BEER VILLAGE HERITAGE Chairman’s Annual Report 2022
Once again, the Fine Foundation Centre has been open through most of the year with its educational information, interactive displays and fish tanks showing local sea life. We have seen a steady flow of visitors to Beer visiting the building throughout the year. Several of us have had conversations with overseas visitors who showed great interest in our area. We thank our trustees and our volunteers who have opened and closed the building each day we were open through 2022. Thanks also to those who have helped the keep the building clean and tidy.
In March 2022 Beer Village Heritage, with the local RNLI, staffed a drinks station for the Grizzly run. This provided us wit a donation from the Axe Valley Runners as well as being a service to the community.
The Centre was prepared for opening before Easter with volunteers filling the tanks with sea water and stocking them from our Beer rock pools. Unfortunately, there was a setback in late April with a fire in an adjoining building which cut our electricity supply. It was necessary to empty the fish tanks and refill them once electrical repairs had been made. The season ended in November with a clearing of livestock back into the sea and the cleaning of the tanks.
It has been good to see that people have appreciated the displays that can be seen from the outside through the display glass on the lower part of the building. We have noticed that children, especially, enjoy discovery through the porthole and other windows.
Through the summer we ran a ‘Hag Stone Project’. (Hag stones are stones with naturally occurring holes in them). This evolved from the ‘Pebbles People’ scheme which formed part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for the Jurassic Coast. We asked people to attach a luggage label to a hag stone and decorate it with thoughts or pictures expressing what the stone meant to them. A lot of people, adults, as well as children, participated in this. There is now a folder containing the labels and the stones have been made into mobiles. Once completed it will be for the Jurassic Coast Trust to see the legacy of their project.
We were able to meet more visitors and explain local geology through our table-top displays at the Mariners Hall during a craft fair. Once again local people, UK visitors and overseas visitors, adults and children, were interested in the information we provided and asked lots of questions. It was also good to have young people moulding plaster ‘fossils’ and enjoying other interactive displays of Fossil Fun set up by Beer Village Heritage during our Beer Regatta week.
The trustees have been meeting to plan for some upgrades to our premises in 2023, especially to obtain new tanks and install them as part of a new arrangement in the Fine Foundation Centre. We have built up sufficient reserves for this as well as to deal with any maintenance needed this year.
There has been work, during this year, to get an improved profile on the Jurassic Coast web site by improving the quality of our web site photographs. The web site extends our educational opportunities beyond Beer as well as publicising what we do on site. David Morling
Beer Village Heritage. 1087162
Beer Village Heritage Income & Expenditure to y/e 31/10/22
| INCOME(£) | INCOME(£) | INCOME(£) | INCOME(£) | INCOME(£) | EXPENDITURE(£) | EXPENDITURE(£) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Donaton | Donaton | Donaton | Donaton | Donaton | Donaton | Donaton | Subtotal | Other | Cheque | Cheque | ||
| Date | Ref No | Credit | Bomb Shelter |
Fine Foundaton Centre |
Craf FAIR | Rock Pooling |
Books & Posters |
Talk or Walk |
Member- ship |
(cum) | Debit | Fine Foundaton Centre |
Web Site |
| 01/11/21 | Balance | ||||||||||||
| 01/11/21 | 196 | 40.00 | 4.80 | 15.20 | 60.00 | ||||||||
| 04/11/21 | 287 | 0.00 | -25.18 | ||||||||||
| 26/11/21 | 289 | 0.00 | -80.39 | ||||||||||
| 16/09/21 | 289 | 0.00 | -333.00 | ||||||||||
| 17/01/22 | 290 | 50.00 | 50.00 | ||||||||||
| 21/02/22 | 197 | 41.10 | 8.90 | 42.00 | 92.00 | ||||||||
| 09/02/22 | 290 | 0.00 | -429.06 | ||||||||||
| 12/02/22 | 291 | 0.00 | -32.94 | ||||||||||
| 28/04/22 | 198 | 13.50 | 22.50 | 6.00 | 15.00 | 57.00 | |||||||
| 04/05/22 | 199 | 824.00 | 824.00 | ||||||||||
| 23/05/22 | FPO | 0.00 | -360.00 | ||||||||||
| 09/06/22 | FPI | 6.00 | 6.00 | ||||||||||
| 20/06/22 | 200 | 5.80 | 24.30 | 26.84 | 96.06 | 30.00 | 183.00 | ||||||
| 01/08/22 | 200c | 105.00 | 31.25 | 55.75 | 9.00 | 201.00 | |||||||
| 08/08/22 | 200d | 35.71 | 2.07 | 9.30 | 66.92 | 12.00 | 126.00 | ||||||
| 22/08/22 | 200e | 62.70 | 4.30 | 20.00 | 87.00 | ||||||||
| 08/09/22 | 22.00 | 45.00 | 67.00 | ||||||||||
| 03/10/22 | 27.00 | 57.00 | 84.00 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 1164.31 | 133.82 | 235.89 | 26.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 114.00 | 1674.02 | -333.00 | -822.00 | -105.57 | ||
| 1,674.02 Bank Balance Opening 26,069.05 Closing 26,645.48 Proft 576.43 |
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| Total inco | me | 1,674.02 | Bank Bala | nce | Opening | 26,069.05 | |||||||
| Total Expe | nditure | -1,260.57 | Closing | 26,645.48 | |||||||||
| Proft | 413.45 | Proft | 576.43 |
| Subtotal | Net-total | |||||||
| (£) | ||||||||
| (cum) | (cumulatv | REMARK | ||||||
| e) | ||||||||
| 26069.05 | ||||||||
| 26129.05 | Bomb shelter exhibit | |||||||
| -25.18 | 26103.87 | Fasthosts - paRe-imbursement to M | ||||||
| -80.39 | 26023.48 | Fasthosts - paRe-imbursement to M | ||||||
| -333.00 | 25690.48 | BPC site rental | ||||||
| 0.00 | 25740.48 | Direct | From Mandy via T Wo | |||||
| 0.00 | 25832.48 | |||||||
| -429.06 | 25403.42 | O/2 elec bill for 20-21 | ||||||
| -32.94 | 25370.48 | Porthole glass fted b | ||||||
| 0.00 | 25427.48 | |||||||
| 0.00 | 26251.48 | |||||||
| -360.00 | 25891.48 | Groves electrical | ||||||
| 25897.48 | Membership M&S Ta | |||||||
| 26080.48 | ||||||||
| 26281.48 | ART exhibiton | |||||||
| 26407.48 | Pebble game donato | |||||||
| 26494.48 | $30 D.Newton rest fo | |||||||
| 0.00 | 26561.48 | |||||||
| 0.00 | 26645.48 | |||||||
| -1260.57 | ||||||||
| -1,260.57 | 413.45 |