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|Independent|Examiner's||Report||
|Statement of|Financial|Activities|||
|Balance Sheet|||||
|Notes to the Financial||Statements||12to 22|





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|The|financial|financial|statements|statements|statements||have been prepared|have been prepared|have been prepared|have been prepared|have been prepared|in accordance<br>with|the accounting|the accounting|the accounting|the accounting|policies|set|
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|out|in note||2 to|the||accounts|||and|comply||with<br>the<br>charity's|Governing|||Document,||the|
|Companies|||Act 2006|||and||Reporting||by|Charities:<br>Statement||of Recommended||||Practice||
|applicable||in|the UK and|||Republic|||of Ireland||(FRS102).||||||||
|Company||Registration|||Number|||||||01790935(England|and Wales)||||||
|Registered||Charity||Number||||||||288865|||||||
|Registered||Address||of|the||Charity|||||49 High Street|||||||
|||||||||||||Amersham|||||||
|||||||||||||Bucks HP7 ODP|||||||
|Chairman||and Director||||||||||Howard<br>Gotch|||||||
|Trustees||||||||||||Kieran McPolin|||||||
|||||||||||||Alison Bailey|||||||
|||||||||||||Elizabeth<br>Lean —resigned|||19.04.2023||||
|||||||||||||Valerie Russell —resigned|||19.04.2023||||
|||||||||||||Nicholas Gammage|—appointed|||01.04.2022|||
|||||||||||||Peter Healy —appointed||01.04.2022|||||
|||||||||||||Jane Barnes —appointed|||01.04.2022||||
|||||||||||||Linda Gould —appointed|||19.04.2023||||
|||||||||||||Mary Tebje —appointed||19.04.2023|||||
|||||||||||||Jenifer Baker —appointed|||19.04.2023||||
|||||||||||||Tessa Drysdale —appointed 19.04.2023|||||||
|Bankers||||||||||||CAF Bank Limited|||||||
|||||||||||||25 Kings<br>Hill Avenue|||||||
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|||||||||||||West Mailing|||||||
|||||||||||||Kent ME194JQ|||||||
|Independent|||Examiner|||||||||David Green MA (Cantab)|||ACA||||
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|INCOME|||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||45,564|108,615|154,179|36,094|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||41,759||41,759|29,534|
|Investments|||||8,946||8,946|8,186|
|Grants|||||7,248|120|7,368|47,704|
|Total Income|||||103,517|108,735|212,252|121,518|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||||
|Raising funds||||8|(11,548)||(11,548)|(8,130)|
|Charitable<br>activities||||9|(128,868)|(19,522)|(148,390)|(114,510)|
|Investment<br>management|||costs|10|(6,474)||(6,474)|(6,286)|
|Total expenditure|||||(146,890)|(19,522)|(166,412)|(128,926)|
|Net (losses)/gains|on||||||||
|investments||||11|(41,557)||(41,557)|56,981|
|Gain on revaluation||of building||12|606,444||606,444||
|Net Income for the||year|||521,514|89,213|610,727|49,573|
|Transfer between|funds|||18|(855)|855|||
|Reconciliation of Funds|||||||||
|Total Funds brought||forward|||1,553,242|17,425|1,570,667|1,521,094|
|Total Funds carried||forward||18|2,073,901|107,493|2,181,394|1,570,667|





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|FIXEDASSETS|||E|E|
|Tangible assets||12|1,459,343|870,822|
|Investments<br>-at Market Value||13|592,709|661,871|
||||2,052,052|1,532,693|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||
|Stock|||4,481|3,944|
|Debtors||14|6,213|6,573|
|Cash in hand and at|Bank||123,279|29,809|
||||133,973|40,326|
|LESS:CURRENT LIABILITIES|||||
|Creditors: amounts|due within one year|15|(4,631)|(2,352)|
|NET ASSETS|||2,181,394|1,570,667|
|CHARITY FUNDS|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||2,073,901|1,553,242|
|Restricted funds|||107,493|17,425|
|Total charity funds||18|2,181,394|1,570,667|






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|In the op|in|ion o|fth|e trustees, there ar|e no speci|fic key judgements|or areas ofe|stimates to discl|ose.|
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|3.GRANTS||||||2022|2022|2021|2021|
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|Buckinghamshire||County Council Covid Grant||||4,000||26,643||
|Royal Pavillion|History||Course Grant||||120|||
|Rothschild<br>Recovery Grant|||||||||5,000|
|Buckinghamshire||County Museum<br>Trust Cultural||||||||
|Outreach<br>Grant|||||||||1,997|
|National<br>Lottery||Heritage||Fund Plastic Free Shop||||||
|Grant|||||||||9,100|
|Plastic Free Grant||||||3,248||||
|Other Grants|||||||||3,537|
|Grants - Job Retention|||Scheme and Furlough||Scheme|||1,427||
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|4.INCOME FROM DONATIONS|4.INCOME FROM DONATIONS|4.INCOME FROM DONATIONS|4.INCOME FROM DONATIONS|AND LEGACIES|AND LEGACIES|2022|2022|2021|2021|
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|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|
|Donations|&legacies|||||18,786||13,574||
|Events||||||5,382||6,313||
|Friends of|Amersham||Museum|||3,330||3,240||
|HMRC Gift|aid|||||1,845||3,999||
|Projects||||||11,205|108,615||5,693|
|Family &.Adult Programmes||||||5,016||3,275||
|||||||45,564|108,615|30,401|5,693|
|5.INVESTMENT INCOME|||||||2022|2022|2021|
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||
|Interest received -||COIF &.CAF|||||77||1|
|Investment|income|(dividends|||and interest)||8,869||8,185|
||||||||8,946||8,186|
|6.CHARITABLE|ACTIVITIES||||||2022|2022|2021|
||||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||
|Admissions,|guided|walks and|||talks||18,693||12,533|
|Sale ofgoods|||||||15,592||11,146|
|Room Hire|||||||2,942||950|
|Club 200 income|||||||4,532||4,905|
||||||||41,759||29,534|



