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|Reference and Administrative|Details|
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|Trustees'
report||
|Trustees'
responsibilities
in relation to the financial statements||
|Independent
examiner's
report||
|Statement offinancial activities||
|Balance sheet||
|Notes to the financial statements||
||||Foundation|For|Common|Common|Land|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Reference and|Administrative|||Details|
|Charity name|||Foundation|For Common||Land||
|Charity registration|number||1150439|||||
|Company
registration||number|08113120|||||
|Principal office|||Low Nook|||||
||||University
ofCumbria|||||
||||Rydal Road|||||
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|Registered office|||Low Nook|||||
||||University
ofCumbria|||||
||||Rydal Road|||||
||||AMBLESIDE|||||
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|Trustees|||C Short|||||
||||J Bailey|||||
||||RJ Milton|||||
||||J C Phelps|||||
||||L C Branfield|||||
||||H Fraser|||||
||||W Benson||(Resigned||14March 2023)|
|Secretary|||L M Stride|||||
|Accountant|||Dodd 8 Co|Limited||||
||||FIFTEEN Rosehill|||||
||||Montgomery|Way||||
||||Rosehill Estate|||||
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|The FCL's main activities and achievements|for the year July 2022-Ju|ne|2023|h|a|ve be|en|:|||||||
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|Projects|||||||||||||||
|~ 'Our Upland
Commons',
continuing
this major f3.1 million
Natural||Lottery Heritage|||||Fund||project maintaining|||||a|
|good working
relationship
with our 25 project partners.
The accountable|||body|||is the|National|||Trust.|Highlights||||
|include:|||||||||||||||
|~ Undertaking
work to improve the public benefits ofCommon
Land|||including:||||||||||||
|-Spring Mire Restoration
(Dart)|||||||||||||||
|- Repair ofAncient Monument
(Shrops)|||||||||||||||
|-Commissioning
Natural
Flood Management
recommendations|||(YDs)||||||||||||
|~ Commissiong
Research
to better
understand
the species||& habitats||||on upland|||commons||and||their||
|management
requirements
including:|||||||||||||||
|-Whinchat nest survival
(Shrops) &|distribution
(Dart).||||||||||||||
|-Moths and Butterflies (Dart. Lakes,|8 Shrops).||||||||||||||
|- Ring Ouzels (YDS)|||||||||||||||
|-Tree health,
population
distribution|and natural
regeneration|(Darts).|||||||||||||
|~ Support
sustainable
commoning
by|providing
equipment
including|||remote|||controlled|||bracken|||cutter,||
|restoring
historic sheep pens, and researching
flock/herd
health.|||||||||||||||
|~ Worked to develop the first 'commons|proofed' carbon calculator||||||||||||||
|~ Increased
commoner
understanding|of the
habitats
they|manage|||through|||Commoner
Led||||Habitat|||
|Assessment
programme
(YDs)|||||||||||||||
|~ Defra Test and Trial SFIRoad Test: (completed
in July 2023)|||||||||||||||
|~ Worked with 3commons to fully road|test the SFI Moorland
standard||||||||||||||
|~ Created a full set oftemplates
to fulfil|'SFI common
land eligibility||requirements.||||||||||||
|~ Sought legal advice to create template|for internal
agreement||||||||||||||
|~ By end of project we will have held 2|national webinars
(with over||1000||combined|||views)||and 4 in||person|||
|local workshops
for over 110people.|||||||||||||||
|~ Added information
to aid applications|on a common on our website toolkit||||||||||||||
|~ Created a digital App with LandApp to successfully
record and||survey|||||||||||||
|~ Created a method to recorded results|and saved data||||||||||||||
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|||||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
||||Note|||f||
|Income and endowments||from:||||||
|Donations and legacies||||71,340||71,340|100,636|
|Charitable
Activities||||195,020|74,568|269,588|126,051|
|Total income and endowments||||266,360|74,568|340,928|226,687|
|Expenditure
on:||||||||
|Charitable
activities||||236,357|56,645|293,002|201,771|
|Total expenditure||||236,357|56,645|293,002|201,771|
|Net income before|transfers|||30,003|17,923|47,926|24,916|
|Transfers||||||||
|Transfers
