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2020-07-31-accounts

Balliol College Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2020

Registered Charity No. 1144032

Balliol College

Annual Report and Financial Statements

Contents

Pages
Report of the Governing Body 2 – 18
Independent Auditor’s Report 19 – 20
Statement of Accounting Policies 21 - 24
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities 25
Consolidated and College Balance Sheets 26
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 27
Notes to the Financial Statements 28 – 45

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The Members of the Governing Body present their Annual Report for the year ended 31 July 2020 under the Charities Act 2011 together with the audited consolidated financial statements for the year.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

The Master and Scholars of Balliol College in the University of Oxford, which is known as Balliol College (“the College”), are a charitable body having that name. The College was founded in the 13[th] century and is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (registered number 1144032).

The names of all Members of the Governing Body at the date of this report and of those in office during the year, together with details of the senior staff and advisers of the College, are given on pages 4 to 6.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing documents

The College is governed by its Statutes originally granted in 1282, and subsequently approved by the foundation deed of 1284. In their most recent version they stand as approved by Her Majesty in Council, 11 March 2020, in accordance with the 1923 Oxford and Cambridge Act.

Governing Body

The Governing Body is constituted and regulated in accordance with the College Statutes, which are as made from time to time by order of Her Majesty in Council in accordance with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923. The Governing Body holds to itself the responsibilities for the ongoing strategic direction of the College, for its administration and for the management of its finances and assets. It meets regularly under the chairmanship of the Master and is advised by a range of committees. The College enjoys the unique privilege of electing its own Visitor, a post currently occupied by The Right Hon Lord Reed of Allemuir.

Recruitment and training of Members of the Governing Body

New Members of the Governing Body (Trustees) are recruited as Fellows, and are inducted into the workings of the College according to the nature of their Fellowship and by attending Governing Body meetings. The duties and responsibilities of Trustees are explained fully to incumbent Fellows and form part of the induction process.

Remuneration of Members of the Governing Body and College Officers

Members of the Governing Body are primarily teaching and research employees of the College or University and receive no remuneration or benefits from their trusteeship of the College. There are also four trustees who work on management and fundraising, the Master, Senior Tutor/Academic Registrar, Domestic Bursar and Development Director.

Trustees that are also employees of the College receive remuneration for their work as employees of the College which is set based on the advice of the College’s Remuneration Committee. The Remuneration Committee consists of five external members and four internal members.

Organisational management

The Governing Body understands the importance of being kept informed on current issues in the sector, and charity regulation and legislation form a regular part of Governing Body business. A College office of Fellow for Charity Matters is in place to facilitate this. A code on the Handling of Conflict of Interests is available to all Fellows.

The members of the Governing Body meet nine times a year. The work of developing their policies and monitoring the implementation of these is carried out by five Committees:

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to the Academic Committee and, for decisions about the academic progress of individual students, to an Academic Progress Committee.

Most other committees in College are sub-committees of either the Academic Committee or Executive Committee. There are however two important exceptions, and both of them report direct to meetings of the Governing Body:

The Chapel and Patronage Committee overseas the College Chapel and the several ecclesiastical livings for which the College retains a historic responsibility.

The Nominating Committee makes recommendations to College Meeting on who are to be College Officers and what the membership of committees should be.

The day-to-day running of the College is overseen by the Master. Academic matters are delegated primarily to the Senior Tutor/Academic Registrar and financial and administrative matters to the Finance Bursar and Domestic Bursar.

Group structure and relationships

The College has one wholly owned non-charitable subsidiary, Balliol College Developments Limited, which is a company providing building contractor, conference and other event services on College premises the annual profits of which are donated to the College under the Gift Aid Scheme.

The College is part of the collegiate University of Oxford. Material interdependencies between the University and the College arise as a consequence of this relationship.

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MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY

The Master and Fellows of the College are the Members of the Governing Body and are the College’s Trustees under charity law. The members of the Governing Body who served in office during the year or subsequently are detailed below.

The activities of the Governing Body are carried out through the five main committees outlined above. The membership of these committees are shown below:

Trustee Tutorial
Board		 Academic
Progress
Committee		 Executive
Committee		 Academic
Committee		 Remuneration
Committee
Dame Helen Ghosh (Master) ● ● ● ● ●
Prof Miguel Ballester ●
Prof William Barford ● ●
Prof James Belich
Dr Alexander Bown (appointed 1
September 2019)		 ●
Prof Martin Burton
Dr Daniel Butt ● ● ●
Dr Coralia Cartis ● ●
Dr Adam Caulton ● ●
Prof Robin Choudhury
Mr Richard Collier (retired 30
June 2020)		 ● ●
Prof Martin Conway ●
Dr Katrina Davis (appointed 1 July
2020)		 ●
Prof Edith Elkind ●
Prof Timothy Endicott (resigned
30 June 2020)		 ● ●
Prof Robert Field (retired 30
September 2019)		 ●
Mr James Forder ●
Prof Brian Foster
Dr John-Paul Ghobrial ● ●
Dr Helen Gittos ● ●

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Trustee Tutorial
Board		 Academic
Progress
Committee		 Executive
Committee		 Academic
Committee		 Remuneration
Committee
Prof Sir Charles Godfray
Prof Leslie Green
Prof Freddie Hamdy
Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh ●
Prof Philip Howard
Prof Andrew Hurrell
Dr Alexander Kaiserman ● ●
Dr Adrian Kelly ● ●
Revd Canon Bruce Kinsey ●
Dr Elizabeth Kiss
Prof James Kwan (appointed 15
July 2020)		 ●
Dr Grant Lamond ●
Dr Matthew Langton (appointed 9
October 2020)
Prof Elena Lombardi ●
Prof Jason Lotay
Prof David Lucas ● ●
Prof Andre Lukas ● ●
Prof Sophie Marnette ●
Prof Tom Melham ● ●
Prof Chris Minkowski ●
Dr Derek Moulton ●
Prof Thomas Noe ●
Mr Richard Norman
Prof Dominic O’Brien ● ●
Prof Dermot O’Hare ● ●
Mr Richard Ovenden

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Trustee Tutorial
Board		 Academic
Progress
Committee		 Executive
Committee		 Academic
Committee		 Remuneration
Committee
Dr Sandra Paoli
Prof Seamus Perry ●
Dr Rachel Quarrell ● ●
Dr Armin Reichold ●
Dr Matthew Robinson ●
Dr Sebastian Shimeld ● ● ●
Dr Simon Skinner ● ●
Prof Adam Smyth ● ●
Prof Jin-Chong Tan ● ●
Prof Rosalind Thomas ●
Prof Nick Trefethen ●
Dr Nicola Trott ● ● ● ●
Prof Peter Tufano
Dr Lisa Walker ● ●
Mrs Frances Wright (appointed 27
May 2020)		 ●
Prof Stefano Zacchetti (died 29
April 2020)		 ●
Prof Manuela Zaccolo ● ●

COLLEGE SENIOR STAFF

The senior staff of the College to whom day to day management is delegated are as follows:

The senior staff of the College to whom day to day management is delegated are as follows:
Dr Nicola Trott Senior Tutor/Academic Registrar
Mr Richard Collier Finance Bursar (retired 12 January 2020)
Mrs Amanda Tilley Finance Bursar (appointed 13 January 2020)
Mrs Frances Wright Domestic Bursar

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COLLEGE ADVISERS

Investment managers

Commonfund Capital, Inc, 15 Old Danbury Road, P.O.Box 812, Wilton, CT, USA

Credit Suisse (UK) Limited, One Cabot Square, London. E14 4QJ

OU Endowment Management, King Charles House, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1JD

Oxford Investment Partners, Towers Watson Ltd, Watson House, London Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9PQ Partners Capital LLP, 5[th] Floor, 5 Young Street, London, W8 5EH

Ruffer LLP, 80 Victoria Street, London. SW1E 5JL

Savills Investment Management, 33 Margaret Street, London, W1G 0JD

Vanguard Asset Management Ltd, 4[th] Floor, The Walbrook Building, 25 Walbrook, London, EC4N 8AF

Independent auditors

Crowe UK LLP, Aquis House, 49-51 Blagrave Street, Reading, RG1 1PL

Bankers

HSBC Bank Plc, Hanborough House, Wallbrook Court, North Hinksey Lane, Oxford. OX2 0QS

Solicitors

Knights plc, Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0PH

College address

Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BJ

Website

www.balliol.ox.ac.uk

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Charitable objects and aims

The College’s objects are to advance education, religion, learning and research, and to be a College within the University of Oxford.

The Governing Body has considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and in keeping with its objects, the College’s aims for the public benefit are:

Activities and objectives of the College

The College exists to advance education at both undergraduate and graduate levels; to facilitate and to encourage scholarship and research at the very highest levels; to promote excellence in learning; to maintain a chapel and chaplaincy, and to serve as patron to its numerous livings.

Public benefit

The College remains committed to the aim of providing public benefit in accordance with its Objects, and has continued to conduct its affairs during the year to 31 July 2020 in furtherance of these aims.

Education and learning

The College draws on its endowments and other income to provide undergraduate education in a wide range of subjects, within the context of the University of Oxford, to students recruited to the College on the basis of their academic record and promise. Balliol employs Tutors and Lecturers to teach and advise them; administrative and welfare staff to support them; and offers an array of academic and other educational facilities, including a Library, musical and theatrical spaces, diverse sporting facilities, and multiple environments for recreation, reflection, self-improvement, and debate. Graduate students have access to the same College facilities and services. To advance the education of its students the College offers a wide range of bursaries and scholarships, many established by endowment, and operates a generous programme of hardship grants, awarded on the basis of financial need by a Student Finance Committee. The oldest college in continuous existence on the same site in the University of Oxford, Balliol occupies a beautiful and historic site in the middle of the city with buildings dating from the fifteenth century. The College is normally open daily to the public, with access to the grounds and (as practicable) to the main public spaces. A brief history to the College is available to visitors.

Numerous Balliol events are also open to the public, including services in Chapel, occasional lectures and talks, and, every Sunday evening during term a concert in the College Hall, continuing a tradition of Balliol concerts that began in 1885. Balliol has long sought to make a contribution to the wider educational world. It appoints (normally from among its Fellowship) a representative on the Court of the University of Bristol; Trustees to Blundell’s School and to Ludlow College; Trustees to the Keith Rae Trust; Trustees to the Balliol Society (which supports the College’s charitable activities); Trustees to the Balliol Educational Trust; and Trustees to the Chalet Trust.

Research

The College materially supports the research of its academic staff by a programme of sabbatical leave from tutorial duties, and by making available reasonable funds to support academic pursuits, and to subsidise research and publication (Statutes IX.2). The Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute (“BII”) was established in

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September 2010 to cultivate and support interdisciplinary research, straddling the humanities, the social sciences and the physical and medical sciences. The Institute gives senior members and graduate students the opportunity to propose and develop advanced research that requires contributions from more than one discipline.

At its annex in Holywell Manor, the College offers an academically stimulating home to a large and international community of graduate research students, admitted to their courses from a distinguished application by the University of Oxford, and a large number of students on taught graduate courses. Graduate supervision is frequently undertaken by Fellows of the College. Holywell Manor offers a popular space for recreation, intellectual exchange, and debate.

The work of Balliol research students is additionally supported by a generous programme of graduate scholarships, many established by endowment, and the College makes numerous additional financial awards on the basis of unexpected hardship, administered by its Student Finance Committee. The College contributes to the research activity of the University by (for example) hosting the Oxford Internet Institute, and by administering the Numata Fund which supports Buddhist studies in Oxford.

