## **Open Country**
**(A Company Charity limited by guarantee)**
Charity Number 1107331 Company Number 05155859
**Trustees’ Annual Report & Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2023**
Charity accounts preparation & independent examination service
## **Open Country**
Charity number 1107331
|**Contents**||
|---|---|
|**Index**|**Page**|
|**Annual Report of the Trustees**|**1**|
|**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**8**|
|**Statement of Financial Activities**|**9**|
|**Balance Sheet**|**10**|
|**Statement of Cash fows**|**11**|
|**Notes to the Accounts**|**12**|
**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
## **From: 1st April 2022**
## **To: 31st March 2023**
The Board of Trustees, who are also Directors of the charity for the purpose of the Companies Act 2006, present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2022. The financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities, Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP (FRS102)).
**Charities Full Name:** Open Country **Reigstered Company Number:** 5155859 **Reigstered Charity Number:** 1107331
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Summary of the purposes of the charity set out in its governing document**
(a) To promote and protect the physical and mental health of disabled people and their carers without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political or religious or other opinions by facilitating such persons to have access to the countryside with the objects of improving the conditions of life of such persons.(b) To promote education and research into the treatment and care of disabled people, in particular but not exclusively focusing on disabled access to the countryside.
**Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts**
Open Country is a Yorkshire-based organisation that seeks to enable anyone with any disability to access and enjoy the countryside. This is achieved through a variety of countryside activities and the provision of information and advice.
Our five nature conservation work parties give people with learning disabilities and mental health issues a chance to get involved in helping improve the environment throughout the local area. Four walking groups operate throughout the year, with walks ranging from two to ten miles. There are regular countryside outings to a variety of wheelchair accessible locations, including nature reserves, the seaside and country houses. We have five tandem clubs, between them covering Harrogate & Knaresborough, Ripon, Wakefield, Wetherby and York. Other groups are ‘Wild Things’ (a nature study group) and the ‘Adventure Club’ (specialising in outdoor pursuits). The ‘Care in the Countryside’ group targets people with disabilities and their family carers. ‘Wild about Wetherby’, is a project for Aspire CBC, offering day services to people from the Wetherby area.
The ‘Wild about Wakefield’ project offers inspiring activities in the West Yorkshire cathedral city.
Our ‘Countryside Advice Service’ continues to offer information and advice on aspects of countryside access for all to a wide range of individuals, statutory agencies and countryside organisations. We evaluate our activities carefully and there is clear evidence of the physical and mental benefits to our service users, in the form of improving overall health, combating social isolation and forming strong and lasting friendships.
We have 13 staff (10 FTE) and 135 dedicated volunteers. We wish to note the superb contribution made by the latter, for without our volunteers, the activities offered to our service users would be severely restricted.
Despite the undoubted funding challenges facing our sector, we are continually expanding the service we offer, offering our skills to a wider community of disabled people and carers.
**The trustees consider that they have complied with their duties to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.**
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities**
## **Our Key targets for Year Three, 2023 - 2024 are:**
- Work on realising our Third Hub, closing off any outstanding actions on researching and scoping our options. The candidate areas are Middlesbrough/Teesside, Hull/Beverley and Rotherham/Sheffield.
- Welcome around 550 people on our activities, our highest number of participants ever.
- Successfully negotiate our first full year of the Wakefield Lottery project.
- Set up two new activity sessions in Selby.
- Commence our Barnsley satellite.
- Produce Breakfree packs for York (2nd pack) & Burley-in-Wharfedale, reprint the Wakefield pack and revise two Countryside Directories, drafting a new one for the 3rd hub.
- Launch our ‘Access for All Gold Standard’.
- Establish a GAS award ‘Winners Club’, with a Conference, to better promote inclusive access.
- Field 66 Countryside Advice Service enquiries (10% increase)
- Extend our Bluespace project and launch/publish the findings.
- Continue our digital rollout, including a suite of audio walks for the Cavendish Estate.
- Improve our digital security, with an internal IT security audit completed.
- Meet our Diversity targets, including the implementation of a Hardship Fund.
- Train a staff member as our in-house MiDAS assessor. Commence internal & external training.
- Increase trustee representation on the Board, filling key roles.
- Work on promoting our Voice, both Regionally and Nationally.
