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|Trustees'<br>and strategic||report||3-1S|
|Statement oftrustees'||responsibilities||19|
|Independent|auditor's|report to the trustees and members ofBRETrust||20-22|
|Consolidated|statement|offinancial activities|||
|(incorporating|the company income and expenditure||account)||
|Consolidated|and company balance sheets|||24|
|Consolidated|cash flow statement|||25|
|Notes to the|financial|statements||26-49|





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|||Hertfordshire|
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|Bankers:||Barclays Bank PLC|
|||1 Churchill<br>Place|
|||London|
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|Solicitors:||Bates Wells|
|||10Queen Street|
|||London|
|||EC4R IBE|
|Independent|Auditors:|Crowe U.K.LLP|
|||Fourth Floor|
|||St James House|
|||StJames Square|
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|ofthe Trust on the same day. The selection process was managed<br>by the BRETrust Nominations<br>Committee<br>an<br>the appointment<br>ofPhilip Wilbraham<br>was confirmed at the meeting ofthe Trustees on the 24 March 2021.|ofthe Trust on the same day. The selection process was managed<br>by the BRETrust Nominations<br>Committee<br>an<br>the appointment<br>ofPhilip Wilbraham<br>was confirmed at the meeting ofthe Trustees on the 24 March 2021.|ofthe Trust on the same day. The selection process was managed<br>by the BRETrust Nominations<br>Committee<br>an<br>the appointment<br>ofPhilip Wilbraham<br>was confirmed at the meeting ofthe Trustees on the 24 March 2021.|ofthe Trust on the same day. The selection process was managed<br>by the BRETrust Nominations<br>Committee<br>an<br>the appointment<br>ofPhilip Wilbraham<br>was confirmed at the meeting ofthe Trustees on the 24 March 2021.|
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|The Trustees and Officers serving during the year and up to the time ofsigning these accounts were as follows:||||
|Trustees||Appointed|Resigned|
|Philip Wilbraham.||7June 2018||
|Chairman|appointed|as Chair 24 March 2021||
|Sir James Wates CBE||6May 2010|2 June 2021|
|June Barnes|7 September 2016||29July 2020|
|Sarah Beale||18January 2019||
|Francesca Berriman MBE||1 August 2015|2 June 2021|
|Paul Hetherington||3 June 2019||
|Ashley Hook||18March 2020||
|Prof. Vicky Pope||3 June 2019||
|Jonathan Rickard||3 June 2019||



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||Tenure||Gender Diversity|
|& 1Year|0%|Female|37.5%|
|1-3Years|75%|Male|62.5%|
|3-6Years|12.5%|||
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|Piers White|NED (Chair)||1 November 2019;||
|||appointed|as Chair 26 November 2019||
|Gillian Charlesworth|CEO||21 May 2019||
|Andrew<br>Herbert|CFO||9August 2019||
|Darran Messem|NED||8 July 2019||
|Ashley Wheaton|NED||11July 2016||
|Malathy<br>Sivapunniyan|NED||5 October 2020||
|Brigid Sutcliff|NED||11July 2016|9January 2021|



