The annual report and accounts are now available at https://archives.uklo.org/reports, together with a summary of the report (pasted below) and an earlier paper on the position of girls and of state-funded schools in our competition. I hope you find them helpful, and that you'll vote at the AGM to fund UKLO for another year.

Summary of report:

This year has been easier with all the schools open, though we’re still mindful of Covid during residential events. Round 1 (open to all schools) showed some encouraging trends:

• ·       an overall increase in numbers
• ·       a particularly strong increase at Foundation and Intermediate levels
• ·       a particularly strong increase in years 7 and 10
• ·       increased representation of state schools in the Advanced competition
• ·       continued strong representation of girls among all entries (albeit with the usual falling off at higher levels)
• ·       continued participation across all ages down to Year 4.

Past Gold-medal winners are playing an increasingly important role in the olympiad, both within UKLO and also in the IOL (the International Linguistics Olympiad).

We ran our first residential training camp for the IOL squad, which was excellently hosted by the University of Warwick and was followed later by some online training. At the IOL itself, in the Isle of Man, our squad performed really strongly and individuals won one Gold, four Silvers and an Honourable Mention, while one of the teams won the Bronze award.

We depend on technology for communicating and for managing the competition, so we have had a brand-new website built for us by a volunteer, and we are about to have a brand-new portal built by a contractor (one of our former champions). The latter cost will reduce our financial reserves to an uncomfortably low level (in spite of particularly generous contributions from schools and individuals), so we hope for continuing support from our regular sponsors.