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|Trustees||||Cllr Sandra Baker||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Dr Jenna'er Clucas||||
|||||Mr Roy Coldweg||||
|||||Mr Bryan Device||||
|||||Ms Stephanie<br>Device||||
|||||MrHoward<br>Hopwood||||
|||||Dr Diana Leitch MBE||||
|||||Mrs Mehssa<br>Lord||||
|||||Dr Michael Pitts||||
|||||Mr Andrew<br>Ritchie||||
|||||Dr Donald Westwood||||
|||||Ms Rachel Wilkinson||||
|||||Mr Noel Hutchinson||(Appointed|22 February 2022)|
|Chair of|Trustees|||Dr Diana Leitch MBE||||
|Secretary||||Mr Roy Coldweg||||
|Chief Executive Officer||||Dr Lee Juby||(Appointed|01 August 2022)|
|Charity|number|||518850||||
|Company||number||2115913||||
|Registered|||offlce|Gossage Building||||
|||||Mersey Road||||
|||||Widnes||||
|||||Cheshire||||
|||||WA8 ODF||||
|Independent|||examiner|PM+M Sctuuons for Business LLP||||
|||||New Century<br>House||||
|||||Greenbank<br>Technology|Park|||
|||||Challenge<br>Way||||
|||||Blackbum||||
|||||Lancashire||||
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||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestncted|Restncted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||funds|funds||funds|funds||
||||2022|2022|2022|2021|2021|2021|
|||Notes|||6|6|6|6|
|Income from:|||||||||
|Donabons<br>and legacies|||176,233|133,560|309,793|131,447|463,389|594,836|
|Charitable<br>activities|||145,435||145,435|10,727||10,727|
|Other trading<br>activrbes|||74,335||74,335|3,193||3,193|
|Investments||||||5,520||5,520|
|Total Income|||396,003|133,560|529,563|150,887|463,389|614,276|
|Raising funds|||41,120||41,120|24,305||24,305|
|Charrtable<br>acbvrbes||8|453,760|109,730|563,490|341,009|99,554|440,563|
|Total resources|||||||||
|expended|||494,880|109,730|604,610|365,314|99.554|464.868|
|Net (outgoing)/Incoming|||||||||
|resources before|||||||||
|transfers|||(98.877)|23,830|(75,047)|(214,427)|363,835|149,408|
|Gross transfers|between||||||||
|funds|||206,633|(206,633)||382,973|(382,973)||
|Net Incomel(expenditure)||for the|||||||
|year/|||||||||
|Net movement|In funds||107,756|(182,803)|(75,047)|168,546|(19,138)|149,408|
|Fund balances at 1 Apnl|||||||||
|2021|||1,036,425|182,942|1,219,367|867,879|202,080|1,069,959|
|Fund balances|at 31||||||||
|March 2022|||1,144,181|139|1,144,320|1,036,425|182,942|1,219,367|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Notes|6||8||
|Fixed assets|||||||||
|Tangible assets||||12||848,792||985,326|
|Current assets|||||||||
|Stocks||||13|4,709||3,543||
|Debtors||||14|28,164||40,305||
|Cash at bank and||in|hand||297,483||230,542||
||||||330,356||274,390||
|Creditors:|amounts||falling due within one||||||
|year||||16|(34,828)||(29,683)||
|Net current|assets|||||295,528||244,707|
|Total assets less||current liabilities||||1,144,320||1,230,033|
|Creditors:|amounts||falling due after more||||||
|than one year||||17||||(10,666)|
|Net assets||||||1,144,320||1,219,367|
|Income funds|||||||||
|Restricted|funds|||18||139||182,942|
|Unrestricted|funds|||||1,144,181||1,036,425|
|||||||1,144,320||1,219,367|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Notes|6||6||
|Cash flows from operating||actMtles|||||||
|Cash generated<br>from operations||||22||120,573||185,338|
|Investing|activities||||||||
|Purchase|oftangible<br>fixed assets||||(39,425)||(314,810)||
|Proceeds|on disposal<br>of tangible||fixed|assets|||5,499||
|Investment|income received||||||5,520||
|Net cash|used in investing|activities||||(39,425)||(303,791 )|
|Financing|activities||||||||
|Repayment|of bank loans||||||(3,435)||
|Payment of obbgabons<br>under finance leases|||||(14,207)||(3,249)||
|Net cash|used in financing|activities||||(14,207)||(6,684)|
|Net Increase/(decrease)<br>In||cash|and|cash equivalents|||||
|||||||66,941||(125,137)|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at beginning<br>of year||||230,542||355,679|
|Cash and|cash equivalents|at end ofyear||||297,483||230,542|



















