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|Contents|Page|
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|Legal and Administrative Information|3|
|Report Of the Trustees|4-10|
|Report of the Independent Auditor|11-13|
|Statement ofFinancial Activities|14|
|Balance Sheet|15|
|Statement ofCash Flows|16|
|Notes forming part of the financial statements|17-23|





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|Charity number:|298542||
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|Company number:|2186073||
|Registered Office and|||
|principal operational|||
|address:|Unit I, Warren|Street, Steventon, Basingstoke, RG25 3BL|
|Directorsand trustees|||
|Trustees:|R L Allsop||
||Dr J Bean|(resigned 16th October 2023)|
||H Featherstone||
||S Pizzey||
||A Rumbold|(resigned 22nd August 2023)|
||Dr S Wilkins||
|Chief Executive Officer:|A Rumbold|(Interim)|
|Secretary :|R L Allsop||



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||Notes|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|Total funds|
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|||Funds|Funds|Year ended|Year ended|
|||||31 December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
|Income and expenditure||||||
|Incomingresources||||||
|Grants received|14|125,000|53,061|178,061|11,089|
|Exhibit manufacture||378,299||378,299|563,622|
|Science Centre and Exhibition Hire||603,860||603,860|508,596|
|Other||293||293||
|SSP Rebate|||||764|
|Interest on deposits||6,525||6,525|796|
|Surrender of lease||50,000||50,000||
|Total incoming resources||1,163,977|53,061|1,217,038|1,091,347|
|Resources expended||||||
|Direct charitable expenditure|2, 14|1,160,234|14|||
|Fund-raising and publicity|3|2,857||2,857|1,841|
|Govemance costs|4|126,354||126,354|132,958|
|Total resources expended|5|1,289,445|48,114|1,337,559|1,339,610|
|Net movement in funds||(125,468)|4,947|(120,521)|(248,263)|
|Balances brought forward||942,851||942,851|14|
|at I January 2023||||||
|Balances carried forward||||||
|at 31 December 2023||817,383|4,947|822,330|942,851|





||||Year ended||Year ended|
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||||31 December||3 1 December|
||Notes||2023||2022|
|FIXED ASSETS|6||67,899||3,583|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||
|Stock and work in progress|7|20,891||16,281||
|Debtors|8|103,824||159,928||
|Cash at bank and in hand||726,089||847,593||
|||850,804||1,023,802||
|CREDITORS||||||
|Amounts falling due||||||
|within one year|9|(96,373)||(84,534)||
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||754,43 1||939,268|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||822,330||942,851|
|CREDITORS: Amounts falling due||||||
|after more than one year|10|||||
||||822,330||942,851|
|NET ASSETS||||||
|FUNDS||||||
|Unrestrictedincome funds||||||
|General funds|13|817,383||942,851||
|Designated funds|13|||||
|Total unrestricted funds|||817,383||942,851|
|Restricted funds|14||4,947|||
|TOTAL FUNDS|||822,330||942,851|





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|||Note|Year ended|Year ended|
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||||3 1 December|31 December|
||||2023|2022|
|Cash flows from operating activities:|||||
|Net cash generated from operating activities|||(59.658)|(238.037)|
|Cash flows from investing activities:|||||
|Interestfrom investments|||6,525|796|
|Purchase of plant and equipment|||(68,371)|(2,270)|
|Net cash used in investing activities|||(61$46)|(1.474)|
|Increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents|in the year||(121,504)|(239,511)|
|Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year|||847 ,593|1,087,104|
|Cash and cash equivalents at the end of theyear||2|726 089|847 593|
|Notes to the cash flow statement|||||



|I|Reconciliation of the net|Reconciliation of the net|income to net cash flow generated from|||
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||operating activities|||Year ended|Year ended|
|||||3 1 December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
||Net income for the|year||(120,521)|(248,263)|
||Adjustments for:|||||
||Depreciation charges|||4,055|16,393|
||Interestfrom investments|||(6,525)|(796)|
||Decrease/(lncrease)|in stocks||(4,610)|(3,366)|
||Decrease/(lncrease)|in debtors||56,104|(7,174)|
||Increase/(Decrease)|in creditors||11 839|5 169|
||Net cash providedby operating activities|||(59,658)|(238.037)|
|2|Analysis of cash and cash equivalents|||||
|||||Year ended|Year ended|
|||||31 December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
||Cash in hand|||51,175|179,310|
||Notice deposits (less|than|3 months)|674914|668 283|
||Total cash and cash equivalents|||726 089|847 593|





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|Leasehold buildings||
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|Exhibition tent and flooring|25%|
|Exhibits|20%|
|Other equipment|10-50%|
|Motorvehicles|25%|



