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|Reference and Administrative||Details ofthe Company,|its Trustees and Advisers||
|Trustees'<br>Report||||2-8|
|Independent<br>Auditors'|Report|on the Financial Statements||9-12|
|Statement of Financial|Activities|||13|
|Balance Sheet||||14|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|||15-26|





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|Trustees|||Professor|Hugh|Gordon|Gordon|Dickinson,|Principal|Principal|||
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||||Professor|Roderick Hunt||||||||
||||Professor|Philip|Mark|Gilmartin||||||
|Company|registered|||||||||||
|number|||00078001|||||||||
|Charity registered||||||||||||
|number|||237771|||||||||
|Registered||office|1 Emperor|Way||||||||
||||Exeter Business||Park|||||||
||||Exeter|||||||||
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|Company|secretary||Professor|Roderick Hunt||||||||
|Chief executive officer|||The Company<br>most ofthe day||Secretary<br>and Treasurer<br>is delegated<br> to day affairs ofthe Company.|||||by the trustees|to conduct|
|Independent||auditors|Bishop Fleming||LLP|||||||
||||Chartered|Accountants||||||||
||||2nd Floor|Stratus House||||||||
||||Emperor Way|||||||||
||||Exeter Business||Park|||||||
||||Exeter|||||||||
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|Bankers|||National<br>Westminster|||Bank pic||||||
||||Exeter Business||Centre|||||||
||||Vantage<br>Point|||||||||
||||Pynes<br>Hill|||||||||
||||Exeter|||||||||
||||EX2 5FD|||||||||
||||Bank of Scotland pic|||||||||
||||8 Lochside|Avenue||||||||
||||Edinburgh|||||||||
||||EH12 9DJ|||||||||
||||Santander|UK pic||||||||
||||Bridle Road|||||||||
||||Bootle|||||||||
||||GIR OAA|||||||||
|Solicitors|||Ashfords<br>LLP|||||||||
||||Ashfords<br>House|||||||||
||||Grenadier|Road||||||||
||||Exeter|||||||||
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|||||funds|funds|funds|
|||||2022|2022|2021|
||||Note|||E|
|Income from:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||473,328|473,328|512,109|
|Investments||||31,569|31,569|26,800|
|Total income||||504,897|504,897|538,909|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds||||32,577|32,5T7|31,362|
|Charitable<br>activities||||423,442|423,442|356,338|
|Total expenditure||||456,019|456,019|387,700|
|Net income before|net gains|on investments||48,878|48,878|151,209|
|Net gains on investments||||65,082|65,082|71,329|
|Net movement<br>in funds before other recognised|||||||
|gains/(losses)||||113,960|113,960|222,538|
|Other recognised<br>gains/(losses):|||||||
|Gains/(losses)<br>on revaluation||offixed asset|||||
|investments||||(414,128)|(414,128)|239,593|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(300,168)|(300,168)|462,131|
|Reconciliation<br>offunds:|||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||3,903,137|3,903,137|3,441,006|
|Net movement<br>in funds||||(300,168)|(300,168)|462,131|
|Total funds carried|forward|||3,602,969|3,602,969|3,903,137|





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||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|
||funds|funds|funds|
||2022|2022|2021|
|||E|E|
|AoBjournal|450,600|450,600|473,725|
|AoB Plants journal|22,728|22,728|38,384|
|TOTAL 2022|473,328|473,328|512,109|
|TOTAL 2021|512,109|512,109||



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|||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds|funds|
|||2022|2022|2021|
|||E|||
|Dividend|income|25,114|25,114|23,722|
|Bank and|other interest|6,455|6,455|3,078|
|||31,569|31,569|26,800|
|TOTAL 2021||26,800|26,800||





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|||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds|funds|
|||2022|2022|2021|
|||||E|
|Portfolio management|fee|32,577|32,577|31,362|
|TOTAL 2021||31,362|31,362||



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|||Grants to|Total|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Individuals|funds|funds|
|||2022|2022|2021|
|||E|E||
|Grants,|AoBjournal|13,671|13,671|2,639|
|TOTAL|2021|2,639|2,639||



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||Activities|Grant||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||undertaken|funding of|Support|Total|Total|
||directly|activities|costs|funds|funds|
||2022|2022|2022|2022|2021|
||F|f:|||E|
|AoBjournal|192,747|13,671|18,886|225,304|186,604|
|AoB Plants journal|27,120||10,737|37,857|28,265|
|AoB Slog|48,224||22,538|70,762|53,271|
|ISPjournal|66,860||6,551|73,411|72,922|
|Goverance costs|||16,108|16,108|15,276|
||334,951|13,671|74,820|423,442|356,338|
|TOTAL 2021|305,202|2,639|48,497|356,338||





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|||AoB|||||
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|||PLANTS|||Total|Total|
||AoBjournal|journal|AoB Blog|ISPjournal|funds|funds|
||2022<br>E|2022|2022<br>E|2022<br>f|2022<br>E|2021<br>F|
|Chief Editor fees|17,746|5,360|47,280||70,386|53,495|
|Editorial Office|||||||
|fees &salaries|115,713|1,565||50,000|167,278|141,355|
|Editorial Office|2,635|370|944||3,949|1,457|
|Editorial Board|||||||
|fees|34,441|16,588||16,860|67,889|88,097|
|Manuscript|||||||
|handling|13,165|3,237|||16,402|9,826|
|Editorial|||||||
|services|8,825||||8,825|10,852|
|Payroll fees|222||||222|120|
||192,747|27,120|48,224|66,860|334,951|305,202|
|TOTAL 2021|166,501|24,691|48,010|66,000|305,202||



