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|Incorporation:|Incorporation:||Company<br>limited<br>by guarantee||on 23 September 2004|on 23 September 2004|||
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|Company|number:||6239365||||||
|Charity registration:|||1107240||||||
|Registered|office:||Ackers Base Camp, Golden<br>Hillock Road, Sparkbrook,<br>Birmingham,|||||8112PY|
|Governing|body:||Board ofdirectors, who are also trustees,|||are disclosed|on page 3||
|Senior management||team:|Steven Jewell||Chief|Executive Officer|||
||||Sue Macheath||Finance and Fund Raising Manager||||
||||Mark Scott||Head|ofWinter Sports Activities|||
||||Mike Owen||Head|ofAdventurous|Activities||
|Audkors:|||Messrs Malcolm Wlllcox &Co||||||
||||Chartered Certifie Accountants||and Registered<br>Auditors||||
||||Hagley House, 93 Hagley Road,||Edgbaston,|Birmingham,|B168LA||
|Bankers:|||The Co-operative<br>Bank Pic||||||
||||1Balloon Street, Manchester,|M60 4EP|||||





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|||Notes|Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Fund|Funds|Tota I|Total|
||||f|f|f|f|
|INCOME|||||||
|Income from:|||||||
|Covid grants:|||||||
|Job Retention Scheme||||||6,710|
|Birmingham<br>City Council||||||32,000|
|||||||38,710|
|General grants||(8)|16,500|91,701|108,201|70,960|
|General use ofthe|site||9,288||9,288|8,220|
|Ski slope admissions|||205,536||205,536|180,764|
|Outdoor activities admissions|||167,253||167,253|100,767|
|Sales ofrefreshments|||14,866||14,866|7,511|
|Ackers Residential|Centre||28,507||28,507|12,335|
|Use ofAdventurous|Events Tower||5,994||5,994|4,892|
|Donations|||67||67|175|
|Donations<br>in kind|||||||
|Total income|||448,011|91,701|539,712|424,334|
|EXPENDITURE||(9)|||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||393,288|128,626|521,914|416,490|
|Fund raising|||3,020||3,020|2,120|
|Tata<br>I expenditure|||(396,308)|(128,626)|(524,934)|(418,610)|
|Net income/expenditure||(10)|51,703|( 36,925)|14,778|5,724|
|Total funds at 1April 2022|||690,527|377,043|1,067,570|1,061,846|
|Total funds at 31March 2023|||742,230|340,118|1,082,348|1,067,570|





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|TANGIBLE<br>FIXED ASSETS||(2)||888,997||922,890|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Stock||(3)|299||191||
|Debtors||( 4 )|61,878||56,864||
|Cash at bank and|In hand||304,939||221,630||
||||367,116||278,685||
|CREDITORS- falling due|||||||
|within one year||( 5 )|(173,765)||(134,005)||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||||193,351||144,680|
|||||1,082,348||1,067,570|
|ACCUMULATED<br>FUNDS|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>fund||||742,230||690,527|
|Restricted funds||(6)||340,118||377,043|
|||||1,082,348||1,067,570|






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|Net cash inflow from activities|||88,304||61,627|
|Purchase oftangible|fixed assets|(|4,995)|||
|Increase<br>in cash at bank|||83,309||61,627|
|Cash at bank and<br>In|hand at 1April 2022|221,630|||160,003|
|Cash at bank and<br>In|hand at 31March 2023|304,939|||221,630|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF NET INCOME TO||||||
|NET CASH INFLOW FROM ACTIVITIES||||||
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|Net Income|||14,778||5,724|
|Depreciation|||38,888||38,005|
|Increase<br>in debtors||(|5,014)|(|18,268)|
|Increase<br>in creditors|||39,760||36,206|
|Increase<br>In stocks||(|108)|(|40)|
|Net cash Inflow from|activities||||61,627|





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||The Norman<br>Davies Centre Improvements|29Sstraight-Rne|||
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|0|Ackers Base Camp|296straight-line|||
|0|Adventurous<br>Events Tower|596straight-line|||
|0|Computer<br>Equipment|33.39Sreducing||balance|
|Cl|Plant and Equipment|209S reducing|balance||



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|TANGIBLE FIXED|ASSETS|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Lang Leasehold|Plant &||
||||Property<br>f|Equipment<br>f|Total<br>f|
|Cost:||||||
|At 1April 2022|||1,354,878|53,372|1,408,250|
|Additions||||4,995|4,995|
|At 31March 2023|||1,354,878|58,367|1,413,245|
|Depredation:||||||
|At 1April 2022|||433,133|52,227|485,360|
|Charge for year|||37,433|1,455|38,888|
|At31March 2023|||470,566|53,682|524,248|
|Net book values:||||||
|At 31March 2023|||884,312|4,685|888,997|
|At 31March 2022|||921,745|1,145|922,890|
|Notes:||||||
|The cost of long leasehold||property comprises:||||
|Adventurous|Events|Tower|||344,549|
|CI<br>Ackers Base Camp Building|||||563,976|
|E3<br>The Norman|Davles|Centre improvements|||446,353|
||||||1,354,878|