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|Emissions Sco e|Source|||||tCOz|MWh|tCO2|
|Scope 1|Natural|Gas and business||travel (company|3,190|587|3,948|726|
||cars||||||||
|Sco e2|Electrici||||2,393|606|3,957|1,011|
|Scope 3|Business|travel|and electricity transmission||157|84|736|258|
||and distribution||losses||||||
|Total sco e 1&2|||||5,584|1,193|7,905|1,738|
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|Total unrestricted<br>funds|Total unrestricted<br>funds|(16,059)|(7,697)|
|---|---|---|---|
|Add: Pension liabili||41,767|32,814|
|Net unrestricted<br>funds||25,708|25,117|
|Less: Unrestricted<br>fixed assets||20,131|21,458|
|Total free reserves<br>Re resented b:||5,577|3,659|
|Net current and intan|ible assets|7,456|5,186|
|Provisions||1,879|1,527|
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|Financial|stability|~|Detailed||business<br>planning<br>extended<br>to a|business<br>planning<br>extended<br>to a||Business planning<br>continues to|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||three-year||time horizon|with a bottom<br>up||improve<br>and although<br>we have|
||||approach||to ensure realistic targets are put|||been<br>impacted<br>by<br>Covid-19|
||||in place||and<br>managers|own<br>the<br>budget||forecasting<br>has improved<br>over|
||||figures.|||||the<br>year<br>and<br>continues<br>to|
||||Renewal||ofthe existing|overdraft facility to||improve<br>with<br>regular|
||||provide|sufficient working<br>capital over the||||monitoring ofresults across the|
||||next 12months to meet|||obligations<br>as they||organisation.|
||||fall due.|||||The existing<br>overdraft<br>facility|
||||Delivery||of pension<br>recovery<br>plan of a|||was renewed this year at alevel|
||||realistic|timescale to eliminate<br>the pension||||sufficient for the business.|
||||deficit.|||||The<br>pension<br>recovery<br>plan|
||||Shareholder<br>and board oversight clear with|||||remains<br>on<br>track<br>with<br>the|
||||agreed policies and procedures<br>in place and|||||investment<br>strategy<br>hedging|
||||on-gong||review<br>to|ensure<br>they<br>are||risks appropriately.|
||||appropriate<br>and enforced.|||||Policies and procedures<br>are in|
|||||||||line withthe<br>rior<br>ear.|
|Talent retention|||Key people<br>and skills|||are identified<br>with|~|There<br>are<br>still<br>risks<br>with|
|and acquisition|||opportunities<br>to upskill|||employees.||employee<br>retention<br>and|
||||Flexible||and<br>remote|working<br>options||acquisition<br>partly<br>because<br>of|
||||available||where circumstances<br>allow.|||our proximity<br>to London<br>but|
||||Timely||and<br>focussed|recruitment,<br>with||also as a consequence<br>of the|
||||bench-marking<br>pay|||using<br>external||pandemic.<br>We are continuing|
||||resources||as well as against industry<br>norms.|||to<br>monitor<br>and<br>improve|
||||Improved||engagement|with<br>employees||employee<br>engagement<br>as well|
||||including||implementation|ofJob Families,||as employee<br>wellbeing<br>given|
||||regular||Performance|and<br>Development||the impact<br>Covid-19 has had|
||||Reviews||and<br>management<br>oversight|||on all our colleagues.<br>We have|
||||(further|detail below).||||reviewed<br>options<br>for working|
|||||||||arrangements<br>and<br>will<br>be|
|||||||||introducing<br>flexible<br>working|
|||||||||arrangements<br>where|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|risks including|||loss||mandatory<br>courses<br>covering<br>policies<br>and||with<br>new<br>methods<br>of attack|
|of data and||breach|||procedures,<br>best<br>practice<br>and<br>lessons||and increased<br>regulation.<br>We|
|ofregulations.|||||learned.||continue to invest in our cyber|
||||||On-going<br>attack<br>and<br>resilience<br>testing,||security<br>controls, training,<br>and|
||||||continuous<br>systems<br>improvements<br>and||testing<br>to<br>mitigate<br>this|
||||||Cyber Essentials<br>Plus was renewed<br>in the||heightened<br>risk.<br>During|
