| Page | ||
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| Trustees' Report |
1 —3 | |
| Statement of Responsibilities |
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| Independent Examiner's |
report | |
| Statement of Financial |
Activities | |
| Balance Sheet | ||
| Statement of Cash Flows |
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| Notes to the Accounts | 9-12 |
| Charity name | The Downforce Trust | The Downforce Trust | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other name the charity uses | Homeland | Conservation | |
| Registered charity |
number | «8754& | |
| CI0number | CE020425 | ||
| Charity's principal |
address | 2 Littlegate | Street, Oxford, OX«QT |
| ames ofthe tr | ustees who m | anage the charity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trustee name | Office (ifany) | Dates acted ifnot for whole year | ||
| Adam Parr | Chair | |||
| Mary Catherine | DiNunzio | Trustee | 1 February | 2022to 24 August 2023 |
| Charles Brecque | Trustee | 1 February | 2022 tO 24 August 2023 | |
| Mungo Soggot | Trustee | 25August | 2022 tO 31January 2023 | |
| Merrick Denton-Thompson | Trustee | 25August | 2022 tO 31January 2023 |
| All unrestricted, | All unrestricted, | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| restricted and |
restricted and |
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| endowment 2023 |
endowment 2022 |
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| Notes | funds | funds | |||
| Incoming resources | |||||
| Donations and legacies |
600,000 | ||||
| Investment income |
1,346 | 22 | |||
| Total incoming resources | 1,346 | 600,022 | |||
| Resources expended | |||||
| Expenditure on: |
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| Charitable activities |
227,508 | 50,257 | |||
| Total resources expended | 227,508 | 50,257 | |||
| Net (expenditure)/income | before investment | gains | 226,162 | 549,765 | |
| Net gains on investments | —disposal ofshares | in | |||
| Downforce Technologies | Limited | 1,073,780 | 72,931 | ||
| Net income | 847,618 | 622,696 | |||
| Net movement in funds | 847,618 | 622,696 | |||
| Reconciliation offunds: | |||||
| Total funds brought forward |
749,045 | 126,349 | |||
| Total funds carried forward | 1,596,663 | 749,045 |
| 31January | 31January | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes | 2023 | 2022 | ||
| Fixed Assets | ||||
| Social Investments | 67,789 | 97,963 | ||
| Current assets | ||||
| Cash at bank and | in hand | 1,531,515 | 651,082 | |
| Debtors | 323 | |||
| Liabilities | ||||
| Creditors: amounts | falling due within one | |||
| year | (2,964) | |||
| Net current assets | 1,528,874 | 651,082 | ||
| Net assets | 1,596,663 | 749,045 | ||
| Funds ofthe charity | ||||
| Unrestricted funds |
1,596,663 | 749,045 | ||
| Total charity funds | 1,596,663 | 749,045 |
| Notes | 2023 | 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flows from operating | activities | |||||
| Net cash (used in)/provided | by operations | (224,867) | 549,743 | |||
| Cash flows from investing | activities | |||||
| Interest on cash balances | 1,346 | 22 | ||||
| Proceeds from sale of investments | 1,103,954 | 74,980 | ||||
| Purchase of investments | 100,012 | |||||
| Net cash provided by/(used |
in) investing | activities | 1,105,300 | 524,733 | ||
| Net cash from financing activities |
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| Net increase in cash and cash equivalents |
880,433 | 524,733 | ||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning |
of period | 651,082 | 126,349 | |||
| Cash and cash equivalents | at end of period | 1,531,515 | 651,082 |
| onations | and legacies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | ||
| General | donations | 600,000 | |
| 600,000 |
| Support | Grant | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | costs | funding of |
costs | |||
| costs | (note 4) | activities | ||||
| Current year | ||||||
| System of | Rice Intensification | (SRI) | 182,722 | 4,786 | 187,508 | |
| Downforce | Software | |||||
| Education | &Research | 40,000 | 40,000 | |||
| Charitable | activities | 182,722 | 4,786 | 40,000 | 227,508 | |
| Support | Grant | Total | ||||
| Direct | costs | funding of |
costs | |||
| costs | (note 4) | activities | ||||
| Prior Year | ||||||
| System of | Rice Intensification | (SRI) | 6,637 | 1,704 | 8,341 | |
| Downforce | Software | 12,850 | 12,850 | |||
| Education | &Research | 29,066 | 29,066 | |||
| Charitable | activities | 19,487 | 1,704 | 29,066 | 50,257 |
| Governance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current year | Basis of | apportionment | costs | Totalf | |||
| System of | Rice Intensification | (SRI) | Allocated | on time | 950 | 3,836 | 4,786 |
| Downforce | software | Allocated | on time | ||||
| Education | 8 Research | Allocated | on time | ||||
| Charitable | Activities | 950 | 3,836 | 4,786 | |||
| Governance | |||||||
| Prior year | Basis of | apportionment | costs | Total | |||
| F | |||||||
| System of | Rice Intensification | (SRI) | Allocated | on time | 490 | 1,214 | 1,704 |
| Downforce | software | Allocated | on time | ||||
| Education | &Research | Allocated | on time | ||||
| Charitable | Activities | 490 | 1,214 | 1,704 |
| . Analysis ofstaff costs and key management personne |
l | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| Wages and salaries | 78,500 | 6,000 |
| Social security costs | 3,266 | 637 |
| Pension costs | 3,925 | |
| Health insurance | 457 | |
| 86,148 | 6,637 |
| Subsidiary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Undertaking | Associate | Totalf | |
| At 1 February 2022 | 97,963 | 97,963 | ||
| Additions | ||||
| Disposals | (30,174) | (30,174) | ||
| Loss of controlling | share | (67,789) | 67,789 | |
| Revaluation | ||||
| At 31January 2023 | 67,789 | 67,789 |
| . Debtors | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| Other debtors | 323 | |
| 323 | ||
| . Creditors | ||
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| Trade creditors | 669 | |
| Other creditors | 795 | |
| Accruals | 1,500 | |
| 2,964 |
| Balance at the | Balance at the | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| start ofthe | end ofthe | |||||
| Current | year | year | Income | Gains | Expenditure | yearf |
| General | fund | 749,045 | 1,346 | 1,073,780 | 227,508 | 1,596,663 |
| 749,045 | 1,346 | 1,073,780 | 227,508 | 1,596,663 | ||
| Prior year | Balance at the | Balance at the | ||||
| start ofthe | end ofthe | |||||
| previous year | Income | Gains | Expenditure | previous year | ||
| General | fund | 126,349 | 600,022 | 72,931 | 50,257 | 749,045 |
| 126,349 | 600,022 | 72,931 | 50,257 | 749,045 |
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net income for the reporting | period (as per the statement | of | |||
| financial activities |
847,618 | 622,696 | |||
| Adjustments for: |
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| Interest income | (1,346) | (22) | |||
| Net gains on investments | (1,073,780) | (72,931) | |||
| Increase in debtors |
(323) | ||||
| Increase in creditors |
2,964 | ||||
| Cash (used)l generated | from operations | 224,867 | 549,743 |