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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|FROM||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||1,204|34,734|35&938|10,541|
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Promotion<br>of libraries<br>in education|||371,780||371,780|261,534|
|Other trading<br>activities|||4,887||4,887||
|Investment<br>income|||119||119||
|Total|||377 9!IO|34,734|412,724|272,081|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||||
|Raising funds|||4,499||4,499||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||
|Promotion<br>of libraries<br>in education|||393,751|24,764|418,515|314,193|
|Total|||398,250|24,764|423,014|314 193|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)<br>Transfers<br>between<br>funds||20|(20,260)<br>750|9,970<br>~750&|(10,290)|(42,112)|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||(191510)|9,220|(10,290)|(42,112)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS|||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|||214,555|18,686|233,241|275,353|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||I55,045|27,905|222,951|233,241|





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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||||funds|fund|funds|funds|
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|FIXEDASSETS|||||||
|Intangible<br>assets||12|301935||30,935|5,805|
|Tangible assets||13|182,424||182424|188037|
||||213,359||213,359|193,842|
|CURRENT ASSETS|||||||
|Stocks||14|3,490||3&490|3,971|
|Debtors||15|39,167||39,167|64,719|
|Cash at bank and|in hand||118523|27 906|146,429|203,698|
||||161,180|27,906|189,086|272,388|
|CREDITORS|||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year||16|(145,862)||(145,862)|(196,376)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS|||15,318|27,906|43,224|76,012|
|TOTAL ASSETS|LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES||228,677|27,906|256,583|269,854|
|CREDITORS|||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due after more than one year||17|(33,632)||(33,632)|(36,613)|
|NET ASSETS|||195,045|27,908|222,951|233 241|
|FUNDS||20|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||195,045|214,555|
|Restricted<br>funds|||||27 906|18,686|
|TOTAL FUNDS|||||222,951|233,241|





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||||||2023f|2022f|
||Fundraising<br>income||||~4887||
|4.|INVESTMENT INCOME||||||
||||||2023f|2022|
||interest receivable||||119||
|5.|INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES||||||
||||||2023|2022|
||||||Promotion||
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||||||libraries||
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||||||education|activities|
||||||f||
||Publication<br>sales||||4,553|7,434|
||Membership<br>and subscribers||||198,850|169,951|
||School librarian sales||||30,762|32,276|
||Training<br>courses||||23,967|18,914|
||Job advertisement|income|||8,076|11,159|
||Other income||||18,253|13,600|
||Research<br>income||||2,850||
||Website income||||1,704||
||Income - partnerships||||506||
||Member events income||||4,800||
||Weekend||||77,459|8,200|
||||||371,780|261,534|
|6.|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS||||||
|||||Direct|Support||
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||Promotion<br>of libraries||in education|132187|286 328|418 515|
|7.|DIRECT COSTS OF||CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES||||
||||||2023<br>F|2022f|
||Course expenses<br>and||publications||100,915|51,366|
||Specialists|||||1,682|
||Advertising<br>& Marketing||||6,508|2,450|
||Award expenditure||||24 764|15,250|
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|SUPPORT COSTS|||||||||
|||||||Other|costs<br>f|Totals<br>f|
|Promotion<br>of|libraries||in|education||259 865|26463|286 328|
|Accountancy|fees includes:||||||||
||||||||2023<br>f|2022<br>F|
|Independent|examiner||-fee for accounts and independent|||examination|4,250|3,950|
|Independent|examiner||-fee for other services||||6094|4 268|
||||||||10,344|8,218|
|Support costs, included||||in|the above, are as follows:||||
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||||||||Promotion||
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||||||||libraries||
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||||||||education|activities|
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|Wages|||||||203,001|181,264|
|Establishment|expenses||||||51577|6,266|
|Postage, stationery||and||office supplies|||4,156|4,662|
|IT & Software|Costs||||||9,143|6,146|
|Bank charges|||||||1,309|1&472|
|General<br>Administration|||||||22,612|16,659|
|Foreign Currency Variances|||||||(26)|45|
|Staff training|||||||2,727|2,291|
|Amortisation|of intangible||||fixed assets||3,870|3,870|
|Depreciation|of tangible|||fixed assets|||5,613|5,534|
|Interest payable|||||||1,883|1,249|
|Accountancy|fees||||||10,344|8,218|
|Legal and professional||||fees|||2,297|767|
|Board travel|and meeting||||costs||5,659|5,002|
|Consultancy|fees||||||8,163||
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|Charitable<br>activities||||7|6|
|No employees<br>received emoluments||in excess of860,000.||||
|COMPARATIVES<br>FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL|||ACTIVITIES|||
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
||||funds|fund|funds|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|FROM|||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||764|9,777|10,541|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Promotion<br>of libraries<br>in education|||261,534||261,534|
|Investment<br>income||||||
|Total|||262 304|9777|272 081|
|EXPENDITURE ON||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Promotion<br>of libraries<br>in education|||298,943|15250|314193|
|NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)<br>Transfers<br>between funds|||(36,639)<br>2,250|(5,473)<br>~2,250)|(42,112)|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||(34,389)|(7,723)|(42,112)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||
|Total funds<br>brought<br>forward|||248,944|26,409|275,353|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||214,555|18686|233,241|





