NOTICE OF THE 10[th] ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION
At 1:15pm at Ravenshead Village Hall on 28[th] March 2026
AGENDA
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Apologies for Absence.
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Minutes of the AGM of 29[th] April 2025.
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Trustees’ Report for 2025.
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Statement and Adoption of Accounts for 2025.
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Membership Subscriptions.
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Election of Officers and Trustees.
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Appointment of an Independent Examiner.
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Any Other Business.
Election of Trustees and Officers
Currently there are six Trustees/Committee members, but there can be a maximum of ten. Each Committee member takes on specific responsibilities in the running of the organization. It is a requirement that at each AGM one third of the Trustees shall stand down but can offer themselves for re-election.
For the year 2026 the following Trustees will retire, and both have confirmed that they are willing to be nominated for re-election: David Anderson and Bob Massey
The following trustees remain in office: Tom Andrews, David Barton, and Ruth Strong.
Nominations are also invited for the Officer positions of Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. The current Chairman (Bob Massey) wishes to step down from that post; the current Secretary (David Barton) and Treasurer (David Anderson) are willing to stay in post, if elected.
Anyone wishing to be a Committee member/Trustee or to be an Officer should send their nomination to the Secretary at secretary@nlha.org.uk by 21st March 2026. With the agreement of the meeting, if there are vacancies, nominations, including self-nominations, can be made at the AGM.
Nottinghamshire Local History Association Annual Report 2025/6
Forums
During 2025, Nottinghamshire Local History Association (NLHA) held two Local History Forums at Ravenshead Village Hall. Both were well attended.
The Spring 2025 Forum took place on Saturday 29[th] March and featured Tom Andrews on ’Captain Athelstan Popkess’, Trevor Lee on ‘Sam Torr and the Old Malt Cross’, Adrian Gray on ‘Scandal and Adultery: marital disasters of the Sherwood Nobility’, and Bob Massey on ‘Herbert George Ponting filming the world’.
The Autumn 2025 Forum was held on Saturday 25[th] October and featured David Speed on ‘Betrayal in Bulwell’, Richard Pincott on ‘25 years of Time Travel with the Field Detectives’, Andy McKinnon on ‘New Ollerton: the development of a colliery village’ and Meghan King on ‘The Portable Antiquities Scheme of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire’.
The 2026 Forums will be held on Saturday 28[th] March and Saturday 24[th] October.
Media
The Association has two Facebook pages: ‘Nottinghamshire Local History Association’ and ‘Nottinghamshire History’. The former has 3900 followers and the latter, which is increasing rapidly, 3400.
Both have links encouraging people to sign up for the free e-mailed NLHA Newsletter; this newsletter is sent out every other month to 614 addresses. We have been able to expand the number of societies whose events are covered within it, although not all have joined the NLHA itself.
Two issues of ‘The Nottinghamshire Historian’ have been published in 2025.
The Narrow Marsh Forum
Together with the Thoroton Society, the Nottingham Women’s History Group and Nottingham Civic Society, NLHA is sponsoring the new Nottingham Central Library’s Narrow Marsh Forum’s series of free public Nottingham History talks. Four were held in 2025-6, tying in with exhibitions or anniversaries. They were all well attended.
Grants
Grants were awarded to three organisations and to an individual author. NLHA grants are intended to support the dissemination of research on subjects pertinent to the history of the county. Normally they help with the cost of publication but also with the cost of permanent displays or even attendance at a relevant conference or other event.
Committee membership
Tom Andrews joined the Committee at the 2025 AGM .
NolI4GHA1RE LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION STATEIAENT OF A¢COUNT8 FOR YEAR: 1•t January 2025 to 31st DKomb•r 2025 RECEIPTS Year Last Year EXPENDITURE This Year Last Year Membershpp 8ub8ulptsons W6b hostlng Incomè Glft Aid NcttlnghamshiTV Histoiian sales 8onk Intgrn8t Sprirg Forum admI)n fees Autumn Forum adm6s8b?n feet 1.912.50 3CQ.00 232.89 368.35 2,04150 4cKJ.00 226.23 325.54 518.87 273.12 439.12 Audit fee BhLH Sub ln) 1¢K).00 75.00 75.(K) 639.23 1CiI.00 75.Crf) 257.39 333.16 InfomMtw)n Tachnology P(tyo 439.63 416.15 801.25 11.98 0.45 77.93 1926 P•yPal fee5 Equprrnt pufckn Sprir#J FonTh 137.79 121.C(I 770.D) 316.00 326.00 400 00 PubkatiQJect Speaker Faes TOTAL RECEIPTS E3,948.67 £4225.38 £3235.35 £2.984.39 BALANCE SHEEfAS AT 31st DECEhTrER 2025 Batance 81F at 1st January 202S Phjs inLXme for the sear Less e>pendiluro for th? )ar 20,407.43 3,948.87 3.235.55 N8IWest ¢urrBnt •CCLtnt 5,241.55 4,174.63 11,653.88 50.49 Combivjge & Courtiés Dasts Notte Alc PayPal Balan at 31st Do¢8mb8r 2025 £21.120.55 E21,120_55 Cash rnOVT*nt {kn¢rgw) £713.12 HonoraryTreasurnr Davkl Anderson Seagrave French SpJnature.' (81212té
Treasurer and Membership Reports for financial year ending December 31[st] 2025
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS
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Cash assets at end of year: £21,120.55
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Cash movement during year: Increase of £713.12
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Income: £3,948.67
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Expenses: £3,235.55
GRANTS
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£200 to Collingham Local History Society – Compilation of research projects publication.
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£200 to Jayne Muir – Creation of formal archive of significant publications, documents and artefacts held at Nottingham Women’s Centre
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£200 to Nottinghamshire Nursing History Group – Room hire for the Group to meet quarterly to plan and discuss on-going research and future projects.
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£170 to Tom Andrews for an East Midlands Chronicles Podcast
2027 SUBSCRIPTION RATES
The Committee are recommending that membership subscription rates for 2027 should remain unchanged at: Individual - £10, Joint £12.50, Organization - £15
MEMBERSHIP
At the end of 2025 membership stood at 163 made up of: Individuals: 117 Organisations: 46
David Anderson Treasurer/Membership Secretary
March 14[th] 2026