Charity number: 1146064
The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Accounts
for the year ended 31st August 2022
Wenn Townsend
Chartered Accountants
Oxford
The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Contents
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| Trustees’ Annual Report | 1-9 |
| Independent Auditor’s Report | 10 |
| Receipts and Payments Accounts | 11 |
| Statement of Assets and Liabilities | 12 |
The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31st August 2022
Legal and Administration Information
Registered charity name The British Physics Olympiad Trust (also known as BPhO) Charity registration number 1146064 Registered office The British Physics Olympiad Trust Department of Physics University of Oxford Denys Wilkinson Building Oxford OX1 3RH Trustees Dr Anson Cheung Mr Iain Holmes Mr Robin Hughes (Chair) Mrs Clare Thomson Dr Sian Tedaldi (Administrator) Website www.BPhO.org.uk Independent examiner Wenn Townsend Chartered Accountants 30 St Giles Oxford OX1 3LE
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)
for the year ended 31st August 2022
The Trustees present their Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st August 2022.
Reference and Administration Details
The Charity name is The British Physics Olympiad Trust, and is also known as BPhO. The Charity has the registered number 1146064, and its principal address is:
The British Physics Olympiad Trust Department of Physics University of Oxford Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford, OX1 3RH
Trustees
The following Trustees held office during the year: Dr Anson Cheung Mr Robin Hughes Chair Dr Sian Tedaldi Administrator
Two trustees (Iain Holmes and Clare Thomson) resigned during the year due to other work and family commitments.
Charitable Objects and Main Activities Undertaken
The objects of the Charity are the advancement of education and engagement of students in physics including:
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The organisation of annual physics competitions; and
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The support of teams to represent Britain at the International Physics Olympiad and at the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Website www.BPhO.org.uk
Structure, Governance and Management
The governing document is a Trust Deed dated 11th January 2012. Trustees are appointed or reappointed at a meeting of the Trustees.
The BPhO is run through the Outreach Office of the Physics Department of the University of Oxford. One of the Trustees (Dr Sian Tedaldi) is the Physics Outreach Officer, who has a shared role. This provides both administrative and academic support, an awareness and understanding of the requirements for developing students' physics skills and knowledge, whilst also providing facilities for enabling many volunteers to be able to offer their services to the BPhO.
A Child Protection Policy and a Data Protection Policy are in place. DBS checks are carried out on the Trustees, but also on the volunteers, who are mostly teachers (some retired), who are engaged in running problem solving classes, lecturing and participating in the training camps.
All work is voluntary, apart from that of the Administrator, who is an employee of Oxford University and who is allowed to devote a percentage of time to the administrative running of the BPhO.
Day to day running of the BPhO is by a Management Committee of five members who coordinate the relevant activities during the course of the academic year, funnelling many of the administrative activities through the Oxford Administration Office.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
Charitable Objects and Main Activities Undertaken
The objects of the Charity are the advancement of education and engagement of students in physics including:
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The organisation of annual physics competitions in schools and colleges.
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The selection and support of teams to represent the UK at the International Physics Olympiad and the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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Encouraging the study of physics in Years 10-13, and to recognise and reward excellence in young physicists.
The key activities are the setting of competition papers and running Training Camps. For this an active Management Committee liaises with thirty to forty volunteers, mainly teachers or physics research students, who participate in a wide range of quite specific large and small roles to expedite the aims of the BPhO. There are five distinct areas in which we focus for running and development.
1. Paper setting:
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a. Setting problems and papers
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b. Ensuring consistency across papers
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c. Providing a mechanism for checking papers
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d. Assessing suitability in level of difficulty and content
2. BPhO Training
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a. Organising and delivering training for two or three training camps per year
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b. Providing mentoring for the team and reserves
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c. Setting problems and further reading
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d. Planning training across all activities for students and teachers
3. Widening engagement
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a. Advertising and promoting resources to teachers and students
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b. Developing new materials and resources for physics teaching
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c. Maintaining and developing the website
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d. Running events (Workshops) with a key aim of developing skills and enthusiasm for stretching physics content (outside of training)
4. Sponsorship
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a. Promoting the BPhO to potential sponsors
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b. Organising contributions in money, time , promotion and equipment
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c. Engaging past Olympiad students
5. Sustainability and expansion
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a. Developing links with other organisations who will use the BPhO competitions b. Teaching resources related to the level of the competitions
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c. Introducing new competitions
The team of volunteer supporters who participate in these is a rolling group who can afford to give of their time, depending upon personal, family and career commitments. This is a real limitation in the BPhO activities, and so the team of core paper setters is small whilst the surrounding group of contributors, checkers and supporters in one way or another is relatively large.
