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|Reference and administrative<br>details||
|Report ofthe Trustees||
|Report ofthe Independent<br>Examiner|10|
|Statement<br>of Financial<br>Activities||
|Balance Sheet|12|
|Statement<br>of Cashflows|13|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|14|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Notes|Funds|Funds|TOTAL|TOTAL|
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|Income||||||||||
|Donations,<br>grants and legacies||||||55,334|6,642|61,976|66,184|
|Other trading<br>activities||||||13,246||13,246|14,928|
|Investments||||||10,600||10,600|9,150|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||||
|Event receipts and collections|||||5|372,745||372,745|39,119|
|Other income||||||5,984||5,984|173|
||Total||income|||457,909|6,642|464,551|129,554|
|Expenditure||||||||||
|Expenditure<br>on raising|funds|||||||||
|Fundraising<br>trading: cost ofgoods||||||||||
|sold and other costs||||||8,534||8,534|11,395|
|Investment<br>management|fees|||||2,477||2,477|2,741|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||||||
|Grants payable<br>Event costs|||||6<br>7|240<br>356,681|10,367|240<br>367,048|12,936|
|General<br>guiding<br>costs|||||8|85,608||85,608|77,652|
|Other costs|||||9|5823||5,823|6,461|
|Total expenditure||||||459,363|10,367|469,730|111,185|
|Net income (expendi ture)||||before||||||
|||transfers||||(1,454)|(3,725)|(5,179)|18,369|
|Transfers||||||||||
|Gross transfer<br>between|funds||||17|||||
|Net income (expenditure)|||and net|||||||
|movementin<br>funds before||gain and||||||||
|||||losses||(1,454)|(3,725)|(5,179)|18,369|
|Net gains (losses) on investments|||||10|(22,421)||(22,421)|17,572|
|Net movementin||||funds||(23,875)|(3,725)|(27,600)|35,941|
|Reconciliation<br>of Funds||||||||||
|Total funds brought|||forward|||802,221|31,016|833,237|797,296|
|Total funds|carried||forward|||778,346|27,291|805,637|833,237|





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|as at 5 April|2023||||||
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|||Notes||2023f||2022<br>F|
|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets<br>Investments||13<br>14||137,116<br>336,170||143,461<br>357,182|
||Total fixed|assets||473,286||500,643|
|Current assets|||||||
|Stocks|||8,962||8,061||
|Debtors||15|76,022||83,155||
|Cash at bank and in hand|||299,427||397,164||
|Total current||assets|384,411||488,380||
|Liabilities|||||||
|Creditors: amounts<br>falling due|||||||
|within one year||16|52,060||155,786||
||Net current|assets||332,351||332,594|
|Total assets less current liabilities|||||||
||(being net|assets)||805,637||833,237|
|The funds ofthe charity:|||||||
|Restricted<br>funds||17||27,291||31,016|
|Unrestricted<br>income funds:||17|||||
|Designated<br>funds<br>General funds||||49,086<br>729,260||53,236<br>748,985|
|Total|unrestricted<br>funds|||778,346||802,221|
||Total charity funds|||805,637||833,237|





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|Staffordshire<br>County Gu<br>Statement of Cashflows<br>as at 5 April 2023|ide Association|||
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||Notes|E||
|Net cash used<br>in operating|21|(104,771|53,558|
|Cash flows from investing||||
|Interest and dividends||10,600|9, 'I 50|
|Purchase of furniture<br>and||||
|equipment||(2,157)|(2,390)|
|Purchase of new investments||(88,927)|(166,589)|
|Proceeds from sale of fixed||||
|assets|||1,641|
|Proceeds from sale of||||
|investments||87,518|169,923|
|Net cash provided<br>by investing||7,034|11,735|
|Cash flows from financing||||
|Repayment<br>of borrowing||||
|Cash inflow from new borrowings||||
|Net cash provided<br>by financing||||
|Change<br>in cash and cash||(97,737)|65,293|
|Cash and cash equivalent<br>brought||397,164|331,871|
|Cash and cash equivalents|carried|299,427|397,164|





