2021-03-31-accounts - Friends Of Martello24

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	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date			To	Period end date
		1	April	2020		31	March	2021

Section A Reference and administration details Charity name Friends of Martello24

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1172376

Charity's principal address 92 Merritt Road

Greatstone Kent TN28 8SZ

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Richard Blackwell	Chairman
	Peter Faulkner	Secretary
	Denise Meyers	Minutes Secretary
	Andrew Ashton
	BarryTate
	Maureen Vogt

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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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

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The Friends of Martello24 work in partnership with English Heritage, who own Martello Tower No.24, to manage the tower and to open Martello Tower No. 24 in Dymchurch to the public on a published regular basis and manage bespoke visits.

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;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

The object of the CIO is to advance the education of the public in the history and heritage of Martello Tower No. 24 and other historic buildings in Dymchurch, Kent and the surrounding area in particular but not Summary of the objects of the exclusively by arranging exhibitions, lectures, classes and similar charity set out in its educational activities. governing document

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Working in formal partnership with English Heritage, the Friends of Martello24 manage the openings to the public of Martello Tower No.24 in Dymchurch.

The Trustees are aware of the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit and have taken it into account when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant.

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)

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

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

In 2019/2020 the tower was not opened to the publics due to the Covid19 pandemic.
Our volunteers continued regular maintenance checks of the tower, reporting same to English Heritage.
Grant of £9,000 received from Folkestone and Hythe District Council to pay for new displays in the tower.
We published and maintained a Martello24 website, Facebook and Twitter pages.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

At present, we do not have any Allocated Reserves. Our Unallocated Reserves are used for running costs, the main items being insurance and equipment for use in the Tower.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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) P A Faulkner

Full name(s) Peter Alan Faulkner

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Secretary etc) Date3 Dec 2021

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Charity Name	No (if any)
Friends of Martello24	1172376
Receipts andpayments accounts		CC16a
01-Apr-20 Period start date For the period from	31-Mar-21 Period end date To

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 27 9,000 - 205 - - - - 9,232 - - - 9,232 426 22 - 68 10,572 19 - - - 11,107 - - - 11,107 - 1,875 - 3,805 1,930	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £ 27 9,000 - 205 - - - - 9,232 - - - 9,232 426 22 - 68 10,572 19 - - - 11,107 - - - 11,107 - 1,875	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	27		- - - - - - - - -	27	918
Grants	9,000			9,000	2,922
Retail(Sales)	-			-	9
Gift Aid	205			205	313
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	9,232			9,232	4,163

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
			-	9,232	4,163

Insurance	426		- - - - - - - - - -	426	405
Equipment	22			22	609
Retail(Stock)	-			-	69
Publicity	68			68	88
DisplayItems	10,572			10,572	1,289
Admin/Sundries	19			19	252
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**Sub total **	11,107			11,107	2,712

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
			-	11,107	2,712

	- 1,875	-	-	- 1,875	1,450
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	3,805	-		3,805	2,354
	1,930	-	-	1,930	3,805

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Details Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Bank Account Petty Cash Details Signature P A Faulkner	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
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	1,930	-	-
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			Date of approval
P A Faulkner	Peter Faulkner		18/05/2021

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

30/11/2021