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2025-03-31-accounts

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity (A Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee) Annual Report and Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Company Number: 03893356 Charity Registered in England and Wales Number: 1078685

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Contents For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

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Reference and Administrative Details 1 – 2
Trustee Directors’ Report 3 – 19
Independent Auditors’ Report 20 – 23
Statement of Financial Activities 24
Balance Sheet 25 – 26
Statement of Cash Flows 27
Notes to Financial Statements 28 – 45

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Reference and Administrative Details For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Trustee Directors M Bradfield
S Day
W Entwisle
W Green
S Heyes
S Jones
T Killen (Chair)
M Lyne (Vice chair)
R Marlow
H Morecroft
A Sheridan (Treasurer)
Secretary S Davies
Chief Executive Officer C Hackett
Deputy Chief Executive J Plowden
Finance Manager S Davies
Lottery Manager C Guy
Income Generation Director M Dukes
Charity Number 1078685
Company Number 03893356
Principal Address and Registered Office Landacre House
Castle Road
Chelston Business Park
Wellington
Somerset
TA21 9JQ
Auditors Albert Goodman LLP
Goodwood House
Blackbrook Park Avenue
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2PX
Bankers National Westminster Bank Plc
South West RCSC
740 Waterside Drive, Aztec West
Almondsbury, BS99 5BD
Barclays Bank UK
Leicester
Leicestershire, LE87 2BB

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Reference and Administrative Details For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Close Brothers Treasury 4[th] Floor, 10 Crown Place London, EA2A 4FT United Trust Bank Limited One RopeMaker Street London, EC2Y 9AW United National Bank Limited 2 Brook Street London W1S 1BO Investment Advisors Brewin Dolphin Vantage Point Woodwater Park Pynes Hill Exeter, Devon, EX2 5FD Rathbones Investment Management The Senate, Southernhay Gardens Exeter, Devon, EX1 1UG Evelyn Partners Portwall Place Portwall Lane Bristol, BS1 6NA

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Trustee Directors’ Report For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

The Trustees, who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act, present their annual report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025. The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, the charity’s governing document and the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP FRS 102- implemented 1 January 2019).

The full name of the charity is The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity . It was incorporated 13 December 1999 as a company limited by guarantee. Its company registration number is 03893356. Its charity registration number is 1078685. The registered office is Landacre House, Castle Road, Chelston Business Park, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9JQ.

References and Administrative Details

Administrative information is given in a separate section at the front of these accounts.

Directors and Trustees

The directors of the Company are the charity’s trustees for the purpose of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the Trustees.

The Trustees serving during the year and since the year-end are as follows:

None of the Trustees have any beneficial interest in the Company. All of the Trustees are members of the Company and guarantee to contribute £1 in the event of a winding up.

Structure Governance and Management

Governing Document

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity (DSAA) is constituted as a company limited by guarantee and is therefore governed by a memorandum and articles of association. It has a dormant subsidiary company, Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance (Trading) Limited (Company registration number 03861464).

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The Board

DSAA is led by a Board of Trustees embracing a balanced spectrum of skills and experience including healthcare, aviation, legal, business, finance and HR. The Charity follows a protocol for the recruitment of new Trustees which facilitates both personal referrals and professional recruitment. The protocol enables both Trustees and candidates to make proper assessments before appointment. Trustees are appointed in accordance with the DSAA constitution, in line with a defined procedure and fulfil their responsibilities in accordance with clearly defined and approved Terms of Reference. The Board comprises a Chair and up to eleven other trustees. It has sub committees of trustees with relevant expertise and experience which are responsible for the oversight, risk management and performance management in: Employment and Remuneration, Finance, Aviation, Income Generation and Clinical. The board intends to maintain a balance in county representation.

Trustees serve a term of three years but are eligible for re-appointment twice so that a trustee may serve a total of nine years. The board can, but rarely has, make an exception in the interests of the Charity.

The Board maintains close liaison with the South Western Ambulance Services NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT or SWAST) on all aspects of medical provision and clinical governance, and with Gama Aviation (Gama) on all aviation matters. These two bodies are directly involved in the operational governance of charitable activities and, through the executive and committees, provide the Board with professional advice on operational matters.

Employees and Volunteers

The Charity is managed by full and part-time staff of 25 (totalling 21.47 FTE) and over 100 volunteers. Operations are delivered by a further 52 DSAA Critical Care Team and Patient & Family Liaison Nurses, employed by the SWAST and NHS Hospital Trusts, and DSAA pilots employed by Gama Aviation (Gama). Seven of the Critical Care Team are paid for by SWASFT, all the rest of the team members are paid for by DSAA irrespective of employer. In total 77 paid individuals on full or part time basis are responsible for the organisation’s outputs. The day-to-day management of the charity and its finances is delegated to the key management personnel, who the Trustees consider to be the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Director of Income Generation, the Finance Manager, the Operations Manager, Medical Director and the Lottery Manager.

Remuneration of Key Personnel

The Employment Remuneration Committee, consisting of the Chair and two Trustees, is responsible to the Board for an annual review of the staffing levels, contracted terms of engagement and remuneration levels of all salaried staff of DSAA. Salary levels for all staff are considered in line with regional and sector norms set against the levels of responsibility expected within a role. The Committee also reviews benefits that affect volunteers, such as mileage allowance. The Committee considers the annual pay review in line with the draft annual budget for the Charity and makes recommendations to the Board.

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Working with Volunteers

The Charity is extremely well supported by over 100 volunteers. They perform a wide range of invaluable duties on behalf of the Charity including giving talks, supporting events, servicing collection boxes and running information/merchandise stalls.

Our volunteers have a thorough induction to the charity with one of the Supporter Engagement Officers. The volunteers have access to the Volunteer Handbook which has all the relevant and essential information that they need when volunteering with the charity. The Supporter Engagement Officers are their main point of contact and provide ongoing support, training and regular catch-up meetings.

We believe that our volunteers represent much more than just a “labour source”. They are our eyes, ears and voices in the communities we serve. Their interaction with others in their communities helps to raise awareness and boost support for the Charity across Dorset and Somerset. They also provide us with an excellent feedback mechanism, helping us to shape our approach to volunteering, fundraising and general operations. Without our volunteers, the Charity would not be able to raise the funds required to provide the air ambulance service nor engage as effectively with the community we serve.

Strategy

Charitable Purpose

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is a registered charity, established to provide relief from sickness and injury for the people of Dorset and Somerset, by the provision of an air ambulance, with an air and roaddelivered critical care capability.

Our Mission

To save and enhance lives through the funding and provision of an air ambulance service, with an air and road-delivered critical care capability.

Our Vision

Innovation and collaboration are maximised to continually improve patient outcomes and all who need it receive excellent clinical care.

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Our Service

Our cohort of clinicians include a mixture of senior emergency physicians, intensive care consultants and anaesthetists, critical care nurses and specialist practitioners in critical care. ‘Critical Care’ is the treatment of people who are in a critically ill or unstable condition. These patients might be unable to breathe without support. Critical care is provided in hospital by Intensive Care Units (ICUs) but pre-hospitally by a ‘Critical Care Team’.

When responding to incidents by air, we provide a ‘Critical Care Team’, consisting of at least a doctor, a specialist practitioner and two pilots for each mission. The doctors are predominately drawn from NHS Hospital Trusts across the region and the practitioners are from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT or SWAST). Some clinicians have joined us from further afield, broadening the skills and experience of the team.

Our patient and family liaison nurses provide recovery support to patients who have been treated by our team, and to family members of patients, and can answer questions they might have about their pre-hospital care. They also provide links with patient support services and other charities aligned with the patient’s condition, whilst encouraging peer support links with other similarly injured patients.

