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|Our purposes<br>and activities|||
|Achievements<br>and Performance|||
|Financial<br>Review|||
|Plans for the Future|||
|Reference and Administrative<br>Details|||
|Structure<br>Governance<br>and Management|||
|Trustee responsibilities<br>relating<br>to the financial|statements||
|Statement as to disclosure<br>to our Independent|Examiners|12|
|INDEPENDENT<br>EXAMINER'S REPORT TO|THE MEMBERS|13|
|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES||15|
|BALANCE SHEET||16|
|CASH FLOW STATEMENT||17|
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS||18|
|DETAILED INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT||32|





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|Income from:|||||||
|Donations<br>and grants|||11,474|8,583|20„057|279,414|
|Charitable<br>activities|||338,358|400|338,758|328,476|
|Other trading<br>activities|||88,643|90|88,733|68,249|
|Total income|||438,475|9,073|447,548|676,139|
|Expenditure<br>on:|||||||
|Raising funds|||87,862|4,091|91,953|79,378|
|Charitable<br>activities|||467,119|46,010|513,129|502,842|
|Total expenditure|||554„981|50,101|605,082|582,220|
|Net income<br>/ (expenditure)||8|(116,506)|(41,028)|(157,534)|93,919|
|Transfers<br>between<br>Funds||21|25,484|(25,484)|||
|Other recognised<br>gains|/ losses||||||
|Remeasurement<br>surplus<br>/ (deficit) on<br>defined<br>benefit pension scheme||10|711,000||711,000|363,000|
|NET MOVEMENT<br>IN FUNDS|||619,978|(66,512)|553,466|456,919|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS|||||||
|Fund Balances brought|forward||610,140|147,823|757,963|301,044|
|Total Funds carried forward|||1,230,118|81,311|1,311,429|757,963|



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|Cash flows from investing|activities|||||
|Purchase<br>of Fixed Assets|||||(31,204)|
|Net cash provided<br>by (used in) investing|||activities||(31,204)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash <br>reporting<br>period|equivalents|in||(1,490)|17,328|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>reporting<br>period|at beginning||of|399,072|381,744|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>period|at end of|reporting||397,582|399,072|





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|Donations|and sponsorship||189|4,991|
|Grants|||8,394|213,823|
|Unrestricted:|||||
|Donations|||4,283|1,183|
|Grants|||7,191|59,417|
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||Admission<br>charges|including||gift aid|127,599|109,806|
||Support from Local|Authority|||183„002|179,678|
||Other income||||28,157|38,992|
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||Rents and service charges||30,510|32,760|
||Other income||34,033|17,690|
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|Buildings||8,295|58,062|8,295|74„652|
|Grounds||||35,937|35,937|
|Activities||42,134|6,012||48,146|
|Administration||9,742|12,591|6,295|28,628|
|Depreciation|||5,567|524|6,091|
|Support costs (Note 7)||21,520|40,110|18,800|80,430|
|Governance|costs (Note 7)|4,271|7,961|3,732|15,964|
|Totals 2023||145,702|241,653|125,774|513,129|



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|Buildings||6,721|47,050|6,721|60,492|
|Grounds||||34,440|34,440|
|Activities||54,341|10,435||64,776|
|Administration||11,227|17,497|8,748|37,472|
|Depreciation|||5,567|524|6,091|
|Support costs (Note 7)||16,214|33,625|22,833|72,672|
|Governance|costs (Note 7)|3,364|6,977|4,737|15,078|
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|Staff costs||Time|65,732|12,049|77,781|
|Printing<br>8 communications||Usage|14,698|865|15,563|
|Independent|Examiner fees|Governance||2,800|2,800|
|Other Trust|costs|Governance||1,170|1„170|
|Totals|||80,430|16,884|97„314|



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||Totals||||||72,672|15,078|87,750|
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||Auditor's<br>remuneration|as|Independent||Examiner|||||
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|Directly|employed:|||Gross|salaries|251,147|221,109|
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|||||Other|pension costs|82,130|94,022|
|Consultancy||charges||||2,000||
|Travel,|training||and recruitment||costs|8,186|3,022|
|||||||357,610|330,653|



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|Pension increase rate|2 95%|3.15%|
|Salary increase rate|365%|3.85%|
|Discount rate|4.75%|2.75%|



|Year ended:|31 March 2023|31 March 2022|
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|Equities|48%|42%|
|Bonds|35%|42%|
|Property|14%|10%|
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|Fair value of plan assets||||2,672||2,672|
|Present value offunded|liabilities||||2,518|(2,518)|
|Opening<br>position as at|31 March|2022||2„672|2,518|154|
|Current service cost|||||83|(83)|
|Net Interest:|||||||
|Interest income on plan assets||||74||74|
|Interest cost on defined|benefit obligation||||70|(70)|
|Total net interest||||74|70||
|Total<br>defined<br>benefit<br>SoFA|cost recognised||in|74|153|(79)|
|Cashflows:|||||||
|Plan participants<br>contributions||||13|13||
|Employer contributions||||43||43|
|Benefits paid||||(12)|(12)||
|Expected closing position||||2,790|2,672|118|
|Remeasurements:|||||||
|Changes<br>in demographic<br>assumptions|||||49|(49)|
|Changes<br>in financial<br>assumptions|||||(1,054)|1„054|
|Other experience||||(23)|(26)|3|
|Return on assets excluding<br>net interest||||(297)||297|
|Total remeasurements<br>recognised<br>Recognised<br>Gains<br>/ (Losses)||in Other||(320)|(1,031)|711|
|Fair value of plan assets||||2,470||2,470|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities|||||1,641|(1,641)|
|Closing position as at 31 March 2023||||2,470|1,641|829|





