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|Trustees' report||||||1-8|
|Independent|auditor's<br>report|on the|financial|statements||9-12|
|Consolidated|statement<br>offinancial||activities|||13|
|Consolidated|balance sheet|||||14-15|
|Company<br>balance sheet||||||16-17|
|Consolidated|statement<br>ofcash flows|||||18|
|Notes to the|financial statements|||||19-35|





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|Income from:||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||136,093|136,093|115,158|
|Other trading<br>activities|||115,380|115,380|116,133|
|Investments|||2,413,835|2,413,835|12,677,206|
|Total income|||2,665,308|2,665,308|12,911,497|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||
|Raising funds|||2,154,780|2,154,780|1,BBB,057|
|Charitable<br>activities|||805,988|805,988|603,422|
|Total expenditure|||2,960,768|2,960,768|2489,479|
|Net movement<br>in funds before other recognised||||||
|gains/(losses)|||(295,460)|(295,460)|10,422,015|
|Other recognised|gains/(losses):|||||
|Gains on revaluation|of fixed assets||574,249|574,249||
|Net movement<br>in funds|||278,789|278,789|10,422,018|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:||||||
|Total funds brought|forward||74,340,689|74,340,689|63,918,671|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||278,789|278,789|10,422018|
|Total funds carried forward|||74,619,478|74,619,478|74,340,659|





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|||||2023||2022|
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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets|||12|8,141)839||5,307,157|
|Investments|||14|15)074,851|||
|Investment<br>property|||13|29,722,611||24,867,575|
|||||50,939,301||30,174,732|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|||15|11,360|11,356||
|Debtors|||16|13,006,674|25,373,172||
|Cash at bank and in hand||||11,908,954|20,822 166||
|||||24,926,988|46,208,894||
|Creditors: amounts|falling|due within|one||||
|year|||17|(746,811)|(1,540,737)||
|Net current assets||||24,180,177||44,885,957|
|Total assets less current||liabilities||75,119,478||74,840,689|
|Creditors: amounts|falling|due after|more||||
|than one year|||18|(500,000)||(500,000)|
|Total net assets||||74,619,478||74,340,689|
|Charity funds|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||19|74,619,478||74,340,S89|
|Total funds||||74,619,478||74,340,689|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||AS AT 31 MARCH 2023||||
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||||Note|2|||
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets|||12|6,122,062||5,297,578|
|Investments|||14|15,084,851||10,000|
|Investment<br>property|||13|29,722,611||24,867,575|
|||||50,929,524||30,175,153|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|||15|9,863|9,859||
|Debtors|||16|12,986,850|25,339,889||
|Cash at bank and|in|hand||11,867,130|20,801,571||
|||||24,863,843|46,151,319||
|Creditors: amounts||falling due within one|||||
|year|||17|(763,133)|(1,543,656)||
|Net current assets||||24,100,710||44,607,663|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||75,030,234||74,782816|
|Creditors: amounts||falling due after more|||||
|than one year|||18|(500,000)||(500,000)|
|Total net assets||||74,530,234||74,282816|
|Charity funds|||||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||19|74,530,234||74,282,816|
|Total funds||||74,530,234||74,282,818|





