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|Legal and Administrative||Information|||
|Report ofthe Trustees|||||
|Independent<br>Examiner's||Report||18|
|Statement of Financial||Activities|(Incorporating|20|
|income and Expenditure|Account)||||
|Balance Sheet||||22|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|||24|





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|Charity Name:|Charity Name:||The Children's|Foundation|Limited|
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|Registered|Charity Number:||1000013|||
|Registered|Company|Number:|02528291|||
|Registered|Office and||SirJames Spence Institute|||
|Operational|address:||Royal Victoria|Infirmary||
||||Queen Victoria|Road||
||||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne|||
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|Statement o<br>forthe year|fFinancial Activiti<br> ended 31March|es<br> 2022|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|||
||||funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
||||2022|2022|2022|2021|
|||Notes|f|E|6|E|
|Income and|endowments||||||
|from:|||||||
|Donations|and legacies||84,410|87,550|171,960|169,752|
|Other trading activities|||9,847|1,145|10,992|115|
|Investments|||(40)||(40)|500|
|Other|||1,471|15,017|16,488|7,323|
|Total|||95,688|103,712|199,400|177,690|
|Expenditure|on:||||||
|Raising funds||8|7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
|Charitable|activities|9|312|46,289|46,601|43,744|
|Other||10|95,576|32,048|127,624|117,849|
|Total|||103,874|78,873|182,747|162,966|
|Net gains on|investments||||||
|Net income|||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds|||||||
|Net income <br>gains/(losses)|before other||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|
|Other gains|and losses||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||
|Total funds brought forward|||314,166|134,271|448,437|433,713|
|Total funds carried forward|||305,980|159,110|465,090|448,437|





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||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||E|E|
|Income|||199,440|177,190|
|Interest and|investment|income|(40)|500|
|Gross income for the year|||199,400|177,690|
|Expenditure|||177,285|157,475|
|Depreciation|and charges|for|||
|impairment|offixed assets||5,462|5,491|
|Total expenditure<br>forthe year|||182,747|162,966|
|Net income|before tax for the year||16,653|14,724|
|Net income|for the year||16,653|14,724|





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|Company No.|02528291|02528291|02528291|Notes|2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||6|6|
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets||||13|231,157|236,619|
||||||231,157|236,619|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks||||14||729|
|Debtors||||15|9,960|3,593|
|Cash at bank|and||in hand||241,965|225,457|
||||||251,925|229,779|
|Creditors: Amount||falling due within one year||16|(17,992)|(17,961)|
|Net current assets|||||233,933|211,818|
|Total assets less|current liabilities||||465,090|448,437|
|Net assets excluding|||pension asset or liability||465,090|448,437|
|Total net assets|||||465,090|448,437|
|The funds ofthe|charity||||||
|Restricted funds||||17|||
|Restricted income|||funds||159,110|134,271|
||||||159,110|134,271|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||17|||
|General funds|||||74,561|74,547|
|Designated<br>funds|||||231,419|239,619|
||||||305,980|314,166|
|Reserves||||17|||
|Total funds|||||465,090|448,437|





