## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] April 2020 Period start date To 31[st] March 2021 Period end date Charity name: Social History Curators Group (SHCG)**
**Charity registration number: 1157994**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the education of the public in
heritage, science and the arts advancing
standards of social history curatorship by
encouraging better care, management,
research and development of collections and
delivery of improved use, access and
interpretation of museum and related
collections through public-facing outputs
such as events, exhibitions, participative
projects for the benefit of the public.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant
impact on the activities of SHCG in the
year 2020-21.
A seminar on Rationalisation and Disposal
that was due to take place on 25th March
at Black Country Living Museum was
cancelled due to lockdown. In its place an
online seminar run in conjunction with the
Collections Trust facilitated an online Q&A
on this subject on 15th May. It focussed
on providing advice to sector professionals
on this area of museum collections
management.
An online Twitter session was run via the
handle @MuseumHour, a popular heritage
sector online discussion facilitator, on 27
April 2020. It focussed on the future of
collecting.
SHCG took part in a session titled ‘Let's
get digital: managing social history
collections in a digital age’ at the Museums
Association conference on 6 Nov 2020
about Subject Specialist Networks (SSNs),
focussing on how SHCG can support
individual heritage professionals.
The annual conference was also
postponed due to COVID and was|
|||rescheduled for Autumn 2021.
SHCG News was published in
April and November 2020.
‘Social History in Museums’. SHCG
Journal vol 44 was published in April
2020, themed on new ways of looking
at old stories.
SHCG is represented on the Subject
Specialist Networks Consortium and
attended meetings on11 Feb 2021 (full
consortium meeting), 10th Dec 2020
(meeting of the executive group), 14th
May 2020 (meeting of the executive
group), 1st May 2020 (consortium).This
continues to strengthen relationships
and build support between SSNs in
sharing resources, best practice and co-
hosting training and events. SHCG will
continue to be represented in this
forum.
Work to improve data security was
carried out during 2020-21. A GDPR
and Privacy statement has been drawn
up and added to the website, and two
new policies implemented; a Data
Protection Policy in March 2021, and an
Information Security Policy was drafted
in the same period (approved in June
2020).|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|SHCG has carried out its purposes as a
charity for the public benefit and, in doing so,
can confirm we have had regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission
on public benefit.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference N/A Para 1.38 Policy on grant making N/A Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment N/A
Para 1.38
Contribution made by volunteers N/A Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|During the 2020-21 year, membership
numbers were recorded by the
Membership Secretary. As of March
2021, SHCG had the following:
49 individual print members
108 individual digital members
83 institutional members, including
3 overseas
As of March 2020, SHCG had the
following:
Twitter followers: 3396
LinkedIn group followers: 48
Facebook page followers: 1255
A Hardship Membership was initiated in
November 2020 and offered free to anyone
experiencing negative impacts from the
COVID-19pandemic.
Work to improve the diversity and
inclusivity of SHCG was begun with the
Board of Trustees holding a discussion on
diversity and inclusion in January 2021.