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|Cash flows from operating<br>activities|||||
|Net cash|generated/(used)<br>in operating<br>activities||11,088,030|(24,335,833)|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities|||||
|Dividends,|interests<br>and rents from investments||113,047|9,244|
|Purchase|of tangible fixed assets||(387,011)|(32116)|
|Proceeds|from sale of investment<br>properties|||40,677,044|
|Purchase|of investment<br>properties||(4,784,720)|(12,775)|
|Purchase|of fixed asset investments||(15,942,558)||
|Proceeds|from sale offixed asset investments||1,000,000||
|Net cash|(used in)/provided<br>by investing|activities|(20,001,242)|40,841,397|
|Cash flows from financing<br>activities|||||
|Repayments<br>of borrowing||||(2067,850)|
|Net cash|provided<br>by/(used<br>in) financing|activities||(2,067,850)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents<br>in||the year|(8,913,212)|14,437,714|
|Cash and|cash equivalents<br>at the beginning|ofthe year|20,822,166|6,384,452|
|Cash and|cash equivalents<br>at the end of|the year|11,908,954|20,822,166|
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||Wedding|and corporate event income|||101,889|101,889|82 196|
||Other income||||13,491|13,491|33,937|
||Total 2023||||115,380|115,380|1f6,133|
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||Rent and|service charges|from investment|properties|2,192,028|2,192,028|1,790,918|
||Interest receivable||||113,047|113,047|9,244|
||Dividends|received from|investments||108,360|108,360||
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|Fees payable to the|Company's|auditor|for the audit ofthe Company's|||
|annual accounts||||18,000|15,000|
|Fees payable to the|Company's|auditor|in respect of:|||
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|Wages and|salaries|||466,456|396,422|
|Social security costs||||40,059|34,889|
|Contribution|to defined|contribution|pension schemes|16,317|27,783|
|||||522,832|459,094|



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|Cost or valuation||||||
|At 1 April 2022|5,010,000|102,619|472,137|217,999|5,802,755|
|Additions||9,450|377,561||387,011|
|Disposals||(7,500)|||(7,500)|
|Transfers<br>between classes|(440,000)||||(440,000)|
|Revaluations|920,000||||920,000|
|At 31 March 2023|5,490,000|104,569|849,698|217,999|6,662,266|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2022||93,687|401,911||495,598|
|Charge for the year||4,619|27,710||32,329|
|On disposals||(7,500)|||(7,500)|
|At 31 March 2023||90,806|429,621||520,427|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 March 2023|5,490,000|13,763|420,077|217,999|6,141,839|
|At31March 2022|5,010,000|8,932|70,225|217,999|5,307,157|





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|At 1 April 2022|5,010,000|102,619|399,132|217,999|5,729,750|
|Additions||9,450|363,569||373,019|
|Disposals||(7,500)|||(7,500)|
|Transfers<br>between classes|(440,000)||||(440,000)|
|Revaluations|920,000||||920,000|
|At 31 March 2023|5,490,000|104,569|762,701|217,999|6,575,269|
|Depreciation||||||
|At 1 April 2022||93,687|338,485||432,172|
|Charge for the year||4,619|23,916||28,535|
|On dispossls||(7,500)|||(7,500)|
|At 31 March 2023||90,806|362,401||453,207|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 March 2023|5,490,000|13,763|400,300|217,999|6,122,062|
|At 31March 2022|5,010,000|8,932|50,647|217,999|5,297,578|





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|---|---|---|
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|At 1 April|2022|24,867,575|
|Additions||4,784,720|
|Surplus<br>on revaluation||(369,684)|
|Transfers|between classes|440,000|
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|---|---|
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|Group|2|
|Cost or valuation||
|Additions|15,942,558|
|Disposals|(1,000,000)|
|Revaluations|23,933|
|Share of profit/(loss)|108,360|
|At 31 March 2023|15,074,851|
|Net book value||
|At 31 March 2023|15,074,851|





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|---|---|---|---|
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|Company|subsidiary<br>companies<br>2|Listed<br>investments<br>f|Total<br>6|
|Cost or valuation||||
|At 1 April 2022|10,000||10,000|
|Additions||15,942,558|15,942,558|
|Dispcsals||(1,000,000)|(1,000,000)|
|Revaluations||23,933|23,933|
|Share of profit/(loss)||108,360|108,360|
|At 31 March 2023|10,000|15,074,851|15,084,851|
|Net book value||||
|At 31 March 2023|10,000|15,074,851|15,084,851|
|At 31March 2022|10,000||10,000|