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||||2022|2021|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||6|8|
|Cash flows from operating|activities||||
|Net income per Statement|of Financial Activities||16,653|14,724|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||
|Depreciation<br>ofproperty,<br>plant and equipment|||5,462|5,491|
|Dividends,<br>interest and|rents from investments||(16,448)|(7,823)|
|Decrease/(Increase)<br>in|stocks||729|(729)|
|(Increase)/Decrease<br>in|trade and other receivables||(6,367)|2,840|
|Increase/(Decrease)<br>in|trade and other payables||4,507|(2,953)|
|Net cash provided<br>by operating<br>activities|||4,536|11,550|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||
|Dividends,<br>interest and|rents from investments||16,448|7,823|
|Net cash from Investing activities|||16,448|7,823|
|Net cash from financing activities|||||
|Net increase in cash and cash equivalents|||20,984|19,373|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning|ofthe year|225,457|206,084|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the end ofthe year||246,441|225,457|
|Components<br>ofcash and cash equivalents|||||
|Cash and bank balances|||241,965|225,457|
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|last year and no changes|last year and no changes|last year and no changes|last year and no changes|have been made to accounts for previou|s years.||||
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|Fund accounting|||||||||
|Unrestricted||funds||These are available for use atthe discretion ofthe trustees<br>in furtherance|||ofthe||
|||||general objects ofthe charity.|||||
|Designated||funds||These are unrestricted<br>funds earmarked|by the trustees|for particular<br>purposes.|||
|Revaluation||funds||These are unrestricted<br>funds which include a revaluation||reserve representing|||
|||||the restatement<br>ofinvestment<br>assets at|their market values.||||
|Restricted|funds|||These are available for use subject to restrictions<br>imposed<br>by the donor|||or||
|||||through<br>terms ofan appeal.|||||
|Income|||||||||
|Recognition||of|income|Income is included<br>in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the|||||
|||||charity becomes entitled to, and virtually|certain to receive, the income||and|the|
|||||amount ofthe income can be measured|with sufficient|reliability.|||
|Income with||related||Where income has related expenditure<br>the income and||related expenditure||is|
|expenditure||||reported gross in the SoFA.|||||
|Donations|and||legacies|Voluntary<br>income received<br>by way of grants, donations||and gifts is included||in|
|||||the the SoFA when receivable and<br>only|when the Charity has unconditional||||
|||||entitlement<br>tothe income.|||||
|Tax reclaims||on||Income from tax reclaims is included<br>in the SoFAat the||same time as the|||
|donations|and||gifts|gift/donation<br>to which it relates.|||||
|Donated services and||||These are only included<br>in income (with|an equivalent<br>amount<br>in expenditure)||||
|facilities||||where the benefit tothe Charity<br>is reasonably<br>quantifiable,<br>measurable|||and||
|||||material.|||||
|Volunteer|help|||The value ofany volunteer<br>help received|is not included|in the accounts.|||
|Investment||income||This is included<br>in the accounts when receivable.|||||
|Gains/(losses)|||on|This includes any gain or loss resulting<br>from revaluing<br>investments<br>to market|||||
|revaluation||of|fixed|value at the end ofthe year.|||||
|assets|||||||||
|Gains/(losses)|||on|This includes<br>any gain or loss on the sale|ofinvestments.||||
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|Expenditure|||
|---|---|---|
|Recognition|of|Expenditure<br>is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure<br>includes any VAT|
|expenditure||which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported<br>as part ofthe expenditure<br>to|
|||which it relates.|
|Expenditure|on raising|These comprise the costs associated with attracting<br>voluntary<br>income,|
|funds||fundraising<br>trading costs and investment<br>management<br>costs.|
|Expenditure|on|These comprise the costs incurred<br>by the Charity<br>in the delivery ofits activities|
|charitable<br>activities||and services in the furtherance<br>ofits objects, including the making ofgrants and|
|||governance<br>costs.|
|Grants payable||All grant expenditure<br>is accounted for on an actual paid basis plus an accrual for|
|||grants that have been approved<br>by the trustees at the end ofthe year but not|
|||yet paid.|
|Governance|costs|These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional<br>and|
|||statutory<br>requirements<br>ofthe Charity,<br>including<br>any audit/independent|
|||examination<br>fees, costs linked tothe strategic management<br>ofthe Charity,|
|||together with a share ofother administration<br>costs.|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||funds|funds|Total funds|
|||||||2021|2021|2021|
|Income and endowments|||from:||||||
||Donations<br>and|legacies||||85,104|84,648|169,752|
||Other trading activities|||||115||115|
||Investments|||||500||500|
||Other|||||7,323||7,323|
|Total||||||93,042|84,648|177,690|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||||
||Raising funds|||||1,373||1,373|
||Charitable<br>activities|||||86,157|67,755|153,912|
||Other|||||7,681||7,681|
|Total||||||95,211|67,755|162,966|
|Net|income|||||(2,169)|16,893|14,724|
|Transfers between||funds||||302|(302)||
|Net income before <br>gains/(losses)||other||||(1,867)|16,591|14,724|
|Other gains and losses:|||||||||
|Net|movement<br>in funds|||||(1,867)|16,591|14,724|
|Reconciliation offunds:|||||||||
|Total funds brought||forward||||316,034|117,679|433,713|
|Total funds carried||forward||||314,167|134,270|448,437|
|4|Income from donations|||and legacies|||||
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||||2022|2021|
||||||E|E|E||
||Donations - Individual||||26,512|6,608|33,120|25,021|
||Donations - Corporate||||15,696|2,000|17,696|18,277|
||Grants||||41,002|78,942|119,944|124,265|
||Gifts in Kind||||1,200||1,200|2,189|
||||||84,410|87,550|171,960|169,752|