Actions from this meeting including the
development of an SHCG Access and
Inclusion Policy, and holding a wider
discussion open to members and non-
members to inform policy development,
actions which have been carried into the
2021-22 period. The Membership
Secretary has also been supported by the
committee to develop and amend
the application process for trustee, to be
trialled during the 2021 AGM elections.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against|Achievements against|Para 1.41|N/A|
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|objectives set|||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|As of 31st March 2021, SHCG has healthy
finances, as outlined in the attached
accounts, and does not have a deficit.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The reserves account provides some
stability should there be a significant drop in
membership income. SHCG may use some
of these funds for longer term project activity
such as overhauling the website.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£5000|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|N/A|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation with voting members other than
the charity’s trustees.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Potential trustees must be members of
SHCG and their nomination must be
proposed by another member. Nominations
are usually voted on by those members
present at AGM - those garnering the
majority of votes are elected. In 2020 the
AGM was held online and an election took
place via Survey Monkey prior to the AGM
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The results
of the election were announced during the
AGM. Trustees are elected for a term of 2
years not serving more than 3 consecutive
terms. Trustees in named roles – Chair,
Secretary, Treasurer – are elected for 3
years equal to 1 term. All trustees work on
a voluntary basis and usually undertake
a particular role|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|All trustees are issued with a copy of the
constitution, a role description and handover
notes from the retiring trustee who
previously held that position, as well as
being provided with access to all SHCG
policies.|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|SHCG is a Subject Specialist Network
(SSN), one of many professional networks
operating within the museums and heritage
sector in the UK. Reps from each SSN have
formed the SSN Consortium which works
collaboratively to support individuals and
organisations to care for and use their
collections for public benefit.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name
Social History Curators Group
|Other name the charity uses|SHCG|
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|Registered charity number|1157994|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o St Fagans National Museum of History, St Fagans,
Cardiff, CF5 6XB|
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Dates acted if not for whole**
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|||Verity Smith|Chair||||SHCG Membership|
|||Lowri Jones|Treasurer||||SHCG Membership|
|||Jessica McKenzie|Secretary||||SHCG Membership|
|||Eleanor Harding|||From 25thJune 2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Georgina Ascroft|||||SHCG Membership|
|||Lisa Peatfield|||||SHCG Membership|
|||Jessie Petheram|||||SHCG Membership|
|||Matt Exley|||||SHCG Membership|
|||Helen Taylor|||||SHCG Membership|
|||Lauren Ryall-Waite|||From 25thJune 2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Emma Harper|||From 25thJune 2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Victoria Miller|||From 25thJune 2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Nita Acharya|||Stepped down as Trustee
25/6/2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Rebecca Lewis|||Stepped down as Trustee
25/6/2020||SHCG Membership|
|||Alison Grange|||Stepped down as Trustee
25/6/2020||SHCG Membership|
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**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/ safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
N/A
## **Other optional information**
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## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** ~~a~~ **Full name(s)** Lauren May Stephenson ~~oo~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 19/12/2021
OCIAL HISTORY CURATORS GROUP
SHCG
Receipts and Pavments Accoun[
Year Ende
31 March 2021
SOCIAL HISTORY CURATORS GROUP
SHCG
Receipts and Payments Accounts
For the Year Ended 31 March 2021
2021
2020
Receipts
Conference Receipts 2019
Conference Receipts 2020
Membership Subs
Seminars
Publications Licensing
Sundries & Misc
11,533.50
9.550.85
307.62
1,064.12
123.80
11,046.39
7,426.58
290.00
2,164.78
21,414.86
Expenses
Committee Travel
Conference Ex.penses 2019
Conference Expenses 2020
Seminar ExDenses
First Base
Postage & Stationery
Newsletter Expenses
Journal Expenses
Accountancy
Sundries & Misc
57.56
899.20
9.919.53
348.00
380.16
341.65
2,233.16
1,487.44
300.00
914.52
6,062.49
1.037.75
345.60
41.88
2,037.07
1.309.33
300.00
545.53
16,435.89
Net Movement in Funds
4,983.90
4,978.97
Total Funds Brought Forward
19,490.53
14,511.io
Total Funds Carried Forward
24,474.43
19,490.53
SOCIAL HISTORY CURATORS GROUP
SHCG
Statement of Balances
For the Year Ended 31 March 2021
Unrestricted Restricted
Funds
Funds
2021
2021
Total
Total
2021
2020
Current Assets
Cash in hand
CO-OP Current Account
CO-OP Reserve Account
19,474.43
5.000.00
19,474.43
5,000.00
14,490.53
5,000.00
Net Assets as at 31 March 2021
24,474.43
24,474.43
19,490.53
Reserves
General Funds available as at 1 April 2020
Surplus / Deficit for the year As per P&R Account
19,490.53
4,983.90
19,490.53
4,983.90
14,511.56
4,978.97
Total Funds as at 31 March 2021
24,474.43
24,474.43
19,490.53
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Designation
Date
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