Charity Registration Number: 295676
## **Report of the Trustees and**
## **Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2022**
## **for**
**The 21st Century Trust**
## **(A Trust)**
Green Accountancy Limited Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Witney Business and Innovation Centre Windrush Park Road Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7DX
**The 21st Century Trust**
## **Contents**
|Report of the trustees|1|to|5|
|---|---|---|---|
|Independent examiner's report|||6|
|Statement of Financial Activities|||7|
|Balance Sheet|||8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9|to|16|
## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 December 2022**
The Trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the Trust for the year ended 31st December 2022. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on pages 9-11 of the attached financial statements and comply with the charity’s trust deed, applicable laws and requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice on “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” revised and issued in March 2005.
## **Reference and administrative details**
## **Registered Charity number**
295676
## **Registered office**
56 Falcon Point Hopton Street London SE1 9JW
## **Trustees in office during the accounting period**
Peter Wilson-Smith, Chairman Benjamin Glahn Tina Micklethwait Dr Jill Pellew Stephen Salyer Philip Stephens Randall C Teague Dr Catherine Wills (deceased 29 July 2022)
## **Director**
John Lotherington
## **Solicitors**
Farrer & Co. 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LH
## **Bankers**
Coutts & Co. Commercial Banking 440 Strand London WC2R 0QS
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Fund Managers**
Schroder Investment Management Ltd 31 Gresham Street London EC2V 7QA
## **Independent Examiner**
Mark Thompson FCCA PG Lemon LLP First Floor Unicorn House 221/222 Shoreditch High Street London E1 6PJ
## **Accountants**
Green Accountancy Limited Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Witney Business and Innovation Centre Windrush Park Road Witney Oxfordshire OX29 7DX
## **Constitution and organisation**
The 21st Century Trust was constituted by a Declaration of Trust dated 11th November 1986. There are at present seven Trustees. New trustees are appointed by those Trustees already in office. Whilst the Trustees are ultimately responsible for the charity, they have delegated the day to day management of the charity to a director. The director reports to the Trustees both formally and informally on a regular basis. The names of the Trustees who were in office at the date on which the attached accounts were approved are set out on the fly page.
## **Charitable Objectives and Public Benefit**
The Trust is registered for charitable purposes with the Charity Commission. The Trust’s objective is to strengthen, through education, links between free societies throughout the world and to promote the values they represent. The Trustees confirm that they have considered the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit.
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Policies for achieving these objectives**
From its inception, the Trust looked to the future, in its first phase concentrating its efforts on able men and women in mid-career who will become leaders in various fields in their respective countries. It is multidisciplinary and has addressed a wide range of current international concerns, largely through a programme of conferences and the Fellowship, a forum for the exchange of ideas and best practice among Fellows on through their careers. The Trust has always worked in collaboration with other partners where it was possible to share the mission, outcomes and costs, to sustain and amplify its work. Owing to the impact of the financial crisis on a small endowment, and to secure the future of the Trust’s Fellowship, the trustees took the decision in 2008 to negotiate a core partnership with the Salzburg Global Seminar, an American non-profit organization with a nearly identical mission, also with an international remit. To that end the trustees resolved to suspend the independent activities of the Trust from May 2009 in order to further the shared mission in general, and in particular to develop the Salzburg Global Fellowship - a joint network comprising the alumni of the Salzburg Global Seminar and the Fellowship of the 21st Century Trust. This arrangement enabled the Trust to scale up opportunities for Fellows in line with the Trust’s charitable goals and maximize the returns on its remaining funds. Since then the Trust has continued to collaborate with Salzburg Global Seminar while initiating its own programme activities in London and elsewhere.
## **Investment policy**
The investments held by the Trust have been acquired in accordance with the powers available to the Trustees. The objective in managing the portfolio is to maximise the overall rate of return in so far as this is consistent with maintaining a prudent and balanced investment exposure, whilst giving regard to the Trust’s cash requirements from time to time.
## **Reserves policy**
The Trust has sufficient funding in hand to cover the budget set for 2023 and meet its obligations for the foreseeable future.
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. The trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK Accounting Standards and applicable law).
The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of its incoming resources and application of resources of the charity for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees should follow best practice and: -select suitable accoun-ng policies and then apply them consistently;
-make judgments and es-mates that are reasonable and prudent;
- -state whether applicable UK Accoun-ng Standards have been followed;
- -observe the methods and principles in the chari-es SORP;
-prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable law, regulations and the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Risk management**
The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed. The Trustees believe that, by ensuring controls over key financial systems and by examining the operational and business risks faced by the Charity, they have established effective systems to mitigate those risks.
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Review of the year's activities**
The Trustees report with deep sadness the death of Dr Catherine Wills in July 2022. She had for so many years generously supported the Trust – which was founded by her father, Sir David Wills – and served as a trustee from 1999 to 2008 and again from 2017 until her death. Her wise counsel, her unassuming but determined judgments, and her kindness will be sorely missed.
