## The Aire Rivers Trust
Charity number 1145609
A company limited by guarantee number 07464227
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2022
## The Aire Rivers Trust
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2022
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 8|
|Examiner's report|9|
|Statement of financial activities|10|
|Balance sheet|11|
|Notes to the accounts|12 to 17|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates** Geoffrey Roberts Chair Jeremy Whaley Secretary Kevin Sunderland Mark Penny David Lerner David Brazendale Wendy Robinson Jane Rogers Jillian Campbell **Charity number** 1145609 Registered in England and Wales **Company number** 07464227 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address Bankers** 38 Morton Lane Barclays East Morton 152 Main Street Keighley Bingley West Yorkshire West Yorkshire BD20 5RS BD16 2HS
## **Independent examiner**
Simon Bostrom FCIE **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a company limited by guarantee and was formed on 8 Dec 2010. It is governed by a memorandum and articles of association amended 6 Sep 2011 and 16 Jan 2012. The liability of the members in the event of the company being wound up is limited to a sum not exceeding £1.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are also the directors for the purposes of company law and are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
1) To conserve, protect, rehabilitate and improve the rivers, streams, watercourses and water impoundments of the catchments comprising the River Aire and all tributaries and connected waterways (but excluding the Leeds and Liverpool Canal) and to facilitate and encourage appropriate access for all to the River Aire and its tributaries and connected waterways.
2) To advance the education of the public, or any association, company, local authority, administrative or governmental agency or public body or representative body in:
(a) The understanding of rivers, river corridors and catchments, including their fauna, flora and economic or social activity.
(b) The need for, and benefits of, conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of water environments.
## **The charity's main activities**
Improving the quality of the watercourses.
Encouraging and facilitating fish passage.
Raising awareness of river issues.
Developing network of interested parties.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular environmental improvement and public awareness of the river environment.
## **Achievements and performance**
The Aire Rivers Trust believes in connecting people, places and nature. We are one of a network of Rivers Trusts working to improve our catchment's health and natural processes.
Our vision for the River Aire is:
_It will be a thriving river valued for its environmental, social and economic benefits, and which is actively appreciated by the community for its diverse ecology and contribution to flood risk management._
To achieve our aim, we have developing project that create and sustain improvements in our river. Work by our catchment coordinator, other staff and volunteers has focused on continuing our journey from being much of our funding being opportunity driven to a position where fundraising is strategically driven to achieve maximum impact. Our work will be data driven to deliver maximum benefit and value for money.
## **Activities**
The Aire Rivers Trust relies on time and expertise given by volunteers to improve our river. We would like to thank them for their support.
To support the realisation of our vision in 2021/22 we have:
- Reconnected 60km of the River Aire to improve fish passage and biodiversity.
- Conducted further feasibility work for the removal of further barriers to fish within our river system.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Achievements and performance (Continued)**
- Delivered an extensive environmental conservation volunteer programme that has improved biodiversity, access and natural flood management along the river.
- Improved three flagship sites for wildlife along the River Aire and Worth that create high value nature rich habitats on people’s doorsteps whilst using the power of nature to slow the flow of water through our catchment.
- Support local groups to gain funding and expertise to care for their sections of the River Aire.
- Reached out bring new audiences to our river and connect communities to their local waterways. Our innovative community engagement programme has toured the story of our river’s heritage by canal boat from Leeds to Skipton, produced a museum exhibition, given talks to local groups, launched ten self-guided riverside walks and run walks for the local NHS that use our river as a means to improve participants wellbeing.
- Delivered placements for four young people to give them opportunities to enter the environmental sector.
- Employed a new Citizen Science Project Officer to develop and grow our network of volunteer citizen scientists to help us understand the river and its issues.
- Employed a Pollution Hunter to focus on pollution on Bradford Beck and its tributaries to enable us to identify sources of harm from our sewage network and urban pollution so that we can challenge polluters and demand change.
- Used their data to report pollution and environmental change within the catchment to ensure that our wider catchment is safeguarded from harm.
- Run the Aire Catchment Network. This group is instrumental in bringing partners together who want to improve the River Aire to build new projects, seek funding and drive strategic change.
## **Our impact**
Despite the recommencement of lockdown in late 2020, in 2021/22 we still able to:
- Run ninety-six environmental conservation volunteer events during which we:
- Planted three thousand six hundred and sixty-five trees.
Improved six kilometres of riverbank through clean ups, footpath repair and hedge laying.
Removed over a thousand bags of rubbish.
