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|Annual
Report and Accounts 2022-23.|Annual
Report and Accounts 2022-23.|Annual
Report and Accounts 2022-23.|Annual
Report and Accounts 2022-23.||||||
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|Contents.|||||||||
|About Freshwater
Habitats
Trust|||||||||
|Overview.|||||||||
|Our|activities
in 2022/23.||||||||
|1.|People, Ponds and Water project —legacy||||work||||
|2.|Work on ponds with Natural|England.|||||||
|3.|Work with the National
Trust|.......|||||||
|4.|Environmental
DNA.|||||||10|
|5.|Catchment
management
work.....||||||||
||New Forest catchment||||||||
||River Ock catchment||||||||
||River Thame catchment||||||||
||Irfon Catchment
Resilient Freshwater|||Habitats||.....||12|
||Other catchment
projects .. .|.......||||||12|
|6.|Building the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire||||Freshwater||Network.|12|
|7.|Saving Oxfords Wetland
Wildlife|||||||14|
|8.|Restoring
Oxfordshire's
SSSIFens ................................................................................|||||||14|
|9.|Water Friendly
Farming||||||||
|10.|Pitsford Water Friendly
Farming|||||||15|
|11.|Newt Conservation
Partnership||Great|Crested||Newt District Licensing scheme ....||15|
|12.|Saving Nidderdale's
Priority|Ponds||||||16|
|13.|Testing the Waters: Breeks Fen||Edge|and|Rivers Citizen Science project..............|||16|
|14.|Natural
Environment
Investment||Readiness||Fund (NEIRF) .|||17|
|15.|PONDERFUL|||||||17|
|16.|Doddington
Rewilding|||||||.17|
|17.|European
Pond Conservation|Network||||||...17|
|Plans for 2023-24.||||||||...18|
|Reference Details.||||||||...19|
||Board ofTrustees; ...|||||||...19|
||Company
Secretary:
.|||||||...19|
||Senior Management
Team:||||||||
||Registered
Office: .|||||||...19|
Auditors......
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Bankers=.......................
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structure, governance, and management.................................................................................. 20
Public Benefit.....................
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Key Management Personnel Remuneration.................................................................
Fundraising Standards Information...................................
Objects....................
Mission statement....................
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Risk managemenl................................................................................................................... 21
Data Protection.......................................-............................................................................... 21
Financial review.................................................................................................................. 22
Income.. ... . ................................................................. ............................
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Expenditure....................................
Reserves position.......................................................................... .
Reserves policy..........................................
Statement of Trustees, Responsibilities....................................................................
Principal risks and uncertainties and summary of plans and strategies for managing
the risks..
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Approval.......
Small Company Rules..... ..................................... ..................................
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|||Note|funds|funds|funds|funds|
||||2023|2023|2023|2022|
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|Income from:|||||||
|Grants and donations|||14,823|1,635,726|1,650,549|330,032|
|Investments|||1,275||1,275|51|
|Charitable
activities|||1,150,933|43,900|1,194,833|992,730|
|Total income|||1,167,031|1,679,626|2,846,657|1,322,813|
|Expenditure
on:|||||||
