qvildlife ussex TRUSTS ildlife Trust Trustees, Report & Annual Accounts 2022-23 CommonTéYrpQO4VtdK￿￿rl￿Q￿.co￿ ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ||Notes|Unrestricted|Restricted|Designated|2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Income from:||Funds
e|Funds
f|Funds|Total Fundsf|Total Fundsf| |Donations
and legacies|2|2,823,263|137,412||2,960,675|2,955,779| |Other trading
activities|3|585,013|||585,013|501,780| |Investments|4|8177|||8,177|408| |Charitable
activities|5|666,384|1,172,513||1,838,896|1,858,954| |Other||||||19,224| |Total income||4,082,837|1,309,925||5,392,762|5,336,145| |Expenditure
on:||||||| |Raising funds|6|1,373,735|7,361|5,231|1,386,327|1,636,741| |Charitable
activities|7|3,029,390|1,112,312|182,894|4,324,596|3,873,530| |Total expenditure||4,403,125|1,119,673|188,125|5,710,923|5,510,271| |Net income/(expenditure)||(320,288)|190,252|(188,125)|(318,161)|(174,126)| |Transfers between
funds|17|||||| |Net movement
in funds||(320,288)|190,252|(188,125)|(318,161)|(174,126)| |Reconciliation
of funds||||||| |Balances brought
forward at 1April 2022||8,903,290|4,542,658|440,693|13,886,641|14,060,767| |Balances carried forward at 31March 2023||8,583.002|4,732,910|252,568|13,568,480|13,886,641| ## |aan||e e|||Company|Number: 00698851| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |at 31March 2023||||||| |Fixed assets||||Note|2023
f|2022f| |Tangible assets||||12|5536881|5539692| |Heritage
assets||||12|3,818,795|3,818,927| |Investments||||13|100|100| |Total fixed assets|||||9,355,776|9,358,719| |Current assets||||||| |Stock|||||23,940|23,785| |Biological assets||||14|279,823|216,325| |Debtors||||15|1,292.555|1,314,719| |Cash at bank and|in|hand|||2,976,281|3,441,054| |Total current assets|||||4,572,599|4,995,883| |Liabilities||||||| |Creditors: amounts||falling due within|one year|16|359,895|467,961| |Net current assets|||||4,212,704|4,527,922| |Total net assets|||||13,568,480|13,886,641| |Funds||||||| |Unrestricted|||||8,583,002|8,903,290| |Restricted|||||4,732,910|4,542,658| |Designated|||||252,568|440,693| |Total funds||||19|13,568,480|13,886,641| ## |Net cash used in operating
activities|||Notes|2023
f|2022f| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Operating
activities|||a)|(268,534)|(4.458)| |Cash flows from investing
activities|||||| |Dividends,
interest
and rents from investments||||8,177|408| |Proceeds from sale of tangible
fixed assets||||500|| |Purchase of property,
plant and equipment||||(204,916)|(876,743)| |Net cash used in investing
activities||||(196,239)|(876,335)| |Raising funds|||||| |Change
in cash and cash equivalents
in the reporting|period||b)|(464,773)|(880,793)| |Notes tothe cashflow statement|||||| |a) Reconciliation
of net incoming resources to net cash flow from operating||activities||2023|2022| |||||f|| |Net (expenditure)
for the reporting
period||||(318,161)|(174,126)| |Adjustments
for:|||||| |Depreciation||||207,728|173,666| |Dividends,
interest and rents from investments||||(8.177)|(408)| |Profit on sale of fixed assets||||(500)|| |Impairment
of fixed assets||||132|| |(Increase)/Decrease
in stock||||(155)|(23,029)| |(Increase)/Decrease
in biological assets||||(63,498)|(120,965)| |Decrease/(Increase)
in trade and other debtors||||22,163|160,735| |Increase/(Decrease)
in trade and other creditors||||(108,066)|(20,331)| |Net cash provided
by operating
activities||||(268,534)|(4,458)| |b) Analysis of changes
in cash and cash equivalents||||2023|2022| ||||||E| |Balance at 1st April||||3,441,054|4,321,847| |Net cash (outflow)/inflow
