# **ESSEX COUNTY PROFICIENCY TESTS COMMITTEE FOR AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE (CHARITY NO 271390)**
**TRUSTEES REPORT 1 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 31 AUGUST 2023**
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The Essex County Proficiency Tests Committee for Agriculture and Horticulture is a Registered Charity (No 271390)
The principal address of the charity is:
EPTC Sayers Farm Bovinger Ongar Essex CM5 0NE
## **Trustees**
The charity’s trustees during 2022-2023 were:
Mr Robert Patmore Mr Robert Gemmill Mr Robert Gunary Mr Steve Warr
Trustees are appointed by the committee.
## **Object**
The object of the County Proficiency Tests Committee shall be the advancement of education by means of collaboration with City & Guilds Land Based Services in the administration and assessment of Certificates of Competence in practical land based and related subjects within the County.
## **Main Activities**
- The Committee shall be responsible for managing the assessment process for appropriate Certificates of Competence according to the Quality Assurance requirements of City & Guilds Land Based Services. It shall submit an annual report to interested bodies and will receive recommendations from participating bodies.
- It shall seek to promote and publicise Certificates of Competence.
- It shall arrange facilities wherever possible for assessing Certificates of Competence for any person or persons who may require them.
- It shall issue results of test activities for review by the Committee.
- It shall appoint a Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary/Treasurer plus other officers as appropriate.
- It shall submit to City & Guilds Land Based Services such information as may from to time to time be required.
## **Achievements and Performance**
There was a increase of 46 tests from the previous year. Total number of tests for this period 371
The above report was formally approved and adopted by the Trustees on 8[th] February 2024
Signed on behalf of the Charity’s Trustees.
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**Independent Examiner's Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|
|---|---|---|---|
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||31stAugust 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|271390|
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||Pages 2 and 3|||
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- **Independent examiner’s** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**|||8thOctober 2023|
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|||Philip Myers||
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|||Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy||
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**ESSEX PROFICIENCY TESTS COMMITTEE**
## **RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 1 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 31 AUGUST 2023**
## **CASH SUMMARY**
|**2021/22**
**Payments**
13,512.50
Examiners’ Fees
2,151.45
Examiners’ Travel
11,893.00
City & Guilds
11,520.00
Secretarial
116.50
Postage/Administration
299.88 Office Facilities/Telephone
343.84
Insurance
350.00
Audit
546.57
Miscellaneous
**40,733.74**
Total Payments
3,562.61
Net Receipts (-Payments)
**44,296.35**
**STATEMENT OF ASSETS (BANK BALANCES)**
**1 September 2022**
Community Account
Business Premium Account
Net payments|**2022/23**
**2022/23**
**Receipts**
17,730.00
48,133.00
Registration & Fee Income
3,343.05
117.77 Interest on Premium Account
14,958.00
12,480.00
303.92
331.00
453.98
350.00
669.80
**50,619.75**
-2,368.98
**48,250.77**
**48,250.77**
**31 August 2023**
5,245.01
Community Account
28,759.50
Business Premium Account
-2,368.98
**31,635.53**|**2022/23**
**2022/23**
**Receipts**
17,730.00
48,133.00
Registration & Fee Income
3,343.05
117.77 Interest on Premium Account
14,958.00
12,480.00
303.92
331.00
453.98
350.00
669.80
**50,619.75**
-2,368.98
**48,250.77**
**48,250.77**
**31 August 2023**
5,245.01
Community Account
28,759.50
Business Premium Account
-2,368.98
**31,635.53**||**2021/22**
44,292.00
4.35
**44,296.35**
3,758.26
27,877.27|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
||||||
|||||**31,635.53**|
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**ESSEX PROFICIENCY TESTS COMMITTEE**
## **ASSET, LIABILITIES AND OTHER DISCLOSURES FOR THE YEAR 1 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 31 AUGUST 2023**
## Related Party Transactions
During the year three trustees received remuneration and reimbursement for travel in relation to carrying out assessments: Robert Gemmill - £4,716.00
Robert Gunary - £2,584.65 Robert Patmore - £10,830.15
## Assets held by the EPTC
The EPTC has previously acquired or leased equipment consisting of a number of laptops, a printer and photocopier, and other office equipment. The current value of these items is not considered to be material.
## Amounts owed to the EPTC
The Trust has assessed that at the 31 August 2023, there was £316 (£1,970 at 31 August 2022) of outstanding fees still to be paid in respect of the 22/23 year.
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**Independent Examiner's Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|Essex Proficiency Tests Committee|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||31stAugust 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|271390|
|||||
||Pages 2 and 3|||
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- **Independent examiner’s** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**|||8thOctober 2023|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
|||Philip Myers||
|||||
|||Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy||
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**ESSEX PROFICIENCY TESTS COMMITTEE**
## **RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR 1 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 31 AUGUST 2023**
## **CASH SUMMARY**
|**2021/22**
**Payments**
13,512.50
Examiners’ Fees
2,151.45
Examiners’ Travel
11,893.00
City & Guilds
11,520.00
Secretarial
116.50
Postage/Administration
299.88 Office Facilities/Telephone
343.84
Insurance
350.00
Audit
546.57
Miscellaneous
**40,733.74**
Total Payments
3,562.61
Net Receipts (-Payments)
**44,296.35**
**STATEMENT OF ASSETS (BANK BALANCES)**
**1 September 2022**
Community Account
Business Premium Account
Net payments|**2022/23**
**2022/23**
**Receipts**
17,730.00
48,133.00
Registration & Fee Income
3,343.05
117.77 Interest on Premium Account
14,958.00
12,480.00
303.92
331.00
453.98
350.00
669.80
**50,619.75**
-2,368.98
**48,250.77**
**48,250.77**
**31 August 2023**
5,245.01
Community Account
28,759.50
Business Premium Account
-2,368.98
**31,635.53**|**2022/23**
**2022/23**
**Receipts**
17,730.00
48,133.00
Registration & Fee Income
3,343.05
117.77 Interest on Premium Account
14,958.00
12,480.00
303.92
331.00
453.98
350.00
669.80
**50,619.75**
-2,368.98
**48,250.77**
**48,250.77**
**31 August 2023**
5,245.01
Community Account
28,759.50
Business Premium Account
-2,368.98
**31,635.53**||**2021/22**
44,292.00
4.35
**44,296.35**
3,758.26
27,877.27|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
||||||
|||||**31,635.53**|
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**ESSEX PROFICIENCY TESTS COMMITTEE**
## **ASSET, LIABILITIES AND OTHER DISCLOSURES FOR THE YEAR 1 SEPTEMBER 2022 TO 31 AUGUST 2023**
## Related Party Transactions
During the year three trustees received remuneration and reimbursement for travel in relation to carrying out assessments: Robert Gemmill - £4,716.00
Robert Gunary - £2,584.65 Robert Patmore - £10,830.15
## Assets held by the EPTC
The EPTC has previously acquired or leased equipment consisting of a number of laptops, a printer and photocopier, and other office equipment. The current value of these items is not considered to be material.
## Amounts owed to the EPTC
The Trust has assessed that at the 31 August 2023, there was £316 (£1,970 at 31 August 2022) of outstanding fees still to be paid in respect of the 22/23 year.
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