
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 01/07/2023                  Period start date   To      30/06/2024** 

## **Charity name: The German History Society** 

## **Charity registration number: 1182341** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**The German History Society (“the Society”)**<br>**1.**<br>**Objects**<br>The Objects of the Society are, for the public benefit<br>in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland:<br>1.1<br>To advance education in, and promote the<br>study of, German history, including the<br>history<br>of<br>German-speaking<br>lands,<br>in<br>particular but not exclusively by:<br>1.1.1<br>Organising<br>public<br>conferences,<br>lectures and events on topics relating<br>to German history;<br>1.1.2<br>Creating and fostering links between<br>academics,<br>students,<br>scholarly<br>bodies and other individuals and<br>organisations<br>engaged<br>with<br>or<br>interested in German history;<br>1.1.3<br>Producing<br>and<br>disseminating<br>publications, online resources and<br>other media to provide information<br>relating to the subject and study of<br>German history; and<br>1.1.4<br>Providing grants and bursaries for<br>study or research into German<br>history, and awarding prizes for<br>exceptional academic work relating<br>to German history, in particular but<br>not exclusively to students and early<br>career scholars.<br>1.2<br>Nothing in this Constitution shall authorise an<br>application of the property of the Society for<br>purposes which are not charitable in<br>accordance with section 7 of the Charities<br>and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005|





|||and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern<br>Ireland) 2008.|
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|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17<br>and 1.19|The Society promotes learning in the history of<br>Germany and the German-speaking world. It does<br>this,<br>broadly,<br>through<br>events,<br>publication/dissemination<br>of<br>print<br>and<br>online<br>information, awarding grants for study/research and<br>fostering a network of academics, students and other<br>individuals and organisations interested in the<br>discipline.<br>The Society exists to benefit the public at large and<br>many benefits are accessible to all. However, the<br>Society encourages those with an interest in German<br>history to become members and membership confers<br>additional benefits. Membership is easy to obtain and<br>affordable: the cost is £34/year for general<br>membership and £4/year for student membership,<br>which is a lower fee than that charged by many other<br>membership organisations.<br>Members of the Society can access various benefits,<br>which are designed to promote their learning,<br>including automatic subscription to the Society's own<br>journal, eligibility to apply for bursaries/grants and<br>free attendance at the Society’s annual conference<br>and various other events.<br>The Society’s journal,_German History_, includes<br>articles/research and other information relevant the<br>field and represents an excellent educational<br>resource. In addition, the Society’s website includes a<br>comprehensive list of links to relevant study and<br>research resources, to assist students, scholars and<br>other interested parties to develop their learning in the<br>area.<br>The Society’s annual conference and other events<br>provide a platform for leading speakers in German<br>history to showcase their work and educate<br>attendees. These events also facilitate networking<br>between those working, studying or interested in the<br>discipline, thereby providing opportunities to advance<br>education through the sharing of knowledge and<br>ideas.<br>Bursaries and grants allow students and early career<br>scholars to fund items that otherwise may have been<br>unaffordable to them, including study fees, research<br>trips, attending or putting on conferences/events,<br>language training, amongst other things. These<br>awards, therefore, broaden access to the field and<br>promote learning.<br>The Society also awards various prizes for<br>outstanding work in the field of German history,<br>including a postgraduate essay prize, EDI prize and<br>undergraduate dissertation prize, which are open to<br>students at UK and Irish universities, and a prize for<br>the best article published each year in_German_<br>_History_journal.<br>The Society exists to advance education in the history<br>of Germany and the German-speaking world and is|





|||committed to activities that enable the public at large<br>to become engaged in this discipline.<br>Non-members can subscribe to the German History<br>journal and attend the Society’s annual conference<br>and other events, subject to payment of a small fee.<br>Therefore, many of the benefits enjoyed by members<br>are available more widely at cost, and therefore,<br>contribute to the Society’s aims of advancing<br>education in German history for the benefit of the<br>public at large.<br>Furthermore, membership of the Society is open to<br>any person who is studying, teaching or researching<br>German history, or who supports the aims of the<br>Society or is simply interested in the topic. There is no<br>limit on membership numbers. Therefore, although<br>members gain benefits by virtue of their membership,<br>anyone with an interest in the area can become a<br>member and therefore enjoy these benefits.|
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|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees, in making decisions, have had due<br>regard to the Commission’s public benefit guidance<br>when exercising any powers or duties to which the<br>guidance is relevant.|