- Achieve a 10% increase in our social media following.
- Recruit additional staff resource for Fundraising and Communications.
## **Achievements and Performance**
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.**
## **Key Achievements in Year Two**
The Charity continued to develop as we emerged from a pandemic operating model. Whilst operating conditions remained challenging in many ways, we managed to achieve the following:
- Commencing our ‘Bluespace’ project, working with the University of York St. John.
- Welcoming 439 people on our countryside activities, just above pre-pandemic numbers.
- Expanded our activities, with several new projects in Harrogate, Wakefield & York.
- Successfully recruited six staff, partly to facilitate new growth, in what are historically challenging times for staff recruitment.
- Achieved our first major National Lottery bid and worked to embed Wakefield as our 2nd Hub, including recruiting staff and locating a new office.
- We obtained a new minibus to help ensure the smooth running of services.
- Commenced a scoping exercise to finalise our 3rd Hub.
- Identified all but the 3rd Hub ‘Satellite’ locations for the life of the Plan - York, Selby and Barnsley.
- Continued to expand our ‘Reach’ and develop our ‘Voice’ e.g. Experience Wild Ingleborough and our work on access barrier removal.
- Fielded 60 enquiries to our Countryside Advice Service (10% increase).
- Achieved a 10% year-on-year growth in our social media following.
- Retained, grew and better utilised our network of Partners.
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Financial Review**
## **Results for the year**
As set out in the Statement of Financial activities on page 9, total income for the year was £431,639 (2022: £317,709) Net income for the year was £49,796 (2022: £20,817) During the year we received invaluable financial and in-kind support from the organisations and individuals listed in the appendix.
## **Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held**
Reserves are required to bridge the gap between expenditure and income, to cover unplanned emergency expenditure and to develop new services.
Total funds as at 31 March 2023 amounted to £461,713 (2022: £411,917) of which £384,448 (2022: £342,491) was unrestricted. However, the unrestricted funds at 31 March 2023 include functional fixed assets (eg minibuses and other equipment required for the Charity’s activities) of £83,260 that are essential for the Charity’s activities and are therefore excluded from free reserves.
Therefore, the Charity’s reserves freely available to spend at 31 March 2023 were £301,188 (2022: £291,891).
The Charity seeks to achieve sufficient reserves to cover six months’ expenditure on charitable activities (£155,000) plus the estimated costs of meeting all commitments on a winding-up of the organisation (£80,000); a total of £235,000. Despite challenging economic conditions, the trustees report that reserves freely available to spend increased during the year ended 31 March 2023, reflecting the charity’s good financial position. However we anticipate the needs for expenditure in the next two years in line with our five year stategic plan, for asset replacement and the funding of additional services and activities across existing and new locations scheduled for addition in 2023/24. Some of these initiatives will be financed from existing funds. Furthermore, we maintain reserves exceeding our policy requirements to enable us to seize opportunities for asset replacement and the development of new services, thus ensuring the sustainability and expansion of our charitible activities. The reserves policy is reviewed annually.
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
## **Type of governing document**
_Memorandum and Articles of Association form its governing document_
**How the charity is constituted** _Company limited by guarantee_
**Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees**
_Trustees are appointed by the existing trustee body_
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## **Reference and administration details**
**Charity’s Full Name: Charity’s principal address:**
Open Country
Community House 46 East Parade Harrogate HG1 5LT
## **Names of the trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Offce (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|---|
|Giles Blessed||Until 13/07/22|
|Richard Firth|Chair||
|Ian Brotherton||Until 30/11/22|
|Tracey Jackson|||
|David Robinson|Treasurer||
|David Titchmarsh|||
|Jonty Warneken|||
|Catherine Nangle||Until 15/02/23|
|Jayne Eyre||From 16/08/23|
|Michelle Tempest Mitchell||From 18/10/23|
## **Name of Company Secretary**
## **Name**
David Shaftoe
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
David Shaftoe (Chief Officer)
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Trustee responsibilities in relation to financial statements**
Company law requires the directors (trustees) to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the income and expenditure of the company for the year. In preparing those financial statements, the directors (trustees) are required to:
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- Observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material
- departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue on that basis.
