32 The Beach Walmer Kent CT14 7HN goodwinsandstrust@gmail.com www.goodwinsands.org.uk
27[th] September 2022
ANNUAL TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE CHARITIES COMMISSION
We have had a busy year with many of our ongoing projects finally coming to fruition.
The Historic Information Panel that was 2 ½ years in the making, partly due to Covid, was finally iinstalled on Walmer Seafront in May 2022 and has been much admired. This was a collaborative project with Walmer Parish Council and Dover District Council with funding also being received from Deal Town Council, the Sir Roger de Haan Charitable Foundation and Kent County Council.
We received a grant of £1,000 from Dover District Council which we used to create and publish our childrens’ leaflets and colouring sheets depicting fabulous cartoons drawn by a local artist. They have been exceedingly well received and are distributed FOC at local events and venues.
We hosted two speakers at the annual Deal & Arts Music Festival to a full house at The Astor theatre in Deal. The talks were a bit more intense and lengthier than we had envisaged – an issue that will need to be addressed for the next time.
We worked with The Ramsgate Society and the National Museum of the Royal Navy to catalogue and remove all the artefacts from The Stirling Castle room at Ramsgate Maritime Museum for conservation and safekeeping at the Royal Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth. The fabric of the museum building is in serious disrepair and the artefacts were at high risk from the damp. A Dutch cannon had to be left in the museum as it was too heavy to move. It is intended the artefacts will be displayed in Kent when another suitable venue is found – hopefully the refurbished Ramsgate Maritime Museum.
We continue to work with the Kent & Essex Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority to draw up an effective management plan for the Goodwin Sands Marine Conservation Zone.
We undertook considerable research on the historic bathymetric surveys conducted on the Goodwin Sands by Dover Harbour Board for their dredging licence application. Our results showed a cause for concern about the accuracy and reliability of these surveys. We discussed these with our MP Mrs Natalie Elphicke who offered to hold a Parliamentary Round Table meeting to discuss our findings. The meeting has yet to be arranged.
We continued to stage Pop Up Displays including at Deal Market, Walmer Brocante and a couple of Christmas Fairs. Funds raised from these all go towards are annual running costs.
| RECEIPTS | 2022 | 202t |
|---|---|---|
| Donations received | 948 | 402 |
| Grants received | 1,000 | 2,850 |
| GiftAidreceived | 158 | |
| Merchandisesales | L,518 | |
| TotalReceipts | 3,625 | 3,252 |
| PAYMENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Admin | 29 | LzL |
| Postage | 35 | 57 |
| PopUpDisplays | L,995 | |
| Printing &stationery | L46 | 206 |
| Subscriptionstoothers | 15 | |
| Sundry | 186 | |
| Training | 210 | |
| Travelexpenses | 16 | |
| Totalexpenditure | 2,439 | 570 |
| Netofreceipts/(payments) | L,t87 | 2,682 |
| Cashin hand atyearend | 4,438 | 3,234 |