## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01` 04 2020 31 03 2021 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** World Heritage UK **Other names charity is known by** WH UK **Registered charity number (if any)** 1163364 **Charity's principal address** World Heritage UK c/o/ The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Coach Road, Coalbrookdale, Telford, Shropshire **Postcode TF8 7DQ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or body)
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whole year
(if any)
1 Tony Crouch Chair
2 Ian Wray Vice-Chair
Sam Rose Treasurer and
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Founding Chair
4 Gillian Clarke Secretary
5 Jane Gibson
6 Max Bryant
7 Lesley Garlick
8 Don Gobbett
9 David Holroyd
10 Graham U’ren
11 Stephen Ratcliffe
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) The Trustees are elected by the membership. Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **To promote the conservation and protection of the UK’s World Heritage Sites for the benefit of the public, defined as those places considered by the United Nations Educational Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) as having such Outstanding Universal Value that they warrant being inscribed on the World Heritage List through the powers of the international Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 1972, in particular but without limitation to the following:-** - **Supporting for the benefit of the public the development of World Heritage Site nominations for the UK’s Tentative List Sites, defined as Sites on the UK Government’s official Tentative List for nomination for World Heritage Status;** **· Advancing the education of the public in general in respect of the significance and values of the UK’s World Heritage Sites and Tentative List Sites, as defined above;** **· Undertaking effective advocacy at all levels for the joint benefit of the UK’s World Heritage Sites and for the World Heritage Convention;** **· Facilitating and encouraging networking between organisations and individuals that play a role in the management of the UK’s WH Sites, and Tentative List Sites (as defined in the objects) be that at the Site, agency, NGO, government, corporate or individual level, for the collective benefit of the Sites’ management. This may involve: bringing people together; sharing good practice; exchanging information;** - **Dissemination of information;** - **Undertaking joint projects and initiatives;** - **Providing a platform for partners to access the UK World Heritage Community;** - **Linking internationally, where appropriate; and** **· Promoting the UK’s World Heritage Sites, in collaboration with key partner agencies, to a national and international audience so as to allow more people to experience the Sites in ways that are appropriate to their different** March **2012** **TAR** 3 **situations and pressures, and which enable the general public to better find out about, experience, access and enjoy them.** **Summary of the main activities undertaken for** The year 2020-2021 saw a major shift in the way in which **the public benefit in** World Heritage UK was to be organised and managed. **relation to these objects** Throughout the process however the Charity Trustees have **(include within this** had regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public **section the statutory** benefit. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the** Following the award of a NLHF grant for a Resilience **guidance issued by the Charity Commission on** project and the appointment of a Project officer a first **public benefit)** planning meeting took place. Task and Finish groups were formed to look at: Governance, Business Planning, Events planning, and Communications and Engagement. The Project Officer was supported part-time by a volunteer working in digital communications. In Spring 2020 with the onset of the Covid pandemic the Resilience project meetings etc. were held on-line or by ‘phone and we held additional on-line Board meetings to deal with the new and changing situation. We have however achieved a great deal; The Governance of the organisation was examined, the Constitution revised to make it less ambiguous, and an explanatory Governance Handbook compiled. We have a Business Plan which incorporates a Communications and Engagement Strategy. We have set out a clear Risk Management strategy, and we have a volunteer Handbook which includes essential relevant information. This work has helped in guiding us towards greater efficiency and financial sustainability; We have in addition been supported by the NHLF Cultural Recovery Funding and been able to commission updated branding, and a revised website offering improved links to a wide range of WH UK information. We have also been able to deliver further online events without charge to participants. With the growing pandemic in Spring 2020 we soon understood that continued network events would have to be organised differently. Aware of the need to continue our objectives, we had to act quickly and decisively We held an on-line Forum for WH Site Co-ordinators the first of which took place on April 8[th] . This meeting was successful, and we went on to hold eight in total through the year, supported throughout by regular attendance