2021-03-31-accounts - The Cheshire Wildlife Trust Limited

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Trustees	8 Stothart (Chair)
	R H Marrs
	G Coates (resigned November 2020)
	P R Cheek (resigned November 2020)
	HCarey
	P Rushton
	S Steer (resigned 31 March 2021)
	C Neame
	S Judd
	S Williams
	C Swarbrick
	S Ridsdale (appointed November 2020)
	1 Roscoe (appointed November 2020)
Secretary	Andrea Castling (resigned February 2021)
Chief Executive	Charlotte Harris (acting Secretary from
	February 2021)
Registered office	Bickley Hall Farm
	Bickley
	Malpas
	Cheshire
	SY14 8EF
Charity number	214927
Company number	738693
Auditors	Mitchell Charlesworth LIP
	Chartered Accountants
	Statutory Auditor
	3rdFloor
	44 Peter Street
	Manchester
	M2 5GP
Bankers	CAF Bank
	25 Kings Hill Avenue
	Kings Hill
	West Mailing
	Kent
	ME19 4JQ
Solicitors	Hibbert Durrad Moxon
	25 Barker Street
	Nantwich
	Cheshire
	CW5 SEN

	Page
Chair's Report	4
Trustees' Report	5−23
Independent Auditors' Report	24 — 28
Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities	29
Consolidated Balance Sheet	30
Company Balance Sheet	31
Statement of Cashflow	32
Accounting Policies and Notes to the Accounts	33 — 53

What we	planned for FY21	planned for FY21	Some of the things we did in FY21	What we have planned	for
				FY22
*Landscape ScaleDelivery:***
Review	our	area−based	Covid19, a change in personnel and new	Continue to develop	and
working.			opportunities informed a review of our	scale up the now renamed
			delivery structure. The Cheshire Ecological	Nature Recovery Team	to
			Services Team were TUPE transferred into	deliver greater impact.
			the Operations Team and area−based
			working focused on East, West and Wirral.
			Towards the end of the year, community
			engagement activities moved from the
			Operations Team into the Fundraising and
			Engagement Directorate in order to align
			more closely withour2030 strategy.
Secure funding		for the Dee	We continued to work with partners to	Submit the second round
Coastliners Project.			develop and improve the project, including	application to the National
			changing the name to 'Our Dee Estuary'. We	Lottery Heritage Fund for a
			worked on the preparation of over 50	3.5−year project and,	if
			supporting documents alongside videos of	successful, begin delivery in
			support for the second roundapplicationto	Winter 2021.
			the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Improve the management			We supported farmers with habitat	We plan to raise £50,000
of over 7,000		Ha of non−management advice across 2,400 Ha in		through member and major
designated land for wildlife			partnership with Natural England through	donor contributions	to
In the Pennine Fringe by			the Facilitation Fund and carried out	continue our work in	the
giving advice to		at least 150	surveys, leadingto the better management	area. This will *include*
landowners.			of species−rich grassland at 15 sites (169	producing 25 management

						Ha). We've created 6.5 Ha of new woodland	plans for farms in the BoIlin
						on farms and restored 600m of hedgerow.	catchment and improve
						We restored 26km of river by reinstating	water quality and restore
						natural features such as large woody debris	habitats in the headwaters of
						to provide habitat for aquatic invertebrates	the River Dane.
Nature Reserve						and attenuate flood waters.
Management:
Secure	an		extension		to	We made some progress with this	We will finalise the transfer
Hatchmere		Nature Reserve.				acquisition but delays at Land Registry	of this land into our
						caused by Covid19 have slowed the process.	ownership.
Increase	the		area	of land		We now manage an additional 2.7 Ha of	We will continue to manage
under our		management at				land at Crown Farm and are exploring the	the nature reserve in line
Crown Farm Quarry.						best way to make this land better for	with the restoration plan.
						wildlife.
Improve	the		condition of			We put the finishing touches to the	We will create a further 2.6
120 Ha	of		floodplain		at	Highways England wetland creation project	Ha of flower−rich grassland at
Gowy Meadows.						during FY21 and were able to see the fruits	Gowy Meadows using seed
						of our labour as the ditches and scrapes	collected from our donor
						filled up with water, creating ideal	meadows across Cheshire.
						conditions for the population of an
						extremely rare pond mud snail.
Species Recovery:
Continue	to		create		and	We created 94 new ponds for great crested	Create and restore a further
restore ponds In Cheshire						newts in Cheshire East, on our own nature	100 ponds for great crested
East as required by				Natural		reserves and by working with farmers and	newts, on our own land and
England as part of the great						other landowners.	in partnership with farmers
crested		newt		District			and other landowners.
Licensing	Scheme.
Create 10 Ha			of wildflower			We collected enough seed to re−seed 13 Ha	Restore a further 10 Ha of
meadow				through		of species−rich grassland across Cheshire.	grassland to species−rich
Pollinating Cheshire.							meadow using green hay and
							seed harvested from donor
							sites.
Launch our		live cameras at				We installed cameras at the Trentabank	Adjust several of the cameras
Trentabank				Nature		Heronry and were able to capture footage	and boxes to provide better
Reserve.						of barn owls, tawny owls, blue tits, pied	footage going forward.
						flycatchers, badgers, red deer and robins	Pursue funding to enable us
						which have been shared widely on social	to livestream the footage as
						media.	well as have a greater
							presence in the rest of
							Macclesfield *Forest through*
							interpretation panels and
							marked wildlife trails.

