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|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS|REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br>DETAILS|OF THE CHARITY, ITSTRUSTEES AND ADVISERS|OF THE CHARITY, ITSTRUSTEES AND ADVISERS|OF THE CHARITY, ITSTRUSTEES AND ADVISERS|
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|||FOR THE YEAR|END|31 MARCH 2022||
|Trustees||Captain J.E. Evans||||
|||Councillor P.Jackson (appointed|||8 December 2021)|
|||Councillor R. Bruce, Vice|Chair|(appointed<br>8 December 2021)||
|||Councillor G, Brown (appointed||8|December 2021)|
|||Councillor R. Driver (appointed||8|December 2021, resigned 25 March 2022)|
|||Councillor A. Bowlas (resigned||25 March 2022)||
|||Mr D. Fairnell||||
|||Mr D. B.P. Herriott||||
|||Mr A. W. Herriott||||
|||Mr M.W. Herriott,<br>Chair||||
|||Mr M. Greener (appointed|29 April 2022)|||
|||Mrs C.Bruce (appointed|25 March 2022, resigned 30 September 2022)|||
|||Councillor<br>H. Bettison (resigned||8 December 2021)||
|||Councillor G. Roughead|(resigned||8 December 2021)|
|||Councillor A. Forbes (resigned||8 December 2021)||
|||Councillor T.Forrester (resigned|||8 December 2021)|
|Charity registered||||||
|number||222154||||
|Principal office||Town<br>Hall||||
|||Marygate||||
|||Berwick upon Tweed||||
|||TD15 1BN||||
|Independent|auditors|Kinnair Associates<br>Limited||||
|||Chartered<br>Accountants||||
|||Aston House||||
|||Redburn<br>Road||||
|||Wcaterhope||||
|||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne||||
|||NE5 1NB||||
|Bankers||Bank ofScotland||||
|||61 Hide<br>Hill||||
|||Berwick upon Tweed||||
|||TD15 1EN||||
|Solicitors||Womble Bond Dickinson||||
|||St. Ann's Wharf||||
|||112Quayside||||
|||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne||||
|||NE99 1SB||||
|Chartered|Accountants|Ryecroft Glenton||||
|||32 Portland<br>Terrace||||
|||Newcastle<br>upon Tyne||||
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|Income and endowments|from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||4,000|4,000|29,524|
|Other trading<br>activities||||||31,347|
|Investments||||603,809|603,809|568,111|
|Other income||||27,356|27,356|20,792|
|Total income and endowments||||635,165|635,165|649,774|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds||7,8||82,392|82,392|94,151|
|Charitable<br>activities||9||552,773|552,773|555,623|
|Total expenditure||||635,165|635,165|649,774|
|Net income before net gains on|||||||
|investments|||||||
|Net gains on investments|||1,404,178||1,404,178|2205,972|
|Net movement<br>in funds||26|1,404,178||1,404,178|2205,972|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||
|Total funds<br>brought<br>forward|||26,109,260||26,109,260|23,903,288|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||1,404,178||1,404,178|2205,972|
|Total funds carried forward|||27,513,438||27,513,438|26,109,260|





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|||BALANCE SHEET|BALANCE SHEET||||
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|||AS AT 31 MARCH 2022|||||
|||||2022||2021|
|||Note||8||6|
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Heritage assets||18||3,770||3,770|
|Investments||19||9,777,825||9,453,020|
|Investment<br>property||17||17,835,000||16,757,000|
|||||27,616„595||26,213,790|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||20|178,071||152,342||
|Cash at bank and in hand|||572,737||689,946||
||||750,808||842268||
|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one||||||
|year||21|(853,965)||(946,816)||
|Net current liabilities||||(103,157)||(104,530)|
|Total assets less|current liabilities|||27,513,438||26,109,260|
|Total net assets||||27,513,438||26,109,260|
|Charity funds|||||||
|Endowment<br>funds||23||27,513,438||26,109,260|
|Total funds||||27,513,438||26,109,260|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||F|6|
|Cash flows from operating|||activities|||||
|Net cash|used<br>in operating|activities||||(118,582)|455,487|
|Cash flows from investing|||activities|||||
|Proceeds|from sale of investments|||||324,931|3,010,415|
|Purchase|of investments|||||(323,558)|(3,040,422)|
|Net cash|provided<br>by/(used||in) investing|activities||1,373|(30,007)|
|Change|in cash and cash|equivalents<br>in||the year||(117,209)|425,480|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at the beginning||ofthe year||689,946|264,466|
|Cash and cash equivalents|||at the end of|the year||572,737|689,946|
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||||2021|2021|
||||5||
||Farm trading|activities|31,347|31,347|
|5.|Investment|income|||



