| Trustees | Norman Heaton |
||||
| James Archer | |||||
| Mark Callingham | |||||
| David Duckitt | |||||
| Tobias Faber | |||||
| Peter Holgate | |||||
| Company | registration | number | 09644387 | ||
| Charity registration | number | 1164475 | |||
| Registered | office | 14Ledborough | Lane | ||
| Beaconsfield | |||||
| Buckinghamshire | |||||
| HP9 2PZ | |||||
| Business | address | Bekonscot Model Village and Railway | |||
| 14Ledborough | Lane | ||||
| Beaconsfield | |||||
| Bucking hamshire | |||||
| HP9 2PZ | |||||
| Auditor | Harwood Hutton |
Limited | |||
| 22 Wycombe End |
|||||
| Beaconsfield | |||||
| Buckinghamshire | |||||
| HP9 1NB |
| Page | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report ofthe trustees | 1-6 | |||
| Independent auditor's |
report | 7-9 | ||
| Consolidated statement |
offinancial | activities | 10 | |
| Consolidated balance |
sheet | |||
| Charity balance sheet | 12 | |||
| Consolidated statement |
ofcash flows | 13 | ||
| Notes to the financial | statements | 14-25 |
| Total | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Notes | ||||
| Income | ||||
| Donations and legacies |
126,557 | 179,622 | ||
| Income from charitable activities |
1,033,523 | 919,626 | ||
| Income from trading activities |
635,089 | 517,812 | ||
| Income from investments | 9,444 | 9,931 | ||
| Other operating income |
79,496 | |||
| Total Income | 1,804,613 | 1,706,487 | ||
| Expenditure | ||||
| Costs ofraising funds: | ||||
| Commercial trading operations |
(517,507) | (415,542) | ||
| Expenditure on charitable |
activities: | |||
| Operation ofthe Bekonscot Model Village |
(960,342) | (895,373) | ||
| Grants payable | (153,129) | (146,330) | ||
| Total Expenditure | (1,630,978) | (1,457,245) | ||
| Net gain/(loss) on investment |
3,731 | (16,881) | ||
| Net incoming resources | 10 | 177,366 | 232,361 | |
| Unrestricted funds brought |
forward | 1,065,911 | 833,550 | |
| Unrestricted funds carried |
forward | 17 | 1,243,277 | 1,065,911 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | ||||||||
| Fixed assets | ||||||||
| Tangible assets | 12 | 270,296 | 262,564 | |||||
| Investments | 13 | 505,179 | ||||||
| 775,475 | 262,564 | |||||||
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Stocks | 35,000 | 36,000 | ||||||
| Debtors | 42,897 | 23,442 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 609,961 | 968,183 | ||||||
| 687,858 | 1,027,625 | |||||||
| Creditors: amounts | falling due within | |||||||
| one year | 16 | (220,056) | (224,278) | |||||
| Net current assets | 467,802 | 803,347 | ||||||
| Total assets less current | liabilities | 1,243,277 | 1,065,911 | |||||
| Unresticted funds |
ofthe | group: | ||||||
| General funds | 17 | 1,070,277 | 887,911 | |||||
| Designated funds |
1'7 | 173,000 | 178,000 | |||||
| Total unrestricted | funds | 1,243,277 | 1,065,911 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | ||||||||
| Fixed assets | ||||||||
| Tangible assets | 12 | 270,296 | 262,564 | |||||
| Investments | 13 | 665,179 | 160,000 | |||||
| 935,475 | 422,564 | |||||||
| Current assets | ||||||||
| Debtors | 42,897 | 23,442 | ||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 478,842 | 859,981 | ||||||
| 521,739 | 883,423 | |||||||
| Creditors: amounts | falling due within | |||||||
| one year | 16 | (331,519) | (342,346) | |||||
| Net current assets | 190,220 | 541,077 | ||||||
| Total assets less current | liabilities | 1,125,695 | 963,641 | |||||
| Unrestricted funds |
ofthe | charity | ||||||
| General funds | 17 | 952,695 | 785,641 | |||||
| Designated funds |
17 | 173,000 | 178,000 | |||||
| Total unrestricted | funds | 1,125,695 | 963,641 |
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | |||||||
| Cash flows from operating | activities | ||||||
| Cash generated from operations |
21 | 187,955 | 347,886 | ||||
| Net cash inflow from operating | activities | 187,955 | 347,886 | ||||
| Investing activities |
|||||||
| (Purchase) oftangible fixed | assets | (54,173) | (67,669) | ||||
| (Purchase)/Sale offixed asset investments |
(501,448) | 345,992 | |||||
| Interest received | 9,444 | 9,931 | |||||
| Net cash (outflow)/inflow | from | investing | |||||
| activities | (546,177) | 288,254 | |||||
| Net (decrease)/increase in cash |
and cash | ||||||
| equivalents | (358,222) | 636,140 | |||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | at | beginning | ofyear | 968,183 | 332,043 | ||
