5 Administrative details

Patron His Majesty King Charles III

Vice Presidents David Abraham Dawn Airey Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVG CBE FRS Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE Mike Darcey Greg Dyke Lord Hall of Birkenhead Lorraine Heggessey Armando Iannucci OBE Ian Jones Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE David Lynn Sir Trevor McDonald OBE Ken MacQuarrie Gavin Patterson Trevor Phillips OBE Stewart Purvis CBE Sir Howard Stringer The Trustees of the charitable company (“the charity”) are its Trustees for the purposes of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred to as the Board of Trustees. As set out in the Articles of Association, the Chair of the Board of Trustees is elected by the Board of Trustees for a three-year term. The Trustees serving during the period of the report and up to the date of signature of the financial statements are as follows:

Chair of the Board of Trustees Jane Turton

Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees Simon Pitts

Honorary Secretary David Lowen

Honorary Treasurer Mike Green Board of Trustees Lynn Barlow Julian Bellamy Mike Green Yasmina Hadded David Lowen Jane Millichip (resigned 20 July 2022) Simon Pitts Sinéad Rocks (appointed 29 June 2021) Sarah Rose Jane Turton Rob Woodward

Chief Executive Theresa Wise

Standing Committees of the Board of Trustees Audit Committee Jane Millichip (Chair, resigned 20 July 2022) Lynn Barlow Mike Green Yasmina Hadded

Remuneration Committee Simon Pitts (Chair) Mike Green David Lowen Sarah Rose Charity number 313728

Company number 00249462

Registered office 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN

Bankers National Westminster Bank PLC PO Box 11302, 332 High Holborn, London WC1V 7PD

Auditor Haysmacintyre LLP 10 Queen Street Place, London, EC4R 1AG

Haysmacintyre LLP will be proposed for reappointment as auditors at the forthcoming Annual General.

Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities for the year ended 31 December 2021

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the Trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Society at the year end and of its incoming resources and resources expended during that year. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required: n To select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; n To observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP; n To make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; n To state whether applicable UK accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; n To prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the

Society will continue in operation.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Society and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Society and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Society’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Disclosure of information to auditor

In so far as the Trustees are aware: n There is no relevant audit information of which the Society’s auditors are unaware; and n The Trustees have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as

Trustees in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Society’s auditors are aware of that information.

This report has been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (issued October 2019) and in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

The Trustees’ report was approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by:

VJ Turton, Trustee Dated 25 August 2022