Our pilots are employed on our behalf by Gama Aviation who operate our aircraft. The pilots come from varying backgrounds, but the aircraft commanders are highly experienced and carefully selected because air ambulance flights are more challenging than regular non-emergency flight services.

We operate 19 hours a day (0700 - 0200hrs) providing a critical care service, using our AgustaWestland 169 (AW169) helicopter and critical care car. We also provide an enhanced care service across Dorset and Somerset using our outreach cars.

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Our Model of Patient-Focused Care

The DSAA Model of Patient-Focused Care (above) shows how, within the overall context of the clinical governance of SWASFT, DSAA provides clinical governance aspects in the ‘blue’ layer and these inform much of the work conducted in the ‘green layer’. Importantly, patients and families remain at the centre of all thinking and the Charity’s values wrap around everything we do.

Assessment of success of the clinical strategy is complex and requires careful examination of both empirical data and patient outcomes. There are currently no national criteria of pre-hospital clinical performance against which DSAA can be measured. However, our clinicians are working with the other air ambulances both regionally and nationally to resolve this issue. In the meantime, the level of demand for our clinical service from other health professionals (Ambulance Service Paramedics and NHS Hospital Trust Consultants, et al) is at least an indicator of success since it points to professional trust of the standard of DSAA clinical delivery.

In order to continually improve patient care, DSAA conducts a detailed and comprehensive programme of analysis, audit and research on its clinical practices and outcomes using the PHEMnet clinical database system. PHEMnet is used as NHS systems of reporting alone are not yet able to provide the clear patient outcome data that reflects the care given in the pre-hospital environment. DSAA’s team of Patient and Family Liaison Nurses support patients’ progress after their treatment by DSAA and feedback into the Charity to enable learning and continuous improvement of care.

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The Charity acts as an advocate for patient care in the pre-hospital environment by facilitating greater cooperative working with all agencies involved in patient care across the South West. This includes providing support to road safety, accident prevention and health promotion initiatives in an effort to reduce the number of avoidable calls on the Critical Care Team. DSAA actively includes injury and illness prevention messages into the core of Charity activity and communications, and DSAA has an ongoing collaboration with DocBike, a charity who work to eradicate motorcycle deaths through engagement, injury prevention, education and roadside critical care.

Partnership make the DSAA service possible

DSAA owns its aircraft, G-DSAA or “Peggy” as it is known but works with Gama Aviation (Gama) to maintain, test, pilot, fly and govern that aircraft. Gama provides a full aviation service managed through a contract which encompasses operation and maintenance of DSAA’s helicopter and provision of backup aircraft, pilots and engineers to support day to day operations as well as full maintenance and logistic support.

DSAA has a full complement of six pilots and four first officers, and an engineer focused primarily on DSAA’s day to day aviation engineering task, employed by Gama, working closely with clinicians and charity staff. The service Gama provides to DSAA includes Continuous Airworthiness Management Organisation (CAMO), Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO), and Air Operator Certificate (AOC).

The South West Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT or SWAST) is responsible for tasking the helicopter and supporting the provision of medical team. Support to the Charity has been managed through contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These cover the provision of 18 Paramedics and Nurses and associated equipment, support and maintenance. This forms part of the core capability of the Charity’s clinical provision. SWASFT pay for 7 of the paramedics, but all the other costs are funded by the Charity.

A further contract with SWASFT covers the provision of specialist Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) tasking desk to ensure that air ambulances are sent to the most appropriate incidents. The HEMS tasking provision is funded equally by the five air ambulance charities operating in the SWASFT area. The Charity’s clinical activities include significant governance supervision, events and training. However, overall clinical governance of the Charity’s operations is provided by SWASFT, and consultants working as part of the critical care team are also included through honorary contracts with SWASFT.

Public Benefit

DSAA is free at the point of need and responds only to incidents having been tasked by the HEMS specialist tasking team in the SWASFT Dispatch Centre. This ensures that it attends incidents across Dorset and Somerset and, at times beyond its borders, according to where it can deliver best effect. The Charity delivers its service to patients, regardless of age, according to clinical priority and without discrimination.

The continued development of its clinical provision requires the Charity to consider other players in the emergency support to patients. The crews now run regular cross-training exercises with members of the Maritime Coastguard Agency Search and Rescue teams, the Police and Fire Services, road-based elements of SWASFT and Emergency Departments of our local NHS Hospital Trusts.

In doing so it has demonstrated its patient-focus and benefit to every segment of the population resident in and transiting through both counties and around their borders.

No private benefit use of the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance helicopter is given to anyone at any time. The Trustees run the charity with due regard to the public benefit guidance issued by The Charity Commission and the Charity Act 2011.

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Environmental Impact

Our service is dependent on getting our critical care team (a consultant grade doctor and specialist practitioner), with all the necessary equipment that you would normally find in an intensive care unit, to patients as quickly as possible. Having treated the patient at scene, they then need to be transferred rapidly to the right hospital so they can receive the urgent ongoing care they need - this is often a major trauma centre outside of the two counties we serve. The geography and road network of Dorset and Somerset means that rapid deployment of our critical care team to patients must be by air and requires a helicopter.

We are also committed to engaging daily with our emergency service colleagues through our outreach programme and supporting them by providing an enhanced care service using two outreach cars across the region (one in Dorset and one in Somerset). Our outreach and enhanced care service needs to move rapidly around a smaller geographic area and be able to reach almost anyway without pre-planned routes or stops, therefore the cars require to be equipped for blue-light response.

While we would never compromise our life-saving service, we recognise the responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint and environmental impact where we can.

Emergency Vehicles

Our life-saving service requires a helicopter, for which renewable fuel is not currently viable. Similarly, fully electric emergency response cars are not yet viable in our geographic area given the need for continuous availability and driving. We hope that renewable fuel and/or electric vehicles will become viable for emergency response use in future. In the meantime, we will explore the best way to carbon offset this necessary fuel use.

Travel to work

Electricity for charging of personal electric vehicles is available at our operational base. As we plan the base redevelopment, the provision of electric vehicle charging will be increased. The charity uses digital and online meeting tools and encourages their use, enabling our people to join meetings and work collaboratively without the need for travel.

Recycling

Our offices at Wellington and Wimborne and our operational base at Henstridge have recycling areas for office and personal waste - we encourage our people to recycle where possible. Furthermore, the charity works with a textile recycling partner to provide recycling banks across Dorset and Somerset, enabling and encouraging the public to recycle textiles and clothes while supporting the charity.

Merchandise

We have reviewed all our fundraising merchandise and discontinued the sale of plastic and non-renewable items.

Reduce paper and packaging

The charity has moved to storing documents electronically wherever possible and to reducing printing and photocopying. All paper packaging used to mail our Beeline magazine is FSC and PEFC approved, meaning it is only sourced from sustainable paper supplies. It is easily recyclable with ordinary household recycling and requires less CO2 and chemical process to produce than most alternative packaging.

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A new base to support our mission, people and the environment

We need and intend to redevelop our operational base in order to accommodate an expansion of our service and meet the needs of patients across in the region. In designing and building the new base, we will ensure that it:

Achievements and Performance

The core of DSAA’s service is pre-hospital critical care and enhanced care. This is care that the NHS cannot currently provide itself, and it relies on having a helicopter to get our critical care team to the patient and then the patient directly to the right hospital to provide the right urgent care that they need. DSAA’s mission and vision mean that the Charity strives to reach all patients that need the critical care or enhanced care that we provide pre-hospital and would otherwise not be available.