The College has large and distinguished research collections under its curatorship, which it is pleased to make as fully available as possible. Its extensive collections of medieval and modern literary, political, and scientific papers are cared for in its specially constructed Historic Collections Centre at St Cross, Holywell. The Centre also houses the College’s extensive Archives, a valuable source for historians of the nation as well as of Balliol and the University of Oxford. The College also cares for numerous paintings, especially portraits of former members; some pieces of silver, also mostly commemorative; and various objets d’art. The College has published several catalogues of its diverse holdings, in print and latterly on-line, and cataloguing continues. Bona fide researchers, including interested members of the public, are welcome to consult material in the College’s care by appointment. The College has a liberal policy of lending items to exhibitions upon request.

Numerous scholarly projects have come to fruition with the College’s ready collaboration, including (among others) editions of several medieval texts, editions of the poets Browning, Arnold, Clough, and Hopkins, and many other books and articles that demonstrate Balliol’s ambitions to facilitate and extend scholarship and learning.

Religion

The College maintains a Chaplaincy by Statute (VII.10), the Chaplain normally being a resident Fellow of the College. The Chapel offers services throughout the academic term which are open to the public. The College retains its position as Patron of twenty livings across England, a role which it assumes with proper diligence and care, keeping in close and supportive contact with its parishes, welcoming their representatives periodically to the College, and offering assistance in their activities as requested.

FUTURE PLANS

The core elements of the College’s future plans are as follows;

As part of the College’s plans to improve the quality of its provisions made to its students, construction is ongoing for over 200 study bedrooms for students on the Master’s Field. Approximately 140 of these rooms will be in addition to the number currently available allowing Balliol to offer accommodation to all its undergraduates for all their time at Oxford.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Selected highlights of the 2019/20 year

What a year it has been! Months before the onset of a global pandemic, it began just as news had broken of the election to the office of Prime Minister of a fourth Balliol Old Member and the appointment of the College’s Visitor as the fourth President of the UK Supreme Court. Since when we have witnessed an attempted proroguing of Parliament by the one that was appealed against to the judgement of the other, the passing of Brexit legislation through the House of Commons … and the Novel Coronavirus. The year has ended with the global and local impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the challenge brought to Governing Body by students of colour to recognise issues of race and racism as applicable to the College’s own institutional structures and practices.

The Master’s message of 7 April to Balliol members worldwide living through Covid-19 and its impact is just as valid four months later, and looks to remain so for quite some time. That the pandemic has affected every member and aspect of our community there is no doubt. The societal, financial, organisational, and emotional challenges it poses seem at times overwhelming. Here in Oxford, the collective response of the colleges and the University has involved working together – all the while working from home – as never before, from delivering Trinity Term ‘remotely’ to the intricate planning involved in preparing to welcome students back to the ‘new normal’ in Michaelmas Term 2020. In Balliol, the dominant story of the pandemic has been one of resilient fortitude – shown by students, Fellows, Lecturers and staff alike – and unleashed creativity, in the devising of exam-free curricula and the use of online platforms and social media. There have also been many positive contributions to corona-research to report, as members have kindly kept us in touch with their latest developments, and we have had four round-ups to date, on 7 and 20 May, 12 June, and 2 July. These and other College news stories suggest how diversely our common enemy is exercising the enterprise and ingenuity of the Balliol mind: among current members alone there has been a study on COVID-19 misinformation; a start-up Zimbabwe COVID-19 Support Hub; a philosophical reflection on the ethics of the pandemic, and a paper modelling a COVID-19 testing strategy. Governing Body held its meetings remotely, for the first recorded time since Balliol Fellows decamped, to Woodstock, during the plague of 1604. We discovered it was perfectly possible to conduct our business in this format. Vivid snapshots of life in lockdown were received, from the College’s graduates, via the MCR President, from the Library, from the David Freeman Outreach Officer, and from an undergraduate taking stock of his truncated Year Abroad.

A lockdown book club: first-year, second-year, and graduate students, all studying economics at Balliol, gathered virtually to read Keynes’ General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (1936) with James Forder (Fellow and Tutor in Political Economy) (centre top)

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Even under lockdown, and in some cases aided by it, capital projects have progressed or been completed. The Broad Street Lodge having seen much-needed refurbishment, new gates have been installed in handsome wrought iron to a design by James Price based on a Waterhouse clover sketch. The third and final part of the project, to provide a disabled access ramp into the Front Quad, is now en route. Another longrunning proposition favoured by lockdown has been the restoration of paths in the Fellows’ Garden, completed in April. And, for all the difficulties, progress on the Master’s Field Project has continued, at near capacity levels since restrictions on construction sites lifted, as timelapse video taken in September 2019, and then in February and June 2020, demonstrates. Over the Long Vacation, while College remained closed, restoration of the Chapel organ by Harrison & Harrison began – meaning there is a chance that the new organ scholar the College is recruiting will arrive in post at just the right time.

New wrought-iron electronic gates at Broad Street Lodge. Design and photograph by James Price.

In the days when real meetings and large gatherings took place, around 180 alumnae returned to College to mark the 40th anniversary of the admission of women undergraduates to Balliol. A video of the 40 Years On event was released in January 2020. Joined by current female students and Senior Members past and present, our alumnae spent 27–29 September 2019 in one another’s company and in a varied programme of talks and activity, celebrating – and scrutinising – all that women have achieved and striven for since 1979. An art intervention in the Library, group photographs hung in the Hall, and an exhibition of Dervorguilla and Daughters in the Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church gave visual representation to the presence of women in the College and in the world beyond its walls. For those so inclined, proceedings concluded with a memorable outing on the river. An echo of that weekend was heard when, on 3 March 2020, Balliol women again gathered together, to celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 with a formal dinner in Hall.

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Balliol women in Hall at the anniversary weekend.

Photograph by Carol Higgins.

The questioning of the College’s history in light of modern movements towards equality has been at the heart of a study of Balliol and Empire, which commenced in September 2019. Research was commissioned into historic donations to the College that derived from the proceeds of slavery, and there are plans for discussing with students early next term how we should respond to the data we have uncovered. October 2019 saw Balliol join the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development at Somerville College in order to commemorate, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, the life and legacy of civil rights and resistance icon Mahatma Gandhi. What we did not know, and could not have foreseen, is how forcibly close-up and present-day these historical studies and tributes would be made by the killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 and the worldwide protests in its wake. But the experience of discrimination felt by our own current students is an uncomfortable reality we are determined to acknowledge and address. Progress of another kind, meanwhile, but also vital to all of us, was made, at students’ initiative, when in January 2020 the College decided to take steps towards fossil fuel divestment.

There have been several significant staff retirements this year. More recently graduated alumni will wish in particular to know, if they do not already, that Jane Irons, Hall Supervisor, retired at the end of 2019, after nearly 16 years at Balliol. We wish her, and all other staff who have left, very well and thank them for their service.

In Memoriam:

We have had several losses to endure. On 22 November 2019 came news of the death of Professor Jasper Griffin FBA (1956, Dyson Junior Research Fellow 1961–1963, Tutorial Fellow in Classics 1963–2004, Emeritus Fellow from 2004). On 10 December, we were privileged to hold the family funeral in Balliol Chapel, an occasion of great beauty and dignity, where there were eulogies from Richard Jenkyns (Balliol 1967), Anthony Kenny (Master 1978–1989), and Douglas Dupree (Fellow and Chaplain 1987–2014, Dean 2007–2014, Emeritus Fellow), and a recitation from Sophocles by Jasper’s successor Tutor, Adrian Kelly (Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Language and Literature). Also sadly lost to us from among our Emeritus Fellows were Professor Wilfred Beckerman (P.D. Leake Senior Research Fellow of Balliol 1964, Fellow and Tutor in Economics 1964–1969 and 1975–1992, Emeritus Fellow from 1992) on 18 April 2020 and Professor Malcolm Green FRS, CChem, FRSC (Septcentenary Fellow and Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry 1963–1989, and Emeritus Fellow from 1991) on 24 July 2020. We received notice as well of the passing of four of our Honorary Fellows and alumni: The Rt Hon Lord Hutton PC on 14 July 2020; Professor Oladipo Akinkugbe on 15 June 2020, Sir Eric Anderson on 22 April 2020, and Professor George Steiner on 3 February 2020.

The sudden death of a current Fellow on 29 April 2020 was a grievous and shocking blow to the community. Professor Stefano Zacchetti (Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies and Professorial Fellow of Balliol) was loved by all, and is much missed. The Revd Kinsey, Chaplain, officiated at the funeral, broadcast by

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Zoom to witnesses from around the world, and with his Faculty and friends the College has formally and informally been supporting his wife and teenage children. Led by the Boden Professor of Sanskrit, we have held our own online meeting to pay homage to Stefano but his and others’ memorial services must wait until we can gather in person.

Senior appointments:

Despite all the uncertainties and, latterly, a University recruitment freeze, Balliol has had the good fortune, and tenacity, to succeed in appointing three new Fellows this academic year, all of whom joined us, virtually, in Trinity Term: James Kwan, Tutorial Fellow in Chemical Engineering, Katrina Davis, Tutorial Fellow in Zoology (Conservation Biology, a wholly new post for the College), and Nicholas Dickinson, Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies. In addition, the Domestic Bursar, Fran Wright, was elected to an Official Fellowship. We got off to a good start, with the arrival in Michaelmas Term 2019 of Alexander Bown in the ‘college-supported’ Tutorial Fellowship in Ancient Philosophy, a post made possible only by virtue of the Balliol Classics campaign. And we have ended well, by securing the Tutorial Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry vacated by Professor O’Hare (who remains a Senior Research Fellow): our new Tutor arrives next term. In the course of the year, we also admitted Early Career Fellows in Engineering (Samuel Albanie) and Computer Science (Francisco Marmolejo-Cossio) and as Visiting Fellows the Eastman Professor Tyler J. VanderWeele (Nuffield Department of Population Health), the Winant Professor of American Government Margaret Weir, and two Oliver Smithies Professors, Marisa Fuentes (History) and Liza Blake (English).

Select honours and distinctions to Balliol Old Members:

Starting on home ground, with the honours conferred on its alumni and former members by the College itself, it was a great pleasure in December 2019 to announce the election of 15 new Honorary Fellows of Balliol, from diverse backgrounds and walks of life, but all of them united in distinction. By the time of the announcement, one honorand had already been appointed DBE in the UK’s Resignation honours 2019 and another was about to be made UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. Eight more alumni, among them another of the new Honorary Fellows, were recognised in the New Year Honours 2020.

Five of the Honorary Fellows elected in 2020. Left to right: Nicola Horlick (1979), Professor Lyndal Roper, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History 2002-2001, Stephanie Flanders (1987), Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM (1979), Nada Al-Nashif (1984) – one of the photographs by Fran Monks commissioned for the 40[th] anniversary of the admission of women undergraduates to Balliol, now hanging in Hall.

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The 2020 Australia Day Honours List saw Robyn Williams (Visiting Fellow 1995–96) made an Officer of the Order of Australia. On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the Hon Bob Rae PC QC (1969) was awarded one of Canada’s most prestigious honours, the Confederation Centre of the Arts’ Symons Medal, and appointed her ambassador to the United Nations. And, back in Europe, Paul Flather (1973) joined Emeritus Fellow Alan Montefiore (Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy 1961–1994) in receiving the Czech Ambassador’s Honorary Jan Masaryk Silver Medal for ‘special contributions’ supporting academic freedom and the development of the Czech and Slovak nations during the Communist era.

