## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date 01.01.25 To Period end date 31.12.25**
**Charity name: Ice Age Insights**
## **Charity registration number: 1169575**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|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 Late Upper**
**Palaeolithic sites of national importance**
**in the East Midlands.**
**(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) Investigations to find the source(s) of**
**flints used at these sites to inform**
**research.**
**(4) 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**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|||
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|Policy on social investment|||
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|investment|||
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Significant contributions in time, effort**
**and expertise have been made by 90**
**people from a wide range of backgrounds**
**including professional archaeologists,**
**geologists, geomorphologists,**
**geochemists, students and members of**
**the public. If valued on the basis of**
**figures suggested by Heritage Lottery**
**Fund this would amount to £52,312**|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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) We continued to investigate the**
**geochemistry of flints found in our area**
**in collaboration with staff from the British**
**Geological Survey.**
**(2) The charity is managed by a board of**
**Trustees who have had regard to the**
**Charity Commission’s guidance on**
**safeguarding and public benefit. The**
**finances, which are considered**
**satisfactory, are carefully controlled but**
**did not, this year, require an independent**
**examination.**
**(3) We continue to engage with other**
**charities with sites known to have been**
**visited by Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-**
**gatherers which, together with a site we**
**have investigated, are all within the basin**
**of the River Trent.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**n/a**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**n/a**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**|
**n/a** Other
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity’s financial position at the end**
**of the period is considered to be**
**satisfactory.**|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£3668**|
|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 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||**n/a**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|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**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
**n/a** Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees **n/a** The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works **n/a** Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties **n/a** Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Ice Age Insights|
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|Other name the charity uses|Ice Age Journeys|
|Registered charity number|1169575|
|Charity’s principal address|50 Broadgate,
Beeston,
Nottingham NG9 2FW|
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name n/a**
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity
Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
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## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Scan. V. _ Mrs Susan V Cotton **Full name(s)** Dr Ian N Ross **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** March 6[th] 2026
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|||**Ice Age Insights**||||||**1169575**||||
|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||**CC16a**|
||**For the period**
**from**
~~rr~~|||Period start date
1.1.25|||**To**||Period end date
31.12.25|||
||**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
||**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
||Donations|**2,338**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,338**||**2,762**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Grants|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,225**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Gift Aid|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**663**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||Bank interest|**69**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**69**||**108**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_AR)_
**2,407**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,407**||**4,758**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**2,407**
**-**
**-**
**2,407**
**4,758**
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||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
||Professional Fees|**4,200**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**4,200**||**-**|
||Equipment and materials|**1,152**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**1,152**||**1,343**|
||Travel and subsistence|**746**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**746**||**2,193**|
||Insurance|**301**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**301**||**79**|
||Research|**350**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**350**||**203**|
||Printingandpostage|**86**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**86**||**142**|
||Hall Hire|**90**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**90**||**134**|
||Memberships|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**126**|
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
_**Sub total**_ **[ 6,925 ] - - 6,925 4,220 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **[ - ] - - - -** ~~—~~ _**Total payments**_ ~~——=—~~ **6,925 - - 6,925 4,220** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **- 4,518 - - - 4,518 538 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 8,186 - - 8,186 7,648** _**Cash funds this year end**_ ~~SS~~ **3,668 -** ~~SS=~~ **- 3,668 8,186**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
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|**Categories**||**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,668**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
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|||account(s))||OK
OK||OK|
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**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
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**funds**||**funds**|
|||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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|||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Amount due**||**When due**|
|||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
6.3.2026
**6.3.2026**
Print Name
Susan V Cotton
Ian N Ross
Signature
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