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|Charity<br>information||||
|Trustees'<br>report|||2-6|
|Independent<br>Examiner's||report||
|Statement<br>of Financial|Activities|||
|Balance Sheet||||
|Notes to the financial|statements||10-16|





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|Trustees|Trustees|President|||Prof. Nicola Spence|||||
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|||President-Elect|||Prof. David BCollinge*|||||
|||Vice President|||Prof. Rob Jackson*|||||
|||Co-opted|Vice President.||Prof. Gail Margaret|Preston<br>(Appointed|||12.01.2020)|
|||Treasurer|||Prof. Mahmut Tor"|||||
|||Programme||Secretary|Dr. Eric Boa|||||
|||Membership||Secretary|Dr. Megan Richardson*(Appointed||01.01.2021)|||
|||Social Media|||Dr. Stephen<br>Parnell|(Appointed|01.01.2021)|||
|||Social Media|||Prof. Pietro Spanu (Resigned 31.12.2020)|||||
|||Publicity|Officer||Dr. Phil Taylor (Resigned 31.12.2020)|||||
|||Project Manager|||Dr. Nik Cunniffe|||||
||||||Dr. Vardis Ntoukakis|||||
|Secretary|||||Dr Trisna Dewi Tungadi*|||||
||||||* = Key management|personnel||||
|Editors|||||Dr G Clover (editor of New Disease <br>Prof Ralph Dean (editor ofMolecular|||Reports) —in attendance<br>Plant Pathology) —in||
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||||||Prof M Dickinson<br>(editor of Plant||Pathology) —in attendance|||
|Others|invited||||Dr Jennifer Hodgetts,|Newsletter|editor|||
|to attend|||||Dr William<br>Kay, Webmanager|||||
|Board<br>meetings|||||Dr Rosalind<br>Noble, Publicity and Policy Officer<br>Dr Jennifer<br>Brierley, Society Administrator|||||
|Address|and Registered<br>Office||||1 Naoroji Street,|||||
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|Independent||Examiner|||Miriam Hickson CTA|FCA||||
||||||Chartered<br>Accountants|||||
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||||||Surrey SM1 2SW|||||
|Investment||advisers|||Tilney Bestlnvest|||||
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||||||Hargreaves<br>Lansdown|||||
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|||||Note|Total Funds|Total Funds|
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|Income from:|||||||
|Donations:|||||||
|Donations<br>& Legacies|||||18,879||
|Investments:|||||||
|Interest receivable|||||40|53|
|Investment<br>income|||||38,277|53,225|
|Charitable<br>activities:|||||||
|Journal<br>and Membership||subscriptions|||311,282|295,121|
|Conference<br>income||||||14,165|
|Royalties|||||1 950|9818|
|Total income|||||370 428|372 382|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||258 998|333308|
|Total expenditure|||||258 998|333308|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on|investments||||(120,733)|116,308|
|Net income/(expenditure)||and|||||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||||(9,303)|155,382|
|Fund balances<br>brought|forward||at||||
|1 January 2020|||||1 717366|1 561 984|
|Fund balances<br>carried|forward||at||||
|31 December 2020|||||17~064|~11~755|





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|Balance Sheet|||||
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|As at 31Oecember|2020||||
|||Note|2020|2019|
|Fixed Assets|||||
|Tangible assets||||2|
|Intangible<br>assets|||12,209|15,782|
|Investments|||1 274 126|1 366024|
||||1 286 335|1 381 808|
|Current assets|||||
|Debtors|||242|33,213|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||445,494|253,976|
|Brokers deposit|||16209|55304|
||||461,945|342,493|
|Current<br>liabilities|||||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due||||
|within one year|||40217|6935|
|Net current assets|||421 728|335558|
|Net assets|||~17080 3|17 736|
|Funds|||||
|General|||~17 )~8L3|1 717366|