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|||funds|funds|
|||2022f|2022<br>E|
|Rents received||435,918|435,918|
|Investment|income - listed investments|167,742|167,742|
|Bank interest||149|149|
|||603,809|603,809|
|||Restricted|Total|
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|||2021|2021|
|||5||
|Rents received||436,255|436,255|
|investment|income - listed investments|131,832|131,832|
|Bank interest||24|24|
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||||6|6|
||Other income||27,356|27,356|
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||||2021f|2021<br>6|
||Other income||20,792|20,792|
|7.|Expenditure|on raising funds|||



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|||||5|
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|||2022<br>F|2022f|
|Investment|manager|45,771|45,771|
|Land Steward||36,621|36,621|
|||82,392|82,392|
|||Restricted|Total|
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|||2021<br>6|2021f|
|Investment|manager|35,542|35,542|
|Land Steward||37,566|37,566|
|||73,108|73,108|



|Restricted|Total|
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|funds|funds|
|2022f|2022<br>6|
|552,773|552,773|
|Restricted|Total|
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|Direct|costs|- Activities|31,511|521,262|552,773|
||||||Total|
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|Direct|costs|- Activities|31,307|524,316|555,623|



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|---|---|---|---|---|
|||undertaken|Support|Total|
|||directly|costs|funds|
|||2022|2022|2022|
|||F|5|F|
|Direct|costs|371,516|181,257|552,773|
|||Activities|||
|||undertaken|Support|Total|
|||directly|costs|funds|
|||2021f|2021<br>5|2021<br>F|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Activities|funds|
||||||2022|2022|
||||||2|6|
|Payments||to Resident Freemen||and Widows of Freemen|74,190|74,190|
|Corporation||Academy<br>Foundation|||450|450|
|Payment|to Oldest Freemen||||50|50|
|Stints in|Lieu of Meadows||||265|265|
|Payment|of Surplus<br>on Schedule|||lli|289,613|289,613|
|Surplus|on|Schedule<br>I and|II||6,948|6,948|
||||||371,516|371,516|
|||||||Total|
||||||Activities|funds|
||||||2021|2021|
||||||8|5|
|Payments||to Resident Freemen||and Widows of Freemen|85,337|85,337|
|Corporation||Academy<br>Foundation|||450|450|
|Payment|to Oldest Freemen||||50|50|
|Stints<br>in|Lieu of Meadows||||265|265|
|Payment|of Surplus<br>on Schedule|||lil|298,781|298,781|
|Surplus|on|Schedule<br>I and|II||(5,775)|(5,775)|
||||||379,108|379,108|





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|---|---|---|---|
|||Activities|funds|
|||2022|2022|
|||F|6|
|Staff costs||31,511|31,511|
|Heating,<br>lighting<br>and cleaning||15,170|15,170|
|Rates||3,574|3,574|
|Insurance - Estate||27,216|27,216|
|Repairs and improvements||10,134|10,134|
|Furniture<br>and fittings||5,997|5,997|
|Estate - repairs and maintenance||12,714|12,714|
|Insurance-<br>Town Hall||11,279|11,279|
|Legal and professional|fees|15,186|15,186|
|Service charge||28,153|28,153|
|Freemen's<br>Committee||6,900|6,900|
|Messenger||160|160|
|Printing<br>and stationery||2,425|2,425|
|Governance<br>costs||9,750|9,750|
|Miscellaneous<br>expenses||897|897|
|Miscellaneous<br>other employee costs||191|191|
|||181,257|181,257|





