2023-08-31-accounts - Langport & District History Society

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LANGPORT & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY

Registered Charity No. 1179718

Trustees’ Report to Members 2022-2023

Membership

At the end of August 2023 we had 62 members (in 2021 we had 52, and in 2020 we had 60).

Strategic plan 2022-23

At our AGM on 3 October 2022, members approved a strategic plan for 2022-23. Progress towards the objectives during the year was as follows:

a. Install an information board about Bagehot in All Saints’ Churchyard (Delivered; awaiting installation)
b. Install an information board about Bagehot at Great Bow Wharf (research completed)
c. Complete conservation work on Bagehot’s briefcase (achieved)
d. Develop a series of afternoon meetings focussing on local history assets (done)
e. Respond to the call to nominate assets to the Local Heritage List (in progress)
f. Continue to research into Langport Carnivals (in progress)

Future Bagehot Action

Repair and conservation work was carried out on Walter Bagehot’s briefcase by the Leather Conservation Centre in Northampton. It now lives in an archival-quality box, and has supports so that we can display it opened out. We will arrange for its public display in due course.

Trying to get the Bagehot board installed in All Saints’ churchyard has proved very frustrating. We found one company who offered to install it, but they reported that they were unable to do it as the frame holding the board was bent. Aller Engineering have now repaired the frame, and once it has been repainted we will ask the one company who actually gave us an estimate, to go ahead and install it.

During the year Barry and I made research trips to the Somerset Heritage Centre, the NatWest archives in Edinburgh, to Bristol University and Bristol Central Library, amongst others, and the research for the Bagehot board to go at Great Bow Wharf is now complete.

Afternoon meetings

We ran three afternoon meetings, held at Hurds Hill on Friday afternoons. All three focussed on exploiting records we had acquired. Two related to Langport Grammar School, where we created an index of pupils, now being put into an Excel spreadsheet, after which the records will be deposited in the Heritage Centre. The third related to the Inner Wheel Club of Langport & Somerton, where members of the Club helped us to identify people in the many photographs in their records. These were then deposited in the Heritage Centre.

Visits

This year we visited South Petherton Bowls Club, where we had a talk about the history of a South Petherton business, as well as an opportunity to try bowling. We also visited the Blake Museum in Bridgwater and the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury.

Publications

During this period 9 e-newsletters were sent to members to keep them up to date with local history developments. Those few members not on email were sent a printed copy, but this was stopped due to rising costs, and they can now pick theirs up at meetings. Level Talk was produced as usual, appearing in February 2023. It was printed in A5 as well as A4 format.

Other activities

We again enjoyed the hospitality at Hurds Hill for our Christmas Social.

This year’s talks programme worked well. We invested in some new audio equipment which has greatly improved the audience experience.

We repaired the leaflet holder on the information board in the Huish car park, which someone had vandalised by supergluing the lock.

We ran two quizzes this year, which together made a net profit of £628.

Thanks

I am, as always, very grateful to the Officers and Committee (Trustees) of the Society for all their efforts and support, and to you, our members, for your interest and understanding.

Feedback

Feedback of any kind from members, or indeed anyone else, is very welcome.

Janet Seaton, Chair.

September 2023

|2!D2112:2.|INCOME|2:02:213|TfJ2112:2.|EXPENDITURE|2J02:2|2:3| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |637.50.|MEMBERSHIP|982.50.|242.50.|ROOM HIRE|240.00.| |88.00.|VISITORS|76.00.|285.00.|SPEAKERS FEES|374.00.| |672.00.|QUIZZES|691.50.|20.00.|QUIZ PRIZE|50.00.| ||SALE OF BOOK|20.00.||PRINTING/PHOTO RESTORE|91.60.| |32.00.|DONATIONS|26.10.|505.20.|WEBSITE|580.80.| ||GLASTONBURY|240.00.||GLASTONBURY|203.00.| ||BRIDGWATER|110.00.||BRIDGWATER|70.00.| |50.00.|WALKS|323.00.||EQUIPMENT|125.88.| |610.00.|XMAS SOCIAL|474.00.||XMAS SOCIAL|460.80.| |||||INSURANCE|75.00.| ||MEMBERSHIP INCUDES £135 FOR 2023/4||||| |||2943.10.|||2271.08.| ||OPENING BALANCE|2430.65.||CLOSING BALANCE|3102.67.|

CURRENT ACCOUNT 37130706	CURRENT ACCOUNT 37130706		OPENING BALANCE	3066.69.
INCOME			EXPENDITURE
	TRANSFER FROM 390	3000.00.	BELINDA MAGEE	2412.00.
	COMPENSATION	15.00.	CHURCHMAN BOOKS	490.97.
			BRIEFCASE	1862.40.
			ALLER ENGINEERING	79.80.
			CLOSING BALANCE	1236.52.
35 DAY ACCOUNT 37124390			OPENING BALANCE	31064.74.
INCOME			EXPENDITURE
INTEREST	451.21.		TRANSFER T0 706 3000.00.
			CLOSING BALANCE	28514.95.
PETER MOTTRAM TREASURER		SEPT. 2023