||||||year.||2020/21<br>we were<br>audited<br>for|
||||||Dual<br>server<br>centres<br>in<br>place<br>with||Cyber<br>Essentials<br>Plus<br>and|
||||||independent<br>internet<br>connectivity||retained<br>this<br>external|
||||||replicating<br>data to provide resilience across||benchmark.|
||||||the network.|||
|Reputation|||and|~|Integrity<br>is<br>integral<br>to BRE Code<br>of||We<br>are<br>continuing<br>to<br>apply|
|brand|||||Conduct and the way we work.||significant<br>resources<br>on|
||||||All scientific output follows aclear internal||assisting<br>the<br>Grenfell<br>inquiry|
||||||review process before issue with follow up||including<br>reviewing<br>all|
||||||process to include lessons learned.||historical<br>documentation<br>in|
||||||Speaking<br>up policy in place and reviewed||connection<br>with<br>our|
||||||annually.||government<br>work.|
||||||Grenfell inquiry proceedings<br>are monitored||We have professionalised<br>and|
||||||closely and BREhas provided a significant||centralised<br>our media handling|
||||||volume ofinformation<br>to assist the inquiry||and<br>reputation<br>management|
||||||and continues to do so.||through<br>our Corporate<br>Affairs|
||||||||Teain.|
|Regulatory|||||BRE Global<br>Assurance<br>(Ireland)<br>Limited||BRE<br>Global<br>Assurance|
|changes|including||||established<br>to<br>provide<br>services<br>to<br>the||(Ireland) Limited has now been|
|Brexit|||and||European market.||fully<br>established<br>and<br>is|
|government||policy|||Improved<br>engagement<br>with<br>government||developing<br>new<br>opportunities|
||||||departments<br>to ensure<br>we maintain<br>close||within Europe.|
||||||working<br>relationships<br>and<br>are<br>able<br>to||The<br>risks<br>with<br>UK|
||||||identify potential changes in policy ahead of||Government<br>policy<br>changes|
||||||implementation.||have<br>been<br>mitigated<br>through|
||||||The<br>Construction<br>Innovation<br>Hub||regular<br>communications<br>with|
||||||programme<br>is designed to put us in a good||government<br>departments<br>and|
||||||position<br>to be recognised<br>as a test<br>and||industry<br>bodies.|
||||||certification<br>provider<br>for modern<br>methods|||
||||||ofconstruction.|||
|Competition||and|||Current change programme<br>is now focused|~|The<br>internal<br>transformation|
|market relevance|||||on the<br>conclusions<br>&om the<br>review<br>of||programme<br>and new leadership|
||||||purpose<br>and identifying<br>relevant<br>products,||to<br>improve<br>BRE's<br>market|
||||||services within<br>geographic<br>regions offered||position<br>is<br>progressing<br>well|
||||||by BRE Group.||with benefits already been seen|
||||||The<br>programme<br>aims<br>to identify<br>where||within<br>the<br>Academy<br>and|
||||||improvements<br>can be made with the BRE||Building Performance<br>Services|
||||||operating<br>model to increase our advantage||with<br>further<br>work<br>on-going|
||||||over<br>competitors<br>but<br>also<br>identify||within Assurance<br>Services.|
||||||declinin<br>markets.|||
|Economic—||||~|Already<br>planned<br>cost reduction<br>exercise|~|We have<br>continued<br>to adapt|
|prolonged|global||||implemented<br>quickly,<br>use of government||our<br>working<br>methods,|
|recession|brought||||support<br>mechanisms,<br>constant<br>forecasting||including<br>working<br>&om home|
|about by Covid-19|||||to<br>ensure<br>impact<br>of Covid-19<br>clearly||where<br>appropriate.<br>We have|
||||||understood,<br>maintain<br>cost flexibility<br>and||managed<br>our<br>costs<br>carefully|
||||||agile<br>response<br>to<br>new<br>opportunities||but<br>continue<br>to monitor<br>the|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
||||||2021|2021|2021|2020|
|||||||||(restated)|
||||||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Income from|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||7,635|41,871|49,506|52,853|
|Other trading activities||||||2,782|2,782|1,078|
|Interest receivable|||||||||