In the last year, DSAA has again increased the number of patients it reaches with needed critical and enhanced care. In the twelve months to March 2025, DSAA was tasked to 3,005 incidents, an increase of 1.3%. 1,431 of these missions were activations of the critical care team by helicopter or, occasionally, by car, in comparison to 1,429 in the twelve months to March 2024.

Activity of the outreach cars increased, from 1,534 missions in the twelve months to March 2024 to 1,574 in the year to March 2025. This enables DSAA to provide enhanced care (treatment which is beyond what the ambulance service could otherwise provide) to patients, ensure good close working relationship with colleagues in the ambulance service and other emergency services, and support the helicopter transported critical care team.

The type of incident that DSAA was tasked to was broadly similar to previous years. In the twelve months to March 2025, DSAA missions were 38% medical, 28% trauma, 18% cardiac arrest, 15% Road Traffic Collision (RTC) and 1% urgent inter-hospital transfer; this compares to 31% medical, 28% trauma, 21% cardiac arrest, 19% RTC and 1% transfer in the previous period. ‘Medical’ incidents are half cardiac arrest and then a range of collapses, fits, poisoning and other.

In the last year, we arrived at 1,749 incidents, attending 1,721 patients and ultimately providing critical or enhanced care to 1,615 patients by our specialist Doctors and / or Practitioners. Of the patients that DSAA treated in the twelve months to March 2025, 240 were children (under 18 years old), with 204 of those being under 16. DSAA provided blood to 63 patients at scene or during transfer to hospital during that period.

Getting the critical care team or enhanced care to a patient quickly is often vital, and therefore the teams continue to keep pressure on the time from activation to take-off. At night, this is slightly longer due to the need for additional flight planning. In the recent period, the mean time to take-off during daylight was 7 minutes, consistent with the previous year and achieving our target; and at night was 10 minutes, also consistent with the previous year and achieving our target. As timeliness can be vital, the teams are sometimes tasked, and therefore activated, when probably needed but then stood down when more details are known about the incident. Stand-downs have remained relatively consistent through recent years at about a third, and DSAA is not striving to reduce this as that would risk activating late, and therefore arriving late, to patients that urgently need critical care.

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Helicopter & Critical Care Car (CCC)

Pre-hospital critical care is delivered by a DSAA ‘Critical Care Team’, consisting of at least a doctor and a specialist practitioner. Getting the critical care team to the patient rapidly, and then getting the patient to the right hospital to deliver the right care, is where the aircraft with pilot and co-pilot come in. If the aircraft is not able to be used, due to weather or maintenance, the critical care team respond by car and onward patient transfer is using a road ambulance.

The geography of Dorset and Somerset means that the aircraft is usually required. The availability of our aircraft in the last twelve months has been 95.5%, requiring the commitment and dedication of the engineering and aviation teams, often working during the night between 0200 and 0700hrs when DSAA does not have an operational shift.

Outreach Response Cars (ORC)

The role of the ORC is to raise awareness of the patient benefit that can be derived from the timely delivery of critical care to other health professionals. This deliberate engagement with the ambulance service and other emergency services directly improves on-scene collaboration, so that DSAA crews can be most effective in the provision of care. The ORCs are also tasked to patients who need an enhanced level of care that a normal road ambulance crew is unable to deliver. On scene, our practitioner will either treat the patient alone or more often work with a road ambulance crew. If he/she assesses that the patient requires critical care, they can advise SWASFT and our Critical Care Team on the helicopter.

Inter-Hospital transfer

In addition to the routine, day to day tasking of HEMS missions, DSAA also carries out inter-hospital transfers of the sickest patients from local hospitals to the regional specialist hospitals. This work includes support for adults and children.

Enhanced Care Responder Scheme

Following suggestion by critical care practitioners working for DSAA, the Charity has introduced a new Enhanced Care Responder Scheme (ECRS) on a two-year trial. Clinicians in this scheme are able, outside of their paid working hours, to voluntarily book on as available to be tasked to incidents which need enhanced care in their area. DSAA is providing the clinicians taking part in this voluntary scheme with all the equipment required to provide enhanced care and the car conversion to respond under blue lights. Clinical governance of their activity is provided by DSAA under SWAST governance, as per all DSAA clinical activity. This voluntary scheme supports the DSAA drive to reach every patient that needs critical or enhanced care. The scheme will be reviewed periodically though the two-year trial.

Operational Support Activity

Our Patient and Family Liaison Nurses (PFLNs) team was expanded in 2022, and since has continued to build relationships with patients, families and with the key elements of the care pathways. They have helped to improve understanding of patients and those closely affected by the care that is delivered. They are also providing high quality feedback to our clinicians on patient progress and professional feedback on the care delivered.

Given the challenging nature of the work of DSAA’s clinical and aviation crew, DSAA provides a psychological supervision programme for its own team. This is an ongoing, much-needed layer of support to the well-being of our crews and an excellent complement to the services available to all clinicians through their parent NHS Trusts.

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Research

The DSAA Research Team is formally led by a Professor and Lead Research Practitioner. A rounded portfolio of research activity is being developed based on an assessment of the research needs in pre-hospital emergency medicine, which was completed with partners across the country.

DSAA has been part of the SWIFT trial (Study of Whole Blood in Frontline Trauma). This study looks at whether giving ‘whole blood,’ instead of red blood cells and plasma, to patients with severe bleeding before they get to hospital, will be better at reducing the number of deaths 24 hours after injury and reduce the need for further large blood transfusions.

DSAA and the University of West of England (UWE) are co-funding a PhD study of the tasking of pre-hospital critical care assets. This work started in January 2024, to investigate how Emergency Medical Service specialist critical care resource allocation can be improved and is expected to conclude in 2026.

Income Generation

Fundraising

The Charity’s fundraising is in significant part based on voluntary fundraising, concentrating on achieving a high volume of smaller donations rather than a low volume of high value donors. To that end, we support individuals and groups who run events and activities on our behalf. Over the last couple of years, DSAA has also increased the number of events it runs itself, trialling further running, cycling and open garden events as well as the established DSAA Coast to Coast Cycle Challenge.

As the environment for fundraising changes, and as we continue to evolve the DSAA service provision to best serve our community and save lives, the Charity will review its fundraising activities for the future. However, the Charity’s commitment to maintaining high standards will absolutely remain.

Donations

Our supporters continue to fundraise for us enthusiastically, and we are incredibly grateful for all their efforts and their activities of all types and sizes. which includes £810,309 from sponsored activities, businesses and group fundraising and £1,035,132 from individual donors. Total donations have increased in the current year to £1,845,441 compared to £1,713,360 in the previous year.

Gifts-in-Wills (Legacies)

Gifts in Will income this year was £3,420,472. This has increased from £1,867,011 in the prior year. DSAA is aware of the ongoing delays and backlog in processing of probate in the UK and is taking steps to increase monitoring of gifts in wills and legacies intended for DSAA.

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Committed Giving and Charity Prize Lottery

The Charity’s prize lottery represents the single biggest component of our overall income. Over recent years, we have also introduced and are growing a ‘committed giving’ alternative way for supporters to make a regular monthly donation to DSAA. We manage the lottery and committed giving in-house but outsource the canvassing activity in support of these initiatives to a third-party canvassing provider.

Following the pandemic and in the current national employment situation, recruiting canvassers is currently extremely challenging. Vacancies in the DSAA committed giving and lottery canvasser teams has hampered DSAA maintaining the lottery and committed giving income. However, in the year to March 2025, this impact on the number of lottery players and committed giving participants has been mitigated through successful telephone-based campaigns encouraging existing participants to increase their number of weekly tickets.