Recognitions of academic distinction were numerous. And, fittingly, in the 40th year since the College began admitting women students, many went to alumnae or to female former Fellows. Alumna Professor Sarah Hart (1993) was appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry, the first woman to hold what is thought to be the oldest chair of mathematics in the UK. Professor Alexandra Gillespie (JRF in English 2000–2003) became vice-president and principal of the University of Toronto Mississauga. Closer to home, Hayley Hooper (2008) was elected Official Fellow, Tutor in Law and Associate Professor in Law at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. Several alumnae won competitive funding – Valentina Gosetti (2007) a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council; Emily Wilson (1990) a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship; and Chandrika Kaul (1988) a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her research on India and the BBC. Karma Nabulsi (1989) was presented with the Middle East Studies Association of North America’s Undergraduate Education Award. Professor Ngaire Woods (1987), founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as an International Honorary Member. Sir Simon Stevens (1984 and Honorary Fellow), Chief Executive of the Health Service – one of the Balliol people who were recognised in the New Year Honours 2020. ~~o~~ We learned with equal pleasure of the academic achievements of several Balliol men: Honorary Fellow Professor Deepak Nayyar (1967) was appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Development Studies; Visiting Fellow Professor Deepto Chakrabarty was elected inaugural Fellow of the American Astronomical Society; Professor Iain Couzin, once a Junior Research Fellow of the College, won the 2019 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize; closer to home, Charles Baden-Fuller (1966) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. There has also been a sense of an ending to mark, following on from the Brexit moment, in the stepping down of former Master Andrew Graham from his role as Executive Chair of the Europaeum; but the Scholars Programme he set up, and the union of European universities that was founded in Oxford in 1992, goes on.

Beyond the academy, Martin Edwards (1974) continued the great tradition of Balliol crime fiction, being presented with the Diamond Dagger award, the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest honour. There was plenty to celebrate for alumni in the legal profession, meanwhile: Andrew Little (1991) was appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Canada; Professor Jane Stapleton (1981 and Honorary Fellow) an Honorary

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QC; Professor Sarah Green (1995) to the Law Commission; and Tamsin Allen (1982) won Solicitor of the Year in the Law Society’s 2019 Excellence Awards. Those in UK political life also found success: the general election of 12 December 2019 saw seven alumni returned, and a new MP elected, to Parliament; and in the new year Robin Walker MP (1997) was appointed Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office.

Select honours and distinctions to current Balliol Fellows and tutors:

The reflected glory of the achievements of current Fellows is indicative of the slow burn of true scholarship. Professor Rosalind Thomas (Dyson-Macgregor Fellow, Jowett Lecturer and Tutor in Ancient History) was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Nick Trefethen (Professor of Numerical Analysis and Professorial Fellow) won the 2020 John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Tutor in Mathematics Derek Moulton’s long-lasting fascination with bivalve shells netted him the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize. Martin Conway (Professor of Contemporary European History, MacLellan-Warburg Fellow and Tutor in History) published a major new work, Western Europe’s Democratic Age 1945–1968 (Princeton University Press, 2020), a foretaste of which is available in the article ‘Does Democracy Have a History?’ Timothy Endicott (Professor of Legal Philosophy, Blanesburgh Fellow) was appointed to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law in Oxford’s Law Faculty. Sadly for us, this has meant that, in the 20th year of his election as Fellow and Tutor at Balliol, he has had to move to All Souls.

Left : Timothy Endicott. Photograph by Ian Taylor.

Right : Cover of Martin Conway’s new book.

Of all the awards made to current Fellows this past year, the most elaborate has to be that conferred on our Senior Fellow Sudhir Hazareesingh (1981, Fellow and Tutor in Politics) who, on the occasion of the National Day Celebrations 2020 in Mauritius, was appointed Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (GCSK). As delightful to the College was the announcement that the ViceChancellor’s new Education Awards scheme had immediately produced a Balliol winner in Dr Vicky Neale (Whitehead Lecturer in Mathematics and Supernumerary Fellow), for work she produced while undertaking Oxford’s Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Fortune, in the form of academic funding, favoured Helen Gittos (Associate Professor, Colyer-Fergusson Fellow and Tutor in Early Medieval History), who garnered a one-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship; Robin Choudhury (Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences), who combined forces with one of our early career researchers, Calliope Dendrou (Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Research Fellow in the Sciences), to win awards for inflammation research; another Early Career Fellow (in Modern Languages), Diana Berruezo-Sánchez, who gained a grant for an international workshop on Black Africans in Early Modern Spain; and Jin-Chong Tan (Professor of Engineering Science (Nanoscale Engineering), Fellow and Tutor in Engineering Science), who captured European Research Council ‘proof of concept’ funding to develop a revolutionary portable luminescent sensor.

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Select achievements of Balliol students:

These days, students too are in the running for research income. It was especially gratifying to learn recently that a start-up founded by Balliol graduates and funded initially by the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute had won an Illumina Accelerator 2020 award. A Balliol Chemistry student was selected a Reaxys PhD Prize finalist; a Clinical Neuroscientist won the 2019 Céline Newman Basic Science in Epilepsy Award; and, last but not least, a first degree student of Engineering was awarded a SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) at Caltech. The money did not all go in the direction of the Sciences: a Lidl Year Abroad Prize took an undergraduate Modern Linguist to Munich to help a Senegalese refugee learn German.

There were a number of sporting prowesses, of course, notably the selection of two Balliol undergraduates for the 2020 women’s Lightweight Blue Boat. Every year there are sporting firsts, and this year’s novelty prize goes to a DPhil Engineer, on being shortlisted for Student Coach of the Year for the coaching of … gliding.

For the 110 Balliol undergraduates who graduated this summer, no fewer than 53 of them with a First, we have nothing but admiration. They, with their Tutors, came through known and unknown difficulties to gain degrees which we hope to be able to celebrate in person at a future date. We also salute the many Balliol graduates who have been awarded degrees or, against the odds, made progress with their courses and their research.

Donations and legacies received in the year amounted to £3m (2019: £11m) given by 2,611 donors (2019: 2,630) of whom the vast majority were past or present Balliol members. The College’s approach to fundraising is in accordance with its charitable objectives. It employs staff on permanent and temporary contracts to build and deepen relationships with prospective donors and subsequently to solicit donations. No professional third-party agencies were employed to directly solicit donations. Through regular staff training, including with current students who participate in telephone fundraising campaigns as temporary employees, the College ensures it protects vulnerable people and others from unreasonable intrusion, persistent approaches or undue pressure to give, in the course of or in connection with fundraising for the charity.

The College adheres to the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Fundraising Practice (as amended) and has adopted and published policies on matters including gift acceptance; fundraising from and working with vulnerable people; and data protection. These policies are reviewed annually by the College’s Development Committee, which is chaired by the Master and meets termly to govern fundraising practice, including the oversight of formal complaints of which none were received this year (2019: none).

FINANCIAL REVIEW

As a result of the global coronavirus pandemic the College moved to online teaching for Trinity Term 2020 and was closed for visitors and conference activities. This had a significant impact on the financial results for the year, with the resultant fall in trading and College residential income. Whilst the value of the investment portfolio fell as a result of the market reaction to the beginning of the pandemic in the first quarter of 2020, the portfolio has recovered some losses with an overall investment loss on the fixed asset investment portfolio of £1.8m in the year in addition to a loss of £0.2m on shorter term investments (£6.5m gain in 2019). The composition of the investment portfolio is designed for the long term benefit of the College and the Investment Committee chose to maintain the structure of the portfolio, with the defensive holdings within the portfolio proving their worth in these difficult times.

The Governing Body has discussed the short and longer term financial impact of the pandemic. The closure of the kitchen and the reduction in numbers allowed on the College premises during the lockdown period meant that there were teams of employees with no work available and, therefore a number of staff were put on furlough with claims made through the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (note 5).

The financial impact of the pandemic is being monitored closely and budgets for different scenarios have been prepared and reviewed to ensure that the College is able to manage the effects of the pandemic and put in place any measures necessary, including drawing on its investment portfolio to manage cash requirements.

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Reserves policy

The College’s reserves policy is to maintain sufficient free reserves to enable it to meet its short-term financial obligations in the event of an unexpected revenue shortfall, to allow the College to be managed efficiently and to provide a buffer that would ensure uninterrupted services. This reserves policy has been proven to be effective during the coronavirus pandemic through the financial year to 31 July 2020.

Total funds of the College and its subsidiary at the year-end amounted to £148m (2019: £152m). This includes endowment capital of £123m and unspent restricted income funds totalling £3.5m. Free reserves at the year-end amounted to £5m (2019: £8m), representing retained unrestricted income reserves of £21m (2019: £23m) excluding the book value of tangible fixed assets funds (less allocated bond funding associated with the assets under construction) and the pension funding agreement reserve.

Risk management

The College has on-going processes which operated throughout the financial year for identifying, evaluating and managing the principal risks and uncertainties faced by the College and its subsidiary in undertaking their activities. The College considers its principal risks to be the health and safety risks in operating a large site, the protection of sensitive data and the recruitment and retention of high calibre staff. When it is not able to address risk issues using internal resources, the College takes advice from experts external to the College with specialist knowledge. Policies and procedures within the College are reviewed by the relevant College Committee. Financial risks are assessed by the Executive Committee and investment risks are monitored by the Investment Committee. Training courses and other forms of career development are available to members of staff to enhance their skills in risk-related areas.

The Governing Body, who have ultimate responsibility for managing any risks faced by the College, have reviewed the processes in place for managing risk and the principal identified risks to which the College and its subsidiaries are exposed and have concluded that adequate systems are in place to manage these risks.

Investment policy, objectives and performance

The Investment Committee continues to review the strategy that the College has put in place: generation of income, diversification and the building of returns which reflect Balliol’s financial requirements whilst delivering these objectives with acceptable levels of risk. The composition of the portfolio is reviewed regularly by external consultants and discussed by the Investment Committee.

The College’s investments are managed on a total return basis, maintaining diversification across a range of asset classes in order to produce an appropriate balance between risk and return. Under the total return accounting basis, it is the Governing Body’s policy to extract as income 3.5% of the value of the endowment. However to smooth and moderate the amounts withdrawn this 3.5% is calculated on the weighted and indexed average of the endowment over a four year period using the value as at the 31 March each year.

In December 2015 the College issued a private placement bond to fund the development of the additional student accommodation around the Master’s Field. The placement, of £35m, at a fixed rate of 3.37% for a period of 45 years, was invested in low-risk investments with the aim of drawing down capital as required to fund the project. The project completion is anticipated in the financial year to 31 July 2021 by which point the related low-risk investments will be fully drawn down.

The College’s fixed asset investments generated a total gross return during the year to 31 July 2020 of 0.4% (2019: 6.5%). The asset allocation at the year end is shown below:

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Balliol College

Report of the Governing Body

Year ended 31 July 2020

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES

The Governing Body is responsible for preparing the Report of the Governing Body and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Charity law requires the Governing Body to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Governing Body have prepared the financial statements in accordance United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law), including Financial Reporting Standard 102: The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

Under charity law the Governing Body must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the College and of its net income or expenditure for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Governing Body is required to:

The Governing Body is responsible for keeping proper accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the College’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the College and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the College and ensuring their proper application under charity law and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Approved by the Governing Body on 11[th] November 2020 and signed on its behalf by:

Dame Helen Ghosh, Master.