in year||||(464,773)|(880,793)| |Balance at 31st March||||2,976.281|3,441,054| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |Land|||Nil| |---|---|---|---| |Buildings,|car park 6 services||2-10%| |Temporary|structures,|fencing, etc.|20%| |Motor vehicles|||20%| |Furniture,|fixtures and equipment||20%| |Bird Hides|||10%| ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## |Income and endowments|Income and endowments|Income and endowments|from:||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |2 Donations
and|legacies||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Designated|2023|2022| ||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|TOTAL|TOTAL| |||||||g|||| |a. Income from members|||||1,904,314|||1,904,314|1,928,959| |b. Donations|||||162,957|10,656||173,613|132,151| |c.Legacies|||||744,928|72,369||817,297|809,778| |d. Public appeals|||||11,065|54,387||65,452|84,891| ||||||2,823,264|137,412||2,960,675|2,955,779| |3 Other trading activities|||||||||| |a. Corporate
support|||||22,440|||22,440|30,860| |b. Other fundraising||income|||46,710|||46,710|53,898| |c.Rye Harbour
Discovery Centre|||||515,863|||515,863|417,022| ||||||585,013|||585,013|501,780| |4 Investments|||||||||| |a. Deposit interest|||||8,177|||8,177|408| ||||||8,177|||8,177|408| |Other|||||||||| |b. Other income|||||||||19,224| ||||||||||19,224| |5 Charitable
activities|||||||||| |Wildlife conservation|||||||||| |a. Project grants and||income||||304,257||304,257|401,481| |b. Other income|||||400|3,902||4,302|28,758| ||||||400|308,159||308,559|430,239| |Working with people|||||||||| |c. Grants and income||||||425,860||425,860|309,090| |d. Schools, events|and courses||||133,091|6208||139,299|162,321| |e.Other income|||||||||| ||||||133,091|432,068||565,159|471,411| |Nature reserves management|||||||||| |f. Rents, grazing
income, sales|||of meat and|timber|32,872|||32,872|53,278| |g. Land management||grants and stewardship||income|467,603|140,405||608,008|569,347| |h. Other income|||||32,417|||32,417|50,718| ||||||532,892|140,405||673,297|673,343| |Collating
information||on wildlife|||||||| |i.Contract funding||||||291,881||291,881|283,961| |||||||291,881||291,881|283,961| |Total income from|charitable||activities||666,383|1,172,513||1,838,896|1,858,954| |TOTAL INCOME|||||4,082,837|1,309,925||5,392,762|5,336,145| ## |||Unrestricted|Restricted| |---|---|---|---| |||f|f| |Donations|and legacies|2,829,837|125,942| |Other trading||501,780|| |Investments||408|| |Charitable|activities|731,830|1,127,124| |Other||19,224|| |||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |During|the year this amounted||to:|f|| |Single|Farm Payment|||114,514|145,878| |Higher|Level Stewardship|grant|income|280,621|212,057| |Coronavirus
job retention||scheme|||21,520| ## |6|Raising funds|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Designated|2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|TOTAL|TOTAL| |||||||E|f|||f| ||a. Staff costs|||||629,666|||629,666|606,699| ||b. Membership
promotion|||||24,026|||24,026|368,608| ||c, Magazine
publication
and|||delivery||92,393|||92,393|79,490| ||d. Appeals and legacies|||||3,656|7,361||11,017|13,546| ||e. Membership
administration|||and publicity||22,211|||22,211|36,686| ||f. Interpretation
and|website||development||29,632||5,231|34,863|48,193| ||g. Other fundraising|costs||||350,545|||350,545|249,264| ||h. Depreciation|||||||||22,005| ||i.Allocated
support costs|||||221,606|||221,606|212,249| |||||||1,373,735|7,361|5,231|1,386,327|1,636,740| |7|Charitable
activities|||||||||| ||Wildlife conservation|||||||||| ||a. Staff costs|||||340,488|134,648||475,136|458,428| ||b. Conservation
