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|Report ofthe Trustees|1|to|11|
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Auditors|12|to|15|
|Statement of Financial Activities||16||
|Balance Sheet||17||
|Cash Flow Statement||18||
|Notes to the Cash Flow Statement||19||
|Notes to the Financial Statements|20|to|28|





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|At the ye|ar-end<br>the unrest|ricted|funds<br>in th|e balance||sheet ar|e categori|sed as follows;||
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|Property|and equipment|used|in providing|scouting|activities|||778,875|796,649|
|Adventure|Trust|||||||18,528|15,758|
|Amounts|set aside in income||generating<br>assets such|||as rental||||
|properties|and the stock|market to provide||investment||returns||2,232,500|2,232,500|
|Assets "tied-up" in generating|||income and|activities||||3,029„903|3,044,907|
|Balance|of other reserves|available to cover general||||running|costs|||
|and the replacement<br>of county|||assets ("free"assets)|||||686,968|688,269|
|Unrestricted<br>Funds||||||||3,716,871|3„733,176|





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|for the year ended 31 March|2023||||
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||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
||||Funds|Funds|
|||Notes|F|F|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS|FROM||||
|Charitable<br>activities||2&3|||
|Activity Centre and County|||901,413|192,149|
|Investment<br>income|||86,512|75,511|
|Total income|||987,925|267,660|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||
|Raising funds<br>Charitable<br>activities||4<br>5&6|23,212|33,622|
|Activity Centre and County|||1,012,717|364,460|
|Total expenditure|||1,035,929|398,082|
|Deficit before investment<br>gains|and losses||(48,004)|(130,422)|
|Net gains on all investments|||31,699|37,214|
|Net Expenditure<br>for year|||(16,305)|(93,208)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS|||||
|Total funds brought forward|||3,733,176|3,826,384|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||3,716,871|3,733,176|





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|West Lancashire<br>County <br>Balance Sheet<br>31 March 2023|Scout Council|||
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|||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
||Notes|Fundsf|Fundsf|
|FIXEDASSETS||||
|Tangible assets<br>Investments|10|778,875|796,649|
|Investments<br>Investment<br>property|11<br>12|1,557„489<br>1,020,000|1,742,003<br>895,000|
|||3,356,364|3,433,652|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||
|Stocks<br>Debtors|13<br>14|12,167<br>75,728|9,238<br>35,124|
|Investments<br>Cash at bank|15<br>16|258,964<br>420,759|254,660<br>518,904|
|||767,618|817,926|
|CREDITORS||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|17|(407,111)|(518,402)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||360,507|299,524|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT||||
|LIABILITIES||3,716,871|3,733,176|
|NET ASSETS||3,716,871|3,733,176|
|FUNDS|18|||
|Unrestricted<br>funds:||||
|General<br>fund||3,698,343|3,717,418|
|Adventure<br>Trust||18,528|15,758|
|TOTAL FUNDS||3,716,871|3,733,176|



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||||2023|2022|
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|||Notes|||
|Cash flows from operating|activities||||
|Cash generated<br>from operations||1|(188,523)|82,829|
|Net cash (used in)/provided|by operating|activities|(188,523)|82,829|
|Cash flows from investing|activities||||
|Purchase oftangible fixed assets<br>Purchase offixed asset investments<br>Sale offixed asset investments|||(26,441)<br>(426,899)<br>442,427|(9,024)<br>(127,541)<br>189,005|
|Movement<br>in current asset investments<br>Movement<br>in cash funds<br>held by broker|||(4,304)<br>75,685|(2,583)<br>(66,121)|
|Interest received|||6,716|2,806|
|Dividends<br>received|||23,194|20,791|
|Net cash provided<br>by investing<br>activities|||90„378|7,333|
|Change<br>in cash and cash|equivalents||||
|in the reporting<br>period|||(98,145)|90,162|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the||||
|beginning<br>ofthe reporting|period||518,904|428,742|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the end||||
|ofthe reporting<br>period|||420,759|518,904|