The directors (trustees) are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements compy with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Members of the Board of Trustees, who are Directors for the purpose of company law, and Trustees for the purpose of charity law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 4.
## **Disclosure of information**
In so far as the Trustees are aware:
- There is no relevant information of which the Charity’s Independent Examiner is unaware;
- The Trustees have taken the necessary steps to be aware of the information, which would be relevant for independent examination purposes and have communicated them to the Independent Examiner.
## **Exemptions**
The trustees have taken advantage of the exemption available to small companies, including the audit exemption (as detailed on the balance sheet).
## **Declaration**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees Annual Report and Accounts**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature Full Name David Robinson Position Treasurer and Trustee Date**
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Appendix**
**During the Year 2022 – 2023 we received invaluable financial and in-kind support from the following organisations and individuals**
Adel Church Anna Baldwin Arnold Clark Community Fund Aspire Community Benefit Company Ltd. Benenden Health Bruce Wake Charitable Trust Coca Cola David & Julie Turner Department for Transport Doug Munro Engage Interactive Feoffees of St. Michael’s Spurriergate Four Winds Trust Harrogate Borough Council HMRC HM Young Offenders Institution Wetherby Jane Goodall Kenneth Hargreaves Charitable Trust Kirklees Council Leeds City Council Microsoft Minster Law National Lottery Community Fund NHS Charities Together NHS Personalised Care Programme NHS South West Yorkshire Partnership Nidderdale Messiah Northern Powergrid North Yorkshire County Council North Yorkshire County Councillor Matt Scott North Yorkshire County Councillor Matt Walker North Yorkshire County Councillor Monika Slater Nova Wakefield Otley Town Council The Estate of Pam Harrison Pannal Methodist Church Philip Robinson Pinewoods Conservation Group Postcode Neighbourhood Trust
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Appendix continued**
Primary Club Rotary Club of Horbury & Ossett Phoenix Trust Fund Sally Weatherill Scotton Parish Council Sharow PCC Squire Patton Boggs Charitable Trust St. John’s Knaresborough Stonebridge Homes TCV/OVO The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust The Bostock Foundation The Calmcott Trust The Charles & Elsie Sykes Trust The Cheridan Raithby Charitable Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust The Duke of Devonshire’s 1949 Charitable Trust The Fitton Trust The friends and family of Chris Mills The friends and family of Nichola Emmerson The George A. Moore Foundation The Hobson Charity The Opportunity Holiday Trust The Shears Foundation The Sylvia & Colin Shepherd Charitable Trust The Tony Bramall Charitable Trust The Whitwam Family Charitable Foundation Tom & Julie Leggett Two Ridings Community Foundation/Nimbuscare Waitrose Limited Wakefield Council Wakefield & District Health & Community Support Wakefield Recovery & Wellbeing College West Riding Masonic Charities Limited White Rose Forest/Kirklees Council Woodland Trust Woodroffe Benton Foundation WWF-UK W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust Yorkshire Water Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Open Country**
I report on the accounts of: **Open Country**
For the year ended: **31st March 2023** Which are set out on pages 9 to 23
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 386 of the Act; **or**
2. the accounts do not accord with those records
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination;
## **or**
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Karen Wood (ACMA) Outsource independent examination service The Hiscox Building Peasholme Green York YO1 7PR
12/12/2023
Date
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|**31st March 2023**
**Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended**|**31st March 2023**
**Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended**|
|---|---|
|**Note**
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
**3**
**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
Investments
**Total income**
**Total expenditure**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**Gross transfer between funds**
**Net movement in funds**
**Total funds brought forward**
**Total funds carried forward**
Other income
4.1
**4**
11.2
**Expenditure on**
Charitable activities|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**2023**
**Total**
**2022**
£
£
£
£
33,491
600
34,091
35,375
179,437
207,888
387,325
259,449
1,231
-
1,231
1,899
8,992
-
8,992
20,986|
||**223,151**
**208,488**
**431,639**
**317,709**|
||234,743
147,100
381,843
296,892|
||**234,743**
**147,100**
**381,843**
**296,892**|
|||
||**(11,592)**
**61,388**
**49,796**
**20,817**|
||53,549
(53,549)
-
-|
||**41,957**
**7,839**
**49,796**
**20,817**|
||342,491
69,426
411,917
391,100|
||**384,448**
**77,265**
**461,713**
**411,917**|
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## **Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|**Balance Sheet as at**|**31st March 2023**|
|---|---|
|**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
**Total fxed assets**
**Note**
**8**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Total fxed assets**
Debtors & prepayments
**7**
**9**
**Current liabilities: amounts falling due**
**within one year**
Creditors and accruals
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Net current assets**
**10**
**Funds of the Charity**
Unrestricted Funds (General)
Restricted Funds
**Total Funds Carried Forward**
**11**
**11**
**11&12**|**2023**
**2022**
£
£
83,260
50,600|
||360,212
345,443
20,201
21,121|
||**380,413**
**366,564**|
||(1,960)
(5,247)|
||**378,453**
**361,317**|
||**461,713**
**411,917**|
|||
||384,448
342,491
77,265
69,426
**461,713**
**411,917**|
The trustees are satisfied that the company is entitled to exemption from the provisions of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act) relating to the audit of the financial statements for the year by virtue of section 477, and that no member or members have requested an audit pursuant to section 476 of the Act.