of representatives from the national heritage agencies, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the UK National Commission for UNESCO. These meetings were an important contribution to keeping us all March **2012** **TAR** 4 in touch with each other and sharing experiences as we all learnt how to deal with the implications of the pandemic In the October 2020 we launched our first webinar, on the topical and important issue of the Planning Reform Bill “Planning for the Future”. The webinar was entitled “World Class Planning”. Outcomes from the debate contributed to the WH UK formal response to the Government Consultation concentrating on the potential effects on World Heritage sites There have been 2 further webinars – on “Visitor Centres in a Changing World” (February 2021), which attracted over 130 delegates from across the world. Our final webinar of the year was organised in association with British Council China and assisted by ICOMOS-China. Entitled 'Comparing Approaches, Values and Philosophies in Conservation and World Heritage in China and the UK', this event included a statement from Caroline Dineage MP Minister for Digital and Culture, with equivalent speeches from the Chinese Government Ministers. This event listed 189 participants. Advocacy has continued with the important work of liaison with the Heritage Alliance and Historic England on the Spending Review, liaison via the Stonehenge WHS Steering Group on highway issues, and completion in draft of the reappraised Review of World Heritage Sites in the UK. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 5 We do not currently give grants. World Heritage UK would not survive without the volunteer efforts of the Trustees and President. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: A student volunteer assisted the Resilience Project Officer with practical work on digital and social media - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 6 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** We have enhanced the networking activity –with a series of 8 Co-ordinator Fora, and three webinars, for members and others involved in the management of WHS’s for the wider public benefit, so that practitioners can continue to learn from experts, from each other and undertake their roles more effectively. We have increased and promoted our international reach and raised the profile of World Heritage UK through the webinars and posts. We have promoted WH UK in responding to national issues such as the Planning Reform Bill and the de-listing of Liverpool Mercantile and Maritime city WHS. We have maintained our advocacy work by regular contact with UK agencies, With the award of heritage funds we have supported our charitable objects and achieved a more robust organisation. The work on Resilience has resulted in a Business Plan, Implementation strategy, improved website, more efficient membership and accounting systems, and of course we have learnt from the experiences of continuation of operating in a lock down situation. **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 7 ## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** We aim to hold£10,000 in reserves at the end of each financial year. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include The Charity’s principal source of funding is through additional information, where relevant about: membership fees This year we have benefitted from grants for specific purposes, - the NLHF grant for the Resilience the charity’s principal Project and the Cultural Recovery fund. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and WH UK has no investments Our reserve is kept within a objectives including any CAF interest account. ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Gillian Clarke **Full name(s)** Tony Crouch **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Secretary **Chair, etc) Date** 08 December 2021 March **2012** **TAR** 8 **World Heritage UK 1163364 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01-Apr-20 31-Mar-21 **To from** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27,506**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**20**
**175**
**5**
**16**
**300**
**29,022**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,022**
**14,000**
**550**
**87**
**19**
**-**
**144**
**595**
**20**
**565**
**-**
**205**
**75**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,260**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,260**
**12,762**
**-**
**25,969**
**28,450**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**630**
**40,000**
**1,000**
**23,300**
**15,030**
**79,960**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,960**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**70,600**
**23,467**
**16,310**
**110,377**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**110,377**
**- 30,417**
**-**
**20,766**
**630**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**27,506**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**20**
**175**
**5**
**16**
**300**
**630**
**40,000**
**1,000**
**23,300**
**15,030**
**108,982**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**108,982**
**14,000**
**550**
**87**
**19**
**-**
**144**
**595**
**20**
**565**
**-**
**205**
**75**
**-**
**70,600**
**23,467**
**16,310**
**126,637**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**126,637**