|Raising funds|||1,173|80|1,253|4,357|
|Charitable
activities|||1,012,416|1,430,775|2,443,191|1,277,154|
|Total expenditure|||1,013,589|1,430,855|2,444,444|1,281,511|
|Net income/(expenditure)|||153,442|248,771|402,213|41,203|
|Transfers
between|funds|17|(15,806)|15,806|||
|Net movement
in funds|||137,636|264,577|402,213|41,302|
|Fund balances at|1stApril 2022||565,433|66,556|631,989|590,687|
|Fund balances at|31st March 2023||703,069|331,133|1,034,202|631,989|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Cash flow from operating|activities:||||||||
|Net cash provided
by operating
activities||(below)|||||(260,912)|283,780|
|Cash flows from investing|activities:||||||||
|Payments
to acquire tangible|fixed assets||||||(13,092)||
|Interest income|||||||1,275|51|
|Net cash used in investing|activities||||||(11,816)|51|
|Change
in cash and cash equivalents||in|reporting|period|||(272,729)|283,832|
|Cash and cash equivalents
at the beginning|||ofthe reporting||period||979,683|695,851|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the end|of|the reporting||period||706,954|979,683|
|Reconciliation
of net income to net cash|||flow from|operating||activities|||
|Net income (as per the statement
offinancial|||activities)||||402,213|41,302|
|Investment
income|||||||(1,275)|(51)|
|Adjustment
for:|||||||||
|Depreciation
and amortisation
Increase/decrease
in stocks
Increase/decrease
in debtors|charges||||||1,913
(2,346)
(301,576)|(1,480)
(1,075)
(312,049)|
|Increase/decrease
in creditors|||||||(359,841)|557,133|
|Net cash provided
by operating
activities|||||||(260,912)|283,780|
|Analysis ofcash and cash|equivalents|and net debt|||||||
|Bank current accounts|||||||182,756|146,760|
|Bank deposit accounts|||||||524,198|832,923|
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||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Project Activities||||||||||
|Bartley Water 8|Fletchwood|WEIF (RR)||||||323|323|
|Breeks (RR)||||||||6,618|6,618|
|CPAF New Forest Hosting (RR)||||||||27,000|27,000|
|CPAF Ock Hosting (RR)||||||||7,500|7,500|
|CPAF Thame Hosting (RR)||||||||7,500|7,500|
|NF Blue Horizon|(Halo) (RR)|||||||29,122|29,122|
|NF Wilder for Water (Recreation)|||(RR)|||||30,593|30,593|
|Green Recovery|Fund HLF Oxford (RR)|||||||636,198|636,198|
|Nidderdale
(RR)||||||||45,197|45,197|
|Ock Arable (III)WEIF (RR)||||||||20,000|20,000|
|Ponderful
H2020|(RR)|||||||192,259|192,259|
|River Irfon (RR)||||||||235,280|235,280|
|Saving Oxford Wetland
Wildlife (RR)||||||||5,275|5,275|
|GRCF NF (RR)||||||||192,754|192,754|
|Ock —Catchment|Partnership|Support||Fund||||22,000|22,000|
|Thame —Catchment
Partnership|||Support||Fund|||22,000|22,000|
|The Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire|||Freshwater|||Network||101,107|101,107|
|Pitsford||||||||30,000|30,000|
|WFF 21-27||||||||25,000|25,000|
|NEIRF|||||||1,676||1,676|
||||||||1,676|1,635,726|1,637,402|
|Other||||||||||
|Individual
Donations|||||||6,632||6,632|
|Support Scheme|||||||6,515||6,515|
||||||||13,147||13,147|
|Total grants and|donations||||||14,823|1,635,726|1,650,549|
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|Grants and donations|—2022|—2022|—2022|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||||2022|
||||||||E|
|Project Activities||||||||
|Bartley Water 8 Fletchwood|||WEIF (RR)|||74,960|74,960|
|Breeks (RR)||||||32,362|32,362|
|CPAF New Forest Hosting||(RR)||||27,000|27,000|
|CPAF Ock Hosting (RR)||||||7,500|7,500|
|CPAF Thame Hosting (RR)||||||7,500|7,500|
|NF Blue Horizon
(Halo)|(RR)|||||3,729|3,729|
|NF Wilder for Water (Recreation)||||(RR)||10,452|10,452|
|Green Recovery Fund HLF Oxford (RR)||||||116,971|116,971|
|NF Catchments
(RR)||||||3,889|3,889|
|Nidderdale
(RR)||||||300|300|
|Ock Arable (ill) WEIF (RR)||||||39,903|39,903|
|Ponderful
H2020 (RR)||||||(95,000)|(95,000)|
|River Irfon (RR)||||||31,237|31,237|
|Saving Oxford Wetland|Wildlife (RR)|||||41,430|41,430|
|Harcourt
Hill, Oxfordshire||Fens, TOE2 (RR)||||4,384|4,384|
|Mid Thame Development||Funding||(RTCT) —Manor Farm||9,450|9,450|