## The directors (trustees) acknowledge their responsibilities for:
i) ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and
ii) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company at the end of each financial year and of its profit and loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies and with the 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 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)).
The financial statements were approved by the trustees on
and signed on their behalf by:
David Robinson **Trustee**
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## **Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|**Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended**|**31st March 2023**|
|---|---|
|**Cash fows from operating activities**
**Net income/(expenditure) for the year**
**Add:**Depreciation for the year
**Working capital changes**
**Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities**
(Increase)/decrease in debtors
Increase/decrease in creditors
**Cash fows used in investing activities**
**Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year**
**Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March 2023**
Purchase of fxed assets
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April 2022|**Total**
**2023**
**Total**
**2022**
£
£
49,796
20,817
21,576
21,991|
||**71,372**
**42,808**
920
(3,369)
(3,287)
3,211|
||**69,005**
**42,650**|
||**(54,236)**
**(4,825)**|
||14,769
37,825
345,443
307,618|
||**360,212**
**345,443**|
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**Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
**Notes to the accounts for the year ended**
**31st March 2023**
## **1 Basis of preparation**
## **1.1 Basis of accounting**
The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention and the 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 (Charities SORP (FRS 102)).
## **1.2 Change of basis of accounting**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and methods of accounting) since last year.
## **1.3 Change to previous accounts**
No changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
## **2 Accounting policies**
## **Income and endowments**
## **Recognition of income**
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
- the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
- receipt of the resources is probable; and
- the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Incoming resources with related expenditure**
Where incoming resources have related expenditure, the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.
## **Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has evidence of entitlement to the resources and receipt is probable.
## **Volunteer help**
The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the trustees’ annual report.
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## **Expenditure and liabilities**
## **Expenditure**
## **Raising funds**
Cost of raising funds comprise those costs associated with attracting voluntary income.
## **Charitable activities**
Charitable activities expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
## **Liability recognition**
Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources.
## **Assets**
## **Tangible fixed assets for use by the charity**
These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year and cost at least £2,000. They are valued at cost or, if gifted, at the value to the charity on receipt, less depreciation.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are funds which are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are funds which can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor.
