## **Sturminster Newton Heritage Trust.**
## **Trustees Report 2022.**
## General.
This year the Trust has been involved in a very rewarding project thanks to a substantial grant from the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project, which has been co-ordinated by SNHT, has brought together historians, museums, teachers, artists, musicians and students in both Sturminster Newton and Twillingate Newfoundland. As well as making use of historical archives, the Sturminster Newton students have used digital video link-ups to collaborate with their counterparts in Twillingate Newfoundland. This has resulted in two excellent displays, one at the Mill and one at the Museum, as well as a very well-produced video which was projected onto the side of the Mill at a special presentation evening at the Mill on the 17[th] July. This evening was very well attended with speeches from various participants, supporters and our mentor for this project. A sign was unveiled at the Mill by one of the participating students. This project is still ongoing.
We have also signed up to another project, along with several other local museums, offered by Windrose. Windrose are a well-established film/video/oral history organisation which aims to collect archive films and videos as well as oral history of the people of Dorset. Sadly, last week we were informed that their Heritage Lottery Fund grant request had been rejected. I believe they are thinking of asking for a review of this discission.
Two Trustees (Peter Loosmore and Jane Palmer) along with our Miller (Jonathan Clayton) took part in the open/parents evening at the High School displaying tools and associated items pertaining to the Mill as well as talking to attendees about the Mill and the Newfoundland Project and the role played by the students.
Thanks to Jessica England (Trustee) the Trust has been conduction a survey regarding visiting both the Mill and Museum. Face to Face, Paper Questionnaires, QR Coded Posters, Links in the Newsletter and on the Trust’s Website have been used to obtain information. The results are being analysed by the Trustees.
Throughout the year there have been a number of talks in the Exchange with varying size audiences. In August we also had a stall in the Railway Gardens for the Stur Buzz event. There were a few enquiries and we sold several items.
The Trustees have reviewed all policies due for review in 2022 (Nos. 1 to 15 inclusive).
## Mill.
For some time, the Mill had been clad in scaffolding so that the rotten and broken windows could be replaced. This job has now been completed. There have been several Milling Days at the Mill this year, including milling during the Cheese Festival Weekend and National Mills Weekend. The North Dorset Radio Hams were in attendance during this weekend as usual. General maintenance has been carried out including replacing rotten flooring under the mill stone and safety barriers/wire and new padlocks. Men at the Mill is up and running again after
being shut down because of Covid. The Mill took part in the Dorset Architectural Week which entails opening the Mill free of charge to visitors on a specific day as advertised by DAHW. Booklets for this event were available from Libraries and TICs. We hosted a “Teddy Bears Picnic and Open Day” on the Thursday and Friday of the Jubilee Weekend. There have also been three successful visits from a special education school. The Swanskin/Newfoundland evening in July, as previously mentioned, was a great success. Owners of the Japanese Motorcycle Group paid a return visit to the Mill. Peter, Jonathan, Zilla and Jane hosted four very successful morning sessions for groups of 24 year 7 students with a number of activities including tours, sketching, pond dipping and bird watching on one morning.
## Museum.
Visitor numbers are up on last year and the number of children has doubled. We retained the Hardy, Barnes and Young display for this year’s Literary Festival and the “Hardy’s Wessex” event. The “Town Crier” display was replaced by one covering waste and its impact on the environment. There was also a temporary display on wedding dresses and photographs during the town’s “Bridal Fair”. This was replaced by the Swanskin/Newfoundland display. The Museum hosted three “Finds Days” where Mrs Trevarthen, Dorset’s Finds Liaison Officer, identified items brought in by members of the public. Throughout the year there have been small window displays covering Easter, Summer Holidays by Train, the Queen’s Jubilee and sadly her death. An Emergency Call Button system linked to our fire and intruder alarm system has been installed by Partnership who will be monitoring this alarm along with the fire and intruder alarms
## In conclusion
A much better year than last year. Looking to the future, we are planning a new display for the Museum featuring the history of our town. We are also looking at replacing our railway layout located upstairs in the Museum. Hopefully we will secure funding to do this. Any donations towards this project would be gratefully received. We have a team of railway modelers who have come up with some excellent plans. Finally: I wish to say thank you so much to the students and staff at the High School for all of their excellent work in providing such a brilliant display and video. Also, many thanks to Zilla and Jane who have been coordinating this project. Our thanks are also due to our backroom team who meet during the week in the Museum to keep the paperwork up to date, research and help with displays. Thank you to Jo who looks after the Museum Shop and produces the Museum Duty Rotas and thank you Zilla who does the Mill Rotas and Jane who looks after the Mill Shop. This year Jane’s husband, Roger, spent many hours checking our Policies. Thank you very much for doing this. Thanks are also due to my fellow Trustees who have put in a lot of work to keep everything running smoothly. Last, but by no means least, thank you to all of our loyal volunteers who enable us to keep the Museum and Mill open for the enjoyment of our visitors. We would like a few more volunteers for both the Mill and the Museum. If you think you could help, please contact us by e-mail via our website, by phone, letter or just pop into the Museum or Mill when they are open. Without all of these people who give so freely of their time we would not be here; so, thank you one and all.