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 



Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP<br>reference||
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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**Annual Conference**<br>In 2023, the Society’s annual conference was held at<br>Birmingham University from 7–9 September. The<br>conference included around 75 participants (speakers,<br>chairs,<br>discussants)<br>from<br>across<br>the<br>globe,<br>representing<br>researchers<br>at<br>all<br>levels<br>from<br>postgraduates and early career researchers to<br>established senior scholars. Plenary lectures were<br>given by Felicitas Schmieder (Fern-Universität Hagen),<br>Christoph Mick (University of Warwick), and Howard<br>Hotson (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford).<br>Members and non-members alike were able to attend<br>the conference and broaden their knowledge of<br>German history and culture.<br>**Other Events**<br>On 7 September 2023, prior to the GHS annual<br>conference, a workshop was held for Postgraduates<br>and Early Career Researchers on effective grant-<br>writing and submitting publications – these were very<br>well-attended.<br>The GHS also supported the annual ‘German History in<br>the North’ conference, held in May 2024, with a<br>particular emphasis on encouraging the participation of<br>researchers based in the North of England. However,<br>any researcher, regardless of institutional affiliation or<br>location, was welcome to attend.<br>The GHS also provided support through its Impact and<br>Outreach grant to fund the planning of a digital<br>exhibition on Britain's response to the persecution of<br>Jews under Nazism. Additionally,_Tanks on the Streets:_<br>_The Uprising of 17 June 1953 in East Germany_, a free|





exhibition commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first Cold War uprising in Germany, was presented at the University of Chester. Some films and artworks were also shown at the Storyhouse Cultural Centre in Chester during the summer of 2023. **Membership** 

In May 2024, the Society had 206 members (117 waged and 89 unwaged), marking an overall increase of approximately 17% compared to the previous year. The higher number of unwaged members suggests that the Society is becoming increasingly accessible to them. The expanded use of multiple social media channels has played a significant role in this achievement. Members of the Society are able to attend the annual conference without paying a fee, and are eligible for the Society’s prizes, grants, and bursaries. Membership of the Society also includes a subscription at significantly discounted rates to the internationally-acclaimed journal _German History_ , which is published four times a year on behalf of the Society by Oxford University Press. **Grants** 

|Grant applications have recovered since the Covid|
|---|
|pandemic, which is encouraging. The introduction of|
|new web forms has significantly improved the quality of|
|submissions, with fuller information provided on both|
|individual projects and broader research contexts. The|
|decision to extend the definition of early career|
|researchers from two to five years—reflecting the|
|increasing challenges faced by postgraduates and|
|ECRs—has been well received, enabling more|
|precariously<br>placed<br>or<br>early-stage<br>scholars<br>to|
|undertake more ambitious work.|
|For a full financial breakdown of expenditure on grants|
|and bursaries, see the Financial Review section below.|
|**GHS Postgraduate awards 2023–4**|
|Small grants and bursaries:|
|**Small Grants:**|
|£3,141 was awarded to 3 applicants in January 2024|
|(x2 research, x1 conference travel)|
|£14,743 was awarded to 12 applicants in April 2024 (x7|
|research, x1 4 conference travel, x1 workshop|
|organisation)|