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## **Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|**Notes to the accounts for the year ended**
**31st March 2023**|**Notes to the accounts for the year ended**
**31st March 2023**|
|---|---|
|Donations &
legacies
**Donations and**
**legacies**
**3.1**
Gift aid
Grants
**Charitable**
**activities**
**3.2**
Wild About
Wetherby project
NYCC social
services
Self funders
Transport
contributions
Trips income
Tandem income
Bus Service
Operators’ Grant
Work party income
Interest received
**Investments**
**3.3**
**3.4**
**Other income**
JRS Grant
Head offce
recharges
Sundry income
**Total income**|**2022**
**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**2023**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**2022**
£
£
£
£
£
33,019
600
33,619
25,422
8,200
33,622
472
-
472
1,753
-
1,753
|
||**33,491**
**600**
**34,091**
**27,175**
**8,200**
**35,375**|
||35,503
207,888
243,391
22,106
127,644
149,750
32,425
-
32,425
32,425
-
32,425
500
-
500
-
-
-
80,942
-
80,942
64,690
-
64,690
6,511
-
6,511
3,532
-
3,532
6,150
-
6,150
992
-
992
3,821
-
3,821
2,535
-
2,535
1,995
-
1,995
1,995
-
1,995
11,590
-
11,590
3,530
-
3,530|
||**179,437**
**207,888**
**387,325**
**131,805**
**127,644**
**259,449**|
||1,231
-
1,231
1,899
-
1,899|
||**1,231**
**-**
**1,231**
**1,899**
**-**
**1,899**|
||-
-
-
6,603
-
6,603
8,712
-
8,712
13,710
-
13,710
280
-
280
673
-
673|
||**8,992**
**-**
**8,992**
**20,986**
**-**
**20,986**|
|||
||**223,151**
**208,488**
**431,639**
**181,865**
**135,844**
**317,709**|
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## **Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|**4.1**|**Charitable**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**activities**|**funds 2023**|**funds 2023**|**2023**|**funds 2022**|**funds 2022**|**2022**|
||||£|£|£|£|£|
||Staff:|||||||
||- salaries and|144,229|106,137|250,366|104,542|74,639|179,181|
||pensions|||||||
||- training|5,423|4,192|9,615|2,464|274|2,738|
||- subsistence|718|-|718|478|-|478|
||- travel expenses|131|62|193|87|-|87|
||- recruitment costs|2,332|660|2,992|340|**-**|340|
||- uniform &
protective equip.|1,015|-|1,015|372|204|576|
||Volunteer’s expenses|1,106|134|1,240|1,063|480|1,543|
||Activitiy expenses:|||||||
||- activity fees and
costs|3,493|5,706|9,199|2,692|8,169|10,861|
||- tandem costs|401|9,967|10,368|536|4,510|5,046|
||- allotment|236|641|877|94|-|94|
||- insurance|2,752|-|2,752|2,216|-|2,216|
||Project costs:|||||||
||- Conservation
materials|420|750|1,170|366|730|1,096|
||- Wild about
Wetherby|79|18|97|13|-|13|
||Vehicles:|||||||
||- fuel and oil|10,335|-|10,335|6,391|-|6,391|
||- repairs and
servicing|6,035|-|6,035|3,947|-|3,947|
||- insurance|3,137|-|3,137|537|3,452|3,989|
||Small equipment
and tools|(379)|737|358|1,225|2,274|3,499|
||Mower & trailer|138|-|138|171|-|171|
||maintenance|||||||
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## **Open Country**
(Charity Number 1107331)
|Administration
expenses:
- rent
- cleaning and
maintenance
- health and safety
- advertising & PR
- printing and
stationary
- postage and
telephone
- IT and internet
- subscriptions
- other
- payroll bureau
fees
- bookkeeping
Depreciation
Legal &
professional fees
Bank charges
Head offce
recharges
**Total expenditure**|6,891
4,323
11,214
6,407
-
6,407
70
279
349
123
-
123
2,152
-
2,152
786
1,732
2,518
442
512
954
709
4,177
4,886
1,806
2,040
3,846
921
5,821
6,742
1,242
173
1,415
1,579
-
1,579
7,445
2,025
9,470
912
2,000
2,912
260
-
260
367
-
367
502
32
234
381
-
381
909
-
909
704
-
704
2,706
-
2,706
-
-
-
21,576
-
21,576
21,991
-
21,991
6,806
**-**
6,806
12,045
-
12,045
335
-
335
261
-
261
-
8,712
8,712
-
13,710
13,710|
|---|---|
||**234,743**
**147,100**
**381,834**
**174,720**
**122,172**
**296,892**|
|||
||**234,743**
**147,100**
**381,843**
**174,720**
**122,172**
**296,892**|
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**31st March 2023**
## **Notes to the accounts for the year ended**
## **5 Trustee expenses and examination fees**
## **5.1 Trustee expenses**
No trustees received a remuneration for services rendered during the year, nor were any trustees’ out of pocket expenses reimbursed.
