## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 April 2023 31 March 2024 **To**
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
Friends of Martello24
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1172376 **Charity's principal address** Glenbrook, Rolfe Lane New Romney Kent TN28 8JL
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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**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)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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**Name**
**Address**|||
|Finance & Technology|Adrian Goodsell|Glenbrook, Rolfe Lane, New Romney, TN28 8JL|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Constitution
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Appointed by existing Trustees
## **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**
1. During the whole of the period, it was only possible to open Dymchurch’s Martello Tower 24 to the Public on one day. The reasons for this were:
- a. a second season of seagulls nesting on the gun deck, which is one of the Tower’s main attractions, and,
- b. English Heritage’s failure to clean the inside of the building to the standard necessary for public admission.
2. Our Trustees continued regular maintenance checks of the tower, reporting same to English Heritage.
3. Many concerns about the physical condition of the Tower have also been reported to English Heritage. As last year, we still await their proposals for making good these defects.
4. Due to the efforts of our Trustees, we have managed to avoid seagull nesting in 2024 by a combination of vigilance and netting, which we purchased. English Heritage have recently (August 2024) supplied new netting that should be easier to remove and refit on the days that we open.
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## **Section E Financial review**
At present, we do not have any Allocated Reserves. Our Unallocated **Brief statement of the** Reserves are used for running costs, the main items being insurance and **charity’s policy on reserves** 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) Full name(s)** Richard Charles Blackwell **Position** Chair **Date** 16 August 2024
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||**Friends of Martello24**
**Charity Name**|**Friends of Martello24**
**Charity Name**|**Friends of Martello24**
**Charity Name**|**Friends of Martello24**
**Charity Name**|**Friends of Martello24**
**Charity Name**|**1172376**
**No (if any)**|**1172376**
**No (if any)**|**1172376**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||**01-Apr-23**
Period start date||**To**||**31-Mar-24**
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**51**
**-**
**106**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**157**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**51**
**-**
**106**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**157**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**51**||||||||**441**|
|Grants|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Retail(Sales)|**106**||||||||**-**|
|Gift Aid|**-**||||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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Insurance|**503**||**-**||**-**||**503**||**423**|
|Equipment|**59**||**-**||**-**||**59**||**187**|
|Retail(Stock)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Publicity|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|DisplayItems|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Admin/Sundries|**30**||**-**||**-**||**30**||**-**|
|Website|**170**||**-**||**-**||**170**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**762**||**-**||**-**||**762**||**610**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Bank Account
Petty Cash
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**896**||**-**||**-**|
||||**50**||**-**||**-**|
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||||**946**||**-**||**-**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||Signature||Print Name
Richard Blackwell|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||||Richard Blackwell||||16/07/2024|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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