## **Oxfordshire Geology Trust**
Email: contact@oxfordshiregeologytrust.org.uk
## AGM 17[th] July 2024
CHAIR’S REPORT for the year 2023-24
Our mission remains:
## **CARING FOR OUR LANDSCAPE AND GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE**
Oxfordshire Geology Trust (formerly the Oxfordshire RIGS Group) was founded in 2000. OGT is a non-profit making organisation with two primary objectives:
## **1. To protect and conserve geological sites and our landscape** :
- Working with landowners we protect locally important sites through surveying and then designating them as Local Geology Sites (formerly known as RIGS - Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Sites), which can then be protected through the planning process. OGT has designated over 60 sites within the county.
**2. To raise awareness of the county's rich and varied Earth Heritage and geology** :
The only way that sites can be protected is if people believe that they are worth protecting. OGT oversees a series of projects and undertakes events at raising awareness both within local communities and in partnership with other organisations of the geo- importance of these sites.
The Geology Trusts is a national umbrella organization for Geo-conservation and Earth Heritage, providing a forum in which its members share ideas, develop best practice and organize inter-county projects and collaborative work with other conservation organisations.
OGT has:
- Continued to maintain its links with organisations, including other GT’s, Geo-conservation UK, Natural England, the Geologists’ Association, and within the County with OCC (Library Service and Primary Schools), TVERC, BBOWT, Friends of the Lye Valley (FoLV), the Woodeaton Liaison Group and the Lower Windrush Valley Project (LWVP), plus working with the County and District councils on geo-conservation enquiries related to planning applications.
- Remains committed to support and deliver an outreach programme compatible with Primary School KS2 and Home-Schooling programmes in Oxfordshire.
- OGT, via Exec Member Andrew Bayliss (County Library Service) has been instrumental in successfully arranging ‘Fabulous Fossil’ sessions and temporary displays in libraries.
- OGT attended the Wychwood Forest Fair in July and participated in the GA’s Festival of Geology at University College, London in November 2023.
- Presented a display at Abingdon Museum in March (part of the Atom Festival), and will participate in events at Wallingford, Faringdon and Milton-under-Wychwood.
- The Chair offers his sincere thanks to Mr Brian Smith (for reviewing our accounts), and the OGT Executive in supporting and organising events during the past year, and to all OGT members and supporters who have attended our events.
- We are working with OUMNH in Oxford to arrange a series (monthly during the winter) of geo-talks to be held at the Museum.
A brief breakdown of activities since our last AGM
**Summary of key OGT organised and participated events since the July 2023 AGM**
|**Date**|**Location**|**Title**|**Event type**|**Organisation**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**2023**||||||
|August 4|Faringdon|Faringdon Play
and Activity Day|Family Event|OCC||
|August 12|Highworth|Arts and Literature
Festival|Family Event|Highworth Visitors
Centre||
|September 9|Churchill|Wotton and Dry
Sandford History
Society|Geo-walk|OGT||
|September
10|Building Stones walk
around Ashbury|Geo-walk|Family Event|OGT||
|September
23|Wallingford Museum|Fantastic Fossils|Family Event|OGT||
|November 1|Rock Edge Nature
Reserve, Headington|Coral Reefs and
fossils|Headington
Preparatory School|OGT||
|November 4|University College,
London|Festival of Geology|Family Event|Geologists’ Association||
|November
11|Nettlebed|Examination of the
Nettlebed
Puddingstones|Geo-walk|OGT||
|**2024**||||||
|March 10|Headington and
Wheatley|The Corallian of
Oxford|Reading Geological
Society|OGT||
|March 16|Abington|Atom Science
Festival|Family Event|||
|April 6|Bampton Library|Magical
Microscopes|Family Event|OGT||
|May 16|Southmoor Village
Hall|Talk on William
Smith|Longworth and
District History
Society|OGT||
|June 17|Burlington House,
London|Talk on William
Arkell|Home Counties
(North) GSL|HCNGSL||
|July 10|Blunsdon House
Hotel|Talk on William
Arkell|Thamesdown
Probus Group|TPG||
|July 17|Faringdon|AGM|Members Event|OGT||
|August 2|Faringdon|Faringdon Play
Day: Fun with
Fossils|Family Event|OCC||
|August 3|Stonesfield|Rocks and Fossils
of Stonesfield|Geo-walk|||
|August 17|Carterton Library|Fantastic Fossils|Family Event|OGT||
|August 26|Shipton-under-
Wychwood|Fantastic Fossils at
Shipton Fair|Family Event|||
|September
21|Wallingford|Fantastic Fossils at
Wallingford
Museum|Family Event|||
Events indicated in red to be confirmed and reported on at the AGM in 2025.