Reintroduce beavers under	Reintroduce beavers under	Reintroduce beavers under	Reintroduce beavers under	Reintroduce beavers under	Reintroduce beavers under	We reintroduced a pair of beavers to	We reintroduced a pair of beavers to	Monitor the impact of the
licence	to Hatchmere.					Hatchmere in November 2020. The pair		beavers on the wet woodland
						have settled in well and have begun building		habitat and explore licensing
						their lodge.		options for a second
								reintroduction scheme in
								another part of Cheshire.
Continue		to	monitor		the	Monitoring throughout the 2020	survey	Continue to look for sources
reintroduced			population of			season showed that white−faced darters		of funding and work towards
white−faced darter.						have continued to breed successfully within		an expanding population of
						Doolittle Moss. Positive sightings of species		white−faced darter
						at the CWT nature reserve, Black Lake,		dragonflies throughout
						confirms that they have spread	across	Delamere Forest and the
						Delamere Forest, which is great news.		surrounding area.
Start	a		county−wide			This was not possible due to	Covid	Reptiles work is on hold
monitoring			plan		with	restrictions. Only a small number of sites		temporarily, due to additional
volunteers		to		map	the	were surveyed.		unexpected workstreams.
current		distribution			of			We will recruit additional
*reptiles.*								capacity *and . review projects* for FY22.
Deliver	species			recovery		No progress was made on the species plan		Money raised from our
plans	for		water		vole,	due to lack of funding. Applications were		Cheshire Peak District appeal
reptiles	*andcurlew.***					submitted forwater voles and curlews, but		means we canbegin planning
						these were unsuccessful.		delivery of our curlew
								recovery plan ready for the
								2022 breeding season. We
								will also join the English
								Curlew Partnership.
Raise awareness				of swifts,		Funding was secured to run an	urban	Deliver the Wild Stockport
hedgehogs and				pollinators		wildlife project focusing on	swifts,	Project and create space for
In Stockport.						hedgehogs and pollinators.		pollinators in Stockport,
								install swift boxes and create
								hedgehog streets.
						Other species recovery work included:
						Natterjack toad populations	were	Continue to monitor
						monitored at Red Rocks.		natterjack toad populations
								and work with Amphibian
								and Reptile Conservation to
								explore expanding
								populations in the Dee
								Estuary.
						Sea holly was planted at Red Rocks to		Continue to monitor grayling
						Increase habitat for grayling butterflies.		butterflies to understand
								more about their distribution
								and habitat needs.