|Total|||||7,635|44,657|52,292|53,936|
|Expenditure<br>on|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||4|(7,915)|(41,789)|(49,704)|(50,547)|
|Net (expenditure)||/ income|before tax||(280)|2,868|2,588|3,389|
|Taxation||||||(383)|(3S3)|(6)|
|Net (expenditure)||/ income|||(280)|2,485|2,205|3,383|
|Transfers<br>between||funds|||277|(277)|||
|Other recognised|gains/(losses)||||||||
|Actuarial (losses) /||gains on|defined benefit||||||
|pension scheme||||||(10,570)|(10,570)|14,773|
|Net movement<br>in|funds||||(3)|(8,362)|(8,365)|18,156|
|Reconciliation offunds|||||||||
|Total funds/(deficit)||brought|forward|16|1,304|(7,697)|(6,393)|(24,549)|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||2021|2020|2021|2020|
||||||||(restated)|||
|||||||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Intangible<br>assets|||||9|1,268|663|||
|Tangible assets|||||10|21,210|22,610|||
|Investments|||||11|||5,000|5,000|
|||||||22,478|23,273|5,000|5,000|
|Current assets||||||||||
|Debtors||||||13,496|14,926|3|455|
|Cash||||||9,103|4,492|731|742|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year|||14|(16,189)|(14,743)|(601)|(453)|
|Net current assets||||||6,410|4,675|133|744|
|Total assets less current liabilities||||||28,888|27,948|5,133|5,744|
|Provisions<br>for liabilities|||||15|(1,879)|(1,527)|||
|Net assets excluding||pensions|liabilities|||27,009|26,421|5,133|5,744|
|Defined benefit|pension scheme liability||||19|(41,767)|(32,814)|||
|Net (habilities)|/ assets including|||pension liabilities||(14,758)|(6,393)|5,133|5,744|
|Funds ofthe Group||||||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||||||||||
|General fund|||||16|15,451|14,860|4,995|5,606|
|Revaluation<br>reserve|||||16|10,257|10,257|||
|Pension reserve|||||16|(41,767)|(32,814)|||
|Restricted funds:||||||||||
|Other reserve|||||16|9|9|||
|Capital reserve|||||16|1,070|1,040|||
|Income fund|||||16|222|255|138|138|
|Total funds/(deficit)||||||(14,758)|(6,393)|5,133|5,744|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||(restated)|
|||||||K'000|K'000|
|Net cash from operating<br>activities|||||17|6,332|5,007|
|Cash flows from investing|activities|||||||
|Interest received||||||||
|Acquisition oftangible fixed assets|||||10|(247)|(1,395)|
|Acquisition ofintangible<br>fixed assets||||||(1,478)|(418)|
|Net cash used by investing|activities|||||(1,721)|(1,808)|
|Increase in cash and cash|equivalents|in the|year||18|4,611|3,199|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning||ofthe reporting|||4,492|1,293|
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|||||||||(restated)|
||||||||K'000|K'000|
|Advisory|services on building||performance,||construction|and fire safety|14,199|17,823|
|Provision|ofthird-party|assurance||services|||27,607|28,708|
|Services|delivered to government||||||7,700|6,322|
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|---|---|---|---|
|||K'000|K'000|
|Other rental|income|1,006|1,078|
|Other trading|income|153||
|Government|grant income|1,171||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Commercial|Advisory|Third|Party|Services to|2021|2020|
||||Activities|Services|Assurance||Government|Total|Total|
||||K'000|K'000||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Activities|undertaken|directly|786|14,776|13,593||5,392|34,547|34,078|
|Grant funding ofactivities||||611||||611|657|
|Support costs|||325|6,366||5,624|2,231|14,546|15,812|
|||||21,753|19,217||7,623|49,704|50,547|
|Analysis ofsupport costs||||||||||
||||Commercial|Advisory|I'hird|Party|Services to|2021|2020|
||||Activities|Services|Assurance||Government|Total|Total|
||||K'000|E'000||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Legal and|professional||96|1,880||1,661|659|4,296|4,672|
||||29|572||506|201|1,308|1,492|
||||18|349||309|122|798|1,070|
|Marketing|||20|386||340|135|881|1,011|
|Facilities|||51|1,008||890||2,302|3,002|
|Other||||2,171||1,918|761|4,961|4,565|
||||325|6,366||5,624|2,231|14,546|15,812|



