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|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report|(incorporating|the|Directors'|Report)||
|Independent<br>Examiner's|Report to the|Trustees||||
|Statement<br>of Financial<br>Activities||||||
|(incorporating<br>the Income|and Expenditure||Account)|||
|Balance Sheet||||||
|Statement<br>ofCash Flows||||||
|Notes and Accounting<br>Policies||||||





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|Tru|stees'<br>Annual<br>Report|stees'<br>Annual<br>Report||||||||
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|5.|Reference and administrative||details|||||||
|Registered||Number||04462420||||||
|Registered||Charity Number||1156589||||||
|Registered||Office||Unit D3||||||
|||||Apollo Court||||||
|||||4 Neptune<br>Park||||||
|||||Plymouth||||||
|||||PL4 OSJ||||||
|Trustees and directors||||P R Byers||||||
|||||R C Daniels||||||
|||||RW Down||||||
|||||T M Jones (Chairman)||||||
|||||Rev N McKinnel||(appointed|||17May 2022)|
|||||C L Wright (appointed||||17May 2022)||
|||||S Moulai (appointed|||17 May 2022)|||
|||||M Taylor (resigned 16||||Aug|2022)|
|Company Secretary||||P R Byers||||||
|Independent||Examiner||Neil Hitchings|FCA|||||
|||||Francis Clark|LLP|||||
|||||Chartered<br>Accountants||||||
|||||Centenary<br>House||||||
|||||Peninsula<br>Park||||||
|||||Rydon Lane||||||
|||||EXETER||||||
|||||EX27XE||||||
|Bankers||||Lloyds Bank|pic|||||
|||||Cross Street||||||
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|(incorporating<br>t|he Inc|ome and|Expenditu|re<br>Account)||||
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|||||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||||funds<br>f|funds<br>f|fundsf|fundsf|
|INCOME|||Notes|||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||52,584|52,584|33,180|
|Charitable<br>activities||||48,553|477,775|526,328|605,099|
|Total income||||48,553|530,359|578,912|638,279|
|EXPENDITURE||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|—projects<br>-other|||53,541|403,880<br>48,208|457,421<br>48,208|434,860<br>31,763|
|Total expenditure||||55,541|452,088|505,629|466,623|
|Net Income/(expenditure)||for the year||(4,988)|78,271|73,283|171,656|
|Transfers<br>between|funds||15|(2,000)|2,000|||
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(6,988)|80,271|73,283|171,656|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds||||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||235,882|256,374|492,256|320,600|
|Total funds carried|forward|||228,894|336,645|565,539|492,256|
|2023||||||2023<br>f|2022<br>f|
|Represented<br>by:<br>Fixed assets<br>Net current assets||||228,894|123<br>336,522|123<br>565,416|140<br>492,116|
|||||228,894|336,645|565,539|492,256|
|2022||||||2022f|2021f|
|Represented<br>by:<br>Fixed assets<br>Net current assets||||235,882|140<br>256,234|140<br>492,116|187<br>320,413|
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|Balance Sheet||||||||
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|Fixed assets||||||||
|Tangible assets||||||123|140|
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|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors<br>Cash at bank and|in|hand|||12|537,950<br>85,715|266,984<br>260,783|
|Creditors<br>-Amounts||falling||||623,665|527,767|
|due within one year|||||13|(58,249)|(35,651)|
|Net current assets||||||565,416|492,116|
|Total assets less current|||liabilities|||565,539|492,256|
|Net assets||||||565,539|492,256|
|The Funds ofthe|Charity|||||||
|Income funds||||||||
|Restricted funds|||||15|228,894|235,882|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|-|General funds|||15|72,130|25,721|
||-|Designated||funds|15|264,515|230,653|
|Total charity funds||||||565,539|492,256|