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Balliol College

Report of the Independent Auditor

Year ended 31 July 2020

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Balliol College for the year ended 31 July 2020 which comprise the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities, Consolidated and College Balance Sheet, Consolidated Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where:

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

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Report of the Independent Auditor Year ended 31 July 2020

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the group’s and the parent charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under section 151 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity’s trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Crowe U.K. LLP

Statutory Auditor

Reading

25 November 2020

Crowe U.K. LLP is eligible for appointment as auditor of the charity by virtue of its eligibility for appointment as auditor of a company under section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.

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Balliol College Statement of Principal Accounting Policies

Year ended 31 July 2020

Scope of the financial statements

The financial statements present the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA), the Consolidated and College Balance Sheets and the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the College and its wholly owned subsidiary Balliol College Developments Limited . No separate SOFA or statement of cash flows have been presented for the College alone as currently permitted by FRS102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

A summary of the results and financial position of the charity and its subsidiary for the reporting year are set out in note 12.

1. Basis of accounting

The College’s individual and consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, in particular ‘FRS 102: The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’ (FRS 102).

The College is a public benefit entity for the purposes of FRS 102 and a registered charity. The College has therefore also prepared its individual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their financial statements in accordance with FRS 102’ (The Charities SORP (FRS 102)).

The financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis, except for the measurement of investments and certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value with movements in value reported within the Statement of Financial Activities (‘SOFA’).

The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below and have been applied consistently throughout the year.

2. Going concern basis

The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis. The College and its subsidiary have sufficient cash and investment resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have no further requirement for external funding. In making this assessment, consideration has been given to the continuing impact of Covid-19.

3. Accounting judgments and estimation uncertainty

In preparing financial statements it is necessary to make certain judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts recognised in the financial statements. The following judgments and estimates are considered by the Governing Body to have most significant effect on amounts recognised in the financial statements.

Recognition of legacies : Before legacies are recognised in the financial statements, the Governing Body has to exercise judgment as to what constitutes sufficient evidence of entitlement to the bequest. Sufficient entitlement exists once notification of payment has been received from the executor(s) of the estate or estate accounts are available which indicate there are sufficient funds in the estate after meeting liabilities for the bequest to be paid.

Investments : The investments held by the College are included at fair value. These valuations are based on information prepared by the relevant investment managers.

With respect to the next financial year, the most significant areas of uncertainty that affect the carrying value of assets held by the College are the level of investment return and the performance of investment markets.

Liability for the deficit recovery plans associated with multi-employer pension schemes : FRS 102 makes the distinction between a group plan and a multi-employer scheme. A group plan consists of a collection of entities under common control typically with a sponsoring employer. A multi-employer

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scheme is a scheme for entities not under common control and represents an industry-wide scheme such as Universities Superannuation Scheme or one for employers in the same locality such as the University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme. The accounting for a multi-employer scheme where the employer has entered into an agreement with the scheme that determines how the employer will fund a deficit results in the recognition of a liability for the contributions payable that arise from the agreement (to the extent that they relate to the deficit) and the resulting expense in profit or loss in accordance with section 28 of FRS 102. The trustees are satisfied that Universities Superannuation Scheme and the University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme both meet the definition of a multiemployer scheme and has therefore recognised the discounted fair value of the contractual contributions under the recovery plans in existence at the date of approving the financial statements.

4. Basis of consolidation

The consolidated statement of financial activities, the consolidated balance sheet and the consolidated cash flow statement include the financial statements of the College and its subsidiary made up to 31 July 2020, using uniform accounting policies. Intra group transactions are eliminated fully on consolidation.

5. Investment in subsidiary undertakings

Investments in subsidiary undertakings are recorded at cost plus incidental expenses less any provision for impairment. Impairment reviews are performed by the trustees when there has been an indication of potential impairment.

6. Incoming resources from fee income, Office for Students’ support and other charges for services

Fees receivable, Office for Students’ support and charges for services and use of the premises, less any scholarships, bursaries or other allowances granted by the College, but including contributions received from restricted funds, are accounted for in the period in which the related service is provided.

7. Incoming resources from donations and legacies

Voluntary income is accounted for when the College has entitlement to the funds, the amount can be reliably quantified and receipt is probable.

Voluntary income received for the general purpose of the College is credited to unrestricted funds.

Voluntary income which is subject to specific wishes of the donor is credited to the relevant restricted fund or, where the donation, grant or legacy is required to be held as capital, to the endowment funds. Where voluntary income is received otherwise than in cash, it is valued at the market value of the underlying assets received at the date of recognition.

8. Incoming resources from grants

Grant income is recognised when the terms of the grant have been met.

9. Investment income

Interest on bank balances and fixed interest securities is accounted for in the period to which the interest relates.

Dividend income and similar distributions are accounted for in the period in which they become receivable.

10. Expenditure

Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis. Indirect expenditure is apportioned to expenditure categories based on the estimated amount attributable to that activity in the year, either by reference to staff time or the use made of the underlying assets, as appropriate. Irrecoverable VAT is included with the item of expenditure to which it relates.

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Grants awarded are expensed as soon as they become legal or operational commitments.

Governance costs comprise the costs of complying with constitutional and statutory requirements.

Intra-group sales and charges between the College and its subsidiary are excluded from trading income and expenditure.

11. Tangible fixed assets

Major expenditure on the acquisition, construction or enhancement of land and buildings and expenditure on equipment costing more than £10,000 is capitalised and carried in the balance sheet at historical cost. The cost of tangible fixed assets is their purchase cost together with any incidental expenses of acquisition.

Other expenditure on equipment incurred in the normal day-to-day running of the College and its subsidiary is charged to the Statement of Financial Activities as incurred.

12. Depreciation

Depreciation is provided to write off the cost of all relevant tangible fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, in equal annual instalments over their expected useful economic lives as follows:

Freehold land and buildings, including major extensions 50 years
Building improvements 10 - 30 years
Fixtures, fittings and equipment 5 - 10 years

A full year’s depreciation is charged in year of purchase, unless the asset is under construction, in which case depreciation is charged from the month in which the asset is brought into economic use. Freehold land is not depreciated.

13. Investments

Listed investments are valued at their mid-market values as at the balance sheet date. Investments such as hedge funds and private equity funds which have no readily identifiable market value are included at the most recent valuations from their respective managers.

Gains and losses arising on the investments are credited or charged to the Statement of Financial Activities and are allocated to the appropriate Fund according to the “ownership” of the underlying assets.

14. Stocks

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, cost being the purchase price on a first in, first out basis.

15. Foreign currencies

Transactions denominated in foreign currencies during the year are translated at prevailing rates of exchange at the dates of the transactions. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at rates applying at the Balance Sheet date or, where there are related forward foreign exchange contracts, at the contract rates. The resulting exchange differences are taken to the Statement of Financial Activities.

16. Total Return investment accounting

The College statutes authorise the College to adopt a ‘total return’ basis for the investment of its endowment. The College can invest its endowments without regard to the capital/income distinctions of trust law and with discretion to apply any part of the accumulated total return on the investment as income for spending each year.

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Statement of Principal Accounting Policies

Year ended 31 July 2020

17. Fund accounting

The total funds of the College and its subsidiaries are allocated to unrestricted, restricted or endowment funds based on the origins of the funds and the terms set by the donors. Endowment funds are further sub-divided into permanent and expendable.

Unrestricted funds can be used in furtherance of the objects of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body. The Governing Body may decide that part of the unrestricted funds shall be used in future for a specific purpose and this will be accounted for by transfers to appropriate designated funds.

Restricted funds comprise gifts, legacies and grants where the donors have earmarked funds for specific purposes. They consist of either gifts where the donor has specified that both the capital and any income arising must be used for the purposes given or the income on gifts where the donor has required that the capital be maintained and the income used for specific purposes.

Permanent endowment funds arise where donors specify that the funds should be retained as capital for the permanent benefit of the College. Expendable endowment funds are similar to permanent endowment in that they have been given, or the College has determined based on the circumstances that they have been given, for the long term benefit of the College. However, the Governing Body may at their discretion determine to spend all or part of the capital. Any income arising from the capital will be accounted for as unrestricted funds unless the donor has restricted the use of that income, in which case it will be accounted for as a restricted fund.

18. Pension costs

The costs of retirement benefits provided to employees of the College through two multi-employer defined benefit pension schemes (the Universities Superannuation Scheme ‘USS’ and the University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme ‘OSPS’) are accounted for as if these were defined contribution schemes in accordance with the requirements of FRS102. The College’s contributions to these schemes are charged in the period in which the salaries to which the contributions relate are payable. Both schemes have agreed deficit funding plans in place and a liability has been recognised based on assumptions on the increase in pay levels and changes in staff numbers.

19. Financial instruments

Financial instruments are classified and accounted for according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as either financial assets or financial liabilities. The College and Group only have financial assets and liabilities that are classified as basic financial instruments. Most basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value, which is not materially different to amortised cost.

The long-term bond, entered into in December 2015, is subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

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Balliol College

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31 July 2020

Note
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
1
Other trading income
3
Donations and legacies
2
Analysed as:
Donations and legacies recognised
Estimation adjustment for legacy recognised in prior year (note 2)
Investments
Investment income
4
Total return allocated to income
13
Other income
5
Total income
EXPENDITURE ON:
6
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
Raising funds:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure) / income before gains
Net (losses)/gains on investments
2, 11
Net (expenditure) / income
Transfers between funds
18
Net movement in funds for the year
Fund balances brought forward
18
Funds carried forward at 31 July		 Note
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
1
Other trading income
3
Donations and legacies
2
Analysed as:
Donations and legacies recognised
Estimation adjustment for legacy recognised in prior year (note 2)
Investments
Investment income
4
Total return allocated to income
13
Other income
5
Total income
EXPENDITURE ON:
6
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
Raising funds:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure) / income before gains
Net (losses)/gains on investments
2, 11
Net (expenditure) / income
Transfers between funds
18
Net movement in funds for the year
Fund balances brought forward
18
Funds carried forward at 31 July		 Unrestricted
Funds
£'000
5,738
770
(40)		 Restricted
Funds
£'000
-
-
924		 Endowment
Funds
£'000
-
-
1,908		 2020
Total
£'000
5,738
770
2,792		 2019
Total
£'000
6,206
1,717
10,558
Analysed as:
Donations and legacies recognised
Estimation adjustment for legacy recognised in prior year (note 2)		 1,175
(1,215)		 924
-		 1,908
-		 4,007
(1,215)		 10,558
-
(40) 924 1,908 2,792 10,558
147
1,368
461		 -
3,047
191		 2,193
(4,415)
-		 2,340
-
652		 2,626
-
350
8,444
9,410
454
1,359		 4,162
3,225
-
-		 (314)
-
-
-		 12,292
12,635
454
1,359		 21,457
13,845
488
1,330
11,223 3,225 - 14,448 15,663
(2,779) 937 (314) (2,156) 5,794
(188) - (1,815) (2,003) 6,597
(2,967) 937 (2,129) (4,159) 12,391
476 (372) (104) - -
(2,491)
23,094		 565
2,943		 (2,233)
125,668		 (4,159)
151,705		 12,391
139,314
20,603 3,508 123,435 147,546 151,705

