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Responsibilities of the Trustees
The Trustees (who are also the directors of The Vincent
Wildlife Trust for the purposes of company law) are
responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the
昀椀nancial statements in accordance with applicable
law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United
Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company and charity law requires the Trustees to
prepare 昀椀nancial statements for each 昀椀nancial year
that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs
of the charitable company and of the incoming resources
and application of resources, including the income
and expenditure, of the charitable company for that
period. The requirements are set out in the Companies
Act 2006, the Charities Act 2011, the Charities Accounts
(Scotland) Regulations 2006 and the Charities and Trustee
Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.
The Trustees’ Report, incorporating a strategic report,
was approved by order of the Board of Trustees,
as the company directors, on 6 June 2025
and signed on its behalf by
Prof. R McDonald — Chair of Trustees
Company Registration Number 05598716
In preparing these 昀椀nancial statements, the Trustees
are required to:
• select suitable accounting policies and then apply
them consistently;
observe
the methods and principles in the
•
Charity SORP;
make
judgements and estimates that are
•
reasonable and prudent;
prepare
the 昀椀nancial statements on the going
•
concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume
that the charitable company will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper
accounting records which disclose with reasonable
accuracy at any time the 昀椀nancial position of the
charitable company and to enable them to ensure that
the 昀椀nancial statements comply with the Companies
Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the
assets of the charitable company and hence for taking
reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of
fraud and other irregularities.
In so far as the Trustees are aware:
• there is no relevant audit information of which
the charitable company’s auditors are unaware; and
the
Trustees have taken all steps that they ought to
•
have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant
audit information and to establish that the auditors
are aware of that information.
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