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|CONTENTS||PAG|
|TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT|||
|Chair's Report|||
|Our purposes<br>and activities|||
|Achievements<br>and Performance|||
|Financial<br>Review|||
|Plans for the Future|||
|Reference and Administrative<br>Details|||
|Structure Governance<br>and Management|||
|Trustee responsibilities<br>relating to the financial|statements|10|
|Statement as to disclosure to our Independent|Examiners||
|INDEPENDENT<br>EXAMINER'S REPORT TO|THE MEMBERS|12|
|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES||14|
|BALANCE SHEET||15|
|CASH FLOW STATEMENT||16|
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS||17|
|DETAILED INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT||32|





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||Note|Funda|Funds|2021|2020|
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|Income from:||||||
|Donations and grants|2|278,311|72,086|948,9S7|43,684|
|Charitable<br>activities|3|207,258|-|207,258|313,197|
|Other trading<br>activities|4|40,658|168|40,828|137,266|
|Total Income||624&227|72,254|6SB~1|494,147|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||
|Raising funds|5|50,901|26,647|77&648|83,423|
|Charitable<br>activities|6|360,793|13,936|374,729|465,574|
|Total expenditure||411,684|40,683|462,277|648,997|
|Net Income I(expenditure)|8|112,539|31,671|144,204|(54,850)|
|Transfers<br>between<br>Funds|21|3,405|(3,405)|||
|Other recognised<br>gains Ilosses||||||
|Remeasurement<br>surplus I(deficit) on<br>defined benefit<br>pension scheme|10|(418,000)|-|(418,000)|288,000|
|NET BIOVEBIENT IN FUNDS||(302,082)|28,286|(273,798)|233,160|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||
|Fund Balances brought forward||502,922|71,918|574,840|341,590|
|Total Funds carried forward||200,880|100,'I84|30'l,044|674,840|





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|Cash flows from operating|activities:|||||
|Net cash provided by (usedin) operating||||||
|activities (SeeNote 23)||||86,564|140,942|
|Cash flows from investing|activities|||||
|Interest from investments||||||
|Sale ofinvestments||||||
|Purchase ofFixed Assets|||||(5,244)|
|Net cash provided by (usedin) investing|||activities||(5,244)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash <br>reporting<br>period|equivalents|in||86,564|135,698|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>reporting<br>period|at beginning||of|295,180|159,482|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>period|at end of|reporting||381,744|295,180|





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|3.|Income from charitable activities|||||
||Admission<br>charges|including|gift aid|25,541|115,505|
||Support from Local|Authodty||181,482|160,110|
||Other income|||235|16,198|
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|4.|Income from other trading||activities|||
||Shop sales|||7,373|26,850|
||Rents and service charges|||32,203|30,776|
||Filming fees||||66,203|
||Other income|||1,250|11,437|
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|Cost ofshop stock sold|||3,834|12,600|
|Advertising|costs||1,871|419|
|Staff and|administrative|costs|71,843|70,404|
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|Staff costs||69,492|56,251|74,363|200,106|
|Buildings||4,547|31,824|4,547|40,918|
|Grounds||||19,506|19,S06|
|Activities||5,239|5,264||10,503|
|Administration||6,001|7,235|3,617|18,853|
|Depreciation|||17,561|524|18,085|
|Support costs (Note 7)||17,126|13,865|16,329|49,322|
|Governance|costs (Note 7)|6,750|5,464|7,222|19,436|
|Totals 2021||109,157|137,464|128,108|374,729|



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|Staff costs||109,673|71,728|90,742|272,143|
|Buildings||6,171|43,201|6,171|55,543|
|Grounds||||10,209|10,209|
|Activities||16,437|230||18,667|
|Administration||6,094|8,192|4,095|18,381|
|Depreciation|||17,559||17,SS9|
|Support costs (Note 7)||20,671|13,519|17,103|51,293|
|Governance|costs (Note 7)|8,777|5,740|7,262|21,779|
|Totals 2020||169,823|160,169|135,582|465,574|





