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|Charity Reference and|Administrative|Details||2|
|Trustees'<br>Annual<br>Report||||3|
|Independent<br>Auditor's|Report|||9|
|Statement of Financial|Activities (Including||income and Expenditure|14|
|Account)|||||
|Balance Sheet||||15|
|Cash Flow Statement||||16|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements|||17to 27|





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||||Notes|2023|2022|
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|Income and endowment|from|||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||17,172|20,870|
|Charitable<br>activities||||2,049,657|1,736,585|
|Other trading activities||||764|396|
|Investments||||6,381|4,898|
|Otherincome||||14,000||
|Total income and endowments||||2,087,974|1,762,749|
|~ECht||||||
|Investment<br>management|fees||7|2,648|2,271|
|Charitable<br>activities|||8|1,899,000|1,518,537|
|Other —exceptional<br>item|||12|(1,378)||
|Total Expenditure||||1,900,270|1,520,808|
|Net gains/(losses)<br>on investments|||13|(1,509)|(11,213)|
|Net income/(expenditure)||and net||186,195|230,728|
|movement<br>in funds for the||year||||
|Reconciliation offunds||||||
|Total Funds brought<br>forward||||1,221,204|990,476|
|Total funds carried forward||||1,407,399|1,221,204|





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|Cash flow forthe year ended 31August 2023|Cash flow forthe year ended 31August 2023||||
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|||Notes|2023|2022|
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|Cash flow from operating|activities|25|149,000|288,799|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||
|Payments to acquire investments|||(30,252)|(143,419)|
|Receipts from sale ofinvestments|||20,818|142,533|
|Payments to acquire tangible<br>fixed assets|||(269,447)|(169,703)|
|Receipts from sale oftangible<br>fixed assets|||14,000||
|Interest received|||596|513|
|Dividends<br>received|||5,785|4,385|
|Net cash provided<br>by investing<br>activities|||(258,500)|(165,691)|
|Cash flows from financing|activities||||
|Interest paid|||||
|Net cash outflow from financing|||||
|Net Increase/(Decrease)|in cash and cash equivalents||(109,500)|123,108|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 1September 2022||339,981|216,873|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 31August 2023||230,481|339,981|
|Cash and cash equivalents|consist of||||
|Cash in hand|||189|43|
|Cash held within<br>investment<br>portfolio|||7,907|13,685|
|Notice deposit (less than|3 months)||222,385|326,253|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at 31August 2023||230,481|339,981|





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||Apprentice<br>funding|grant for own||staff|500|500|
||Capital grants release (see note 22)||||4,672||
||Better employment|grant|||12,000||
||Kickstart grants|||||20,370|
||||||17,172|20,870|
|3.|Income from charitable||activities||||
||||||2023|2022|
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||Apprentice<br>training||||1,545,243|1,375,269|
||Commercial<br>training||||501,446|361,316|
||Aptitude<br>testing fees||||2,968||
||||||2,049,657|1,736,585|
|4.|Income from other trading activities||||||
||||||2023|2022|
||||||E|f|
||Other||||764|396|
||||||764|396|
|5.|Income from investments||||||
||||||2023|2022|
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||Income from listed investments|||—Dividends|5,785|4,385|
||Interest receivable||||596|513|
||||||6,381|4,898|