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||||||Activities|funds|
||||||2021|2021|
||||||5|6|
|Staff costs|||||31,307|31,307|
|Heating,<br>lighting<br>and cleaning|||||13,013|13,013|
|Rates|||||3,572|3,572|
|Insurance -|Estate||||26,464|26,464|
|Repairs and|improvements||||6,621|6,621|
|Furniture<br>and fittings|||||1,003|1,003|
|Estate - repairs and maintenance|||||5,429|5,429|
|Insurance<br>-|Town<br>Hall||||10,907|10,907|
|Legal and professional||fees|||33,830|33,830|
|Service charge|||||27,672|27,672|
|Freemen's<br>Committee|||||6,819|6,819|
|Messenger|||||160|160|
|Printing<br>and|stationery||||1,437|1,437|
|Governance|costs||||10,150|10,150|
|Irrecoverable|VAT||||(2,015)|(2,015)|
|Miscellaneous<br>other employee|||costs||146|146|
||||||176,515|176,515|
|Governance|costs included above comprise;||||||
||||||2022|2021|
||||||5|5|
|Fees payable to the charity's|||auditor for the audit ofthe charity's|annual|||
|accounts|||||4,750|6,860|
|Preparation|offinancial|statements|||5,000|3,290|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||E|6|
|Fees payable|to the Charity's||auditor||for the audit ofthe Charity's|annual|||
|accounts|||||||4,750|6,860|
|Fees payable|to the Charity's||auditor||in respect of:||||
|All non-audit|services|not included||above||||3,290|



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|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2022|2021|
||||5|6|
|Wages and|salaries||28,616|26,506|
|Contribution|to defined contribution|pension schemes|2,895|2,801|
||||31,511|31,307|



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|||||||2022f|2021f|
|Gain|on|revaluation|of|listed securities||334,067|1,454,989|
|Gain|on|revaluation|of|investment|properties|1,078,000|768,308|
|||||||1,412,067|2223,297|



|Net gai|ns|on inves|tm|ents||||
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|||||||F||
|Losses|on|disposal|of|listed|securities|(7,889)|(17,325)|
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|||NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS||
|---|---|---|---|
|||FOR THE YEAR END 31 MARCH 2022||
|16.|Intangible<br>assets|||
||||Intangible|
||||assets|
||||F|
||Cost|||
||At 1 April 2021||8,128|
||At 31 March 2022||8,128|
||Amortisation|||
||At 1 April 2021||8,128|
||At 31 March 2022||8,128|
||Net book value|||
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|---|---|
||investment|
||propertyf|
|Valuation||
|At 1 April 2021|15,757,000|
|Surplus<br>on revaluation|1,078,000|
|At 31 March 2022|17,835,000|



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|||||||||Town Hall|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||2022|2022|
|||||||||5|F|
|Carrying|value|at|1|April|2021|and|2022|3,770|3,770|
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||||Listed|for re-||
||||investments|investment|Total|
|||||6|6|
||Cost or valuation|||||
||At 1 April 2021||7,786,530|1,666,490|9,453,020|
||Additions||1,502,607|(1„358,129)|144,478|
||Disposals||(145,851)||(145,851)|
||Revaluations||326,178||326,178|
||At 31 March 2022||9,469,464|308,361|9,777,825|
||Net book value|||||
||At 31 March 2022||9,469,464|308,361|9,777,825|
||At 31March 2021||7,785,530|1,565,490|9,453,020|
|20.|Debtors|||||
|||||2022|2021|
|||||6|E|
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||Other debtors|||100|100|
||Prepayments|and accrued income||177,971|152,242|
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|Other taxation|and social security||3,467|525,298|
|Other creditors|||360,616|362,836|
|Accruals and deferred||income|489,882|58,684|
||||853,965|946,818|