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||Staff costs|||||Time|35,098||15,359|50,457|
||Printing<br>&communications|||||Usage|14,224||837|15,051|
||Independent|Examiner|fees|||Governance|||2,700|2,700|
||Other Trust|costs||||Governance|||540|540|
||Totals||||||49,322||19,438|68,758|
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||Staff costs|||||Time|41,324||17,973|59,297|
||Printing<br>&communications|||||Usage|9,969||566|10,555|
||Independent|Examiner|fees||Governance||||2,680|2,880|
||Other Trust|costs|||Governance||||540|540|
||Totals||||||51,293||21,779|73,072|
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||This is stated|after charging:|||||||||
||Depreciation||||||||18,085|17,559|
||Interest payable||||||||Nil|Nil|
||Auditor's<br>remuneration||as|Independent||Examiner|||2,700|2,600|





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|Analysis ofstaff costs|||||||||
|The aggregate staff costs were:|||||||||
|Directly|employed:|Gross|salaries||||234,466|249,430|
|||Social|secudity|costs|||12,893|14,080|
|||Other|pension|costs|||46,760|99,052|
|Travel,|training<br>and recruitment||costs||||969|3,182|
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|The Other pension<br>Costs include f14,000 (f55,000 in 2019/20) in respect of an FRS 17|||||||||
|pension|adjustment.||||||||
|Particulars<br>ofemployees:|||||||No.|No.|
|Average|number ofstaff|(full time equivalents)|||during the|year|10||
|Number|ofstaff to whom|retirement<br>benefits are accruing||||under|||
|defined|benefit scheme|||||||10|
|Number|ofemployees<br>with emoluments|||above f60,000|||None|None|





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|Pension increase rate|2.8%|8%|
|Salary increase rate|3.5'/o|2.5%|
|Discount rate|2.05%|2.3%|




|Year ended:|31 March 2021|31 March 2020|
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|Equities|45%|38%|
|Bonds|41%|46%|
|Property|10%||
|Cash|4'/o|8%|





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|Changes<br>in the Fair Value of Pla<br>Year ended 31 March 2021|n Asse|ts, D|efined Bene|fit Obligation<br>a|nd Net Liabil|
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||||8'000||6'000|
|Fair value of plan assets|||2,062||2,082|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities||||1,810|(1,810)|
|Opening<br>position as at 31 March|2020||2,082|1 810|272|
|Current service cost||||64|(64)|
|Net Interest:||||||
|Interest income on plan assets|||46||48|
|Interest cost on defined benefit obligation||||42|(42)|
|Total net interest|||48|42|6|
|Total<br>defined<br>benefit cost recognised<br>SoFA||in||106|(58)|
|Cashflowe:||||||
|Plan participants<br>contdibutions|||13|13||
|Employer contributions|||44||44|
|Benefits paid|||(17)|(17)||
|Expected closing position|||2,170|1,912|258|
|Remeasurements:||||||
|Changes<br>in demographic<br>assumptions||||37|(37)|
|Changes<br>in financial<br>assumptions||||690|(690)|
|Other expedience||||(17)|17|
|Return on assets excluding<br>net interest|||292||292|
|Total remeasurements<br>recognised<br>Recognised Gains i(Losses)|in Other||292|710|(418)|
|Fair value of plan assets|||2,462||2,462|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities||||2,622|(2,622)|
|Closing position as at 31 Ilarch 2021|||2,462|2,622|(160)|





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|Fair value of plan assets|||1,990||1,990|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities||||1,951|(1,951)|
|Opening<br>position as at 31 March|2019||1,990|1,951|39|
|Current service cost||||89|(89)|
|Net Interest:||||||
|Interest income on plan assets|||50||50|
|Interest cost on defined benefit obligation||||50|(50)|
|Total net Interest|||50|50||
|Total<br>defined<br>benefit cost recognised<br>SoFA||In||139|(89)|
|Cashflcws:||||||
|Plan participants<br>contributions|||14|14||
|Employer<br>contributions|||42||42|
|Benefits paid|||(17)|(17)||
|Expected closing position|||2,079|2,087||
|Remeasurements:||||||
|Changes<br>in demographic<br>assumptions||||(82)|82|
|Changes<br>in financial<br>assumptions||||(181)|181|
|Other experience||||(14)|14|
|Return on assets excluding<br>net interest|||||3|
|Total remeasurements<br>recognised<br>Recognised Gains /(Losses)|In Other|||(277)|280|
|Fair value of plan assets|||2,082||2,082|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities||||(1,810)|(1,810)|
|Closing position as at 31 March 2020|||2,082|1,810|272|