The first principal event of the year for the Trust was its conference Who Should Own the Past?, 6 to 8 April 2022, which brought together Rhodes Scholars and members of Goodenough College, London, at Salzburg Global Seminar, in collaboration with the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, to work on contested histories and how they could be better understood and communicated. This built on Neil MacGregor’s Palliser Lecture from December 2021, Making the History We Need: Civic Engagement in Rethinking the Past. In the summer, 11 to 15 July, the Trust supported a timely and important Salzburg Global session Connecting and Supporting Ukrainian Civil Society in Time of War, in which the Trust’s Director also participated. A further project, The Stories We Tell Ourselves: brains, minds and narratives, and how we change them to change the world, planned for 2 to 4 December 2022 in Venice, had to be postponed, owing to family bereavement. Planning also commenced for the first Mortimer Dialogue, the theme being the Responsibility to Protect, in memory of the former Chair of the Trust, Edward Mortimer; and for a series of Palliser Lectures to come on global governance and collaboration in an increasingly fractured world, in partnership with the Aga Khan Centre.
The Trust generated an operating surplus of £24,878 (2021 surplus: £18,312). Based on the Market Value of investments the charity is recognising net losses of £1,297 (2021 gains: £1,162). The total surplus is £23,581 (2021 surplus: £19,474).
Report of the trustees approved by order of the board of trustees on ........................ and signed on the board's behalf by:
Peter Wilson-Smith, Chairman Trustee
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of The 21st Century Trust**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of The 21st Century Trust (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2022.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation 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 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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; or
- 3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
Mark Thompson FCCA PG Lemon LLP First Floor Unicorn House 221/222 Shoreditch High Street London E1 6PJ
Date: .............................................
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2022**
|Unrestricted
funds
Note
£
**Incoming resources**
_Income and endowments from:_
Donations and legacies
3.1
87,618
Investment income
3.2
1,329
**Total Income**
88,947
**Resources expended**
_Expenditure on:_
Charitable activities - expenditure
4.1
64,069
**Total expenditure**
64,069
Net income/(expenditure) before
investment gains/(losses)
24,878
Net gains/(losses) on investments
(1,297)
Net movement in funds
23,581
_Reconciliation of funds:_
Total funds brought forward
167,725
Total funds carried forward
191,306|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
20,000
20,000|Total
2022
£
87,618
1,329
88,947
64,069
64,069
24,878
(1,297)
23,581
187,725
211,306|Total
2021
£
139,255
1,205|
|---|---|---|---|
||||140,460|
||||122,148|
||||122,148|
||||18,312
1,162|
||||19,474
168,251|
||||187,725|
## **Continuing operations**
All income and expenditure has arisen from continuing activities.
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**The 21st Century Trust**
**Charity Number 295676**
## **Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2022**
|Unrestricted
funds
Note
£
**Fixed assets**
Investments
5
6,747
**Total fixed assets**
6,747
**Current assets**
Debtors
6
35,823
Cash at bank and in hand
7
151,496
**Total current assets**
187,319
Creditors: amounts falling due within one
year
8
2,760
**Net current assets/(liabilities)**
184,559
**Total net assets**
191,306
**Funds of the Charity**
Unrestricted funds
9
191,306
Restricted income funds
9
**Total funds**
191,306|Restricted
funds
£
20,000
20,000
-
-
-
-
-
20,000
20,000
20,000|Total
2022
£
26,747
26,747
35,823
151,496
187,319
2,760
184,559
211,306
191,306
20,000
211,306|Total
2021
£
26,967|
|---|---|---|---|
||||26,967|
||||26,300
179,835|
||||206,135
45,377|
||||160,758|
||||187,725|
||||167,725
20,000|
||||187,725|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on and were signed on its behalf by:
............................................. Peter Wilson-Smith, Chairman Trustee
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## 1 **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
• the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)',
- Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'
- and with the Charities Act 2011.
The charity is a Trust and constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2 **Accounting Policies**
## **Income**
Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
- the charity becomes entitled to the resources;
- it is more likely than not that the trustees will receive the resources;
- the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
## **Grants and donations**
Grants and donations are included in the SoFA when the general income recognition criteria are met.
## **Tax reclaims on donations and gifts**
Gift Aid receivable is included in income when there is a valid declaration from the donor. Any Gift Aid amount recovered on a donation is considered to be part of that gift and is treated as an addition to the same fund as the initial donation unless the donor or the terms of the appeal have specified otherwise.
## **Expenditure**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
## **Governance and support costs**
Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support. Governance costs comprise all costs involving public accountability of the charity and its compliance with regulation and good practice.
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Investments**
Fixed asset investments in quoted shares, traded bonds and similar investments are valued at initially at cost and subsequently at fair value (their market value) at the year end. The same treatment is applied to unlisted investments unless fair value cannot be measured reliably in which case it is measured at cost less impairment.
Investments held for resale or pending their sale and cash and cash equivalents with a maturity date of less than 1 year are treated as current asset investments
## **Taxation**
The charity registered as a charity on 3 December 1986 and since that date has been exempt from corporation tax on its charitable trading activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **Debtors**
Debtors (including trade debtors and loans receivable) are measured on initial recognition at settlement amount after any trade discounts or amount advanced by the charity. Subsequently, they are measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be received.