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Papers are ordered for this number of students, but the marking will not have been completed by the time boundaries are set. So only half of the marks are returned.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued)
for the year ended 31st August 2022
With such a wide range of papers being produced (11 competitions this year), there is a lot of pressure to ensure that each competition goes through many checks. Question papers and mark schemes should reflect the ability and experience of both of students and teachers for each level; being interesting questions, stretching, informative, eliciting a deeper understanding amongst all who try them. They are not mere questions to get by; they are to encourage perseverance, build determination and resilience and possibly, to encourage students to discuss them and develop their skills in expressing their grasp of the concepts through explain their ideas to their peers. Our paper setters are under some pressure to write papers whilst teaching full time in school. We have checkers, who are asked to look at the paper in detail and others who look at the topics and a broader view to see if the paper is realistic for the target audience.
Paper setters or Team Leaders are:
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Junior Physics Challenge (Year 10) – Mr Iain Holmes (Kettering Buccleugh Academy)
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Intermediate Physics Challenge Online – Mr Paul Nicholls (Merchiston Castle School)
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Senior Physics Challenge Online– Mr Robin Hughes (Project Physicist on Isaac Physics)
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Physics Challenge – Dr Stephen Martin (Hills Road Sixth Form College & Cavendish Outreach)
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Astro Challenge, BAAO Astrophysics Olympiad, Junior AC - Dr Alex Calverley (RGS Guildford)
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BPhO British Physics Olympiad (Round 1) – Dr Adam Patchett (Stamford Endowed School)
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BPhO British Physics Olympiad (Round 1) – Dr Rupert Alison, Dr James Bedford (Harrow School)
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Experimental project – Mr Matthew Bennett (Truro Sixth Form College)
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Computational Challenge – Dr Andrew French (Winchester College)
The aim of the Trust is to offer students questions based on physics problem solving. This is to extend students' skills beyond examined courses and to provide them with the opportunities to apply their physics knowledge and to grasp the power of the subject, which is to analyse the nature of the physical world. This year there have been over thirty thousand students from several hundred schools of all types across the UK (and a number of International schools following a UK education system), who have participated in the competitions. These students are encouraged to develop problem solving skills through a set of competitions, or by teachers making use of the online resources on the BPhO website. The level of skill required to solve physics problems is high, but it is reached by determination and endeavour rather than being solely an ingrained natural talent. The UK competes in a global market and science is the key to future economic development. The examination system is a route to competence, but it is important that something additional is offered to students who want to excel in this subject. Mathematical skills are vital and the BPhO does include this in the competition papers. The BPhO is there to provide opportunities for students to appreciate the challenges of the subject and to realise that it is a mathematical subject for which mathematical solutions to problems provide a perspective on understanding. It is to support students in achieving their aspirations for university entrance.
When planning our activities for each year, the Trustees are cognisant of the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and, in this regard, the BPhO ensures that access to resources and training is open to all students, whatever their school, background and location. The BPhO resources are freely available via the website www.BPhO.org.uk to teachers and students from all schools. The widest reach is the goal, with boys and girls being able to benefit from access to materials focused at their level of ability and above, and not being confined to going through their teachers. Attendance at some of the annual meetings for physics teachers enables the charity to disseminate information, to encourage teachers to participate in the activities, and allows for them to develop their students’ skills to the highest level. This is particularly significant in allowing those students with aspirations to further their knowledge and to engage realistically in the challenges of applying to the top university courses in physics and engineering. Teacher Workshops are run each year, and schools with less engagement with the Olympiad are encouraged to attend where possible.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
Responses to Covid-19
The online competitions have been retained and so these IPC and SPC online Competitions now precede the IPC and SPC Challenge Paper Competitions. Both are extremely successful in attracting participants. The online competitions are about participation rather than problem solving skills.