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## **OXFORDSHIRE GEOLOGY TRUST**
## AGM July 2024
TREASURER’S REPORT for the financial year 2023-24
## **Balance sheet**
The end-year balance totals £14,217 compared to £14,570 the previous year.
## **Income and expenditure account**
Our financial ledger, invoices and statements for the year have been independently checked by Mr Brian Smith, whose help is gratefully acknowledged.
Our income of £922 included a Shell Community Kindness Grant of £440 and £362 from the sale of trail guides.
Expenditure was £1,275, including £792 for rent of a storeroom and £296 for insurance costs. Expenditure exceeded income by £353.
## **Projected cash flow 2024-2025**
OGT income next year may be less than £600, whilst expenditure is likely to be more than £1,200. If the anticipated budget shortfall comes from our accumulated existing funds, it will leave an end-year bank balance of around £13,500.
W.T. Horsfield OGT Treasurer
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## **Balance sheet for year ending March 31st 2024**
|**Current Assets**|||
|---|---|---|
|OGT bank account|14,217||
|Petty cash|0||
|||£14,217|
|**Current Liabilities**|||
|Accruals|0||
|||£14,217|
|**Financed by**|||
|Balance from previous
year|£14,570||
|Deficit this year|-353|£14,217|
## **Income and Expenditure for year ending March 31st 2024**
|**Income**|||
|---|---|---|
|Shell Grant|440||
|Consultancy|100||
|Donations|0||
|Trail guide sales|362||
|Other|20||
|||£922|
||||
|**Expenditure**|||
|Rent|792||
|Insurance|296||
|Professional services|72||
|Memberships|115||
|Purchases|0||
|||£1,275|
|**Excess of Expenditure**
**over Income**||-£353|
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## OXFORDSHIRE GEOLOGY TRUST
## AGM July 2024
TREASURER’S REPORT for the financial year 2023-24
## **Balance sheet**
The end-year balance totals £14,217 compared to £14,570 the previous year.
## **Income and expenditure account**
Our financial ledger, invoices and statements for the year have been independently checked by Mr Brian Smith, whose help is gratefully acknowledged.
Our income of £922 included a Shell Community Kindness Grant of £440 and £362 from the sale of trail guides.
Expenditure was £1,275, including £792 for rent of a storeroom and £296 for insurance costs. Expenditure exceeded income by £353.
## **Projected cash flow 2024-2025**
OGT income next year may be less than £600, whilst expenditure is likely to be more than £1,200. If the anticipated budget shortfall comes from our accumulated existing funds, it will leave an end-year bank balance of around £13,500.
W.T. Horsfield OGT Treasurer
## **Balance sheet for year ending March 31st 2024**
|**Current Assets**|||
|---|---|---|
|OGT bank account|14,217||
|Petty cash|0||
|||£14,217|
|**Current Liabilities**|||
|Accruals|0||
|||£14,217|
|**Financed by**|||
|Balance from previous year|£14,570||
|Deficit this year|-353|£14,217|
## **Income and Expenditure for year ending March 31st 2024**
|**Income**|||
|---|---|---|
|Shell Grant|440||
|Consultancy|100||
|Donations|0||
|Trail guide sales|362||
|Other|20||
|||£922|
||||
|**Expenditure**|||
|Rent|792||
|Insurance|296||
|Professional services|72||
|Memberships|115||
|Purchases|0||
|||£1,275|
|**Excess of Expenditure over**
**Income**||£353|
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