## **Aldeburgh Beach Boat Trust 1173337 Trustees Report & Financial Report 20212022** 

## **Financial Records  2022** 

## **Income & Expense:-** 

Income Donations  Simper £730.48 Expenses.  Insurance £588.00 Paint £119.48 Beach Rent (Council) £  65.00 

## **Reserves :-** 

Money in hand     (B/fwd 2021)                £420 Money in hand     (C/fwd 2022)                £378 

No debts 

## **Trustee’s Report** 

Covid has effected on the donations to the Trust because visitors are simply looking at the boat, 'Four Daughters,'  on Aldeburgh beach not giving. The boat is there so that people can realise that Aldeburgh was once an important fishing centre. Many local people and visitors to the area stop and  study  the  boat  and  her  display  board,  but sadly not many have  given any money towards keeping up the boat. 



This summer Volunteer Paul Strowger started to paint the 'Four Daughters' which was his fathers old boat in which he also fished. The top plank outside  was  painted  and  hull  inside  and  the bottom was tar. In the autumn the cover was again put on to protect the wooden hull from rain water. Last winter the cover collapsed and after this the frame work was redesigned. 

The original owner Sid Strowger sadly died in the boat trawling at sea on his own when he was only 48.  This family, particularly his four daughters often put flowers in the boat, but this winter one of Sid's grandchildren died and the family held an informal service with about thirty people on the beach beside 'grandad's boat.'  A measure of how important these boats were to the families at Aldeburgh.