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|County share|of subscription||||53,092||53,092|44,694|
|Miscellaneous|subs||||263||263|413|
|Miscellaneous|donations||||1,979||1,979|2,328|
|Legacy - S Smith||||||||1,418|
|Grants||||||6,642|6,642||
|COVID19 government|||grants|||||17,331|
||||||55,334|6,642|61,976|66,184|
|Investments|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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|Listed investments|||||||||
|Dividends|||||10,436||10,436|9,099|
|Cash investments||and|settlements|pending|||||
|Bank interest|||||164||164|51|
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|for|the year ended 5 April 2023||||||
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|4|Other trading<br>activities||Unrestricted|Restricted<br>E|2023|2022f|
||Trading<br>income||||||
||Goods and publications||239||239|1,366|
||Sales ofbadges||9,896||9,896|10,405|
||Rental income<br>—Beaudesert||3,111||3,111|3,157|
||Total incoming<br>resources||13,246||13,246|14,928|
||Trading<br>expenditure||||||
||Goods and publications|||||2,223|
||Purchase<br>of badges||8,514||8,514|9,152|
||Miscellaneous<br>fund raising costs||20||20|20|
||Total outgoing<br>resources||8,534||8,534|11,395|
||Net fund raising<br>income||4, 7'I 2||4,712|3,533|
|5|Charitable<br>activities||||||
||Event receipts and collections||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||Training<br>receipts||2,996||2,996|652|
||County<br>guiding<br>events:||||||
||Miscellaneous<br>events||9,458||9,458|5,65'I|
||Fundraising<br>—Firepit income|||||1,800|
||international<br>guiding||||||
||Fundraised<br>element of income|in respect of|||||
||cancelled<br>trips due to COVID|pandemic||||31,016|
||Unity 2022||255,939||255,939||
||Finland 2021||6,951||6,951||
||Kenya Adults||36,277||36,277||
||Kenya Girls||61,124||61,124||
||||372,745||372,745|39,119|





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||At the balance shee|t da|te, the|details of the|amounts<br>carried fo|rward was as fo|llows:||
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||County<br>guiding<br>events:||||||||
||Miscellaneous<br>events||||||510||
||Cancelled<br>International||guiding|events:|||||
||Cayman<br>2020|||||||4,158|
||Iceland<br>2021|||||||235|
||International<br>guiding|events:|||||||
||Finland|||||||6,817|
||Kenya<br>—Adults|||||||28,864|
||Kenya - Girls|||||||31,036|
||Iceland 2023||||||35,504|500|
||Scotland 2023||||||1,477||
||Disney 24<br>Unity 2022 event||||||5,320|78,318|
||||||||42,811|149,928|
||Charitable<br>expenditure||||||||
|6|Grants payable||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||Training<br>and travel|grants|||240||240||
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|7|Event costs||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||Training<br>expenses||6,295|565|6,860|2,812|
||County<br>guiding<br>events:||||||
||Miscellaneous<br>events||11,068|450|11,518|5,075|
||International<br>guiding|events:|||||
||Unity||235,779||235,779||
||Kenya Adults 2023||34,931||34,931|252|
||Kenya Girls 2023||61,849|8,144|69,993||
||Finland||6,759||6,759||
||International<br>guiding|events unrecovered|costs due to COVID|cancellation|||
||Cayman 2020|||1,027|1,027|3,337|
||Iceland 2020|||'I81|181|1,165|
||Scotland 2020|||||295|
||International<br>expenses||||||
||||356,681|10,367|367,048|12,936|