|Up to £1,500 is available to applicants to fund research|
|---|
|or<br>conference<br>travel<br>or<br>workshop/conference|
|organisation.|
|**Postgraduate Bursaries:**|
|£29,259 was awarded to 12 applicants in April 2024|
|Up to £2,500 is available to applicants to fund language|
|courses, archive study trips, fees or general|
|maintenance.|
|**Hardship Funding:**|
|A grant of £500 was awarded to one applicant, to be|
|disbursed in the next reporting period.|
|**GHS – DAAD Language Grant:**|
|€3,400 was awarded, divided between the GHS and|
|DAAD, to 4 applicants to attend German language|
|courses.|
|**Exhibition Funding Scheme**|
|Funding was awarded to support the launch of_The_|
|_Wandering Jew_travelling exhibition (Parkes Institute|
|for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations,|
|University of Southampton), which was presented for|
|Inter Faith Week as part of a literary, artistic and|
|historical showcase exploring how the legend of the|
|Wandering Jew has been reimagined as a vehicle for|
|interfaith tolerance and as a motif of Jewish resilience|
|and cultural richness.|
|Funding was also awarded for_A Place of Refuge_, a|
|portable exhibition on Jewish refugee academics who|
|fled Nazi Germany and subsequently built scholarly|
|careers at the University of Southampton. It will be|
|displayed<br>at<br>the<br>university’s<br>annual<br>Hands-on|
|Humanities Day in autumn 2024.|
|Further support was granted to_Mercy Squad_, a|
|cooperative, in-person educational game to be|
|implemented at New College Lanarkshire, Scotland.|
|Aimed at Scottish Highers students—and also suitable|
|for A-Level students in England, Wales and Northern|
|Ireland—it explores the roles of perpetrators and|
|saviours in the Third Reich. These funds will be|
|disbursed in the next reporting period.|
|**Prizes**|
|RHS/GHS Postgraduate Essay prize|
|The German History Society awards a prize of £500 to|
|the winner of this annual essaycompetition. In addition,|





|the essays are considered for publication in_German_|
|---|
|_History_journal.|
|Winners of the 2024 Postgraduate Essay Prize:|
|1st place: Jonathan Steuer (University of Oxford),|
|‘Petty crime in the early modern city: A comparative|
|analysis of Frankfurt am Main and Bristol’|
|2nd place (joint): Rory Hanna (University of Sheffield),|
|‘Early Democratisers?|
|West German Students’ Campaigns for Participation in|
|University Governance during the Late Adenauer Era’|
|2nd place (joint): Carl Julius Reim (UCL/QMUL),|
|‘Critical Solidarity: Adorno, the Darmstadt Avant-garde,|
|and the Administered World’|
|GHS Undergraduate Essay Prize|
|The German History Society offers an annual prize of|
|£300 for the best undergraduate dissertation on|
|German History written by a student of history (single|
|or joint honours, or in a cognate discipline) at a UK or|
|Irish university. Runner-up prizes of £100 each may|
|also be offered at the judges’ discretion. Prizes of £300|
|were awarded to:Connor Wimblett (University of|
|Edinburgh)for ‘“She Tries to Make a Whole Woman|
|Out<br>of<br>Me”:<br>Trans*<br>Sexuality<br>and<br>Womanly|
|Relationships in the Weimar Queer Press’;andJames|
|Walker (University of Cambridge)for ‘German Combat|
|Art and the Eastern Front, 1939–45’.|
|Rethinking German History Prize|
|The German History Society has launched a new prize|
|to recognise critical interventions in debates on gender,|
|minorities, migration, ethnicity, and equality, as well as|
|transnational and comparative history. The prize|
|welcomes work engaging with critical race studies,|
|LGBTQ+ and queer studies, and disability studies, in|
|relation to any aspect of the history of Germany and the|
|German-speaking world in its broadest global context.|
|The_Rethinking German History Prize_, worth £500, will|
|be<br>awarded<br>to<br>two<br>winners—one<br>in<br>the|
|undergraduate/Master’s category and one in the|
|PhD/postdoctoral category. It rewards written work that|
|draws on lesser-told histories within these fields to|
|challenge German historians to rethink how we|
|approach the discipline. The inaugural prizes will be|
|announced in autumn 2024.|
|_German History_Article Prize|





