


|Contents||
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|CHAIR'5 FOREWORD. .||
|REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (including<br>the Directors Report) .||
|MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISERS.||
|STAFF||
|INTRODUCTION<br>—OVERVIEW S.CHARITABLE OBJECTS..||
|ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE||
|FINANCIAL REVIEW.|....17|
|STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES.|22|
|INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF ACTIVE CHESHIRE LIMITED ...||
|STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES................|27|
|BALANCE SHEET|28|
|CASH FLOW STATEMENT|29|
|NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT.|...30|
|NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS|31|
|DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES|.....51|





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|Trustees|||Position||Date A<br>ointed|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Dr Paul|Hancock|OBE|Chair||22""September 2017|
||||Trustee||25'" March 2022|
|Martin<br>Pearson|||Vice-Chair||22"'September 2017|
||||Chair||25'" March 2022|
|Susan Sellers|||Senior Independent|Director|29th November 2017|
|William|Evans||Vice-Chair||22nd July 2014|
|Paula Cohen|||Trustee||7th November<br>2012|
||||Vice-Chair||25'" March 2022|
|Davinder|Gill||Trustee||2" January 2020|
|Heather|Barnes||Trustee||1"December 2019|
|Rachel Waterman|||Trustee||1"December 2019|
|Trustees|—resi|ned in|ear||Date of Resi nation|
|Nige<br>I Allma n|||Trustee||28'"January 2022|
|Carol Clarke|||Trustee||26'" November<br>2021|
|Graham|Evans||Trustee||28'"January 2022|
|Michelle|Partington||Trustee||17'"September 2021|





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||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total<br>funds|Total<br>funds|
||||||funds|funds|||
|||||Notes|f|f|f|f|
|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||FROM|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||||715,444|92,904|808,348|613,910|
|Other trading<br>activities<br>Investment<br>income|||||68,050<br>43||68,050<br>43|31,628<br>355|
|Total|||||783,537|92,904|876,441|645,893|
|EXPENDITURE ON|||||||||
|Raising funds|||||||||
|Charitable<br>activities|||||||||
|Contributions<br>to partner|organisations||||||||
|developing<br>sporting<br>activities||and coaching|||262,551|92,904|355,455|235,744|
|Supporting<br>and co-ordinating<br>the provision<br>of sporting<br>activities and opportunities|||||531,099||531,099|517,394|
|Total|||||793,650|92,904|886,554|753,138|
|NET (EXPENDITURE)|||||(10,113)||(10,113)|(107,244)|
|Other recognised<br>gains/(losses)|||||||||
|Actuarial<br>gains/(losses)|on defined||benefit||||||
|schemes|||||422,000||422,000|(619,000)|
|Net movement<br>in funds|||||411,887||411,887|(726,244)|
|RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS|||||||||
|Total funds brought<br>forward|||||(355,178)||(355,178)|371,066|
|TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED|FORWARD||||56,709||56,709|(355,178)|





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|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total<br>funds|Total<br>funds|
|||||funds|funds|||
||||Notes|f|f|f|f|
|FIXEDASSETS||||||||
|Tangible assets|||14|7,449||7,449|3,608|
|CURRENT ASSETS||||||||
|Debtors|||15|24,900||24,900|22,610|
|Cash at bank and|in hand|||509,464||509,464|392,358|
|||||534,364||534,364|414,968|
|CREDITORS||||||||
|Amounts<br>falling due within one year|||16|(252,104)||(252,104)|(145,754)|
|NET CURRENT ASSETS||||282,260||282,260|269,214|
|TOTAL ASSETS LESSCURRENT LIABILITIES||||||||
|||||289,709||289,709|272,822|
|PENSION<br>LIABILITY|||20|(233,000)||(233,000)|(628,000)|
|NET (LIABILITIES)||||56,709||56,709|(355,178)|
|FUNDS|||18|||||
|Unrestricted<br>funds|(After deduction|of||||||
|pension<br>liability)||||||56,709|(355,178)|
|Restricted<br>funds||||||||
|TOTAL FUNDS||||||56,709|(355,178)|