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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Unrestncted|Restncted|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||funds|funds||funds|funds||
||||||2022|2022|2022|2021|2021|2021|
|||||||E|E|E|E|E|
|Donations||and gfts|||154,033|11,079|165,112|122,947|42,500|165,447|
|Grants received|||||22,200|122,481|144,681|8,500|420,889|429,389|
||||||176,233|133,560|309,793|131,447|463,389|594,836|
|Grants receivable for|||||core||||||
|activities|||||||||||
|Inspinng|Saence|||Fund|||||137,694|137,694|
|Coronavirus|||Job Retenbon||||||||
|Scheme||||||41,460|41,460||123,273|123,273|
|Nabonal|Hentage|||Lottery|||||8,600|8,600|
|Arts Counol|||England|||97,221|97,221||145,800|145,800|
|Other|||||22,200|(16,200)|6,000|8,500|5,522|14,022|
||||||22,200|122,481|144,681|8,500|420,889|429,389|
|Charitable|||activities||||||||
||||||||||Museum|hluseum|
||||||||||admissions|admissions|
||||||||||2022|2021|
||||||||||E|6|
|Sales within|||chantable||activities||||145,435|10,727|



|||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
|---|---|---|---|
|||funds|funds|
|||2022|2021|
|||E|E|
|Cafe|and catering|65,162|2,693|
|Shop|income|9,173|500|
|Other|trading acbvibes|74,335|3,193|





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||||Museum|and|hluseum|and|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||exhibits|exhibits|||
|||||2022||2021|
|||||6||5|
|Staff costs|||230,106||112,869||
|Other staff|costs|||1,796||1,585|
|Depreciabon<br>and imparment|||172,905||163,496||
|Office administrabon||||18,637||5,577|
|Insurance||||6,637||5,554|
|Advertising||||14,818||525|
|Bank charges||||326||665|
|Motor and|travel|||87||1,511|
|Sundry||||12,909||5,431|
|Protect expenditure||||8,771||94,153|
|IT||||18,571||9,324|
|Equipment|lease|||2,016||1,218|
|Heat, hght|and rates|||30,860||7,537|
|Repairs and mamtenance||||23,102||12,197|
|Finance lease interest||||2,382||1,573|
|Training||||1,760||613|
|Loss/(Gain)|on sale of tangible assets|||||5,500|
||||545,683||429,328||
|Share ofgovernance||costs Isee note 9I||17,807||11,235|
||||563,490||440,563||
|Analysis<br>by fund|||||||
|Lrnrestncted|funds||453,760||341,009||
|Restncted|funds||109,730|||99,554|
||||563,490||440,563||





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|Support|costs||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Support costs|Governance|2022 Support costs|Governance|2021|
||||costs||costs||
|||f|f|f|f.||
|Audit fees|||6,750|6,750|2,750|2,750|
|Legal and|professional||11,057|11,057|8,485|8,485|
||||17,807|17,807|11,235|11,235|
|Analysed|between||||||
|Charitable|activities||17,807|17,807|11,235|11,235|



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|The average|monthly<br>number<br>ofemployees<br>dunng the ye|ar was||
|---|---|---|---|
|||2022|2021|
|||Number|Number|
|||20|18|
|Employment|costs|2022|2021|
||||f|
|Wages and satanas||231,012|128,078|
|Somal secunty costs||7,542|5,652|
|Other pension costs||1,972|2,748|
|||240,526|136,478|





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|12|Tangible fixed assets|Tangible fixed assets||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Freehold<br>land|Exhlbmon<br>end|Flxte res and|Total|
|||||and buildings<br>f|plant<br>f|fittings<br>f||
||Cost|||||||
||At 1 Apnl 2021|||210,340|1,996,624|449,698|2,656,662|
||Atklitiolts|||«,401|8,908|197«8|39,425|
||Disposals||||(3,370)||(3,370)|
||At 31 March|2022||221,741|2,002,162|468,814|2,692,717|
||Depreciation|and impairment||||||
||At 1 Apnl 2021|||49,521|1,418,567|202,947|1,671,335|
||Depreciation|charged|in the year|8,728|87,440|76,738|172,906|
||Ehminated<br>in|respect ofdisposals|||(316)||(316)|
||At 31 March|2022||58,249|1,505,991|279,685|1,843,925|
||Carrying<br>amount|||||||
||At 31 March|2022||163,492|496,171|189,129|848,792|
||At 31 March|2021||160,819|577,756|246,751|965,326|