| Cash and cash equivalents | at | end ofyear | 609,961 | 968,183 | |||
| The notes on pages 14 - 25 | form | part ofthese financial | statements. |
| Income from d | onations | and l | egacies | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Total | |||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
| Donations from |
visitors | and associated | Gift Aid | 122,258 | 165,868 | |
| Other donations | 4,299 | 13,754 | ||||
| Total donations | and legacies | 126,557 | 179,622 | |||
| Government and local authority |
grants | 79,496 | ||||
| 126,557 | 259,118 | |||||
| Donations received are |
all unrestricted. | |||||
| Income from charitable | activities | |||||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||
| K | ||||||
| Income from admissions | and other related income | 1,033,523 | 919,626 |
| The wholly owned |
trading | subsidiary | subsidiary | subsidiary | Bekonscot | Bekonscot | Bekonscot | Limited | Limited | (company | (company | number | number | 01338347) is incorporated in |
01338347) is incorporated in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales and |
distributes | all | its | profits | to the | Foundation. | Bekonscot Limited |
operates all |
|||||||
| commercial trading |
operations | carried on at the | Bekonscot | Model Village. | |||||||||||
| The summary financial performance |
of | the | subsidiary | alone is: | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| Turnover | 635,089 | 517,812 | |||||||||||||
| Cost ofsales and administration | costs | (517,507) | (415,542) | ||||||||||||
| Net profit | 117,582 | 102,270 | |||||||||||||
| Retained earnings |
brought | forward | 102,270 | 4,505 | |||||||||||
| Amount distributed |
to the parent charity | (102,270) | (4,505) | ||||||||||||
| Retained in subsidiary |
117,582 | 102,270 | |||||||||||||
| The assets and liabilities of | the | subsidiary | were: | ||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| F | |||||||||||||||
| Current assets | 280,582 | 265,270 | |||||||||||||
| Current liabilities |
(3,000) | (3,000) | |||||||||||||
| Total net assets | 277,582 | 262,270 | |||||||||||||
| Aggregate share capital and |
reserves | 277,582 | 262,270 |
| Operation o | fBekon | scot Mod | el Village | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Running of |
Education | Grant | Total | Total | ||||
| Notes | model village | giving | 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| R | R | |||||||
| Staff costs | 543,244 | 22,267 | 1,381 | 566,892 | 567,353 | |||
| Activities undertaken | directly | 331,168 | 4,573 | 335,741 | 280,346 | |||
| Governance | costs | 7,909 | 7,909 | 7,306 | ||||
| Other support | costs | 48,736 | 1,064 | 49,800 | 40,368 | |||
| 931,057 | 27,904 | 1,381 | 960,342 | 895,373 |
| Education | Arts, culture, | Religion | Total | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| &community | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||
| R | F | F | ||||||
| Grants | payable | to | Church Army | 88,407 | 88,407 | 107,405 | ||
| Grants | payable | to | other institutions | 3,323 | 52,399 | 9,000 | 64,722 | 38,925 |
| 3,323 | 52,399 | 97,407 | 153,129 | 146,330 |
| Support | Governance | 2023 | 2022 | Basis of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| costs | costs | allocation | |||
| E | |||||
| Staff costs | 39,840 | 39,840 | 31,080 | Time spent | |
| General office costs | 9,960 | 909 | 10,869 | 9,594 | Direct |
| Audit fees | 7,000 | 7,000 | 7,000 | Direct | |
| 49,800 | 7,909 | 57,709 | 47,674 |
| 10 | Net incoming resources for the year |
Net incoming resources for the year |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
| Net incoming resources is stated after charging: |
|||||
| Depreciation ofowned tangible |
fixed assets | 46,441 | 47,275 | ||
| Operating lease charges |
3,991 | 7,568 | |||
| Audit ofthe financial statements |
ofthe group and | company | 7,000 | 7,000 | |
| Audit ofthe financial statements |
ofthe company's | subsidiary | 8,400 | 4,000 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | |||
| Total employees | 45 | 42 | ||
| Their aggregate | remuneration | comprised: | ||
| Group | Group | |||
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
| R | ||||
| Wages and salaries | 722,068 | 653,323 | ||
| Social security | costs | 56,404 | 48,873 | |
| Pension costs | 15,066 | 42,030 | ||
| 793,538 | 744,226 |