Thanks to the support of over a hundred regular volunteers and a couple of corporate groups. In total the time the volunteered had a value of nearly thirty-four thousand pounds.
- Run sixty wellbeing walks in Bradford and Craven.
- Run a monthly session for young people at Springfield Youth Centre in Greengates, Bradford.
- Loan our education outreach equipment to schools in Leeds and Bradford so that they could be used by one hundred and twenty students and attend two events as part of Bradford Science Festival. Our contribution towards an education pack for the latter was sent to three thousand pupils in the city.
- Invite nearly two hundred local people onto the historic canal boat, the Ribble, for an intimate storytelling and conversation piece shaped by community memories of the river. This was featured widely in the press including Look North and the Yorkshire Post.
- See Armley Mills fish pass, the last in a series of four that have reconnected sixty kilometres of river, pass its commissioning tests and enter service.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Achievements and performance (Continued)**
- See habitat improvements at three flagship sites which use the power of nature to tackle issues along the river including fly tipping, bank erosion and flooding:
- Postman’s Walk pocket park.
Baildon floodable meadow.
Bradford and Bingley Sports Ground.
Press coverage of our work can be found at https://aireriverstrust.org.uk/media-centre/
## **Partnership Working**
Much of this work was done as part of the second year of our three-year partnership project with the Environment Agency called Developing the Natural Aire. This project has enabled us to build links with the government agency to help them better understand how our strategic goals align and our capacity to deliver improvements in the River Aire catchment.
We have been supported in our growth by The Rivers Trust. As the result of this we have been granted funding to participate in a pilot project to attract green investment into the Aire valley.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Achievements and performance (Continued)**
Throughout 2021/22 we have developed partnerships with stakeholders and corporate partners within the catchment including Yorkshire Water and Britvic. Through these we have attracted substantial, long-term funding to improve our catchment.
## **Future funding**
The Aire Rivers Trust holds £80,100 from two Enforcement Undertakings related to pollution incidents on the River Worth. It is anticipated that work funded by this will commence in 2022/23.
In 2022/23 we will receive £7,500 in WIEF funding (from the Environment Agency’s Water in the Environment Fund) together with £50,000 from Yorkshire Water to support our work as the Catchment Host of the Aire Catchment Network.
We obtained £25,000 from Britvic via The Rivers Trust for a wetlands project in Bradford. 80% of this will be spent in 2022/23.
£19,000 was awarded by the Postcode Lottery to us to develop a small-scale natural flood management project in Craven.
£28,500 was awarded by the Bannister Foundation to fund a three-year project at Bradford and Bingley Sports Ground.
We obtained £17,000 from Yorkshire Water to support volunteers along three becks in Bradford. 90% of this will be spent in 2022/23. We also obtained an additional £8,500 from Yorkshire Water to support volunteers remove Himalayan balsam, a non-native plant that harms our wildlife, from within the catchment.
We anticipate that we will receive £120,000 from the Environment Agency to support our work on Developing the Natural Aire in 2022/23. The funding for the partnership project was raised by both organisations from funds including the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Yorkshire Water, the Environment Agency, Craven Council and other charitable trusts.
Substantial further funding agreements were signed shortly after the year end to support the work of new and existing staff. It is anticipated this will grow.
## **People**
The recruitment of a new Citizen Science Project Officer, Geoff Maskell, means that we ended 2022/23 with nine staff. Many of these staff have now been with the Trust for a number of years and we are growing in skills and experience. Our increased capability is being recognised by funders and partners like Yorkshire Water. This is reflected in their keenness to work with us.
During 2022/23 we were able to offer four young people placements. Two off these ran as consecutive year in industry placements for the University of Leeds. A third was a Countryside Worker, whilst the fourth has been a short term practical placement funded by the government’s Kickstart programme. The Trust feels that offering young people experience and paid entrance routes into the environmental sector is important for its future and diversity.
The Trust run by nine Trustees who have remained unchanged this year. We thank them for their support and commitment.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Financial review**
The net expenditure for the year was £17,370, including net income of £8,904 on unrestricted funds and net expenditure of £26,274 on restricted funds after transfers.
To date ART retains an approximate Unrestricted Reserve balance of £30K which was essentially based on a one off project carried out in the early years of the Trust which allowed some recovery for voluntary time. Subsequently ART has engaged in fully funded activity ie spending on projects in accordance with given grant income via appropriate claiming procedures. That in itself requires close budget scrutiny. A formal annual overall budget would effectively be a summation of those schemes.
