Company registration number: 15009502 Charity registration number: 1206810
## **ONE HOME CLIMATE SOLUTIONS TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1 AUGUST 2024 TO 31 JANUARY 2026**
Probusiness Ltd
## **One Home Climate Solutions Contents**
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|Trustees' Report|1—5|
|Independent Examiner's Report|6|
|Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|7|
|Balance Sheet|8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9—11|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|12|
**One Home Climate Solutions Company No. 15009502 Trustees' Report For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the period ended 31 January 2026.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
One Home Climate Solutions helped UK households adapt to a low cost, low carbon lifestyle and extreme weather events. We provided information and advice on positive, practical solutions that improved peoples’ lives while saving money, essential in a cost-of-living crisis. As the UK experiences more extreme weather, One Home also helped people prepare for and adapt to the impact of increasing floods, droughts and heatwaves. We provided accurate, impartial guidance in plain English and our advice was widely sought after across many sectors.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Achievements and Performance**
## **Main Achievements**
It is with deep regret that we announce the closure of One Home Climate Solutions. After years of meaningful contribution to environmental communications and public education, the charity will cease operations next month due to a sustained shortfall in funding. This report provides an overview of our achievements, organisational objectives, and the circumstances surrounding the board’s decision to wind down the charity.
One Home grew from contributing to local papers in the Southwest to working with the biggest names in the media, both on and off screen. One Home helped break the silence on climate and delivered innovative, attention-grabbing campaigns on under-reported issues, such as coastal erosion and energy efficiency measures. We also collaborated with major organisations to improve national policy and customer engagement during the cost-of-living crisis.
Our trusted messages reached millions of people through print media, regular broadcast appearances, syndicated newspaper columns and viral online stories. We worked with the BBC and others to integrate climate stories into mainstream culture such as chat shows and soap operas. Our website became a one-stop shop for impartial advice and we advised Government, regulators, banks, insurers and industry groups on engaging the public with hopeful yet practical climate solutions.
The transition to net zero is happening so hope remains. A rapidly warming world affects us all, but its impacts fall hardest on those with the least resources. Thankfully the landscape has improved since we formed, including public campaigns from DESNZ on clean technologies such as electric cars and heat pumps and Ofwat's £75m fund encouraging water conservation.
The need for significant funding for public education has never been greater, particularly as disinformation increase. The key to secure a safe future is scaling up progress at speed so, united and ambitious action on adaptation and mitigation is essential.
Simply put: money talks. Despite One Home's substantial impact, the charity will close due to a lack of funding. Grants are particularly difficult to secure with funding for all charities decreasing but particularly for an organisation that focuses on strategic communications.
The support from funders is really appreciated and enabled One Home to continue our environmental educational outreach work for many years. In this time, we achieved incredible success with the media, public education and engagement with significant organisations. Some of the key impacts are summarised below:
## Education and Media Outreach
One Home has appeared in an incredible range of broadcast and print organisations across the political spectrum, providing authoritative information on the merits of clean technologies as well as advice on how to adapt to extreme weather, such as the summer heatwaves, the drought and increase in flash flooding. Media coverage in terms of frequency and calibre was very strong with further links available here. Achievements include:
## - Weekly Going Green column
A weekly advice column, covering a range of environmental topics, celebrity quotes and simple swaps syndicated in partnership with National World Media, who own local papers, including The Yorkshire Post and the Scotsman. The column was published in 40 to 50 regional newspapers and websites each week, attracting around 130,000 online views and reaching an average print audience of 355,000.
As well as reaching around half a million people each week via their local and trusted news title, many readers emailed the CEO for personal advice or requesting her to speak at their events (as they assume she lives locally in their community). Readers also often write in to support the column and National and international organisations, such as the Marine Stewardship Council and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, also complimented the articles that explain ‘complex’ subjects simply for readers/ consumers.
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**One Home Climate Solutions Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
## **Main Achievements - continued**
## - The Sun
A double-page spread in the Sun newspaper in November 2025, provided energy saving advice to readers to help reduce bills.
## - LBC
Angela Terry was the regular expert on LBC to explain topical environmental stories from heat pumps and wind farms, to EVs and congestion fees. Her chatty yet informative style won warm praise from multiple presenters.