|||||||316,068|316,068|
|Other||||||||
|Individual
Donations|||||4,440||4,440|
|Support Scheme|||||8,913||8,913|
|Other|||||610||610|
||||||13,964|316,068|330,032|
|Total grants and donations|||||13,964|316,068|330,032|
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|3.|Charitable
activities|Charitable
activities||||
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||Year to 31st INarch 2023||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||2023|
||Project activities||1,146,706|43,900|1,190,606|
||Corporate
membership|and sponsorship|4,227||4,227|
||||1,150,933|43,900|1,194,833|
||Year to 31stMarch 2022||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||2022|
||Project activities||989,250||989,250|
||Corporate
membership|and sponsorship|3,480||3,480|
||||992,730||992,730|
|4.|Raising funds|||||
||Year to31st March 2023||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||2023f|
||Support costs||1,173|80|1,253|
||||1,173|80|1,253|
||Year to 31st March 2022||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||||2022f|
||Support costs||4,357||4,357|
||||4,357||4,357|
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|||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|
|Grants payable||42,827|3,750|
|Staff costs||810,131|543,901|
|Project activities||1,269,740|550,230|
|Support costs (see note 6)||320,493|179,273|
|||2,443,191|1,277,154|
|Grants payable||||
|||2023|2022|
|||E||
|project partners:||||
|Long Mead Foundation||24,350||
|River Thame Conservation|Trust|18,477|3,750|
|||42,827|3,750|
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|Support costs|Support costs||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Year to 31st March 2023||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||2023|
|Staff costs||139,970|88,528|228,499|
|Office running|costs|71,349|2,732|74,081|
|Governance|costs|8,230||8,230|
|Other||9,683||9,683|
|||229,232|91,260|320,493|
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|6.|Support costs (continued)||||||
||Year to 31stIlarch 2022|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||||2022f|
||Staff costs|||82,420|25,871|108,291|
||Office running|costs||54,761|113|54,874|
||Governance|costs||7,458||7,458|
||Other|||8,650||8,650|
|||||153,289|25,984|179,273|
|7.|Net incoming|resources|||||
||||||2023|2022|
||Net incoming|resources are stated|after charging:||||
||Auditor's
remuneration
—statutory||audit work||7,800|9,150|
||Depreciation|on tangible assets|||1,913|446|
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|Total aggregate
payroll costs ofemployees
we|re:||
|---|---|---|
||2023|2022f|
|Wages and salaries|884,902|565,720|
|Social security|81,940|44,337|
|Pension costs|44,954|29,797|
||1,011,796|639,854|
|||2023|2022|
|---|---|---|---|
|Project|activities|32|19|
|Support||4|3|
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|10.|Intangible
fixed assets||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Software|Total|
||Cost||||
||At 1st April 2022||8,677|8,677|
||Additions||||
||At 31stMarch 2023||8,677|8,677|
||Amortisation||||
||At 1st April 2022||8,677|8,677|
||Annual
charge||||
||At 31stMarch 2023||8,677|8,677|
||At 31stMarch 2022||||
||At 31stMarch 2023||||
|11.|Tangible fixed assets||||
|||Leasehold costs|Computers|Total|
||Cost||||
||At 1st April 2022|1,600|18,195|19,795|
||Additions||13,092|13,092|
||At 31stMarch 2023|1,600|31,287|32,887|
||Depreciation||||
||At 1st April 2022|686|16,364|17,050|
||Charge for the year|228|1,685|1,913|
||At 31stMarch 2023|914|18,049|18,963|
||Net book value||||
||At 31stMarch 2022|914|1,831|2,745|
||At 31stMarch 2023|686|13,238|13,294|
|12.|Stocks||||
||||2023|2022|
||Books||1,162|1,240|
||Kits for use and resale||8,461|6,037|
||||9,623|7,277|
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|13.|Debtors|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2023|2022|
|||||E|E|
||Project debtors|||419,067|285,424|
||Prepayments
and||accrued income|350,700|184,628|
||Other debtors|||2,292|431|