|7.NET INCOME FOR THE YEAR||2022|2021|
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|Net income is stated after||||
|(crediting)/charging:||||
|Depreciation||19,731|22,238|
|Accountancy<br>fees —Independent|Examination|||
|and other fees||3,300|2,449|
|8.RAISING FUNDS||2022|2021|
|Cost ofgoods sold||11,548|8,130|





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|9.ANALYSIS OF|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT COSTS|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT COSTS|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT COSTS|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT COSTS|EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AND SUPPORT COSTS|||
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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted||
|Staff|||||46,145||37,041|
|Exhibitions<br>8|events||||165||237|
|Conservation|||||1,715||1,264|
|Interpretation|||||555|||
|Acquisitions|||||207||419|
|Subscri ptions|||||386||355|
|Publicity|||||2,573||1,278|
|Legacies|||||||74|
|MLvM Charitable||Trust||||1,077|4,813|
|AONB Chalk,|Cherries||8|chairs||1,032|5,694|
|Age Friendly||||||4,385|98|
|Martyrs<br>Play|||||7,061|||
|Rothschild<br>Recovery|||||||5,000|
|Cultural<br>Outreach|||||||1,997|
|Plastic Free Shop||||||8,721|1,917|
|Recovery Grant/Retail|||Artist|||2,486||
|Innovate to Generate|||Local History Course|||1,000||
|Together we|build|stronger||||821||
|Schools|||||304||232|
|Talks|||||398||321|
|Art Club|||||2,038||1,127|
|Mobile Museum|||||2,841||1,931|
|Club 200costs|||||2,375||2,197|
|Cleaning|||||5,763||4,028|
|General<br>Maintenance|||||8,753||4,413|
|Security 5alarm||maintenance|||1,908||40|
|Utilities -Electric/||rates||5water|4,378||3,353|
|Bank charges|||||159||97|
|Seminars R training|||||784||196|
|In sura nce|||||6,925||5,142|
|Postage and|stationery||||1,188||261|
|Sundries|||||1,765||1,174|
|Depreciation|||||19,731||22,238|
|Computer<br>consumables|||||4,888||5,124|
|Independent|Examiner's|||Remuneration|3,300||2,449|
|Professional|fees||||2,563|||
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|11.NET GAINS/(LOSSES) ON INVESTMENTS|||||||||f|f|
|Realised (losses)/gains<br>on investments|||||||||(5,421)|6,217|
|Unrealised|(losses)/gains<br>on investments||||||||(36,136)|50,764|
||||||||||(41,557)|56,981|
|12.FIXEDASSETS|||||||Freehold|Mobile|~Fittin<br>s &||
||||||||~buitdtn<br>s|Museu<br>m|~Eui ment|Total|
|Cost or|Brought forward|as at 1|January 2022||||695,131|38,19<br>2|345,246|1,078,569|
|revaluation|Additions||||||||1,808|1,808|
||Revaluations||||||606,444|||606,444|
||Carried forward|as at 31December 2022|||||1,301,575|38,192|347,054|1,686,821|
|Depreciation|Brought forward|as at 1|January|2022||||18,638|189,109|207,747|
||Charge for year|||||||3,911|15,820|19,731|
||Carried forward|as at 31December 2022||||||22,549|204,929|227,478|
||||||As at 31||||||
|Net Book Value|||||December 2022||1,301,575|15,643|142,125|1,459,343|
||||||As at 31||||||
||||||December 2021||695,131|19,554|156,137|870,822|
|The building<br>rather than|is valued at an open <br> a fair value basis the|market <br> amount|value based on directors assessment.<br>Ifthe building<br>was stated <br>would<br>have been included<br>asf695,131(2021:f695,131).||||||on a historic|cost basis|
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|Investm|ents|at MARKET VALUE (Excludes cash +foreign currencies)|E|
|Opening|balance as at 1January 2022||638,382|
|||Additions|249,902|
|||Disposals|(285,360)|
|||Unrealised<br>losses|(36,136)|
|Closing|balance as at 31December 2022||566,788|
|||Disposal proceeds|279,939|
|||Loss on disposal|5,421|