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||Notes|f|f|
|Cash flows from operating|activities:|||||||
|Cash generated<br>from operations||||||123,657|107,026|
|Net cash provided<br>by operating||activities||||123,657|107,206|
|Cash flows from investing|activities:|||||||
|Purchase oftangible<br>fixed|assets|||||(6,594)||
|Interest received||||||43|355|
|Net cash (used in)/provided<br>activities|by|investing||||(6,551)|355|
|||||||117,106|107,381|
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents<br>reporting<br>period|||in the|||117,106|107,381|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the beginning|||of||||
|the reporting<br>period||||||392,258|284,977|
|Cash and cash equivalents|at the end||ofthe|||||
|reporting<br>period||||||509,364|392,258|





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|ACTIVITIES||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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|Net (expenditure)/income|||for the reporting||period (as per the|||
|statement<br>offinancial||activities)||||(10,113)|(107,244)|
|Adjustments<br>for:||||||||
|Depreciation<br>charges||||||2,754|4,269|
|Interest received||||||(43)|(355)|
|(increase)/Decrease|in|debtors||||(2,290)|183,094|
|Increase<br>in creditors||||||106,349|17,262|
|Difference between|pension||charge and cash||contributions|27,000|10,000|
|Net cash provided|by operating|||activities||123,667|107,026|





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||Grants and contracts|||||808,348|613,910|
||Grants received,|included|||in the above, are as follows:|||
|||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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||Chester West 5|Chester|||Council|38,000|48,000|
||Sport England|||||760,476|550,910|
||The Football Foundation||||||5,000|
||Edsential<br>Community||Interest Group|||9,542||
||Cheshire<br>Community||Foundation|||330||
||Holroyd<br>Foundation||||||10,000|
|||||||808,348|613,910|
|3.|OTHER TRADING|ACTIVITIES||||||
|||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|||||||f|f|
||Fundraising<br>events||||||3,051|
||Course fees and|sundry||income||68,050|13,803|
||COVID Job Retention||Scheme||||14,774|
|||||||68,050|31,628|
|4.|INVESTMENT INCOME|||||||
|||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|||||||f|f|
||Deposit account|interest||||43|355|
|5.|RAISING FUNDS|||||||
||Other trading activities|||||||
|||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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||I3ad debts|||||(5,935)|6,824|





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|2022||||||||Grant|Grant|Support||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Direct costs||funding|of|costs|Totals|
|||||||||activities||||
|||||||||(See note|7)|(See note 8)||
|||||||||f||f||
|Supporting||and co-ordinating|||the|||||||
|provision||of|sporting|activities|and|||||||
|opportunities|||||||319,167|||211,932|531,099|
|Contributions|||to partner organisations|||||||||
|developing||sporting||activities|and|||||||
|coaching||||||||355,455|||355,455|
||||||||319,167|355,455||211,932|886,554|
|Charitable||activities costs were funded||||by Sport|England|grant as follows:||||
|Active Cheshire direct and support cost f454,335||||||||||||
|Contributions|||to partner organisations|||f91,084||||||
|2021||||||||Grant||Support||
|||||||Direct costs||funding|of|costs|Totals|
|||||||||activities||||
|||||||||(See note|7)|(See note 8)||
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|Supporting||and co-ordinating|||the|||||||
|provision|of||sporting|activities|and|||||||
|opportunities|||||||241,729|||275,665|517,344|
|Contributions|||to partner organisations|||||||||
|developing||sporting||activities|and|||||||
|coaching||||||||235,744|||235,744|
||||||||241,729|235,744||275,665|753,138|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Contributions<br>to partner|||||organisations|||developing|sporting|activities|||
|and coaching|||||||||||355,455|235,744|
|The total||grants|paid to||institutions||during the year||was as|follows:|||
||||||||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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|Champs<br>DofE||Public Health-||National||Partner|||||26,201|11,709<br>3,145|
|Satellite||Clubs*|||||||||11,262|23,853|
|School Games*||||||||||||31,457|
|Tackling <br>Mount|Inequality*<br>Killimanjaro||||||||||92,903<br>4,305|114,536<br>1,300|
|Donation||||||||||||100|
|Opening||School|Facilities*||||||||141,017||
|Children||5Young People*|||||||||79,767||
|Other||||||||||||49,644|
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|2022||||General|Governance|Totals|
|||||Support|Costs||
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|Salary|81Wages|||147,345||147,345|
|Accountancy||and Professional|Services||32,313|32313|
|Audit|||||7,600|7,600|
|Payroll|and|HR||5,340||5,340|
|Other||||17,323|2,011|19,334|
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|2021||||General|Governance|Totals|
|||||Support|Costs||
|||||f||f|
|Salary|81Wages|||166,208||166,208|
|Accountancy||and Professional|Services|30,972|4,925|35,897|
|Audit|||||7,225|7,225|
|Payroll|and|HR||9,473||9,473|
|Other||||53,853|3,009|56,862|
|||||264,806|10,859|275,665|