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|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2020|
|||K'000|K'000|
|Auditor 's remuneration:||||
|Audit ofGroup and subsidiary<br>financial|statements|71|62|
|Amounts<br>receivable<br>by auditor and associates in respect of:||||
|Services relating to taxation||12|10|
|Additional<br>fees relating to prior year audit||28|35|
|Other services||3|11|





|Staff costs and numbers|||
|---|---|---|
||2021|2020|
||K'000|K'000|
|Group staff costs during the period amounted to:|||
|Wages and salaries|22,542|24,302|
|Social security costs|2,211|2,440|
|Other pension costs|3,577|3,546|
|Operating<br>costs ofthe defined benefit pension scheme|449|481|
||28,779|30,769|



|he averag|e number ofemployees<br>(including<br>director|s) during the year was as follows:||
|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2020|
|Research|staff|506|539|
|Support|staff|52|56|
|||558|595|



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|---|---|---|---|
|Salary band||||
|f60,000|-f69,999|22|24|
|f70,000|-f79,999|8|18|
|f80,000|-f89,999|8|7|
|f90,000|-f99,999|4|6|
|f100,000|-f109,999|2|3|
|f110,000|-f119,999|4|4|
|f130,000|-f139,999||1|
|f140,000|-f149,999|||
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|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2020|
|||K'000|K'000|
|Expected return|on pension scheme assets|2,276|2,024|
|Interest on pension scheme liabilities||(3,096)|(3,191)|
|Administration|expenses|(94)||
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|---|---|---|---|
||||(restated)|
|||K'000|K'000|
|Current tax||||
|UK corporation tax on profit for the year||362||
|Adjustment<br>in respect ofprevious year||21||
|Tax reconciliation||||
|Profit on ordinary<br>activities before tax||2,588|3,389|
|Tax using the UK corporation tax rate of19%(2020: 19%)||492|644|
|Effects of:||||
|Expenses not deductible|for tax purposes|147|144|
|R&D expenditure<br>credits||(86)|(32)|
|Consolidation<br>adjustments||301|58|
|Deferred tax not recognised||(471)|(808)|
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|---|---|---|---|
|Group|Software|Other|Total|
|||Intangibles||
||K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Cost||||
|At I April 2020|4,454|497|4,951|
|Additions|1,478||1,478|
|Disposals|(25)||(25)|
|At 31March 2021|5,907|497|6,404|
|Amortisation||||
|At I April 2020|3,849|439|4,288|
|Charge for the year|790|58|848|
|Eliminated<br>on disposal||||
|At 31March 2021|4,639|497|5,136|
|Net book value||||
|At 31March 2021|1,268||1,268|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Group|Freehold|Plant and|Fixtures|Motor|Total|
||Land and|Machinery|and|Vehicles||
||Buildings||Fittings|||
||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Cost||||||
|At 1 April 2020|27,339|10,456|1,180|54|39,029|
|Additions|52|162|||247|
|At 31March 2021|27,391|10,618|1,213|54|39,276|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2020|8,029|7,591|746|53|16,419|
|Charge for year|623|914|109|1|1,647|
|At 31March 2021|8,652|8,505|855|54|18,066|
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|At 31March 2021|18,739|2,113|358||21,210|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||subsidiary|
||||||undertakings||
|||||||K'000|
|Net BookValue|||||||
|At 1 April 2020 and 31March 2021||||||5,000|
|he trading<br>results ofthe operating<br>subsidiaries||ofthe Group are:|||||
||Building|BRE|Constructing|Ceequal|BRE|BRE|
||Research|Global|Excellence|Limited|China|Ireland|
||Establishment|Limited|Limited¹||||
||Limited||||||
||2021|2021|2021|2021|2021|2021|
|Summary<br>profit and|K'000|E'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|loss account|||||||
|Turnover|21,278|28,617|199|94|503|385|
|Operating<br>costs|(33,106)|(28,566)|(91)|(119)|(613)|(273)|
|Other operating|16,745|37|||||
|income|||||||
|Operating<br>profit/(loss)|4,917|88|108|(25)|(110)|112|
|Other finance costs|(914)||||||
|Actuarial<br>loss on|(10,570)||||||
|defined benefit pension|||||||
|Net result|(6,567)|88|108|(25)|(110)|112|
|Taxation|(362)|(21)|||||
|Retained in the|(6,929)|67|108|(25)|(110)|112|
|subsidiary|||||||
|Assets and liabilities|||||||
|ofthe subsidiary|||||||
|Fixed assets|22,827|632|||1||
|Current assets|15,104|23,145|262|1,091|526|275|
|Creditors<br>falling due|(27,245)|(5,896)|(43)|(13S)|(1,113)|(488)|
|within one year|||||||
|Net assets/(liabilities)|10,686|17,881|219|953|(586)|(213)|
|Provision for liabilities|(1,879)||||||
|Pension scheme|(41,767)||||||
|liabilities|||||||
|Deferred grant|(277)||||||
|Total funds|(33,237)|17,881|219|953|(586)|(213)|