## - The Mirror
Contributed to many features, particularly around heat waves, ongoing drought and the impact of these events on food security, health and infrastructure investment. Besides quotes, another role was providing connections and reports for other environmental stories. Unfortunately, the Mirror, the Sun and the Mail have all removed their environmental journalists in favour of more ‘celebrity’ coverage.
## - BBC
Angela was the go-to person for many of the regional and national stations to comment on health and environmental issues in the news. She also worked behind the scenes with the BBC sustainability team to provide advice on wider integration of climate stories for both fiction and non-scripted shows, such as Glastonbury Festival coverage.
## - MSN and Yahoo
Many of One Home’s articles and research, such as this solar story by Reach PLC, were so popular they were subsequently picked up by on-line news aggregators, such as MSN and Yahoo. Therefore, these features reach even larger audiences than anticipated.
## - Sky News
Provided background resources, first person accounts and live interviews on coastal erosion and food price inflation linked to floods and droughts throughout the world.
## - Coastal erosion
Continued to highlight the harm to communities and conservation goals from rising sea levels by generating local stories of loss, including golf courses and these iconic coastguard cottages.
## One-Stop-Shop for Impartial Advice on Insulation and Resilience
The cost-of-living crisis continued to squeeze household budgets across the UK. As well as media engagement, One Home offered free and impartial information on a range of green lifestyle topics, that helped people to save money. Our categorised and searchable information library covered a wide range of consumer and environmental topics, including Save Money and Energy in Your Home guide. We even joined TikTok to spread the message wider and received excellent engagement across all social media channels, web pages and from corporate and public speaking engagements. Crucially, many major utilities, businesses, think tanks and trade associations have used One Home’s information, style and consumer insights to develop their own, popular customer outreach campaigns.
## High-level Public Policy and Industry Influence
One Home engaged with a range of sectors to advise them on stakeholder engagement about the growing number of households affected by the rapidly changing climate plus the huge demand for solutions that also generate hope. Organisations advised include:
- The climate minister at an expert round table to advice on the design and goals for a public engagement campaign on net zero including heat pumps, energy conservation and electric cars.
- UK Finance team and their high street bank members to improve customer engagement on energy efficiency, which is viewed as a complex but crucial topic to improve.
- Defra flooding round table including the Bonfield review on making personal flood resilience measures more popular and ensuring flood risk measures for the proposed 1.5 million new homes are incorporate via the Chief Scientific Officer.
- DESNZ teams on a new on-line tool ‘Heat’ for bill payers, marketing strategies and supporting Government announcements.
- Warm this Winter and Climate Coalition goals in influencing policy and increasing public engagement.
- OFWAT to develop and launch a £75m water efficiency public engagement strategy
- Conservative Environment Network plans to support coastal communities and sea defences.
- ABI and Conduit to develop a ‘house of the future’ concept and increase insurance industry engagement on climate risks.
- RICS to encourage surveyors to use best available data for assessing value and evaluating risk to global clients.
- Met Office to discuss opportunities for increasing public engagement around extreme weather.
- Introducing groups with common interests, to increase collaboration convening conversations between FloodRe, leading think tanks, the Climate Change Coalition, ABI, Aldersgate and UK corporations.
## **Summary:**
One Home’s impact has been extraordinary relative to the organisation’s size. The team succeeded in placing environmental topics into major media channels on a weekly basis and in encouraging significant corporate and national organisations to do considerably more to promote climate solutions.
Regrettably, the investment of time and resources in achieving charitable status and improving governance did not ultimately translate into the substantial core grants and project funding that One Home required to continue. The charity is now in the process of winding down.
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**One Home Climate Solutions Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
## **Main Achievements - continued**
The One Home team and its trustees wish to express our gratitude to all donors whose contributions made it possible to promote climate action to UK citizens over recent years. That work has had a lasting impact, and the organisations and individuals touched by it will carry the experiences forward.
## **Financial Review**
## **Reserves Policy**
The Trustees aim to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level which ensures that our key activities can be maintained if there is a temporary shortfall in income. If such a shortfall proves to be more permanent, the reserves are also intended to provide time to allow a phased reduction in expenditure and, in the worst case, an orderly wind up of the charity.
The current benchmark agreed by the trustees is equivalent to three months' worth of expenditure. The actual level of reserves will vary from year to year and the trustees will review both the benchmark and the actual level of reserves periodically.