The lottery’s total gross income for the year ending March 2025 was £3,928,054, a £95,128 decrease on the previous financial year. The two additional seasonal raffles banked £220,822, an increase of £4,651 on the previous year.

Collection boxes

Our collection boxes are distributed across the two counties, collected and maintained by volunteers working under the direction of DSAA staff. Opening, counting and banking of boxes is done only in DSAA offices in a secured & monitored room. We also have QR donation codes on our tins for those that do not carry cash, and we have trialled the use of contactless payment for donations at events.

Investments & Interest

DSAA invests a proportion of its reserves in order to conserve the value of those reserves against inflation and to provide income to contribute to the regular running costs of the service. The Charity received £543,255 from its long-term investments and £372,877 from bank interest in the year to March 2025.

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Income Generation Ethical Commitment, Safeguarding and Complaints handling

The Charity is committed to maintaining the highest standards of fundraising behaviour and is registered with the Fundraising Regulator. Our commitment made to donors and the public is to ensure that our fundraising is legal, open, honest and respectful. The standards of fundraising are set out in the Fundraising Code of Practice and DSAA carries out regular internal audits to ensure our fundraising activity adheres to this code. DSAA’s Safeguarding policy states that concerns or allegations of abuse or neglect will always be taken seriously and investigated and DSAA seeks to safeguard adults at risk and children by valuing, listening to and respecting them. All Trustees, employees and volunteers have access to, and are familiar with, this policy and will know their responsibilities within it and have access to Safeguarding Procedures including how to report concerns or allegations of abuse. All managers are responsible for promoting awareness of this policy within their teams. All contracts with third parties associated with DSAA fundraising are set in line with the guidelines issued by the Fundraising Regulator.

Our Lottery and Committed Giving Face-to-face Fundraisers are all checked and go through a strict induction process where they will be asked to follow the canvassers charter. This states that they should always act with integrity, honesty, and transparency and in such a manner that supporters are not misled.

Dementia friends training is also undertaken so that DSAA employees and Face-to-face Fundraisers can gain a better understanding of the condition while helping them to learn how to recognise a vulnerable adult and act appropriately. During interactions, Face-to-face Fundraisers are alert to any signs that the individual may not be able to make an informed choice and if the Face-to-face Fundraiser has any grounds for concern, then a commitment should not be taken. Any customer who joins with a Face-to-face Fundraiser will be given a confirmation receipt straight away, with a welcome letter arriving a few days later as a physical sign of what has been arranged. Any concern from a customer or a member of their family that they had not been aware of or understand what they had set up, will result in an immediate cancellation and if required the offer of a refund of any monies already taken. To ensure that we are maintaining the highest standards of fundraising we also make regular compliance calls to new lottery members to check that Face-to-face Fundraisers are all consistent in their behaviour and that the customer is happy with their Face-to-face Fundraiser experience and to able to support the charity in this way.

Any complaints that are received are treated seriously and dealt with promptly, amicably, and efficiently by the lottery or fundraising team. We ensure that complaints are treated in confidence and aim to resolve the complaint within 10 working days. Most complaints are satisfactorily and immediately resolved without the need for any further action. Any complaints regarding Face-to-face Fundraisers that do need to be escalated are passed to the supervisor and then LFS to investigate. Over the last year, despite active monitoring and proactive compliance calls we have only received five reports of negative attitude by Face-to-face Fundraisers. These have been discussed with the supervisor and subsequently with the individuals. No complaints were received regarding fundraising activities outside of lottery and committed giving canvassing.

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Future Plans

Increasing Critical Care availability

The number of patients that DSAA reaches has been increasing year-on-year since the Charity first began work. However, the patient reach that the Charity can achieve is currently limited by: the time that our aircraft is off-line for maintenance, repairs and pilot certification; weather restriction on flying, particularly low cloud; and the hours that DSAA does not have a duty shift, i.e. 0200 to 0700.

DSAA’s mission and vision entail that the Charity should try to reach all those patients that need its pre-hospital critical care. DSAA critical care availability could be increased by having at least one aircraft available throughout the current 19 hours per day duty shift. Furthermore, the Charity considers that there are patients needing critical care between the hours of 0200 and 0700 in Dorset and Somerset, who would benefit from the provision of its critical care service for 24 hours per day. DSAA is therefore currently assessing the potential to increase its aviation capacity in order to reach more patients during our current 19 shifts and then the potential to increase the hours of the day in which our critical care team is available.

In order to improve availability via aircraft during periods of low cloud, DSAA is working with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), supported by the Department for Transport, to implement a Global Navigation Satellite System approach to its base at Henstridge Airfield.

Air Base development

As the provision of care and the aviation capability of DSAA has developed, so the needs on the airbase have increased. In order to support the existing and further development of the service, the charity is assessing the more efficient way to redevelop our operational base.

Research

Continuous improvement in prehospital emergency medicine and critical care must be based on good evidence. DSAA will continue to develop the use of clinical data to advocate for improvements in patient care through audit and research, and provide a DSAA Clinical Research Lead. We will take part in clinical studies that address key questions in the provision of prehospital care, such as the SWIfT study and the ongoing PhD study into effective HEMS tasking.

Financial sustainability

Over recent years, DSAA has increased the reach and capability of its critical care and enhanced care to patients, focusing its efforts and spend onto those aspects of its mission and vision, and keeping centred on care for patients and their families. Supporters in Dorset and Somerset have been, and continue to be, generous with their support for our service. As the capability and activity level of the DSAA service has increased to fill patient need, so the costs have inevitably increased and these have been compounded by recent inflation, such that DSAA now spends annually all the charitable funds that it receives. In order to ensure that future costs and development of the clinical service are financially sustainable, DSAA is looking at increasing its fundraising activity, investing modestly to increase its engagement with corporate partners, grant funders, charitable trusts and individual donors.

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Trustee Directors’ Report For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Financial Review

Transactions and Financial position

The Statement of Financial Activities shows a net movement in funds of £1,137,283 for the year (2024 - £1,424,380) and reserves stand at £43,721,120 of which £43,717,982 is unrestricted and £3,138 is restricted. The cash and cash equivalents at the end of the financial year stood at £7,431,347 with a further £3,000,000 in cash term deposits.

Tangible Fixed assets for use by the Charity

Details of the movements of fixed assets are set out in note 10 of the Accounts.

Investment Policy

The Charity invests reserves in order to conserve the value of those reserves against inflation and to provide income to contribute to the regular running costs of the service. The Charity appoints professional investment management firms to manage the investment assets on a discretionary basis, in line with the ethical investment policy and to produce the best financial return within an acceptable level of risk. In order to mitigate the risk of investments, the Core Financing Fund investments are managed by three separate investment managers and an active cash management service.

The Charity has adopted an ethical investment policy to ensure that its investments do not conflict with its aims, and our investment managers must demonstrate the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are core to their ‘house’ investment policies and reviewed regularly.

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Reserves policy

Given the mission life-saving criticality of DSAA service, our reserves policy is to hold sufficient reserves to ensure that our work is protected from the risk of disruption and to enable future major investments required for development of our service in best interests of patients. This means that the charity holds reserves:

DSAA policy is therefore to hold 6-12 months free reserves.

The Charity’s mission and vision entail that it provides excellent clinical care, that it strives to reach all patients who need critical care and that it remains financially sustainable in order to do so. Practical limitation is put onto the Charity’s operations by the current airbase, which was built in an era of a smaller aircraft and fewer staff, and the inevitable limitations of depending on a single aircraft. In order to reach more patients who need critical care, and to continue excellence in the care delivered, the charity intends to invest reserves in:

Reserves held in fixed assets are those assets critical to the life-saving mission and functional working of the Charity and are not financial investments. As such, tangible fixed assets are excluded from consideration of the free reserves to cover disruption and service development.