The BPhO finances are in good shape given the savings made in several areas. Several of the competitions bring in a modest income and these have continued to run. The large expenditure activities of the Annual awards, training camps and sending teams overseas have not taken place.
Outreach activities are being thought about and we hope to start in the Autumn term of 2022.
Training of the teams entered for the IPhO, EuPhO and IOAA equivalent has all taken place again, although the physics competition has been kept as an online one due to the fact that the venue for the IPhO was due to be Belarus in July 2022.
Background
Problem solving is an empowering activity and is one way of developing students' confidence in taking up life's challenges. Teachers can be unaware of the level that can be reached by some of the very best students. For both teachers and their students, engaging with others at workshops and problem solving events encourages participation and gaining confidence in seeing that physics is hard for everyone, but that the rewards can be great. The BPhO endeavours to allow those students and teachers to benefit from the wealth of accumulated experience that is available from the group of volunteer teachers. It is also part of the remit to ensure good practice in teaching extension material to challenge students from all backgrounds. To be able to share materials, information, ideas and expertise from those who have developed that expertise. This encourages the exchange of information to the benefit of teachers and students.
The BPhO is very much a network and maintaining contact with everyone is an ongoing process throughout the year. About 40 teachers (a few retired) from a variety of schools, contribute their time and experience to the benefit of the BPhO. The rewards are in seen in the developing expertise of strong students who gain confidence in a subject that they enjoy and which can be seen as economically important for the country. We also want to do well in international competitions in which our (two) teams of five students have been selected to represent the UK. The students are worked hard and they certainly apply themselves with great determination in the limited training time available. The variety of schools from which these students come each year testifies to a broad programme of attracting able, enthusiastic and extremely hard working students with an avid interest in the subject. These volunteer teachers provide all of the work that goes into teaching and setting of exam papers for the BPhO; we maintain contacts by email with all those who do small tasks such as checking aspects of a competition paper in order to encourage and offer opportunities for participation in the BPhO. Postgraduate student markers are paid at demonstrator rates for the marking of about 2300 papers for Round 1 in November this year.
For the BPhO Round 1 paper (a chargeable entry due to the cost of marking), non-fee-paying schools are awarded two free entries for their students each year. The introduction of the Astronomy & Astrophysics competition, with the training camps and other support, is a significant expenditure and could not be sustained indefinitely. But plans are in hand to obtain sponsorship from companies in this field, and we have an income through the sale of the Round 1 paper and several of the others overseas.
The number of contributors to the BPhO is extensive, and the charity is very much a network linking teachers and students. We would like to record one of the teachers who passed away earlier in the year.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
Main achievements during the year
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A continued emphasis on widening the number of students and schools, especially from state funded schools, will open up opportunities to a very wide range of outstanding students who will revel in the chance to perform in a competitive and aspirational subject.
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We were pleased to be able to keep all of the competition running, even in slightly different forms in some cases, but continuing the new online ones as the situation improves.
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To advertise the BPhO to teachers and to widen participation has been our focus in recent years, developing the BPhO beyond team selection, and in attempting to engage teachers and students more widely in physics problem solving. Physics problem solving is a difficult activity to master, but on the positive side, there are tremendous benefits to be gained from its mastery. Students gain confidence in themselves and engage with the subject at a deeper level, looking for more challenges. The online competitions proved to be a great success, and students enjoyed them, particularly in the light of exams being thwarted this year.
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Our fifth workshop with China was online again with 60 students. It is an effective means of strengthening our links with ASDAN China. Five days with students created much interest from those who attended. We would like to run such events in this country also.
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We participated in last year’s IPhO organised by Lithuania and but could not enter the European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO) this time because A levels started up again. The physics team stayed in Cambridge for the events. The UK team all won medals, with one Silver and four Bronzes for the IPhO and two Silver and two Bronze in the EuPhO.
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IPhO Team: Benedict Harvey Eton College & Trinity College Cambridge Finley Easton Prior Pursglove School & St Catherine’s College Oxford Francesca Di Cecio St Paul’s Girls School & Corpus Christi College Cambridge Marc Giroux Wilson’s School & Merton College Oxford Ojas Gulati Tiffin School Rhys Ho (Reserve) Cranbrook School & King’s College Cambridge
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The IOAA organised by Georgia was a great success. The team were selected at the online Easter Camp and trained over the summer. As usual the training was initiated with the Easter Training Camp, all online, in which a squad of thirteen students attended for training and selection. This activity is attracting some new schools of all categories, and also some individuals who have a singular interest in astronomy, a subject not undertaken by many schools.