work|||||223.853|136,528|82,065|442,446|212,507| ||c.Other|||||12,533|16,534||29,067|11,291| ||d. Depreciation|||||||||| ||e.Allocated support|costs||||137,684|||137,684|145,349| |||||||714,558|287,710|82.065|1,084,333|827,575| ||Working
with people|||||||||| ||f. Staff costs|||||321,011|351.273||672,284|794,283| ||g. Interpretation,
education|||and|other costs|171,796|15,778|21,667|209,241|70,115| ||h. Depreciation|||||102,819||2,665|105,484|76,979| ||i.Allocated
support costs|||||293,177||3,922|297,099|280,763| |||||||888,803|367,051|28,254|1,284,108|1,222,140| ||Nature reserves management|||||||||| ||j, Staff costs|||||594,854|8,933||603,787|588,547| ||k. Equipment,
vehicles and||other||costs|93,758|30,224||123,982|188,731| ||I. Land management|||||282,209|104,179|72,575|458,963|402,553| ||m. Legal and professional||fees|||34,008|||34,008|28,936| ||n. Depreciation|||||70,745|11,666||82,411|73,872| ||o.Allocated
support|costs||||211,832|||211,832|18'1,536| |||||||1,287,406|155,002|72,575|1,514,983|1,464,175| ||Collating
information|on wildlife||||||||| ||p. Staff costs||||||284,826||284,826|234,338| ||q. Depreciation||||||676||676|811| ||r. Data recording||||||11,652||11,652|15,164| ||s. Other costs||||||5,395||5,395|5,582| ||t. Allocated
support costs|||||138,623|||138,623|103,745| |||||||138,623|302,549||441,172|359,640| ||Total expenditure
on charitable||||activities|3,029,390|1,112,311|182,894|4,324,596|3,873,530| ||TOTAL EXPENDITURE|||||4,403,125|1,119,673|188,125|5,710,923|5,510,271| ## |||Unrestricted|Restricted|Designated| |---|---|---|---|---| |||E|E|| |Raising funds||1,473,623|2,427|160,691| |Charitable|activities|2,566,925|1,166,797|139,808| ## |||||Charitable Activities|Charitable Activities|Charitable Activities|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||Nature|Collating||||| ||||||Working|Reserves|Wildlife|Charitable|||| |||||Wildlife|with|Manage-|Inform-|Activities|Raising|Total|Total| ||||Conservationf||People
E|ment
f|ation|Total
g|Funds|2023
E|2022
f| |Management||and central overheads||38,897|82,824|59,844|39,162|220,727|62,605|283,332|234,616| |Finance|department|||30,177|64,257|46,428|30,383|171,245|48,571|219,816|159,312| |Information||technology||19,504|41,532|30,008|19,637|110,681|31,393|142,074|136,284| |Human|resources|||16,827|35,831|25,890|16,942|95,490|27,084|122,574|109,108| |General|administration|||1,116|2,377|1,718|1,124|6,335|1,797|8,132|36,741| |Health|and|Safety/Buildings|maintenance|20,829|44,352|32,046|20,971|118,198|33,525|151,723|172,175| |Governance||||10,333|22,003|15,898|10,404|58,638|16,632|75,270|52,759| |||||137,6&3|293,176|211,&32|138,623|781,314|221,607|1,002,921|900,995| ## |Analysis of|staff costs:||2023|2022f| |---|---|---|---|---| |Salaries and|wages||2,625,335|2,547,129| |Social security costs|||252,770|225,133| |Pension costs|||156,168|149,888| |Redundancy|and termination|costs|68,503|23,801| ||||3,102,775|2,945,951| ## ## ## ||||||2023
f|2022f| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Category|1 -|Life assurance|only|||| |Category|3 -|Defined Contribution
scheme||||| |Category|5 —Defined Benefit scheme||||3,647|3,575| |Total contributions