During an exceptional period of legacy and prize lottery fundraising income, our Trustees made the decision to accumulate reserves for investment into specific purposes that will improve the organisation’s service delivery and future sustainability. The Charity has designate free, non-fixed asset reserves as follows:

Free reserves to mitigate short- or medium-
term risk of disruption, set at 10 months
operational cost		 £8,000,000 To be held as cash or accessible financial market
investment
New Aircraft Fund £9,500,000 To be held as cash and converted into aircraft
purchase currency prior to commitment into fixed
asset
Airbase Redevelopment Fund £9,500,000 To be held as cash or accessible financial market
investment until commitment into fixed asset
Modernisation & Transformation Fund £3,000,000 To be held as short term investments and cash

The amounts designated from reserves so far are not expected to cover the full cost of new aircraft purchase and fit-out, not full cost of base development, and the board expect that further investment will be required and funds raised.

Increases in operational costs have coincided with legacy, prize lottery, donation and investment income all falling or stagnating. This has placed the charity in an ongoing annual deficit position, requiring it to expand and diversify income streams for it to continue providing essential support to critical care patients.

With the reserves in mind, the Trustees judge the financial position of the Charity to be satisfactory

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Risk

As an air ambulance, the activities by DSAA or in its name have inherent levels of risk, which need management with care and expertise. Given the diverse nature of key activity areas of DSAA, risk management is conducted by sub-committees of the board with expertise in those different areas. These committees review key risks and mitigation activities, and escalate to the Board for overall review. Specifically:

Risks that crossover committee areas of expertise are reviewed in both committees; risks that are not specific to any committee are identified by specific members of management and trustees and reviewed at the Board alongside all escalated risks.

Much of the operational risk is managed in conjunction with Gama Aviation (Gama) and SWASFT. The DSAA Aviation Sub-Committee conducts an annual review of Gama as the provider of aviation services to DSAA and the Trustees are assured that Gama is a competent provider to deliver aviation services to DSAA. Trustees with clinical experience review the workings of DSAA clinical governance activities, which fall under the overall clinical governance within SWASFT.

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

The Trustees (who are directors of The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustee Directors’ Report (incorporating the Directors’ Report) and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

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Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the income and expenditure of the charitable company, for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and the group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the Trustees are aware:

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Auditors

The auditors, Albert Goodman LLP, are deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.

By order of the Trustees.

T Killen Chair

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity

Date:

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Independent Auditors' Report to the Trustees and Members For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustee’s use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Trustees’ Report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities [set out on page 16], the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

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The extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities including fraud

Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:

We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:

To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:

In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:

There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Independent Auditors' Report to the Trustees and Members For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members and trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body and the charitable company’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Michelle Ferris BSc (Hons) FCA DChA Goodwood House Senior Statutory Auditor Blackbrook Park Avenue for and on behalf of Taunton Albert Goodman LLP Somerset Chartered Accountants TA1 2PX Statutory Auditor

Date:

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Unrestricted
Notes
£
Income:
Donations and legacies
2
5,646,135
Trading activities
3
4,450,261
Investment income
4
916,132
Total income
11,012,528
Expenditure:
Raising funds
5
1,555,157
Charitable activities
6
8,189,284
Total expenditure
9,744,441
Net income / (expenditure)
before other recognised
gains and losses
1,268,087
Net gain / (loss) on
12
187,347
investments
Net income
before transfers
1,455,434
Transfers
17
-
Net movement
in funds for the year
1,455,434
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
42,262,548
Total funds
carried forward
43,717,982		 Restricted
£
13,964
-
-		 2025 Total
£
5,660,099
4,450,261
916,132
11,026,492
1,566,338
8,510,218
10,076,556
949,936
187,347
1,137,283
-
1,137,283
42,583,837
43,721,120		 Unrestricted
£
3,627,145
4,475,001
900,691
9,002,837
1,166,754
8,580,491
9,747,245
(744,408)
1,847,499
1,103,091
13,156
1,116,247
41,146,301
42,262,548		 Restricted
2024 Total
£
£
362,238
3,989,383
-
4,475,001
-
900,691
362,238
9,365,075
-
1,166,754
40,949
8,621,440
40,949
9,788,194
321,289
(423,119)
-
1,847,499
321,289
1,424,380
(13,156)
-
308,133
1,424,380
13,156
41,159,457
321,289
42,583,837
13,964
11,181
320,934
332,115
(318,151)
-
(318,151)
-
(318,151)
321,289
3,138

The statement of financial activities has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations. There were no gains or losses arising in the year that are not shown above.

The statement of financial activities incorporates the income and expenditure account

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity – Company Registration Number: 03893356 Balance Sheet As at 31 March 2025

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2025 2024
£ £ £ £
Notes
Fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets 10 6,937,687 7,305,115
Intangible fixed assets 11 74,370 74,370
Investments 12 24,281,062 23,683,337
31,293,119 31,062,822
Current assets
Stock 14 23,477 21,129
Debtors 15 3,904,312 1,214,091
Investments 13 3,000,000 7,700,448
Cash at bank and in hand 7,142,156 3,709,878
14,069,945 12,645,546
Liabilities:
Creditors falling due within one year 16 (1,641,944) (1,124,531)
Net current assets 12,428,001 11,521,015
Total net assets 43,721,120 42,583,837
The funds of the charity:
Unrestricted funds:
General funds 17 13,717,982 1,262,548
Designated funds 17 30,000,000 41,000,000
Total unrestricted funds 43,717,982 42,262,548
Restricted funds 17 3,138 321,289
Total charity funds 43,721,120 42,583,837
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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity – Company Registration Number: 03893356 Balance Sheet (continued) As at 31 March 2025

The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

Approved by the Board of Trustees for issue on and signed on their behalf by:

T Killen Chair

A Sheridan Treasurer

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Statement of Cash Flows For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
Net movements in funds for the year
Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items
Loss on disposal of fixed assets
Depreciation and amortisation
10
Dividends and interest from investments
4
Investment revaluations
12
Working capital adjustments
Decrease/(increase) in stocks
14
Decrease/(increase) in debtors
15
Increase/(decrease) in creditors
16
Net cash flow from operations
Cash flows from investing activities
Dividends and interest from investments
Proceeds on disposal of fixed assets
Purchase of tangible and intangible assets
10/11
Acquisition of investments
12/13
Investment disposals
12/13
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of
the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the
reporting period
Cash & Cash equivalents reconciliation:
Cash at bank
Cash held by investment manager
12
Total cash & cash equivalents at the end of the
reporting period		 2025
£
1,137,283
-
469,646
(916,132)
(187,347)
503,450
(2,348)
(2,690,221)
517,413
(1,671,706)
916,132
-
(102,218)
(4,572,999)
8,889,824
5,130,739
3,459,033
3,972,314
7,431,347
7,142,156
289,191
7,431,347		 2024
£
1,424,380
1,500
489,502
(900,691)
(1,847,499)
(832,808)
(15,644)
(431,386)
205,378
(1,074,460)
900,691
(1,500)
(209,806)
(3,336,238)
2,982,690
335,837
(738,623)
4,710,937
3,972,314
3,709,878
262,436
3,972,314

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1 Accounting Policies

1.1 Basis of accounting

The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in the United Kingdom under the Companies Act. The maximum liability of each member is limited to £1. The address of the registered office is given on page 1. The nature of the charity’s operations and its principal activities are set out in the Trustees report on pages 3-19.

