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|Trustees'<br>Report (including<br>Directors'|Report and Strategic Report)||1|-11||
|Statement oftrustees'<br>responsibilities|||12|||
|Independent<br>auditor's<br>report|||13|-|15|
|Consolidated<br>Statement ofFinancial|Activities||16|-|17|
|Consolidated<br>and Charitable<br>Company||Balance Sheets|18|||
|Consolidated<br>Statement ofCash Flows|||19|||
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|Trustees,<br>who are also the di<br>ture<br>ofthe financial statements,|rectors for the <br>were:|purpose<br>of company|
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|Paul Armstrong|||
|Helen Burge|(Appointed|24 March 2021)|
|Matthew<br>Burrell|||
|Matthew<br>Clements-Wheeler|(Resigned|13November 2020)|
|Jonathan<br>Goatee|(Appointed|25 March 2021)|
|Gary Corban|||
|Alison Jefferson|||
|Stephen<br>Lester MBE|(Appointed|28 July 2020)|
|Josephine<br>Marchant|||
|Rachel Prince|(Resigned|20 November 2020)|
|Stephen<br>Rayner|(Appointed|24 March 2021)|
|Yvonne Spencer|||
|Trevor Summerson|||
|Sandy Tomlinson|(Appointed|23 September 2020)|
|Michael White|(Appointed|24 March 2021)|





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|||||Unrestricted|Designated|31March 2021|2019|
||||Notes|Funds|Funds|Total Funds|Total Funds|
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|Donations<br>and legacies|||3|11,213||11,213||
|income from charitable|activities:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||4|288,217||288,217|266,349|
|Income from other trading||activities:||||||
|Other trading activities|||5|644,133|948,465|1,592,598|2,244,140|
|Investments|||6|1,196||1,196|1,890|
|Total income||||944,759|948,465|1,893,224|2,512,379|
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|Expendilure<br>on charitable||activities:||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||8|691,314|29,154|720,468|652,999|
|Expenditure<br>from alber trading aciivitiss:||||||||
|Other trading<br>activities|||10|473,746|738,436|1,212,182|1,729,776|
|Total expenditure||||1,165,060|767,590|1,932,650|2,382,775|
|Net incoming/(outgoing)||resources before||||||
|transfers||||(220,301)|180,875|(39,426)|129,604|
|Gross transfers<br>between||funds||196,692|(196,692)|||
|Net incomei(expenditure)||forthe periodi||||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(23,609)|(15,817)|(39,426)|129,604|
|Funds balances at 01 January 2020||||338,002|15,817|353,819|224,215|
|Funds balances at 31 March 2021||||314,393||314,393|353,819|





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|Prior financial year||||Unrestricted|Designated|2019|
||||Notes|Funds|Funds|Total Funds|
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|Income from charitable|activities:||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||266,349||266,349|
|Income from other trading activities:|||||||
|Other trading<br>activities||||915,135|1,329,005|2,244,140|
|investments||||1,890||1,890|
|Total income||||1,183,374|1,329,005|2,512,379|
|~Ed%|||||||
|Expenditure<br>on chan'table||activities:|||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||653,831|(832)|652,999|
|Expenditure<br>from other trading activities:|||||||
|Other trading<br>activities|||10|653,999|1,075,777|1,729,776|
|Total expenditure||||1,307,830|1,074,945|2,382,775|
|Net incomingl(outgoing)||resources before|||||
|transfers||||(124,456)|254,060|129,604|
|Gross transfers<br>between||funds||261,034|(261,034)||
|Net income/(expenditure)||for the year/|||||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||136,578|(6,974)|129,604|
|Funds balances at 01 January 2019||||201,424|22,791|224,215|
|Funds balances at 31 December 2019||||338,002|15,817|353,819|