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|Market) value of all investments|2022<br>E|2021<br>f|
|Securities|566,788|638,382|
|Cash held|25,921|23,489|
||592,709|661,871|



|The fair value of|listed investments|is determined|is determined|by reference to the quoted|price for identical assets in an active|market|
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|at the balance sheet date.|||||||
|Cost value ofinvestments<br>in securities as at|||31December 2022|||563,907|
|Cost value of investments<br>in securities as at 31December 2021||||||567,471|
|14.DEBTORS|||||2022|2021|
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||Prepayments|and accrued||income|6,213|6,573|
|15.CREDITORS|||||2022|2021|
||||||E||
||Accruals and|deferred|income||4,631|2,352|
|16.FRIENDS OF AMERSHAM<br>MUSEUM|||||||
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||Income||||||
||Subscriptions|and donations|||3,330|3,240|
||Less: Expenditure||||||
||Fund raising|&sundry|expenses||(265)|(173)|
||Transferred|to SOFA|||3,065|3,067|



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|ET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS||||
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||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|
|Fixed Assets|2,052,052||2,052,052|
|Net Current Assets|21,849|107,493|129,342|
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|17.ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS (continued)|17.ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS (continued)|17.ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS (continued)|17.ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS (continued)||||||
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||ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS - PREVIOUS YEAR|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||||Funds|Funds|Funds|
||Fixed Assets|||||1,532,692||1,532,692|
||Net Current Assets|||||20,550|17,425|37,975|
|||||||1,553,242|17,425|1,570,667|
|18|MOVEMENT<br>IN|FUNDS -CURRENT YEAR|||||||
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||Restricted<br>Funds|||2022|Resources|Resources|Transfers|2022|
||Age Friendly|||4,324|31|(4,385)|30||
||MLvM Charitable|Trust||696|105,613|(1,077)||105,232|
||AONB Chalk, Cherries||&Chairs||237|(1,032)|795||
||Dolls House|||1,686||||1,686|
||Together we build|stronger|||1,000|(821)||179|
||Plastic Free Shop|||7,183|1,734|(8,721)||196|
||Recovery Grant/Retail||Artist|2,456||(2,486)|30||
||Innovate to Generate||Local History Course|1,080|120|(1,000)||200|
|||||17,425|108,735|(19,522)|855|107,493|
||General funds|||1,553,242|103,517|417,997|(855)|2,073,901|
||Unrestricted<br>funds|||1,553,242|103,517|417,997|(855)|2,073,901|
||Total funds|||1,570,667|212,252|398,475||2,181,394|





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|18|MOVEMENT|IN FUNDS - PREVIOUS YEAR|IN FUNDS - PREVIOUS YEAR|IN FUNDS - PREVIOUS YEAR||||||
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||||||January|~lncomin|~out oin||At 31Dec|
||Restricted<br>Funds||||2021|Resources|Resources|Transfers|2021|
||Age Friendly||||4,422||(98)||4,324|
||MLvM Charitable||Trust||5,509||(4,813)||696|
||AONB Chalk,|Cherries||8 Chairs||5,694|(5,694)|||
||Dolls House||||1,686||||1,686|
||Rothschild<br>Recovery|||||5,000|(5,000)|||
||Cultural<br>Outreach|||||1,997|(1,997)|||
||Plastic Free|Shop||||9,100|(1,917)||7,183|
||Recovery Grant/Retail|||Artist||2,456|||2,456|
||Innovate to|Generate||Local History Course||1,080|||1,080|
||||||11,617|25,327|(19,519)||17,425|
||General funds||||1,509,477|153,172|(109,407)||1,553,242|
||Unrestricted|funds|||1,509,477|153,172|(109,407)||1,553,242|
||Total funds||||1,521,094|178,499|(128,926)||1,570,667|



||The purpose ofrestricted|funds|still held as at 31December 2021 have been covered within the|still held as at 31December 2021 have been covered within the|movement|movement|in funds||
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|19|ANALYSIS OF CHANGES|IN DEBT|||||||
||||At 1<br>January<br>2022|Cash flow|Other<br>~chan<br>as||At|31Dec<br>2022|
||Cash at bank and in hand||29,809|93,470||||123,279|
||||29,809|93,470||||123,279|
||Loans||||||||
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|There were|no related party transacti|no related party transacti|no related party transacti|no related party transacti|ons<br>during the period (2|ons<br>during the period (2|021:Enil).||||
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|21.TRUSTEES|AND KEY IVIANAGEMENT||||EXPENSES||||||
|The reimbursement||of|expenses|was|as follows:-||||||
||||||||2022<br>No.|2021<br>No.|2022f|2021f|
|Trustees|||||||||2,395|1,190|
||||||||||2,395|1,190|
|Reimbursed|expenditure||was in|relation to||postage, stationery,|travel and other sundry||||
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|22.STAFF COSTS AND||EMPLOYEE||BENEFITS|||||||
|The average|number|of|monthly|employees||during the year was:-|||||
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|The total s|taff costs and employees<br>benefits was as follows:-|||
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|Wages and|salaries|44,621|35,517|
|Employers|Nl|||
|Employers|pension costs|1,524|922|
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