to The|||Wildlife Trusts'|Pension Scheme|3,647|3.575| |Category|1 -|Life assurance|only (Standard|Life)||| |Standard|Life|Stakeholder|Pension scheme||85,614|37,589| |Royal London||Group Pension scheme|||190,810|113,297| |Life Assurance||Costs|||5,617|5,069| ||||||285,688|159,530| ## ## ## ||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---| |Subsidiary|Company - Sussex Wildlife Enterprises|Ltd.|f|E| |Cost||||| |At 31 March 2022 and at 31 March 2023|||100|100| |Net book|value at 31March 2022 and at 31March|2023||100| ## ||2023| |---|---| |Fair value at 1 April 2022|216,325| |Purchases|2,200| |Sales|(14,096)| |Gain/Loss|75,394| |Fair value at 31March 2023|279,823| ## ||2023|2022| |---|---|---| |||E| |Trade debtors|103,380|128,687| |Other debtors|1,073,165|1,086,403| |P repayments|116,010|99,629| ||'l,292,554|1,314,719| ## ||||2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||E.|F| |Trade creditors|||209,950|222,943| |Other taxes and social security costs|||50,637|64,349| |Other creditors and||accruals|61,352|109,758| |Deferred
income|||16.203|49,512| |Life membership|subscriptions||21,753|21,399| ||||359,896|467,961,| |Raising funds||||| |Deferred income:||||| |Balance as at 1 April|||49,512|13,162| |Income recognised||in the year|(49,512)|(13,162)| |Income deferred|in|the year|16,203|49,512| |Balance as at 31|March||16,203|49,512| |EundS||||||Balance|||||Balance| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||1Apr 2022|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|31|Mar 2023| |Restricted||||||E|E|E|E||E| |Nature
reserves||||||2,324,238||||2,324,238|| |projects||||||2,218,420|1,309,925|1,119,674||2,408,671|| |||||||4,542,658|1,309,925|1,119,674||4,732,909|| |Designated||||||440,693||188,125|||252,568| |Unrestricted||||||8,903,290|4,082,837|4,403,125||8,583,002|| |Total all funds||||||13,886,641|5,392,762|5,710,924||13,568,479|| |||||||Balance|||||Balance| |||||||1Apr 2022|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|31|Mar 2023| |Analysis of restricted
projects||||funds movements||||E|||E| |Badger Appeal|||||||15||||15| |Behaviour
Change||||||5,060||334|||4,726| |Brickfield Southern
Water||||||10,000|||||10,000| |Chalk Downland
Fund||||||1,098,044||||1,098,044|| |Creating Space||||||6,070|||||6,070| |Culvert Project at Rye Harbour||||||15,907||5,673|||10,234| |CIL (SDNPA) Iping Common|||||||23,203||||23,203| |CIL (SDNPA) Levin Down|||||||11,764|10,510|||1,254| |Deneway
Nature
Reserve||||||3,760|||||3,760| |Friends of Gillham Wood|||||||1,034||||1,034| |Gatwick Greenspace
Partnership||||||41,118|96,619|106,696|||31,041| |HPAI Seabird Colony Rye|||||||13,202|13,202|||| |Holiday Activities and Food|||Programme||2021||||||| |from East Sussex County|||Council|||227|||||227| |Heathlands
Reunited
Fund|||||||||||| |National
Lottery Heritage||Fund||—Heritage|||||||| |Emergency
Fund||||||301|||||301| |Kelp||||||87,026|120,164|87,143|||120,047| |Legacies||||||31,963||10,000|||21,963| |National
Highways
Pevensey|||Restoration||||50,293|50,293|||| |National
Lottery Heritage||Fund||—Lost Woods|||||||| |of the Low Weald and|Downs Project|||||(289)|2,919|2.630|||| |Natural
Capital||||||23,728|34,800|12.490|||46,038| |People's Postcode Lottery||—Team Wilder||||10,000|37,701|47,701|||| |People and Wildlife||||||10,034|||||10,034| |Portsmouth
Water Biodiversity||||Grant Award||3,592|568|4,160|||| |Rapid Response
Fund||||||20,791|||||20,791| |RSWT Appeal 30 by 30|||||||570||||570| |Rye Harbour
Nature
Reserve||||||10,588|||||10,588| |Rye Harbour
Discovery Centre||||||132.321|72,442|1.363|||203,400| |Rye Harbour
Discovery Centre||||Appeal|||||||| |National
Lottery Heritage|Fund - Discover||||Rye Harbour|(30,157)|143,211|113,054|||| |3 C's (Championing
Coastal|||Coordination)|||6,455|3,902|4,567|||5,790| |ScottishPower
Foundation||||||14,087|||||14,087| |Southerham
Barn||||||5'1,062||11.350|||39,712| |Southern
Water||||||25,000|||||25,000| |Summer
Appeal 2021||||||5,954|||||5,954| |Sussex Biodiversity
Record||Centre||||255,214|254,069|272,377|||236,906| |Sussex by the Sea Appeal||||||1,714|||||1,714| |Sussex Downland