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|ACTIVITIES||||||||
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|||||||2023<br>F|2022f|
|Net expenditure<br>for the reporting<br>ofFinancial Activities)<br>Adjustments-for:||||period (as per|the Statement|(16,305)|(93,208)|
|Depreciation<br>charges||||||44,215|44,574|
|Gain on investments||||||(31,699)|(37,214)|
|Interest received||||||(6,716)|(2,806)|
|Dividends<br>received<br>Increase<br>in stocks<br>(Increase)/decrease|in debtors|||||(23,194)<br>(2,929)<br>(40,604)|(20,791)<br>(1,864)<br>1,485|
|(Decrease)/increase|in creditors|||||{111,291)|192,653|
|Net cash (used in)/provided|||by operations|||(188,523)|82,829|
|ANALYSIS OF CHANGES||IN|NET|FUNDS||||
||||||At 1/4/22|Cash flow|At 31/3/23|
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|Net cash||||||||
|Cash at bank|||||518,904|$98,145)|420,759|
||||||518,904|$98„145)|420,759|
|Liquid resources||||||||
|Deposits included<br>in|cash|||||||
|Current asset investments|||||254,660|4,304|258,964|
||||||254,660|4,304|258,964|
|Total|||||773,564|$93,841)|679,723|





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|INVESTME|NT INCOME|||
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|Rental income||56,602|51,914|
|Investment|income|23,194|20,791|
|Bank interest||6,716|2,806|
|||86,512|75,511|





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|||||||2023|2022|
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|||||||6||
|Activity centre income||||||226,197|90,195|
|Scouting activities,<br>training|and section income|||||80,263|10,255|
|County<br>and international<br>events||||||577,111|11,602|
|Grants for equipment<br>and|activity||centre||||46,750|
|Government<br>Coronavirus<br>support grants<br>CJRS furlough<br>grants<br>Miscellaneous<br>income and donations||||||17,842|12,000<br>7,213<br>13,934|
|||||||901,413|192,149|
|RAISING FUNDS||||||||
|Investment<br>management|costs|||||||
|||||||2023|2022|
|Investment<br>managers<br>fees||||||14,406|16,134|
|Property<br>managers<br>administration<br>Investment<br>properties<br>maintenance|||and valuation<br>fees<br>and other costs|||5,675<br>3131|5,194<br>12,294|
|||||||23,212|33,622|
|CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS||||||||
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|Salaries, wages, employers|national|||insurance|and pensions|131,220|115,535|
|Activity centre costs<br>World Scout Youth Events||||||82,634<br>16,000|59,644<br>14,200|
|Scouting activities,<br>training|and section expenses|||||92,614|29,180|
|County and international<br>events||||||587,153|9,557|
|Grant spend on equipment|and activity centre||||||47,544|
|County Executive, administration||and other costs||||50,755|36,726|
|Depreciation<br>less profit on|disposal||oftangible||fixed assets|44,215|44,574|
|||||||1,004,587|356,960|





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|SUPPORT|COSTS||||
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|||||Governance|
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|Activity Centre and County||||8,130|
|Governance|costs;||||
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||||F|6|
|Accountancy<br>and audit<br>Legal and professional||fees|8,130|7,260<br>240|
||||8,130|7,500|



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||||2023|2022|
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||||F|6|
|Wages|and|salaries|131,220|115,535|
||||131,220|115,535|



|The avera|ge<br>monthly<br>number ofemployees<br>during|the year was as follows:||
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|Charitable|activities|5|5|
|Administration||2|2|





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|||||2023<br>f|2022<br>f|
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||Realised gains/(losses)|||||
||Investment<br>properties|||||
||Listed investments|||43,398|8,723|
|||||43,398|6,723|
||Unrealised<br>(losses)/gains|||||
||Investment<br>properties|||125,000||
||Listed investments|||(136,699)|28,491|
|||||~11,699)|28,491|
||Total gains/(losses)|||31,699|37,214|
|10.|TANGIBLE FIXEDASSETS|||||
|||Freehold|Plant and|Motor||
|||property|machinery|vehicles|Totals|
|||F|F|6|6|
||COST|||||
||At 1 April 2022<br>Additions|1,264,075<br>23,102|189,599<br>3,339|37,062|1,490,736<br>26,441|
||At 31 March 2023|1,287,177|192,938|37,062|1,517,177|
||DEPRECIATION|||||
||At 1 April 2022<br>Charge for year|518,384<br>33,966|144,598<br>10,249|31,105|694,087<br>44,215|
||At 31 March 2023|552,350|154,847|31,105|738,302|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||
||At 31 March 2023|734,827|38,091|5,957|778,875|
||At 31 March 2022|745,691|45,001|5,957|796,649|





