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Intangible assets
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Intangible assets  
Intangible assets

13Intangible assets

    

Goodwill

    

IT software

    

Total

£ 000

£ 000

£ 000

Cost or valuation

 

  

 

  

 

  

At January 1, 2020

1,473

 

682

 

2,155

Additions

 

233

 

233

At December 31, 2020

1,473

 

915

 

2,388

Additions

 

2,565

 

2,565

At December 31, 2021

1,473

 

3,480

 

4,953

Amortisation

  

 

  

 

  

At January 1, 2020

 

95

 

95

Amortisation charge

 

263

 

263

At December 31, 2020

 

358

 

358

Amortisation charge

 

387

 

387

At December 31, 2021

 

745

 

745

Net book value

  

 

  

 

  

At December 31, 2021

1,473

 

2,735

 

4,208

At December 31, 2020

1,473

 

557

 

2,030

The amortisation charge of £387 thousand (2020: 263 thousand) is shown in Administrative expenses.

All intangible assets are attributable to the UK.

IT software is third party software licences which includes perpetual licences and implementation costs.

13Intangible assets (continued)

The carrying amounts of the software was reviewed at the reporting date and management determined that there were no indicators of impairment.

The goodwill was recognised on the acquisition of Vertical Advanced Engineering Ltd in July 2019 and related to the Formula 1 approach to the use materials and technologies. The individuals with the specific skill set in relation to this since became embedded within VAGL, along with their respective ways of working.

Management views the business as one cash generating unit (‘CGU’) being the commercialization and development of eVTOL technologies. Management have performed a valuation exercise as part of the capital reorganization and has calculated the fair value of the business, less cost to sell, which has demonstrated that there is no indication of impairment.