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|Cash flows from operating|||activities||||||
|Cash generated<br>from||operations||||26|4,842|254,220|
|Investing|activities||||||||
|Purchase|oftangible|fixed assets||||15|(2,160)|(10,060)|
|Interest received||||||6|1,196|1,890|
|Net cash|generated|from/(used||in) investing||activities|(964)|(8,170)|
|Net increase in cash||and cash||equivalents|||3,878|246,050|
|Cash and|cash equivalents||at beginning||ofperiod||698,758|452,709|
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|3|Donations|and legacies||Unrestricted|Designated|Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
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|||||Funds|Funds|March 2021|December 2019|
|||||6|||6|
||Grants receivable for core||activities|11,213||11,213||
||Forthe year ended 31December 2019|||||||
||Grants receivable for core activities|||||||
||Coronavirus|Job Retention|Scheme Grant|11,213||11,213||
|4|Charitable|activities||Conference|Other|Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
||||Memberships|and Training|activities|March 2021|December 2019|
||||6|6|6|6||
||Membership|income|284,430|||284,430|263,497|
||Conference|income|||||371|
||Training<br>income||||||(400)|
||Consultancy|income|||3,787|3,787|2,824|
||Other income||||||57|
||||284,430||3,787|288,217|266,349|
||Forthe year ended 31December 2019|||||||
||Membership|income|263,497||||263,497|
||Conference|income||371|||371|
||Training<br>income||||(400)||(400)|
||Consultancy|income|||2,824||2,824|
||Other income||||57||57|
||||263,497|371|2,481||266,349|
|5|Other trading activities|||Unrestricted|Designated|Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
|||||Funds|Funds|March 2021|December 2019|
|||||6|6|6|5|
||income from|trading activities||644,133|948,465|1,592,598|2,243,995|
||Website income||||||145|
|||||644,133|948,465|1,592,598|2,244,140|
||For the year|ended 31 December 2019||915,135|1,329,005||2,244,140|
|6|Investments|||Unrestricted|Designated|Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
|||||Funds|Funds|March 2021|December 2019|
|||||6|5|6||
||Interest receivable|||1,196||1,196|1,890|
||For the year|ended 31 December 2019||1,890|||1,890|





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||||||StaffCosts|Premises Costs|Other Costs|March 2021|December 2019|
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||Expenditure||on charitable||activities:|||||
||Charitable||activities||467,708|13,404|239,356|720,468|652,999|
||Total expenditure||||467,708|13,404|239,356|720,468|652,999|
||Prior financial year|||||||||
||Expenditure||on charitable||activities:|||||
||Charitable||activities||376,537|13,581|262,881||652,999|
||Total expenditure||||376,537|13,581|262,881||652,999|
|8|Charitable|activities||||Conference|Other|Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
||||||Memberships|and Training|Activities|March 2021|December 2019|
||||||6|6|K|6|6|
||Conference||expenses|||467||467||
||Training costs|||||(11,562)||(11,562)|(1,132)|
||Marketing||||23,248|1,995||25,243|31,056|
||Special Interest Group costs||||||297|297|1,721|
||Otherexpenses||||||||1,823|
||||||23,248|(9,100)|297|14,445|33,468|
||Share ofsupport costs (see note|||||||||
||9)||||660,443||8,793|669,236|584,817|
||Share ofgovernance|||costs|(see|||||
||note 9)||||36,304||483|36,787|34,714|
||||||719,995|(9,100)|9,573|720,468|652,999|
||Analysis<br>by||fund|||||||
||Unrestricted||Funds||719,995|(38,254)|9,573|691,314||
||Designated|Funds||||29,154||29,154||
||||||719,995|(9,100)|9,573|720,468||
||Forthe year||ended 31December 2019|||||||
||Unrestricted||Funds||644,335|181|9,315||653,831|
||Designated|Funds|||(832)||||(832)|
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|||||||||costs|costs||March 2021|December 2019|
|||||||||6|6||f||
|Staffcosts|||||||467,708||||467,708|376,537|
|Staff training<br>and other|staff costs|||||||2,828|||2,828|2,990|
|Depreciation||||||||33,436|||33,436|25,658|
|Rent and service charge costs||||||||43,169|||43,169|38,973|
|Premises costs||||||||13,404|||13,404|13,581|
|Associate Practitioner costs||||||||(7,067)|||(7,067)|(460)|
|Travel and subsistence|costs|||||||2,306|||2,306|7,563|
|Computer<br>and website|costs|||||||58,629|||58,629|41,750|
|Oflice costs||||||||26,850|||26,850|32,062|
|Bad debt write offand provision||||||||||||16,595|
|VAT Partial exemption||||||||24,972|||24,972|23,496|
|Trustee expenses||||||||150|||150|2,623|
|Bank and finance charges||||||||2,651|||2,651|3,449|
|Charitable<br>Donations||||||||200|||200||
|Audit fees|||||||||7,000||7,000|11,675|
|Legal and professional|costs||||||||22,721||22,721|15,035|
|Governance<br>costs|||||||||7,066||7,066|8,004|
||||||||669,236||36,787||706,023|619,531|
|Governance<br>costs include||fees|paid to the Auditors|||for|audit services<br>in relation to the Charitable||||Company.|Audit services<br>in|
|relation to the Trading Subsidiary||||are included|within|Expenditure||from trading|activities (Note 10below).||||
|Other trading activities|||||||Unrestricted||Designated|Period ended 31||Year ended 31|
|||||||||Funds|Funds|March 2021||December 2019|
|||||||||6|6||6|f|
|Expenditure<br>from trading|activities||||||473,746||738,436||1,212,182|1,729,776|
|Forthe year ended 31 December||||2019|||653,999||1,075,777|||1,729,776|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||||||||Period ended 31||Year ended 31|
|||||||||||March 2021||December 2019|
|Net movement<br>in funds|is|stated|after charging/(crediting):||||||||6|E|
|Depreciation<br>ofowned|tangible||fixed assets||||||||6,106|3,794|
|Amorlisation<br>ofintangible||assets|||||||||27,330|21,864|
|Operating<br>lease charges|||||||||||41,756|30,683|
|Audit ofthe charitable|group's||annual accounts||||||||8,950|11,175|