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The team were: Siobann Bouyer Wilson’s School &University College Oxford Emma Harris The Perse School Alex Jones Royal Grammar School, Guildford & Queens’ College Cambridge Anirudh Khaitan Reading School & Queens’ College Cambridge Albert Kwok Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School & Queens’ College Cambridge Anna Sleigh Nottingham High School & Fitzwilliam College Cambridge
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We estimate that in excess of 40,000 students are engaged with the BPhO this year. The number of schools is 700 - 800. This is certainly lower than some years, but the Covid situation has taken its toll.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
The competition activities for this year have been:
September 2021 - Physics Challenge (Year 13) : an estimate from the orders is 3-4 thousand students from over 400 schools using this paper or part of it. It is not a competition paper, but a resource to encourage students to develop their physics problem solving and to want to go on to the next level. Many schools use this as a precompetition paper; some try it out in class whilst many more schools than this use it as a source of questions for their teaching. This paper encourages participation within a class environment, providing questions often for extension, which precipitates further discussion on a range of topics. It covers topics within the syllabus for physics, but with questions that would not be on a typical exam paper that students would meet. We are also trying to engage teachers with problem solving for their students.
Sept/Oct 2021 BAAO Astro Challenge (Year 13) : similar in idea to the Physics Challenge: this paper is written for students with little acquaintance with the subject. The necessary physics is often presented within the questions. This is to show students that the can participate despite the impression they gain from the subject title that they know nothing of the subject. However, good physicists know enough to do well. This paper is sent out as a resource and seems to find some interest amongst teachers and students, but it is hard to gauge how effective it is in gaining student numbers.
Nov 2021 – British Physics Olympiad (Round 1) : This is the first of the senior level physics papers, which is the start of team selection for the UK team for the IPhO and EuPhO in summer 2021. This year the numbers rose to 2300, a significant increase (by 700) from the previous year. This is a 2hr 40 min paper in school with a significant amount of choice in the questions, corresponding to a five hour paper in total. Two free entries (normally £18 per entry) were offered to all state schools. This does encourage a greater number of schools to participate.
Averages for this year indicate that the strength of the cohort remained largely unchanged. Despite the difficult conditions, students entering this competition had the stamina and skills to do well, and ultimately formed two international teams who all gained medals in their competitions.
The paper was also taken by 1000 students in China at about the same time, organised in conjunction with the Chinese arm of a British charity ASDAN. This enabled comparison of the results at this level, whilst also indicating to students the international aspect of physics, to see how they did compared to a cohort from another part of the world.
This paper provides a distinctly different challenge to students from a conventional A2 paper; it is more mathematical, the questions are less scaffolded, and the overall level of difficulty is much higher. It is undoubtedly at the physics extension level for students. The intake of girls, whilst only amounting to 20-25%, nevertheless is encouraging in that they wish to participate at the highest level. There is often a girl on the team, which corresponds to a 20% female participation. The length of the paper has been reduced, and possibly less information is gathered about student skills and knowledge, but it is a small price to pay if participation can be increased.
Jan 2022 - BPhO Experimental Project : Schools send in their best two entries and these are marked by the BPhO. This has not expanded much, although over 200 students at GCSE and AS are engaged, from about 50 schools, with the best examples being of a very high standard and reflecting some remarkably detailed investigations. Marking these entries has proved to be difficult as they require a certain level of experience to understand the school level student presentations, and need to be marked by only one or two people working together to provide consistency and moderation.