between|funds|||9,696|(9,696)|||
|Net movements
in funds||||39,699|8,227|47,926|24,916|
|Reconciliation
offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||55,797|18,576|74,373|49,457|
|Total funds carried|forward|||95,496|26,803|'|22,299|74,373|
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|Current assets||||||
|Debtors|||20,844||20,627|
|Cash at bank and in|hand||117,632||58,204|
|||||138,476|78,831|
|Creditors: Amounts
one year|falling due within|10||(16,177)|(4,458)|
|Net current assets||||122,299|74,373|
|Net assets||||122,299|74,373|
|The funds ofthe charity:||||||
|Restricted funds||||26,803|18,576|
|Unrestricted
funds||||||
|Unrestricted
income|funds|||95,496|55,797|
|Total charity funds||||122,299|74.373|
|For the financial year|ended 30June 2023,|the charity|was entitled to|exemption|from audit under section 477 of|
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Act 2006.||||||
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f.|2022
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|Provision|oftraining courses||||||484|
|Provision
Uplands|ofproject management
Common||for Our|23,011||23,011|16,534|
|Defra T&T||||23,860||23,860|91,708|
|Defra Lowlands||T&T||97,384||97,384|16,697|
|SFI Road|Test|||50,405|74,568|124,973||
|Other||||360||360|628|
|||||195,020|74,568|269,588|126,051|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||activity|2023|2022|
|Direct costs|||||
|Provision ofCharitable|Activities|4,046|4,046|8,525|
|Our Uplands
Commons||97,600|97,600|85,787|
|Defra T&T||271|271|55,486|
|Lowlands
T&T||27,473|27,473|13,126|
|SFI Road Test||102,112|102,112||
|Wages and salaries||53,234|53,234|31,582|
|Staff NIC (Employers)||||639|
|Staff pensions||1,094|1,094|518|
|||285,830|285,830|195,663|
|Support costs|||||
|Rent||1,011|1,011|2,086|
|Insurance||494|494|483|
|Sundry expenses||4,291|4,291|2,075|
|Accountancy
fees||838|838|928|
|Independent
examiner's|fee|500|500|500|
|Bank charges||38|38|36|
|||7,172|7,172|6,108|
|||293,002|293,002|201,771|
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|The aggregate||payroll costs ofthese persons were as follows:|||
||||2023|2022f|
|Wages and|salaries||53,234|31,582|
|Social security||||639|
|Other pension||costs|1,094|518|
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|Trade|debtors|20,844|20,627|
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E|
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|Trade creditors|1,915|580|
|Taxation and social security|6,990|2,516|
|Other creditors|169|162|
|Accruals and deferred income|7,103|1,200|
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|||2022|resources|expended|Transfers|2023|
|General Funds|||||||
|Unrestricted|income fund|55,797|266,360|(236,357)|9,696|95,496|
|Restricted|Funds||||||
|Restricted income fund||1,947||||1,947|
|Esmee Fairbairn||3,333||(3,333)|||
|Our Uplands|Common|9,696|||(9,696)||
|Exeter University||3,600||(3,600)|||
|DEFRA|||74,568|(49,712)||24,856|
|||18,576|74,568|(56,645)|(9,696)|26,803|
|||74,373|340,928|(293,002)||122,299|
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2021|Incoming
resources|Resources
expended|At 30June
2022|
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|General Funds|||||
|Unrestricted
income fund|42,228|109,553|(95,984)|55,797|
|Restricted Funds|||||
|Restricted funds|1,947|||1,947|
|Esmee Fairbairn|3,333|20,000|(20,000)|3,333|
|Our Uplands
Commons|1,949|93,534|(85,787)|9,696|
|Exeter University||3,600||3,600|
||7,229|117,134|(105,787)|18,576|
||49,457|226,687|(201,771)|74,373|
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|Tangible assets||||||
|Current assets||111,673|26,803|138,476|78,831|
|Creditors: Amounts
within one year
Net assets|falling due|(16,177)
95,496|26,803|(16,177)
122,299|(4,458)
74,373|
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|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Funds|Total Funds|
|||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
|Current assets||60,255|18,576|78,831|51,279|
|Creditors: Amounts
within one year
Net assets|falling due|(4,458)
55,797|18,576|(4,458)
74,373|(1,822)
49,457|