The notes on pages 28 to 45 are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Balliol College Consolidated and College Balance Sheets As at 31 July 2020

Note
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets
10
Investments
11
Total fixed assets
CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks
Debtors
14
Investments
15
Cash at bank and in hand
Total current assets
LIABILITIES
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
16
NET CURRENT ASSETS
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year
17
Defined benefit pension scheme liability
23
TOTAL NET ASSETS
FUNDS OF THE COLLEGE
Endowment funds
18
Restricted funds
18
Unrestricted funds
Designated funds
18
General funds
18
Pension reserve
23
TOTAL FUNDS
NET ASSETS BEFORE PENSION LIABILITY		 2020
Group
£'000
55,511
123,445		 2019
Group
£'000
41,160
139,176		 2020
College
£'000
55,511
123,445		 2019
College
£'000
41,160
139,176
178,956 180,336 178,956 180,336
46
2,634
3,545
2,780		 51
7,316
-
3,973		 46
2,248
3,545
2,039		 51
7,536
-
2,778
9,005
3,588		 11,340
2,850		 7,878
2,544		 10,365
2,025
5,417 8,490 5,334 8,340
184,373
34,731		 188,826
34,728		 184,290
34,731		 188,676
34,728
149,642
2,096		 154,098
2,393		 149,559
2,096		 153,948
2,393
147,546 151,705 147,463 151,555
123,435
3,508
15,863
6,836
(2,096)		 125,668
2,943
15,170
10,317
(2,393)		 123,435
3,508
15,863
6,753
(2,096)		 125,668
2,943
15,170
10,167
(2,393)
147,546 151,705 147,463 151,555

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Governing Body of Balliol College on 11th November 2020.

Dame Helen Ghosh, Master

The notes on pages 28 to 45 are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Balliol College

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows For the year ended 31 July 2020

Note
Cashflows from operating activities:
Net cash used in operating activities
25
Cash flows from investing activities
Dividends and interest from investments
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
Proceeds from sale of investments
Purchase of investments
Net cash used in investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Receipt of endowment
Net cash provided by financing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting year
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Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting year
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting year		 2020
£'000
(162)
2,340
(15,750)
14,951
(1,035)
506
2,008
2,008
2,352
3,973
6,325		 2019
£'000
(2,327)
2,656
(19,316)
21,413
(5,517)
(764)
2,370
2,370
(721)
4,694
3,973

The notes on pages 28 to 45 are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Balliol College Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 July 2020

1 INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Teaching, research and residential
Unrestricted funds
Tuition fees - UK and EU students
Tuition fees - Overseas students
Other fees
Other Office for Students support
Other academic income
College residential income
Total teaching, research and residential
Total income from charitable activities		 2020
£'000
1,836
1,228
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228
117
2,305
5,738
5,738
5,738		 2019
£'000
1,807
1,093
-
226
96
2,984
6,206
6,206
6,206

The above analysis includes £3,284k received from the University of Oxford from publicly accountable funds under the CFF Scheme (2019: £3,124K).

Under the terms of the undergraduate student support package offered by the University of Oxford to students from lower income households, the College share of the fees waived amounted to £0k. These are not included in the fee income reported above.

2 DONATIONS AND LEGACIES

Donations and legacies
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
Endowment funds		 2020
£'000
(40)
924
1,908
2,792		 2019
£'000
6,888
1,300
2,370
10,558

A legacy, including a portfolio of shares, was recognised in the financial statements in the year ended 31 July 2019. Since its recognition the valuation of the share portfolio has fallen by £1.2m and is disclosed as an adjustment to donations within unrestricted funds. Just prior to the year end, the investment portfolio was transferred to a bare trust and its value is included in current assset investments. The movement in the valuation of the share portfolio in the time between the creation of the bare trust and the year end is shown as a valuation movement within unrestricted funds in the Statement of Financial Activities.

3 OTHER TRADING INCOME

Conference, catering and trading income
INVESTMENT INCOME
Unrestricted funds
Bank interest
Other investment income
Endowment funds
Investment income
Total investment income		 2020
£'000
770
770
2020
£'000
21
126
147
2,193
2,193
2,340		 2019
£'000
1,717
1,717
2019
£'000
15
333
348
2,278
2,278
2,626

4 INVESTMENT INCOME

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5
OTHER INCOME
Unrestricted funds
Income received from Government grants
Other income
Restricted funds
Nursery income
Other income
Total other income
6
ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE
Charitable expenditure
Direct staff costs allocated to:
Teaching, research and residential
Other direct costs allocated to:
Teaching, research and residential
Support and governance costs allocated to:
Teaching, research and residential
Total charitable expenditure
Expenditure on raising funds
Direct staff costs allocated to:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Other direct costs allocated to:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Support and governance costs allocated to:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Total expenditure on raising funds
Total expenditure		 2020
£'000
450
11
461
148
43
191
652
2020
£'000
5,827
3,595
3,213
12,635
358
1,141
89
172
7
46
1,813
14,448		 2019
£'000
-
129
129
203
18
221
350
2019
£'000
6,604
3,994
3,247
13,845
324
1,075
153
224
11
31
1,818
15,663

The College is liable to be assessed for a contribution under the provisions Statute XV of the University of Oxford which allows for a Contribution Fund which is used to make grants and loans to colleges of the University of Oxford on the basis of need. The scheme has been approved by the Council of the University, Congregation and Her Majesty in Council. The contribution under the scheme is payable during the financial year and is included within charitable expenditure (2020: £67k, 2019: £76k).

A foreign exchange loss of £25k (2019: gain of £28k) are reflected in support costs (2019: other income).

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7 ANALYSIS OF SUPPORT AND GOVERNANCE COSTS

Financial administration
IT
Depreciation
Other finance charges
Governance costs
Financial administration
IT
Depreciation
Loss/(profit) on fixed assets
Other finance charges
Governance costs		 Generating
Funds
£'000
47
6
-
-
-
53
Generating
Funds
£'000
34
8
-
-
-
-
42		 Teaching
and
Research
£'000
500
104
1,399
1,182
28
3,213
Teaching
and
Research
£'000
651
156
1,120
81
1,214
25
3,247		 2020
Total
£'000
547
110
1,399
1,182
28
3,266
2019
Total
£'000
685
164
1,120
81
1,214
25
3,289

Financial administration, IT and human resources costs are attributed according to the estimated staff time spent on each activity. Depreciation costs are attributed according to the use made of the underlying assets. Interest and other finance charges are attributed according to the purpose of the related financing. Governance costs are allocated according to the type of work undertaken.

Governance costs comprise:
Auditor's remuneration - audit services
Auditor's remuneration - tax compliance services		 2020
£'000
27
1
28		 2019
£'000
25
-
25

No amount has been included in governance costs for the direct employment costs or reimbursed expenses of the College Fellows on the basis that these payments relate to the Fellows involvement in the College's charitable activities. Details of the remuneration of the Fellows and their reimbursed expenses are included in note 22.

GRANTS AND AWARDS
During the year the College funded research awards and bursaries to students from its restricted and unrestricted funds as follows:
Unrestricted funds
Grants to individuals:
Scholarships, prizes and grants
Bursaries and hardship awards
Total unrestricted
Restricted funds
Grants to individuals:
Scholarships, prizes and grants
Bursaries and hardship awards
Total restricted
Total grants and awards		 2020
£'000
161
94
255
920
132
1,052
1,307		 2019
£'000
181
139
320
977
113
1,090
1,410

8 GRANTS AND AWARDS

The above costs are included within expenditure on charitable activities.

Included within the above is the cost to the College of the University of Oxford Bursary scheme. The College paid £94k in relation to this scheme in the year (2019: £92k).

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9 STAFF COSTS

The aggregate staff costs for the year were as follows.
Salaries and wages
Social security costs
Pension costs: Defined benefit schemes
Pension costs: Defined contribution schemes
The average number of employees of the College, excluding Trustees,
on a full time equivalent basis was as follows.
Tuition and research
College residential
Fundraising
Support
Total
The average number of employed College Trustees during the year was as follows.
Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow (University)
Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow (College)
Other teaching and research
Other
Total		 2020
£'000
6,520
531
556
141
7,748
2020
Number
25
112
8
11
156
2020
Number
20
12
8
8
48		 2019
£'000
6,377
516
1,694
66
8,653
2019
Number
28
109
8
10
155
2019
Number
20
14
2
6
42

The following information relates to the employees of the College, excluding the College Trustees. Details of the remuneration of the College Trustees are disclosed in note 22.

The number of employees (excluding the College Trustees) during the year whose gross pay and benefits (excluding employers NI and pension contributions) fell within the following bands was:

£60,001-£70,000
£70,001-£80,001
The number of the above employees with retirement benefits accruing was as follows:
In defined benefit schemes
In defined contribution schemes		 1
1
2
-		 3
-
3
-

Details of the pension schemes are included in Note 23.

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10
TANGIBLE ASSETS
Group and College
Cost
At start of year
Additions
Assets brought into use
At end of year
Depreciation and impairment
At start of year
Charge for the year
At end of year
Net book value
At end of year
At start of year		 Assets under
the course of
construction
£'000
14,436
14,851
(9,648)
19,639
-
-
-
19,639
14,436		 Freehold
land and
buildings
£'000
26,776
447
9,537
36,760
4,482
690
5,172
31,588
22,294		 Fixtures,
fittings and
equipment
£'000
7,276
452
111
7,839
2,846
709
3,555
4,284
4,430		 Total
£'000
48,488
15,750
-
64,238
7,328
1,399
8,727
55,511
41,160

No assets are held under finance leases.

The College has substantial long-held historic assets all of which are used in the course of the College’s teaching and research activities. These comprise listed buildings on the College site, together with their contents comprising works of art, ancient books and manuscripts and other treasured artefacts. Because of their age and, in many cases, unique nature, reliable historical cost information is not available for these assets and could not be obtained except at disproportionate expense. However, in the opinion of the Trustees the depreciated historical cost of these assets is now immaterial.

Houses and flats belonging to the College are intrinsically linked to the College operational activities so it is not considered appropriate to give a separate valuation of these properties.

A construction project involving the development of student rooms on the Master's Field site is ongoing. As individual blocks are brought into use the cost of the relevant blocks are transferred from 'assets under construction' to 'Freehold land and buildings' and are depreciated in accordance with the estimated useful economic life of the buildings.

11 INVESTMENTS

All investments are held at fair value.

Group investments
Valuation at start of year
New money invested
Amounts withdrawn
(Decrease)/increase in value of investments
Group investments at end of year
Investment in subsidiaries
College investments at end of year
Group investments comprise:
Equity investments
Global multi-asset funds
Property funds
Fixed interest stocks
Alternative and other investments
Fixed term deposits and cash
Total group investments		 Held outside
Held in
2020
the UK
the UK
Total
£'000
£'000
£'000
25,214
5,596
30,810
27,956
4,182
32,138
413
10,226
10,639
2,612
9,746
12,358
24,773
6,323
31,096
2,779
3,625
6,404
83,747
39,698
123,445		 Held outside
the UK
£'000
24,935
14,758
2,199
52,816
7,777
2,392
104,877		 2020
£'000
139,176
1,035
(14,951)
(1,815)
123,445
-
123,445
Held in
the UK
£'000
728
5,376
13,365
9,570
2,707
2,553
34,299		 2019
£'000
149,014
5,517
(21,952)
6,597
139,176
-
139,176
2019
Total
£'000
25,663
20,134
15,564
62,386
10,484
4,945
139,176

Investments held in property funds at 31 July 2020 include those with valuations reported on the basis of a material valuation uncertainty.

