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|Trustees||Jim Jermyn|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Jonathan<br>Miller|||
|||Sally Petitt|||
|||Paul Cook|||
|||Kit Strange|||
|||David Knott|||
|Secretary||Rebecca Slack|||
|||Email: info@merlin-trust.||org.uk|
|Charity number||803441|||
|Principal address||c/o Head of Horticulture|||
|||Cambridge<br>University|Botanic Garden||
|||1 Brookside|||
|||Cambridge|||
|||CB2 1JE|||
|Independent|examiner|Azets Audit Services|||
|||Thorpe House|||
|||93 Headlands|||
|||Kettering|||
|||Northamptonshire|||
|||United<br>Kingdom|||
|||NN15 6BL|||
|Bankers||Lloyds Bank PLC|||
|||3 —4 Market Street, Kettering,|||
|||Northants,<br>NN16 OAH|||
|Investment|advisors|Brewin Dolphin,|||
|||Time Central,<br>Gallowgate,|||
|||Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,||NE1 4SR|





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|Independent<br>examiner's||report||
|Statement<br>offinancial|activities|||
|Balance sheet||||
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|||||funds|funds|
|||||2022|2021|
||||Notes|f|F|
|Income from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||9,236|4,399|
|Other trading<br>activities||||541|336|
|Investments||||18,312|18,110|
|Other income|||||15,273|
|Total income||||28,089|38,118|
|Ex enditure on:||||||
|Raising funds||||8,236|7,113|
|Charitable<br>activities||||||
|Grant making||||8,190|6,097|
|Total charitable|expenditure|||8,190|6,097|
|Total resources|expended|||16,426|13,210|
|Net gains/(losses)||on investments|12|39,915|169,510|
|Net movement<br>in||funds||51,578|194,418|
|Fund balances at|6April 2021|||857,379|662,961|
|Fund balances at||5April 2022||908,957|857,379|





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|Fixed assets||||||||||
|Tangible assets|||||13||1||1|
|Investments|||||14||876,179||804,179|
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|Current assets||||||||||
|Debtors|||||16|1,488||1,541||
|Cash at bank||and|in|hand||43,649||62,950||
|||||||45,137||64,491||
|Creditors:|amounts|||falling due within||||||
|one year|||||17|(12,360)||(11,292)||
|Net current|assets||||||32,777||53,199|
|Total assets||less|current liabilities||||908,957||857,379|
|Income funds||||||||||
|Unrestricted||funds||||||||
|Designated|funds||||18|879,869||803,852||
|General<br>unrestricted||||funds||29,088||53,527||
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|Donations|and gifts|9,236|4,399|
|Donations|and gifts|||
|Peter Wilson||2,200|1,000|
|Tim Brotzman||780|2,578|
|The Heather Society||746|821|
|The Saxifrage Society||5,500||
|Other||10||
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|||Unrestricted|Unrestricted|
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||Income from royalties|541|336|
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|Income|from listed investments|18,306|18,101|
|Interest|receivable|6|9|
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|Investment|management|8,236|7,113|
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|||||Grant|Grant|
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|Grant|funding|ofactivities (see note 9)||2,266||
|Share|ofsupport costs (see note 10)|||3,362|3,373|
|Share|ofgovernance||costs (see note 10)|2,562|2,724|
|||||8,190|6,097|



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|Grants|to|individuals|(3|grants)|2,266||
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|Details ofthe 2022|grant|awards,|including|the travel destination,|the travel destination,|the travel destination,|are|set out below:|set out below:||
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|Caroline Pheasey||Tresco Abbey||Gardens,|Isles of Scilly||||F426||
|Tracey Fahey||South|Devon||||||F590||
|Aaron<br>Marshall||The McGregor||Saxifrage|Study Award||||F1,250||
|Support costs|||||||||||
|||Support Governance||||2022||Support|Governance|2021|
||||costs|costs||||costs|costs||
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|Secretarial<br>support|||3,000|||3,000||3,000||3,000|
|Publicity<br>and<br>website|||||||||||
|costs|||86|||||187||187|
|Stationery,<br>postage,|||||||||||
|software,<br>travel|and||||||||||
|other costs|||276|||276||186||186|
|Independent<br>examiner's|||||||||||
|remuneration||||2,562||2,562|||2,724|2,724|
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|Charitable<br>activities|||3,362|2,562||5,924||3,373|2,724|6,097|



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||||F|F|
|Revaluation|of|investments|36,871|146,117|
|Gain/(loss)|on|sale of investments|3,044|23,393|
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|||Computers|and similar|
||||equipment|
||||F|
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|At 6April|2021||1,282|
|At 5April|2022||1,282|
|Depreciation<br>and impairment||||
|At 6April|2021||1,281|
|At 5April|2022||1,281|
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|Fixed ass|et investments||||
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|||Listed|Cash in|Total|
|||investments|portfolio||
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|Cost or valuation|||||
|At 6April|2021|782,721|21,458|804,179|
|Additions||67,018|3,618|70,636|
|Valuation|changes|36,871||36,871|
|Disposals||(35,507)||(35,507)|
|At 5April|2022|851,103|25,076|876,179|
|Carrying|amount||||
|At 05April|2022|851,103|25,076|876,179|
|At 05April|2021|782,721|21,458|804,179|





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||Carrying<br>amount of||financial assets||||
||Instruments|measured|at fair value through|profit or loss|851,103|782,721|
|16|Debtors||||||
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||Amounts|falling due|within one year:||F|F|
||Other debtors||||1,488|1,541|
|17|Creditors:|amounts|falling due within one year||||
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|||2022|2022||2021|2021|2021|
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||Tangible assets|1||1|1||1|
||Investments||876,179|876,179||804,179|804,179|
||Current assets/|||||||
||(liabilities)|29,087|3,690|32,777|53,526|(327)|53,199|
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