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|Net expenditure<br>is stated aft|er charging/(crediting):|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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|Auditors<br>remuneration-audit|fee|7,600|7,225|
|Depreciation<br>- owned assets||2,754|4,269|
|Lease payments-Rent/Photocopier/Container||12,391|12,383|



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|STAFF COST|S|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|||||f|f|
|Wages and salaries<br>Social security costs<br>Other pension costs||||333,949<br>25,913<br>14,497|352,163<br>29,560<br>24,614|
|||||374,359|406,337|
|The average|monthly|number ofemployees|during the year was as follows:|||
|||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|Partnership|Services|||11|10|



|The number<br>of employees<br>whose employee<br>be<br>f60,000 (pro-rata) was:|nefits<br>(excluding<br>employer<br>pension<br>costs|) exceeded|
|---|---|---|
||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|f60,000 - f70,000<br>f90,000-f100,000|1<br>0|0<br>1|



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|13.|COMPARATIVES FOR THE|STATEMENT|STATEMENT|STATEMENT|OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES|OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total<br>funds|
|||||||funds|funds||
||INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||FROM||||||
||Donations<br>and legacies|||||397,762|216,147|615,687|
||Other trading activities|||||31,628||31,628|
||Investment<br>income|||||355||355|
||Total|||||429,747|216,147|645,893|
||EXPENDITURE ON||||||||
||Raising funds||||||||
||Charitable<br>activities||||||||
||Contributions<br>to partner organisations|||developing||19,597|216,147|235,744|
||sporting<br>activities<br>and coaching||||||||
||Supporting<br>and co-ordinating|the|provision||ofsporting|517,394||517,394|
||activities<br>and opportunities||||||||
||Total|||||536,691|216,147|753,138|
||NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)|||||(107,244)||(107,244)|
||Other recognised<br>gains/(losses)||||||||
||Actuarial<br>gains/losses<br>on defined||benefit schemes|||(619,000)||(619,000)|
||Net movement<br>in funds|||||(726,244)||(726,244)|
||RECONCILIATION<br>OF FUNDS||||||||
||Total funds brought<br>forward|||||371,066||371,066|
||TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD|||||355,178||355,178|





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|14.|TANGIBLE FIXED|ASS|E|TS||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||Fixtures||and|Computer||
|||||||||fittings||equipment|Totals|
|||||||||f||f|f|
||COST|||||||||||
||At 1April 2021|||||||16,580||20,651|37,231|
||Additions||||||||0|6,594|6,594|
||At 31March 2022|||||||16|580|27 245|43 823|
||DEPRECIATION|||||||||||
||At 1April 2020|||||||14,933||18,690|33,623|
||Charge for year|||||||891||1,862|4,249|
||At 31March 2022|||||||15824||20 552|36376|
||NET BOOK VALUE|||||||||||
||At 31March 2021|||||||1,647||1,961|3,608|
||At 31March 2022|||||||756||6,693|7,448|
|15.|DEBTORS:AMOUNTS||FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR|||||||||
|||||||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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||Trade debtors|||||||||21,009|13,040|
||Prepayments<br>and accrued|||income||||||4,902|5,032|
||VAT|||||||||(121)|4,538|
|||||||||||25 790|22 610|
|16.|CREDITORS: AMOUNTS|||FALLING DUE WITHIN|||ONE YEAR|||||
|||||||||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
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||Trade creditors|||||||||39,797|26,494|
||Social security and other||taxes|||||||10,098|7,144|
||Other creditors|||||||||169,428|70,214|
||Accruals and deferred|income||||||||32,781|41,902|
|||||||||||252,103|145,754|
||Deferred income included|||above represents||monies|being held|on||||
||behalf ofother organisations||||or has been received||but no work|||||
||commissioned<br>at the|balance|||sheet date.|||||||
||Balance at 1"April 2021|||||||||70,214||
||Amount<br>released to income earned from charitable||||||activities|||(70,214)||
||Amount<br>Deferred<br>in year|||||||||169,428||
||Balance at31"March|2022||||||||169,428||