|||||772,059|470,483|
|14.|Creditors|falling|due within one year|||
|||||2023f|2022|
||Project creditors|||133,097|119,368|
||Deferred|income|& one year|190,780|569,697|
||Accruals|||63,469|34,811|
||Taxation|and social security costs||79,722|103,073|
||Other creditors|||1,290|1,250|
|||||468,358|828,199|
|15.|Deferred|income||||
|||||2023f|2022|
||At 1st April|||569,697|119,148|
||Additions|during the year||90,780|569,697|
||Amounts|released|to income|(469,697)|(119,148)|
||At 31st March|||190,780|569,697|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2023|2022|
|Expire|within|one|year|23,500|31,000|
|Expiry|within|two|to five years|47,000|93,764|
|||||70,500|124,764|
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||||||At 1st|Incoming|Resources||At 31st|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||April 2022
E||Resources
f.|Expended|Transfers
F|March 2023
f|
|Restricted Funds||||||||||
|Bartley Water &Fletchwood||WEIF (RR)|||242|323|323||242|
|Breeks (RR)|||||8,566|6,618|15,184|||
|CPAF New Forest Hosting|(RR)||||12,271|27,000|25,979||13,292|
|CPAF Ock Hosting (RR)|||||(242)|7,500|7,803||(545)|
|CPAF Thame Hosting (RR)|||||1,138|7,500|7,802||836|
|GRCF NF (RR)|||||(23,034)|192,754|168,037||1,683|
|NF Blue Horizon
(Halo) (RR)|||||(4,654)|29,714|24,891||169|
|NF Wilder for Water (Recreation)|||(RR)||(16,963)|31,496|12,921||1,612|
|Green Recovery Fund HLF Oxford (RR)|||||(321)|643,648|637,949||5,378|
|Harcourt
Hill, Oxfordshire|Fens,||TOE2|(RR)|(2,748)|||2,748||
|Med Leech (RR)|||||16,176|1,266|1,746||15,696|
|Mid Thame Development|Funding
(RTCT)|||||||||
|Manor Farm|||||9,261||507||8,754|
|MPP Pond Fund (RR)|||||28,013||||28,013|
|NF Catchments
(RR)|||||6,399||306|11,760|17,853|
|Nidderdale
(RR)|||||(13,495)|45,197|26,030||5,672|
|Ock Arable (III)WEIF (RR)|||||9,414|20,000|21,789||7,625|
|Ock —Catchment
Partnership||Support||Fund||22,000|9,342||12,658|
|Pitsford (RR)||||||30,000|30,000|||
|Policy Officer (RR)|||||(3,698)||1,795|3,698|(1,795)|
|Ponderful
H2020 (RR)|||||6,859|192,259|67,000||132,118|
|River Irfon (RR)||||||235,280|193,350||41,930|
|Saving Oxford Wetland
Wildlife (RR)|||||33,720|38,964|37,427|(2,748)|32,509|
|Thame - Catchment
Partnership|||Support Fun||d|22,000|14,776||7,224|
|The Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire||||||||||
|Freshwater
Network||||||101,107|100,898||209|
|WEG Hatchett (RR)|||||(348)|||348||
|WFF 21-27(RR)||||||25,000|25,000|||
|Total restricted funds|||||66,556|1,679,626|1,430,855|15,806|331,133|
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||||April 2022|Resources|Expended|Transfers|March 2023|
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||Unrestricted
Funds|||||||
||Citizen Scientists assessing|Pond||||||
||presence and Priority|||46,666|23,193||23,473|
||Defining
and mapping
pond|||5,828|2,369||3,459|
||Dodding ton|||6,675|4,788||1,887|
||eDNA Network
Rail (Southern)|||109,768|54,805||54,963|
||NSP Berks/Bucks e DNA||4,613||||4,613|
||NSP Hampshire
e DNA||2,453||||2,453|
||NSP Network
Rail East||14,338||1,162||13,176|
||NSP South Midlands e DNA||12,065||40,355||(28,290)|
||NSP Mapping
and modelling||||69||(69)|
||EWR —North Bucks FRP (UU)||18,511||17,937||574|
||Grove, Childrey
8 Lower Ock (UU)||1,127||55,013||(53,886)|
||Leek Catchment
NFM||4,986|32,902|20,361||17,527|
||Market Harborough
NFM|||2,500|1,643||857|
||Natural
England
eDNA project||||474||(474)|
||NE Agri Ponds||2,021||1,222||799|
||NECA||11,760|||(11,760)||
||NEIRF|||3,377|5,801||(2,424)|
||Newt Conservation
Monitoring||(17)|29,774|26,848||2,909|
||Newt Conservation
Practical|Projects|5,297|230,459|195,359||40,397|
||Newt Conservation
Admin||16,298|223,919|214,607||25,610|
||North Bucks Freshwater
Resilience|||||||
||Project Phase
II (EWR)|||93,259|83,910||9,349|
||Pitsford||33,308|194,964|160,327||67,945|
||Pondnet e DNA||4,015|84,638|87,467||1,186|
||Publications||4,044|2,346|2,112||4,278|
||Thames Water Hinksey
WFF 21-27 (UU)||(1,218)
38,932|74,988|190
83,658||(1,408)
30,262|
