## Castle Studies Trust Annual Results 2020-21 Trustees Report
Grants were awarded to five successful applicants to take place during the fiscal year. Due to the pandemic none were completed within the financial year. This round of projects involved a second year of excavation at Shrewsbury Castle, a geophysical survey of Warkworth Castle, a project to if a site called the Wirk in the Orkneys is a castle, an innovative study in trying to understand relic plants in Irish castles and a reconstruction of Lincoln Castle as it would have been in the 12[th] century . Since the end of the financial year the field work for the projects have finished and some of their results be found on the Castle Studies Trust website (www.castlestudiestrust.org) The rest will appear when ready.
All the projects, the most interesting results were found at Shrewsbury where an excavation of the rampart indicated that the rampart was not there and the foundation of the castle and indeed the land fell away quite steeply indicating a much smaller bailey than now. The geophysical survey at Warkworth revealed a substantial stone structure in the inner bailey but few positive / conclusive elements. The reconstruction of Lincoln Castle has been published including a number of specialist archaeological publications while the other projects await final publication at time of righting
Fundraising continued to rely on regular donations which grew marginally in the year. However one off donations saw a large leap during the year. Regular donors are given the opportunity to attend exclusive site visits to all the projects that the Trust funds during the year.
Jeremy Cunnington
Chair of Trustees – Castle Studies Trust
|CHARITY COMMISSION||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|FOR ENGLAND AND WALES|Castle Studies Trust|||||||
||**Receipts and payments**|||**accounts**|||CC16a|
||For the period
from|"iA
i°>>:,i';,
06-Apr-20|To|"
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.•,.,
05-Apr-21||||
|Donations, Is • acres & -rants|24992|3,000|||27,992||23332|
|Gift Aid reclaimed||250|||4,367||4365|
|Bank Interest|||||184||189|
|_Sub total (Gross income for_
_AR)_|
29,293|3,250|||32,543||27,886|
|A2 Asset and investment sales,||||||||
|(see table).||||||||
|_Sub total_||||||||
|_Total receipts_|
29,293|3,250|||32,543||27,886|
|A3 Payments||||||||
|Grants for charitable purposes|14,374|2,250|||16,624||34,486|
|Website|193||||193||116|
|Printing postage & stationery|||||||69|
|Social media costs|||||||34|
|Travel to projects funded by grants|3||||3|||
|Accommodation to visit projects|29||||29|||
|Edinburgh fundraising event|||||||79|
|Dover fundraising event|||||||688|
|_Sub total_|
14,599|2,250|||16,849||35,472|
|A4 Asset and investment||||||||
|purchases, (see table)||||||||
|_Sub total_||||||||
|_Total payments_|14,599
|2,250|||16,849||35,472|
|_Net of receipts/(payments)_|
14,694|1,000||-|15,694|-|
7,586|
|A5 Transfers between funds||||||||
|A6 Cash funds last_year_end|22,650|2,000||-|24,650||-|
|_Cash funds this year end_|
37,344|3,000||-|40,344|-|
7,586|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|i|tJC`ta IIG|funds|funds|funds|
|||to nearest £|to nearest|to nearest|
|**81 Cash funds**|Bank Account 5th April 2020|19,082|3,000||
||Deposit Account 5th April 2020|18,282|||
||_Total cash funds_|37,344|3,000||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||
||account(s))||||
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|||funds|funds|funds|
||Details|to nearest|to nearest f.|to nearest 11|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|Balance of 20/21 Gift Aid Tax to reclaim|3,117|375|-|
||Details|Fund to which
asset belongs|Cost (optional)|Current value
(optional)|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||
||Details|Fund to which
asset belongs|Cost (optional)|Current value
ortional|
|**E14 Assets retained for the**|||||
|**charity's own use**|||||
|||Fund to which|Amount due|When due|
||ails|liability relates|(optional)|(optional)|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Approved grants to be paid out|20949|-||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print|Name|Dateof
arrroval|
|||JE9C_-My GUNN&ON_|||
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