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|Within one year-Building<br>Lease<br>Between one and five years-Building||||Lease||10,215<br>10,215|10,125<br>20,430|
|||||||20,430|30,555|
|MOVEMENT||IN FUNDS||||||
|||||||Net||
|||||||movement<br>in||
||||||At 1/4/21|funds|At 31/3/22|
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|Unrestricted||funds||||||
|General|fund||||272,822|178,887|451,709|
|Defined|benefit scheme||fund||(628,000)|233,000|(395,000)|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||||(355,178)|411,887|56,709|



|Net mov|ement<br>in funds, included|in the above are as follo|ws:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
|||resources<br>f|expended<br>f|(losses)<br>f|in funds<br>f|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||
|General|fund|783,537|(793,650)|422,000|411,887|
|Restricted funds||||||
|Tracking|Inequality|92,904|(92,904)|||
|TOTAL|FUNDS|876,441|(886,554)|422,000|411,887|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||movement<br>in||
||||At 1/4/20|funds|At 31/3/21|
||||f|f|f|
|Unrestricted||Funds||||
|General|fund||370,066|(97,244)|272,822|
|Defined|benefit scheme fund||1,000|(629,000)|(628,000)|
|TOTAL|FUNDS||371,066|(726,244)|(355,178)|



|Comparative<br>net movement<br>in fun|ds,<br>included<br>in the abov|e are as follows|:||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Incoming|Resources|Gains and|Movement|
||resources|expended|(losses)|in funds|
|Unrestricted<br>funds|||||
|General fund|414,972|(522,216)|(619,000)|(726,244)|
|Restricted funds|||||
|DofE Volunteers|22,000|(22,000)|||
|Satellite Clubs|20,113|(20,113)|||
|Primary Games Delivery|49,498|(49,498)|||
|Tackling Inequality|114,536|(114,536)|||
|Westminster<br>Foundation|10,000||||
||216,147|(216,147)|||
|TOTAL FUNDS|631,119|(738,363)|(619,000)|(726,244)|





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|The amounts<br>recognised<br>in the balance sheet are|as follows:||
|---|---|---|
||Defined benefit|pension|
||plans||
||31/3/22|31/3/21|
||f|f|
|Fair value of plan assets|2,534,000|2,362,000|
|Defined benefit obligation|2,767,000|2,990,000|
||(233,000)|(628,000)|
|Net Liability|(233,000)|(628,000)|



|The amounts|recognised<br>in the Statement of Financial Activit|ies are as follows:||
|---|---|---|---|
|||Defined benefit|pension|
|||plans||
|||31/3/21|31/3/20|
|||f|f|
|Current service cost||23,000|32,000|
|Net interest|from net defined benefit asset/liability|||
|||23,000|32,000|
|Actual return|on plan assets|164,000|342,000|



|Changes|in th|e present value of the defined benefit obl|igation<br>are as follows:||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Defined benefit|pension|
||||plans||
||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
||||f|f|
|Defined|benefit obligation||2,990,000|1,992,000|
|Current|service cost||23,000|32,000|
|Contributions||by scheme participants|2,000|8,000|
|Interest|cost||61,000|46,000|
|Actuarial|losses/(gains)||(306,000)|915,000|
|Benefits|paid||(3,000)|(3,000)|
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|Changes|in th|e fair value ofscheme assets are as follows|:<br>Defined benefit|pension|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||plans||
||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
||||f|f|
|Fair value|of|scheme assets|2,362,00|1,993,000|
|Contributions||by employer|9,000|22,000|
|Contributions||by scheme participants|2,000|8,000|
|Expected|return||48,000|46,000|
|Actuarial|gains/(losses)||116,000|296,000|
|Benefits|paid||(3,000)|(3,000)|
||||2,534,000|2,362,000|