## 



## 

|||Interest in|Activity|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||old111ary||||||||
|||share capital||||||||
|Trading Companies:||||||||||
|BREGroup Limited (02704081)||100%|Management|ofsubsidiary||company|||operations|
|Building Research Establishment|Limited|100%|Advisory<br>services and information|||||on building||
|(03319324)¹¹|||performance,|construction|and fire safety|||||
|||100%|Testing and certification ofmaterials||||||and|
|BREGlobal Limited (08961297)¹¹|||products,<br>and|certification|ofpersonnel,|||||
||||Buildings, process, systems|||and supply chains||||
|Building Research Establishment||100%|Sustainability|and training||||||
|Shenzhen<br>Limited (91440300358776938Y)*||||||||||
|Ceequal Limited (04568928)'||100%|Methodologies|for sustainable|||inf'rastructure|||
||||projects|||||||
|BREAmerica Holdings<br>Inc (5984258)*<br>BREAmerica LLC(201607410163)*¹||100%<br>100%|Holding company<br>Assessment ofdevelopments||||under||BREEAM|
||||process|||||||
|Buildingwise<br>LLC (200716410151)||100%|Assessment ofdevelopments||||under||LEED and|
||||BREEAM process|||||||
|Constructing<br>Excellence Limited(04641522)*'||N/A|Co-ordination|ofmember|led||performance|||
||||improvement|network||||||
|BREGlobal Assurance<br>(Ireland)|Limited|100%|Testing and certification ofmaterials||||||and|
|(602123)|||products,<br>and|certification|ofpersonnel,|||||
||||Buildings, process, systems|||and supply chains||||
|Non-Trading Companies:||||||||||
|BRECertification<br>Limited (03548352)'<br>BREInternational<br>Limited (01915620)*¹||100%<br>100%||||||||
|BRECanada Inc (819246000)*<br>EFSGLimited (02971676) *"'||100%<br>N/A||||||||
|The Loss Prevention<br>Certification <br>Limited (01907862)*"|Board|100%||||||||
|Building Performance<br>Group Limited<br>(01573939)*"||100%||||||||





## 

|3Debtors||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2021|2020|2020|
|||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|||Group|Charity|Group|Charity|
|Trade debtors||6,965||7,939||
|Amounts<br>recoverable|on contracts|1,442||1,335||
|Amounts<br>due &om group undertakings|||||441|
|Other debtors||3,100||3,298|2|
|Social security and other taxes||862||||
|Prepayments||1,127||2,354||
|||13,496||14,926|455|



## 

## 

||2021|2021|2020|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||(restated)||
||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
||Group|Charity|Group|Charity|
|Deferred income|7,193||6,721||
|Trade creditors|3,330|17|3,111|34|
|Amounts<br>due to group undertakings||125|||
|Social security and other taxes|1,741||1,554||
|Corporation<br>tax|362||(1)||
|Other creditors|728|2|1,190||
|Accruals|2,835|457|2,168|419|
||16,189|601|14,743|453|
|Deferred income movement:|||||
||||K'000|K'000|
||||Group|Charity|
|Balance at 1 April 2020 (restated)|||6,721||
|Amount<br>released in the year|||(7,514)||
|Amount<br>deferred in the year|||7,986||
|Balance at 31March 2021|||7,193||



## 



## 

## 

|5Provision for|liabilities||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Future amounts|payable relating to:|Former||Post|Litigation|Total|
|||Directors'||retirement|||
|||Future||future|||
|||liabilities|Restructuring|liabilities|||
|||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Group:|||||||
|At I April 2020||112|280|855|280|1,527|
|Utilised in the year|||(264)|(123)|(280)|(667)|
|Charge to the Statement of||||1,018||1,019|
|Financial Activities|||||||
|At 31March 2021||113|16|1,750||1,879|



## 

|6Reserves|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||General|Pension|Revaluation|Total|Other|Capital|Income|Total|
||Fund|Reserve|Reserve|Unrestricted|Reserves|Reserves|Reserve|Restricted|
||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Reserves|Restricted|Restricted|Restricted|Reserves|
|Group|K'000|K'000|E'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|At I April|14,860|(32,814)|10,257|(7,697)||1,040|255|1,304|
|2020|||||||||
|(restated)|||||||||
|Net income|868|1,617||2,485||(247)|(33)|(280)|
|for the year|||||||||
|Actuarial|||||||||
|(loss)||(10,570)||(10,570)|||||
|recognised|||||||||
|in defined|||||||||
|benefit|||||||||
|pension|||||||||
|Transfer|(277)|||(277)||277||277|
|between|||||||||
|funds|||||||||
|At 31March|15,451|(41,767)|10,257|(16,059)|9|1,070|222|1,301|
|2021|||||||||