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12 PARENT AND SUBSIDIARY UNDERTAKINGS

The College holds 100% of the issued share capital in Balliol College Developments Limited (Company number 04495361), a company providing building contractor, conference and other event services on the College premises.

The results and their assets and liabilities of the parent and subsidiary were as follows.

The results and their assets and liabilities of the parent and subsidiary were as follows.
Income
Expenditure
Net gains / (losses) on investments
Result for the year
12 PARENT AND SUBSIDIARY UNDERTAKINGS (continued)
Total assets
Total liabilities
Net funds at the end of year		 2020
£'000
12,397
(14,486)
(2,003)
(4,092)
186,834
(39,371)
147,463
Balliol College		 £'000
15,376
(15,294)
-
82
1,998
(1,916)
82
Balliol College
Developments
Limited		 2019
£'000
21,457
(15,663)
6,597
12,391
190,701
(39,146)
151,555
Balliol College		 £'000
19,547
(19,397)
-
Balliol College
Developments
Limited
150
1,430
(1,280)
150

During the year Balliol College Developments Limited charged Balliol College £14,888k (2019: £18,473k) for the cost for the development for the Master's Field. Balliol College charged Balliol College Developments Limited £438k (2019: £967k) for the use of College facilities and the use of College staff for Balliol College Developments Limited's conference and catering activities. At the year end the amount owed to Balliol College Developments Limited by Balliol College was £868k (see note 16). (2019: Amount owed from Balliol College Developments Limited, £456k, note 14).

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13 STATEMENT OF INVESTMENT TOTAL RETURN

The Trustees have adopted a duly authorised policy of total return accounting for the College investment returns. The investment return to be applied as income is calculated as 3.5% of the weighted average of the value of the relevant investments as at 31 March in each of the last four years. The preserved (frozen) value of the invested endowment capital represents its open market value in 2012 together with all subsequent endowments valued at the date of gift.

The statement of investment total return is as follows:

At the beginning of the year:
Gift component of the permanent endowment
Unapplied total return
Expendable endowment
Total Endowments
Movements in the reporting year:
Gift of endowment funds
Investment return: total investment income
Investment return: realised and unrealised gains and losses
Other transfers
Total
Unapplied total return allocated to income in the reporting period
Expendable endowments transferred to income
Net movements in reporting year
At end of the reporting year:
Gift component of the permanent endowment
Unapplied total return
Expendable endowment
Total Endowments
At the beginning of the year:
Gift component of the permanent endowment
Unapplied total return
Expendable endowment
Total Endowments
Movements in the reporting year:
Gift of endowment funds
Investment return: total investment income
Investment return: realised and unrealised gains and losses
Other transfers
Total
Unapplied total return allocated to income in the reporting period
Expendable endowments transferred to income
Net movements in reporting year
At end of the reporting year:
Gift component of the permanent endowment
Unapplied total return
Expendable endowment
Total Endowments		 Trust for
Investment
£'000
1,462
-
-
1,462
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,462
-
-
1,462
Trust for
Investment
£'000
1,462
-
-
1,462
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,462
-
-
1,462
Pe
Pe		 Unapplied
Total
Return
£'000
-
501
501
-
34
(28)
-
6
(68)
-
(68)
(62)
-
439
-
439
Unapplied
Total
Return
£'000
-
435
-
435
-
36
93
-
129
(63)
-
(63)
66
-
501
-
501
rmanent Endowm
rmanent Endowm		 Total
£'000
1,462
501
1,963
-
34
(28)
-
6
(68)
-
(68)
(62)
1,462
439
-
1,901
Total
£'000
1,462
435
-
1,897
-
36
93
-
129
(63)
-
(63)
66
1,462
501
-
1,963
ent
ent
2020
2019		 Expendable
Endowment
£'000
-
-
123,705
123,705
1,908
2,159
(1,787)
(104)
2,176
68
(4,415)
(4,347)
(2,171)
-
-
121,534
121,534
Expendable
Endowment
£'000
-
-
117,230
117,230
2,370
2,242
5,822
-
10,434
63
(4,022)
(3,959)
6,475
-
-
123,705
123,705		 Total
Endowments
£'000
1,462
501
123,705
125,668
1,908
2,193
(1,815)
(104)
2,182
-
(4,415)
(4,415)
(2,233)
1,462
439
121,534
123,435
Total
Endowments
£'000
1,462
435
117,230
119,127
2,370
2,278
5,915
-
10,563
-
(4,022)
(4,022)
6,541
1,462
501
123,705
125,668

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Notes to the financial statements For the year ended 31 July 2020

14
DEBTORS
Amounts falling due within one year:
Trade debtors
Amounts owed by College members
Amounts owed by Group undertakings
Loans repayable within one year
Prepayments and accrued income
Other debtors
15
CURRENT ASSET INVESTMENTS
Amounts falling due within one year:
Equity investments
16
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year
Trade creditors
Amounts owed to College members
Amounts owed to Group undertakings
Taxation and social security
College contribution
Accruals and deferred income
Other creditors
17
CREDITORS: falling due after more than one year
Bond notes		 2020
Group
£'000
20
74
-
-
2,156
384
2,634
2020
Group
£'000
3,545
3,545
2020
Group
£'000
1,286
136
-
151
-
1,107
908
3,588
2020
Group
£'000
34,731
34,731		 2019
Group
£'000
196
146
-
6,800
174
7,316
2019
Group
£'000
-
-
2019
Group
£'000
420
250
-
238
76
1,043
823
2,850
2019
Group
£'000
34,728
34,728		 2020
College
£'000
17
75
-
-
2,156
-
2,248
2020
College
£'000
3,545
3,545
2020
College
£'000
181
136
868
151
-
299
909
2,544
2020
College
£'000
34,731
34,731		 2019
College
£'000
134
146
456
-
6,800
-
7,536
2019
College
£'000
-
-
2019
College
£'000
297
250
-
238
76
341
823
2,025
2019
College
£'000
34,728
34,728

In December 2015 the College entered into an unsecured note purchase agreement for £35m at a fixed rate of 3.37% with interest being payable half-yearly. The notes are due for repayment after 45 years, in December 2060.

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18 ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENTS ON FUNDS

ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENTS ON FUNDS
Endowment Funds - Permanent
War Memorial Fund 1919
Endowment Funds - Expendable
General Fund
700th Anniversary Fund
Alfred Douglas Stone Fund
Andrew Graham Fellow in Economics
Asoke Kumar Sarkar Fell in Class Indol
Career Development/Early Career Fellows Endowment Fund
Classics Fellowship Fund
Dan Norman Fund
Dervorguilla Fund
Dyson Fellowship in Greek Culture 1960
Endowment Fund 1904
Foley-Bejar Scholarship Fund
History Fellowships Fund
James Beeland Rogers Jr Endowment Fund
John Henry Jones Scholarship Fund
Jowett Centenary Fund
Jowett Fellowship Fund
JT Hamilton Legacy Fund
Leveson Gower Bequest 1979
Lilian Margaret Gregson Fund
Management Studies Fellowship Fund
Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund
Mr Snell's Trust
Oxford Internet Institute Fund
Oxford-Rhodes-Balliol Scholarship
Roy Skinner Fund
Victor Hugo Fund 2008
War Memorial Appeal Fund 1947
William Westerman Fund
Yehan Numata Fund for Buddhist Studies
Other Fellowship funds
Other student support funds
Other purpose funds
Total Endowment Funds - Group and College
Restricted Funds
Unspent income from Trust funds and restricted revenue gifts
Other operational funds
Total Restricted Funds - Group and College
Unrestricted Funds
General
Fixed asset designated fund
Pension reserve
Total Unrestricted Funds - College
General
Total Unrestricted Funds - Group
Total Funds		 At 1 August
2019
£'000
1,963
39,385
12,563
801
1,674
1,355
2,483
3,312
-
5,900
775
3,017
2,236
3,816
1,156
1,831
2,676
992
1,001
781
929
1,123
1,428
906
4,289
1,223
1,248
738
1,039
1,094
3,280
4,442
9,853
6,359
125,668
2,906
37
2,943
10,167
15,170
(2,393)
22,944
150
23,094
151,705		 Incoming
resources
£'000
34
815
215
14
29
23
241
98
1,221
101
13
52
38
68
72
31
43
17
17
13
16
19
25
15
74
21
21
13
18
19
17
111
222
355
4,101
936
179
1,115
6,589
-
-
6,589
487
7,076
12,292		 Resources
expended
£'000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(3,009)
(216)
(3,225)
(10,965)
-
297
(10,668)
(555)
(11,223)
(14,448)
For the year en		 Transfers
£'000
(68)
(1,471)
(432)
(28)
(58)
(47)
(93)
(116)
(42)
(204)
(27)
(104)
(77)
(27)
(42)
(63)
(87)
(34)
(34)
(27)
(32)
(39)
(49)
(31)
(148)
(42)
(43)
(26)
(36)
(38)
(35)
(159)
(317)
(443)
(4,519)
2,675
-
2,675
1,151
693
-
1,844
-
1,844
-
ded 31 July 2020		 Gains/
(losses)
£'000
(28)
(571)
(180)
(11)
(24)
(19)
(39)
(48)
(17)
(85)
(11)
(43)
(32)
(11)
(17)
(26)
(36)
(14)
(14)
(11)
(13)
(16)
(21)
(13)
(62)
(18)
(18)
(11)
(15)
(16)
(14)
(66)
(133)
(162)
(1,815)
-
-
-
(188)
-
-
(188)
-
(188)
(2,003)		 At 31 July
2020
£'000
1,901
38,158
12,166
776
1,621
1,312
2,592
3,246
1,162
5,712
750
2,922
2,165
3,846
1,169
1,773
2,596
961
970
756
900
1,087
1,383
877
4,153
1,184
1,208
714
1,006
1,059
3,248
4,328
9,625
6,109
123,435
3,508
-
3,508
6,754
15,863
(2,096)
20,521
82
20,603
147,546

The total return applied to income, as shown on the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities under incoming resources, is included within the transfers column.