|s tothe Accounts|s tothe Accounts|s tothe Accounts|||||
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|Grants Received in year:||||||Total|
|||||||2022|
|||||||6|
|Ernest Cook Trust||||||18,370|
|Postcode Lottery||||||10,106|
|Ballinger Charitable|Trust|||||10,000|
|Community<br>Foundation||Wellesle||y Trust||9,752|
|Refund SirJohn Bell|Fund|||||(6,610)|
|Children<br>in Need||||||9,735|
|Streetga mes||||||11,846|
|Garfield Weston||||||6,500|
|Assura Grant||||||5,000|
|Shears Foundation||||||5,000|
|Catherine<br>Cookson||||||5,000|
|LGA Foundation||||||5,000|
|Nineveh<br>Trust||||||5,000|
|County Durham<br>Community|||Foun||dation|4,538|
|Northumberland<br>Village||Homes||||3,750|
|Finnis Scott Foundation||||||3,000|
|Gibson Trust||||||2,000|
|University ofCumbria||||||5,861|
|Groundwork||||||1,096|
|Enterprise<br>Holdings|Foundation|||||1,000|
|RW Mann Trust||||||1,000|
|Hadrian<br>Trust||||||1,000|
|Joseph Strong Frater Trust||||||1,000|
|The AB David Charity||||||1,000|
|||||||119,944|



|5|Income|from|other trading activitie|s||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||||2022|2021|
||||||E|||
||Events|||9,847|1,145|10,992|115|
|||||9,847|1,145|10,992|115|
|6|Income|from|investments|||||



|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|
||2022|2021|
|E|6||
|(40)|(40)|500|
|(40)|(40)|500|





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||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||2022|2021|
||||||||E|E|E|E|
||Other Income||||||1,471|15,017|16,488|7,323|
||||||||1,471|15,017|16,488|7,323|
|8|Expenditure||on raising||funds||||||
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||||||2022|2021|
||||||||E|E|E|E|
||Costs ofgenerating|||voluntary|||||||
||income||||||||||
||Donations|-|Individual||||7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
||||||||7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
|9|Expenditure||on charitable|||activities|||||
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||||||2022|2021|
||Expenditure||on charitable||||||||
||octivi ties||||||||||
||Charitable|Activities|||||312|46,289|46,601|43,713|
||Governonce||costs||||||||
||Accountants||Fee|||||||31|
||||||||312|46,289|46,601|43,744|
|10|Other expenditure||||||||||
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||||||||2022|2021|
||In Kind Gifts||||||1,200||1,200|2,190|
||Employee costs||||||80,936|30,971|111,907|98,148|
||Motor and|travel costs|||||1,676|537|2 213|3,358|
||Amortisation,||depreciation,||||||||
||impairment,||profit/loss||on||5,462||5,462|5,491|
||disposal of|fixed assets|||||||||
||General administrative||||costs||5,998|540|6,538|8,476|
||Legal and professional||||costs||304||304|186|
||||||||95,576|32,048|127,624|117,849|
|11|Net income||before|transfers|||||||
|||||||||2022||2021|
||This isstated||after charging:|||||E||E|
||Depreciation||ofowned||fixed assets|||5,462||5,491|