||General|Pension|Revaluation|Total|Other|Capital|Income|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Fund|Reserve|Reserve|Unrestricted|Reserve|Reserves|Reserve|Restricted|
||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Unrestricted|Reserves|Restricted|Restricted|Restricted|Reserves|
|Group|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|At I April|13,809|(48,899)|10,257|(24,833)|||275|284|
|2019|||||||||
|Net income|1,051|1,312||2,363||1,040|(20)|1,020|
|for the year|||||||||
|Actuarial|||||||||
|gain||14,773||14,773|||||
|recognised|||||||||
|in defined|||||||||
|benefit|||||||||
|pension|||||||||
|At 31March|14,860|(32,814)|10,257|(7,697)|9|1,040|255|1,304|
|2020|||||||||



|Charity|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|
||K'000|K'000|K'000|
|At I April 2020|5,606|138|5,744|
|Net deficit for the year|(611)||(611)|
|At 31March 2021|4,995|138|5,133|
|Charity|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|
||K'000|K'000|K'000|
|At I April 2019|6,414|138|6,552|
|Net deficit for the year|(808)||(808)|
|At 31March 2020|5,606|138|5,744|





## 

|Analysis ofGroup net|Analysis ofGroup net|Analysis ofGroup net|General|Pension|Revaluation|Other|Capital|Income|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|assets between|funds||Fund|Reserve|Reserve|Restricted|Restricted|Restricted||
|||||||Reserve|Reserve|Reserves||
||||2021|2021|2021|2021|2021|2021|2021|
||||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Intangible|||1,268||||||1,268|
|Tangible|||9,874||10,257||1,070||21,210|
|Net current assets|||6,188|||||222|6,410|
|Provisions|||(1,879)||||||(1,879)|
|Pension scheme|liability|||(41,767)|||||(41,767)|
||||15,451|(41,767)|10,257||1,070|222|(14,758)|
|2020 Comparative||(restated)||||||||
|Analysis ofGroup net|||General|Pension|Revaluation|Other|Capital|Income|Total|
|assets between|funds||Fund|Reserve|Reserve|Reserve|Restricted|Restricted||
||||||||Reserve|Reserves||
||||2020|2020|2020|2020|2020|2020|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
|Intangible|||663||||||663|
|Tangible|||11,201||10,257||1,040||22,507|
|Net current assets|||4,523|||||255|4,778|
|Provisions|||(1,527)||||||(1,527)|
|Pension scheme|liability|||(32,814)|||||(32,814)|
||||14,860|(32,814)|10,257||1,040|255|(6,393)|





## 

|7Cash flows from ope|ra|t|ing<br>activities|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||2021|2020|
||||||||(restated)|
|||||||K'000|K'000|
|Net income||||||2,588|3,389|
|Ajdustments for:||||||||
|Interest receivable||||||(4)|(5)|
|Depreciation,<br>amortisation|||and impairment|||2,495|1,890|
|Loss on disposal offixed|||assets|||25|28|
|Taxation||||||(383)|(6)|
|Pension and other finance|||costs|||914|1,167|
|Pension deficit funding|contributions|||||(2,531)|(2,479)|
|Movement<br>in working|capital:|||||||
|Decrease / (increase) in|debtors|||||1,430|(939)|
|Increase in creditors||||||1,452|2,264|
|Increase<br>/ (decrease) in|provisions|||||352|(242)|
|Taxation received/(paid)||||||(6)|(60)|
|Net cash &om operating||activities||||6,332|5,007|
|SAnalysis ofchange in||net funds||||||
|||||At|Cash flow||At|
|||||1 April 2020||31March 2021||
|||||K'000|K'000||K'000|
|Cash at bank||||4,658|4,445||9,103|
|Overdraft||||(166)|166|||
|Cash and cash equivalents||||4,492|4,611||9,103|



## 

## 



## 

||Combined|Combined|Combined|
|---|---|---|---|
||Scheme|Scheme|Scheme|
||2021|2020|2019|
||%pa|%pa|%pa|
|Rate ofincrease in salaries|2.40|1.90|2.10|
|Discount rate for calculation||||
|ofbenefits|2.10|2.60|2.45|
|Inflation (RPI)|3.10|2.50|3.15|
|Inflation (CPI)|2.40|1.90|2.10|