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|Opening<br>position as at|31 March|2021||2,464|2 624|(160)|
|Current service cost|||||85|(85)|
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|Interest cost on defined|benefit obligation||||55|(55)|
|Total net interest||||51|55|(4)|
|Total<br>defined<br>benefit<br>SoFA|cost recognised||in|51|140|(89)|
|Cashflows:|||||||
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|Expected closing position||||2,551|2,760|(209)|
|Remeasurements:|||||||
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|Changes<br>in financial<br>assumptions|||||(235)|235|
|Other experience|||||6|(6)|
|Return on assets excluding<br>net interest||||121||121|
|Total remeasurements<br>recognised<br>Recognised<br>Gains<br>/ (Losses)||in Other||121|(242)|363|
|Fair value of plan assets||||2,672||2,672|
|Present value offunded<br>liabilities|||||2,518|(2,518)|
|Closing position as at 31 March 2022||||2„672|2,518|154|





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|Revenue<br>funding<br>received to operate museum<br>and walled garden|178,002|174,678|
|Custodian<br>support<br>grant for Halton Castle|5,000|5,000|
|Grants received for projects|1,185|14,210|



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|COST|||||
|At 1 April 2022|186,969|17,533|91,446|295,948|
|At 31 March 2023|186,969|17,533|91,446|295,948|
|DEPRECIATION|||||
|At 1 April 2022|25,960|13,337|86,946|126,243|
|Charge for year|5,192|524|375|6,091|
|At 31 March 2023|31,152|13,861|87„321|132,334|
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|At 31 March 2022|161,009|4,196|4,500|169,705|
|At 31 March 2023|155,817|3,672|4,125|163,614|





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||Retail stocks for resale|||||||10,974||10,151|
|16.|Debtors||||||||||
||Trade debtors|||||||29,172||20,487|
||Grants receivable|||||||4,459||39,150|
||Other debtors|||||||2,181||1,489|
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||Current account|||||||275,603||277,446|
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||Accruals and deferred||income|||||116,173||25,055|
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||Total||147,823|9,073||(50,101)||(25,484)||81,311|
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|General Fund||295,398|438,475|(518,981)|31,051||245,943|
|Pension Reserve||154,000|-|(36,000)||711,000|829,000|
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|General Fund||220,988|447,064|(378,221)|5,567||295,398|
|Pension Reserve||(160,000)|—|(49,000)||363,000|154,000|
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|Cash at|Bank|81,311||316,271|397,582|
|Other Net Current Assets||||(78,767)|(78,767)|
|Pension|Surplus|||829,000|829,000|
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|Year ended 31 March 2022||||||
|Tangible|Fixed Assets||160,742|8,963|169,705|
|Cash at|Bank|147,823||251,249|399,072|
|Other Net Current Assets||||35,186|35,186|
|Pension|Deficit|||154,000|154,000|
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|Admissions<br>(including||Gift Aid)|127,199|400|127,599|109,806|
|Shop sales|||24,100|90|24,190|17,799|
|Rents receivable|||30,510||30,510|32,760|
|Operating<br>support|||183,002||183,002|179,678|
|project grants|||7,191|8,394|15,585|273,240|
|Donations<br>and other|income||66,473|189|66,662|62,856|
|Total Income|||438,475|9,073|447,548|676,139|
|EXPENDITURE|||||||
|Staff costs|||312,362|7,248|319,610|279,001|
|Consultancy<br>fees||||2,000|2,000|6,016|
|Building costs|||81,795|1,152|82,947|67,213|
|Grounds<br>maintenance|||32,631|3,306|35,937|34,440|
|Marketing<br>and publicity|||6,035|2,340|8,375|1,823|
|Furniture<br>&equipment|||16,184|2,239|18,422|31,036|
|Activity costs|||22,074|28,958|51,032|70,369|
|Administrative<br>costs|||14,675|2,616|17,292|13,909|
|Shop - Cost ofsales|||10,211|225|10,436|6,709|
|Other costs|||17,447|17|17,464|17,137|
|Total Expenditure|||513,414|50,101|563,515|527,653|
|Transfers<br>between|Funds||25,484|(25,484)|||
|Adjusted<br>Surplus for<br>year||See<br>note|(49,456)|(66,512)|(115,967)|148„486|