**Treasurer’s report 2022**
After a successful year both in the Museum and the Mill the finances do not reflect this as in the end, we made a loss of just over £5000. This is not as bad as it looks as half of this loss will be repaid from the outstanding Swanskin grant and the other half was the final payment for the new heaters in the Museum. These heaters have been remarkably successful in reducing our electricity heating costs, currently saving over £1000 a year.
Looking at the Receipts register our donations fell dramatically without the Covid grants but our income from the Museum and Mill both increased as did our gift aid claim. Gift aid is a very lucrative addition to our income as we are allowed to claim on all eligible visitor ticket sales to the Mill. Next year our claim will be over £2000 as we are always claiming one year behind.
The Payments register shows that our admin costs rose significantly due to solicitor’s charges and 2 years curatorial honorarium payments. We bought £4000 more stock this year some of which is an investment which will be profit making in due course. A new venture at the Mill is the sale of Ice creams which have proved extremely popular ……this leads to more stock purchases.
As a charity and Trust, we are financially sound with around £25,000 cash funds.
We own the Museum building, worth around £200,000, with a mortgage of £47,000 owing. This will be repaid in 10 years.
Our Accounts Examiner, Audrey Groves, has decided to step down this year and we would like to thank her sincerely for the many years she has been examining!
**Charity Name No (if any) STURMINSTER NEWTON HERITAGE TRUST 1184320**
# **Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date 30/09/2022
**For the period from** 01/10/2021
**To**
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
BANK INTEREST
**9**
DONATIONS/GRANTS
**9171**
FLOUR SALES
**2569**
GIFT AID CLAIMS
**1566**
LECTURES
**1512**
MILL DONATIONS
**898**
MILL ENTRANCE FEES
**7385**
MILL REPAIR DONATION BOXES
**226**
MILL SALES
**5477**
MUSEUM DONATIONS
**485**
MUSEUM SALES
**2547**
RAILWAY INCOME
**15**
RENTAL INCOME
SUBSCRIPTIONS
**861**
**32721**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_
_for AR)_||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**
**£**|**9**
**9171**
**2569**
**1566**
**1512**
**898**
**7385**
**226**
**5477**
**485**
**2547**
**15**
**861**
**32721**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**
**£**|
|BANK INTEREST|**9**|||**9**||
|DONATIONS/GRANTS|**9171**|||**9171**|**30162**|
|FLOUR SALES|**2569**|||**2569**|**1738**|
|GIFT AID CLAIMS|**1566**|||**1566**|**501**|
|LECTURES|**1512**|||**1512**|**33**|
|MILL DONATIONS|**898**|||**898**|**391**|
|MILL ENTRANCE FEES|**7385**|||**7385**|**4701**|
|MILL REPAIR DONATION BOXES|**226**|||**226**|**158**|
|MILL SALES|**5477**|||**5477**|**3385**|
|MUSEUM DONATIONS|**485**|||**485**|**315**|
|MUSEUM SALES|**2547**|||**2547**|**1764**|
|RAILWAY INCOME|**15**|||**15**|**8**|
|RENTAL INCOME|||||**- 200**|
|SUBSCRIPTIONS|**861**|||**861**|**770**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income_
_for AR)_|**32721**
|||**32721**|**43726**|
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** _**Sub total Total receipts**_ **32721**
> **32721 43726**
|**A3 Payments**
ADMIN & MISC EXPENSES
**3313**
ADVERTISING & MARKETING
**55**
ELECTRICITY MUSEUM
**508**
EQUIPMENT & RESTORATION
**6122**
EXTERNAL SUBS
**260**
FLOUR PRODUCTION COSTS
GRAIN PURCHASE
**675**
INSURANCE
**3716**
MAINT. MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT
**1794**
MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS
**6568**
PRINTING, POSTAGE & STATIONERY
**161**
STOCK
**6256**
TELEPHOME MILL
**268**
TELEPHONE/BROADBAND MUSEUM
**491**
WAGES
**7458**
WATER
**207**
**_Sub total_ 37853**|**A3 Payments**
ADMIN & MISC EXPENSES
**3313**
ADVERTISING & MARKETING
**55**
ELECTRICITY MUSEUM
**508**
EQUIPMENT & RESTORATION
**6122**
EXTERNAL SUBS
**260**
FLOUR PRODUCTION COSTS
GRAIN PURCHASE
**675**
INSURANCE
**3716**
MAINT. MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT
**1794**
MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS
**6568**
PRINTING, POSTAGE & STATIONERY
**161**
STOCK
**6256**
TELEPHOME MILL
**268**
TELEPHONE/BROADBAND MUSEUM
**491**
WAGES
**7458**
WATER
**207**
**_Sub total_ 37853**|||**3313**
**55**
**508**
**6122**
**260**
**675**
**3716**
**1794**
**6568**
**161**
**6256**
**268**
**491**
**7458**
**207**
**37853**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|ADMIN & MISC EXPENSES|**3313**|||**3313**|**640**|
|ADVERTISING & MARKETING|**55**|||**55**|**25**|
|ELECTRICITY MUSEUM|**508**|||**508**|**1804**|
|EQUIPMENT & RESTORATION|**6122**|||**6122**|**5413**|
|EXTERNAL SUBS|**260**|||**260**|**269**|
|FLOUR PRODUCTION COSTS|||||**96**|
|GRAIN PURCHASE|**675**|||**675**|**250**|
|INSURANCE|**3716**|||**3716**|**3048**|
|MAINT. MATERIALS & EQUIPMENT|**1794**|||**1794**|**3268**|
|MORTGAGE REPAYMENTS|**6568**|||**6568**|**6556**|
|PRINTING, POSTAGE & STATIONERY|**161**|||**161**|**61**|