Planning & Advocacy:
Work with communities
through Neighbourhood	7,360 Ha of land is better protected through	Provide advice on 4,000 Ha of
Planning to map and embed	local planning policy because of our advice.	land through our responses
nature recovery networks		to planning applications and
into local planning policies.		protect core sites and wildlife
		corridors through
		Neighbourhood Plan policy
		adoption.
Continue to hold HS2 to
account by representing	CWT appeared on Sunday Politics Show live	We will review the HS2
The Wildlife Trusts, as well	totalk aboutthe environmental impacts of	biodiversity metrics on behalf
as CWT, on HS2 Ltd's	HS2. We produced a consultation overview	of The Wildlife Trusts;
national Ecology *Review*	of Phase 2b and sentour H52 Phase 2a	continue to campaign for the
Group.	consultation response to all MPs whose	government to Stop and
	constituencies are impacted by that part of	Rethink HS2; respond to
	the line. We have had follow−up	consultations and hold HS2
	conversations and meetings with four MPs.	to account with regards to
		biodiversity net gain.
Work with local authorities
to strengthen biodiversity	We have been working with Cheshire East	We will deliver bespoke
strategies and support	and Cheshire West & Chester Councils to	training packages to LAs. We
them in integrating	support the creationof biodiversitynet	will continue to respond to
biodiversity net gain into	gain strategies, including helping Cheshire	planning policy consultations
working practice.	East Council produce a Supplementary	and support Natural England
	Planning Policy. We have also responded to	and the local authorities on
	consultations on the Mersey Tidal Power	the development of Nature
	Project, the Greater Manchester Local	Recovery Strategies.
	Nature Recovery Strategy, and Wirral
	Council's Local Plan and Green Blue
	Infrastructure Strategy.
We will work with the
Chartered Institute of	We delivered training to 523 people in	We will develop a suite of
Ecology and Environmental	biodiversity net gain and other topics.	training courses to deliver
Management (CIEEM) to		across the Wildlife Trust
train consultant ecologists		movement and through
in biodiversity net gain. We		CIEEM to consultant
will help design and deliver		ecologists nationally. We will
a training programme for		work with developers and
The Wildlife Trusts and		local authorities to ensure
their consultancies.		high−quality schemes are
		delivered. We will also
		provide exemplar offsetting
		and complete the purchase
		of degraded agricultural land
		to deliver biodiversity net
		gain.

Continue to respond to
planning applications,	Our advice reduced the	impacts from	We will continue to secure
which significantly threaten	planning on 412 Ha of land	(165% of our	positive outcomes for
nature and protected sites.	target). Our input secured or	helped secure	wildlife. We will focus on
	around £500,000 for biodiversity offsetting		biodiversity net gain as the
	in the region. Applications	responded to	main mechanism to achieve
	included Bredbury Gateway,	Rossfield Park,	this.
	Jack's Wood, A57, Lache	Lane, Verdin
	Winsford, Cheshire College and Middlewich
	bypass.

What we planned	What we planned	for FY21	for FY21	Some of the things we did in FY21			What we have planned for
							FY22
Net Zero CWT:
Calculate CWT's		carbon		CWT completed its analysis of its carbon footprint			Create a carbon reduction
footprint,				using scope 1and 2 methodologyduring the		*year.*	plan to achieve at least net
				We also began calculating the amount of carbon			zero by 2030.
				stored within our nature reserves and		the
				additional carbon that is sequestered each year by
				ouractivities.
Wetland &	Watercourse
Restoration:
Deliver advice to farmers to				Werestored 10kmof river (106% of our target).			Complete an analysis of the
improve water quality			and	We worked with landowners across Cheshire to			peatland within Cheshire
land management			for	improve water quality on a number		of	East. Develop a project to
biodiversity across 400 Ha				waterbodies and completed 25 farm	water		restore agricultural peat
of designated		priority		management plans to help farmersaddress	water		soils.
habitat.				quality issues on their farm.
							Complete a further 50 farm
							water management plans
							and implement £150,000 of
							improvement projects to
							improve the quality of
							Cheshire's watercourses.
Woodland	Creation		&
Restoration:				Created a total of 36 Ha of new woodland	across		Begin delivery of a Trees for
Create 30	Ha	of	new	Cheshire *and* planted 6,000 trees on	**public **		Cheshire project to create
woodland in	the	Pennine		greenspaces in partnership with Cheshire		East	200 Haofwoodland overfour
Fringe.				Council.			years.

