THE MAWNAN ANVIL TRUST Company R9g151ran No. 4505128 Chaily Registration No. 1099398 VICE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31- AUGUST 2025 The year began as usual with onty mirnr rtems of repair and maintenance ansing. Tnts9 - In January 2025 the h)ng-stw¥ling Chairman. Allan Evans, res¢gned as tKilh a Trustee 8nd Chairman due lo an impending house move to Hampshire and continuing illthealth. 11 was wth great sadness that the Trustees leomed thot he passed away on l July. In June 2025, anotherfounder Trustee, Ma'n Tremayne, tendered his $nation as a Trustee bul happily ft)r th8 Trust, conlnues to act in a volunteer capaity. A new Tnjslee, Rob Ashbum, was voted t)ard rb Juty, trAriging a depth ofexpen¢e n engineering that partKularfy usefvl li res of the SrThihy. An a(hJitKJnai Trustse is sought, ideally a th corrpany adrrnIstrattve skills. T•nants- the four Tenarrts rem8md Stab unb"l the Summer, Nthen the Blackgmrth and th8 Wood Carver encountered drffit)JIts. The 81&ksmrth suffered an InfeCtn that prevented him from working and wrth no quick luM to gcod health and the atslty to undertake demanding physul woth in prospec( it vrds agreed Ihat he woukl tefftinate his tenary al the end of August. Traditional blacksmiths are hard to find and the Trust may have an empty Smrthy for a whilts...and also contemplate an ahemab.ve to a blacksmith, such as a metsl worker. The WocJ Carver {Unrt 11 had been foed to lake other empkyment lo supplement his income thus reduc4ng the hours sFent al his wort(shop lo a level below Ihal agreed. After discJJssion wth the Trustees, he deaded lo relinquish his tencY and also left at the end of August. Fortunatety a new Tenant for Unrt 1 alreaty been knjnd and vrtll take over from 1st October. Fund Raising- the Ir8dbtional annual event. Penwame Garden Open Day, was bssed by finè weathor and resultgd in record net takings of £1,261.73. As aRYS, our thanks go to our PrEsidenl, Mts Ruth Sawyer, oWrr of Penwame MarKJrfcf enablng the event lo haFpen. Works- compared lo the pre¥u$ finanoal yeaf, there was lrttle eypendiiure on maintenance I repairs. £1,586.62 was the totsl, of £729 as for the r8furbhrn8nt of the Coutyard floor. (Its fitpffjperGleanIng srn(x rf was completed in 21). Fortunatety. the Trust received a grant of £250 towards the c#)st from the Pansh COW1. Flnances- our dosing bank balan of £10.(7.74 i8 SO £2.IXQ greater than the previous year, reflecting good management. Thanks lo all Trustees for ther c£mmrtment to the smooth Nnrnng of The Okl Smithy Workshops. Dav#J Morgan I S OcEDUAf lol Vti Chaiman
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