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18 ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENTS ON FUNDS (CONTINUED)

ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENTS ON FUNDS (CONTINUED)
Endowment Funds - Permanent
War Memorial Fund 1919
Endowment Funds - Expendable
General Fund
700th Anniversary Fund
Alfred Douglas Stone Fund
Andrew Graham Fellow in Economics
Asoke Kumar Sarkar Fell in Class Indol
Career Development Endowment Fund
Classics Fellowship Fund
Dervorguilla Fund
Dyson Fellowship in Greek Culture 1960
Endowment Fund 1904
Foley-Bejar Scholarship Fund
History Fellowships Fund
James Beeland Rogers Jr Endowment Fund
John Henry Jones Scholarship Fund
Jowett Centenary Fund
Jowett Fellowship Fund
JT Hamilton Legacy Fund
Leveson Gower Bequest 1979
Lilian Margaret Gregson Fund
Management Studies Fellowship Fund
Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund
Mr Snell's Trust
Oxford Internet Institute Fund
Oxford-Rhodes-Balliol Scholarship
Roy Skinner Fund
Victor Hugo Fund 2008
War Memorial Appeal Fund 1947
William Westerman Fund
Yehan Numata Fund for Buddhist Studies
Other Fellowship funds
Other student support funds
Other purpose funds
Total Endowment Funds - Group and College
Endowment funds held by subsidiaries
Total Endowment Funds - Group
Restricted Funds
Unspent income from Trust funds and restricted revenue gifts
Other operational funds
Total Restricted Funds - Group and College
Unrestricted Funds
General
Fixed asset designated fund
Pension reserve
Total Unrestricted Funds - College
General
Total Unrestricted Funds - Group
Total Funds		 At 1 August
2018
£'000
1,897
37,940
12,146
774
1,614
1,310
2,144
3,163
5,703
749
2,917
2,162
3,684
1,088
1,771
2,572
959
968
755
894
1,085
-
876
4,147
1,183
1,207
714
1,004
1,057
3,171
4,135
9,464
5,874
119,127
-
119,127
2,327
4
2,331
3,924
15,246
(1,464)
17,706
150
17,856
139,314		 Incoming
resources
£'000
36
850
228
15
35
25
302
99
107
14
54
40
74
50
33
63
18
18
14
21
20
1,407
16
77
22
22
13
19
20
60
240
241
395
4,648
-
4,648
1,311
210
1,521
14,213
-
-
14,213
1,075
15,288
21,457		 Resources
expended
£'000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(3,173)
(214)
(3,387)
(10,272)
-
(929)
(11,201)
(1,075)
For the year en		 Transfers
£'000
(63)
(1,261)
(403)
(26)
(54)
(43)
(80)
(106)
(189)
(25)
(96)
(71)
(122)
(37)
(59)
(88)
(32)
(32)
(25)
(30)
(36)
(46)
(29)
(137)
(39)
(40)
(24)
(33)
(35)
(105)
(142)
(316)
(198)
(4,022)
-
(4,022)
2,441
37
2,478
1,620
(76)
-
1,544
-
1,544
-
ded 31 July 2019		 Gains/
(losses)
£'000
93
1,856
592
38
79
63
117
156
279
37
142
105
180
55
86
129
47
47
37
44
54
67
43
202
57
59
35
49
52
154
209
464
288
5,915
-
5,915
-
-
-
682
-
-
682
-
682
6,597		 At 31 July
2019
£'000
1,963
39,385
12,563
801
1,674
1,355
2,483
3,312
5,900
775
3,017
2,236
3,816
1,156
1,831
2,676
992
1,001
781
929
1,123
1,428
906
4,289
1,223
1,248
738
1,039
1,094
3,280
4,442
9,853
6,359
125,668
-
125,668
2,906
37
2,943
10,167
15,170
(2,393)
22,944
150
(12,276) 23,094
(15,663) 151,705

19 FUNDS OF THE COLLEGE DETAILS

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The following is a summary of the origins and purposes of each of the Funds. Only Funds which have a capital value in excess of £700,000 are separately identified.

The following is a summary of the origins and purposes of each of the Funds. Only Funds which have a capital value in excess of £700,000 are separately identified.
Endowment Funds - Permanent:
Capital balance of past donations to the War Memorial Fund 1920 where the related income, but not the
War Memorial Fund 1920 original capital, can be used for the restricted purpose of the charity.
Endowment Funds - Expendable:
Capital balance of a consolidation of past gifts, donations and bequests where related income, or income
General Fund and capital, can be used for the restricted purpose of the charity.
700th Anniversary Fund Capital balance of the 1963 appeal to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the College.
Alfred Douglas Stone Fund Established in 2004 to support College expenditure on student financial aid.
Andrew Graham Fellow in Economics Established in 2011 to support College expenditure on a fellowship in econmonics.
Asoke Kumar Sarkar Fellowship Fund Established in 2014 to fund a research fellowship in Classical Indology.
Career Development Endowment/Early Career Fellowship Fund Established to support the costs of Career Development Fellows/Early Career Fellows.
Classics Fellowship Fund As a result of an appeal to support College expenditure on Classics fellowships.
Dan Norman Fund To support research into addiction across biomedical, clinical, health and life sciences.
Dervorguilla Fund Capital balance of gifts and donations to the 1980's Lady Dervorguilla Appeal.
Dyson Fellowship in Greek Culture 1960 Established to support the a Fellowship in Greek culture.
Endowment Fund 1904 Capital balance of the endowment appeal of 1904.
Foley-Bejar Scholarship Fund Established in 2001 to support College expenditure on student financial aid.
History Fellowships Fund As a result of an appeal to support College expenditure on History fellowships.
James Beeland Rogers Jr Schol Fund Established in 1991 to support College expenditure on student financial aid.
John Henry Jones Scholarship Established in 2016 to support graduate scholarships.
Jowett Centenary Fund Capital balance of gifts and donations to the 1990's appeal to celebrate the Jowett centenary.
Jowett Fellowship Fund Established in 1907 to support College expenditure on fellowships.
JT Hamilton Legacy Fund Gift in 2004 to support College expenditure on student financial aid.
Leveson Gower Bequest 1979 Established to support the study of Classics.
Lilian Margaret Gregson Fund From a gift to support students of the College.
Management Studies Fellowship Fund From a gift in 1996 for the support of management studies in the College and University.
Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund To support Engineering and Management studies.
Mr Snell's Trust Established in 1677 to foster the connection between Glasgow and College.
Oxford Internet Institute Fund From a gift in 2001 to support the Oxford Internet Institute which is located in the College.
Oxford-Rhodes-Balliol Scholarship Established in 2017 to support graduate Rhodes scholars coming to the College.
Roy Skinner Fund From a gift in 2001 to support College expenditure on student financial aid.
Victor Hugo Fund Established to support a Fellowship in Modern Languages.
War Memorial Appeal Fund 1947 As a result of an appeal in 1947 in memory of Balliol men who died during the War to support
expenditure on scholarships and fellowships.
William Westerman Fund Established in 2010 to support the Pathfinder Programme for visits by students to North America and
Australasia.
Yehan Numata Fund for Buddhist Studies Established in 1990 for the support of Buddhist studies in the College and University.
Other Fellowship funds A consolidation of various funds established for the support of fellowships.
Other student support funds A consolidation of various funds established for the support of student financial aid.
A consolidation of various funds established for the support of College expenditure on the library, sport
Other purpose funds and the general academic purposes at the College.
Restricted Funds:
Trust Funds accumulated balances Accumulated cash balances of all the other Trust Funds held and administered by College.
Other operational funds Various cash balances held by College from restricted purpose gifts.

The General Unrestricted Funds represent accumulated income from the College's activities and other sources that are available for the general purposes of the College.

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20 ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Tangible fixed assets
Other investments
Net current assets
Long term liabilities and pension liability
Tangible fixed assets
Other investments
Net current assets
Long term liabilities and pension liability
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Financial assets at fair value through Statement of Financial Activities:
Fixed asset investments
Current asset investments
Financial instruments that are debt instruments measured at settlement value:
Trade debtors
Amounts owed by College members
Amounts owed by Group undertakings
Other debtors and accrued income
Financial liabilites measured at settlement value:
Trade creditors
Amounts owed to College members
Amounts owed to Group undertakings
College contribution
Other creditors
Accruals
Financial liabilites measured at amortised cost:
Bond notes		 Unrestricted
Funds
£'000
55,511
10
1,909
(36,827)
20,603
Unrestricted
Funds
£'000
41,160
10,565
8,490
(37,121)
23,094
2020
Group
£'000
123,445
3,545
20
74
-
2,156
(1,286)
(136)
-
-
(908)
(1,107)
(34,731)		 Restricted
Funds
£'000
-
-
3,508
-
3,508
Restricted
Funds
£'000
-
2,943
-
-
2,943
2019
Group
£'000
139,176
-
196
146
-
6,800
(420)
(250)
-
(76)
(823)
(1,043)
(34,728)		 Endowment
Funds
£'000
-
123,435
-
-
123,435
Endowment
Funds
£'000
-
125,668
-
-
125,668
2020
College
£'000
123,445
3,545
17
75
-
2,156
(181)
(136)
(868)
-
(909)
(299)
(34,731)		 2020
Total
£'000
55,511
123,445
5,417
(36,827)
147,546
2019
Total
£'000
41,160
139,176
8,490
(37,121)
151,705
2019
College
£'000
139,176
-
134
146
456
6,800
(297)
(250)
-
(76)
(823)
(341)
(34,728)

21 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The fair values of the assets held at fair value through the Statement of Financial Activities are determined using valuations provided by the relevant investment managers.

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22 TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION

The trustees of the college comprise the Governing Body, being Fellows who are teaching and research employees of the College, or Professorial Fellows with a College association, and who sit on the Governing Body by virtue of their employment or association with the College.

No trustee receives any remuneration for acting as a trustee. However, those trustees who are also employees of the College receive salaries for their work as employees. These salaries are paid on external academic and academic-related scales and often are joint arrangements with the University of Oxford.

Trustees of the college fall into the following categories:

Head of House

Professorial Fellow

Tutorial Fellow Research Fellow

Non-Research Fellow

There are also four trustees who work on management and fundraising: the Head of House, Senior Tutor, Domestic Bursar and Development Director.

Some trustees, particularly tutorial fellows, are eligible for college housing schemes. Thirteen trustees live in houses owned by the College. Fellows may be eligible for a housing allowance which is disclosed within the salary figures below. In addition, some trustees receive additional allowances for additional work carried out as part time college officers, e.g. Tutor for Admissions, Vice Masters. These amounts are included within the remuneration figures disclosed.

Some trustees, together with other employees, are eligible for private health insurance as part of their package of remuneration and all trustees may eat at Common Table, as can all other employees who are entitled to meals whilst working.

The College has a Remuneration Committee which makes recommendations to Governing Body on pay and benefits which are outside of external scales. The Remuneration Committee consists of both external and internal members. Its membership is disclosed in the Report of the Governing Body.

20 trustees (2019: 20 trustees) are not employees of the college and do not receive remuneration.

Other transactions with trustees

No trustee claimed expenses for any work performed in discharge of duties as a trustee.

Additional information regarding trustees is included in the Related Party Transactions note.

Key management remuneration

Key management are considered to be the Head of House, Senior Tutor, Finance Bursar, Domestic Bursar and Development Director. The total remuneration paid to key management (Group and College) was £554k (2019: £504k).

