## **HPRG Accounts Financial Year 2021 – 2022**
This accounting year is the first ‘normal’ year for HPRG since 2019, in the intervening years no physical meetings were held due to Covid regulations. Consequently, although the comparison is made with 2020 – 2021 it is the 2018 – 2019 year that comparison should really be made on a like for like basis.
The audited accounts show a loss of just over £27k, however this is an in year loss and does not take into account some £35k held in credit from 2019 – 2020 year. Some attendees requested that monies already paid be retained for the next physical meeting of the group. Additionally, the group had to pay some £35k in 2019 2020 year to the hotel location as cancellation fee.
The finances of the group are sound having accumulated reserves of £148k, sponsorship has returned to its previous healthy level of £8k enabling reduced fees to be offered to younger attendees at the start of their careers.
Randal W Richards 23[rd] March 2023
## **PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL**
## **HPRG ACCOUNTS 2021-22 (compared to 2020-21)**
## **Income**
## **Expenditure**
|**2020-21**||||**2021-22**||**2020-21**|||||**2021-22**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**General**|||||||**General**|||
|£||||£||£|||||£|
|0.00||Fees(1)||29,520.00|||0.00||Hotel(1)||-60,135.50|
|||Deposit Account|||||||Banquet wine|||
|17.16||Interest||73.96|||0.00||(1)||-1,517.70|
|500.00||Sponsorship (1)||8,163.40||-609.55|||Website||-506.43|
|0.00||Miscellaneous||0.00|||0.00||Miscellaneous||-391.70|
|||||||-1.40|||Bank charges||-11.55|
|||||||||||||
||||||||0.00||Secretarial||-1,197.34|
||||||||||Council|||
||||||||0.00||meetings||0.00|
||||||||||Auditing costs|||
|||||||-250.00|||(3)||-250.00|
||||||||||Event|||
||||||||0.00||Insurance(4)||0.00|
||||||||||Child Care|||
||||||||0.00||contribution||0.00|
|||||||-604.00|||Refunded Fees||-500.00|
||||||||||PayPal|||
||||||||||transaction|||
||||||||0.00||charges||-323.03|
|||**Total General**|||||||**Total General**|||
|**517.16**||**Income**||**37,757.36**||**-1,464.95**|||**Expenses**||**-64,833.25**|
|||||||||||||
|||**Less General**||||**Money at Bank at**|||||**Money at Bank at**|
|-1,464.95||**Expenditure**||-64,833.25||**31st August 2021**|||||**31st August 2022**|
|||**Excess/loss**||||||||||
|||**income over**||||||||||
|**-947.79**||**expenditure**||**-27,075.89**||5,461.79|||RBS Current||5,396.06|
|176,143.41||OpeningBalance||175,195.62||169,159.89|||RBS Deposit||142,452.76|
|||Total General||||||||||
|**175,195.62**||funds||**148,119.73**||573.94|||PayPal||270.91|
|||||||**175,195.62**|||Total||**148,119.73**|
Notes: 1 Covid-19 pandemic enforced cancellation of meeting in 2020 and 2021. 2022 first "normal" year but many 2020 fees "banked" until this tear. 3 2020-21 charge paid in this accounting year. 2021-22 charge to be paid in next accounting year.
4 Event insurance did not cover Covid-19 pandemic cancellation. No insurance because of meeting cancellation. Did not renew.
Hon Secretary and Treasurer
K Lewtas
Date: 31/09/2022
Accounts Examiner R W Richards
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name High Polymer Research Group **On accounts for the year** 31[st] August 2022 **Charity no** 206902 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** Attached (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’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:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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.
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:** 23[rd] March 2023
**Signed: Name:** Randal W Richards OBE, DSc, PhD **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**
## **Address:**
Fernleigh
London Road Attleborough NR17 2DE
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**