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GOOLE CIVIC SOCIETY CIO ACCOUNTS - 01.04.2024 - 31.03.2025
Owed to
Bank Statement Date Cheque Description Bank Cash Members Income Expenses
Opening Balance £ 1,511.43 -£ 10.00
Opening Balance Diff -£ 10.00
Yes April Membership Subscriptions (RW) £ 10.00 £ 10.00
Yes April Membership Subscriptions (J&M) £ 20.00 £ 20.00
Yes June Membership Subscriptions (SJW) £ 10.00
Yes June Blue Plaque Payment - Income £ 598.16 £ 598.16
Yes July 127 Lottery Licence -£ 40.00 -£ 40.00
Yes July 128 Blue Plaque Payment -£ 598.16 -£ 598.16
Yes July 129 Blue Plaque Costs -£ 71.91 -£ 71.91
Yes July 130 Alexandra Costs -£ 543.78 -£ 543.78
Yes July 131 Salt and Pepper Payment -£ 640.00 -£ 640.00
Yes July Calender Sales - Bank £ 18.00 £ 18.00
Yes July Calendar Postage - Bank £ 2.50 £ 2.50
Yes July S&P Income £ 1,075.00 £ 1,075.00
Yes July S&P Post Income £ 32.00 £ 32.00
Yes July Sum Up (see Vintage Tab) £ 582.99 £ 582.99
Vintage Cash & Other Payments - Donations and
Yes July Membership £ 597.20 £ 597.20
Yes August Calendar Sales - Bank Transfer £ 6.00 £ 6.00
Yes August Subscriptions - P&G, Gerald - Bank Transfer £ 40.00 £ 40.00
Yes August 133 Raffle Printing -£ 49.80 -£ 49.80
Yes August S&P Income £ 350.00 £ 350.00
Yes August SumUp - 22 S&P, 9 Calendars, £28 Raffle £ 149.43 £ 152.00 -£ 2.57
Yes August 132 Sum Up Machine -£ 29.99 -£ 29.99
Yes September Georgian Walk £ 50.00 £ 50.00
Yes September S&P Income £ 150.00 £ 150.00
Yes September S&P Postage Income £ 22.50 £ 18.00
Yes September 137 S&P Payment -£ 554.03 -£ 554.03
Yes September SumUp11 S&P, £15 Raffle, DVD, 1 Calendar, Postage £ 293.96 £ 299.10 -£ 5.14
Yes September Calendar + Raffle Tickets £22 £ 22.00
Yes September Breakdown One Cash - Includes Subs, Donation, S&P £ 675.00 £ 675.00
Yes September 134 S&P Printing (Broadley) -£ 146.40 -£ 146.40
Yes September 135 S&P Labels . -£ 18.71 -£ 18.71
Yes September YHACS Membership - 2025 -£ 50.00 -£ 50.00
Yes September Civic Voice -£ 35.00 -£ 35.00
Yes September 139 Goole AFC Book Donation -£ 50.00 -£ 50.00
Yes September 138 Insurance -£119.60 -£ 119.60
Yes October Siements (20 S&P + 20 C) £ 620.00 £ 620.00
Yes October 141 Calendars -£ 774.38 -£ 774.38
Yes October 142 S&P 3rd Payment -£960.50 -£ 960.50
Yes October S&P Income - Bank £325.00 £ 325.00
Yes October S&P Postage - Bank £27.00 £ 27.00
Yes October 140 S&P Postage Charges -£27.95 -£ 27.95
Yes October Raffle (JCL) £50.00 £ 50.00
Yes October S&P & Raffle - Cash £420.00 £ 420.00
Yes October Raffle £45.00 £ 45.00
Yes October SumUp - 6 S&P, 3 Calendar, £10 Raffle, Postage £186.30 £ 190.20 -£ 3.90
Review - Yes November Bank Charges -£8.54 -£ 8.54
Yes November S&P Income £250.00 £ 250.00
Yes November S&P Postage Income £4.50 £ 4.50
Owed SJW November S&P Charges -£400.25 -£ 400.25
Owed SJW November S&P Postage Charges -£23.73 -£ 23.73
Owed SJW November S&P Packing -£4.99 -£ 4.99
Yes November Cash - Various (£15 Raffle & £6 Calendar) £215.00 £ 215.00
November Sum Up - 4 S&P, £35 Raffle, DVD, Postage £141.19 £ 144.00 -£ 2.81
No November Wreath - SJW Donation £ 20.00 -£ 20.00
