as opposedto mere ‘technocratic’implementation of the activities and“functional” approach to thebeneficiaries;

- developing long-term sustainability asan organisation, asopposed to being drivenby available resourcesand funds or/andtreating organisationjust as starting point orfacility for otheractivities or ends (be itpolitics, business orpromotion to other “moreserious” institutions andorganisations).

The project is mainlyaddressed to Moldovan NGOsactive in the social sector. Itswider target group is theMoldovan community andespecially population groupsaffected by social problemsaddressed by the direct

beneficiary NGOs.The project shall last two years, starting

in January 2005. At the moment the projectis in process of advanced drafting. It still needsa lot of consultation between the two mainpartners (F4F and CN), with F4F regions andteams, with the experienced advisers.

By now the project has received muchsupport and understanding inside Moldova,in UK and some other countries. Nick Foster,Gordon Fuller, Miles Paine, Chris Evans,David and Judith Curtis and Oleg Ermuratiwere very much involved in the first inter-party consultation, which took place in UK.Later Charles Danguy joined the wider teamactively supporting it with the information andtime. As concerns the support of other F4Fregions, the Novosibirsk team supported theproject by sending a special “blessing” letter.To be successful, however, the new projectstill needs a wider F4F and IC support.

At the moment one of the main pointsof attention for the planning team is the issueof funding. Many efforts are undertaken byboth parties to identify possible fund-providers. The first target in this respect willbe the funds of the European Commissionallocated within its TACIS IBPP Program. Thedeadline of this institution is 14 April 2004and the major efforts of the team areconcentrated in this direction.

Veaceslav Balan (Moldova)

Friends from Moldova

F4F Diary

Watch out for the next issue ofthe newsletter in May 2004!

News from the Treasurer...

Thanks to gifts, legacies from three people,and grants, in the UK and the Netherlands,Foundations for Freedom received moreincome in 2003 than expenditure by about£10,000. So for the short term we can coverour anticipated expenses. Our gratefulthanks to all those whose hard work, prayersand generosity has made this possible.

We await the results of two grant applications,one for courses in the Moscow area inpartnership with the Ametistov Foundation,and one to enable us to help people get toCaux in July. We would appreciate prayersfor these, and for the longer term where, asalways, the opportunities are far in excess ofresources.

The power point presentation on F4F, whichwe hope will help build a stronger base ofsupport, is ready to roll (in the UK at least).It is a 20 minute presentation of the ideasand story so far of F4F, to which can be addedas much conversation and discussion as theoccasion allows. Our idea is that it will bedelivered by at least two people, of whom onewould be from east Europe. If you know ofgroups who would be interested to see it,please let us know.

Chris Evans

WHERE DOES THE MONEYCOME FROM? (by Janet Paine)

People sometimes wonder - and ask - howa programme like Foundations for Freedom isfinanced. F4F is one of the outreach pro-grammes of Initiatives of Change/Moral Re-Armament, with world perspectives and re-sponsibilities. Are there substantial funds inthe background somewhere? The magic andmiracle of provision for this work and all itsundertakings is no mystery, however.

Contributions in cash and kind comefrom people who value these ideas and whatthey can do in the world. Usually these areindividuals who have seen the effectiveness ofchange in their own lives. My father gave gen-erously to MRA from his weekly salary becauseof the new spirit he and my mother had foundthrough it. The conference centre in Caux,Switzerland, was purchased and made avail-able to the world through the sacrificial givingof three Swiss families and countless others’contributions.

When I left school at 17, I decided that Iwanted to work full time with MRA as a secre-tary. During the last half century I have neverhad a salary, and yet I have never lacked whatI needed. More than a dozen people have sup-ported me financially and in many other ways.When Miles and I had children we wonderedwhether we could afford their upbringing andstill work full time with MRA. The quiet andreassuring thought came: “The boys will al-ways have what they need, even if they maynot always have what you would like them tohave.” And this has been abundantly borne

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F4F Diary

19 March - F4F UK committee meeting

10 - 19 April - 8th Regional Meeting in Chisinau(Moldova)25 April - 1 May - Changing Course and anti-corruption seminar in Romania

May - Follow-up visit to Novosibirsk (Russia)May - Changing Course in Crimea (Ukraine)

July - August - International Conferences inCaux (Switzerland)

out.Evelyn Davies of Edinburgh, Scotland,

who died recently, has just left a generouslegacy to F4F, as well as giving sums on acouple of previous occasions. She met MRAin the ’40s and has given to me regularlyeach month for 50 years. Our correspond-ence over the years has sustained us both, Iknow. A very ordinary woman (like me), sheloved children, cats and her garden; but shealso had a passion for what was right andwanted to do what she could to help thisspirit prevail.

This is where the money comes from -no mystery, no millionaires, but men andwomen who see the need, contribute to anddecide to be a part of the answer for the world.

24 Greencoat Place, London., SW1P 1RD, UKtel: 020-7798 6000, www.f-4-f.org, F4F@london.iofc.org

Foundations for Freedom 2003 Review

F4F Mission Statement

F4F aims to inspire purpose and vision in individuals and teams grounded in the values thatunderlie a truly free and just society and to nurture and support them in the process oftransforming their own lives and societies.