ART now has the staff and IT resources to closely monitor income/expenditure on an increasing number of schemes under different grant regimes to ensure minimal impact on our limited Unrestricted Reserves. The position on those Reserves and all the individual projects balances are reported to the Board at each meeting.
There were no actual/anticipated events including Covid which materially altered Situation 1 status. As in the previous financial year potential Covid risks were reviewed in line with government guidelines. No furlough arrangements were put in place as agreed with funders.
In view of the above ART feels confident that the Company’s financial position is secure and that it will continue to operate as a going concern for the immediately foreseeable future. We therefore feel able to make the following statement:
At the time of signing these accounts the charity has been impacted by the global Covid-19 virus. The trustees have reassessed the charity’s ability to continue for at least 12 months from the date that the accounts are approved and conclude that no material uncertainties exist that cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, excluding fixed assets, at the year end were £32,667.
The purpose being to enable smooth running of the charity and to enable an orderly winding up should the charity have to close. The operating reserve is intended to provide an internal source of funds for situations such as a sudden increase in expenses, one-time unbudgeted expenses, unanticipated loss in funding or to cover uninsured losses.
The target minimum Operating Reserve Fund is equal to three months of average operating costs.
A target maximum balance of £40,000 has also been identified to ensure as far as reasonably possible that monies received by the Trust are being expended on meeting the aims of the Trust as set out in its Articles of Association.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
The trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and UK Accounting Standards.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
prepare the accounts on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (Charities SORP (FRS102)), and in accordance with the special provisions of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
Approved by the board of trustees on 12/10/2022
Jeremy Whaley (Trustee)
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Aire Rivers Trust
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are set out on pages 10 to 17.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity's trustees of the charitable company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the charitable company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since the charitable company's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a fellow of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act.
I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a fellow of ACIE which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- 1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
- 4 the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities [applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)].
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
17/10/2022
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Statement of Financial Activities
## (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022
|Notes
2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Income from:**
Grants and donations
(2)
-
Contributions
1,687
Interest / other income
16
Fee income
6,753
**Total income**
8,456
**Expenditure on:**
Salaries and on-costs
(3)
-
Travel expenses and other staff costs
-
Training
-
Project costs
-
Professional fees and evaluation
-
Materials, resources and consumables
-
Office expenses
-
Advertising and publicity
-
Insurance
-
Independent examination
-
Depreciation
4,116
Other expenditure
3
**Total expenditure**
4,119
**Net income / (expenditure)**
4,337
**Transfers between funds**
4,567
**Net movement in funds**
8,904
**Fund balances brought forward**
26,988
**Fund balances carried forward**
(4)
35,892|2022
Restricted
funds
£
380,404
11
-
-
380,415
167,421
8,361
10,545
111,612
36,204
30,514
18,478
12,109
3,755
1,560
-
1,563
402,122
(21,707)
(4,567)
(26,274)
253,849
227,575|2022
Total
funds
£
380,404
1,698
16
6,753
388,871
167,421
8,361
10,545
111,612
36,204
30,514
18,478
12,109
3,755
1,560
4,116
1,566
406,241
(17,370)
-
(17,370)
280,837
263,467|2021
Total
funds
£
318,056
153
-
-
318,209
108,748
4,265
2,796
20,837
26,560
21,811
13,250
3,676
1,968
1,725
2,593
787
209,016
109,193
-
109,193
171,644
280,837|
|---|---|---|---|
All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Balance sheet
|as at 31 March 2022
2022
Unrestricted
£
**Fixed assets**
Tangible assets
(5)
3,225
**Total fixed assets**
3,225
**Current assets**
Stock
-
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
49,704
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
(15,477)
**Total current assets**
34,227
**Current liabilities:**
**amounts falling due within one year**
Creditors and accruals
(8)
1,560
**Total current liabilities**
1,560
**Net current assets**
32,667
**Net assets**
35,892
**Funds**
Unrestricted funds
35,892
Restricted funds
-
**Total funds**
35,892|2022
Restricted
£
-
-
-
4,296
321,679
325,975
98,400
98,400
227,575
227,575
-
227,575
227,575|2022
Total
£
3,225
3,225
-
54,000
306,202
360,202
99,960
99,960
260,242
263,467
35,892
227,575
263,467|2021
Total
£
2,774
2,774
-
4,689
295,202
299,891
21,828
21,828
278,063
280,837
26,988
253,849
280,837|
|---|---|---|---|
For the year ending 31 March 2022 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476. The trustees (who also the directors for the purposes of company law) acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime and with FRS 102 (effective January 2019).