|Independent Examiner’s fees for reporting on the accounts
**Fees for examination of the accounts**
**5.2**
Other fees paid to the Independent Examiner (BSOG
authorisation)
**aff costs and emoluments**
Gross wages, salaries and benefts inkind
Employers national insurance
Employers pension contributions
Average number of employees||**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**|
|---|---|---|
|||**660**
**660**|
|||**80**
**80**|
|||**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
230,727
167,510
14,785
8,507
4,854
3,164|
||**250,366**
**179,181**||
||||
||||
||**10**
**6**||
## **6 Staff costs and emoluments**
## **7 Cash at bank and in hand**
|Current bank account
Deposit bank accounts
Cash in hand|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**2023**
**Total**
**2022**
£
£
£
50,228
77,265
127,493
114,006
232,409
-
232,409
231,178
310
-
310
259|
|---|---|
||**282,947**
**77,265**
**360,212**
**345,443**|
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|**9 Debtors and prepayments**
**Amounts falling due within one year**
Debtors
Prepayments and accrued income
**10 Creditors and accruals**
**Amounts falling due within one year**
Accruals
Pension & other creditors
**8 Fixed assets**
At 1st April 2022
Additions in year
Disposals in year
at 31st March 2023
**Tangible fxed assets**
**Cost or valuation**
**8.1**
At 1st April 2022
Charge for the year
at 31st March 2023
Disposals
**Depreciation**
At 31st March 2023
At 31st March 2022
**Net Book Value**|**Vehicles**
**£**
156,563
54,236
-|**Equipment**
**Total**
**£**
**£**
25,123
181,686
-
54,236
-
-|
|---|---|---|
||**210,799**|**25,123**
**235,922**|
||||
||**£**
114,326
16,475
-|**£**
**£**
16,760
131,086
5,101
21,576
-
-|
||**130,801**|**21,861**
**152,662**|
||**£**|**£**
**£**|
||**79,998**|**3,262**
**83,260**|
||**42,237**|**8,363**
**50,600**|
||**Total**
**Total**|**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
17,489
19,437
2,712
1,684|
|||**20,201**
**21,121**|
||||
|||**2023**
**2022**
**£**
**£**
1,960
4,865
-
382|
|||**1,960**
**5,247**|
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## **11 Movement of funds**
## **11.1 Movement of major funds**
|Grocer’s charity
Ninevah
29th May 1961
D’Oyly Carte
**Total conservation**
**Conservation**
**Restricted funds**
Minibuses
H. Catley
Awards for All
Community Fund
Wild about Wakefeld
**2023**
**Fund name**
**Unrestricted funds**
General funds
Family of C Hawkin
Ripon tandem
Jack Brunton
Feoffees of St Michael
NHS
TR Heart of Selby
Benendon
**Activities**
Primary Club
West Riding Masonic
**Total activities**|**Balance**
**b/fwd**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**Outgoing**
**resources**
**Transfers**
**Balance**
**c/fwd**|
|---|---|
||**342,491**
**223,151**
**234,743**
**53,549**
**384,448**|
||9,500
44,000
-
(53,500)
-
2,987
100
-
-
3,087
8,031
-
2,166
-
5,865
-
97,651
79,880
-
17,771
15,028
21,736
14,081
-
22,683
3,000
2,000
2,000
-
3,000
3,278
-
3,278
-
-
1,226
-
1,226
-
-
750
-
750
-
-
-
4,200
4,200
-
-
-
4,155
1,811
-
2,344
10,000
-
561
-
9,439
-
2,000
2,000
-
-
-
2,070
2,070
-
-|
||**18,254**
**14,425**
**17,896**
**-**
**14,783**|
||739
-
739
-
-
3,667
-
3,667
-
-
-
3,000
3,000
-
-
-
3,000
-
-
3,000|
||**4,406**
**6,000**
**7,406**
**-**
**3,000**|
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|**Mental Health**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Leeds hospital|**2,083**|**12,500**|**14,583**|**-**|**-**|
|**Miscellaneous**||||||
|Two Ridings|-|4,913|-|-|4,913|
|Hey Smile|8,079|-|8,030|(49)|-|
|NYCC locality|1,058|2,000|3,058|-|-|
|Whitwam Family|-|5,163|-|-|5,163|
||**9,137**|**12,076**|**11,088**|**(49)**|**10,076**|
|||||||
|**Total Restricted Funds**|**69,426**|**208,488**|**147,100**|**(53,549)**|**77,265**|
|||||||
|**Total Funds**|**411,917**|**431,639**|**381,843**|**-**|**461,713**|