Owed SJW November Goole In Bloom Donation -£50.00 -£ 50.00
Yes December S&P Income £525.00 £ 525.00
Yes December S&P Post Income £26.90 £ 26.90
Yes December S&P + Calendar Postage Costs -£42.94 -£ 42.94
December Raffle Prizes -£ 300.00 -£ 300.00
Raffle Income £ 300.00 £ 300.00
Review - Yes December Bank Charge -£0.35 -£ 0.35
SumUp - 12 S&P, 10 Calendars, DVD, £10 Game, DVD,
Yes December Postage (Including Christmas Market) £393.46 £ 401.30 -£ 7.84
Cash Paid In - See Break Down 2 - Christmas Fair, S&P
Yes January Income, S&P Income £1,183.00 £ 1,183.00
January S&P Invoice -£800.50 -£ 800.50
Yes January S&P Income - Bank £275.00 £ 275.00
Yes January S&P Postage - Bank £22.50 £ 22.50
Yes January S&P Postage Costs -£23.04 -£ 23.04
Yes January S&P Income - Cash £50.00 £ 50.00
Yes January YHACS Prize £200.00 £ 200.00
January S& Packing -£1.99 -£ 1.99
Yes January SumUp - 6 S&P, Postage £162.14 £ 166.10 -£ 3.96
Yes February 6 S&P £150.00 £ 75.00
Yes February S&P Postage -£3.39 -£ 3.39
Yes February 4 S&P + Postage £104.50 £ 104.50
March S&P Sales £ 580.00 £ 580.00
Yes March S&P Sales £389.50 £ 389.50
March Calendar Donations £ 2.50 £ 2.50
Yes March Talk Payment (Ramblers) £40.00 £ 40.00
March Calendar Sales £ 18.00 £ 18.00
Yes March S&P Payment -£400.25 -£ 400.25
TOTALS £ 6,823.44 £ 600.50 -£ 1,281.46 £ 11,367.95 -£ 6,816.40
Bank / Cash Total: £ 7,423.94
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## **Goole Civic Society ANNUAL REPORT 2024/5**
**Margaret Hicks-Clarke, Chair** April 30[th] , 2025
**The highlight of the past year was being honoured as the** _Regional Society of the Year 2024_ **by Yorkshire and Humber Association of Civic Societies.**
Goole Civic Society trustees, Stephen and Rachel Walker receiving the award from Kevin Trickett, President of YHACS.
We received the Peter Spawforth Trophy, a certificate and £200, which will go towards our work to make Goole a better place to live, work and enjoy.
To win the award, we had to submit evidence of an activity or activities carried out during the year, focusing on innovation, popularity, impact and longterm benefits.
Our entry featured our Salt and Pepper Pot campaign, which has continued to generate massive interest, with sales of our Salt and Pepper Pot replica sets exceeding all expectations.
Other key focuses of the year were:
- Preparations and awareness-raising for Goole’s Bicentenary in 2026.
- Helping to oversee delivery of the eight projects identified by the Goole Town Deal Board, together worth £25m. The Civic Society has a seat on the board, as the expert on built heritage.
- Blue Plaque scheme.
- Heritage Open Days.
- Planning issues.
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## **Salt and Pepper Pots**
Following on from the wide media attention attracted by our poll to decide which pot was which, we engaged a South Yorkshire ceramicist, Deborah Frith, to make a batch of 200 numbered Salt and Pepper sets to commemorate Goole’s Bicentenary.
In July 2024, we announced we would be taking pre-orders and the whole batch sold out immediately. We ordered a second batch of 200 unnumbered pots and took names on a reserve list.
