THE APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Report and Accounts For the Year to 31st December 2024 HERITAGE CENTRE LOOMER ROAD CHESTERTON NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME STAFFORDSHIRE ST5 7RR COMPANY NUMBER 03384360 Registered Charity Number 1073104 APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Report and Accounts For the Year to 31st December 2024 Trustees Report The Trustees present their Report for the Year to 31st December 2024 Principal Activities The Heritage Centre's principal activity during the year continued to be the operation of a mining and heritage Cent￿ for charitable purposes. Political and Charitsble Donations During the year, the Heritage Centre made no political donations. Trustees Responslbilities Company law requires the Trustees to prepare Accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss for that period. In preparing those Accounts. the Trustees are required to; Select suitable Accounting Policies and then apply them consistently, Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudenl, and Prepare the Accounts on the going concern basis. unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. The Trusteas are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the Accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006 and SORP: Accounting and Reporting by Charities. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of th8 company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prèvention and detection of fraud and other irreqularities. Auditor A resolution to re-appoint R Wade FCA as Auditor will be put to the members at the Annual General Meeting. Small Company Special Provisions The Report of the Trustees has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companias and SORP.'Accounting and Reporting by Charities. This Report was approvgd by the Board of Trustee8 on 28th September 2025 L J Mason Trustee D Rushton Trustee 119- T Welsh Trustee I Wibberley Trustee l Atterbury Trustee _ud6 Page 1 ## **APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Report and Accounts For the Year to 31st December 2024** ## **Auditor’s Report** ## **Report of the Auditor to the Trustees of The Apedale Heritage Centre** I have audited the Accounts on pages 3 to 5 which have been prepared in accordance with both the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and SORP:Accounting and Reporting by Charities. ## **Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Auditor** As described on Page 1, the Heritage Centre's Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the Accounts. It is my responsibility to form an independent opinion, based on my audit, on those Accounts and to report my opinion to you. ## **Basis of Opinion** I conducted the audit in accordance with Auditing Standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board. An audit includes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the Accounts. It also includes an assessment of the significant estimates and judgements made by the Directors in the preparation of the Accounts and of whether the Accounting Policies are appropriate to the Heritage Centre's circumstances, consistently applied and adequately disclosed. I planned and performed my audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which I considered necessary in order to provide me with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the Accounts are free from material mis-statement, whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error. In forming my opinion I also evaluated the overall adequacy of the presentation of information in the Accounts. ## **Opinion** In my opinion the Accounts give a true and fair view of the state of the Heritage Centre's affairs as at 31st December 2024 and of its trading profit for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 applicable to small companies and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities. ## Russell Wade FCA 88, Mornington Road Sneyd Green Stoke-on-Trent ST1 6EL 28th September 2025 Page 2 APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Trading Account For the Year to 31st December 2024 2024 2023 Sales Café Mine Shop Others £107.185 £12,005 £1,504 £2,479 £123,173 £96.150 £12,851 £1,727 £2,026 £112,754 Co8t of Salo$ Café Shop £40,340 £833 £41,173 £36,939 £1,175 £38 114 Gr088 Profit £82,000 £74,640 Exp8n8es Electriaty Repalrs. Consumables and Equlpment Rates and Insurance Telephone Printing, Stationery and Advertising Bank Charges Sundry Expenses Total Expenses £16.497 £19,409 £6,006 £750 £666 £1,535 £318 £45,181 £14,180 £21,477 £5.630 £555 £445 £1,453 £738 £44,476 Other Income Membership Fees Rent Received Donations Received Total Other Income £632 £3,550 £11,963 £16,145 £700 £3,300 £7,772 £11,772 lus on Trddln Actlvl I sforth ear £52,964 £41.936 Page 3 APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Balance Sheet As at 31st December 2024 Notes 2024 2023 Fixed Assets £59,805 £38,453 Bug8WOrth Navigation Ltd . Investment Loan £10,000 £3,350 £10,000 £3,500 Current As8ets Stock Debtors and Prepayments Cash In Hand Cash At Bank £1,400 £30,764 £100 £138,599 £1,150 £32.726 £100 £108,828 £170,863 £142.804 Crodltorn: Amounts falllng due within one year £10.860) Net Current A8set8 £160,003 £131,361 Totsl Assets les8 Currnnt Llabllitla8 £233,158 £183 314 Creditors: Amounts falllng due aftor more than onè year £0 £0 Net Assets £233,158 £183,314 Capltal and Reserves Profit and Los8 Account £233,158 £183,314 Trustees Funds £233.158 £183,314 These Accounts have been prepared in accordance with the of thè Companies Act 20CI8 applicable lo small companies and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice.. Accounting and Reporting by Charities. Approved by the Board of Trustso8 on 28th Sèptember 2025 L J Mason D Rushton Trustee lee T Welsh Trustee I Wibberley Trustee l Atterbury Trustee Page 4 APEDALE HERITAGE CENTRE Notes to the Accounts For the Year to 31st December 2024 1. Accountlng Polleias Accountlno Conventlon The Account5 have been prepared under the hlstorical cost convention. Flxed Assot Valuatlon Fixed Assets have b¢en valued al the l(IweT of cost or n81 reallsable valLto. On 30th June 2001 thè Fixed Assets were revalued based upon the directors. Is$88smont of their nel realisablg value. D¥pr8ciation Depredation has been provlded al the follovjtng rates in order lo write off the Assets over Ihelr estlrnateil useful lives :_ Land and Buildings Pl8nl ana Machinery 10% stralght lin8 25% stralght Ilne 2. Flx8d Asséts Land and Bulldlng• Plant and M•ehln•ry Cost Al 31sl Decemb&r 2023 Addllion5 dunno the Year Disposals duiing the Year At 3181 December 2024 Total £547.829 £31,512 1£8,5001 £121,780 £960 £0 £869,589 £32,472 (£8,500) Deproclation Al 3181 D8c&mber 2023 Charge for th8 Yg8r Dep￿lation on Disposals durlng the Yoar At 3181 December 2024 £509,376 £9,130 1£6,7501 £121,780 £240 £0 £631.136 £9,370 1£6,7501 N•t Book Value At 3181 Docember 2024 89 3. Debtor8 2024 2023 TrAde Debtors Slalion Rènt Electricity Reth8rged Prepayments £235 £22,289 £1,398 £6,842 £3,845 £20.289 £1.086 £7,708 4. Crndltor8". Amounts falllng duo wlthln one year VAT Tlade Cffjd¢topts Paymet)t8 Received In Advance 2023 £199 £10.248 £413 £1,471 £8,262 £7,710 11 £1 5. Creditors: Amount8 falllng duo after more than on8 y•ar L08n$ from Truste08 2024 2023 £0 6. Proflt and Los8 Account 2024 2023 Surplus on Tradlng Activili¢s £52.964 £41,938 Add.. Profit on Disptssal of Fbxed Assets Less.. Payment to Coal ALrthority Mine Securfly Fund Depreiyallon £11,250 £0 £5,000 £9,370 £5.000 £10,058 Balance at 31 December 2023 £183.314 £156,436 Balance al 31 Cwember 2024 183 314 Page S