|**Movement of major funds**
**11.1**|**(continued)**|||||
|**2022**
**Fund name**|**Balance**
**b/fwd**|**Incoming**
**resources**|**Outgoing**
**resources**|**Transfers**|**Balance**
**c/fwd**|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||||
|General funds|**330,521**|**181,865**|**174,720**|**4,825**|**342,491**|
|**Restricted funds**||||||
|Minibuses|-|9,500|-|-|9,500|
|Mower|3,500|-|-|(3,500)|-|
|Infection control Fund|-|27,204|27,204|-|-|
|H. Catley|2,837|150|-|-|2,987|
|Wheelchair|262|-|262|-|-|
|Awards for All|9,429|-|1,398|-|8,031|
|Wild about Wakefeld|41,489|28,546|53,682|(1,325)|15,028|
|**Activities**||||||
|Primary Club|-|3,000|-|-|3,000|
|Family of C Hawkin|-|5,050|1,772|-|3,278|
|Ripon tandem|-|2,958|1,732|-|1,226|
|Jack Brunton|-|3,000|2,250|-|750|
|Two Ridings|2,862|2,877|5,739|-|-|
|Hedley Foundation|-|2,000|2,000|-|-|
|TR Heart of Selby|-|10,000|-|-|10,000|
|**Total activities**|**2,862**|**28,885**|**13,493**|**-**|**18,254**|
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## **Open Country**
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## **Conservation**
|Yorkshire Water
Grocer’s charity
Ninevah
29th May 1961
**Total conservation**
Betty’s
**Mental Health**
Leeds hospital
**Total Restricted Funds**
**Total Funds**
City Connect
Hey Smile
NYCC locality
**Miscellaneous**|200
-
200
-
-
-
4,992
4,992
-
-
-
2,211
1,472
-
739
-
4,000
333
-
3,667
-
3,000
3,000
-
-|
|---|---|
||**200**
**14,203**
**9,997**
**-**
**4,406**|
|||
||**-**
**12,500**
**10,417**
**-**
**2,083**|
||-
4,984
4,984
-
-
-
8,814
735
-
8,079
-
1,058
-
-
1,058|
||**-**
**14,856**
**5,719**
**-**
**9,137**|
|||
||**60,579**
**135,844**
**122,172**
**(4,825)**
**69,426**|
|||
||**391,100**
**317,709**
**296,892**
**-**
**411,917**|
## **11.2 Transfer between funds**
As permitted by the Charity SORP (FRS102), tangible fixed assets of £53,500 have been transferred from restricted to unrestricted funds. These assets were purchased from grants or donations which were restricted funds but are now held for a general and not a restricted purpose.
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## **11.3 Details of Funds Held**
## **Unrestricted Funds General**
The general fund is unrestricted and available for general purposes.
## **Restricted Funds**
The restricted funds are only available for the purposes specified for each fund, which are:
## **Minibuses**
A fund reflecting grants and donations received for the acquisition of minibuses in future periods.
## **H. Catley**
A fund to finance or subsidise breaks.
## **Awards for All**
Big Lottery funding towards ‘adventure’ weekend trips.
## **Community Fund**
National Lottery Community funding to provide a range of activities in the Wakefield district.
## **Wild about Wakefield**
To fund a project officer and activities in Wakefield.
## **Activities**
Grants contributing towards the running of tandem clubs,walking groups and other activities.
## **Conservation**
Grants contributing towards the costs of conservation activities and biodiversity projects.
## **Mental Health**
Grant towards Covid recovery work for people with mental health.
## **Miscellaneous**
Grants for breakfree packs, allotment project & IT equipment.
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## **12 Net assets between funds**
|**et assets between funds**||
|---|---|
|**Balances at 31st March 2023**
Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
**Balances at 31st March 2022**
Current assets
Fixed assets
Current liabilities|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total 2023**
£
£
£
83,260
-
83,260
303,148
77,265
380,413
(1,960)
-
(1,960)|
||**384,448**
**77,265**
**461,713**|
|||
||**Funds**
**Funds**
**2022**
£
£
£
50,600
-
50,600
305,985
60,579
366,564
(5,247)
-
(5,247)|
||**351,338**
**60,579**
**411,917**|
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