| Tangible fixed asset | Tangible fixed asset | s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group and Company | Land and | Plant and | Total | ||
| buildings | machinery | ||||
| etc | |||||
| Cost | |||||
| At 1 February | 2022 | 145,739 | 273,446 | 419,185 | |
| Additions | 53,371 | 802 | 54,173 | ||
| Disposals | (812) | (812) | |||
| At 31 January | 2023 | 199,110 | 273,436 | 472,546 | |
| Depreciation | and impairment | ||||
| At 1 February | 2022 | 24,149 | 132,472 | 156,621 | |
| Depreciation | charged | in the year | 9,678 | 36,763 | 46,441 |
| Eliminated in |
respect | ofdisposals | (812) | (812) | |
| At 31 January | 2023 | 33,827 | 168,423 | 202,250 | |
| Carrying amount |
|||||
| At 31 January | 2023 | 165,283 | 105,013 | 270,296 | |
| At 31 January | 2022 | 121,590 | 140,974 | 262,564 |
| Group | Charity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022f | 2023 | 2022 K |
||
| Investment in subsidiary |
160,000 | 160,000 | |||
| Other investments | as at 1 February | 362,873 | 362,873 | ||
| Other investments | acquired | 514,325 | 514,325 | ||
| Other investments | divested | (12,887) | (345,992) | (12,887) | (345,992) |
| Other investment | revaluation | 3,741 | (16,881) | 3,741 | (16,881) |
| Other investments | at 31 January | 505,179 | 505,179 | ||
| Total investments | at 31 January | 505,179 | 665,179 | 160,000 |
| Fixed ass | et investments at fa |
ir value compri | se | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Charity | |||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Investment | and unit trusts | 306,978 | 306,978 | |||
| Fixed interest securities | 92,637 | 92,637 | ||||
| Property funds | 18,357 | 18,357 | ||||
| Alternative | asset funds | 68,638 | 68,638 | |||
| Cash held | within the investment | porffolio | 18,569 | 18,569 | ||
| 505,179 | 505,179 |
| 15 | Debtors | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group | Charity | |||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Amounts falling |
due within | one year: | ||||||||
| Trade debtors | 13,229 | 314 | 13,229 | 314 | ||||||
| Tax recoverable | on Gift | Aid | donations | 9,668 | 9,668 | |||||
| Other debtors | 20,000 | 23,128 | 20,000 | 23,128 | ||||||
| 42,897 | 23,442 | 42,897 | 23,442 | |||||||
| 16 | Creditors: amounts falling |
due within | one year | |||||||
| Group | Company | |||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Trade creditors | 53,672 | 48,018 | 53,672 | 48,018 | ||||||
| Amounts owed to group |
undertakings | 114,462 | 121,068 | |||||||
| Taxation and social security | 23,751 | 17,659 | 23,751 | 17,659 | ||||||
| Other creditors | 142,633 | 158,601 | 139,633 | 155,601 | ||||||
| 220,056 | 224,278 | 331,518 | 342„346 | |||||||
| 17 | Analysis ofcharitable | funds | ||||||||
| At 1 | Incoming | Resources | Net gain on | At 31 | ||||||
| February | resources R |
expended | investmentf | Transfers | Januaryf | |||||
| Group (all unrestricted) | ||||||||||
| General funds | 887,911 | 1,804,613 | (1,630,978) | 3,731 | 5,000 | 1,070,277 | ||||
| Designated funds |
178,000 | (5,000) | 173,000 | |||||||
| Total unrestricted | ||||||||||
| funds | 1,065,911 | 1,804,613 | (1,630,978) | 3,731 | 1,243,277 | |||||
| At 1 | Incoming | Resources | Net gain on | At 31 | ||||||
| February | resources | expended | investment | Transfers | January | |||||
| F | ||||||||||
| Charity (all unrestricted) | ||||||||||
| General funds | 785,641 | 1,324,996 | (1,166,673) | 3,731 | 5,000 | 952,695 | ||||
| Designated funds |
178,000 | (5,000) | 173,000 | |||||||
| Total unrestricted | ||||||||||
| funds | 963,641 | 1,324,996 | (1,166,673) | 3,731 | 1,125,695 |
| Group | Charity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |
| R | ||||
| Within one year | 3,946 | 3,946 | 3,946 | 3,946 |
| Between two and five years | 2,041 | 5,987 | 2,041 | 5,987 |
| 5,987 | 9,933 | 5,987 | 9,933 |
| Cash generated from group |
operation | s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |||
| Surplus for the year | 177,366 | 232,361 | ||
| Adjustments for: |
||||
| (Income) from investments | (9,444) | (9,931) | ||
| Depreciation and impairment |
oftangible | fixed assets | 46,441 | 47,275 |
| Net (gain)/loss on investments |
(3,731) | 16,881 | ||
| Movements in working capital: |
||||
| Decrease/(increase) in stocks |
1,000 | (12,000) | ||
| (Increase)/decrease in debtors |
(19,455) | 9,945 | ||
| (Decrease)/increase in creditors |
(4,222) | 63,355 | ||
| Cash generated from operations |
187,955 | 347,886 |