Appeal|||||||||||| |Sussex Local Wildlife Site|Initiative|||||83,997|37,812|30,171|||91,638| |Sussex Ornithological
Society (SOS)—|||||||||||| |Amberley
Wildbrooks
Wader||||Project 2020|||||||| |Sussex Wetlands||||||15.624|77,825|66,894|||26,555| |The Leysdown
Conservation|||Trust|||48,713|30,000|37.794|||40,919| |Ticehurst
Commuity
Project|||||||12,000||||12,000| ||||||||||(continued||overlea f)| ||||||||||||29| ## ## ## ## ## |||||Balance||||Balance| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Analysis of restricted
projects funds movements||||1Apr 2021|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|31Mar 2022| |- previous year||||E|E|E||E| |Badger Appeal||||843|25|868||| |Behaviour
Change||||8.000||2,940||5,060| |Brickfield Southern
Water|||||10,000|||10,000| |Chalk Downland
Fund||||1,098,044||||1,098,044| |Climate Change|||||10,700|10,700||| |Creating Space|||||6,070|||6,070| |Culvert Project at Rye Harbour|||||15,907|||15,907| |Deneway
Nature
Reserve||||3,760||||3,760| |Gatwick Greenspace
Partnership||||54,276|84,190|97,348||41,118| |Holiday Activities and Food Programme|||2021|||||| |from East Sussex County||Council|||422|195||227| |Heathlands
Reunited
Fund|||||7,156|7,156||| |National
Lottery Heritage|Fund —Heritage|||||||| |Emergency
Fund||||4,321||4,020||301| |Kelp||||14,237|214,186|141,397||87,026| |Legacies||||110,369|||(78,406)|31,963| |National
Lottery Heritage|Fund —Lost Woods of|||||||| |the Low Weald and Downs Project|||||5,041|5,330||(289)| |Natura
I Capital||||20,791|26.590|23,653||23,728| |People's Postcode Lottery||—Team Wilder|||10,000|||10,000| |People and Wildlife||||10,784||750||10,034| |Portsmouth
Water||||4,692||1,100||3,592| |Rapid Response
Fund||||21,718|1,000|1,927||20,791| |Rye Harbour
Nature
Reserve||||13,088||2,500||10,588| |Rye Harbour
Discovery Centre||||359,287|91,745|62,341|(256,370)|132,321| |Rye Harbour
Discovery Centre Appeal||||1,269|1.,190|2,459||| |National
Lottery Heritage|Fund
—Discover||Rye Harbour|(22,067)|98,538|106,628||(30,157)| |3 C's (Championing
Coastal||Coordination)|||20,807|14,352||6,455| |ScottishPower
Foundation||||16,857||2,770||14,087| |Southerham
Barn||||62,412||11,350||51,062| |Southern
Water||||25,000||||25,000| |Summer
Appeal 2021||||5,349|605|||5,954| |Sussex Biodiversity
Record||Centre||217,425|272,319|234,530||255,214| |Sussex by the Sea Appeal||||19,215||17,501||1,714| |Sussex Downland
Appeal||||10,125||10,125||| |Sussex Local Wildlife Site|Initiative|||80,742|24,618|21,363||83,997| |Sussex Ornithological
Society (SOS) —Amberley||||||||| |Wildbrooks
Wader Project 2020|||||11,300|11,300||| |Sussex Wetlands||||42,574|61.700|88,650||15,624| |The Leysdown
Conservation||Trust||46,155|30,000|27,442||48,713| |Trailer Fund (formerly
Chalk Cliff)||||1,502||1,186||316| |West Weald Landscape||||48,101||48,101||| |National
Lottery Heritage|Fund —Wild Coast Sussex||||116,613|116,613||| |Wilder Horsham
District||||10,968|57,829|62,629||6,168| |Winter Woodland
Appeal||||85,530|10,856|30,000||66,386| |Winter Reserves Appeal|||||63,659|||63,659| |Woodland
Legacy||||507,013|||(413,026)|93,987| |||||2,882,380|1,253,068|1,169,224|747,802|2,218.421| ## ## ## ## ## ||2023|2022|2023|2022| |---|---|---|---|---| |Operating
leases which expire:|Buildingsf|Buildings
f|Equipmentf|Equipment| |Within one year:|||15,724|5,260| |Within two to five years:|||19,383|5,731| |Total operating
lease commitments|||35,107|10,991| ## ## Sussex TAuSts WildliEe Trust sus8￿￿ld1￿eTruSt Woods Mill, Henfield West SuES?x BNS 9SD Tel: 012TJ492630 Emall: enquiries@sussexwLoEg.uk Websit*..s￿sexWl1d1IfetrU8t.O[&uk Reg Charity 2￿008