## **Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
## **Liability recognition**
Liabilities are recognised where it is more likely than not that there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources and the amount of the obligation can be measured with reasonable certainty.
The charity has creditors which are measured at settlement amounts less any trade discounts
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**The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits**
The charitable company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the charitable company's pension scheme are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **3.1 Income from donations and legacies**
|Unrestricted
funds
£
HDH Wills Charitable Trust
40,000
Individual Donations
38,091
BACS payment from Amazon
5
Gift Aid
9,522
**Total donations and legacies**
87,618
**3.2 Investment income**
Unrestricted
funds
£
Interest received
252
HMRC interest (on Gift aid)
-
Unit trust accumulations
1,077
**Total investment income**
1,329
**Total income**
88,947|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-|Total
2022
£
40,000
38,091
5
9,522
87,618
Total
2022
£
252
-
1,077
1,329
88,947|Total
2021
£
7,500
105,400
5
26,350|
|---|---|---|---|
||||139,255|
||||Total
2021
£
15
175
1,015|
||||1,205|
|||||
||||140,460|
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **4.1 Charitable activities - expenditure**
The advancement of education through the interchange of scientific knowledge, professional and administrative skills to provide an understanding of the values of free societies.
|Unrestricted
funds
£
_Direct cost of charitable activity:_
Sponsorship
42,237
_Support costs:_
Bank charges
27
Consultancy
-
Events
18,845
Insurance
142
Telephone
3
Travel
55
Governance
2,760
Total expenditure on charitable activities
64,069|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|Total
2022
£
42,237
27
-
18,845
142
3
55
2,760
64,069|Total
2021
£
110,580
20
1,896
6,525
136
151
290
2,550|
|---|---|---|---|
||||122,148|
## **4.2 Support costs**
All support costs are allocated to the single charitable activity of the charity and are included above.
|**Governance costs included above**
Unrestricted
funds
£
Accountancy
1,440
Independent examination
1,320
**Total governance costs**
2,760|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-|Total
2022
£
1,440
1,320
2,760|Total
2021
£
1,320
1,230|
|---|---|---|---|
||||2,550|
## **Trustee remuneration**
None of the trustees were remunerated during the year or the previous year. No trustee expenses were paid during the year
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**The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
|**4.3 Staff costs**
Unrestricted
funds
£
Salaries - Gross pay
-
Salaries - Pensions
-
**Total staff costs**
-|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-|Total
2022
£
-
-
-|Total
2021
£
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||-|
There are no staff working for the charity whose contracts are with and are paid by a related party. There were no ex-gratia payments made and no redundancy payments made. There are no staff working for the charity who were paid more than £60,000.
|**4.4 Staff numbers**
Average headcount in the year:
Charitable activities
**5**
**Investments**|2022
-|2021
-|
|---|---|---|
||||
|**Market value**
At 1 January 2022
Accumulated income and dividends
Revaluations
At 31 December 2022
**Net book value**
At 31 December 2022
At 31 December 2021
**6**
**Debtors**
Unrestricted
funds
£
Gift aid receivable
35,823
**Total debtors**
35,823|Restricted
funds
£
-
-|Listed
Investments
£
26,967
1,077
(1,297)
26,747
26,747
26,967
Total
Total
2022
2021
£
£
35,823
26,300
35,823
26,300|Listed
Investments
£
26,967
1,077
(1,297)
26,747
26,747
26,967
Total
Total
2022
2021
£
£
35,823
26,300
35,823
26,300|
|---|---|---|---|
||||26,747|
||||26,747|
||||26,967|
||||Total
2021
£
26,300|
||||26,300|
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## **The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **7 Cash at bank and in hand**
|Unrestricted
funds
£
Current Account
151,496
**Total cash at bank and in hand**
151,496
**8**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Unrestricted
funds
£
Contribution to Salzburg Global Seminar
-
Accruals
2,760
Trade creditors
-
**Total creditors due within one year**
2,760
**9**
**Charity funds - current year**
At 1
January
2022
£
**Restricted funds**
Michael Weir Bursaries
20,000
**Total Restricted funds**
20,000
**Unrestricted funds**
167,725
**Total funds**
187,725|Restricted
funds
£
-
-
Restricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
Incoming
resources
£
-
-
87,650
87,650|Total
2022
£
151,496
151,496
Total
2022
£
-
2,760
-
2,760
Resources
expended
£
-
-
64,069
64,069|Total
2021
£
179,835|
|---|---|---|---|
||||179,835|
||||Total
2021
£
37,422
2,665
5,290|
||||45,377|
||||At 31
December
2022
£
20,000|
||||20,000
191,306|
||||211,306|
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**The 21st Century Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2022**
## **10 Charity funds - previous year**
|**Restricted funds**
Michael Weir Bursaries
**Total Restricted funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total funds**|At 1
January
2021
£
20,000
20,000
148,251
168,251|Incoming
resources
£
-
-
141,622
141,622|Resources
expended
£
-
-
122,148
122,148|At 31
December
2021
£
20,000|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||20,000
167,725|
|||||187,725|
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