|6.|Other income|||||||||
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|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||E|E|
||Profit on sale oftangible||fixed|assets||||14,000||
|||||||||14,000||
|7.|Investment<br>management|costs||||||||
|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||E|E|
||Investment<br>manager|fees||||||2,648|2,271|
|||||||||2,648|2,271|
||All the above costs were attributable||||to|unrestricted|funds.|||
|8.|Analysis ofexpenditure|on charitable|||activities|||||
|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||6|f|
||Charitable<br>activities|||||||||
||Activities undertaken|directly|||||9|1,125,791|948,776|
||Support costs||||||10|773,209|569,761|
|||||||||1,899,000|1,518,537|
||All the above costs were attributable||||to|unrestricted|funds.|||
|9.|Activities undertaken<br>directly|||||||||
|||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||6|f|
||Unrestricted<br>costs|||||||||
||Other<br>costs<br>relating|to|Charitable|||activities||||
||comprise|||||||||
||Gross wages and salaries|||||||595,206|471,961|
||Employers'<br>Nl|||||||61,120|48,221|
||Pension contributions|||||||47,301|44,163|
||Depreciation<br>of assets||used|for||charitable||48,435|24,718|
||purpose|||||||||
||Materials<br>and consumables|||||||79,566|65,976|
||Bought in services|||||||79,799|143,931|
||Safety clothing and cleaning|||||||39,738|32,876|
||Training courses and|expenses||||||174,626|116,930|
|||||||||1,125,791|948,776|





|10.|Support costs|||||||||||
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|||||||||||2023|2022|
|||||||||||E|E|
||Governance|||||||||7,200|6,600|
||Finance|||||||||259|231|
||Information<br>technology|||||||||15,179|8,150|
||Gross wages and||salaries|||||||417,796|333,687|
||Pension contributions|||||||||32,315|32,218|
||Employers'<br>Nl|||||||||34,663|26,392|
||Health insurance||premiums|||||||6,577||
||Staff gifts and|travel and|||subsistence|||||19,150|11,291|
||Depreciation|||||||||27,437|22,924|
||Office costs (including|||rental)||||||161,788|108,464|
||Professional fees||including|||accountancy||||33,630|9,165|
||Marketing costs|||||||||11,047|3,283|
||Other|||||||||6,168|7,353|
|||||||||||773,209|569,761|
|11.|Governance<br>costs|||||||||||
|||||||||||2023|2022|
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||Trustee remuneration|||and expenses||||||||
||Auditor's<br>remuneration|||||||||7,200|6,600|
||Other|||||||||||
|||||||||||7,200|6,600|
||All ofthe above costs were||||attributable||to|unrestricted|funds.|||
|12.|Exceptional<br>items|||||||||||
|||||||||||2023|2022|
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||Bad debt provision||released|||||||(1,378)||
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|13.|Net gains/(losses)|on|investments|||||||||
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||Realised Profit|(Loss) on disposal ofinvestment||||||||(1,419)|(10,881)|
||assets held by|income funds||||||||||
||Linrealised<br>(losses)/gains||||on investment|||assets||(90)|(332)|
||held by income funds|||||||||||
|||||||||||(1,509)|(11,213)|





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|ysis<br>of staf<br>nnel|f costs,|trustee<br>rem|unerati|on<br>and expen|ses<br>and the cost of|key manag|
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|Gross wages|and salaries||||1,016,077|805,648|
|Employers'|Nl||||95,783|74,614|
|Pension contributions|||||79,615|76,381|
|Private<br>health||insurance|for|senior|6,577||
|management|||||||
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|during the f|inancial|year amounted<br>to:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||2023|2022|
||||E|E|
|Lecturers and|training|providers|18|15|
|Management|and admin staff||13|11|
||||32|26|





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|the|accounts for the year ended 31August 2023|accounts for the year ended 31August 2023|||
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|Net|income/(expenditure)<br>for the year||||
||||2023|2022|
||This is stated after charging:||||
||Auditor's<br>remuneration||7,200|6,600|
||Accountancy<br>services provided|by the auditor|6,870|7,616|
||Operating<br>leases —equipment||4,933|4,601|
||Release ofcapital grant received|(see note 22)|(4,672)||
||Depreciation||75,873|47,642|
||Loss/(profit)<br>on disposal oftangible fixed assets||(14,000)||




|Tangible<br>Fixed Assets|||||
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||Freehold|Plant and|Fixtures and|Total|
||Land and|machinery|fittings||
||Buildings||||
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|Cost|||||
|At 1September 2022|600,586|758,795|279,654|1,639,035|
|Additions||256,861|27,086|283,947|
|Disposals||(14,500)||(14,500)|
|At 31August 2023|600,586|1,001,156|306,740|1,908,482|
|Depreciation|||||
|At 1September 2022|254,293|674,898|155,947|1,085,138|
|Charge for year|13,062|48,682|14,129|75,873|
|Disposals||(14,000)||(14,000)|
|1August 2023|267,355|709,580|170,076|1,147,011|
|Net Book Value|||||
|At 31August 2023|333,231|291,576|136,664|761,471|
|At 31August 2022|346,293|83,897|123,707|553,897|