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Remuneration paid to trustees

Remuneration paid to trustees
2020 2019
Range Number of
Trustees /
Fellows		 Gross remuneration, taxable
benefits and pension
contributions		 Number of Trustees
/ Fellows		 Gross remuneration, taxable
benefits and pension contributions
£0
£1-£999
£1,000-£1,999
£2,000-£2,999
£4,000-£4,999
£5,000-£5,999
£7,000-£7,999
£8,000-£8,999
£9,000-£9,999
£11,000-£11,999
£12,000-£12,999
£20,000-£20,999
£22,000-£22,999
£24,000-£24,999
£25,000-£25,999
£26,000-£26,999
£27,000-£27,999
£30,000-£31,999
£31,000-£31,999
£32,000-£32,999
£33,000-£33,999
£35,000-£35,999
£36,000-£36,999
£37,000-£37,999
£38,000-£38,999
£42,000-£42,999
£45,000-£45,999
£46,000-£46,999
£48,000-£48,999
£49,000-£49,999
£51,000-£51,999
£52,000-£52,999
£55,000-£55,999
£58,000-£58,999
£59,000-£59,999
£60,000-£60,999
£61,000-£61,999
£63,000-£63,999
£65,000-£65,999
£66,000-£66,999
£67,000-£67,999
£74,000-£74,999
£79,000-£79,999
£81,000-£81,999
£89,000-£89,999
£92,000-£92,999
£93,000-£93,999
£98,000-£98,999
£102,000-£102,999
£103,000-£103,999
£108,000-£108,999
£129,000-£129,999
£133,000-£133,999
Total		 20
1
-
2
1
1
-
1
2
-
9
-
1
1
-
1
3
-
-
1
1
1
-
-
2
1
1
2
1
-
-
2
1
-
-
-
2
1
-
1
1
1
-
1
-
1
1
-
-
1
1
-
1		 £
24,030
-
-
82,058
45,802
-
-
93,103
74,046
48,108
105,828
-
-
66,354
92,775
67,991
-
55,223
-
-
93,809
-
76,303
42,546
-
33,082
-
112,940
-
123,464
22,147
4,501
8,073
5,194
-
35,980
26,376
133,989
-
768
-
-
32,827
63,046
-
18,766
-
81,096
-
103,981
108,867
-
4,606		 20
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
-
1
8
2
-
-
2
4
-
1
1
-
-
-
1
2
-
-
2
1
-
2
1
1
-
1
2
1
-
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
2
-
-
1
1
-
-
1
-		 £
98,370
-
-
79,657
-
51,008
-
52,281
58,083
60,748
-
119,208
-
-
90,722
46,330
-
99,750
30,937
31,920
-
-
-
74,459
36,808
41,288
-
106,098
-
50,270
-
-
-
-
11,684
96,918
-
-
-
-
-
-
7,098
102,834
-
-
129,250
-
1,138
-
65,673
-
179,029
68 1,887,679 62 1,721,561

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23 PENSION SCHEMES

The College participates in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (‘USS’) and the University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme (‘OSPS’) on behalf its fellows and staff. The College has also made available the National Employment Savings Trust for employees who are eligible under automatic enrolment regulations to pension benefits but not eligible for either USS or OSPS.

As explained in the accounting policies, due to insufficient information being available to enable the College to use defined benefit accounting for the USS and OSPS, in accordance with the provisions of FRS 102 both schemes are accounted for as if they were defined contribution schemes.

Both schemes have put in place agreements for additional contributions to fund their past service deficits and the College has recognised a liability for the present value of the future contributions that it estimates will be payable as a result of these deficit funding agreements as explained below.

In the event of the withdrawal of any of the participating employers in USS or OSPS, the amount of any pension funding shortfall (which cannot be otherwise recovered) in respect of that employer will be spread across the remaining participating employers and reflected in the next actuarial valuation of the scheme.

The College has also made available the National Employment Savings Trust for employees who are eligible under automatic enrolment regulations to pension benefits but not eligible for either USS or OSPS.

Universities Superannuation Scheme

The USS comprises two parts, USS Retirement Income Builder which is a defined benefit arrangement and USS Investment Builder which is a defined contribution arrangement. However, as explained above, both parts are accounted for as if they were defined contribution arrangements.

The pension charge for the year in the Statement of Financial Activities includes £-99k (2019 - £1,257k) in relation to the USS. This represents normal contributions of £500k (2019 - £423k) payable to the USS together with the change in the deficit funding liability between the opening and closing balance sheet dates of £-599k (2019 - £834k).

Following the triennial actuarial valuation of the USS defined benefit liabilities carried out as at 31 March 2017, an additional valuation was prepared as at 31 March 2018 and published on 16 September 2019. This valuation showed a shortfall of £3.6bn in the USS with the scheme assets at £63.7bn being sufficient to cover 95% of its ‘technical provisions’ liabilities £67.3bn.

Based on these valuations the actuary determined that the USS funding rates should increase as follows:

Prior to 31 March 2019
1 April 2019 to 30 September 2019
1 October 2019 to 30 September 2021		 Employer
18.00%
19.50%
21.10%		 Employee
8.00%
8.80%
9.60%		 Total
26.00%
28.30%
30.70%

A new deficit recovery plan was also agreed following the 2018 valuation and the contributions above include deficit funding payments of 2% of salaries from 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2021.

A further increase in the contribution rate to 34.7% from 1 October 2021 (employer 23.7%, employee 11%), including deficit funding payments of 6% of salaries, was also agreed although this will be subject to review following the 2020 actuarial valuation which is currently in progress.

The College has used a financial modeller to estimate the expected future deficit funding contributions payable and the present value of this amount is recognised as a liability in the balance sheet. Changes in the estimated amount of this deficit funding liability each year are shown on the Statement of Financial Activities. For the year ended 31 July 2020 the College’s provision for the USS deficit funding liability was £1,101k (2019 – £1,701k).

Further details on the Actuarial Valuations of the USS can be found on the USS website. https://www.uss.co.uk/actuarial-valuation

Oxford Staff Pension Scheme

The pension charge for the year includes £793k (2019 - £533k) in relation to the OSPS. This represents contributions of £490k (2019 - £439k) payable to the OSPS as adjusted by the change in the deficit funding liability between the opening and closing balance sheet dates of £303k (2019 - £94k).

The latest formal actuarial valuation of OSPS was carried out as at 31 March 2019 and was published in June 2020. This valuation showed the scheme assets as £735.3m, sufficient to cover 87% of its liabilities of £848.1m on a technical provisions basis with an overall shortfall of £112.8m.

Based on this valuation the trustee and University have agreed a recovery plan under which the employers will continue to pay contributions to the OSPS of 19% of pensionable salaries of both defined benefits members and defined contributions members who join on or after 1 October 2017. Part of the contributions for defined contribution members is paid to the defined benefit section to cover the deficit recovery plan, the provision of ill-health and death-in service benefits and the expenses of administering the defined contribution section. In addition, the employers will continue to reimburse the scheme in respect of Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and other levies collected by the Pensions Regulator. These contributions, together with an allowance for the Scheme's assets to return 2.5% per annum above gilt yields, are expected to eliminate the technical provision deficit by 31 January 2028.

A provision of £995k has been included in the financial statements as at 31 July 2020 (2019 - £692k) for the present value of the estimated future deficit funding element of the contributions payable under this recovery plan agreement. In determining the level of this provision it has been assumed that the College will continue to have a constant level of employee participation in this scheme and that the relevant earnings of these employees will increase in line with the actuary’s projected long-term salary rate increases.

A copy of the full actuarial valuation report and other further details on the scheme are available on the University of Oxford website. https://finance.admin.ox.ac.uk/ospsdocuments

NEST Pension Scheme

The pension charge for the year includes £41k (2019 - £1k) in relation to the National Employment Savings Trust.

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23 PENSION SCHEMES (continued)

Pension charge for the year

The pension charge recorded by the College during the accounting period was equal to the contributions payable after allowance for the deficit recovery plan as follows:

Universities Superannuation Scheme ('USS')
University of Oxford Staff Pension Scheme ('OSPS')
National Employment Savings Trust (‘NEST’)
Scheme		 2020
(99)
793
3
697		 2019
1,238
521
1
1,759

Included in other creditors and accruals are pension contributions payable of £nil (2019: £nil).

24 TAXATION

The College is able to take advantage of the tax exemptions available to charities from taxation in respect of income and capital gains received to the extent that such income and gains are applied to exclusively charitable purposes. No liability to corporation tax arises in the College's subsidiary company because the directors of this company have indicated that they intend to make donations each year to the College equal to the taxable profits of the company under the Gift Aid scheme. Accordingly no provision for taxation has been included in the financial statements.

25 RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME / (EXPENDITURE) TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES

Net income / (expenditure) for the reporting year
Adjustments for the elimination of non-operating cash flows:
Investment income
(Gains)/losses in investments
Endowment donations
Depreciation
Loss on the disposal of fixed assets
Decrease /(increase) in stock
Decrease/ (increase) in debtors
Increase / (decrease) in creditors
Net cash (used in) / provide by operating activities		 2020
Group
£'000
(4,159)
(2,340)
2,003
(1,908)
1,399
-
5
4,394
444
(162)		 2019
Group
£'000
12,391
(2,626)
(6,597)
(2,370)
1,120
81
(10)
(5,623)
1,307
(2,327)

26 ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET DEBT

Cash
Deposits and other short term investments
Loans falling due after more than one year
Total		 At start of the
year
£'000
3,973
-
(34,728)
(30,755)		 Cashflows
£'000
(1,172)
3,545
-
2,373		 Foreign
exchange
movements
£'000
(21)
-
-
(21)		 Fair value and
valuation
movements
£'000
-
-
(3)
(3)		 At end of year
£'000
2,780
3,545
(34,731)
(28,406)

27 ANALYSIS OF CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Cash at bank and in hand
Deposits and other short term investments
Total cash and cash equivalents		 2020
£'000
2,780
3,545
6,325		 2019
£'000
3,973
-
3,973

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28 CAPITAL COMMITMENTS

During the financial year ending 31 July 2018, Balliol College Developments Limited entered into a contract for the development of additional student accommodation at the Master's Field site. At the year end the capital commitment amounted to £4m (2019: £18m).

29 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

The College is part of the collegiate University of Oxford. Material interdependencies between the University and of the College arise as a consequence of this relationship. For reporting purposes, the University and the other Colleges are not treated as related parties as defined in FRS 102.

Members of the Governing Body, who are the trustees of the College and related parties as defined by FRS 102, receive remuneration and facilities as employees of the College. Details of these payments and reimbursed expenses as trustees are disclosed separately in these financial statements.

Two trustees had loans outstanding from the College of £150k under the Joint Equity/Loan Housing Scheme at the year end. The loans are repayable on the departure of the trustee from the College and are included in fixed asset investments. In addition, one trustee has a short term loan from the College for the development of a property. At the year end £8k (2019: £8k) was oustanding and is included in 'Amounts owed by College members'. Trustee loans are subject to interest charged by the College.

Nursery facilities are made available to Trustees for a fee on the same basis as other College employees.

30 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

There are no contingent liabilities that require disclosure.

31 POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus surfaced, and has spread around the world, with resulting business and social disruption. The coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020 and resulted in a UK lockdown from March 2020. With the pandemic ongoing the extent to which the coronavirus may impact the activity of the College, its subsidiary and investment results will depend on future developments, which are uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions required to contain the coronavirus or treat its impact, among others.

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32 COMPARATIVE INFORMATION

The split of income and expenditure per type of fund for the year ended 31 July 2019 was as follows:

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
Other trading income
Donations and legacies
Investments
Investment income
Total return allocated to income
Other income
Total income
EXPENDITURE ON:
Charitable activities:
Teaching, research and residential
Raising funds:
Fundraising
Trading expenditure
Investment management costs
Total expenditure
Net (expenditure) / income before gains
Net gains on investments
Net (expenditure) / income		 Unrestricted
Funds
£'000
6,206
1,717
6,888
348
1,261
129
16,549
10,458
488
1,330
-
12,276
4,273
682
4,955		 Restricted
Funds
£'000
-
-
1,300
-
2,761
221
4,282
3,387
-
-
-
3,387
895
-
895		 Endowment
Funds
£'000
-
-
2,370
2,278
(4,022)
-
626
-
-
-
-
-
626
5,915
6,541		 2019
Total
£'000
6,206
1,717
10,558
2,626
-
350
21,457
13,845
488
1,330
-
15,663
5,794
6,597
12,391

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