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||Number ofemployees|||||||Period ended 31||Year ended 31|
||||||||||March 2021|December 2019|
||The average<br>monthly|number||ofemployees|during the period was:||||Number|Number|
||Direct charitable<br>and|support||staff|||||14||
||Employment<br>Costs|(Group)||||||Pediod ended 31||Year ended 31|
||||||||||March 2021|December 2019|
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||Wages and salaries||||||||618,299|482,657|
||Social security costs||||||||59,930|46,934|
||Other pension costs||||||||61,903|50,896|
||||||||||740,132|580,487|
||Employment<br>Costs (Charity)|||||||Period ended 31||Year ended 31|
||||||||||March 2021|December 2019|
||||||||||6|6|
||Wages and salaries||||||||385,135|310,641|
||Social security costs||||||||37,686|30,936|
||Other pension costs||||||||44,887|34,960|
||||||||||467,708|376,537|
||The number ofemployees||whose remuneration|||for the period was f60,000or more|were:|Period ended 31||Year ended 31|
||||||||||March 2021|December 2019|
||F70,001 - 680,000||||||||||
||f90,001 - 6100,000||||||||||
||6130,001 - f140,000||||||||||
||Contributions<br>for the period||totalling 627,863|||(2019:F11,144)were made to defined|contribution||pension schemes on behalf of||
||employees<br>whose emoluments|||exceed 660,000.|||||||
|14|Intangible assets||||||||Software|Total|
||Group and Charity||||||||f|6|
||Cost||||||||||
||At 01 January 2020 and 31||March 2021||||||109,322|109,322|
||Amortisation||||||||||
||At 01 January 2020||||||||43,729|43,729|
||Amortisation<br>charge for the||period||||||27,330|27,330|
||At 31 March 2021||||||||71,059|71,059|
||Net book value||||||||||
||At 31 March 2021||||||||38,263|38,263|
||At 31 December 2019||||||||65,593|65,593|





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|Tangible assets|Fixtures and|Computers|Total|
||Fittings|||
|Group and Charity|6|||
|Cost||||
|At 01January 2020|38,686|15,557|54,243|
|Additions||2,160|2,160|
|Disposals|(21,825)|(677)|(22,502)|
|At 31 March 2021|16,861|17,040|33,901|
|Depreciation||||
|At 01 January 2020|36,180|6,419|42,599|
|Depreciation<br>charge for the period|1,824|4,282|6,106|
|Disposals|(21,825)|(677)|(22,502)|
|At 31 March 2021|16,179|10,024|26,203|
|Net book value||||
|At 31 March 2021|682|7,016|7,698|
|At 31 December 2019|2,506|9, 'I 38|11,644|