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|The North Devon Bi<br>31 March 2023||sphere|F|oundati|on||||
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|Statement<br>of Cash Flows|||||||||
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|Cash flows from operating<br>Net cash provided by (used|activities:<br> in) operating|||activities||16|~175,058|~55,754|
|Change in cash and cash|equivalents|||in the reporting|||(175,068)|(55,754)|
|period<br>Cash<br>and cash<br>equivalents||at the|beginning||of the||260,783|316,537|
|reporting period<br>Cash and cash equivalents||at the end||of the reporting|||85,715|260,783|
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|3|Donations|and legacies|||||
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||Income from donations|||52,584|52,584|33,180|
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|Income from|charitable<br>activit|ies||||
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|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||Funds|Funds|||
|Environmental|projects|48,553|477,775|526,328|605,099|
|||48,553|477,775|526,328|605,099|



|Expenditure|on charitable<br>acti|vities - projects||||
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|||2023|2023|2023|2022|
|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|||Funds<br>F|Fundsf|F||
|Environmental|projects|53,541|403,880|457,421|434,860|
|||53,541|403,880|457,421|434,860|



|Expendi|ture<br>on charit|able<br>act|ivities - other||||
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|Support|costs||F||||
|General|administrative|costs||39,154|39,154|24,491|
|Consultancy|||||||
|Legal and professional||cost||9,016|9,016|7,225|
|Depreciation||||38|38|47|
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|11|Fixed assets —tangibl|e|||
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||||Machinery|Total|
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||Cost||||
||At 1 April 2022<br>Additions||2,714<br>21|2,714<br>21|
||At 31 March 2023||2,735|2,735|
||Depreciation<br>At 1 April 2022<br>Charge for the year||2,574<br>38|2,574<br>38|
||At 31 March 2023||2,612|2,612|
||Net book value||||
||At 31 March 2023||123|123|
||At 31 March 2022||140|140|
|12|Debtors||2023|2022|
||Due within one year||||
||Trade Debtors<br>Prepayments<br>and accrued income<br>Other debtors||52,739<br>431,297<br>53,914|110,380<br>150,104<br>6,500|
||||537,950|266,984|
|13|Creditors||2023f|2022|
||Amounts<br>falling due within one year:<br>Trade creditors<br>Accruals and deferred<br>income<br>Social security and other taxes||22,351<br>35,676<br>222|33,049<br>2,500<br>102|
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|||1 April|Incoming|Resources|Transfers|31 March|
|Restricted funds:||2022f|resources|Expended||2023|
|Pledge for Nature<br>Silvanus<br>8 SW Woodland|fund|31,720<br>29,267|800|(21,021)<br>(177)||11,499<br>29,090|
|Taw Valley Facilitation<br>fund<br>PAWS Challenge<br>Fund<br>Natural<br>flood management<br>DEFRA wood||84<br>25,979<br>33,215<br>12,198|25,843|(23,028)||2,899<br>25,979<br>33,215<br>12,198|
|River Axe Kilmington<br>STW<br>Biodiversity offsets Boode Farm<br>EA CDF DCIS Pipeline Project||10,000<br>18,680<br>16,720||||10,000<br>18,680<br>16,720|
|Richard Parr Project<br>EA CCC Partnership<br>Project<br>TDC BN/OUTM||16,000<br>32,950|8,000<br>13,910|(9,210)||24,000<br>4,700<br>32,950|
|Other restricted<br>funds||9,069||(105)|(2,000)|6,964|
|||235,882|48,553|(53,541)|(2,000)|228,894|
|Unrestricted<br>funds:|||||||
|General funds:||25,721|95,908|(50,672)|1,173|72,130|
|Designated<br>funds:|||||||
|Visitor investment||7,597|9,100|||16,697|
|Woodland<br>enterprise<br>zone||25,017||||25,017|
|Estuary project (*)<br>Marine Management<br>Natural||(13,126)<br>17,000|500|(500)||(13,126)<br>17,000|
|Capital|||||||
|BIRD project||(16,657)|||16,657||
|Smart Biosphere||63,631||(29,154)||34,477|
|NCM<br>—<br>Natural<br>Capital||(3,992)||(149)|4,141||
|Marketplace|||||||
|CRITTER<br>WEIF-BIRD<br>Forest<br>Project,<br>Combe Martin<br>Planting||(1,965)<br>76,091|90,633<br>11,406|(82,784)<br>(11,055)|(16,657)|5,884<br>59,785|
|2021/22 Development<br>Fund||17,712||||17,712|
|Devon Woods||264|173,837|(133,553)||40,548|
|CRF —Capacity Building||9,378|552|1,825||11,755|
|Water Vole Tourism<br>Torridge<br>Nature Tourism||12,900<br>7,500||(98)<br>(16)|(3,314)|9,488<br>7,484|
|DRIP project|||145,451|(144,731)||720|
|Other designated<br>funds||29,303|2,972|(1,201)||31,074|
|||256,374|530,359|(452,088)|2,000|336,645|
|Total funds||492,256|578,912|(505,629)||565,539|