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|The following|was asubsid|iary<br>und|ertaking<br>oft|he Company:||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Name|||Company|Registered|office or principal|Principal|activity|
||||number|place of business||||
|East Mailing|Limited||05046509|Shown on|charity information|Operation|of|
|||||page||conference|and dining|
|||||||facilities||
|Class of|Holding|Included|In|||||
|shares||consolidation||||||
|Ordinary|100%|Yes||||||



||The financial|results of the subsidi|ary<br>for the year were:||||||
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||Name||Income|Expenditure||Profit/(Loss)||Net assets|
||||2|||2|for the year|2|
||||||||6||
||East Mailing|Limited|109,000||(77,260)||31,740|(151,444)|
|15.|Stocks||||||||
||||Group||Group||Company|Company|
|||||2023<br>9||2022|2023<br>2|2022f|
||Consumables||11,360||1|1,355|9,663|9,859|





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|Other debtors||||12,358,878||12,358,878|
|||||12,358,878||12358,878|
|Due within one year|||||||
|Trade debtors|||285,294|192,654|265,470|159,371|
|Other debtors|||12,721,380|12,821,540|12,721,380|12,821,540|
||||13,006,674|25,373,172|12,986,850|25,339,889|
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within one year|||||
||||Group<br>2023<br>2|Group<br>2022|Company<br>2023<br>2|Company<br>2022f|
|Other loans|||100,000|100,000|100,000|100,000|
|Trade creditors|||260,706|195,102|276,207|189,148|
|Amounts<br>owed|to group undertakings||||30,190|28,928|
|Corporation<br>tax|||7,468|8,951|||
|Other taxation|and social security||15,099|3S,068|12,403|31,255|
|Other creditors|||343,538|1,200,615|342,333|1,200,325|
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||||April|2022|Income|Expenditure|(Losses)|2023|
|||||2|2|2|2|2|
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||Unrestricted|funds|74,340,689||2,665,308|(2,960,768)|574,249|74,619,478|
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||||||1 April 2021|Income|Expenditure|2022|
||Unrestricted|funds|||||||
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|20.|Analysis of net assets between||funds||||||
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|Analysis <br>Analysis|of net assets between funds<br> of net assets between funds - current year|||
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|||2|2|
|Tangible fixed assets||6,141,839|6,141,839|
|Fixed asset investments||15,074,851|15,074,851|
|Investment|property|29,722,611|29,722,611|
|Current assets||24,926,988|24,926,988|
|Creditors|due within one year|(746,811)|(746,811)|
|Creditors|due in more than one year|(500,000)|(500,000)|
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||Unrestricted|Total|
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||2022|2022|
|Tangible fixed assets|5,307,157|5,307,157|
|Investment<br>property|24,867,575|24,867,575|
|Debtors due after more than one year|12,358,878|12358,878|
|Current assets|33,847,816|93,847,816|
|Creditors due within one year|(1,540,797)|(1,540,797)|
|Creditors due in more than one year|(500,000)|(500,000)|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||||2023|2022|
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|Net<br>income/expenditure||for|the|year|(as||per|Statement|of|Financial|||
|Activities)|||||||||||(296,460)|10,422 018|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||||||||||
|Depreciation<br>charges|||||||||||32,329|19,700|
|Dividends,<br>interests|and|rents|from|investments|||||||(221,407)|(9,244)|
|Loss/(profit)<br>on the|sale|of fixed assets||||||||||(10,877,044)|
|Decrease/(increase)|in stocks||||||||||(4)|701|
|Decrease/(increase)|in debtors||||||||||12,366,498|(18,180,088)|
|Decrease<br>in creditors|||||||||||(793,926)|(5,71 1,876)|
|Net cash provided|by/(used||in) operating|||activities|||||11,066,030|(24,335,833)|





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|Cash|at bank and|in hand|20,822,166|(8,913,212)|11,908,954|
|Debt|due within<br>1|year|(100,000)||(100,000)|
|Debt|due after 1 year||(500,000)||(500,000)|
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