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|Statement<br>offinancial|activities<br>(including|income and||
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|Statement<br>offinancial|position|||
|Notes to the financial|statements|||
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|Registered||charity|name|name|RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY|RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY|RECORD, THE BIODIVERSITY|INFORMATION|INFORMATION|SYSTEM FOR|
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||||||CHESHIRE, HALTON,||WARRINGTON||AND WIRRAL||
|Charity registration|||number||1095859||||||
|Company|registration|||number|04046886||||||
|Principal office|||||Cedar House||||||
||||||Chester Zoological|Gardens|||||
||||||Upton||||||
||||||Chester||||||
||||||Cheshire||||||
||||||CH2 1LH||||||
|Registered||office|||Sycamore House||||||
||||||Sutton Quays Business||Park||||
||||||Sutton Weaver||||||
||||||Runcorn||||||
||||||Cheshire||||||
||||||WA7 3EH||||||
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||||||Mr A Parker||||||
||||||Miss S Bird|||(Resigned 9September 2022)|||
||||||Mrs H Bradshaw||||||
||||||Dr M Geary||||||
||||||Mr J Buchanan||||||
|Secretary|||||Mr A Parker||||||
|Independent||examiner|||Rachel Palombella|FCA|||||
||||||Sycamore House||||||
||||||Sutton Quays Business||Park||||
||||||Sutton Weaver||||||
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|Total income||||133,467||133,467|135,942|
|Expenditure<br>Expenditure<br>on charitable||activities|6,7|139,447||139,447|114,310|
|Total expenditure||||139,447||139,447|114,310|
|Net (expenditure)/income<br>movement<br>in funds||and net||(5,980)||(5,980)|21,632|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||||
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|Total funds carried|forward|||145,092|2|145,094|151,074|





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|Tangible<br>fixed assets|||||8,459|11,498|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||||14|15,332|11,929|
|Cash at bank and|in|hand|||143,453|130,642|
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|Creditors: amounts||falling|due within one year|15|22, 'l 50|2,874|
|Net current assets|||||136,635|139,697|
|Total assets less|current||liabilities||145,094|151,195|
|Creditors: amounts||falling|due after more than one year|||121|
|Net assets|||||145,094|151,074|
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|Grants|32,997|32,997|47,507|47,507|
|Contract income|88,941|88,941|78,343|78,343|
|Other income|11,529|11,529|10,092|10,092|
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||||||Unrestricted|Total Funds|Unrestricted|Total Funds|
||||||Funds|2023|Funds|2022|
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||At 1 April 2022|52,276|6,302|58,578|
||Additions|1,038|661|1,699|
||Disposals||(242)|(242)|
||At 31 March 2023|53,314|6,721|60,035|
||Depreciation||||
||At 1 April 2022|41,420|5,660|47,080|
||Charge for the year|4,232|422|4,654|
||Disposals||(158)|(158)|
||At 31 March 2023|45,652|5,924|51,576|
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||At 31 March 2022|10,856||11,498|
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||Accruals and deferred|income|13,163|1,830|
||Social security and other taxes||7,784||
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|Tangible|fixed assets|||8,459||8,459|
|Current|assets|||158,783||158,785|
|Creditors|less than|1|year|(22,150)||(22,150)|
|Creditors|greater than||1 year||||
|Net assets||||145,092||145,094|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|
|||||Funds|Funds|2022|
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|Tangible|fixed assets|||11,498||11,498|
|Current assets||||142,569||'l42,571|
|Creditors|less than|1|year|(2,874)||{2,874)|
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|Charitable<br>activities||||
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|Contract income||88,941|78,343|
|Other income||11,529|10,092|
|||133,467|135,942|
|Total income||133,467|135,942|
|Expenditure||||
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities|||
|Provision of an information|resource|||
|Activities undertaken<br>directly||||
|Administrative<br>staff salaries||113,424|88,791|
|Employers<br>Pension<br>Rent||3,881<br>3,360|3,652<br>3,360|
|Subscriptions<br>and memberships||'I,829|1,350|
|Conference expenses||70|160|
|iT development<br>and support<br>Insurance||1,029<br>1,660|6,246<br>705|
|Traps, nets, handbooks<br>etc<br>Travel and subsistence||2,470<br>1,092|47<br>69|
|Telephone<br>and internet||1,422|1,597|
|Printing,<br>postage and stationery||621|21|
|Amortisation<br>ofgovernment|grants|(121)|(150)|
|Depreciation||4,654|1,990|
|Loss on fixed asset disposal||84||
|Surveyor's fees|||3,028|
|Sundry expenses<br>Bank charges<br>Accountancy<br>fees||1,728<br>(120)<br>2,365|467<br>644<br>2,333|
|||139,447|114,310|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|activities|139,447|114,310|
|Net (expenditure)/income||(5,980)|21,632|



