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|Trustees'<br>annual<br>report (incorporating||the|Directors' report)|1to 11|
|Independent<br>auditor's|report to the members|||12to 15|
|Statement offinancial|activities (including||income and||
|expenditure<br>account)||||16|
|Statement offinancial|position|||17|
|Notes to the financial|statements|||18to 27|





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|Reference|and adm|inistrative<br>|inistrative<br>|details|details|||||
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|Registered|charity|name||Hitchin Youth Trust||||||
|Charity registration||number||302398||||||
|Company|registration||number|00399872||||||
|Principal office and <br>offic||registered||Lamboume<br>House<br>111Walsworth<br>Road||||||
|||||Hitchin||||||
|||||SG49SP||||||
|The trustees||||||||||
|||||Mr P AT Kelly||||||
|||||Mr AJ Hardy<br>Mrs J Morgan|||Resigned 31"January 2024|||
|||||Mr D RMclntosh||||||
|||||Mr T C Stalkartt||||||
|||||Miss L Evans||||||
|||||Mrs C Skeels||||||
|||||Mrs SBrown||||||
|||||Mrs AJ Mills||||||
|||||MrJ G Edwards||||||
|||||Mrs T Hoque||||||
|||||Mrs J Donnelly||||||
|||||Ms K Sabine||||||
|||||Mrs SWatkinson||||||
|||||Ms G Carpenter||||||
|||||Mrs FHojeer|||Appointed||28'" February 2024|
|Company|secretary|||Mr D R Mclntosh<br>Mrs SWatldnson|||Resigned 27e September 2023<br>Appointed 27" September 2023|||
|Auditor||||Hicks and Company||||||
|||||Chartered<br>Accountants||and|Statutory|Auditors||
|||||First Floor||||||
|||||99Bancroft||||||
|||||Hitchin||||||
|||||SGS 1NQ||||||
|Bankers||||Barctays Bank||||||
|||||5/8 High Street||||||
|||||Hitchin||||||
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|Year end|ed 31August|2023||
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|Investment|managers|UBS Wealth Management|Limited|
|(Until April|2023)|5Broadgate||
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|||EC2M 2QS||
|Investment|managers|Cazenove<br>Capital||
|(From April|2023)|1 London Wall Place||
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|Grant|Aid awards<br>approved|and cancelled|and cancelled|during the year|during the year|during the year|were:||||
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||Organisational<br>awards||||||||40,115|30,558|
||Organisational<br>awards|—Mental|Health Recovery||||||||
||(COVID-19 support)|||||||||75,000|
||Personal<br>grants||||||||26,521|22,570|
||School trip grants||||||||9,448|10,553|
||Bursary awards||||||||5,300|1,830|
||Tracy Ryan Hardship|Fund|||||||110|886|
||Photocopying<br>for Youth Organisations||||||||346|274|
||Total grant aid awards||||||||81,840|141,671|
||Unclaimed<br>grants over the last 5||years therefore|||cancelled|||(7,715)|(11,417)|
||Organisational<br>award|for Mental|Health||Recovery||redesignated|in|||
||year ended 31 August|2024 towards||counselling||project|||(15,197)||
||Total awards<br>cancelled||||||||(22,912)|(11,417)|





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|||Net expense|||||(76,325)|
|||Realised|gain on investments||||152,887|
|||Unrealised<br>loss on revaluation||ofinvestments|||(46,387)|
|||Total net increase<br>in funds|||||30,175|
|As|at|the 31 August 2023 the Trust||had Unrestricted|General|Funds ofE4,958,345|This comprises:|
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|||Tangible|fixed assets and investments||||4,947,624|
|||Current|assets||||50,801|
|||Current|liabilities||||(40,080)|
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|Income and endowments||||||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||||5|50,845|50,845|38,780|
|Investment<br>income||||||6|62,576|62,576|16,489|
|Total income|||||||113,421|113,421|55,269|
|Expenditure||||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising funds:||||||||||
|Net investment||management||costs||7|20,228|20,228|31,410|
|Expenditure<br>on charitable|||activities|||8,9|169,518|169,518|213,848|
|Other expenditure||||||10||||
|Total expenditure|||||||189,746|189,746|245,258|
|Net(expense)|||||||(76,325)|(76,325)|(189,989)|
|Net gains/(losses)|on investments|||||11|106,500|106,500|(822,998)|
|Net income/(losses)||and|net movement||in funds||30,175|30,175|(1,012,987)|
|Reconciliation<br>of|funds|||||||||
|Total funds brought||forward|||||4,928,170|4,928,170|5,941,157|
|Total funds carried||forward|||||4,958,345|4,958,345|4,928,170|