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 12/10/2022
Jeremy Whaley (Trustee)
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019) and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102. There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Going concern**
The trustees are satisfied that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when the charity becomes entitled to the resources, it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
Where grants are related to performance and specific deliverables, they are accounted for as the charity earns the right to consideration by its performance.
## **Expenditure and liabilities**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out the resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Tangible fixed assets costing more than £500 are capitalised and included at cost including any incidental expenses of acquisition. Gifted assets are shown at the value to the charity on receipt. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off the cost on a straight line basis over their expected useful economic lives as follows: Computers: over 3 years Motor vehicles: over 3 years
## **Pensions**
The charity operates a defined contribution scheme for the benefit of its employees. The costs of contributions are recognised in the year they are payable.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
## **Leases**
Rents under operating leases are charged on a straight line basis over the lease term or to an earlier date if the lease can be determined without financial penalty.
|**2 Grants and donations**
Banister Family Trust
Bradford Met. Council (BMDC)
Enforcement Undertakings
Environment Agency
Leeds City Council
Ludlow Trust
Natural England
Neighbourly Community Fund
Yorkshire Water Services (YWS)
Green Recovery Challenge Fund
River Holme Connections
Wild Trout Trust
Other donations
**3 Staff costs and numbers**
Gross salaries
Social security costs
Employment allowance
Pensions
Payroll fees|2022
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|2022
Restricted
funds
£
17628
9,147
40,000
217,289
2,456
3,668
4,996
7,500
50,000
27,720
-
-
-
380,404|2022
Total
funds
£
17,628
9,147
40,000
217,289
2,456
3,668
4,996
7,500
50,000
27,720
-
-
-
380,404
2022
£
156,057
10,279
(4,000)
3,746
1,339
167,421|2021
Total
funds
£
-
225
40,400
186,644
-
-
-
-
50,000
34,650
3,752
1,500
885
318,056
2021
£
101,382
8,150
(4,000)
2,337
879
108,748|
|---|---|---|---|---|
The average number of employees during the year was 7.8, being an average of 7.1 full time equivalent (2021: 4.8, 4.3 FTE). There were no employees with emoluments above £60,000.
|**Defined contribution pension scheme**|2022|2021|
|---|---|---|
||£|£|
|Costs of the scheme to the charity for the year|3,746|2,337|
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
|**4 Restricted funds**
Leeds Weirs
CaBA
FoBB
Bradford Stewardship
DN Aire
Gannett Foundation
Nature Connections
Enforcement undertaking work
Pers EU - River Worth
Better Becks WEIF
Bingley Sports Field
Citizen Science-Natural England
Total Kickstart bursary
Kickstart salary
Kirkstall clean ups Leeds
VCS Grant ICT Improvements|Balance b/f
£
815
52,010
12,534
9,556
101,986
2,069
34,479
40,400
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
253,849|Incoming
£
-
57,500
7,511
-
187,239
-
27,720
-
40,000
22,550
21,296
4,996
1,500
3,647
2,456
4,000
380,415|Outgoing
£
815
31,443
623
2,556
283,706
-
52,752
-
300
22,550
340
-
1,090
3,647
2,275
25
402,122|Transfers
£
-
-
(3,000)
3,000
-
-
(4,567)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(4,567)|Balance c/f
£
-
78,067
16,422
10,000
5,519
2,069
4,880
40,400
39,700
-
20,956
4,996
410
-
181
3,975
227,575|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Fund name**
Leeds Weirs Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)
## **Purpose of restriction**
Habitat improvement for River Aire Kirkstall fish passage.
Funding from Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency to promote the catchment based approach in line with the Water Environment Improvement Fund.
Friends of Bradford Becks (FoBB) Various projects relating to Bradford Becks. Transfer relates to costs
accrued to Bfd Stewardship in the previous year.
## Bradford Stewardship
DN Aire (Developing the Natural Aire)
Gannett Foundation Nature Connections
Enforcement undertaking work
Enforcement undertaking work Better Becks WEIF
Bingley Sports Field Citizen Science-Natural England Total Kickstart bursary
Kickstart salary Kirkstall clean ups Leeds VCS Grant ICT Improvements
Aire river stewardship in the Bradford district. Transfer relates to costs accrued to the fund in the previous year but paid for from the FoBB fund. Collaborative work with the Environment Agency in a National Lottery Heritage Fund project to reconnect the River Aire and install four fish and eel passes at weirs on the river and deliver a programme of community engagement linked to the ecological reconnection of the river.