|Capital ex|penditure<br>authorized<br>at 31March 2023, but not provide|d for In the accounts amounted<br>tofNil (|2022-fNilh|
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|STOCK||||
|Drinks and|snacks||191|
|DEBTORS||||
|Operating|debtors|61,212|53,510|
|Prepaid expenditure||666|853|
|Other debtors|||2,501|
|||61,878|56,864|
|CREDITORS - amounts falling due||||
|within one|year.|||
|Operating|creditors|63,937|45,409|
|Other creditors and accrued expenses||31,933|24,560|
|Income<br>In|advance|77,895|64,036|
|||173,765|134,005|





||||At 1.4.22|Income|Expenditure|Expenditure|At 31.3.23|
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|RESTRICTED FUNDS||||||||
|Display equipment|||1,000||||1,000|
|Matting & Ski equipment|||3,894|50,336|(|52,001)|2,229|
|Jungle/Adventure|Trek||4,409||||4,409|
|The Tower|||103,370||(|17,227)|86,143|
|Environmental<br>&volunteer||days|2,114||(|1293)|821|
|Promotional<br>event|||750||||750|
|The Norman<br>Davies Centre||re-development|204,352||(|8,927)|195,425|
|Beyond Adventure-3km/SEND|||19,987|17,600|(|17,822)|19,765|
|Watersport<br>equipment|||9,006|2,500|(|5,616)|5,890|
|Friends ofAckers|||11,667||(|181)|11,486|
|Ski Coffee Bar|||7,644||(|794)|6,850|
|Mike Uoyd and Jon Hoemer|||3,150||||3,150|
|Snowsport<br>Ladles|Group|||2,000|(|2,000)||
|Apprentice<br>Grant||||6,000|(|6,000)||
|Climbing/Archery|equipment||2,200||||2,200|
|Picnic Areas||||9,765|(|9,765)||
|Youth Club||||3,500|(|7,000)||
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Fund|Funds|Total|
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|31March 2023|||||
|Tangible|Rxed assets|576,634|312,363|888,997|
|Current assets||339,361|27,755|367,116|
|Creditors|due within one year|(173,765)||( 173,765)|
|||742,230|340,118|1,082,348|
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|||Fund|Funds|Total|
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|31March 2022|||||
|Tangible|Rxed assets|584,351|338,539|922,890|
|Current assets||240,181|38,504|278,685|
|Creditors|due within one year|( 134,005)||( 134,005)|
|||690,527|377,043|1,067,570|





|YEAR|ENDED 31MARCH 2023||||||||
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||||||Unrestricted<br>f|Restricted<br>f|2023f|2022<br>f|
|8|GRANTS||||||||
||City of Birmingham|grant for rent|||16,500||16,500|16,500|
||Other gta nts (Note 6)|||||91,701|91,701|54,460|
||||||16,500|91,701|108,201|70,960|
|9|ANALYSIS OF RESOURCES EXPENDED BYACI'IVITIES||||||||
||||||Charitable|Raising|2023|2022|
||||||Activities|Funds|Total|Total|
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||Staffcosts||||||||
||Salaries and wages||||230,804|2,584|233,388|204,897|
||National<br>Insurance||||16,459|252|16,711|13,751|
||Pension costs||||7,580|129|7,709|6,893|
||Staff training||||3,248||3,248|2,770|
||Direct costs||||||||
||Activity operating|costs|including freelance Instructors||16,564||16,564|16,569|
||Drink and snacks for resale||||6,624||6,624|3,288|
||Other overheads||||||||
||General repairs<br>and maintenance||||12,098||12,098|12,850|
||Site security||||3,937||3,937|6,950|
||Heat and light less|refund|||9,325||9,325|11,655|
||Rent, rates and insurance||||31,890||31,890|29,619|
||Surplus Insurance|provision —prior year||||||( 10,650)|
||Cleaning||||4,683||4,683|3,673|
||Travel and car allowances||||320||320||
||Printing<br>and stationery||||494||534|237|
||Advertising,<br>marketing||and webslte||12,084||12,084|8,330|
||Telephones||||5,068||5,068|4,457|
||Pastage||||182|15|197|56|
||Online<br>booking<br>systems||and other computer costs||4,783||4,783|4,851|
||Miscellaneous||||1,099||1,099|2,565|
||Legaland<br>professlonalcharges||||6,120||6,120|6,480|
||Payrog processing||||3,991||3,991|3,871|
||Bank charges||||2,791||2,791|2,747|
||Hire ofequipment||||432||432|916|
||Depreciation||||12712||12,712|11,818|
||||||393,288|3,020|396,308|348,641|
||Spedffc grants expenditure||||128,626||128,626|69,969|
||||||521,914|3,020|524,934|418,610|
||1he above expenditure||includes support|and governance|costs as follows:||||
||Support casts:||||||||
||Staff and related costs||||||65,264|57,078|
||Accounting<br>and administration||||||3991|3,871|
||||||||69,255||
||Governance costs:||||||||
||Audit fee||||||6,120|6,060|
||Other professional|and|legal costs|||||320|
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|||f|E|
|SpeciRc grants expenditure:||||
|Staff costs||15,000|7+72|
|Subsldlslng|activities|15,822|1,600|
|Depreciation||26,176|26,187|
|Equipment||69,628|34,610|
|Marketing||2,000||
|||128,626|69,969|



|10|NET INCOME||||
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||This Isstated after charging:||||
||Depreciation||38,888|38,005|
||Auditors remuneration-audit||6,120|6,060|
|11|STAFF||||
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||The average weekly number|ofemployees|||
||during the year calculated|on the basis of|||
||full time equivalents<br>was as follows:||||
||Administration<br>and support||||
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