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|||||2023|2022|
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|Market|value|at beginning|ofyear|279,771|288,356|
|Disposals proceeds||||(20,818)|(142,533)|
|Acquisitions||at cost||30,252|143,420|
|Cash movement||||(5,778)|1,741|
|Change|in value<br>in the year|||(1,433)|(11,213)|
|Market|value|at end ofyear||281,994|279,771|
|storical|cost|||E256,997|E255,803|



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|||||2023|2022|
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|||||E|f|
|Equities||||171,942|170,139|
|Alternative||investments||50,492|50,901|
|Emerging||markets||50,415|8,263|
|Fixed interest|||securities|1,238|36,783|
|Cash held||within the||7,907|13,685|
|investment|||portfolio|||
|||||281,994|279,771|
|Debtors||||||
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|Amounts|falling due within one year||||E|
|Trade debtors||||218,404|144,184|
|Prepayments|||and accrued income|178,253|120,664|
|||||396,657|264,848|





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|20.|Creditors - amounts||falling due within|falling due within|one|year|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||Trade creditors||||||||71,903|78,361|
||Taxation and social security||||||||26,561|30,705|
||Other creditors||||||||26,172|28,388|
||Accrua Is||||||||44,052|39,932|
||Deferred<br>income|||re future<br>training||courses|||16,520|26,222|
||(note 21)||||||||||
||Deferred income|||re capital grants (note||22)|||18,690||
||||||||||203,898|203,608|
|21.|Deferred income re||future training courses||||||||
||Income deferred|since relates to future training|||||courses:||||
||||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||f|E|
||Brought forward||||||||26,222|38,923|
||Released<br>in year||||||||(26,222)|(38,923)|
||Re following<br>year||||||||16,520|26,222|
||Carried<br>forward||||||||16,520|26,222|
|22.|Deferred income re||capital grants||||||||
||Income<br>deferred||since relates to capital|||expenditure||(released|at same|rate as capital<br>assets|
||depreciated):||||||||||
||||||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||E|6|
||Brought forward||||||||||
||Capital grants received||||||||74,761||
||Released<br>in year||||||||(4,672)||
||Carried forward||split as below||||||70,089||
||Falling due within|||one year (note 20)|||||18,690||
||Falling due after||one year (note 23)||||||51,399||
||Total||||||||70,089||
|23.|Creditors - amounts||falling due after one year||||||||
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||Deferred<br>income|||re capital grants|due|in less|||51,399||
||than 5years (note|||22)|||||||
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||Within one year||||||5,103||4,594|
||In two to five years||||||||4,593|
||In over five years|||||||||
||||||||5,103||9,187|
|Reconciliation<br>ofnet income /|||(expenditure)||to net cash flow from||operating|activities||
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|||||||f||E||
|Net income / (expenditure)||for year|/ period|||186,195||230,729||
|Dividends|received|||||(5,785)||(4,385)||
|Interest received||||||(596)||(513)||
|Depreciation<br>and impairment||oftangible||fixed assets||61,873||47,641||
|(Gains) /|losses on investments|||||1,432||11,213||
|(Profit) /|loss on disposal oftangible||fixed|assets||(14,000)||||
|(Increase) / decrease<br>in debtors||||||(131,809)||(72,270)||
|Increase|/ (decrease)<br>in creditors|||||51,690||76,384||
|Net cash|flow from operating|activities||||149,000||288,799||



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