The financial statements have been prepared in £ sterling on the historical cost basis and in accordance with accounting and reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Companies Act 2006.

The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy.

The accounts are prepared for the company alone. The company has a dormant subsidiary, and consolidated accounts are not presented as the charity has taken advantage of the exemption provided by S405(2) of the Companies Act 2006 on the grounds of immateriality.

1.2 Income

Income from donations is recognised on a cash basis, in the year in which the income is physically received, except when the donors specify that they must be used in future accounting periods or donors conditions have not been fulfilled, then the income is deferred.

Bequests and legacies are included when entitlement is established, it is probable that the amount will be received, and the amount receivable can be estimated with sufficient accuracy. Where conditions for recognition have not been met, the legacies are disclosed in note 2.

Income from grants is recognised in the year in which they are receivable. Grants without performance conditions are presented within donations and legacies and within charitable activities when performance criteria apply.

Trading activity income from lottery receipts is recognised when the draw for the relevant week is made. Any amounts received prior to the draw being made are deferred.

Income from trading activities, other than lottery income, is included in the period in which the company is entitled to receipt.

Income from investments constitutes dividends and bank interest and is recognised in the year to which it relates.

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1.3 Expenditure

Resources expended are recognised on the accruals basis to match the period in which the expenditure was incurred, inclusive of any VAT which cannot be recovered. These include both costs associated with both charitable activity and those which relate to governance arrangements and the general running of the charity.

1.4 Donated services

In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), the unpaid volunteer time is not recognised in the financial statements. Refer to the Trustee Directors’ Report for more information about their contribution.

1.5 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life as follows:

Short leasehold improvements 10 years straight line Freehold land and buildings 50 years straight line Medical equipment 4 – 5 years straight line Fixtures & fittings 10 years straight line Computer equipment 3 years straight line Motor vehicles 7 years straight line Aircraft 10 years straight line

Fixed assets costing less than £5,000 are not capitalised.

1.6 Intangible fixed assets and amortisation

Intangible fixed assets are stated at cost less amortisation. Amortisation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation over its expected useful life, once operational.

1.7 Investments

Fixed asset investments comprise investment portfolios maintained by investment managers. These are recognised initially at fair value which is normally the transaction price (but excludes any transaction costs.) Subsequently, investments are held at market value, with all realised and unrealised gains passing through the SOFA.

Non-current asset investments are cash deposits with a maturity date of more than one year from the balance sheet date. These are recognised at the deposit amount plus any interest, with any interest gains passing through the SOFA when falling due.

Current asset investments are cash deposits with a maturity date of less than one year from the balance sheet date. These are recognised at the deposit amount plus any interest, with any interest gains passing through the SOFA when falling due.

1.8 Stock

Stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making allowances for obsolete and slow moving stock.

1.9 Debtors

Accrued income is recognised at the settlement amount due and prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid.

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1.10 Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and in hand comprise cash on hand and call deposits with a maturity of less than three months, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

1.11 Creditors

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are recognised at their settlement amount.

1.12 Pensions

The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension costs charged in the financial statements represent the contributions payable by the charity during the year in accordance with FRS 17.

1.13 Operating lease rentals

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Rentals payable under operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities as incurred over the term of the lease. The charity has operating leases for the premises in which they operate, as well as motor, office equipment leases. The title of the leased premises and equipment remains with the lessor.

1.14 Foreign currencies

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded in the charity’s functional currency by applying the spot exchange rate ruling at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rate of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. All differences are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities and presented within charitable activities expenditure.

1.15 Taxation

As a registered charity, the company is not liable to corporation tax to the extent that income and gains are applied to charitable activities.

1.16 Financial Instruments

The charity only holds basic financial instruments as defined in FRS 102. The financial assets and liabilities of the charity and their measurements are as follows:

Financial assets – trade, other debtors and loans (programme related investment) are basic financial instruments and are debt instruments measured at amortised cost as detailed in note 19. Investment portfolios are basic financial instruments measured at fair value through the income and expenditure account. Prepayments are not financial instruments.

Cash at bank and deposit accounts– is classified as a basic financial instrument and is measured at face value.

Financial liabilities – trade creditors, accruals and other creditors are financial instruments, and are measured at amortised cost as detailed in note 19. Taxation and social security are not included in the financial instruments disclosure definition. Deferred income is not deemed to be a financial liability, as the cash settlement has already taken place and there is an obligation to deliver services rather than cash or another financial instrument.

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1.17 Critical accounting estimates and areas of judgement

Estimates and judgements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.

The charity makes estimates and assumptions concerning the depreciation on the aircraft held within fixed assets, as discussed below:

The charity’s most important capital asset is its aircraft, the AW169 G-DSAA also known as ‘Peggy’. Depreciation of this aircraft is estimated based on assumption that at the end of 10 years after purchase of G-DSAA by DSAA the aircraft will have a value of 50% of the price at which DSAA purchased it. The period of 10 years and the residual value percentage assumed take into account that G-DSAA was bought some 5 years after it initially entered service (i.e. not new) and that 10 years from purchase would not take the aircraft to its full level of depreciation and final value.

Various different methods are used to estimate the value of an aircraft for the purpose of valuing depreciation, and the method used by DSAA results in a monthly depreciation amount comparable to that estimated by other AW169 owners.

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The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

2. Donations and legacies

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Unres- Res- Unres- Res-
tricted tricted 2025 tricted tricted 2024
funds funds Total funds funds Total
£ £ £ £ £ £
Donations 1,831,477 13,964 1,845,441 1,682,378 42,238 1,713,360
Gifts in wills 3,420,472 - 3,420,472 1,547,011 320,000 1,867,011
Grants 62,313 - 62,313 85,054 - 85,054
- -
Collecting boxes 142,598 142,598 164,916 164,916
Gift aid 189,275 - 189,275 159,042 - 159,042
5,646,135 13,964 5,660,099 3,638,401 362,238 3,989,383
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As at the year end, the charity had been notified of material gifts in wills which have not been included in the Statement of Financial Activities due to the conditions for recognition not being met. These consist of 16 gifts in wills totalling approximately £2,048,000 (2024: 2 gifts in wills totalling approximately £120,000).

3. Trading activities

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Unres- Res- Unres- Res-
tricted tricted 2025 tricted tricted 2024
funds funds Total funds funds Total
£ £ £ £ £ £
- -
Lottery 3,928,054 3,928,054 4,023,182 4,023,182
- -
Special draws 415,551 415,551 301,246 301,246
Other fundraising &
- -
sponsorship 8,851 8,851 34,193 34,193
Sale of merchandise 8,071 - 8,071 8,023 - 8,023
Events income 89,734 - 89,734 108,357 - 108,357
- -
4,450,261 4,450,261 4,475,001 4,475,001
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Income received for the lottery totalling £505,520 (2024: £475,769) has been deferred and is recognised at the date the relevant draw takes place.