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||1 April<br>2021|Incoming<br>resources|Resources<br>Expended|Transfers|31 March<br>2022|
|Restricted funds:||||||
|Pledge for Nature<br>Silvanus<br>8 SW Woodland<br>fund<br>Taw Valley Facilitation<br>fund<br>PAWS Challenge<br>Fund<br>Natural<br>flood management<br>DEFRA wood<br>River Axe Kilmington<br>STW<br>Biodiversity offsets Boode Farm<br>EA CDF DCIS Pipeline Project<br>Richard Parr Project<br>Southern<br>Catchment<br>Feasibility|24,408<br>29,267<br>3,040<br>25,419<br>33,215<br>12,398<br>10,000<br>19,179|28,998<br>16,731<br>560<br>44,955<br>16,000|(21,686)<br>(19,687)<br>(200)<br>(499)<br>(28,235)<br>(8,529)|8,529|31,720<br>29,267<br>84<br>25,979<br>33,215<br>12,198<br>10,000<br>18,680<br>16,720<br>16,000|
|EA CCC Partnership<br>Project<br>TDC BN/OUTM<br>Other restricted<br>funds|15,532|11,000<br>32,950|(11,000)<br>(6,463)||32,950<br>9,069|
||172,458|151,194|(96,299)|8,529|235,882|
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||||||
|General funds:|14,839|51,174|(31,763)|(8,529)|25,721|
|Designated<br>funds:<br>Visitor investment<br>Woodland<br>enterprise<br>zone<br>Estuary project (*)<br>Marine Management<br>Natural|8,197<br>25,017<br>17,000|2,250|(2,850)<br>(13,126)||7,597<br>25,017<br>(13,126)<br>17,000|
|Capital<br>BIRD project (*)<br>Smart Biosphere<br>NCM<br>—<br>Natural<br>Capital|54,566|6,000<br>50,000<br>30,000|(22,657)<br>(40,935)<br>(33,992)||(16,657)<br>63,631<br>(3,992)|
|Marketplace<br>(*)<br>CRITTER (*)<br>WEIF-BIRD<br>Forest<br>Project,||65,671<br>92,671|(67,636)<br>(16,580)||(1,965)<br>76,091|
|Combe Martin<br>Planting<br>2021/22 Development<br>Fund<br>Devon Woods<br>CRF —Capacity<br>Building<br>Water Vole Tourism||46,000<br>100,518<br>10,000<br>24,521|(28,288)<br>(100,254)<br>(622)<br>(11,621)||17,712<br>264<br>9,378<br>12,900|
|Torridge<br>Nature Tourism<br>Other designated<br>funds|28,523|7,500<br>780|||7,500<br>29,303|
||148,142|487,085|(370,324)|(8,529)|256,374|
|Total funds|320,600|638,279|(466,623)||492,256|





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|Net income/(expenditure)<br>for the|reporting||period|(as per the statement|of|73,283|171,656|
|financial<br>activities)||||||||
|Adjustments<br>for:<br>Depreciation<br>charges<br>Fixed asset additions||||||38<br>(21)|47|
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors<br>Increase/(decrease)<br>in creditors)<br>Net cash provided<br>by (used in) operating||activities||||(270,966)<br>22,598<br>~175,068|(196,768)<br>~30,689<br>~55,754|



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