|At the b|alanc|e|sheet|date the details of the amounts<br>ca|rried forward was as follows:||
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|County|guiding||events:||||
|Miscellaneous|||events||||
|International||guiding||events:|||
|Iceland|23||||11,007||
|Finland||||||4,409|
|Iceland||||||8,375|
|Kenya|—Adults|||||4,830|
|Unity camp||||||8,275|
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|for|the year ended 5 April 2023|||||
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|8|General<br>guiding costs|Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
|||F|E|E|E|
||Guide Association<br>subscriptions<br>Expenses claimed<br>Grants<br>paid to commissioners<br>Wage costs<br>Printing,<br>stationery<br>and postage<br>Lease of equipment<br>Insurance|972<br>2,123<br>675<br>43,464<br>3,145<br>841<br>2,670||972<br>2,123<br>675<br>43,464<br>3,145<br>841<br>2,670|873<br>901<br>540<br>37,129<br>2,174<br>841<br>2,620|
||Heat,<br>light and water<br>Cleaning<br>expenses<br>Repairs and maintenance<br>Telephone<br>charges<br>Donations<br>and presentations<br>Legal and professional|5,371<br>3,811<br>11,274<br>2,093<br>241<br>426||5,371<br>3,811<br>11,274<br>2,093<br>241<br>426|2,793<br>1,741<br>18,326<br>1,995<br>557<br>396|
||Rebranding<br>costs<br>Depreciation<br>Loss / (Profit) on disposal of assets|8,502||8,502|8,070<br>(1,304)|
|||85,608||85,608|77,652|
|9|Other costs|Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||Annual<br>report and AGM costs<br>Independent<br>examiners<br>fees<br>Bank charges<br>Sundry expenses|325<br>3,384<br>430<br>1,684||325<br>3,384<br>430<br>1,684|488<br>3,140<br>596<br>2,237|
|||5,823||5,823|6,461|
|10|Net gains (losses) on investments|Unrestricted<br>E|Restricted<br>F|2023<br>E|2022<br>F|
||Unrealised<br>investment<br>gains/(losses)|(14,174)||(14,174)|8,997|
||per note 14<br>Realised<br>investment<br>gains/(losses)|(8,247)||(8,247)|8,575|
|||22,421)||~22„421)|17,572|
|11|Net resources|||2023|2022|
||||||E|
||This is stated after charging:<br>Independent<br>examiners<br>fees|||3,384|3,140|
||Depreciation<br>and other amounts|||||
||written<br>off tangible<br>fixed assets:<br>Owned<br>by the charity|||8,502|8,070|
||Operating<br>leases<br>Hire of plant and machinery|||841|841|





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|Administration|- (Part|time)|||||||||
|The aggregate|payroll||costs of the above was:||||||2023|2022|
||||||||||E||
|Wages and salaries<br>Pension<br>contributions|||—defined|contribution|scheme||||42,924<br>540|36,361<br>768|
|Social security|costs||||||||||
||||||||||43,464|37,129|
|No employee<br>earned||more than||f60,000 per annum.|||(2022: None).||||
|No remuneration|was||paid to the trustees||during|the|year|(2022: Nil).|||
|Grants and expenses|||paid to the trustees||during|the|year||2023|2022|
||||||||||F|F|
|Grants off45 each were paid to 15 Division Commissioners|||||||||||
|during<br>the year|(2022:||14).The|Division Commissioners||||are|||
|listed on page|1.||||||||675|540|
|Reimbursement|of out||of pocket expenses||together||with||||
|travelling<br>expenses were paid to 3trustees|||||during|the year.|||||
|(2022: 6)|||||||||2, 'l23|901|
|Tangible fixed|assets|||||||Freehold|Fixtures||
|||||||||land and|and||
|||||||||buildings|fittings|Total|
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|Cost|||||||||||
|At 6 April 2022||||||||262,216|76,612|338,828|
|Additions|||||||||2,157|2,157|
|Disposals|||||||||||
|At 5 April 2023||||||||262,216|78,769|340,985|
|Depreciation<br>At 6 April 2022||||||||'I26,722|68,645|195,367|
|Charge for the|Year|||||||5,548|2,954|8,502|
|On Disposals|||||||||||
|At 5 April 2023||||||||132,270|71,599|203,869|
|Net book value|||||||||||
|At 5 April 2023||||||||129,946|7,170|137,116|
|At 6 April 2022||||||||135,494|7,967|143,461|