Overall, we engaged 5	Overall, we engaged 5	Overall, we engaged 5	Overall, we engaged 5	Overall, we engaged 5	2,972 people against a target of 54,719.
What we planned for FY21					Some of the things we did in FY21	What we have planned for
							FY22
Education	&		Public
*Engagement:*
Our planned		face−to−face			The Wellbeing with Nature Team developed a	Gradually resume events and
engagement	and		events		virtual version of their existing programme to	community engagement
programme could not				go	enable continued delivery throughout the	activities as restrictions ease.
ahead due to Covid19.				We	lockdown period. Ninety−four participants took
moved some	elements of				part and, following positive feedback from	Launch a	new approach to
our programmeonline,					participants and their referrers, this online	engagement focused		much
					programme has now been included as a	more on	mobilising	large
					permanent activity in the Wellbeing Team's	numbers of people to take
					Portfolio,	action for	nature.
					We also ran a programme of webinars on topics	Celebrate	Our	60th
					such as grass identification with Josh Styles and	anniversary.
					wildlife−friendly gardening, watched by 1,119
					people.	Support	at least	12,000
						people to take action for
						wildlife, including developing
						anetwork	of champions.
We will work in		partnership			Eighteen months of funding was secured from	Complete	our Sport England−
with the Jobcentre				and	Sport England to pilot new approaches and scale	funded	Wellbeing	with
Sport England to deliver and scale up our Go Wild,					up the impact of the Wellbeing with Nature programme (an adaptation of the Go Wild, Get Fit	Nature project and create a sustainable scaling model to
Get Fit programme.					Programme) across the whole of Cheshire. The	increase our reach.
					project strategy, implementation plan and
					timeline were agreed, and the health and
					employment sectors were identified as key
					partners and potential commissioners of the
					programme. Funding opportunities under the
					banner of Green Social Prescribing were identified
					and bid for, and community and sector networks
					were developed.
Improve visitor		facilities at			We upgraded access infrastructure at anumber of
our nature reserves,					our nature reserves, including Danes Moss,
					Swettenham Valley, Owley Wood and Gowy
					Meadows.
Volunteering:

Volunteering	was	All volunteering was suspended during the first	We will seek to renew our
extremely limited during		two quarters due to government restrictions.	Investors In Volunteers
the year due to Covid19.		During the second half of the year, limited	quality badge and resume
		volunteering, outdoors in socially distanced	volunteering activity as and
		bubbles, resumed. CWT continued to hold a	when restrictions ease.
Partnership Working:		position on the Cheshire region Local Nature
We will continue to work		Partnership Board. During the year, we worked	We will continue to *develop*
with a wide	range of	closely with Natural England, the Environment	our partnership approach
stakeholders to deliver land		Agency, Forestry England and United Utilities	and ensure that stakeholders
management projects.		across a rangeof projects.	are fully engaged with
			project development and
		We continued to host Local Wildlife Site	delivery.
		Partnerships to ensure the protection of priority
		habitat and species populations. We continued to
		serve on the South West Peak Landscape
		Partnership Steering Group, to host the Tidal Dee
		Catchment Partnership and work closely with
		other catchment partnerships.
		We worked with 101 landowners and farmers
We will further	grow our	including several large estates. Our community	We plan to work with 50
land management advice		engagement work was very limited this year due	landowners and farmers
activities and community		tothe pandemic restrictions.	across Cheshireto help them
engagement programme.			manage their land better for
			wildlife.
Communications
Campaigns:		Through the year, we reached an audience
We will continue to grow		of 25,896 through our social media. Our team	Engage at least 150,000
our social media	presence	delivered 12 radio interviews and our work	people during the year,
and provide	regular	featured on BBC North West Tonight, ITV Granada	including 35,000 through
communications	to our	and Blue Peter. We had 115 mentions in the local	social media.
supporters.		press and magazines, and more than 60,000
		people visited our website. We produced two
		magazines and kept supporters up to date through
		aweekly e−newsletter.
		We recruited 3,381 new members during the
We will invest in digital *marketing to moderniseour***		year, achievinga total of 15,890 financial supporters.	Recruit at least 2,000 new memberships and achieve a
fundraising and	enable		90% retention rate. Stay
voluntary	income		connected with over 5,000
generation to	continue		people every week through
despite Covid19.			the Wild Cheshire e−
			newsletter.
		7,509 people took part in our campaigns (167%
We will work closely with		against target) with 3,736 signatures to our tan	Engage 5,000 people in our
other Wildlife Trusts to		neonics' petition — our highest ever campaign	campaigns: Grow Don't
deliver national campaigns		sign−up total — and a further 620 supporters	Mow, Wasted Space, Great

such	as	Wilder	Futures,	backed our campaign for Highly Protected Marine	Big Green Week and Peat−	Big Green Week and Peat−
Action	for	Insects	and 30	Areas (the third highest of any Wildlife Trust).	free.	We will continue to
Days Wild locally.					engage	with MPs.
				4,423 Cheshire residents took part in 30 Days Wild
				during June 2020 and 789 people adopted a
				species. Our appeal to help reintroduce beavers
				raised £73,140.