January 2022 - BPhO Round 2 : 120 students from 50 schools were invited to take this three-hour paper after their success in Round 1 in November. This paper tests a range of skills as after being written for thirty years by a single writer, is now re-finding its style; it is much more a test of synoptic skills in physics, and not on well taught mathematical techniques. The scores ranged between 20% up to 80%. From this paper, 13 students were invited to the “Oxford Easter Training Camp” (held in person). The numbers are limited for marking purposes.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
January 2022 – BAAO Competition Paper : 68 students from 32 schools were either invited or, in a small number of cases, asked to take this paper. This included a small number of girls (10%), and participation by several nonfee-paying schools, again as last year, about one third of the school entry. This was quite encouraging in the participation. It is expected to develop slowly. Twelve students were invited to the online Training Camp over Easter. Astro Training Camps have been developed, at Oxford, Cambridge and Marlborough College, for both theory and for Observational skills. All students who have taken part have become engaged in astronomy subsequently. It has been a remarkably attractive aspect, although small numbers are involved at this stage.
March 2022 - Intermediate Physics Challenge Online: 4000 students participated from 200 schools , which was most encouraging.
March 2022 - Senior Physics Challenge Online : this is a Year 12 competition. Over 5000 students participated from 380 schools .
The M/F ratio is not available as this competition was run on the Biology Olympiad platform to avoid a clash with the IPC and such information is not available there.
The IPC and SPC online competitions were very successful as a substitution for the usual paper challenge problem solving papers. But the paper competitions are now back and do attract a significant entry (similar in number sot the online competitions, which are clearly not challenges in the same sense). They do engaged students with the assortment of questions which entertain and may challenge them occasionally.
May 2022 Junior Physics Challenge Online : this is a Year 10 competition and has been running for 4 years now. Numbers have risen again this year. But it is a popular competition and encourages thousands of students to develop their confidence in physics. The distribution of the marks is very similar to last year. We expect numbers to pick up again when schools open up.
The distributions of marks for male and female candidates are similar and the number of girls is slightly greater than boys entering. There is a difference, with girls less often only taking Paper 1 out of the two. Other factors play a role but it is not clear what they are.
Squad Selection : A squad of 26 students, decided on the results of Rounds 1 & 2, and the BAAO Paper were invited to another online Training Camp for five days over Easter. They are split into two groups, for the Physics route to the IPhO and the Astro route to the IOAA. This is intensive and has been tuned most recently to focus very much on solving problems in several topics – on the Physics side, Thermodynamics, Rotational Dynamics, Electromagnetism, Relativity, Waves, but no Practical Skills this year. The parallel training camp for the Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad was run with 14 students.
We had online training rather than meeting at Training Camps.
These activities satisfy our stated objectives to
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The organisation of annual physics competitions in schools and colleges
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The selection and support of teams to represent Britain at the IPhO and IOAA.
In doing so, the opportunity is taken to engage with schools and encourage both students and teachers to participate. The BPhO Trust is committed to its programme of school competitions, student training, new developments in teacher support and broadening the publicity of the BPhO. The aim is to build up numbers, but also to provide resources to develop skill in problem solving for students who have less access to such opportunities.
The end of year saw our team of five physics students at the EuPhO organised in Estonia. A five hour theoretical exam, followed by a five hour online data taking challenge, is tough even for the strongest candidates and confidence levels need to be high, not to think that one might do well, but rather to believe that there are parts that can be done at all. Many students fall by the wayside when they lose heart. Our students keep going and that in itself is an important learning point in life.
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Trustees’ Annual Report (continued) for the year ended 31st August 2022
Awards at Royal Society April 2022: The Presentation Day at the Royal Society recognises the students who have talent, but who have also worked very hard to achieve the top results. After a Covid interlude, we had an exceptionally busy day with teams from two EuPhO competitions and two IPhOs, along with three Astro teams being present and receiving awards.
Sponsors: The BPhO has several former sponsors although they were put on hold for the lockdown period. We cannot deal with book prizes, and financial support is on hold. Nevertheless, sponsorship funding is a small part of our income and so whilst it is unfortunate, we particularly welcome their interest in the BPhO activities, encouraging us to develop the important links between school physics and the demands of the usual IPhO, held in July. The perseverance, determination, the skill base and the team effort that need to be developed is considerable, but without the financial support, both in kind and in backing the principle, little would be accomplished.
Policy on reserves
Cash surplus to current needs, which is all unrestricted, is held in an interest-earning deposit account. These funds are held in order to meet any unexpected expenditure as it arises and to provide a resource to draw on for future activities. At present, amongst other things, it is enabling the provision of free entries to the Round 1 competition paper, supporting CPD Workshops for teachers, and enabling teachers to attend the International Physics Olympiad as visiting delegates.
