Annual Report 2023 

The year has been another successful one for the museum with much work undertaken on extending the museum into the historic Severn & Wye Railway & Canal Co. goods shed of 1874 at Parkend. Plans have been drawn up and work is underway to seek funding for work required to be done on providing safe access into the building through a railway van on the adjoining siding. The van is owned by the museum and is currently undergoing restoration. A second vehicle to stand alongside the goods shed has also been acquired. Work has been commenced on providing an interactive touch screen display with the main museum using plans of the Severn & Wye line between Lydney and Parkend recently acquired by the museum, together with photographic images and ephemera for the museum’s archives. 

The lighting in the main museum has been replaced with energy saving LED units. Visitor numbers to the museum are holding up. 

Ian Pope Chair 



## **Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust CIO: Expenditure 1 January 2023 - 31 December 2023** 

|**Date**|**Cheque**|**Acquisitons **|**Travel**|**Afiiatons**|**Insurance**|**Maintenance **|**Statonery etc **|**Publicity**|**Development **|**Misc**||**Notes**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|09.01.23|100348||||||||||200.00|Museum accommodaton 2022 uncleared cheque|
|09.01.23|100352|||||139.91||||||Museum Van wood treatment uncleared cheque|
|10.01.23|100353|||||995.00||||||Museum Van wood|
|18.01.23|100354|||||164.13||||||Museum Van wood treatment|
|19.01.23|100355||||||||||41.00|Plaque in relaton to legacy|
|26.01.23|100357||1206.00|||||||||JM travel|
|03.03.23|100358||||||||||200.00|Museum accommodaton 2023|
|16.03.23|100356||||33.00|||||||Harwell insurance|
|20.03.23|100359||668.57|||||||||Curator's travel|
|22.03.23|100360|||||321.60||||||Museum Van platework & welding|
|17.04.23|100361||||||||||19.46|Refreshments Trustees meetng|
|17.04.23|100362||||||||||34.02|Floor polish|
|24.04.23|100363|106.20||||||||||S&W book of ephemera|
|09.06.23|100364|||||73.20||||||Museum Van angle brackets etc|
|30.06.23|100365||||||||||14.00|Refreshments Trustees meetng|
|30.06.23|100366|19.95||||||||||S&W/SBR leter|
|20.07.23|100367||||||||||60.75|Transport for cleaner|
|23.07.23|100368|65.80||||||||||S&W leters etc|
|22.08.23|100369|||||21.40||||||Museum Van rust inhibitor|
|29.08.23|100371||||1259.34|||||||Insurance|
|13.09.23|100372|||||456.95||||||Telephone exchange bateries|
|05.10.23|BACS||||||||||56.67|Museum Quiz supplies|
|12.10.23|BACS|20.00||||||||||Signalmen instructons|
|11.12.23|BACS|||||20.00||||||Cedar for Museum Van|
|11.12.23|BACS|39.99||||||||||Track plans|
|11.12.23|BACS|||||693.34||||||Plywood Musuem Van|
|**Total**||**251.94**|**1874.57**||**1292.34**|**2885.43**|||||**625.90**|**Total £6930.18**|





## **Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust CIO: Income 1 January - 31 December 2023** 

|Date|Cash donatons|G/aid donatons|Legacies|Sales:Purchase|Sales:Donatons|Royaltes|DFRS|HMRC|Misc|Grants|Notes|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|12.01.23|58.00|||||||||||
|30.01.23||||||||522.13||||
|17.02.23|||||||||41.00||Plaque re legacy|
|03.03.23||1226.00|||||||||JM Travel refunded|
|13.03.23|75.00|||||||||||
|21.03.23||668.57|||||||||Curator's travel refunded|
|20.04.23|102.55|||||||||||
|01.04.23|||||||||90.00||Filming fee hire of pump trolley|
|13.04.23||||270.00|||||||Rails Through the Forest (overpaid by DFR £90.00)|
|02.05.23|||||||||200.00||Hire of refreshment trolley|
|16.06.23||||||40.00|||||Archive DVD|
|04.07.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|12.07.23|11.10||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|29.08.23|9.31||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|30.08.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|05.9.23|299.76|||||||||||
|27.09.23||||90.00|||||||Rails Through the Forest (invoice £180 see overpay)|
|04.10.23|4.62||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|11.10.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|16.10.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|30.10.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|08.11.23|450.00||||||||||Donaton from Hideto Fujii|
|09.11.23||||180.00|||||||Rails Through the Forest|
|13.11.23|9.25||||||||||QR pay donaton|
|13.11.23|196.00|||||||||||
|**Total**|**1261.84**|**1894.57**||**540.00**||**40.00**||**522.13**|**331.00**||**Total £4589.54**|





**Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust CIO Registered Charity No: 1178157** 

||**Statement of Accounts for year ending 31 December 2023**|**Statement of Accounts for year ending 31 December 2023**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Income**||**Expenditure**||
|Cash donatons|1261.84|Acquisitons|251.94|
|G/aid Donatons|1894.57|Travel|1874.57|
|Legacies||Afliatons||
|Sales:purchase|540.00|Insurance|1292.34|
|Sales:donatons||Maintenance|2885.43|
|Royaltes|40.00|Statonery etc||
|DFRS||Publicity||
|HMRC|522.13|Development||
|Misc|331.00|Misc|625.90|
|Grants||||
|**Total**|**4589.54**|**Total**|**6930.18**|
|Bank interest A/S|587.37|Uncleared cheques||
|**Total income**|**5176.91**|**Total Expenditure**|**6930.18**|
|**Balance Sheet**||||
|**Community/Current Account**||**Actve Saver/Business Premium**|**Account**|
|Balance at 01 January 2023|5402.70|Balance at 01 January 2023|61697.51|
|Income 2023|4589.54|Interest|587.37|
|**Total**|**9992.24**|**Balance at 31 December 2023**|**62284.88**|
|Less Expenditure|6930.18|||
|**Balance at 31 December 2023**|**3062.06**|||
|**Assets**<br>FoD Rly Shares|4991|||
|DFLG Shares|200|||



In view of the fact that most items of the Trust's collection are unique and donated or purchased some year ago; and that the Trust has a strong presumption against the disposal of items; and that accurate values are difficult to obtain; the Trustees do not feel it is appropriate to attribute a capital value to its items. 

Treasurer: Hilary Hill 

Examiner: Martin Hillier