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|2. Direct charitable expenditure|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total funds|Total funds|
||||Year ended|Year ended|
||||31 December|31 December|
||Funds|Funds|2023|2022|
|Provision of educational services|||||
|Exhibit manufacture|580,262||580,262|671,130|
|Science centre and exhibition hire|578,967|48,114|627,081|530,942|
|ScienceWorks|I ,005||1,005|2,739|
||1,160,234|48,114|1,208,348|1,204,811|
|3. Fund-raising and publicity|||||
|Fund-raising|||||
|Publicity|2,857||2,857|1,841|
||2,857||2,857|1,841|
|4. Governance costs|||||
|Salaries andoffice costs|64,017||017|102,644|
|Legal and professional fees|51,837||51,837|19,814|
|Audit fees|10,500||10,500|10,500|
||126,354||126,354|132,958|





|5. Total resources expended||||||
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|||||Year ended|Year ended|
|||||31 December|31 December|
||Staffcosts Depreciation||Other costs|Total 2023|Total 2022|
|Educational services|677,008|4,055|527,285|||
|Fund-raising and publicity|||2,857|2,857|1,841|
|Governance costs|64,017||62,337|126,354|132,958|
||741.025|4 055|592 479|1 337 559|1 339 610|
|||||Year ended|Year ended|
|||||31 December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
|Staffcosts||||||
|Wages and salaries||||674,961|706,585|
|Social security costs||||55,394|63,399|
|Employers pension contributions||||10,670|12,025|
|||||741 ,025|782,009|
|Other costs||||||
|Premises||||172,093|160,572|
|Materials||||94,616|170,859|
|Miscellaneous||||325,770|209,777|
|||||592,479|541,208|
|||||Year ended|Year ended|
|||||31 December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
|The averagenumber of employees, analysed by function was:||||||
|Educational services||||32|33|
|Management and administration ofthe charity||||3|4|
|||||35|37|



|||||Year ended|Year ended|
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||||31|December|31 December|
|||||2023|2022|
|||||No|No|
|€60,000|-|€70,000||2||
||-|180,000||||





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|6. Tangiblefixed assets||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Exhibition|||||
||building|||||
||tent and||Motor|||
||flooring|Exhibits|vehicles|Equipment|Total|
|Cost||||||
|At I January 2023|109,333|1,248,129|28,562|601,059|1,987,083|
|Expenditure in the year||||68,371|68,371|
|Disposals||||||
|At 31 December 2023|109,333|1,248,129|28,562|669,430|2,055,454|
|Depreciation||||||
|At I January 2023|109,333|1,248,129|28,562|597,476|1,983,500|
|Charge for the year||||4,055|4,055|
|Disposals||||||
|At 31 December 2023|109,333|1,248,129|28,562|601,531|1,987,555|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 December 2023||||67,899|67,899|
|Net book value||||||
|At 31 December 2022||||3,583|3,583|



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|7. Stock and work in progress|||
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||Year ended|Year ended|
||31 December|31 December|
||2023|2022|
|Stock|20,724|16,281|
|Work in progress|167||
||20,891|16,281|
|8. Debtors|||
||Year ended|Year ended|
||31 December|31 December|
||2023|2022|
|Trade debtors|3,935|32,274|
|Other debtors|23,688|26,500|
|Retentions|||
|Amounts recoverable on contracts|40,644|81,019|
|Prepayments and accrued income|35,303|19,401|
|Other taxes|254|734|
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|9. Creditors: amounts falling due within one|year||
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||Year ended|Year ended|
||31 December|31 December|
||2023|2022|
|Bank overdrafts|5,322|77|
|Payments on account|24,647|1,890|
|Trade creditors|12,403|15,486|
|Social security and other taxes|23,442|41,614|
|Accruals and deferredincome|27,947|23,124|
|Other creditors|2,612|2,343|
||96,373|84,534|



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|IO. Lease commitments|||
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||Year ended|Year ended|
||31 December|31 December|
||2023|2022|
|The totalof future lease payments under non-cancellable|||
|operating leases for each of the following periods:|||
|Within one year|82,862|62,638|
|Between two and five years|259,016|26,940|
|Over five years|||
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|13.<br>Unrestricted and designated funds||||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Other|Total|
||Designated|Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
|||funds|funds|
|Balances brought forward||||
|at 1 January 2023||942,851|942,851|
|(Deficit)/Surplus/ in the year||(125,468)|(125,468)|
|Balances carried forward||||
|at 31 December 2023||817,383|817,383|



|14.|Restricted funds|||||
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|||Balance|Movement|in resources|Balance|
|||I January|Incoming|Outgoing|31 December|
|||2023|||2023|
|The|Association for Science and Discovery Centres||6,061|2,419|3,642|
|The|Wolfson Foundation||47,000|45,695|1,305|
||||53,061|48, 1 14|4,947|