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|Report ofthe Trustees|1 to|2|
|Independent<br>Examiner's<br>Report|||
|Statement of Financial Activities|||
|Balance Sheet|||
|Notes to the Financial Statements|6 to|9|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|10||





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|||||Unrestricted|Total|
|||||funds|funds|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||FROM||||
|Investment<br>income||||142,333|130,321|
|EXPENDITURE ON||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Donations||||147,280|149,665|
|Accountancy<br>and legal||||1,299|1,224|
|Postage and stationery||||64|65|
|Total||||148,643|150,954|
|Net gains on investments||||79,662|46,687|
|NET INCOME||||73,352|26,054|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||
|Total funds brought|forward|||2,863,444|2,837,390|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD||||2,936,796|2,863,444|





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|||Unrestricted|Total|
|||funds|funds|
||Notes|f|E|
|FIXEDASSETS||||
|Investments||2,922,282|2,842,620|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||
|Cash at bank||15,789|22,024|
|CREDITORS||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year||(1,275)|(1,200}|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||14,514|20,824|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT LIABILITIES||2,936,796|2,863,444|
|NET ASSETS||2,936,796|2,863,444|
|FUNDS||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||||
|General fund||2,936,796|2,863,444|
|TOTAL FUNDS||2,936,796|2,863,444|





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||2.|INVESTIVIENT INCOME||||||||||||
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||||||||||5.4.23||||5,4.22|
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|||Dividends<br>received|||||||142,331||||130,319|
|||Deposit account interest|||||||||2||2|
||||||||||142,333||||130,321|
|.|3.|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS||||||||||||
||||||||Grant|||||||
|||||||funding||of||||||
||||||||activities|||||||
||||||||(see note||Support|||||
||||||||4)||costs||||Totals|
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|||.Donations|||||147,280||||||147,280|
|||Accountancy<br>and legal|||||||1,299||||1,299|
|||Postage and stationery||||||||64|||64|
||||||||147,280||1,363||||148,643|
||4..|GRANTS PAYABLE||||||||||||
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|||Donations|||||||147,280||||149,665|
|||All donations<br>are made to|charitable||institutions.|||||||||
|||159donations<br>were made|in|the year, ranging||from small donations|of less|than f50 to||larger||donations<br>up to||
|||f5,000. The larger donations||(those|of f2,500 or more), some of||which|comprise|more||than|one|donation,|
|||were as follows:—||||||||||||
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|||Chestnut<br>Tree House|||||||||||10,000|
|||British Red Cross<br>.|||||||||||5,000|
|||DEC Turkey-Syria<br>Earthquake||Appeal|||||||||5,000|
|||DEC Ukraine Appeal|||||||||||5,000|
|||UNICEF Turkey Appeal|||||||||||5,000|
|||World Cancer Research|||||||||||5,000|
|||St Catherine's<br>Hospice|||||||||||3,100|
|||Hope for Tomorrow|||||||||||3,000|
|||Redwings<br>Horse Sanctuary|||||||||||3,000|
|||Barnardo's|||||||||||2,500|
|||Save the Children|||||||||||2,500|





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|||||||Listed|Listed|Unlisted||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||investments||investments|Totals|
|||||||E||E|f|
||:Opening value as at 6th||April 2022|||265,799||2,576,821|2,842,620|
||Additions|||||||||
||Revaluations||||||(4,847)|84,509|79,662|
||Closing value|as at 5th April 2023||||260,952||2,661,330|2,922,282|
||The investment<br>portfolio, none ofwhich|||is invested|in assets|outside the|UK, is comprised:-|||
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||Alliance Trust|Pic|||||26,930|ordinary<br>shares|260,952|
||D.C.Thomson|5 Company<br>Ltd|||||23,345|ordinary<br>shares|2,661,330|
||||||||||2,922,282|
|7.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE||YEAR|||||
|||||||||5,4,23|5.4.22|
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||Other creditors|||||||1,275|1,200|
|8,|MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS|||||||||
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|||||||At 6.4.22||in funds|5,4.23|
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||General fund|||||2,863,444||73,352|2,936,796|
||TOTAL FUNDS|||||2,863,444||73,352|2,936,796|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
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|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|General fund|||142,333|(148,643)|79,662|73,352|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||142,333|(148,643)|79,662|73,352|
|Comparatives|for movement|in funds|||||
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||||||movement|At|
|||||At 6.4.21|in funds|5.4.22|
|||||f|E|f|
|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|General fund||||2,837,390|26,054|2,863,444|
|TOTAL FUNDS||||2,837,390|26,054|2,863,444|



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||||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
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|Unrestricted||funds|||||
|General|fund||130,321|(150,954)|46,687|26,054|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||130,321|(150,954)|46,687|26,054|