## **Going Concern**
Despite all these significant successes, One Home has unfortunately struggled to find enough supportive funders to continue with its programme of work.
One Home become a charity on 28th February 2024 and recruited four new trustees with extensive financial expertise to assist with our fundraising efforts. We also recruited a new fundraising consultant to assist with securing suitable grants. The CEO and the Trustees attended numerous events throughout the year to meet high net worth individuals, private office managers, sustainability leaders, environmental grant funders and industry Award ceremonies.
However, despite all of One Home’s incredible impact, encouragement from numerous stakeholders, promises of support from a broad range of sector leaders and foundations as well as many grant applications, One Home has not received any substantial grants over a year. Obviously, this was not a sustainable position and was also reflected in conversations with other charity CEOs, consultants and trustees who found fundraising very tricky in the current environment.
Therefore, the board has taken the difficult decision at the Board meeting on the 5th November 2025, to terminate all contracts by the 31st of January 2026 and close the charity. The process of winding up the charity is underway. The ‘closing checklist’ is almost complete and the CEO has been made redundant. The trustees will finalise the strike off and inform the charity commission then close the bank account.
This situation is obviously very disappointing, but previous funding has helped One Home continue for the last few years with incredible impact in citizen engagement and stakeholder influence.
Whilst One Home’s work is finishing, there has also been a significant shift in society since we launched. Many clean technologies are becoming mainstream. For example, one in four new cars sold are battery electric vehicles (BEV) and the national grid is mainly powered by renewable energy so there have been great progress in the shift toward clean British energy.
In terms of public awareness raising, everyone is unfortunately experiencing the impacts of global warming, climate deniers are no longer given ‘equal’ airtime and crucially, the Government has launched a public education campaign on net zero. Therefore, the citizen engagement landscape has improved and progress to net zero emissions continues. The transformation away from fossil fuels is unstoppable.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Governing Document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
Ms Mary Hockaday (resigned 01/05/2025) Mrs Samantha Nicol Mrs Sonya Bull Ms Anita Ghanekar (appointed 06/10/2024) Mrs Duygu Gozeler Porchet (appointed 08/10/2024)
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**One Home Climate Solutions Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
Mr Peter King (appointed 29/08/2024) Ms Shailaja Annamraju (appointed 07/11/2024) Ms Tanja Gihr (appointed 05/11/2024)
## **Charity Number**
1206810
## **Company Number**
15009502
## **Independent Examiner**
Probusiness Ltd Mendip Court Bath Road Wells BA5 3DG
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## **One Home Climate Solutions Trustees' Report (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
## **Small Company Rules**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Mrs Samantha Nicol
Trustee Date
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**One Home Climate Solutions Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of One Home Climate Solutions For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the period ended 31 January 2026.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
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.
Date Mendip Court Bath Road Wells BA5 3DG
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## **One Home Climate Solutions Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**4**
Charitable activities:
**4**
Charitable Objectives
Governance
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**10**|**31 January**
**2026**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
58,967|**31 July**
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
135,140|
|---|---|---|
||(2,373)
(122,413)
(8,810)|(3,501)
(48,532)
(5,962)|
||(133,596)|(57,995)|
||(74,629)|77,145|
||(74,629)
77,145|77,145
-|
||2,516|77,145|
The notes on pages 9 to 11 form part of these financial statements.
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## **One Home Climate Solutions Balance Sheet As At 31 January 2026**
|**Notes**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
**8**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**9**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**10**|**31 January**
**2026**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
767
3,972|**31 July**
**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
465
87,421|
|---|---|---|
||4,739
(2,223)|87,886
(10,741)|
||2,516|77,145|
||2,516|77,145|
||2,516|77,145|
||2,516|77,145|
||2,516|77,145|
For the period ending 31 January 2026 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
On behalf of the board
Mrs Samantha Nicol
Trustee Date
The notes on pages 9 to 11 form part of these financial statements.
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## **One Home Climate Solutions Notes to the Financial Statements For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
## 1. **General Information**
One Home Climate Solutions is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 15009502 and registered charity number 1206810. The registered office is .
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.
The charitable company is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Fund Accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the trustees for a specific purpose.
Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## 2.3. **Incoming Resources**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## 2.4. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**|||
|---|---|---|
||**31 January**|**31 July 2024**|
||**2026**||
||**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|
||**funds**|**funds**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Donations and gifts|58,967|135,140|
## 4. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|Raising funds
Charitable Objectives
Governance|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
2,373
65,950
-|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 5)
**£**
-
56,463
8,810|**31 January**
**2026**
**Total**
**£**
2,373
122,413
8,810|
|---|---|---|---|
||68,323|65,273|133,596|
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**One Home Climate Solutions Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
|Raising funds
Charitable Objectives
Governance|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
3,501
17,684
-|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 5)
**£**
-
30,848
5,962|**31 July 2024**
**Total**
**£**
3,501
48,532
5,962|
|---|---|---|---|
||21,185|36,810|57,995|
## 5. **Support Costs**
|.
**Support Costs**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Employee costs
Premises expenses
General administration
Governance costs
Employee costs
General administration
Governance costs|**Charitable**
**Objectives**
**£**
2,440
2,583
51,440
-|**Governance**
**£**
-
-
47
8,763|**31 January**
**2026**
**Total**
**£**
2,440
2,583
51,487
8,763|
||56,463|8,810|65,273|
||**Charitable**
**Objectives**
**£**
1,119
29,729
-|**Governance**
**£**
-
-
5,962|**31 July 2024**
**Total**
**£**
1,119
29,729
5,962|
||30,848|5,962|36,810|
## 6. **Staff Costs**
Staff costs were as follows:
|Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs|**31 January**
**2026**
**£**
61,382
3,427
524
65,333|**31 July 2024**
**£**
15,450
1,714
401|
|---|---|---|
|||17,565|
No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000.
7. **Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the period was: 1 (2024: 1)
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## **One Home Climate Solutions Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
## 8. **Debtors**
|**Due within one year**
Other debtors
9.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Other creditors
Taxation and social security
Accruals and deferred income
10.
**Movement in Funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Total funds**|**As at 1**
**August 2024**
**£**
77,145|**31 January**
**2026**
**£**
767
**31 January**
**2026**
**£**
296
-
1,927
2,223
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
58,967
(133,596)
58,967
(133,596)
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
135,140
(57,995)
135,140
(57,995)|**31 January**
**2026**
**£**
767
**31 January**
**2026**
**£**
296
-
1,927
2,223
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
58,967
(133,596)
58,967
(133,596)
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
135,140
(57,995)
135,140
(57,995)|**31 July 2024**
**£**
465|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**31 July 2024**
**£**
3,859
4,866
2,016|
|||||10,741|
|||||**As at 31**
**January**
**2026**
**£**
2,516|
||77,145|58,967|(133,596)|2,516|
||**As at 18 July**
**2023**
**£**
-|**Income**
**£**
135,140|**Expenditure**
**£**
(57,995)|**As at 31 July**
**2024**
**£**
77,145|
||-|135,140|(57,995)|77,145|
## 11. **Transactions with Trustees**
None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current or previous year.
## 12. **Related Party Disclosures**
## 13. **Company limited by guarantee**
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.
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**One Home Climate Solutions Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For the Period 1 August 2024 to 31 January 2026**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts|**31 January**
**2026**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
58,967|**31 July 2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
135,140|
|---|---|---|
||58,967|135,140|
|**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Consulting
**Charitable Activities:**
**Charitable Objectives**
Wages and salaries
Employers NI
Pension cost
Subscriptions
Bank interest payable
Entertainment
Travel expenses
Repairs and maintenance
Computer and IT consumables
Insurance
Printing, postage and stationery
Advertising & Marketing
Telecommunications
Consultancy fees
**Governance**
Subscriptions
Accountancy fees
Legal fees
Consultancy fees
**NET (EXPENDITURE)/INCOME**|||
||58,967
(2,373)|135,140
(3,501)|
||(2,373)
(61,382)
(3,427)
(524)
(593)
(24)
(900)
(1,540)
(2,583)
(2,244)
(1,123)
(4)
(29,377)
(86)
(18,606)|(3,501)
(15,450)
(1,714)
(401)
(119)
-
(36)
(1,083)
-
(2,525)
(162)
(8)
(15,567)
(14)
(11,453)|
||(122,413)
(47)
(4,691)
-
(4,072)|(48,532)
-
(2,769)
(2,713)
(480)|
||(8,810)|(5,962)|
||(133,596)|(57,995)|
||(74,629)|77,145|
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