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|14|Fixed asset|investments||- listed|investments|||2023|2022|
||Valuation:<br>At 6 April 2022<br>Additions|||||||357,182<br>88,927|342,943<br>166,591|
||Disposals|||||||(95,765)<br>350,344|(161,348)<br>348,186|
||(Decrease)|/ Increase<br>in market value||||||(14,174)|8,996|
||At 5 April 2023|||||||336,170|357,182|
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||The cost value at||the balance sheet date of|||listed investments|was|242,568|251,882|
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||The investments||are held|to provide a return||on investments|for the charity.|||
||The amounts|of dividends||received|during<br>the year amounted||to|10,436|9,099|
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||The analysis|ofstocks and shares|||held are|as follows:|||P|
||Companies<br>Companies|within<br>the UK<br>outside the UK||||||160,993<br>175,177|136,444<br>220,738|
||Total of valuation|||||||336,170|357,182|



|15|Debtors: amounts|falling due within|falling due within|one year|2023<br>E|2022<br>E|
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||Trade debtors<br>Other debtors<br>Prepayments<br>and accrued income||||60,388<br>15,634|3,810<br>48,867<br>30,478|
||||||76,022|83,155|
|16|Creditors: amounts||falling due within|one year|2023|2022|
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||Trade creditors<br>Accruals<br>and deferred||income||417<br>51,643|203<br>155,583|
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||||||At 6 April|Transfer|resources|resources|At 5 April|
||||||2022|offunds|8 gains|8 losses|2023|
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|International||Event||Fund|31,016|||(9,352)|21,664|
|Training|Grant||||||565|(565)||
|Midlands|Guides||- Green Grant||||450|(450)||
|Midlands|Guides||- HQ Subs Grani||||5,627||5,627|
||||||31,016||6,642|(10,367)|27,291|
|Designated:||||||||||
|Development||fund|||49,410|(4, 'I 50)|||45,260|
|Rebranding||fund|||1,886||||1,886|
|Barbara|Waterhouse|||legacy|140||||'I40|
|Firepit Fundraising||||Fund|1,800||||1,800|
||||||53,236|(4,150)|||49,086|
|General funds|||||748,985|4,150|435,488|(459,363)|729,260|
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|18|Analysis<br>of net assets between||funds||funds|funds|funds|
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||Fund balances as|at 5 April 2022|are represented|by:||||
||Tangible<br>fixed assets<br>Current assets||||473,286<br>357,120|27,291|473,286<br>384,411|
||Creditors: amounts|falling due||||||
||within one year||||(52,060)||(52,060)|
||Total net assets||||778,346|27,291|805,637|



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|Within <br>After|one year<br> one year but within|five years|841<br>841<br>1,682|841<br>1,681<br>2,522|



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|Membership<br>subscriptions<br>Badges purchased<br>Other goods purchased|||||602<br>8,486<br>2,059|621<br>9,049<br>935|
||||||11,147|10,605|
|County share of membership||subscriptions|receivable||53,092|44,694|
|Balances outstanding|at the|year end and|included|in creditors|307|203|
|Balances outstanding|at the|year end and|included|in other debtors|||





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|Reconciliation<br>of net movement<br>in funds to net cash|flow from oper|ating<br>activities||
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|Net movement<br>in funds||(27,600)|35,941|
|Add back depreciation<br>charge<br>Deduct gains<br>/ add back losses on sale ofassets<br>Deduct interest<br>and dividend<br>income shown<br>on investing|activities|8,502<br>(10,600)|8,070<br>(1,304)<br>(9,150)|
|Deduct gains<br>/ add back losses on investments<br>Decrease (increase)<br>in stock<br>Decrease (increase)<br>in debtors<br>Increase (decrease)<br>in creditors<br>Net. cash used<br>in operating<br>activities||22,421<br>(901)<br>7,133<br>~103,726)<br>(104,771)|(17,572)<br>1,820<br>2,485<br>33,268<br>53,558|