**- 17,655**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Subscriptions|**27,506**|||||**25,693**| |Historic England|**1,000**|||||**1,000**| |MeetingSupport|**-**|||||**2,000**| |Conference income|**-**|||||**13,020**| |MeetingIncome|**20**|||||**4,772**| |Miscellaneous|**175**|||||**544**| |Donations|**5**|||||**137**| |Interest receivable|**16**|||||**82**| |WH:UK Review|**300**|||||**3,500**| |Membershipfee 2022-23||||||**-**| |NLHF Resilience||||||**-**| |Restricted Grant(website)||||||**-**| |Heritage EmergencyFund Grant||||||**-**| |Cultural RecoveryFund Grant||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**29,022**|||||**50,748**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**50,748**| |||||||| |
staff costs|**14,000**|||||**26,954**| |Staff recruitment|**550**|||||**-**| |Board member and meetingexpenses|**87**|||||**1,862**| |Volunteer appreciation|**19**|||||**-**| |Conference expenditure|**-**|||||**6,153**| |meetingexpenditure|**144**|||||**3,242**| |Insurance and accounting|**595**|||||**525**| |Marketingandpublicity|**20**|||||**604**| |Membership|**565**|||||**565**| |Research Agenda|**-**|||||**-**| |Miscellaneous|**205**|||||**1,271**| |Bank charges|**75**|||||**66**| |WH:UK Review|**-**|||||**13,702**| |NLHF Resilience Grant||||||**-**| |Heritage EmergencyFund Grant|**-**|||||**-**| |Cultural RecoveryFund Grant|**-**|||||**29,234**| |**_Sub total_ **|**16,260**|||||**84,178**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||| |**,**|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**84,178**| |||||||| ||**12,762**|**- 30,417**|**-**|**- 17,655**||**- 33,430**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**25,969**|**20,766**|**-**|**46,735**||**80,165**| ||**28,450**|**630**|**-**|**29,080**||**46,735**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 15/11/2021 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Deposit Account
Deposit Account (2022/23 fees)
Current account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**24,754**
**-**
**630**
**3,696**
**-**
**28,450**
**630**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 15/11/2021 2 Worfd Heritage UK Accounts l April 2020~ 31 March 2021 Independent examlneVs report to the Trustees of Worfd Herltsge UK I report to the tntstees on my ¢xaminatlDn of the accounts of World Herlta8e UK for the year ended 31 March 2021. Responslbmltes and basls of report As the d￿rIty trustees of World Heritsge UK you a￿ respon￿￿￿ forthe Prepard￿n5 of the accounts In accordance wlth the reWrements of the CharitJes Act 2011 ('the Art,). I report In respect of my examlnatlon of the Trustee's accounts carrfed out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carrylr¥ out my examlnatlon51 have followed all the appllcable Dlrectlons 8lven by Charlty Commlsslon under sectlon 145(5)(bl of the 2011 Act. Inthpendent examlnerfs ststernert I have completed my exaMInatio￿ I confrfm that no rnatwial matters have come to my aitentlon In connectbn wfth the examlnatlon 8MnB me cause to believe that In any materlal respect: {11 accountlng records were not kept In resm of the Trust as fequlred by sectlon 130 of Acl: or 12) the accounts do not accord wlth those record& I have no concerns and have come across M other matters in connectlon wllh the exarnlnatk)n to whkh attention should be drawn in th15 report in order to enable a pmper understsndln8 of the accounts to be reached. 518ned Andrew Chappell- Chappel Assodates Ltd Chartered Pxcountants Westneld Hou Bratton Road Westbury Wlltshlre BA13 3EP 2010712021 Worfd Heritage UK Income & Expendibjre Accourt l April 2020- 31 March 2021 2021 2020 Income Subscriptions Hlstoric England Historic Environmental Scotland Meeting support Conference income Meeting income Miscellaneous Donations Interest receivable WH..UK review Membership fee 2022-23 NLHF Resilience grant Restrirted grant Iwebsitel Heritage Emergenry Fund Grant Cultural Recovery Fund Grant 27.506 25,693 13.020 4,772 20 115 137 82 3,500 16 630 23.31X) 15.030 108,982 50.748 Expendlture Staff costs Recuritment Board member and meeting expenses Volunteer appreciation Conference expenditure Meeting expenditure Insurance and accounting Marketing and publicity Membership Research Agenda Miscellaneous Bank charges World Heritage review NHLF Resilience Grant Herltage Emergency Fund Grant Cultural Recovery Fund Grant 14.IXXI 550 87 19 26,954 I￿62 6,153 3.242 525 144 595 20 565 565 205 75 1,271 66 13.702 29.234 70.6(KI 23.467 16,310 126.637 84,178 Surplus / IDefklt) for the wlod (17,655) 133.430) World Heritaeè UK 8alan￿ Sheet as at 31 Mafth 2021 Current Assets Sundry Debtori Cash at Bank Totsl Net Assets 29,080 46.73) 46,735 Accumulated Fund a5 at l April 2021 Surplus / IDeficitl for the Year 46,735 117,6551 29,080 80,165 133,4301 46,735 Unrestricted funds Restricted fund5 28.450 630 25.969 20,766 46,735 For the year in question. World Heritage UK wa5 entitled to exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Art 2006. The trustees have not reouired Wortd Herftage UK to obtain an audit of Its accounts for the year in question in accordance with sertion 476 of the ACL The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Att 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. Date." l6 w+. "￿￿1 TNstee 14ame: T•y C+¢ Slgned Trustee 14ame: IE leL[ L