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4. Investment income

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Unres- Res- Unres- Res-
tricted tricted 2025 tricted tricted 2024
funds funds Total funds funds Total
£ £ £ £ £ £
Dividends receivable 543,255 - 543,255 527,960 - 527,960
Interest receivable from
- -
banks/deposits 372,877 372,877 372,731 372,731
- -
916,132 916,132 900,691 900,691
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5. Expenditure on raising funds

Unres-
tricted
funds
£
Lottery prizes
92,070
Staff salaries
467,586
Commission
619,727
Rental of computer
system
8,022
Lottery office costs
32,980		 Unres-
tricted
funds
£
Lottery prizes
92,070
Staff salaries
467,586
Commission
619,727
Rental of computer
system
8,022
Lottery office costs
32,980		 Res-
tricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-		 2025
Total
£
92,070
467,586
619,727
8,022
32,980		 Unres-
tricted
funds
£
92,070
416,134
353,182
6,240
25,747		 Res-
tricted
2024
funds
Total
£
£
-
92,070
-
416,134
-
353,182
-
6,240
-
25,747
Beeline
69,913		 - 69,913 66,777 -
66,777
Bank charges
38,344
Income generation
costs
56,250
Event costs
9,693
Collection tins
2,541
General costs
8,602
Goods purchased for
resale
4,318
Investment management
costs
145,111
1,555,157		 -
-
-
-
11,181
-
-		 38,344
56,250
9,693
2,541
19,783
4,318
145,111		 35,046
-
21,913
789
7,270
6,693
134,893		 -
35,046
-
-
-
21,913
-
789
-
7,270
-
6,693
-
134,893
-
1,166,754
1,555,157 11,181 1,566,338 1,166,754

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6.
Charitable activities		 6.
Charitable activities
Unres-
tricted
funds
£
Aircraft costs
4,107,117
Critical care team
2,337,544
Medical equipment
166,195
Airbase costs
56,555
Paramedic training
145,175
Foreign currency gain
-
VAT reclaimed
(180,467)
6,632,119
Support & governance costs
Wages and salaries
606,547
Premises costs
26,513
Print and stationery
2,630
Postage
6,844
Telephone
9,097
Vehicle insurance
1,396
Office equipment and
maintenance
19,960
Publicity
37,492
Beeline
69,913
Insurance
24,654
Legal and professional
107,245
Training costs
7,051
Recruitment
18,173
Bank charges
21,813
Aviation, airbase
and clinical costs		 Unres-
tricted
funds
£
4,107,117
2,337,544
166,195
56,555
145,175
-
(180,467)		 Res-
tricted
funds
£
320,000
-
934
-
-
-
-		 2025
Total
£
4,427,117
2,337,544
167,129
56,555
145,175
-
(180,467)		 Unres-
tricted
funds
£
4,451,679
2,269,313
195,545
46,588
165,972
-
(116,602)		 Res-
tricted
2024
funds
Total
£
£
-
4,451,679
-
2,269,313
10,167
205,712
30,782
77,370
-
165,972
-
-
-
(116,602)
6,632,119 320,934 6,953,053 7,012,495 40,949
7,053,444
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 606,547
26,513
2,630
6,844
9,097
1,396
19,960
37,492
69,913
24,654
107,245
7,051
18,173
21,813		 589,749
24,628
3,932
8,017
11,264
871
19,872
49,935
66,777
21,488
129,752
9,302
1,917
21,993		 -
589,749
-
24,628
-
3,932
-
8,017
-
11,264
-
871
-
19,872
-
49,935
-
66,777
-
21,488
-
129,752
-
9,302
-
1,917
-
21,993
Subscriptions
10,028		 - 10,028 9,368 -
9,368
Health and safety
3,313
Travel & subsistence
29,952
Van hire
4,229
Depreciation
469,646
Loss on disposal
of fixed assets
-
IT costs and website
69,149
Audit and accountancy
11,520
1,557,165
8,189,284		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-		 3,313
29,952
4,229
469,646
-
69,149
11,520		 2,484
32,369
4,958
489,502
1,500
57,218
11,100		 -
2,484
-
32,369
-
4,958
-
489,502
-
1,500
-
57,218
-
11,100
1,557,165 - 1,557,165 1,567,996 -
1,567,996
8,189,284 320,934 8,510,218 8,580,491 40,949
8,621,440

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7. Net incoming resources/operating surplus

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2025 2024
£ £
Depreciation of
owned assets 469,646 489,502
(Profit)/loss on sale of fixed assets - 1,500
Auditors’ remuneration for:
Audit services 9,000 8,700
Accountancy services 2,520 2,400
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8. Trustee directors

None of the Trustee Directors (or any persons connected with them) received any remuneration during the current or prior year. None of the Trustee Directors were reimbursed expenses during the year (2024: £71 reimbursed to one Trustee Director for travelling expenses).

9. Employees

Number of employees

The average monthly head count was 25 staff (2024: 24 staff) and the average number of fulltime equivalent employees (including casual and part-time staff) during the year was as follows:

Chief Executive
Lottery staff
Fundraising staff
Operations staff
Management and admin staff
Employment costs
Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs		 2025
2024
1
1
3
3
9
8
3
2
6
6
22
20
2025
2024
£
£
913,072
853,901
92,294
86,131
68,767
65,851
1,074,133
1,005,883

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The number of employees whose annual emoluments were £60,000 or more (excluding employer national insurance and employer pension costs) were:

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2025 2024
number number
£60,000 - £70,000 1 1
£70,000 - £80,000 1 1
£100,000 - £110,000 1 1
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These employees are a member of the defined contribution pension scheme, into which contributions of £19,410 (2024: £18,486) were made. The employees included in the above noted bands are not all included in the definition of key management personnel.

The key management personnel of the charity are considered to be the Chief Executive Officer and The Deputy Chief Executive, the Finance Manager, Operations Manager, Income Generation Director and the Lottery Manager. The total costs to the charity of employee benefits (including employer national insurance and employer pension costs) for the key management personnel were £424,656 (2024: £407,747).

Defined contribution pension scheme

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. The pension cost charge for the year represents contributions payable by the company to the scheme and amounted to £68,767 (2024: £65,851).

Contributions totalling £853 (2024: £nil) were payable to the scheme at the end of the year and are included in creditors.

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10. Tangible fixed assets

Short
leasehold
improvements
Cost
£
At 1 April 2024
338,602
Additions
42,563
Disposals
-
At 31 March 2025
381,165		 Short
leasehold
improvements
Cost
£
At 1 April 2024
338,602
Additions
42,563
Disposals
-
At 31 March 2025
381,165		 Freehold
Land &
Buildings
£
597,805
-
-		 Medical
Equipment
£
504,512
34,924		 Fixtures &
Fittings
£
35,763
-
-		 Computer
Equipment
£
58,228
-
(40,569)		 Motor
Vehicles
£
82,466
24,731
-		 Aircraft
Total
£
£
7,302,743
8,920,119
-
102,218
-
(40,569)
381,165 597,805 539,436 35,763 17,659 107,197 7,302,743
8,981,768
Depreciation
At 1 April 2024
Charge for the year
Disposals
At 31 March 2025
Net book value
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2024		 192,970
33,733
-		 66,754
11,956
-		 404,669
39,688		 34,987
583
-		 46,455
5,886
(40,569)		 32,397
12,663
-		 836,772
1,615,004
365,137
469,646
-
(40,569)
226,703 78,710 444,357 35,570 11,772 45,060 1,201,909
2,044,081
154,462 519,095 95,079 193 5,887 62,137 6,100,834
6,937,687
6,465,971
7,305,115
145,632 531,051 99,843 776 11,773 50,069

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11. Intangible assets

11. Intangible assets
12. Cost
At 1 April 2024
At 31 March 2025		 PiNS
software
£
74,370
74,370		 Total
£
74,370
74,370
Net book value
At 31 March 2025		 74,370 74,370
At 31 March 2024 74,370
74,370
Investments
Listed shares
Cash held by investment manager
Shares in subsidiary undertaking
Listed shares
Market value
Additions
Disposals
Revaluation
Historical cost
Additions
Disposals
Other movements
At 1 April 2024
At 1 April 2024
At 31 March 2025
At 31 March 2025		 2025
£
23,991,870
289,191
1
24,281,062
2025
£
23,420,900
4,572,999
(4,189,376)
187,347
23,991,870
2025
£
20,291,570
4,572,999
(5,106,620)
-
19,757,949		 2024
£
23,420,900
262,436
1
23,683,337
2024
£
21,109,818
3,336,238
(2,872,655)
1,847,499
23,420,900
2024
£
19,067,914
3,336,238
(2,112,582)
-
20,291,570

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Shares in subsidiary undertaking

Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance (Trading) Limited was incorporated on 19 October 1999 as a wholly owned trading subsidiary of The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity. The parent charity holds 100% of the issued share capital and 100% of the voting rights of the subsidiary trading company. The company became dormant on 31 March 2013.

