2020-12-01-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date From 1 DEC 2019 To 31 NOV 2020

Section A Charity name

Reference and administration details

Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain

Other names charity is known by

RCMGB

Registered charity number (if any)

1169039

Charity's principal address

16 Sawley Park Nottingham Road Derby Postcode DE21 6AS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body)
Trustee name Office (if any) whole year entitled to appoint trustee
(if any)
Stephen Chairman
Haseldine
Karen Haseldine
Christopher
Haseldine
Martyn Coldicott
Paul Isherwood
Malcolm Smith
David Pick
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian

Name		trustees) Dates acted if not for whole year
Names and addresses of advisers		(Optional information)
Type of adviser	Name	Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B	Structure, governance and management	Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document		Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is		Charitable Incorporated Organisation
constituted
(eg. trust, association,		By appointment	compa
Trustee selection
methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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Section C

Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the

charity set out in its

governing document

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects

(include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

• During our fourth year of running, our operations were significantly curtailed due the COVID pandemic. For the first three months we operated in a similar fashion to the previous year. However, at the end of February 2020, we closed the building to all visitors and volunteers to comply with government advice and regulations. The building has very few opening windows and a re-circulating air conditioning system thus it was not a COVID secure location. This meant that the The Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain is a traditionbuilding nd hence the museum, ceased to a l museum focused on the science and equioperate hysically p ment of radio communication. In addition to the display of equipment through to the end of this reporting year. However, for the and documentation, the museum provides training in software first three months we achieved the following: The objects of the CIO are to advance education programming (coding), electronics design and development and the construction and operation of radio communication by the establishment and maintenance of a • continued coding clubs that operate twice a week for equipment and software to both children and adults. museum by; collecting, preserving, maintaining children aged 9 to 13 • Ran one, ten-week electronics courses for children aged

• and displaying (physically and virtually) a The main activities undertaken for the public benefit include: 10 to 16 historically significant collection of communica••• Ran a Technology Club for children aged 12 to 16.the acquisition, cleaning and display of radio Ran ama t eur radio licence training course for children ion radios. communication equipment for the public to view and

• As a relatively new charity, we are totally dependent on with one child being able to successfully obtain their operate, thus expanding their understanding about the

• volunteers operating and damateur radio licenc e veloping the organisation. This . history of radio communication and its relevance to their

• includes cl• Hav e continued to prepareaning equipment and preparing it for display, over 300 additional items of daily life.

• running training courses for children and restoring equipment • equipment for display in our museum The education of young people, encouraging them to

• for use in the “Operations Room”.• Continued to develop the construction of the Operationsprepare for and to consider, careers in engineering and science.Room where radio equipment from various decades will

• be fully operational. Work also commenced in the upperTo provide a facility for both working and retired people to gallery to create display areas for equipment, as well as socialise together whilst undertaking engineering and creating a technical library area.electronic projects

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D You may choose to include Summary of the main additional information, where achievements of the relevant, about: charity during the year

• Have further enhanced our electronics workshopThe researching of how equipment has been used and

• • Have installed additional external radio antennas for thedocumenting the same for the general good of the public to expand their own knowledge and for younger people tobuilding

• • create a knowledge platform from which they can Have continued to review and define the procedures develop the communication technologies of tomorrow.and methodology to build and run a public access

• • To become an information resource (physical and virtual) museum.

• to help the public, who have interest in radio technology, Have maintained a team of talented and energetic to be able to work on their own projects at home.volunteers to take the charity forwards to the next stage of development.

• To continue to progress from an idea to reality.

Achievements and performance

• [policies and procedures] adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• [the ] charity’s[organisational] structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

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and procedures to manage them.

Section E Financial review This is our fourth year of operation. We knew at the outset that Brief statement of the we would be reliant for our first few years on corporate and charity’s policy on personal donations and loans. We had planned to operate reserves broadly with a small loss for the first three years, a break even in years four and five and to start to create operational reserves from year six onwards. COVID has put back this plan by two years.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The museum has been very lucky during this difficult year, to attract a corporate donation of £23,000 from the Alerter Group plc.

Also the Museum benefitted from a £25,000 grant from the Derby City Council relating to the COVID pandemic and a waiver of the rates that would have been chargeable on the museum’s building.

Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Karen Patricia Haseldine Full name(s) Stephen Jeremy Haseldine Chairman of the Board of Trustee Trustees

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September 2021 Position (eg Secret ary, Chair, etc) Date

Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain
Charity Number 1169039
01/12/2019 to 30/11/20 (Year 4)
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE	£
INCOME - Unrestricted Funds
Total Donations	23,092
Total Grants	25,000
Total Coding, Electronics & Technology Clubs	878
Total Catering Income	0
TOTAL INCOME	48,971
EXPENDITURE
SALES COSTS
Total Cost of Coding, Electronics & Technology Clubs	427
Total Catering Costs	0
PERSONNEL COSTS
Total Training Costs	0
PROPERTY COSTS
Total Heating, Lighting, Aircon & Security	2,054
Total Rates & Water	208
Total Rent, Property Repairs and Renewals	24,757
OFFICE COSTS
Total Office Repairs and Renewals	1,619
Total Museum Organisations Subcriptions	484
Total Telephone & Internet	1,015
Total Stationery Costs	0
Total Computer Equipment Repairs & Renewals	82
Total Network Cabling Costs	0
Total Museum Exhibit Repair Costs	0
Total Museum Display Cabinet etc costs	413
Total Museum & Exhibit Cleaning	29
MUSEUM MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT COSTS
Total Travel & Subsistence	299
Total Marketing, Printing & Stationery	0
Total Operation Room Costs	0
WORKSHOPS COSTS
Total Tools and Tool hire	0
Total Components and consumables	0
FINANCIAL COSTS
Total Insurance Costs	35
Total Depreciation Charges	3,562
TOTAL EXPENDITURE	34,984
EXCESS INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE	13,987

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Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain
Charity Number 1169039
BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30/11/20	DR	Depn %	CR
FIXED ASSETS
Total Radios, Aerials, Mast & Rotators	7,099	5%
Total Furniture & Fittings	9,448	5%
Total Computer & Network Hardware	1,998	25%
Total Mechanical & Electronic Tools	227	20%
TOTAL FIXED ASSETS	18,772
CURRENT ASSETS
Petty Cash	221
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS	221
TOTAL ASSETS	18,993
CURRENT LIABILITIES
VAT Balance	-179
Total Group Company Loan			200
Total Trustee Loan Account (SJH)			21,250
Total Loan Accounts			21,450
Total Bank Accounts	19,416
Total Creditors			41,092
TOTAL LIABILITIES			42,946
TOTAL ASSETS LESS TOTAL LIABILITIES			-23,953
Represented By:
EXCESS INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE			13,987
B/F losses			-37,941
TOTAL			-23,954
Difference rounding			1
Grand Total			-23,953

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Report to thetrusteesl membersof	Radio Communication Museum ofGreatBritain
Onaccountsfortheyear ended	30thNovember 2020 Charityno
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	charity("the Trust") fortheyearended3011112424.
Responsibilities and	Asthecharity's trustees,you areresponsible forthe preparationofthe
basisof report	accounts in accordance withtherequirementsoftheCharitiesAct2011
	("theAct").

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examiner'sstatement	cometomy attention in connection withtheexarninationwhichgives me
	causetobelievethatin, any material respect:
	otheaccounting recordswerenot kept in accordancewith section130
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