|STOCK|**6256**|||**6256**|**2335**|
|TELEPHOME MILL|**268**|||**268**|**274**|
|TELEPHONE/BROADBAND MUSEUM|**491**|||**491**|**592**|
|WAGES|**7458**|||**7458**|**4568**|
|WATER|**207**|||**207**|**149**|
|**_Sub total_**|**37853**|||**37853**|**29348**|
## **A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**
_**Sub total**_
|**_Total payments_**|**37853**||||||**37853**||**29348**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||
|**_t of receipts/(payments)_ **|**- 5131**||||||**- 5131**||**14378**|
|**A5 Transfers between fund**||||||||||
|**A6 Cash funds last year en 29900**|||||||**29900**|||
_**Cash funds this year end**_ **24768 24768 14378**
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
CASH ACCOUNT
**25**
LLOYDS TREASURERS ACCOUNT
**4669**
LLOYDS DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
**15009**
BARCLAYS COMMUNITY ACCOUNT
**5067**
**24768**
OK
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**200000**
MUSEUM & MILL STOCK
**4903**
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS & EQUIPMENT
**31635**
**Details**
**B5 Liabilities**
MORTGAGE (CHARITY BANK)
**47735**
**IN 10 YEARS**
Signature
Print Name
P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)
R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**B4 Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own use**
PROPERTY. 1 OLD MARKET CROSS
HOUSE
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Signed by one or two trustees
on behalf of all the trustees
Date of
approval|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
CASH ACCOUNT
**25**
LLOYDS TREASURERS ACCOUNT
**4669**
LLOYDS DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
**15009**
BARCLAYS COMMUNITY ACCOUNT
**5067**
**24768**
OK
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**200000**
MUSEUM & MILL STOCK
**4903**
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS & EQUIPMENT
**31635**
**Details**
**B5 Liabilities**
MORTGAGE (CHARITY BANK)
**47735**
**IN 10 YEARS**
Signature
Print Name
P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)
R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**B4 Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own use**
PROPERTY. 1 OLD MARKET CROSS
HOUSE
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Signed by one or two trustees
on behalf of all the trustees
Date of
approval|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
CASH ACCOUNT
**25**
LLOYDS TREASURERS ACCOUNT
**4669**
LLOYDS DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
**15009**
BARCLAYS COMMUNITY ACCOUNT
**5067**
**24768**
OK
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**200000**
MUSEUM & MILL STOCK
**4903**
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS & EQUIPMENT
**31635**
**Details**
**B5 Liabilities**
MORTGAGE (CHARITY BANK)
**47735**
**IN 10 YEARS**
Signature
Print Name
P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)
R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**B4 Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own use**
PROPERTY. 1 OLD MARKET CROSS
HOUSE
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Signed by one or two trustees
on behalf of all the trustees
Date of
approval|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
CASH ACCOUNT
**25**
LLOYDS TREASURERS ACCOUNT
**4669**
LLOYDS DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
**15009**
BARCLAYS COMMUNITY ACCOUNT
**5067**
**24768**
OK
OK
OK
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**B3 Investment assets**
**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**200000**
MUSEUM & MILL STOCK
**4903**
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS & EQUIPMENT
**31635**
**Details**
**B5 Liabilities**
MORTGAGE (CHARITY BANK)
**47735**
**IN 10 YEARS**
Signature
Print Name
P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)
R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**B4 Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own use**
PROPERTY. 1 OLD MARKET CROSS
HOUSE
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Signed by one or two trustees
on behalf of all the trustees
Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**
**B4 Assets retained for**
**the charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees
on behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
CASH ACCOUNT
LLOYDS TREASURERS ACCOUNT
LLOYDS DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
BARCLAYS COMMUNITY ACCOUNT
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
MUSEUM & MILL STOCK
MUSEUM ARTIFACTS & EQUIPMENT
**Details**
MORTGAGE (CHARITY BANK)
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
PROPERTY. 1 OLD MARKET CROSS
HOUSE|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**25**
**4669**
**15009**
**5067**
**24768**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Cost (optional)**
**Cost (optional)**
**47735**
Print Name
P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)
R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**||
||||Date of
approval|
|||P.AGER (CHAIRMAN)||
|||R.B.BROWN(TREASURER)||