2021-12-31-accounts - Ice Age Insights

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 01.01.21 Period start date To 31.12.21 Period end date

Charity name: Ice Age Insights

Charity registration number: 1169575

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To advance the education of the public in prehistory and in the practices of archaeology and geology, and to promote research for the public benefit in all aspects of those subjects and to publish the useful results
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	1. Continuing to investigate a Late Upper Palaeolithic site of national importance at Farndon Fields, Newark Notts., originally investigated by “Ice Age Journeys” with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and significant volunteer input. 2. Engaging with a consortium of organisations with sites of similar date in the English East Midlands with a view to sharing information and its dissemination, volunteer labour, website and outreach. 3. Giving talks and visual displays to schools, adult organisations and in public places to disseminate the results of our work.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	Throughout the trustees have regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit

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SORP reference n/a

Policy on grant making	Para 1.38
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	n/a
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	Significant contributions in time, effort and expertise have been made by 43 people from a wide range of backgrounds including professional archaeologists, geologists, geomorphologists, students, and members of the public. If valued on the basis of figures suggested by the Heritage Lottery Fund, this would amount to £46,575
Other

Achievements and Performance

	SORP reference
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	1. As for everyone, Covid has restricted our activities, despite several having been planned in anticipation of execution. However, we were able to achieve some excavation at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, as part of our National Lottery-funded project conducted in partnership with the Bradgate Park Trust. The process and result of the excavations were disseminated to staff and volunteers via several socially-distanced meetings, and to visitors to the Park and the interested public via our website and Zoom. Both geology and archaeology were featured and further activities are planned in the hope of achievement in 2022. 2. The charity is managed by a board of Trustees who have had regard to the Charity Commissioners guidance on safeguarding and public benefit. The finances, which are considered satisfactory, are carefullycontrolled

	and the accounts have been
	examined by an independent
	responsible person.
3.	Our present focus is to engage with
	two other charities with sites known
	to have been visited by Late Upper
	Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, which,
	together with a site which we have
	investigated, are all within the
	watershed of the river Trent.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	n/a
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	n/a
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	n/a
Other		Safeguard policy attached

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of theperiod	Para 1.21	The charity’s financial position at the end of the period is considered to be satisfactory.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	n/a
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£5517
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	n/a
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	n/a
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	See Para 1.46 below

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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	Grants and donations
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46	n/a
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46	1. Difficulty in obtaining funds 2. It is possible that, in the future, we will find it difficult to recruit trustees who are willing and able to commit the required level of time and effort to the charity.
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	The charity is set up with the constitution model suggested by the Charity Commission for a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	CIO
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	n/a

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n/a Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees n/a

The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charityworks	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	n/a
Other		n/a

Reference and Administrative details

Charityname	Ice Age Insights
Other name the charityuses	Ice Age Journeys
Registered charity number	1169575
Charity’s principal address	50 Broadgate, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 2FW

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year Nam e of pers on (or bod y) entit led to app oint trust ee (if any)
	Ian Ross	Chair
	John Miller
	Nicholas Barton
	Susan Cotton	Treasurer

15 16 17 18 19 20

Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved Director name n/a

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year n/a

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity	n/a
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects	n/a
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets	n/a

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Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

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Accounting Policy

Income is taken into account when it is received. Expenditure is accounted for as soon as it is incurred, at cost on the day of expenditure.

Volunteer time has been evaluated in accordance with the rules of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)

Full name(s) Susan V. Cotton Ian N. Ross Position (eg Secretary, Treasurer Chairman Chair, etc) Date 14/01/2022

	Ice Age Insights Charity Name	Ice Age Insights Charity Name	Ice Age Insights Charity Name	1169575 No (if any)	CC16a
	For the period from	1.1.21 Period start date	To	31.12.21 Period end date

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 976 561 - - - - - - 1,537 - - - 1,537 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1,537 - 3,980 5,517	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - 42 - - - - - 42 - - - 42 - 18,003 - - - - - - - 18,003 - - - - 17,961 - 34,495 16,534	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 976 561 42 - - - - - 1,579 - - - 1,579 - 18,003 - - - - - - - 18,003 - - - 18,003 - 16,424	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	976				109
Gift Aid	561				707
Interest on Deposit	-				39
Grants	-				34,000
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~~*Sub total~~~~(Gross income for~~ AR)*	1,537				34,855

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					34,855

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Project	-				2,463
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**Sub total **	-				2,463

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					2,463

	1,537	- 17,961	-	- 16,424	32,392
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	3,980	34,495	-	38,475	6,083
	5,517	16,534	-	22,051	38,475

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

01/03/2022

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 B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets	Signature Details Details Bank accounts Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 5,517 16,534 - - - - 5,517 16,534 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Susan V.Cotton Ian Ross	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		Susan V.Cotton	14/01/2022
		Ian Ross	14/01/2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

01/03/2022