||Wootton Brook (EA Anglian)||22,409|19,857|6,150||36,116|
||Misc contracts||(6,680)|5,404|10,417||(11,693)|
||Total unrestricted
funds||188,262|1,167,324|1,100,237|(11,760)|243,589|
||Core||377,171|(293)|(86,648)|(4,046)|459,480|
||Total unrestricted
funds +core||565,433|1,167,031|1,013,589|(15,806)|703,069|
||Total||631,989|2,846,657|2,444,444||1,034,202|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||April 2021|Resources|Expended|March 2022
f|
|Restricted
Funds|||||||||
|Bartley Water 8 Fletchwood|||WEIF (RR)|||74,960|74,718|242|
|Breeks (RR)||||||32,362|23,796|8,566|
|CPAF New Forest Hosting||(RR)|||9,622|27,000|24,351|12,271|
|CPAF Ock Hosting (RR)|||||2,068|7,500|9,810|(242)|
|CPAF Thame Hosting (RR)||||||7,500|6,362|1,138|
|GRCF NF (RR)|||||||23,034|(23,034)|
|NF Blue Horizon
(Halo)|(RR)|||||3,730|8,384|(4,654)|
|NF Wilder for Water (Recreation)||||(RR)||10,452|27,415|(16,963)|
|Green Recovery Fund HLF Oxford (RR)||||||116,971|117,292|(321)|
|Med Leech (RR)|||||20,923||4,747|16,176|
|MPP Pond Fund (RR)|||||28,031||18|28,013|
|NF Catchments
(RR)|||||2,789|3,889|279|6,399|
|Nidderdale
(RR)||||||300|13,795|(13,495)|
|Ock Arable (III)WEIF (RR)||||||39,903|30,489|9,414|
|Policy Officer (RR)|||||||3,698|(3,698)|
|Ponderful
H2020 (RR)|||||168,264|(95,000)|66,405|6,859|
|River Irfon (RR)||||||31,237|31,237||
|Saving Oxford Wetland|Wildlife (RR)||||331,414|41,430|39,124|33,720|
|Harcourt
Hill, Oxfordshire||Fens, TOE2 (RR)||||4,384|7,132|(2,748)|
|WEG Hatchett (RR)|||||||354|(354)|
|Mid Thame Development||Funding||(RTCT)|||||
|Manor Farm||||||9,450|189|9,261|
|Total restricted funds|||||263,112|316,068|512,623|66,556|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||April 2021|Resources|Expended|March 2022f|
|Unrestricted
Funds||||||
|eDNA Network
Rail (Southern)|||609|609||
|EWR —North Bucks FRP (UU)|||139,846|121,335|18,511|
|Grove, Childrey
8|Lower Ock (UU)||12,551|11,424|1,127|
|Leek Catchment
NFM|||12,852|17,105|(4,253)|
|Wootton Brook (EA Anglian)|||53,025|30,616|22,409|
|NECA||2,849|11,725|2,814|11,760|
|NSP Berks/Bucks|e DNA||21,469|16,856|4,613|
|NSP Hampshire
e|DNA||16,192|13,739|2,453|
|NSP Network
Rail|East||137,614|123,276|14,338|
|NSP South Midlands e DNA|||53,434|41,369|12,065|
|Pondnet e DNA||4,015|21,886|21,886|4,015|
|Pitsford|||130,475|97,167|33,308|
|NE Agri Ponds
WFF 21-25 (UU)|||40,056
65,012|38,035
26,080|2,021
38,932|
|Newt Conservation|Monitoring||20,017|20,034|(17)|
|Newt Conservation|Practical Projects||135,863|130,566|5,297|
|Newt Conservation|Admin||93,991|77,693|16,298|
|Publications|||4,044||4,044|
|Thames Water Hinksey||||1,218|(1,218)|
|Misc contracts||6,205|18,589|31,474|(6,680)|
|Total unrestricted|funds|13,069|989,250|823,296|179,023|
|Core||314,507|17,495|(54,408)|386,410|
|Total unrestricted|funds +core|327,576|1,006,745|768,888|565,433|
|Total||590,687|1,322,813|1,281,511|631,989|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Year to|31st March 2023||||
|Fixed assets||13,924||13,924|
|Current|assets|997,762|490,874|1,488,636|
|Current|liabilities|(308,617)|(159,741)|(468,358)|
|Net assets||703,069|331,133|1,034,202|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Totalf|
|Year to|31stMarch 2022||||
|Fixed assets||2,745||2,745|
|Current|assets|1,390,887|66,556|1,457,443|
|Current|liabilities|(828,199)||(828,199)|
|Net assets||565,443|66,556|631,989|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds|funds|
|||2022|2022|2022|
|Income from:|||||
|Grants and donations||13,964|316,068|330,032|
|Investments||51||51|
|Charitable
activities||992,730||992,730|
|Total income||1,006,745|316,068|1,322,813|
|Expenditure
on:|||||
|Raising funds||4,357||4,357|
|Charitable
activities||764,531|512,623|1,277,154|
|Total expenditure||768,888|512,263|1,277,154|
|Net income/(expenditure)||237,857|(196,555)|1,281,511|
|Transfers
between|funds||||
|Net movement
in|funds|237,857|(196,555)|41,302|
|Fund balances at|1stApril 2021|327,576|263,111|590,687|
|Fund balances at|31st March 2022|565,433|66,556|631,989|