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||||f||6|6|
|Trade debtors|||152,122|239,052|540|4,936|
|Amounts<br>owed by group undertakings|||||23,302||
|Other debtors|||214,546|436,573||55,358|
|Prepayments|and accrued income||56,863|44,216|22,989|17,010|
||||423,531|719,841|46,831|77,304|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one year|Group||Charity||
||||2021|2019|2021|2019|
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|Other taxation|and social security||66,244|114,540|28,130|13,959|
|Deferred income (see||Note 19)|390,228|370,073|97,055|97,848|
|Trade creditors|||125,262|172,405|31,673|15,529|
|Amounts<br>owed to group undertakings|||||202,771|280,009|
|Other creditors|||8,827|6,101|8,827|6,101|
|Accruals|||267,174|478,899|16,661|47,975|
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||Charity||||||||||||||||||f|
||Training - SRMA Supply|||||||||||||(29,154)||29,154||||
||Training - Clerking<br>Programme||||||(32,076)|||||||||32,076||||
||||||||(32,076)|||||||(29,154)||61,230||||
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|||||||||2019||resources||||expended|Transfers||||2019|
||Charity|||||||6|||6|||f||6|||6|
||Training - SRMA (Pilot Scheme)||||||4,170|||||||||(4,170)||||
||Training - SEA Grant|||||||||||||833||(833)||||
||Training - Clerking<br>Programme||||||(32,076)||||||||||||(32,076)|
||||||||(27,906)|||||||833||(5,003)|||(32,076)|
||Description ofDesignated|Funds:||||||||||||||||||
||Training - SRMA (Pilot Scheme) relates|||||to funds received towards the||||||DfE School Efficiency Advisor Pilot.||||||||
||Training<br>- SRMA Induction|&|Accreditation||||relates||to|funds received||in conjunction<br>with the|||contract awarded|||to|ISBLfrom|
||DIE to induct and underlake|all|accreditation||||of|School Resource Management||||||Advisers<br>(SRMAs).||||||
||Training - SRMA Deployment||relates||to|funds||received||in conjunction||with the contract awarded|||to|ISBLby DfE||to supply<br>and||
||manage SRMAs deployments.|||||||||||||||||||
||Training<br>- Clerking<br>Programme||relates|||to funds received,<br>in conjunction|||||||with another<br>organisation|||(Confederation|||of School|
||Trusts) to deliver training<br>and|accreditation||||to|School Clerks.|||||||||||||
||Training - DfE - ICFP Contract||relates||to funds|||received,<br>in conjunction|||||with the contract awarded|||by DfE to ISBL,to develop||||
||and deliver workshops<br>and webinars|||on|ICFP which commenced<br>from||||||November 2019.|||||||||
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|||||||||||||||Funds||Funds||March 2021||
||Group|||||||||||||6||6|||6|
||Fund balances at 31 March 2021 are|||represented||||by:||||||||||||
||Intangible assets|||||||||||||38,263|||||38,263|
||Tangible assets|||||||||||||7,698|||||7,698|
||Current assetsl(liabilities)|||||||||||||268,432|||||268,432|
|||||||||||||||314,393|||||314,393|
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|||||||||||||||Funds||Funds|December 2019|||
||Group|||||||||||||6||6|||6|
||Fund balances at 31 December 2019|||are represented|||||by:|||||||||||
||Intangible assets|||||||||||||65,593|||||65,593|
||Tangible assets|||||||||||||11,644|||||11,644|
||Current assets/(liabilities)|||||||||||||260,765||15,817|||276,582|
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|OR|THE 15MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31MA|RC|H 2021||||
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|22|Analysis ofnet assets between funds (cont'd)|||Unrestricted|Designated|Period ended 31|
|||||Funds|Funds|March 2021|
||Chadity|||6|6|6|
||Fund balances at 31 March 2021 are represented|by:|||||
||Intangible assets|||38,263||38,263|
||Tangible assets|||7,698||7,698|
||Fixed Asset Investments|||1||1|
||Current assets/(liabilities)|||(60,479)||(60,479)|
|||||(14,517)||(14,517)|
|||||Unrestricted|Designated|Year ended 31|
|||||Funds|Funds|December 2019|
||Charity|||6|6|6|
||Fund balances at 31 December 2019are represented||by:||||
||Intangible assets|||65,593||65,593|
||Tangible assets|||11,644||11,644|
||Fixed Asset Investments|||1||1|
||Current assets/(liabilities)|||(104,506)|(32,076)|(136,582)|
|||||(27,268)|(32,076)|(59,344)|



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|Operating<br>lease commitments<br>Lessee<br>At the reporting<br>end date the charitable<br>group<br>had outstanding<br>cancellable<br>operating<br>leases, which fall due as follows:|commitments<br>for future<br>minimum<br>lease payments|under<br>non-|
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|Group and charity|Other||
||2021|2019|
|Expiry date:|6|f|
|Within one year|34,401|32,963|
|Between two and five years|76,289|114,378|
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|OR|THE 15MONTH PERIOD END|ED 31M|ARCH 2021|||
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||Remuneration<br>of key management|personnel||Period ended 31|Year ended 31|
|||||March 2021|December 2019|
||The remuneration<br>of key management|personnel|isas follows:|E|E|
||Aggregate<br>compensation|||255,492|187,988|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Group||||6||
||(Deficit)/surplus<br>for the period||||(39,426)|129,604|
||Adjustments<br>for:||||||
||Investment<br>income recognised|in statement|offinancial|activities|(1,196)|(1,890)|
||Amortisation<br>and impairment<br>of|intangible|assets||27,330|21,864|
||Depreciation<br>and impairment<br>oftangible gxed assets||||6,106|3,794|
||Movements<br>in working<br>capital:||||||
||Decrease/(increase)<br>in debtors||||296,310|(366,774)|
||(Decrease)fincrease<br>in creditors||||(284,282)|467,622|
||Cash generated<br>from operations||||4,842|254,220|
|27|Analysis ofcash and cash equivalents<br>Group||||2021<br>6|2019<br>f|
||Cash in hand and at bank||||702,636|698,759|
||Total cash and cash equivalents||||702,636|698,759|