The Society also received a request for a special commission by Siemens Mobility to create 20 presentation Salt and Pepper sets as part of their gift package to celebrate the launch of their rail factory in Goole. These were presented to local and national dignitaries who attended the opening, including the Transport Secretary, the Mayor of London and the Leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
So far we have sold 369 sets and will continue to commission them for sale in the online shop we have set up on the Civic Society website. We also produced a Salt and Pepper Pot calendar and sold 170.
## **Goole 2026**
Our treasurer, Stephen Walker, is chair of the Goole 2026 Community Group, which brings together local community organisations, schools, the museum and library, Junction theatre, Goole Town and East Riding councillors and officers to plan celebrations and events for Goole’s Bicentenary.
The group held a competition for children to design a logo for Goole 2026 and had nearly 300 entries. The final 20 were put out to a public vote, which selected the entry from Evie Wildman, a pupil at Marshlands Primary School, Old Goole. The logo will be used on literature, products and communications connected with the Bicentenary. Usage will be approved by the Community Group. Evie was invited to switch on Goole’s Christmas lights.
We have been creating a calendar of community events to be staged throughout 2026 and the Civic Society has taken responsibility for organising several of these. The Civic Society will be making funding applications to the Goole Fields Windfarm Fund to support our events and projects.
We are also looking into the process of reinstating Goole’s crest, which went out of use with the demise of Boothferry Borough Council in the 1970s.
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Friends of Goole Station, a collaboration formed by the Civic Society, Lions and Goole in Bloom, has been awarded funding to create a mural on Goole Station to mark the Bicentenary.
The Civic Society also engaged with York University and took on a post-graduate student placement, Henry Strivens, to work on a public history project based on the origins and history of Goole from the perspective of ordinary people. His work will be used as the basis for projects including theatre, books, school engagement, museum displays and theatre.
Stephen Walker, as Chair of Goole 2026, and myself as Chair of Goole Civic Society, also sit on the Goole Bicentenary Board, which is planning four major events for 2026. Other members include East Riding councillors and officers, Town Council representatives, local businesses and HEY Smile Foundation.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council advertised a post for a Bicentenary Programme Co-ordinator to work with the Community Group and Bicentenary Board to deliver a programme of events. The successful candidate has been appointed on a two-year fixed-term contract and begins work on 6[th] May, reporting to the East Riding Arts Officer.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has submitted an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund to help fund the programme. The Community Group and several of its member organisations provided letters of support for the bid and a decision is expected in early May. The council is also preparing a bid to the Arts Council for further funding.
## **Goole Town Deal**
The Civic Society has continued to sit on the Goole Town Deal Board, delivering on the Town Investment Plan (TIP) which was developed to secure the £25m funding offer from the Government.
Delivery has begun on six of the eight projects put forward by various stakeholders informed by consultation with the public. The Civic Society promoted the regeneration of the Victorian Market Hall, which it has campaigned to save following the closure of the market in 2019.
Early in 2025 work began on a dramatic transformation of the Market Hall into a new public multi-use venue, with Brew York winning the tender to operate it. It is scheduled to open in November 2025, in time for the town’s Bicentenary celebrations.
The Civic Society also has a particular interest in the £5.5m public realm / station hub project, which covers the Conservation Area. Plans for this were put out to consultation and approved in 2024 and work will be carried out in 2025 alongside the
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Market Hall development and following flood prevention work to the station subways by Network Rail.
The Civic Society also championed a £3.4m Property Activation Fund. This matchfunded grant scheme aims to encourage property owners, developers and tenants to carry out improvements to buildings in the town centre Conservation Area and help to bring empty or under-used sites back into use.
A number of projects have received funding, the largest being the former Boots Building in the Boothferry Road precinct, a prominent site in the Conservation Area. Its conversion into ground-floor retail units and upper-floor apartments is well underway.
Plans for a development of apartments in Stanhope Street, on the site of the old Customs House, have been approved and an application for PAF funding is awaiting final sign-off. This is welcomed by the Civic Society, as we protested at the demolition of the Customs House and have campaigned to have the site brought back into use.
Another Town Deal project, the Hopper Bus service, launched in July 2024, has proved a great success, linking Goole and Howden and providing transport to industrial sites at Junction 36.