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|Revenue<br>funding<br>received to operate <br>and walled garden|||museum|176,482|175,110|
|Revenue|funding|received to manage|Halton Castle|5,000|5,000|



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||Furniture a|Motor|Equipment|Total|
||Fittings|Vehicles|||
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|COST|||||
|At 1 April 2020|155,765|17,533|91,446|284,744|
|At 31 March 2021|155,765|17,533|91,446|264,744|
|DEPRECIATION|||||
|At 1 April 2020|15,546|12,289|74,202|102,087|
|Charge for year|5,192|524|12,369|18,085|
|At 31 March 2021|20,738|12,813|86,571|120,152|
|NET BOOK VALUE|||||
|At 31 March 2020|140,149|5,244|17,244|162,877|
|At 31 INarch 2021|134,997|4,720|4,875|144,592|





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||Tangible<br>Fixed Assets||||||||139,672|4,720|144,592|
||Cash at Bank|||||100,185||||281,559|381,744|
||Other Net Current Assets|||||||||(65,292)|(65,292)|
||Pension<br>Deficit|||||||||(160,000)|(160,000)|
|||||||100,185|||139,872|60,987|301,044|
||Previous year - 2019/20|||||||||||
||Tangible<br>Fixed Assets||||||||157,433|5,244|162,677|
||Investments<br>and Cash|at|Bank|||71,916||||223,262|295,180|
||Other Net Current Assets|||||||||(155,017)|(155,017)|
||Pension Surplus|||||||||272,000|272,000|
|||||||71,918|||157,433|345,489|574,840|
|23.|Reconciliation<br>ofnet|income /(expenditure)||||||to net cash flow from operating|||activities|
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||Net income /(expenditure)|||for||the reporting||period||144,204|(54,850)|
||Add back:<br>Depreciation||charges|||||||18,065|17,559|
||Add back: Pension<br>revaluation||||adjustments|||||14,000|55,000|
||(Increase) / Decrease|in|stocks|||||||1,536|1,086|
||(Increase) / Decrease|in|debtors|||||||17,252|2,146|
||Increase<br>/ (Decrease)|in|creditors|||||||(108,513)|120,001|
||Net cash provided<br>by (used|||In)||operating|activities|||86,564|140,942|





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|INCOME|||||||
|Admissions<br>(including||Gift Aid)|25,542||25,542|116,889|
|Shop sales|||7,205|168|7,373|28,850|
|Rents receivable|||32,203||32,203|30,776|
|Operating<br>support|||178,610||178,810|180,110|
|Project grants|||266,314|65,679|331,993|32,795|
|Donations<br>and other|income||14,353|6,407|20,760|104,727|
|Total Income|||524,227|72,254|596,481|494,147|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||
|Staff costs|||271,414|23,658|295,072|310,743|
|Consultancy<br>fees|||-0|5,099|5,099|25,790|
|Building costs|||45,387|78|45,465|61,714|
|Grounds<br>maintenance|||13,512|5,994|19,506|10,209|
|Marketing<br>and publicity|||671|1,200|1,871|419|
|Activity costs|||6,729|4,554|11,283|19,588|
|Administrative<br>costs|||16,735||18,735|11,728|
|Shop - Cost ofsales|||3,834||3,834|12,600|
|Ind. exam. fee &other||costs|21,851||21,851|23,647|
|Total Expenditure|||380,133|40,583|420,716|476,438|
|Transfers<br>between|Funds||3,405|(3,405)|||
|Adjusted<br>Surplus I<br>(Deficit) for year||See<br>note|147,499|28,266|175,765|17,709|