Each year German History's editorial board awards a prize on the behalf of The German History Society for the best article published in the journal. The prize is intended to showcase outstanding work from scholars of German history whatever their career stage, and the winner is invited to receive their award at the annual meeting of the German History Society in September. The prize is worth £500, with an additional £250 of books provided by OUP. Oxford Journals makes the prize-winning articles freely available online. The winner of the prize in 2024 was Amelia Hutchinson, whose article ‘“Very full of details and excellently executed”: Materiality and medicine in Hans Rottenhammer’s painted bodies’ was published in _German History_ 42(3), pp. 311–33. **Journal** The journal continues to experience a good flow of submissions, largely from early-career scholars based in the UK, US and Germany, although the regular submission of articles from further afield attests to the journal’s global reach. Four special issues are in development on climate change knowledge in Germanspeaking Europe 1750-1930, transnationalising German monarchies, 1848–1918, German colonial history, German anti-slavery societies in the nineteenth century, nineteenth-century German monarchy in transnational perspective, and Anglo-German empire between nationalist antagonism and transimperial Cooperation, 1895-1925. In terms of chronological range, they span early modern, modern and contemporary history. Publication slots are currently filled until early 2027. While the majority of articles submitted are by early-career scholars, there is also a regular flow of submissions by more senior scholars. In terms of subjects, the articles submitted cover the full range of German history from the early Middle Ages to the present. The journal thus continues to fulfil its mission to be the pre-eminent English-language journal for German history and to command respect throughout the world, including the German-speaking lands. **Book Series** The German History Society has established its own book series, Studies in German History, in collaboration with its long-standing publishing partner Oxford University Press. The series reflects the German History Society’s longstanding mission to promote the best scholarship in the broad field of German history, and seeks to build on the 



innovative directions established by the Society’s journal in recent years. 

Taking an open, expansive view of what German History is and where that history has been played out, it envisions a broad chronological and geographic scope that encompasses topics from the medieval period to the present day; it seeks to go beyond the traditional confines of German history by adopting a comparative approach or exploring themes that entwine the history of the German-speaking lands with that of other parts of the world; it aims to solicit titles that are intellectually ambitious, whether in their engagement with novel paradigms or their use of concepts and methods from other disciplines; and it seeks to publish work that reaches a readership beyond immediate specialists in a particular field. Above all, it seeks to publish work that engages with historical questions of wider relevance across German and other histories. 

The series has now published a total of fourteen books, with two appearing during the reporting period: _Keeping the Peace in the Village: Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650–1750_ by Mark R. Foster and _Intervention and The Other ’68: A Social History of West Germany’s Revolt_ by Christina von Hodenberg and Rachel Ward. 

Our contract with OUP commits us to publishing two to four books per year. While we are still recovering from the post-pandemic lull, we currently have two more titles under contract. 

## **Outreach** 

Jeff Bowersox and his committee have been working on two main outreach projects, all of which are ongoing. 

1. **Glimpses of German History** : Following the successful production of seven short films by members (available on the website) focusing on specific objects from German history and aimed at students and secondary school teachers, filming for a second set has now been completed. These new films will also be available on the GHS website and YouTube channel, alongside the original series. 

2. **Creative Research Competition** : Associated with the film series is a competition for secondary school students in the UK and Ireland, designed to foster interest in German history, language, and culture. Participants are invited to submit a creative research project inspired by themes from _Glimpses of German History_ . The winner receives £250, with an 



additional £250 awarded to their school to support the teaching of German history. This year’s winner—the competition’s inaugural recipient—was Mischa Bogue from Our Lady’s Secondary School, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, Ireland. Her project, _Cultural Patronage and Botanical Gardens: The Commissioning of the Eichstätt Garden Book during Early Modern Europe_ , was highly commended by the awarding committee. 

We continue to encourage collaboration between GHS members and the Wiener Holocaust Library in London to run talks and workshops for students and teachers. 

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## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Please find the detailed end of year financial<br>statement on the following pages.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We continue to experience the longer impact<br>of the pandemic. Some projects, conferences,<br>postgraduate research plans involving travel,<br>as well as the language courses that we<br>support had been postponed, cancelled, or<br>took place online, and we continued to support<br>these projects if applicants wished to see the<br>money transferred into a new financial cycle.<br>We are proactively seeking to spend our<br>reserves and have this year (2023/24)<br>increased the value of the postgraduate<br>bursaries we dispense from £2,000 to £2,500<br>and significantly expanded the eligibility<br>criterion from within 2 years of passing the<br>PhD to within 5 years. We fund a very high<br>proportion of the applications for funding we<br>receive and continue to explore how to<br>increase the future volume of applications.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|See attached report.|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|N/A|