|12|Staff costs|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||2022|2021|
||Salaries and wages|||||102,939|91,155|
||Social security|costs||||3,281|2,702|
||Pension costs|||||4,762|3,961|
|||||||110,982|97,818|
||No employee|received|emoluments|in excess ofE60,000.||||
||The average monthly||number offull|time equivalent|employees|during the year was as follows:||
|||||||2022|2021|
|||||||Number|Number|
||Head of Department|||||1|1|
||Administrative|||||5|5|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Total|
|||||Buildings|Fittings||
||Cost or revaluation||||||
||At 1April 2021|||260,000|92,479|352,479|
||At31March|2022||260,000|92,479|352,479|
||Depreciation|and impairment|||||
||At 1April 2021|||26,000|89,860|115,860|
||Depreciation|charge for|the|5,200|262|5,462|
||year||||||
||At 31March|2022||31,200|90,122|121,322|
||Net book values||||||
||At 31March|2022||228,800|2,357|231,157|
||At 31March|2021||234,000|2,619|236,619|
|14|Stocks||||||
|||||2022||2021|
|||||E||E|
||Finished goods|||||729|
|||||||729|
||Carrying value analysed||by activities|2022||2021|
|||||||E|
||Charitable<br>Activities|||||729|
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||||2022|2021|
||||f|f|
||Trade debtors||8,730||
||Other debtors|||602|
||Prepayments|and accrued income|1,230|2,991|
||||9,960|3,593|
|16|Creditors:||||
||amounts<br>falling due within one year||||
||||2022|2021|
||||f|6|
||Trade creditors||3,951|7,730|
||Other taxes and social security||1,321|1,906|
||Other creditors||631||
||Accruals||3,689|8,165|
||Deferred income||8,400|160|
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|Childrens'<br>Foundation<br>Limited<br>s tothe Accounts<br> Movement<br>in funds||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Incoming||||
|||resources|||At31|
||||Resources|Gross||
||At 1April|(including<br>other|expended|transfers|March<br>2022|
||2021|gains/losses)||||
|||6||||
|Restricted funds:||||||
|Restricted income funds:||||||
|Therapeutic<br>Horticulture|41,099|13,861|(8,831)||46,129|
|Fuzzy Subjects|22,119|1,096|(8,613)||14,602|
|Green Mentor|14,215|18,370|(12,380)||20,205|
|Clown Doctors|13,247|14,273|(9,149)||18,371|
|Read Ik Recovery|12,982||(12,982)|||
|Surfing|11,097|(6,610)|(1,154)||3,333|
|Couch to 2K|9,633||(2,430)||7,203|
|Clown Doctors Hospice|2,250||(1,337)||913|
|Great North Hospital|435||||435|
|Holiday Activities|105|11,847|(11,952)|||
|Food gtFun Packs|1,322||(1,322)|||
|MaM Campaign||45,875|(4,705)||41,170|
|Roots to Health||5,000|(1,084)||3,916|
|Community<br>Allotment|5,767||(2,934)||2,833|
|Total|134,271|103,712|(78,873)||159,110|
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||||||
|General funds|74,547|95,688|(98,674)|3,000|74,561|
|Designated<br>funds:||||||
|Fixed Assets|236,619||(5,200)||231,419|
|Reading Recovery|3,000|||(3,000)||
|Total|239,619||(5,200)|(3,000)|231,419|
|Total funds|448,437|199,400|(182,747)||465,090|





|s tothe Accounts|s tothe Accounts|||||
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|Read & Recovery||Offering a reading space, resources and teaching support to||children to||
|||help them increase literacy skills and confidence,<br>particularly||regarding||
|||learning<br>disruption<br>caused by Covid 19||||
|Surfing||Aiming to improve young people's health, fitness and|wellbeing||through|
|||exercise.||||
|Couch to 2K||Aiming to improve young people's health, fitness and|wellbeing||through|
|||exercise.||||
|Clown Doctors Hospice||Providing<br>a pilot programme<br>ofClown Doctor visits to|children<br>attending|||
|||for hospice respite care||||
|Holiday Activities||Designed to combat holiday hunger,<br>social isolation and inactivity,||||
|||initially<br>in response to the pandemic||||
|Food 8 Fun|Packs|Providing<br>vulnerable<br>families with weekend food provision,||slow||
|||cookers and activity packs for children that encourage|family time|||
|||through<br>reading,<br>play and crafts.||||
|MaM Campaign||Providing<br>Baby Boxesto fist time vulnerable<br>mothers,|supporting|||
|||healthy<br>baby development<br>and maternal<br>well-being<br>through||the|simple|
|||every day.||||
|Roots to Health||Youth Work led gardening<br>project supporting<br>young people||aged 13+to||
|||achieve a Level 1Award<br>in Practical Horticulture.<br>Improving||well-being||
|||via the outdoors.||||
|Community|Allotment|A weekly (March - October), open access, Youth Work|led community|||
|||garden for young people. Supporting<br>socialinteraction,|general|||
|||well-being<br>and group based horticultural<br>activities.||||