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|---|---|---|
|Defined|benefit|pension|
||plans||
|31/3/22||31/3/21|
|f||f|
|~422|000|~619000|
|(422,000)||(619,000)|



|The major categories ofscheme assets as|a percentage<br>oftotal scheme assets are as follow|s:|
|---|---|---|
||Defined benefit|pension|
||plans||
||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|Equities|42%|46%|
|Bonds|42%|40%|
|Property|10%|10%|
|Cash|6%|4%|



|Principal<br>actuari|al<br>assumptions<br>at the balance she|et date (expressed<br>as weighted<br>averag|es)|
|---|---|---|---|
|||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|Discount rate||3.0%|2.05%|
|Future salary increases||0.0%|3.5%|
|Future pension|increases|3.0%|2.8%|





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|---|---|---|---|---|
|Retiring|today:||||
|Males|||21.2|21.4|
|Females|||23.8|25.7|
|Future:|||||
|Males|||22.1|22.4|
|Females|||25.5|25.7|



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|||Income|Expenditure|Income|Expenditure|Expenditure|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||(&)|(&)||(&)|(&)|
|||2021-22|2021-22|2020-21||2020-21|
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|---|---|---|---|
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|INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS||||
|Donations<br>and legacies<br>Grants and contracts||808 348|613910|
|Other trading activities<br>Fundraising<br>events<br>Course fees and sundry<br>income<br>Covid Job Retention<br>Scheme||68,050|3,051<br>13,803<br>14,724|
|||876,398|31,628|
|Investment<br>income<br>Deposit account interest||43|355|
|Total incoming<br>resources||876,441|645,893|
|EXPENDITURE||||
|Other trading activities<br>Bad debts||(5,935)|6,824|
|Charitable<br>activities||||
|Contribution<br>to partners<br>Contribution<br>to partners<br>wages allocated<br>Wages<br>Social Security<br>Pensions||355,454<br>147,345<br>186,603<br>25,913<br>14,497|136,456<br>49,644<br>352,163<br>29,560<br>24,614|
|Equipment<br>and facilities<br>Insurance||1,075<br>3,059|120<br>4,139|
|Telephone<br>Printing,<br>postage and photocopying<br>Sundry office costs<br>Travelling<br>expenses<br>Training fees<br>Rent and premises<br>costs<br>Marketing<br>Refreshments||5,651<br>1,275<br>8,812<br>7,167<br>2,498<br>11,624<br>1,619<br>1,058|6,494<br>1,043<br>6,324<br>6,412<br>2,349<br>3,095<br>(1,209)<br>111|
|Computer<br>expenses<br>Professional<br>fees||5,799<br>26,235|6,603<br>33,249|
|Memberships<br>and subscriptions||8,333|5,067|
|Fixtures and fittings||||
|Computer<br>equipment<br>Expected return<br>on pension scheme assets<br>Interest on pension scheme liabilities|/ FRS102Contribution|14,000<br>13,000|10,000|
|||835,082|677,125|





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|Support Costs||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||31/3/22|31/3/21|
|||||f|f|
|Finance||||||
|Bank charges||||458|544|
|Governance|costs|||||
|Trustees' expenses|||||209|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||||7,600|7,225|
|Auditors'<br>remuneration||for non-audit|work|||
|Accountancy|fees|||32,313|35,898|
|Other||||11,100|25,312|
|||||51,013|68,644|
|Total resources expended||||886,554|749,148|
|Net expenditure||||(10,113)|(107,244)|