For work at North Beck. The transfer relates to the unspent balance on the Funding from the Defra Green Recovery Challenge Fund towards the projects Baildon Floodable Meadow and Pocket Park. And towards improving the fishery status and cleaning the Aire river. £4,567 was transferred from this fund relating to a fixed asset purchased for general use.
Donated income arising from enforcement undertaking. Works will involve survey work and improvements to aid fish migration and population Donated income arising from enforcement undertaking.
Towards Better Becks WEIF project funded by the Environment Agency. ART is the lead partner in the agreement to which Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is the other delivery partner.
Towards improvements to the riverside in this sports field.
To purchase a pollution monitoring kit.
Towards training, equipment and management bursary for the Kickstart placement. Salary costs for the Kickstart placement. Funding for community clean ups.
Recovery funding to support the organisation and update ICT to allow us to improve delivery.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
|**5 **
**6 **
**7 **
**8 **|**Tangible assets**
**Cost**
At 1 April 2021
Additions
At 31 March 2022
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2021
Charge for year
At 31 March 2022
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2022
At 31 March 2021
**Debtors and prepayments**
Debtors
Prepayments
**Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
**Creditors and accruals**
Creditors
Accruals|£
-
4,063
4,063
-
1,354
1,354
2,709
-
Equipment|£
540
504
1,044
180
348
528
516
360
Computers|£
7,240
-
7,240
4,826
2,414
7,240
-
2,414
2022
£
52,219
1,781
54,000
2022
£
308,333
93
308,426
-2224
2022
£
98,400
1,560
99,960
Vehicles|Total
£
7,780
4,567
12,347
5,006
4,116
9,122
3,225
2,774
2021
£
648
4,041
4,689
2021
£
295,202
-
295,202
2021
£
20,268
1,560
21,828|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2022
## **9 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
One trustee was paid expenses in respect of travel £806 (2021: £nil).
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
## **Other transactions with trustees or related parties**
£120 was paid to Developing Minds (company 05053170) in which Geoffrey Roberts (Chair) is a person with significant control (2021: £59).
|**10 Funds held as agent**
Friends of the River Worth|Balance b/f
£
2,509
2,509|Incoming
£
-
-|Outgoing
£
285
285|Balance c/f
£
2,224
2,224|
|---|---|---|---|---|
These balances have been excluded from the charity's accounts.
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## The Aire Rivers Trust
## Statement of Financial Activities including comparatives for all funds (including summary income and expenditure account) for the year ended 31 March 2022
|2022
2021
Unrestricted Unrestricted
funds
funds
£
£
**Income**
Grants and donations
-
2,176
Contributions
1,687
153
Interest / other income
16
-
Fee income
6,753
-
**Total income**
8,456
2,329
**Expenditure**
Salaries and on-costs
-
1,950
Travel expenses and other staff cost
-
321
Training
-
-
Project costs
-
-
Professional fees and evaluation
-
-
Materials, resources and consumable
-
225
Office expenses
-
30
Advertising and publicity
-
32
Insurance
-
1,239
Independent examination
-
1,704
Depreciation
4,116
2,593
Other expenditure
3
750
**Total expenditure**
4,119
8,844
**Net income / (expenditure)**
4,337
(6,515)
**Transfers between funds**
4,567
540
**Net movement in funds**
8,904
(5,975)
**Fund balances brought forward**
26,988
32,963
**Fund balances carried forward**
35,892
26,988|2022
Restricted
funds
£
380,404
11
-
-
380,415
167,421
8,361
10,545
111,612
36,204
30,514
18,478
12,109
3,755
1,560
-
1,563
402,122
(21,707)
(4,567)
(26,274)
253,849
227,575|2021
Restricted
funds
£
315,880
-
315,880
106,798
3,944
2,796
20,837
26,560
21,586
13,220
3,644
729
21
-
37
200,172
115,708
(540)
115,168
138,681
253,849|2022
Total
funds
£
380,404
1,698
16
6,753
388,871
167,421
8,361
10,545
111,612
36,204
30,514
18,478
12,109
3,755
1,560
4,116
1,566
406,241
(17,370)
-
(17,370)
280,837
263,467|2021
Total
funds
£
318,056
153
-
-
318,209
108,748
4,265
2,796
20,837
26,560
21,811
13,250
3,676
1,968
1,725
2,593
787
209,016
109,193
-
109,193
171,644
280,837|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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