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||Berwick Town Council||Schedule||III Surplus||145,677|150,261|
||Freemen's|Committee|Schedule||III Surplus||143,936|148,520|
||Retention|Fund (1926Act,||sect. 27(3))|||300|300|
||Schedule|I and<br>II Lands|Revenue||||70,703|63,755|
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||Financial|assets measured||at fair value through||income and expenditure|9,777,825|9,453,020|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||Balance at|
||||Balance at 1|||Gains/|31 llllarch|
||||April 2021|Income|Expenditure|(Losses)|2022|
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|Endowment||funds||||||
|Schedule|I|and<br>II Lands|2,621„273|||169,996|2,791,269|
|Schedule|III Lands||15,470,285|||825,505|16,295,790|
|Schedule|IV Lands||8,017,702|||408,677|8,426,379|
||||26,109,260|||1,404,178|27,513,438|
|Restricted||funds||||||
|Schedules||I and<br>II Lands||84,322|(84,322)|||
|Schedule|III Lands|||294,392|(294„392)|||
|Schedule|IV Lands|||256,451|(256,451)|||
|||||635,165|(635,165)|||
|Total offunds|||26,109,260|635,165|(635,165)|1,404,178|27,513,438|





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||||Balance ai||||Gainsr|31March|
||||1 April 2020f|Income<br>f|Expenditure|f|(Losses)f|2021f|
|Endowment||funds|||||||
|Schedule|I and<br>II Lands||2,482,723||||138,550|2 621,273|
|Schedule|ill|Lands|13,752,262||||1,718,023|15,470,285|
|Schedule|IV Lands||7,668,303||||349,399|8,017,702|
||||23,903,288||||2205,972|26,109,260|
|Restricted||funds|||||||
|Schedules|I|and<br>II Lands||82,491|(82,491)||||
|Schedule|III|Lands||271,455|(271,455)||||
|Schedule|IV Lands|||295,828|(295,828)||||
|||||549,774|(649,774)||||
|Total offunds|||23,903,288|649,774|(649,774)||2,205,972|26,109,260|



|Summary|offunds - cur|rent year||||||
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|||Balance at 1||||Gains)|31 llilarch|
|||April 2021f|Income<br>f|Expenditure|f|(Losses)<br>F|2022|
|Endowment|funds|26,109,260||||1,404,178|27,513,438|
|Restricted|funds||635,165|(635,165)||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||Balance at|||Gernsr|31March|
|||1 April 2020f|income|Expenditure<br>6|(Losses)|2021<br>6|
|Endowment|funds|23,903,288|||2205,972|26,109,260|
|Restricted|funds||649,774|(649,774)|||
|||23,903,288|649,774|(649,774)|2205,972|26,109,260|



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|Analysis|of net assets between<br>funds - current year|||
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|||funds|funds|
|||2022|2022|
|||5|E|
|Fixed asset investments||9,777,825|9,777,825|
|Investment|property|17,835,000|17,835,000|
|Heritage assets||3,770|3,770|
|Current assets||750,808|750,808|
|Creditors|due within one year|(853,965)|(853,965)|
|Total||27,513,438|27,513,438|
|Analysis|of net assets between funds -prior year|||
|||Endowment|Total|
|||funds|funds|
|||2021|2021|
|||5||
|Fixed asset investments||9,453,020|9,453,020|
|Investment|property|16,757,000|16,757,000|
|Heritage assets||3,770|3,770|
|Current assets||842,288|842,288|
|Creditors|due within one year|(946,818)|(946,818)|
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|Net income for the year (as per Statement|||of Financial Activities)|1,404,178|2205,972|
|Adjustments<br>for:||||||
|Gains on investments||||(1,404,178)|(2,205,972)|
|Decrease/(increase)|in debtors|||(25,729)|8,3/9|
|Increase/(decrease)|in creditors|||(92,853)|447,168|
|Net cash provided|by/(used|in) operating|activities|(118,582)|455,487|



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|Cash|in hand|572,737|689,946|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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