What we planned for•FY21	Some of the things we did in FY21	What we have planned for	What we have planned for	What we have planned for
		FY22
Financial Sustainability:
We will carefully manage	Our total Income fell slightly from Just over £2.3 m	We will continue to carefully
the financial impacts of	in FY20 to £2,290,447 and we returned an overall	manage the ongoing effects
Covid19 to ensure that CWT	surplus of £50,986. This is the fifth successive year	of the pandemic.
remains a going concern,	in which the Trust has managed its expenditure
We will do this by utilising	within budgetary limits and demonstrated that	We will further	grow our
government support	although the impacts of Covid19 limited growth,	income from services		and
schemes, limiting non−	the Trust's finances remained stable. Income from	contracts.
essential expenditure and	trading activity grew by 5% to £544,751 and our
reviewing our operations	subsidiary company Cheshire Ecological Services	We will continue	to	make
and staff structures. We	exceed its net profit target, returning £89,036 to	best use of grant	funding to
will manage the Trust to	CWT.	pump prime newprojects.
achieve as close to
breakeven as possible, only	income from membership remained stable	We will grow		our
using financial reserves	despiteconcernsthat the economic impacts of the	membership.
when necessary.	pandemic might result in a loss of some members.
	The total number of members increased to	We will aim to	at	least
We will launch our new	15,890; however, we did see a reduction in the	maintain and ideally		grow
Nature Based Solutions	level of donations and legacies from almost	our financial reserves.
Service to help deliver	£200,000 in 2020 to £110,817. We were very
greater environmental	grateful for gifts in Wills totalling £66,902 which
impact and generate	included gifts from the estates of Audrey Rose
income through	Locksley, Phyllis Mary Wilson, Eileen Patricia Dale,
commercial contracts.	Barbara Dorothy Collinge, Sheila Fern Bronstorm
	and Andrew Henry Lennie Hamilton.
Good Governance:
We will launch our 2030	We launched our Wilder Cheshire strategy in	We will begin	delivering
strategy at the 2020 AGM.	November 2020, setting out our 2030 goals for	against our new strategy. We
	30% of land good for nature, 1 in 4 people taking	will align staffing		*and*
		resources to our		three

			action for wildlife and for nature to be playing its	strategic *pillars*	strategic *pillars*	strategic *pillars*	and map out	and map out
			full role in tackling the climate crisis.	our	approach for achieving
				the	targets over the			next
				decade.
We will continue to recruit
new Trustees to		replace		Recruit at		least two further
those at the end		of their	Two new Trustees were elected during the year,	Trustees.
tenure.			replacing two standing down at the end of their
			tenure.
We will seek to adopt our
newArticles of Association.				We	will continue to ensure
			New Articles of Association were adopted at the	that	the charity		is governed in
			AGM in November 2020. These are shorter and	**line **	with Charity Commission
			more modern than the previous version and	best practice guidance.
			include updated charitable objects that more
			accurately reflect the current and future work of
			the charity. The new articles have been accepted
Working in the Federation:			by the Charity Commission.
We will work closely with
The Wildlife Trusts	(TWT) to			We	will continue to work
develop a new		national	The CEO and Chair continued to attend TWT	closely with our partners in
strategy and contribute to			events and serve on national committees. Staff	the	federation		of Wildlife
working groups		and	from across CVVT worked with other Trusts to	Trusts in order to collaborate
committees.			deliver projects including the Carbon Landscape	at	scale	and	share	best
			with the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester	practice.
			and North Merseyside; the South West Peak
			Landscape Partnership with Staffordshire Wildlife
			Trust; and the Dee Coastliners Project with North
We will continue	to work		Wales Wildlife Trust.
collaboratively		with
neighbouring		Wildlife	We worked closely with other Trusts to lobby for
Trusts to deliver		projects	a strong Environment Act, Agriculture Act and
and feed into		national	Fisheries Act and contributed to national working
lobbying *for*	stronger		groups.
environmental legislation.
We will continue to build a
relationship with	our new
Patron.			Our Patron engaged with the work of CWT
			throughout the year — taking part in the AGM,
			filming for campaigns and media releases and
			meeting with senior officers.