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|Raising funds:||||||||
|Investment<br>management||||fees||4,782|4,961|
|investment<br>management||||advice||4559|5 224|
|||||||9341|10185|
|Direct charitable||expenditure:||||||
|Newsletter<br>and|publicity||||58,784||95,165|
|Conference expenses||||||1,164|15,253|
|Grants (Note 3):||||||||
|Student bursaries|||(36|grants, 2019:20)|123,097||67,200|
|Travel awards||(6grants, 2019:41)||||4,761|29,455|
|Conference|Fund|||||7,410|23,614|
|Honorarium|||||11,500||13,013|
|Outreach||||||7,252|11,350|
|Fellowships||||||4 770|28 244|
||||||218,738||283,294|
|Support costs:||||||||
|Administration|||||16,469||10,106|
|Insurance||||||783|733|
|Depreciation||||||2|1|
|Amortisation||||||3,573|2,084|
|Governance<br>costs||||||||
|Board meeting||costs||||1,097|10,379|
|Legal Fees||||||6,000|13,150|
|Independent|examiner's|||fees||2 995|3376|
|Charitable<br>expenditure|||||249 657||323 123|
|Total expenditure|||||~25|998|~3308|





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|3 GRANTS MADE<br>Student bursaries<br>During the year 36 student<br>bursaries<br>were paid to|the following<br>people/institutions:||
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|Institution|No of|Total cost|
||bursaries|E|
|John Innes Centre|2|6,500|
|Harper Adams<br>University|6|22,840|
|Agri-Food|1|3,170|
|Edge<br>Hill University|1|4,000|
|Rothamsted<br>Research|3|7,440|
|Queens<br>University|1|3,500|
|Univeristy<br>ofCopenhagen|1|3,700|
|University<br>College<br>Dublin|1|2,840|
|University<br>of Birmingham|1|3,000|
|University<br>of Cambridge|2|6,840|
|University<br>of Exeter|2|6,640|
|University<br>of Plymouth|1|3,800|
|University<br>of Hertfordshire|3|8,160|
|University<br>ofWorcester|1|3,800|
|Society of Biology|1|9,000|
|University<br>of Bristol|1|2,605|
|NIAB EMR|2|7,600|
|University<br>ofSussex|1|1,520|
|University<br>of Dundee|2|8,360|
|University<br>ofWarwick|1|2,180|
|Egerton<br>University|1|4,002|
|Central<br>Luzon State University|1|1 600|
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|4<br>FIXEDASSETS||
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||Computer|
|Tangible fixed assets|Equipment|
|Cost||
|At 1 January 2020|10,065|
|Disposals|(10065)|
|At 31 December 2020||
|Depreciation||
|At 1 January 2020|10,063|
|Charge for year|2|
|Released|(10065)|
|At 31 December 2020||
|Net book value||
|At 31 December 2020||
|At 31 December 2019||
|Intangible<br>fixed assets|Website|
|Cost||
|At 1 January 2020|17,867|
|Additions||
|At 31 December 2020|17867|
|Amortisatlon||
|At 1 January 2020|2,085|
|Amortisation|3573|
|As at 31 December 2020|5658|
|Carrying<br>value||
|At 31 December 2020|122(E|
|At 31 December 2019|~157 2|





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|5|INVESTMENTS|||
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|At|1st January 2020, at fair|value|1,366,024|
|Movements<br>in the year:||||
||Purchases||109,834|
||Sales<br>- proceeds||(80,999)|
||—(losses)/gains||(8,971)|
||Unrealised<br>(losses)/gains|in value|(111762)|
|At|31 December 2020, at market value||1 274 126|
|At|31 December 2020, at cost||~11I~45|



|6 DEBTORS|6 DEBTORS|2020|2019|
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|Accrued|Income|91|196|
|Debtors||151|14,165|
|Prepayments|||18852|
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|7<br>CASH|AT BANK AND IN HAND|2020|2019|
|Barclays:||||
|General<br>fund current account||4~45 4 4|~23 976|
|8<br>CREDITORS||2020|2019|
|Deferred|Income|4,015|4,026|
|Accruals||36292|2 909|
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