Work on the Victoria Pleasure Grounds and Goole Leisure Hub projects are also making progress.
## **Blue Plaque**
The Civic Society is aiming to erect a new Blue Plaque every year and added its sixth in June 2024, funded by the kind donation of a member of the public who attended a Civic Society Heritage Open Days walk.
The plaque is sited on a house in Heber Terrace, Old Goole, the former home of Commodore Sir Bertram Fox Hayes, master mariner, first Commodore of the White Star Line fleet and Captain of the SS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic.
The unveiling of the plaque was followed by a reception at Old Goole Community Club, with a presentation from Stephen Walker on the life of Sir Bertram.
## **Planning**
The Civic Society has continued to press East Riding of Yorkshire Council on its main areas of concern and has seen progress in some areas.
- Site of former Customs House, Stanhope Street, Goole – plans approved for development of apartments, with ground-floor parking. Our comments on design features were incorporated into the final design.
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- Goole Arcade – the Victoria Street side of the arcade has changed ownership, along with the former Dockers’ Club, and plans are being drawn up. The owners of the North Street side have submitted a planning application for development of retail units and apartments, which the Civic Society supported with the caveat that upper windows should be timber rather than uPVC.
- Hartley House, Mariners Street – this has also changed ownership and the Civic Society supported plans, with some design amendments, to create office space and upper-floor apartments, which were approved.
## Outstanding concerns:
- Theatre Royal, Adam Street – This historic building continues to decline, despite representations to the Conservation Officer and Enforcement Officer and representations from the Theatres Trust.
- 25-41 Aire Street. The rear of this Georgian Terrace remains an eyesore and we are keeping up pressure to see the work completed to an acceptable standard. We objected to an application for change of use to HMOs and made an official complaint that our views had been misrepresented at a council planning sub-committee which recommended approval of the application. This matter was investigated and is now closed.
## **Funding / Donations**
Funding has been boosted considerably by sale of the Salt and Pepper Pots. We will use this money to help fund projects for the Bicentenary.
The Civic Society has made an application to Do It For East Yorkshire for funding to bring back the popular Hobbies Exhibition, formerly run by Goole Rotary. If the bid is successful, the event will be held at the Courtyard in August 2025.
We are still seeking funding to refurbish the Reuben Chappell Trail and republish the accompanying booklets and to fund our Heritage Open Days / Blue Plaque events.
The society donated £50 to Goole in Bloom and £50 to a local author to help fund publication of a book on the history of Goole Town FC.
## **Memberships**
We remain members of Civic Voice, the national civic charity, and Yorkshire and Humber Association of Civic Societies (YHACS), of which I am chair. Kevin Flynn represents the society on Together for Goole.
## **Other events**
In January 2025, trustees attended the Yorkshire and Humber Civic Society (YHACS) agm in Harrogate and the society was presented with the Peter Spawforth Award for Regional Civic Society of the Year.
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In October 2024, trustees attended a lunch in Leeds to celebrate the 25[th] Anniversary of YHACS.
Trustees also attended YHACS quarterly meetings in Cleethorpes and Hull, the Yorkshire Society Heritage Summit in Hull and the Civic Voice Annual General Meeting in London.
The society had a stall at Vintage in the Park, where we quickly sold out of our Salt and Pepper sets, taking orders for a waiting list. We also had a stall at the Christmas Fair, organised by Goole Town Council, where the Goole 2026 logo design winner, Evie Wildman, switched on the Christmas Tree lights.
## **Focus for coming year**
- **GOOLE 2026!** – fundraising, finalising planning and delivery of projects and events for the Bicentenary. Continued sale of Salt and Pepper Pots via online shop to raise funding.
- Goole Town Deal – final delivery of Town Investment Plan and Property Activation Fund projects.
- Blue Plaque – Aire and Calder Navigation Company and potentially others.
- Hobbies Exhibition – August.
- Heritage Open Days – September.
- Protecting the Conservation Area.
- Refurbishment of Reuben Chappell Art Trail – reprint of booklets
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