Grants	34.6%
Contracts and other revenues	28.4%
Membership subscriptions (including gift aid)	22.3 %
CES	5.4%
Donations and legacies	4.3 %
Rental and investment income	2.6 %
Appeals and sponsorships	1.9%
Fundraising	0.4 %
Training activities	0.1 %

Financial reserves	Company	Company	Group	Group
Total Funds	£1,275,427		£1,281,034
Less restricted	£	500,451	£	535,699
Less designated	E	12,447	£	12,447
Unrestricted Funds	£	762,529	£	732,888
Unrestricted cash and investments	£	228,879	£	360,688

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		Year ended	Year ended	Year ended	Year ended
		31 March 2021		31 March 2020
	Notes	£	£	£	£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	14		117,522		138,671
Heritage assets	14		316,046		316,046
Total fixed assets			433,568		454,717
Current assets
Stock and work in progress	17	7,956		6,183
Debtors	18	328,592		327,495
Cash at bank and In hand		1,114,881		870,979
Total current assets		1,451,429		1,204,657
Liabilities
Creditors:
Amounts falling due within one	20	603,964		429,327
year
Net current asset or liabilities			847,465		775,330
Total net assets or liabilities			1,281,033		1,230,047
The funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds	22		745,334		845,800
Restricted income funds	22		535,699		384,247
Total funds			1,281,033		1,230,047
						,

ompany Balance Sheet ear ended 31 March 2021
		Year ended			Year ended
		31	March 2021		31 March 2020
	Notes	£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	15			117,522		128,739
Heritage assets	15			316,046		316,046
Investments	16			100		100
Total fixed assets				433,668		444,885
Current assets
Stocks	17		7,956		2,226
Debtors	18		454,694		374,085
Cash at bank and in hand			983,072		794,703
Total current assets		1,445,722			1,171,014
liabilities
Creditors:
Amounts falling due within one	20		603,963		393,338
year
Net current assets or liabilities				841,759		777,676
Total net assets or liabilities				1,275,427		1,222,561
The funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds				739,728		838,314
Restricted income funds	22			535,669		384,247
*Totalfunds***				1,275,427		1,222,561

THE CHESHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED
Statement of Cash flow
Year ended 31 March 2021
	Notes	2021	2021	2020	2020
				E
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	27	269,879		166,443
Cash flows from investing activities:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments
Proceeds from the sale of property, plant and equipment		4,917		17,250
Purchase of property, plant and equipment		(30,894)		(135,301)
Proceeds from the sale ofInvestments
Purchase of investments
Net cash provided by (used In) investing activities		(25,977)		(118,051)
Cash flows from financing activities
Repayments of borrowing
Net cash inflows from new borrowing
Receipt of endowment
Net cash used in financing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period			243,902		48,392
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the reporting period			870,979		822,587
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the reporting period			1,114,881		870,979

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9 Support costs
	Total	Total
	2021	2020
	£	E
Training	270	11,624
Insurance	24,990	19,856
Light & heat	1,566	2,046
*Repairs &maintenance***	7,339	1,816
Legal & professional	9,985	5,004
Staff & volunteer expenses	8,718	2,415
Motor expenses	153
Telecoms	5,759	10,067
Post & stationery	2,635	2,563
Sundry expenses	6,110	7,237
RSWT contribution	29,447	31,398
Bank charges	1,960	1,181
Depreciation	4,470	4,893
Admin salaries	185,886	166,220
Office costs	4,325	4,063
Comms & PR	36	10,139
Audit fees	7,720	7,150
Computer expenses	27,735	22,115
Premises costs	46,023	56,365
Recruitment	299	−
Irrecoverable VAT	1,161	8,191
Doubtful debts	10,374	21,469
	386,961	395,812

*Allocation of support costs*
	2021	2020
Direct support costs		44,200
General support costs	386,961	351,612
	386,961	395,812
	2021	2020
		£
Voluntary income activities	87,199	90,726
Generating funds activities	45,473	42,343
Charitable activities	254,289	262,742
	386,961	395,812