The profit for the year was £nil (2024: £nil) and the balance sheet total was £1 (2024: £1).

13. Investments

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2025 2024
£ £
Fixed rate cash held on deposit 3,000,000 7,700,448
Split as:
- -
Non-current asset investment (due > 1 year)
Current asset investment (due < 1 year) 3,000,000 7,700,448
3,000,000 7,700,448
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Investments are split in the statutory accounts based on maturity date.

14. Stocks

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2025 2024
£ £
Goods for resale 4,123 3,311
Medical consumables 19,354 17,818
23,477 21,129
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15. Debtors
2025 2024
£ £
Other debtors 156,543 250,304
Prepayments and accrued income 3,747,769 963,787
3,904,312 1,214,091
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Included within prepayments is an amount totalling £2,306,895 (2024: £nil) in relation to a second aircraft.

16. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

Deferred income: lottery receipts
Other creditors
Accruals
Amounts owed to group undertakings
Taxation and social security
Reconcilation of deferred income : Lottery receipts
Opening balance
Received during the year
Released during the year
Closing balance		 2025
2024
£
£
505,520
475,769
172,878
136,461
939,408
488,544
1
1
24,137
23,756
1,641,944
1,124,531
475,769
416,176
3,957,805
4,082,775
(3,928,054)
(4,023,182)
505,520
475,769

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17. Summary of movement in funds - 2025

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Gain/(loss) on
Opening investments Closing
balance Income Expenditure & transfers balance
£ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General 1,262,548 11,012,528 (9,744,441) 11,187,347 13,717,982
1,262,548 11,012,528 (9,744,441) 11,187,347 13,717,982
Designated funds
- - -
Disruption reserve 8,000,000 8,000,000
New aircraft fund 11,000,000 - - (1,500,000) 9,500,000
- -
Airbase redevelopment 5,000,000 4,500,000 9,500,000
- - - -
Staff responding scheme
- - -
Core financing fund 17,000,000 (17,000,000)
Modernisation and
transformation fund - - - 3,000,000 3,000,000
- -
41,000,000 (11,000,000) 30,000,000
Total unrestricted funds 42,262,548 11,012,528 (9,744,441) 187,347 43,717,982
Restricted funds
AED/Defibrilator - 12,480 (10,560) - 1,920
Gift - B Dicks 320,000 - (320,000) - -
CPR Project 1,289 550 (621) - 1,218
Medical equipment - 934 (934) - -
-
321,289 13,964 (332,115) 3,138
Total funds 42,583,837 11,026,492 (10,076,556) 187,347 43,721,120
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The designated funds shown above reflect decisions taken by the Trustees prior to the year end. Please see the Trustees Report for details.

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Summary of movement in funds - 2024

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Gain/(loss) on
Opening investments Closing
balance Income Expenditure & transfers balance
£ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General 5,072,392 9,002,837 (9,747,245) (3,065,436) 1,262,548
Fair value reserve 33,909 - - (33,909) -
5,106,301 9,002,837 (9,747,245) (3,099,345) 1,262,548
Designated funds
Disruption reserve 20,000,000 - - (12,000,000) 8,000,000
New aircraft fund 11,000,000 - - - 11,000,000
Airbase redevelopment 5,000,000 - - - 5,000,000
Staff responding scheme 40,000 - - (40,000) -
Core financing fund - - - 17,000,000 17,000,000
36,040,000 - - 4,960,000 41,000,000
Total unrestricted funds 41,146,301 9,002,837 (9,747,245) 1,860,655 42,262,548
Restricted funds
County Air Ambulance
Trust- HELP Appeal 13,156 - - (13,156) -
Gift - B Dicks - 320,000 - - 320,000
CPR Project - 11,456 (10,167) - 1,289
HELP Appeal - lights at
Dorchester helipad - 30,782 (30,782) - -
13,156 362,238 (40,949) (13,156) 321,289
Total funds 41,159,457 9,365,075 (9,788,194) 1,847,499 42,583,837
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Where transfers have been made out of funds, they relate to the purchase of fixed assets, which is taken to discharge the restriction.

18. Analysis of assets between funds

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Cash at
Fixed bank and in
assets hand
(tangible Long term (including Other net
and invest- short term current Current 2025
intangible) ments investments) assets liabilities Total
£ £ £ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds 7,012,057 - 4,420,080 3,927,789 (1,641,944) 13,717,982
- - -
Designated funds 24,281,062 5,718,938 30,000,000
Restricted funds - - 3,138 - - 3,138
7,012,057 24,281,062 10,142,156 3,927,789 (1,641,944) 43,721,120
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Analysis of assets between funds – prior year

Cash at Cash at
Fixed bank and in
assets hand
(tangible Long term
(including		 Other net
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
Restricted funds		 and
intangible)
£
7,379,485
-
-		 invest-
short term
ments investments)
£
£
-
(6,227,626)
23,683,337
17,316,663
-
321,289
23,683,337
11,410,326		 current
assets
£
1,235,220
-
-		 Current
2024
liabilities
Total
£
£
(1,124,531)
1,262,548
-
41,000,000
-
321,289
(1,124,531)
42,583,837
7,379,485 23,683,337 11,410,326 1,235,220

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19. Financial instruments

Categorisation of financial instruments
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
Item of income, expenditure, gain or losses
Income
2025
£
543,255
372,877
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
-
916,132
Income
2024
£
527,960
372,731
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
-
900,691
Financial assets measured at fair value through
income and expenditure account
Financial assets measured at fair value through
income and expenditure account
Financial assets that are debt instruments
measured at amortised cost
Financial assets that are debt instruments
measured at amortised cost
Financial assets measured at fair value through income and
expenditure account
Financial assets that are debt instruments measured at
amortised cost		 Categorisation of financial instruments
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
Item of income, expenditure, gain or losses
Income
2025
£
543,255
372,877
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
-
916,132
Income
2024
£
527,960
372,731
Financial liabilities measured at amortised cost
-
900,691
Financial assets measured at fair value through
income and expenditure account
Financial assets measured at fair value through
income and expenditure account
Financial assets that are debt instruments
measured at amortised cost
Financial assets that are debt instruments
measured at amortised cost
Financial assets measured at fair value through income and
expenditure account
Financial assets that are debt instruments measured at
amortised cost		 2025
2024
£
£
24,280,062
23,775,749
9,473,018
12,245,617
33,753,080
36,021,366
1,112,286
625,006
Expense
Net gains Net losses
£
£
£
145,111
187,347
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
145,111
187,347
-
Expense
Net gains Net losses
£
£
£
134,893
1,847,499
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
134,893
1,847,499
-
916,132
Income
£
527,960
372,731
-
900,691

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20. Financial commitments

At 31 March 2025 the charity was committed to making the following payments under non-cancellable operating leases:

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2025 2024
Other £ £
Expiry date:
Within one year 3,026,248 3,025,554
Between two and five years 9,830,402 12,853,691
12,856,650 15,879,245
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21. Related parties

There were no related party transactions during the year (2024: none).

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