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|Fixed assets|||||
|Tangible fixed assets||15|123,505|124,285|
|Investments||16|4,824,119|4,876,434|
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|Current assets|||||
|Debtors||17|4,579|4,714|
|Cash at bank and in hand|||46,222|10,103|
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|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|18|(40,080)|(87,366)|
|Net current liabilities|||10,721|(72,549)|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||4,958,345|4,928,170|
|Net assets|||4,958,345|4,928,170|
|Funds ofthe charity|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||4,958,345|4,928,170|
|Total charity funds||20|4,958,345|4,928,170|






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|Cost of providing||facilities free of|||||
|charge to other youth organisatfons|||50,845|50,845|38,745|38,745|
||||50,845|50,845|38,780|38,780|
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|Income from|listed investments||57,209|57,209|16,205|16,205|
|Bank interest|receivable||5,387|5,367|284|284|
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|Grants, Awards, Bursaries and|||||||||
|Donations|||||85,385|85,385|150,863|150,863|
|In house Youth Groups|||||79,123|79,123|58,215|58,215|
|Supportcosts|||||5,010|5,010|4,770|4,770|
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|Expenditure<br>on charitable||||activities|by activity type||||
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|In house Youth Groups|||||79,123||79,123|58,215|
|Governance<br>costs||||||5,010|5,010|4,770|
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|Unrealised<br>(losses)||on listed|||||||
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|Depreciation|oftangible<br>fixed assets|780|587|
|Loss on disposal oftangible<br>fixed assets||||
|Fees payable|for the audit ofthe financial statements|1,650|1,570|



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|The tote'I|staff costs|and|employee||benefits for||the reporting|period are analysed as follows:||
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|Employer|contributions||to pension||plans|||296|230|
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|Cost or valuation||||
|At 1 September 2022|121,429|8,782|130,211|
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|At 31August 2023|121,429|8,782|130,211|
|Depreciation||||
|At 1 September 2022||5,926|5,926|
|Charge for the year||780|780|
|Disposals||||
|At 31August 2023||6,706|6,706|
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|At 31August 2023|121,429|2,076|123,505|
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|At 1 September 2022|156,326|4,720,108|4,876,434|
|Additions|502,376|5,040,848|5,543,224|
|Disposals|(271,118)|(5,278,034)|(5,549,152)|
|Fair value movements||(46,387)|(46,387)|
|At 31August 2023|387,584|4,436,535|4,824,119|
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||Bond investments||||543,570|1,166,007|
||Equity investments||||3,110,807|3,554,101|
||Alternative<br>investments||||782,158||
||Cash held within|multi-asset||fund|225,453||
||Money Market Time|||||132,731|
||Accounts and Investments|||on call|162,131|23,595|
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||Historical cost at 31||August||4,870,507|5,273,607|
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|Tangible fixed assets||123,505|123,505|
|Investments||4,824,119|4,824,119|
|Current assets||50,801|50,801|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(40,080)|(40,080)|
|Net assets||4,958,345|4,958,345|
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|Tangible fixed assets||124,285|124,285|
|Investments||4,876,434|4,876,434|
|Current assets||14,817|14,817|
|Creditors less than|1 year|(87,366)|(87,366)|
|Net assets||4,928,170|4,928,170|



