## **Wiltshire Record Society Report for 2021**
**Wiltshire Record Society** c/o Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham SN 15 3QN Charity no 253840.
**Aims.** The objects of the Society are to advance the knowledge of history by publishing transcripts, abstracts, indexes, lists and guides of and to the manuscript and any other documentary sources for the history of Wiltshire and to try stimulating interest in and protecting these sources.
**Management structure.** This is a members ’Society –individuals, universities and other institutions in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Executive responsibility is vested in the Committee consisting of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Editor and six other members elected by members at the A.G.M. The committee has the power to co-opt additional members.
**Activities.** The Society publishes annually a volume of documents on Wiltshire History. It also publishes a newsletter/journal (the Recorder) each year. The Society maintains a website which includes digital copies of past volumes and other documents otherwise unpublished. In 2021 the Society published ‘The Farming Diaries of Thomas Pinniger’. The Society’s volumes are reviewed in various academic journals. The work of the Society is discussed by the members at the A.G.M.
**Financial Review.** The Society’s main source of income is from Members’ subscriptions. Because of the rising costs of publishing, there has been a deficit of about £1-2,000 a year. This has been met for the Capital Fund (£28,831) which has accrued over a number of years. The legacy received this year (£22,886) will be used to augment the Capital Fund and to finance new projects such as an improved and extended website. There is a reserve fund (£9,629) deposited with the NSB which is to be used to meet the cost of any unexpected items and any liabilities which might arise if it should be deemed necessary to close the Society.
## **THE WILTSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY**
## **Statement of Accounts for the Year 2021**
||**Income**||**Expenditure**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Subscriptions||2587.25|Vol 74 Printing and postage|3601.09|
|Sales of books||669.14|Setting|500.00|
|4101.09|||||
|Interest||71.53|Website||
|37.49|||||
|Gift Aid tax|refund|176.25|Recorder|245.89|
|Donations||95.00
|Postage and stationery||
|103.98|||||
|Legacy||22886.50|||
|||_________||_______|
|||26485.67||4488.45|
|**Balances at 31 December 2021**|||**Funds at 31 December**|**2021**|
|Balance at|31 December 2020|39349.27|Lloyds current accounts Classic||
|942.10|||||
|Surplus||21997.22|Treasurers||
|28009.05|||||
|||C.C.L.A.|||
|22765.61|||||
|||NSB (Pugh Fund)
||9629.73|
|||_______||_______|
|||61346.49||61346.49|
The Society had no assets (other than the funds shown) and nil liabilities.
Ivor Slocombe Hon Treasurer
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Report on the Accounts
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trusiee5 considw thal an audit is not required lor thi5 year under 5eciion 144 01 Ihe
thaiilies kt 2011 Ohe Charities Act) and thal an tndependent examination 15 needed,
It is my SPonsI111Y to..
exèffline the aicounts undw se(tion 115 of the Charities A(t.
lo follow Ihe woceduies laid down in ihe general Diiecisons given by Ihe Charlty
(ommlssion (under section 14515)Ibl ol the Charllies Act), and
io slate w1her pariiculaf rnalters have (ome to my aitentlon.
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My examlnallon was catyied oul in aCcordae with general Oiie(lions given by the
charily Commissil. An examinatlon include5 a review ot the a(counling re(ords
kept by Ihe (hality and a comparison ol ihe accoun15 presenied wrth those iecords.
11 0150 iTrclu¢Jes considerè¢ioTr ol any unusual items or disclosure5 In the account5, and
seeking explanaiions Ifom the tiusiee5 concerftlTrg any su(h m&iers. The procedures
urKlertaken do not provlde all the evldence ihat would be iequlred In an audit, and
nsequently no oplftion is glveo as to wheihei the accounts pre5eni a'lrve and lali,
¥lew ond ihe repDrt 15 to thost matteFS SEI DUI Ihe statemeni below.
1Trd•p•ndt •x•mlTrw'i sl•l•AMrf In conne(tlon with my examinaiioft. no matlef has come to my attention
{l) which gives ffle reasonable ouse to believe that In. any m•terlal spe(l, the
iequlremertts..
io keep a(courslin9 rectsrds In accorthnce with section 130 01 the
Charilies Act-
to piepare accoiiAt5 whi(h accord with ihe a(couniiftg iecords and comply
with the accwniing requlremenls ol the (harilies A(t hove not been mei.. or
(l) to which. ln my optnlon. allentlon should be diawn In Qfder lo enable a proper
nderstanding ol the ac(ounts to be leached.
' l¥eose deleie the word5 in Ihe biackels 11 rhey do noi tspy.
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