The BPhO has between two and three years running expenditure in savings at the current rate of expenditure. Developments in our outreach and training programme in the near future may entail significant extra costs but, given that there is an income stream from one set of competition papers (which subsidises all of the other electronically available ones) it is not the intention to run down the reserves. Rather the opportunity will be taken to develop the BPhO. We have a significant income stream through our links with China and the use of our papers. This is exciting, but has produced a considerable workload which we have not experienced before.
Future Plans
We continue to look for wider engagement with pupils and teachers. A continued emphasis on widening the number of students and schools, especially from state funded schools, will open up opportunities to a very wide range of outstanding students who will revel in the chance to perform in a competitive and aspirational subject. The information from the online entry database will be accessible from the Oxford Administration Office next year, rather than making request through the IT department. This may allow for a more informed approach to our target audience.
We would like to have more teachers experiencing the training camp events and being able to attend the International Physics Olympiad. It is an eye-opening opportunity for teachers who do not realise how far many good students can go if the reins are released.
We want to develop the Astro Competitions, particularly the Junior Astro Challenge in November. It is online, and is a way of raising interest rather than setting very challenging problems to students.
The development of the data base systems for collecting data on participation of schools and students, will also reduce the workload at the Oxford office in handling papers and entries.
Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees report above. Signed on behalf of the trustees:
Mr Robin Hughes, Chairman of the Trustees Date: 27th June 2023
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Independent Examiner’s Report to the Members of The British Physics Olympiad Trust
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31st August 2022 which are set out on pages 11 to 12.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
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:
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accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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the accounts do not accord with those records;
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.
A K Bahl BA BFP FCA Wenn Townsend 30 St Giles’ Oxford OX1 3LE
27th June 2023
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Receipts and payments accounts for the year ended 31st August 2022
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |
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| Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | |
| 2022 | 2021 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Receipts | ||||
| Receipts from educational activities | 178,430 | - | 178,430 | 123,691 |
| Bank interest received | 158 | - | 158 | 324 |
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| Total receipts | 178,588 | - | 178,588 | 124,015 |
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| Payments | ||||
| Administration staff costs | 30,380 | - | 30,380 | 19,764 |
| Casual staff and teaching fees | - | - | - | 11,109 |
| Accommodation | 19,992 | - | 19,992 | - |
| Travel and subsistence | 14,084 | - | 14,084 | 5,151 |
| Marketing | 13,433 | - | 13,433 | 1,455 |
| Printing, post, and stationery | 2,329 | - | 2,329 | 2,130 |
| Conference expenses | 15,070 | - | 15,070 | - |
| Subscriptions | 5,575 | - | 5,575 | 25 |
| Accountancy fees | 2,915 | - | 2,915 | 1,590 |
| Insurance | 124 | - | 124 | 558 |
| Registration fees | 5,477 | - | 5,477 | - |
| Website costs | 2,152 | - | 2,152 | 243 |
| ───── | ───── | ───── | ───── | |
| Total payments | 111,531 | - | 111,531 | 42,025 |
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| Net of receipts/(payments) | 67,057 | - | 67,057 | 81,990 |
| ───── | ───── | ───── | ───── | |
| Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - |
| Cash funds as at 31st August 2021 | 164,572 | - | 164,572 | 82,582 |
| ───── | ───── | ───── | ───── | |
| Cash funds as at 31st August 2022 | 231,629 | - | 231,629 | 164,572 |
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The British Physics Olympiad Trust
Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31st August 2022
| Unrestricted | Restricted | Total | Total | |
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| Funds | Funds | Funds | Funds | |
| 2022 | 2021 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Cash at bank | ||||
| Barclays Current Account | 52,989 | - | 52,989 | 84,321 |
| Unity Trust Savings | 116,028 | - | 116,028 | 105,876 |
| Unity Trust Checking | 12,618 | - | 12,618 | 11,160 |
| Physics Account | 49,994 | - | 39,994 | (36,785) |
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| Total cash funds | 231,629 | - | 231,629 | 164,572 |
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| Unrestricted funds | 231,629 | - | 231,629 | 164,572 |
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These accounts were approved at a meeting of the Trustees held on 27th June 2023.
Robin Hughes Chairman of the Trustees
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