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What do we own and what are we worth?

 
     
 
Operational Buildings providing services; Museums, Sports Centres, Community Centres, and Toilets  
20.9 million
Hostel  
0.5 million
Sports pitches  
0.7 million
Cemeteries and Crematorium  
1.7 million
Car Parks  
22.0 million
Allotment Sites  
0.2 million
Offices and Depots  
8.5 million
Commercial Property – shops and units  
1.9 million
Bus Shelters  
0.2 million

Vehicles

 

2.4 million

Other non-operational assets  
1.7 million

 

Simplified Balance Sheet

What the Council owns and is owed  
What we own:    
Buildings, Land, Vehicles and Equipment  
69.00 million
Stock  
0.11 million
Cash in Bank  
0.01 million
Cash Invested  
4.96 million
Money owed to the Council  
8.40 million
What we owe:  
Money owed by the Council – short term  
8.70 million
Money owed by the Council – over a number of years  
37.72 million
Total value of what we own  
£36.06 million
   
Funds held by the Council:  
Amounts used to buy assets  
55.39 million

Revaluation Reserve

 

2.97 million

Collection Fund

 

(0.16 million)

Pensions Fund deficit  
(26.87 million)
Reserves & provisions set aside for future  
4.33 million
General Reserves  
0.40 million
Total value of the Council  
£36.06 million

What are we worth (our Reserves)?

General Reserves:  
At beginning of the year  
979,000
Contribution from General Reserve  
(577,000)
Balance at the end of the year  
402,000

The Council has a duty in law to keep a sensible (prudent) level of General Reserves. It is our policy to be well within the target range of £0.6 - £1.0 million to protect the Council from risk and exposure to incr easing costs as highlighted in the Medium Term Financial Plan, this shortfall in 2007/08 will be addressed in 2008/09.

Reserves set aside for future:  
   

The money set aside for the future are:-
Revenue Reserves

 
Reorganisation Reserve  
126,000
Three Choirs / Elgar Festivals  
31,000
Recreational Improvements  
193,000
Planning Appeals  
4,000
Arts & Museum service  
33,000
Land Charges  
26,000
Internal Audit Reserve  
25,000
Occupational Health  
28,000
Building Control  
18,000
Pre LSVT Housing Contracts  
107,000
Central Training  
56,000
Budget Funding – Planned  
138,000
Budget Action Plan 2008/09  
916,000
s. 106 Interest  
24,000

Capital/Other Reserves

 
Depot Relocation  

1,629,000

Nunnery Lane Deposits  
16,000
Guildhall Floodlights  
30,000
Housing Environmental Warranty Reserve  
934,000
Total Reserves  
4,334,000
   
Cash Flow:  
Operational Cash in during the year  
(121,133,000)
Operational Cash out during the year  
122,706,000
Other Financing Activities  
(1,625,000)
Net inflow in cash  
(52,000)

 

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