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|Annual<br>co|mmitments<br>under non-cancellable<br>|operating<br>leases are|as follows:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||2022|2022|2021|2021|
|||Land and||Land and||
||||Other||Other|
|||buildings||buildings||
|||E||E||
|Operating|leases with expiry date:|||||
|Pension commitments||||||
||||2022||2021|
||||||E|
|The pension cost charge tothe company||||||
|amounted|to:||4,762|||



||The pension cost charge <br>amounted<br>to:|
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|21|Related party disclosures|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||d funds|funds|Total funds|Total funds|
|||||||2022|2022|2022|2021|
|||||||E|E|E|E|
|Income and||endowments||from:||||||
|Donations|and legacies|||||||||
|Donations||- Individual||||26,512|6,608|33,120|25,021|
|Donations||- Corporate||||15,696|2,000|17,696|18,277|
|Grants||||||41,002|78,942|119,944|124,265|
|||||||1,200||1,200|2,189|
|||||||84,410|87,550|171,960|169,752|
|Other trading activities||||||||||
|Events||||||9,847|1,145|10,992|115|
|||||||9,847|1,145|10,992|115|
|Investments||||||||||
|Interest Received||||||(40)||(40)|500|
|||||||(40)||(40)|500|
|Other||||||||||
|Other Income||||||1,471|15,017|16,488|7,323|
|||||||1,471|15,017|16,488|7,323|
|Total income and endowments||||||95,688|103,712|199,400|177,690|
|Expenditure||on:||||||||
|Costs ofgenerating|||donations||and|||||
|legacies||||||||||
|Donations||- Individual||||7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
|||||||7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
|Total ofexpenditure<br>funds|||on|raising||7,986|536|8,522|1,373|
|Charitable|activities|||||||||
|Charitable||Activities||||312|46,289|46,601|43,713|
|||||||312|46,289|46,601|43,713|
|Governance||costs||||||||
|Accountants<br>Fee|||||||||31|
||||||||||31|
|Total ofexpenditure<br>activities|||on|charitable||312|46,289|46,601|43,744|
|Other expenditure||||||||||
|In Kind Gifts||||||1,200||1,200|2,190|
|||||||1,200||1,200|2,190|
|Employee|costs|||||||||
|Salaries/wages||||||72,835|30,104|102,939|91,155|
|Employer's||NIC||||3,048|233|3,281|2,702|





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|Pension costs||4,567|195|4,762|3,961|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Staff recruitment|||50|50||
|Staff training||270|389|659|132|
|Staffwelfare||216||216|198|
|||80,936|30,971|111,907|98,148|
|Motor and travel costs||||||
|Travel and subsistence||1,676|537|2,213|3,358|
|||1,676|537|2,213|3,358|
|General administrative|costs,|||||
|including<br>depreciation|and|||||
|amortisation||||||
|Depreciation<br>ofland <br>buildings|and|5,200||5,200|5,200|
|Depreciation<br>of Leasehold||||||
|Buildings||||||
|Depreciation<br>ofFixtures &||||||
|Fittings||||||
|Depreciation of||262||262|291|
|Bank charges||12||12|96|
|Equipment<br>expensed||515||515||
|General insurances||1,132||1,132|1,057|
|Postage and couriers||247|20|267|1,254|
|Software,<br>ITsupport|and related|1,009||1,009|4,314|
|costs||||||
|Stationery<br>and printing||845|18|863|436|
|Subscriptions||1,267||1,267|865|
|Sundry expenses||230|16|246|154|
|Telephone,<br>fax and broadband||741|486|1,227|300|
|||11,460|540|12,000|13,967|
|Legal and professional|costs|||||
|Solicitor's fees||93||93|186|
|Other legal and professional||211||211||
|costs||||||
|||304||304|186|
|Total ofexpenditure<br>ofother costs||95,576|32,048|127,624|117,849|
|Total expenditure||103,874|78,873|182,747|162,966|
|Net gains on investments||||||
|Net income||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|
|Net income before other<br>gains/(losses)||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|
|Other Gains||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||(8,186)|24,839|16,653|14,724|





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|The Childrens'<br>Foundation<br>Limited<br>Detailed Statement ofFinancial Activities|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||
|Total funds brought forward|314,166|134,271|448,437|433,713|
|Total funds carried forward|305,980|159,110|465,090|448,437|