|||||AoB|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||PLANTS|||
||||AoBjournal|journal|AoB Blog|ISPjournal|
||||2022<br>F|2022f|2022<br>E|2022|
|External|travel|and meeting costs||8,080|||
|Company|office costs||18,886|2,657|4,725|6,551|
|Internal travel||and meeting costs|||17,813||
|Accountancy||and other finance related|||||
|costs|||||||
||||18,886|10,737|22,538|6,551|
|TOTAL 2021|||17,464|3,574|5,261|6,922|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||costs|funds|funds|
||||||2022f|2022<br>f.|2021|
|External travel and meeting costs||||||8,080|984|
|Company<br>office costs||||||32,819|32,012|
|Internal travel|and meeting costs|||||17,813|225|
|Accountancy|and other finance|related||costs|16,108|16,108|15,276|
||||||16,108|74,820|48,497|
|TOTAL 2021|||||15,276|48,497||
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||||||||
|||||||2022f|2021|
|Fees payable|to the company's|auditor||for the audit ofthe company's||||
|annual accounts||||||5,870|5,150|
|Fees payable|to the company's|auditor||in respect of:||||
|All non-audit|services not included||above|||7,524|7,644|



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|||Cash||
|---|---|---|---|
||Listed|dealing||
||investments|account|Total|
|||f.||
|COST OR VALUATION||||
|At 1 January<br>2022|2,388,110|27,382|2,415,492|
|Additions|187,804||187,804|
|Disposals|(125,068)|(4,749)|(129,817)|
|Revaluations|(414,126)||(414,126)|
|At 31 December 2022|2,036,720|22,633|2,059,353|
|NET BOOK VALUE||||
|At 31 December 2022|2,036,720|22,633|2,059,353|
|AT 31 DECEMBER 2021|2,388,110|27,382|2,415,492|
|HISTORICAL COST||||



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|---|---|---|---|
||||F|
|DUE WITHIN|ONE YEAR|||
|Trade debtors||473,331|516,264|
|VAT debtor||17,288|23,684|
|Prepayments|and accrued income|3,320|5,284|
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|---|---|---|
|Trade creditors|29,103|2,929|
|Pension contribution||68|
|Accruals and deferred income|98,163|79,207|
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|||||||Balance at|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance at 1|||||31|
||January|||Transfers|Gains/|December|
||2022f|Income|Expenditure|in/out<br>F|(Losses)f|2022<br>f.|
|UNREST'D|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|DESIGNAT'D|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|Production|||||||
|Reserve|418,000|||40,000||458,000|
|Promotions|||||||
|Fund for|||||||
|Botanical|||||||
|Science|3,187,863|||(28,799)|(349,046)|2,810,018|
||3,605,863|||11,201|(349,046)|3,268,018|
|GENERAL|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|General Funds|297,274|504,897|(456,019)|(11,201)||334,951|
|TOTAL|||||||
|UNREST'D|||||||
|FUNDS|3,903,137|504,897|(456,019)||(349,046)|3,602,969|





|Statement offunds|(continued)||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Statement offunds|- prior year||||||
|||||||Balance at|
||Balance at|||||31|
||1 January|||Transfers|Gains/|December|
||2021|income|Expenditure|in/out|(Losses)|2021|
||F|||E|E|f.|
|UNREST'D|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|DESIGNAT'D|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|Production|||||||
|Reserve|477,000|||(59,000)||418,000|
|Promotions|||||||
|Fund for|||||||
|Botanical|||||||
|Science|2,623,269|||253,672|310,922|3,187,863|
||3,100,269|||194,672|310,922|3,605,863|
|GENERAL|||||||
|FUNDS|||||||
|General Funds|340,737|538,909|(387,700)|(194,672)||297,274|
|TOTAL|||||||
|UNREST'D|||||||
|FUNDS|3,441,006|538,909|(387,700)||310,922|3,903,137|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Balance at 1|||||31|
||January|||Transfers|Gains/|December|
||2022|Income|Expenditure|in/out|(Losses)|2022|
||E|E.|||E||
|Designated|||||||
|funds|3,605,863|||11,201|(349,046)|3,268,018|
|General funds|297,274|504,897|(456,019)|(11,201)||334,951|
||3,903,137|504,897|(456,019)||(349,046)|3,602,969|





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||Balance at|||||31|
||1 January|||Transfers|Gains/|December|
||2021|Income|Expenditure<br>F|in/out<br>E|(Losses)|2021f|
|Designated|||||||
|funds|3,100,269|||194,672|310,922|3,605,863|
|General funds|340,737|538,909|(387,700)|(194,672)||297,274|
||3,441,006|538,909|(387,700)||310,922|3,903,137|



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||funds|funds|
||2022f|2022f|
|Fixed asset investments|2,059,353|2,059,353|
|Current assets|1,670,882|1,670,882|
|Creditors due within one year|(127,266)|(127,266)|
|TOTAL|3,602,969|3,602,969|



|Analysis of net assets between funds - prior year|||
|---|---|---|
||Unrestricted|Total|
||funds|funds|
||2021|2021|
|Fixed asset investments|2,415,492|2,415,492|
|Current assets|1,569,849|1,569,849|
|Creditors due within one year|(82,204)|(82,204)|
|TOTAL|3,903,137|3,903,137|



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|Virtual participant<br>registration|scholarship|||||1,088|
|American<br>Society of Plant Biologists participant|||registration||||
|scholarship||||||1,082|
|AoB Lecture sponsorship<br>and|registration|support|||1,645|469|
|AOB ComBio sponsorship|||||2,200||
|ISP, Interdrout<br>Vll International|Conference||||3,384||
|ISP, Gordon Research Conference sponsorship|||||841||
|ISP, Converia 7th International|Plant Pheonotyping|||Symposium|469||
|ISP,Zollpackhof sponsorship|||||5,132||
||||||13,671|2,639|