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||Computer|
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|COST||
|At 1 April 2022|18,437|
|Additions|29,000|
|At 31 March 2023|~47437|
|AMORTISATION||
|At 1 April 2022|12,632|
|Charge for year|~3870|
|At 31 March 2023|16,502|
|NET BOOK VALUE||
|At 31 March 2023|30,935|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||Freehold|and||
||||property|fittings|Totals|
||||E|E|E|
||COST|||||
||At 1 April 2022 and 31|March 2023|190401|26 496|216 897|
||DEPRECIATION|||||
||At 1 April 2022||10,824|18,036|28,860|
||Charge for year||3,608|2,005|5613|
||At 31 March 2023||14,432|20 041|34473|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||
||At 31 March 2023||175,969|8455|182,424|
||At 31 March 2022||179,577|8,460|188,037|
|14.|STOCKS|||||
|||||2023|2022|
|||||E|E|
||Finished<br>goods|||3,490|3,971|
|15.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||
|||||2023|2022|
|||||E|E|
||Trade debtors|||28,440|58,188|
||Other debtors|||63|1,344|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued income|||10,664|5,187|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||2023<br>f|2022<br>E|
|Bank loans and overdrafts|(see note 18)|||||||||3,238|3,560|
|Trade creditors||||||||||429|805|
|Taxation<br>and social security||||||||||7,557|9,918|
|Other creditors||||||||||134636|182,093|
|||||||||||145,862|196,376|
|Deferred<br>income<br>relates|to membership||and school|librarian||subscriptions||released||in<br>line with|the period|
|membership<br>and income|received<br>in advance for a course||||in the|following|financial||period.|||
|Deferred<br>income brought|forward was F168,783(2022:f112,930) and this was all||||||||released to the||profit and lo|
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|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|FALLING DUE||AFTER MORE||THAN|ONE YEAR||||||
|||||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||||F|F|
|Bank loans (see note 18)||||||||||33,632|36,613|
|LOANS||||||||||||
|An analysis<br>ofthe maturity|of|loans is given below:||||||||||
|||||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||||E|F|
|Amounts<br>falling due within<br>Bank loans|one year on demand:|||||||||~3238|~3560|
|Amounts<br>falling between|one|and two years:||||||||||
|Bank loans - 1-2years||||||||||3,238|3,560|
|Amounts<br>falling due between<br>Bank loans - 2-5 years||two and five|years:|||||||~9715|10680|
|Amounts<br>falling due in more than five years:||||||||||||
|Repayable<br>by instalments:||||||||||||
|Bank loans - more than 5years||||||||||20,679|22,373|
|SECURED DEBTS||||||||||||
|The following<br>secured debts are included|||within creditors:|||||||||
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||||||At|1.4.22<br>f|in funds<br>f|funds|31.3.23<br>f|
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|General|fund||||208,555||(20,260)|750|189,045|
|Future<br>Building|||Works|||6,000|||0000|
||||||214,555||(20,260)|750|195,045|
|Restricted funds||||||||||
|Awards|||||18,686||9,970|(750)|27,906|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||||233,241||$10290)||222 951|
|Net movement|||in funds,|included|in the above are as follows:|||||
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||||||||resources<br>f|expended<br>f|in funds<br>f|
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|General|fund||||||377,990|(398,250)|(20,260)|
|Restricted funds||||||||||
|Awards|||||||34,734|(24,764)|9,970|
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|||||movement|between|At|
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|General|fund||242,944|(36,639)|2,250|208,555|
|Future|Building Works||6,000|||6,000|
||||246,944|(36,639)|2,250|214,555|
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|Awards|||26,409|(5,473)|(2,250)|18,686|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||275 353|~42 112)||233,241|





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