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FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society
Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2004
These summarised accounts, which are not the charitable company’s statutory accounts, may not contain sufficient
information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of the charity. For further information,
the full annual accounts, the independent auditors’ report on those accounts and the Trustees’ Annual Report
should be consulted. Copies of these accounts can be obtained, free of charge, from the FIA Foundation for
the Automobile and Society, 60 Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DS, or from the FIA Foundation’s website
www.fiafoundation.com
Statement of the Trustees
We confirm that the extracts are a summary of information relating to both the Statement of Financial Activities
and Balance Sheet from the annual accounts. The annual accounts were approved at the Board of Trustees
meeting on 29 June 2005. The independent auditors’ report, as given on 29 June 2005 by Grant Thornton UK
LLP. on the full accounts was unqualified.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees
J Dawson
29 June 2005
Statement of the Independent Auditors to the trustees of the FIA Foundation for the
Automobile and Society
We have examined the summarised financial statements of FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society for
the year ended 31 December 2004. This report is made solely to the trustees. Our work has been undertaken
so that we might state to the trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors’ statement
on summary financial statements and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not
accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the trustees, for our work, for this report, or for the opinions
we have formed.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditors
The trustees are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with the recommendations
of the Charities SORP. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency
of the summarised financial statements with the full financial statements and trustees’ report. We also read
the other information contained in the summarised annual report and consider the implications for our report
if we become aware of any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the summarised financial
statements.
Basis of opinion
We conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin 1999/6 ‘The Auditors’ Statement on the Summary Financial
Statements’ issued by the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United Kingdom.
Opinion
In our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements and trustees’
report of FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society for they year ended 31 December 2004.
GRANT THORNTON UK LLP, REGISTERED AUDITORS, CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, OXFORD
29 June 2005
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