	Note			2020
		Group	*Company*	*Group*	Company
		£	£	£	£
Auditors
remuneration	9	11,520	7,720	10,950	7,150
Operating tease
payments −Plant &		5,992	5,992	6,364	6,364
equipment
Depreciation	14	48,807	46,429	52,377	49,834

		2021	2020
	Group	Company	Group	Company
	£	£	£	£
Wages & salaries	1,030,875	967,282	1,128,609	971,896
Social security costs	87,536	81,791	94,619	80,035
Pension costs	67,953	63,326	71,373	58,830
	1,186,364	1,112,399	1,294,601	1,110,761
The average number of employees,	analysed by function was:
		2021	2020
	Group	Company	Group	Company
Charitable activities	21	21	21	21
Generating funds	17	14	16	11
Management & Administration	5	5	5	5
	43	40	42	37

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Additions		66,230
Purchases
Donations
Total

		2021
		Group	Company	Group	Company
		E	E	E	E
Stock		7,956	7,956	3,323	2,226
Work in	progress			2,860	−
		7,956	7,956	6,183	2,226

Debtors
	2021			2020
	Group	Company	Group		Company
	£	f	£		E
Trade debtors	236,574	226,116	224,695		160,398
Prepayments and accrued income	7,218	7,218	8,397		7,901
Amounts due from subsidiary companies		136,561			111,383
Other debtors	84,800	84,799	94,403		94,403
	328,592	454,694	327,495		374,085

Creditors: Amounts falling du	e within one year
	2021			2020
	Group	Company	Group		Company
					E
Trade creditors	110,873	110,873	89,927		87,201
Deferred income	332,837	332,837	190,875		190,875
Taxation & social security	50,600	50,600	82,710		55,215
Accruals	34,656	34,656	22,259		17,356
Other creditors	74,998	74,997	43,556		42,691
	603,964	603,963	429,327		393,338


	Group	Company	Group	Company
	f	f	f	f
Land & Buildings
Within one year	46,556	46,556	68,140	68,140
Two to five years			51,105	51,105
Greater than five years			−	−
Total	46,556	46,556	119,245	119,245
Other
Within one year	2,987	2,987	7,014	7,014
Two to five years	4,371	4,371	6,194	6,194
Greater than five years	585	585
Total	7,943	7,943	13,208	13,208

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	2021			2020
	E			E
Turnover	233,305			396,981
Cost of sales	(77,575)			(186,432)
Gross profit	155,730			210,549
Administrative expenses	(68,764)			(115,968)
Other income	192			158
Trading profit	87,158			94,739
Charitable donation	(89,036)			(92,098)
Operating (loss)/profit on ordinary
activities before taxation	(1,878)			2,641
Tax on profit on ordinary activities
Profit on ordinary activities after taxation
Reserves brought forward	7,585			4,944
	5,707			7,585
		,			.,
	2021			2020
	E			E
Fixed assets	−			9,932
Current assets	142,267			145,026
Creditors	(136,560)			(147,373)
Net current assets/(liabilities)	5,707			7,585
			,

	Unrestricted	Restricted	2021
			Total
	£	£	£
Tangible fixed assets	101,727	15,795	117,522
Heritage assets	316,046	−	316,046
Stock and work In progress	7,956		7,956
Investments	100	−	100
Debtors	329,454	125,240	454,694
Cash at bank and In hand including short− term	228,879	754,193	983,072
Transfer between funds	(35,249)	35,249
Current liabilities	(209,185)	(394,778)	(603,963)
Totalnet assets	739,728	535,699	1,275,427

	2021	2020
	£
NetIncome/(expenditure)for the reporting
period (as per the statement of financial	50,986	64,495
activities)
Depreciation	48,807	52,377
(Gains)/losses on investments
Dividends, interest and rents from
investments
Loss/(profit) on the sale of fixed assets	(1,681)	(15,632)
(Increase)/decrease in stock	(1,773)	2,588
(Increase)/decrease in debtors	(1,097)	(13,158)
increase/(decrease) in creditors	174,637	75,773
Net cash inflow from operating activity	269,879	166,443

			As at	31 March	Movement in	As at 31	Movement In		As at 31 March
				2019	year	March 2020	year		2021
Cash	at bank and in	hand		e 822,587	f 48,392	£ 870,979	f 243,902		£ 1,114,881