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|Reference and Administrative<br>Details|||
|Trustees'<br>Report||2-9|
|Independent<br>Examiner's|Report|10|
|Statement ofFinancial|Activities||
|Balance Sheet||12|
|Notes to the Financial Statements||13-20|





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|DERC|Directors and employees||||
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||Directors||||
||Lyn Cooch|(Dorset Council)|||
||Kevin Cook|(Chairman,<br>consultant|ecologist)||
||Jennifer Cripps|(Dorset Natural<br>History|&Archaeological|Society)|
||Imogen Davenport|(Dorset Wildlife Trust)|||
||John Davis|(Consultant<br>Ecologist)|||
||Annabel<br>King|(Dorset Council)|||
||John Newbould|(Dorset Natural<br>History|&Archaeological|Society)|
||Nicholas<br>Squirrell|(on behalf ofNatural<br>England)|||
||Phil Sterling|(Butterfly Conservation)|||
||Sarah Welton|(Dorset Wildlife Trust)|||
||Employees||||
||Carolyn Steele|Records Centre Manager|||
||Alison Stillman|Environmental<br>Database Manager|||
||Bryan Edwards|Ecologist|||
||Jon Corkill|GIS Officer|||
||Silvia Freire|Records Centre Assistant|||
||Jo Stephens|AWI Project Officer|||
||Fiona Wood|Habitat Surveyor|||



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|||||Unrestricted|Total|Total|
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|INCOME|||||||
|Income and endowments|from:||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies||||2,870|2,870|13,375|
|Charitable<br>activities||||216,920|216,920|252,865|
|Investment<br>income||||8,724|8,724|7,982|
|Total incoming resources||||228,514|228,514|274,222|
|EXPENDITURE ON:|||||||
|Charitable<br>activities||||247,049|247,049|183,080|
|Total expenditure||||247,049|247,049|183,080|
|Net income/(expenditure)|before|transfers||(18,535)|(18,535)|91,142|
|Other recognised<br>gains and losses|||||||
|Gains / (losses) on revaluation<br>assets||offixed||(16,099)|(16,099)|22,178|
|Net Movement<br>in Funds|for the year|||(34,634)|(34,634)|113,320|
|Total Funds:|||||||
|Brought Forward||||367,593|367,593|254,273|
|Carried Forward||||332,959|332,959|367,593|





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|Fixed Assets||||||||
|Tangible assets|||10|||||
|Investments|||11||251,071||267,170|
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|Current assets||||||||
|Debtors|||12|36,332||66,573||
|Cash at bank|and in|hand||122,052||60,672||
|||||158,384||127,245||
|Creditors: Amounts||falling due within||||||
|one year|||13|(76,496)||(26,822)||
|Net current|assets||||81,888||100,423|
|Total assets|less current liabilities||||332,939||367,593|
|The funds ofthe charity".|||14|||||
|Unrestricted|funds||||240,279||258,814|
|Revaluation|reserve||||92,680||108,779|
|Total charity funds|||||332,959||367,593|





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|3|Donations|and legacies||||
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||Grants receivable|||2,870|13,375|
|||||2,870|13,375|
|4|Income from charitable||activities|||
|||||2023|2022|
||Data agreements|||63,452|59,773|
||Contracts|||42,011|58,911|
||Data searches|||111,417|134,159|
||Publications|||40|22|
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|Expenditure||on chari|table<br>activities|||
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|||||2023|2022|
|Staff costs (including|||travel)|218,605|159,599|
|Direct costs||||17,391|14,365|
|Support costs||||6,800|8,252|
|Governance|costs|||4,253|864|
|||||247,049|183,080|
|Direct costs:||||||
|Contract costs||||3,680|831|
|Subscriptions||||1,528|800|
|Computer<br>consumables|||and repairs|6,156|6,240|
|Insurance||||6,027|5,499|
|Advertising|||||995|
|||||17,391|14,365|
|S~uort costs:||||||
|Office service||charge||1,879|1,878|
|Rent||||3,940|3,939|
|Rates||||290|445|
|Printing, postage and|||stationery|638|1,820|
|Sundry expenses||||53|170|
|||||6,800|8,252|
|Governance|costs:|||||
|Accountancy||fees||4,253||
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|Staff costs<br>The aggregate payroll costs were as follows:|||
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|Wages and salaries|184,181|130,550|
|Social security costs|12,491|7,047|
|Pension costs|20,365|21,525|
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|Tangible fixed assets|||
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||Furniture||
||and||
||equipment|Total|
|Cost or valuation|||
|As at 1 April 2022|13,901|13,901|
|As at 31March 2023|13,901|13,901|
|Depreciation|||
|As at 1 April 2022|13,901|13,901|
|As at 31March 2023|13,901|13,901|
|Net book value|||
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|11|Fixed asset investments||||
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||Other investments|251,071||267,170|
||||Listed||
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||Cost or valuation||||
||As at 1 April 2022||267,170|267,170|
||Revaluation||(16,099)|(16,099)|
||As at 31March 2023||251,071|251,071|
||Net book value||||
||As at 31March 2023||251,071|251,071|
||As at 31March 2022||267,170|267,170|



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|Debtors|||
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|Trade debtors|32,743|31,533|
|Prepayments|3,483|2,152|
|Accrued income|106|32,888|
||36,332|66,573|



|13|Creditors: Amounts|Creditors: Amounts|falling due within one year|||
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|||||2023|2022|
||Social security|and other taxes||20,463|17,397|
||Other creditors|||2,100|1,235|
||Accruals and income||received in advance|53,933|8,190|
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||||||Other||
||||Incoming|Resources|recognised||
|||At 0104«22|resources|expended|gains/(losses)|At31.03.23|
|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|General||250,814|228,514|(247,049)||232,279|
|Designated||8,000||||8,000|
|||258,814|228,514|(247,049)||240,279|
|Revaluation|reserve||||||
|Revaluation|reserve|108,779|||(16,099)|92,680|
|||108,779|||(16,099)|92,680|
|Total funds||367,593|228,514|(247,049)|(16,099)|332,959|
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||||Incoming|Resources|recognised||
|||At 01.04.21|resources|expended|gains/(losses)|At31.03.22|
||2022||||||
|Unrestricted|funds||||||
|General||159,672|274,222|(183,080)||250,814|
|Designated||8,000||||8,000|
|||167,672|274,222|(183,080)||258,814|
|Revaluation|reserve||||||
|Revaluation|reserve|86,601|||22,178|108,779|
|||86,601|||22,178|108,779|
|Totalfunds||254,273|274,222|(183,080)|22,178|367,593|



||Unrestricted||
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||funds|Total|
|Tangible fixed assets|||
|Fixed asset investments|251,071|251,071|
|Current assets|158,384|158,384|
|Current liabilities|(76,496)|(76,496)|
|Total funds|332,959|332,959|
|2022|||
|Tangible fixed assets|||
|Investments|267,170|267,170|
|Current assets|127,245|127,245|
|Current liabilities|(26,822)|(26,822)|
|Total funds|367,593|367„593|





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||||||For The|Year En|ded 31March|2023||
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|16|Financial instruments|||||||||
|||||||||2023|2022|
||Categorisation|offinancial||instruments:||||||
||Financial assets|that|are debt||instrument|measured|at amortised|||
||cost|||||||154,795|92,205|
||Financial liabilities||measured||at amortised cost|||76,496|26,822|