## 

|f'rom cash flow project|ions over long years|and thus inherently<br>uncertain,<br>were:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2021|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|
|Present value offunded defined benefit obligations|||(133,459)|(121,187)|
|Fair value ofassets|||91,692|88,373|
|Net deficit|||(41,767)|(32,814)|
|Movements<br>in present|value ofdefined benefit obligation||2021|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|
|At 1 April|||121,187|132,554|
|Interest on obligation|||3,096|3,191|
|Actuarial<br>loss / (gain)|||13,316|(9,948)|
|Benefits paid|||(4,234)|(4,610)|
|Past service cost (incl. curtailments)|||94||
|At 31March|||133,459|121,187|
|Movements<br>in fair value ofassets|||2021|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|
|At 1 April|||88,373|83,655|
|Expected return on assets|||2,276|2,024|
|Actuarial<br>(loss)/gain|||2,746|4,825|
|Contributions<br>by employer|||2,531|2,479|
|Benefits paid|||(4,234)|(4,610)|
|At 31March|||91,692|88,373|
|Amounts<br>recognised|in the Consolidated|Statement ofFinancial Activities|||
||||2021|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|
|Interest on defined benefit obligations|||(3,096)|(3,191)|
|Expected return on assets|||2,276|2,024|
|Past service cost (incl. curtailments)|||(94)||
|Resources expended|(included<br>in other finance costs)||(914)|(1,167)|





## 

|9Pensions (continued)|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2021|2020|
||||K'000|K'000|
|Actual return less expected return||on assets|2,746|4,825|
|Experience gain on liabilities|||4,014|63|
|Change in assumptions|underlying|the present value ofthe liabilities|(17,330)|9,885|
|Actuarial (loss) / gain|||(10,570)|14,773|



## 

||||2021|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||K'000|K'000|
|Return|on assets excluding|interest|2,746|4,825|
|Interest|income on assets||2,276|2,024|
|Actual|return on scheme assts||5,022|6,849|



## 

||||2021|2021|2020|2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||K'000|K'000|K'000|K'000|
||||Group|Charity|Group|Charity|
|Financial|assets that|are debt instruments|||||
|measured|at amortised cost||20,605|734|17,064|1,188|
|Financial|liabilities|measure at amortised|||||
|cost|||6,893|474|6,469|453|





## 

|perating<br>leases (202|0:K442k)|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||2021|2020|
|Plant and machinery|expiring:|K'000|K'000|
|Not later than one year||72|80|
|Later than one year|and not later than five years|54|80|
|||126|160|
|||2021|2020|
|Land and Buildings|expiring:|K'000|K'000|
|Not later than one year||220|208|
|Later than one year|but not later than five years|555|456|
|Later than five years||335|417|
|||1,110|1,081|



|At 31March 2021 the Group had expected future minimum|lease receipts under non-cancellable<br>operating|leases|
|---|---|---|
|as follows:|||
|Future anticipated<br>Lessor income|2021|2020|
||K'000|K'000|
|Not later than one year|774|848|
|Later than one year and not later than five years|1,004|1,43S|
|Later than five years|198|221|
||1,976|2,507|



## 

## 



## 

## 

|||||2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||K'000|
|Restricted Reserves at 31March 2020 (as previously||stated)||255|
|Release ofincome previously<br>deferred relating to year|||ended 31March 2020|1,040|
|Reallocation|with unrestricted<br>reserves|||9|
|Restricted reserves at 31March 2020 as restated||||1,304|
|||||2020|
|||||K'000|
|Unrestricted|Reserves at 31March 2020 (as previously||stated)|(7,688)|
|Reallocation|with restricted reserves|||(9)|
|Unrestricted|reserves at 31March 2020 as restated|||(7,697)|





|||||2020|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||K'000|
|Total creditors at 31March 2020 (as previously||stated)||(15,783)|
|Release ofincome previously|deferred at 31March 2020|||1,040|
|Total creditors at 31March 2020 as restated||||(14,743)|
|||||2020|
|||||K'000|
|Total restricted loss for the year ended 31March||2020 (as previously|stated)|(20)|
|Release ofincome previously|deferred at 31March 2020|||1,040|
|Total restricted income for the|year ended 31March 2020 as restated|||1,020|