2003 Programme

The main focus of F4F activity during 2003 was to support teams committed to laying strongmoral and spiritual foundations for their own societies in Eastern Europe, by means oftraining courses, visits and other activities. Many of these teams exist as a result of earlierF4F programmes. As well as organising further F4F courses, they typically undertake workto improve life in the community around them, for example through anti-bribery campaigns,visits to schools to discuss drug problems, and supporting old people’s homes or orphanages.F4F has an openly stated intention to devolve greater responsibility for its programme toteams in the region. The outstanding events of the year were as follows:-

27/3 – 6/4 A faculty led by Dr Nick Foster delivered a ‘Changing Course’ for 33 youngleaders of NGOs in Latvia, which was followed by a cross-cultural dialogue. “Welive in a culturally diverse society in a very small state… but we don’t know eachother well enough to have a proper dialogue on the issues that worry us most.This has led to the creation of certain stereotypes. We need to get to know eachother in order to break the wall and start talking. Did the course reach its goals?Overall, yes.” – from a report by one of the Latvian hosts.

28/4 – 4/5 Regional Meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, drew together 30 from F4F teams in Ukraine,Russia, Latvia, Moldova, USA and UK. How to devolve more decision-making inthe F4F programme to teams in Eastern Europe was a major theme.

16/5 – 19/5 A team led by Dr Nick Foster delivered a ‘VCII’ course in Chisinau, Moldova,focused on teamworking and leadership skills, to those responsible for the NGO“New Civilisation”.

28/4 – 8/5 A team led by Kees and Marina Scheijgrond delivered a ‘Changing Course’ to 28participants near Baia Mare, Romania, many of whom were teachers. “Thesewere not lessons where the teacher says what you have to do. We were givensome suggestions, and we were the ones to choose what is right from what iswrong for us. I was not sure whether people would take anything useful ..[but]..there were some moments, some words and some deeds that prove they reallychanged something inside. I think about a lot of things differently, in a betterway. I try to be optimistic – that is also a change!” – from a participant’s account.

2/7 – 8/7 52 from F4F teams in Central and East Europe participated in internationalconference on ‘Service, Responsibility and Leadership’ at Caux, Switzerland.

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31/7 Completion of 10-month project in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in which F4Fcollaborated with International Business Leaders Forum (London) andInternational Consulting Company (Ekaterinburg) to raise awareness, build trustand promote best practice between companies and NGOs.

2/10 – 11/10 A faculty led by Kees and Marina Scheijgrond delivered a ‘Changing Course’to 21 students of the State Transport University, Novosibirsk (Russia) and a 27-hour refresher course to 20 lecturers at the University. “It gave me confidence,helped me find belief in myself, and made me sure that I can do something forpeople around me” – a student participant.

24/11 – 30/11 A faculty led by David Curtis delivered a ‘Changing Course’ to 20 youngpoliticians and NGO leaders near Chernigev, Ukraine, in co-operation with theCentre for Political Education, Ukraine.

In addition there were numerous follow-up and support visits undertaken during the year,with groups visiting Serbia, Ukraine, Siberia, Lithuania and Moldova. During 2003 therewas also a noticeable increase in visits and exchanges between the teams in the region.

During 2003 a major 5-year funding proposal was submitted to USAID, but was not successful.It was agreed, however, to proceed with work along the lines of that proposal at whateverspeed funds allow.

Personnel

Gabrijela Leovic from Germany and Oleg Ermurati from Moldova gave their whole time to theF4F programme in 2003, based at the IC centre in Greencoat Place, London. In October DrNick Foster was re-engaged as a consultant to the programme, working on average 4 dayseach week. These three, along with Gordon Fuller, meet on a weekly basis as the F4FManagement Group. This group is answerable to the 11-member F4F Committee, whichmeets monthly.

Many others gave substantial amounts of their time, including Ross Andren from SaffronWalden who took six months’ sabbatical from his project management work. In Novemberand December, he spent two months at the State Transport University, Novosibirsk, byinvitation, studying Russian, lecturing in conflict resolution, and participating in the F4Fteam activities there.

Finance

Income for 2003:Gifts from individuals £ 6,237Legacies 4,250Interest received 23Grants:Tirley Garth Trust 4,000 (re 2004 expenditure)UK Dept.for Int. Development 500A Church Foundation in NL 6,517Karl Popper Foundation 11,460The Oxford Group general fund 17,856Initiatives of Change – NL 1,724

————TOTAL £ 52,567

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Expenditure for 2003:Course delivery £ 12,049Support to teams in E Europe 3,668Regional Meeting 1,640Caux conference 19,206Fees & overheads 5,465

————TOTAL £ 42,028

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Additional support in the form of office facilities, fees and living expenses for full-timevolunteers worth an estimated £26,000 was received during 2003 from The Oxford Group. Avery significant amount of time was given without any charge or recompense by volunteers,for which no figures appear in the accounts.

The above are provisional accounts. Once audited, they will be incorporated with those of theOxford Group/Initiatives of Change and of Initiatives of Change in The Netherlands.

Plans

F4F will continue to respond to opportunities which arise and to requests from teams inEastern Europe, with a view to supporting them and encouraging them to develop their ownagenda and programmes.

Much work during 2003 has gone into writing a new F4F course, the Ethical LeadershipWorkshop, intended to be launched in 2004. This is a 3-day course, shorter than the ‘ChangingCourse’ which lasts from 8 to 10 days, and easier to deliver. Once tried out and finalised, itwill be a tool in the hands of teams across the region, alongside the rest of the F4F coursesand programme. It is due to be tried out and assessed at a Regional Meeting in Moldova inApril 2004.

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Dear Reader,We would like to thank everyone who hascontributed to making this issue of theF4F Newsletter. If you think that some-one else you know should get this news-letter or if you have any suggestions,please contact the editor Oleg Ermuratiat oleg@london.iofc.org. Thank you.