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|13|Stocks|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||2022|2021|
|||||E|E|
||Finished|goods and goods for resale||4,709|3,543|
|14|Debtors|||||
|||||2022|2021|
||Amounts|falling due within one year:|||E|
||Trade debtors|||14,370|2,264|
||Other debtors|||3,857|35,226|
||Prepayments||and accrued mcome|9,937|2,815|
|||||28,164|40,305|





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|15|Finance lease|Finance lease|Finance lease|commitments|commitments||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Future|minimum||lease payments||due under finance leases|||||
||||||||||2022|2021|
||||||||||E|E|
||Wdhm|one|year|||||||3,541|
||Withm|two|and|five years||||||10,666|
|||||||||||14,207|
||The lease||of solar panels was fully repaid dunng||||the year.||||
|16|Creditors:||amounts||falling due|within one year|||||
||||||||||2022|2021|
|||||||||Notes||E|
||Obhgations||under finance leases|||||15||3,541|
||Other|taxation||and somal secunty|||||3,166|3,918|
||Trade|creditors|||||||8,440|10,920|
||Other|creditors|||||||14,554|6,636|
||Accruals and deferred||||incorae||||8,668|4,468|
||||||||||34,828|29,683|
|17|Creditors:||amounts||falling due|after more than|one year||||
||||||||||2022|2021|
|||||||||Notes|E.|E|
||Obhgations||under finance leases|||||15||10,666|






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||||||||Movement|Movement|in funds|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Balance at|Ihcorri srg|nese Uroe a||Tranafem|Balance et|
|||||||1 April 2021|resources|expended|||31 March 2022|
|||||||6||||||
||Inspinng<br>smence||fund|||61,020||||(61,020)||
||ACE-Smellmap|||||9,845|1,471||(1,941)|(9,375)||
||RSC - IYPT|||||2,115||||(2,115)||
||RSC - Chemistry|||at Work||5,120|(1,920)|||(3,200)||
||RSC - Elements||of Halton|||2,380|2,000||(4,607)|227||
||loP - Small stones|||||2,338||||(2,338)||
||Arts counml<br>England|||||61,715|79,550|(56,050)||(85,215)||
||Gossage family|||||10,263|||(501)|(9,762)||
||Wellcome<br>Covid||top up|||27,746||||(27,746)||
||Plaque|||||400|||(310)|(90)||
||Hydrogen<br>Alhance||||||6,000|||(6,000)||
||David SSP||||||96||(96)|||
||HMRC Kick start||scheme||||20,927|(20,927)||||
||HMRC Furlough||||||20,436|(20,436)||||
||The ASDC||||||5,000||(4,861)||139|
|||||||182,942|133,560|(109,729)||(206,634)|139|
|19|Analysis of net||assets between||funds|||||||
|||||Unrestricted||Restricted|Total|Unrestncted||Restncted|Total|
||||||funds|funds|||funds|funds||
||||||2022|2022|2022||2021|2021|2021|
||||||6|6|E||E|f.|f|
||Fund balances|at||31||||||||
||March 2022 are|||||||||||
||represented<br>by:|||||||||||
||Tangible assets||||848,792||848,792|985,326|||985,326|
||Current<br>assets/(liabilities)||||295,389|139|295,528|61,765||182,942|244,707|
||Long term liabilities|||||||(10,666)|||(10,666)|
||||||1,144,181|139|1,144,320|1,036,425||182,942|1,219,367|





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||There were no disclosable<br>related|There were no disclosable<br>related|party|transactions|transactions|during|during|the year (2021 - none).|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|22|Cash generated<br>from|operations|||||||2022|2021|
|||||||||||2|
||(Defiat)/surpus<br>for the|year|||||||(75,047)|149,408|
||Adjustments<br>for;||||||||||
||Investment<br>incorhe recognised<br>in statement||||offinanmal||achvaes|||(5,520)|
||Depremabon<br>and impairment<br>oftangible|||fixed assets|||||172,905|163,496|
||Movements<br>in working|capital:|||||||||
||(Increase)/decresse<br>in|stocks|||||||(1,166)|33|
||Decrease<br>in debtors||||||||12,141|13,905|
||Increase/(decrease)<br>in|credfiors|||||||11,740|(135,984)|
||Cash generated<br>from|operations|||||||120,573|185,338|
|23|Analysis ofchanges|In net funds|||||||||
|||||||||At I April 2e21|Cash aows|At 31 March 2S22|
||Cash at bank and<br>In hand|||||||230,542|66,941|297,483|
||Obhgations<br>under finance leases|||||||(14,207)|14,207||
|||||||||216,335|81,148|297,483|