Treasurer’s report for the 2020 AGM reporting on the fi nancial year ending 31 December 2019
The association’s finances continue in
good health as shown by the financial statements and the statement of the external examiner, SBCA Chartered Accountants. At the end of 2019 AFT had a surplus of just over £23,000, giving the association a strong financial base. The association continues to have
healthy reserves, an important positive at the moment as we are currently going through a time of increased uncertainty with the pandemic and the resulting inevitable changes for AFT (and for all
organisations) in how they operate. An ongoing signifi cant potential fi nancial stressor is the fact that conferences had to be cancelled, and conferences and workshops have been moved online with resulting uncertainty about the impact this will have on AFT’s costs and income. Alongside this major change, organisational review and restructuring continues and the new website is imminent. Once again, I would like to thank all
those members who assist the association on a voluntary basis: you contribute to
the financial health of the association and keep AFT running – without you the association’s costs would significantly increase. I would also like to express special thanks to Paul Kennedy for his work and commitment, and for providing continuity over the last 12 months. If there are any questions on the accounts,
please submit them by email to Paul Kennedy on fi
nance@aft.org.uk by 12 October so that answers can be given prior to the AGM.
Susan M Benbow
Journal of Family Therapy report As I write this, we are in the midst of a time of great
uncertainty and change, with COVID-19 demanding huge changes in the way we all conduct our lives, including our professional practice as family therapists. Following the fi lmed killing of George Floyd in May in Minneapolis by police, and the consequent resurgence of awareness through the Black Lives Mat er movement of how structural inequalities impact upon the lives of black, Asian and minority ethnic people in every Western country including the UK, we are also in a period of refl ection regarding what is required of all of our institutions to ensure that we are not complicit in continuing such structural inequalities. Are we as a profession contributing towards developing ‘radical care’ or are we perpetuating ‘coloniality’? (Bhatia, 2020). How can our journal best respond to such events? We are
fortunate that the special edition that Susan Lord has edited on ‘Trauma and Systemic Practice’ is due to go to press in August. It seems to me that it is remarkably timely, including articles that, while not directly addressing these recent developments, will help us to orientate ourselves in our thinking about how we can best respond. Do look also at the podcasts on the journal website with Barry Mason and Arlene Vetere (released as systemic contributions towards responding to lockdown, to coincide with
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Mental Health Awareness week) and Vikki Reynolds (who has an article included in the August special edition). Producing a special edition can be a lengthy process (two
years from the fi rst idea until the publication is normal in my experience) but, in response to the changes demanded of our practice following COVID-19, we are hoping for a much faster turn-around for a special edition on ‘Digital approaches – a paradigm shiſt ?’ to be co-edited by Frank Burbach and Helen Pote, with a deadline for submissions set for the end of October 2020, in the hope of get ing out a special edition early in 2021. T e editorial board will also be considering a special edition addressing issues of race and inequality at its next meeting in July. Do please consider whether you have a contribution to make to both. I hope also you will have had a chance to have a look at
the special virtual edition that Helen Pote and Carolyn Tatar compiled of the most infl uential articles published since 1980 in the Journal of Family T erapy and Family Process, available at ht ps://
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1467-
6427.most-infl uential-articles. Another similar collaborative special virtual edition is planned on the issue of diversity and social justice.
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