## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** **Registered Charity number: 1189469** **TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024** |**INDEX**|| |---|---| ||**PAGE**| |**TRUSTEES’ REPORT**|**2**| |**INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**|**3**| |**STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**|**4**| |**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024**|| |**BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER 2024**|**5**| ## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT** The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2024. ## **Description of charity** The BECG is governed by a constitution adopted on 29th January 2020. The management of the charity is undertaken by a committee consisting of a Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and between three and eight other members. The members of the committee are the trustees of the charity. The trustees are elected by and out of the charity’s members at the Annual General Meeting. ## **Objectives and activities** The principal objective of the BECG is to advance education for the public benefit in the history of broadcasting. ## **Achievements and performance** In 2024 we have: - Continued to refurbish our premises at Hemswell Cliff. This includes creating a weathertight space to display some of our collection of historic vehicles - Created new museum exhibits and enhanced existing ones - Received grants from FCC Communities and West Lindsey District Council to provide a meeting space to be shared with the local community - Received important historic sound recorders on loan from BBC Archives - Opened the Broadcast Engineering Museum to the public for two weekends - Written and published more articles on our website and elsewhere - Exhibited again at the Retrotech vintage technology fair - Continued to build relationships with the local community at Hemswell Cliff ## **Trustees** The trustees who served during the period were: Jeffrey Borinsky (treasurer) Richard Harris Dave Hill (secretary) Richard Lamont Paul Marshall (chairman) Phil Nott The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report set on page two above. Signed on behalf of all the trustees: Chair Treasurer **31st July 2025** 2 ## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Broadcast Engineering Conservation Group (“the BECG”) for the year ended 31st December 2024. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees of the BECG you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the BECG’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the BECG as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ## **Peter Weiss FCA** Leapman Weiss, Chartered Accountants, Unit 6, 30 Friern Park, London, N12 9DA ## **31st July 2025** 3 ## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **BALANCE SHEET AT 31ST DECEMBER 2024** |**Fixed assets**
Freehold land and vehicles

**Current assets**
Debtors
Cash at bank
Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year
**Net current assets**
**Total assets less current**
**liabilities**

**Creditors: Amounts falling due**
**after more than one year**

**Net assets**
**Funds of the charity**
General fund
**Total funds**|2024
£
541,450
29,181
28,204
______
57,385
100
______
57,285
______
598,735
-
______
598,735
______
598,735
______
598,735
______|2023
£
436,050
980
48,089
______
49,069
-
______
49,069
______
485,119
-
______
485,119
______
485,119
______
485,119
______| |---|---|---| Signed on behalf of all the trustees: Chair Treasurer 31st July 2025 4 ## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2024** ## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES** 1.1 The financial statements have been prepared on the basis of historic cost, in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities - Statement of Recommended Practice (“SORP”); applicable accounting standards and with the Charities Act 2011. The following paragraphs describe the main accounting policies. 1.2 Income represents donations from trustees and the public and Gift Aid. These incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the Charity becomes entitled to the income, the trustees are certain they will receive the income; and the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability. 1.3 Liabilities, including loans, are recognised as soon as there is legal obligation committing the Charity to pay out resources. ## **2. NET INCOMING RESOURCES** Net incoming resources for the year are arrived at after charging: ||2024|2023| |---|---|---| ||£|£| |Examiner’s fee|100
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_| 5 ## **BROADCAST ENGINEERING CONSERVATION GROUP** ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2024 (CONT.)** ## **3. FIXED ASSETS** |Freehold property
£
**Cost**
At 1st January 2024
423,081
Additions
-
Disposals
-
______
At 31st December 2024
423,081
______
**Depreciation**
At 1st January 2024
-
Charged in period
-
Disposals
-
______
At 31st December 2024
-
______
**Net book value**
At 31st December 2024
423,081
______
At 1st January 2023
423,081
______
**. DEBTORS**
2024
£
Gift Aid
84
VAT
29,097
Prepayments
-
_____
29,181
_____|Studio
Vehicles
£
£
-
12,969
105,400
-
-
-
______
_____
105,400
12,969
______
_____
-
-
-
-
-
-
______ _____
-
-
______
_____
105,400
12,969
______
_____
-
12,969
______
_____
2023
£
34
946
-
___
980
___|Total
£
436,050
105,400
-
______
541,450
______| |---|---|---| |||-
-
-
______
-
______| |||541,450
______| |||436,050
______| |||| ## **4. DEBTORS** ## **5. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR** ||2024|2023| |---|---|---| ||£|£| |Trustees|-|-| |Accruals|100|-| 6