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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
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|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing<br>document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Learned Society**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**2.**<br>**Appointment of Trustees**<br>2.1<br>For the purposes of this clause, a<br>“year” shall mean a complete period<br>of service between two AGMs.<br>2.2<br>The Trustees in office on the date of<br>adoption of this Constitution shall<br>remain in post until the expiry of their<br>term of office as determined under<br>the previous constitution (adopted on<br>1 September 2017), after which the<br>provisions of this Constitution shall<br>apply.<br>2.3<br>Officerships<br>2.3.1 The Members at AGM shall<br>elect individuals to the Fixed<br>Officerships<br>and<br>Further<br>Officerships<br>described<br>in<br>clauses of the Constitution<br>each for a non-renewable<br>term of three years.<br>2.3.2 After expiry of this three-year<br>term, the Fixed Officerships<br>and Further Officerships shall<br>retire from these positions<br>and shall not be eligible for re-<br>election to them, provided<br>that they shall be eligible for<br>election to other Officerships<br>or otherwise as Trustees,<br>subject to the time limits on<br>Trustee service under sub-<br>clause 2.6.<br>2.3.3 The terms of office of the<br>Chairperson<br>and<br>the<br>Secretary shall not normally<br>be co-terminous.|





|2.4|Ex-officio trustees|
|---|---|
||2.4.1 The Editors of the GHS|
||Journal<br>and<br>the<br>Series|
||Editors of Studies in German|
||History for the time being|
||(“the Ex-Officio Trustees”)|
||shall automatically, by virtue|
||of holding those offices, be|
||trustees.|
||2.4.2 If unwilling to act as a trustee,|
||an Ex-Officio Trustee may:|
||(a)<br>before<br>accepting|
||appointment<br>as<br>a|
||Trustee, give notice in|
||writing to the Trustees|
||of<br>his<br>or<br>her|
||unwillingness to act in|
||that capacity; or|
||(b)<br>after<br>accepting|
||appointment<br>as<br>a|
||Trustee, resign under|
||the<br>provisions|
||contained<br>in|
||Constitution<br>sub-|
||clause.|
||2.4.3 The office of that Ex-Officio|
||Trustee<br>will<br>then<br>remain|
||vacant until the office holder|
||ceases to hold office.|
|2.5|If<br>there<br>are<br>more|
||applications/nominations for the role|
||of Trustee than there are vacant|
||Trustee positions, the Secretary shall|
||prepare ballot papers for secret|
||elections at the AGM and shall act as|
||returning officer for the elections.|
||Each Member returning a ballot|
||paper at the AGM shall have as many|
||votes as there are vacancies.|
|2.6|Except for the Ex-Officio Trustees, no|
||Trustee shall serve for a period of|
||more than nine years except where|
||the<br>Trustees<br>determine<br>that|
||exceptional<br>circumstances<br>apply.|
||Service accrued prior to the adoption|
||of this Constitution shall not count for|
||the purposes of this sub-clause 2.6.|
|2.7|The Trustees and the Members shall|
||have regard to maintaining broad|
||representation<br>of<br>the<br>various|
||chronological periods of German|





||history in electing Trustees to the|
|---|---|
||Committee.|
|2.8|Every Trustee after appointment or|
||reappointment<br>must<br>sign<br>a|
||declaration of willingness to act as a|
||charity trustee of the Society before|
||he or she may act as a Trustee.|
|2.9|A technical defect in the appointment|
||of a Trustee of which the Trustees are|
||unaware at the time does not|
||invalidate decisions taken at a|
||meeting.|



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## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|The German History Society|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1182341|
|Charity’s principal address|c/o Professor Mark Hewitson (GHS Chair)<br>European and International Social and Political Studies,<br>University College London,<br>Gower Street,<br>London WC1E 6BT|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted**<br>**if not for**<br>**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||**Mark Hewitson**|Chair|||
||**Marina Perez de**<br>**Arcos**|Secretary|||
||**Chris Dillon**|Treasurer|||
||**Stefan Bruhn**|German Historical Institute<br>Representative|||
||**Edmund**<br>**Wareham**<br>**Watnitzek**|Postgraduate Officer|||
||**Anna Ross**|Journal Editor|||
||**Joachim Whaley**|Journal Editor|||
||**Tim Grady**|Book Series Editor|||
||**Bridget Heal**|Book Series Editor|||
||**Caroline Sharples**|Schools and Outreach Officer|||
||**Joseph Cronin**|Postgraduate Prize Officer|||
||**Róisín Watson**|Undergraduate Prize|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 



## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets held in this capacity 

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 

Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|**adviser**|||



**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||Marina Pérez de Arcos|Mark Hewitson|
||<br>Secretary|Chair|
||25 April 2025||
||25 April 2025||





## GERMAN HISTORY SOCIETY 

## FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 2024 

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**GERMAN HISTORY SOCIETY** 

## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 2024** 

|**INCOME**<br>Main funding subscriptions & royalties<br>Oxford University Press<br>German History Journal grants<br>Oxford University Press<br>GHS/DAAD language grants<br>Miscellaneous receipt<br>Bank interest<br>**EXPENDITURE**<br>Annual conference & AGM<br>Graduate Assistance Scheme<br>Post graduate bursaries - Major<br>Post graduate bursaries - Small<br>Hardship Grant<br>Ukranian Scholars at Risk<br>Exhibition Grant<br>GHS Award<br>GHS/DAAD language stipends<br>Essay Dissertation and Article prizes<br>Workshop<br>Glimpses of German History<br>Film Project<br>Journal costs<br>Admininstration<br>Committee travelling expenses<br>Website & domain costs<br>Social Media Officer<br>Zoom costs<br>Accountancy fee<br>Bank charges<br>Misc expenses<br>**(DEFICIT/SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR**|-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>540<br>75|GENERAL<br>FUNDS<br>£<br>47,854<br>-<br>-<br>2,354<br>-<br>1,651<br>**51,859**<br>11,285<br>-<br>12,483<br>18,732<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>1,772<br>1,550<br>-<br>5,198<br>-<br>-<br>615<br>-<br>51,635<br>224<br>**202**|GERMAN<br>HISTORY<br>JNL<br>**4**|TOTAL<br>£<br>47,854<br>-<br>7,794<br>2,354<br>-<br>1,651<br>**59,653**<br>11,285<br>-<br>12,483<br>18,732<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>1,772<br>1,550<br>-<br>5,198<br>-<br>3,248<br>615<br>-<br>54,883<br>4,770|-<br>-<br>800<br>101<br>570<br>72|||GENERAL<br>FUNDS<br>£<br>44,055<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>560<br>**44,615**<br>9,512<br>-<br>11,925<br>5,815<br>-<br>-<br>7,558<br>450<br>2,436<br>1,750<br>-<br>-<br>363<br>-<br>1,543<br>41,352<br>**3,263**<br>**20**|GERMAN<br>HISTORY<br>JNL<br>TOTAL<br>£<br>£<br>-<br>44,055<br>-<br>-<br>7,540<br>7,540<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>560<br>**7,540**<br>**52,155**<br>9,512<br>-<br>11,925<br>5,815<br>-<br>-<br>7,558<br>450<br>2,436<br>1,750<br>-<br>-<br>363<br>4,614<br>4,614<br>1,543<br>4,614<br>45,966<br>**2,926**<br>6,189<br>**23**|
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**GERMAN HISTORY SOCIETY** 

## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30TH JUNE 2024** 

|**CURRENT ASSETS**<br>Bank balances - Deposit account<br>- Current account<br>- German History Journal acc<br>Debtor<br>**CURENT LIABILITIES**<br>Creditors<br>**REPRESENTED BY**<br>REVENUE ACCOUNTS<br>General Funds<br>AT 30 JUNE 2023<br>SURLPUS/DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR<br>German History Journal Fund<br>AT 30 JUNE 2023<br>SURPLUS/DEFICIT FOR THE YEAR|**£**<br>122,385<br>55,648<br>8,516<br>570<br>156,714<br>224<br>24,495<br>4,546<br>**2**|**£**<br>186,549<br>570<br>**185,979**<br>156,938<br>29,041<br>**185,979**<br>**024**|**£**<br>128,309<br>1,000<br>8,415<br>-<br>570<br>153,451<br>3,263<br>21,569<br>2,926<br>**2**|**£**<br>137,724<br>44,055<br>570<br>**181,209**<br>156,714<br>24,495<br>**181,209**<br>**023**|
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We have prepared, without audit, the foregoing accounts from the books and records of the Society and from the information and explanations given to us. In our opinion they give a true and fair view of the Societys affairs at 30th June 2023 

Peacock Accountancy 