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|for th|e year ended 31 March 2023|e year ended 31 March 2023|e year ended 31 March 2023||||||||||||
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|11.|FIXEDASSET INVESTMENTS||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||2023<br>6|2022f||
||Shares<br>Cash funds|held by investment||managers|||for future|dealings|||1,481,827<br>75,662||1,590,656<br>151,347||
||||||||||||1,557,489||1,742,003||
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||MARKET VALUE||||||||||||||
||At 1 April 2022||||||||||||1,590,656||
||Additions<br>Disposals<br>Realised and unrealised<br>(losses)||gains|and|||||||||426,899<br>(442,427)<br>~93,301)||
||At 31 March|2023|||||||||||1,481,827||
||NET BOOK|VALUE|||||||||||||
||At 31 March|2023|||||||||||1,481,827||
||At 31 March|2022|||||||||||1,590,656||
||There<br>were|no<br>listed|investment||assets||outside|the|UK.|The|historic|cost of|investments|is|
||E1,305,664|(2022:E1,272,963).|||||||||||||
|||||||||||||2023|2022||
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||Cash funds|held<br>by investment||managers||for future||dealings||||75,662|151,347||
|12.|INVESTMENT PROPERTY||||||||||||||
||FAIR VALUE||||||||||||||
||At 1 April 2022<br>Revaluation||||||||||||895,000<br>125,000||
||At 31 March|2023|||||||||||1,020,000||
||NET BOOK|VALUE|||||||||||||
||At 31 March|2023|||||||||||1,020,000||
||At 31 March|2022|||||||||||895,000||





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|13.|STOCKS||||||||||
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||||||||||8|8|
||Stocks||||||||12,167|9,238|
|14.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS||||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR||||||
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||Trade debtors||||||||31,380|4,055|
||Other debtors||||||||17,799|20,253|
||VAT||||||||828||
||Prepayments||and accrued income||||||25,723|10,816|
||||||||||75,728|35,124|
|15.|CURRENT|ASSET INVESTMENTS|||||||||
||||||||||2023<br>E|2022<br>f|
||Investment|in|rural|community||broadband||venture|3,000|3,000|
||Fixed and variable|||interest bearing|||bonds|and deposits|255,984|251,660|
||||||||||258,964|254,660|
|18.|CASH AT BANK||||||||||
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||||||||||E|6|
||Unrestricted|funds;|||||||||
||Current accounts||||||||202,014|352,599|
||Deposit accounts||||||||218,745|166,305|
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|CREDITORS: AMOUN|TS<br>FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||
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|||2023f|2022<br>E|
|Deposits for county events, courses and activity centre||143,894|283,643|
|Trade creditors||31,986|13,202|
|Social security and other taxes||2,225|2,754|
|VAT|||3,600|
|Other creditors||192,627|166,303|
|World Scout Youth Events||19,214|36,464|
|Accruals and deferred|income|17,165|12,436|
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|MOVEM|E|NT|IN FUNDS|||||
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|||||At 1/4/22||in funds|At 31/3/23|
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|Unrestricted|||funds|||||
|General|fund|||3,717,418||(19,075)|3,698,343|
|Adventure||Trust||15,758||2,770|18,528|
|||||3,733,176|~06,305)||3,710,071|
|TOTAL|FUNDS|||3733176,|~,|06,305)|3,716,071|



|Net mov|ement|in funds,<br>included|in the above are as foll|ows:|||
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|Unrestricted||funds|||||
|General<br>fund<br>Adventure<br>Trust|||982,829<br>5,096|(1,033,603)<br>~2,326)|31,699|(19,075)<br>2,770|
||||987,925|~),035,929|31,699|~06,305)|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||987,925|~0,035,929)|31,699|~16,305)|



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|Unrestricted|||funds||||
|General|fund|||3,812,202|(94,784)|3,717,418|
|Adventure||Trust||14,182|1,576|15,758|
|||||3,026,384|~93,200)|3,733,176|
|TOTAL|FUNDS|||3,826,384|~93,200)|3,733,176|





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|Comparative|net movement<br>in f|unds,<br>included<br>in the abo|ve are as follow|s:||
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|||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
|||resources|expended|losses|in funds|
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|Unrestricted|funds|||||
|General fund<br>Adventure<br>Trust||264,562<br>3,098|(396,560)<br>~1,522)|37,214|(94,784)<br>1,576|
|||267,660|(398,082)|37,214|~93,208)|
|TOTAL FUNDS||267,660|(398,082)|37,214|~93,208)|



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