## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day01 Month01 Yea2025r Day31 Month12 Y2025ear **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society **Other names charity is known by** SIAS **Registered charity number (if any)** 1185669 **Charity's principal address** Park Field Cottage, Langford Budville, Wellington, Somerset **Postcode TA21 0QU** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||MaryMiles|Chair||| ||Geoff Fitton|Secretary||| ||Barbara Cooper|Treasurer||| ||Chris Cooper|||| ||Peter Daniel|President||| ||Neil Ham|||| ||Bruce Induni|||| ||Iain Miles|||| ||Geoff Roughton|||| ||Alan Cockett|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive**|**or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Annual election by members at AGM. The trustees may co-opt further Trustee selection methods trustees. - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To advance and inform the education of the public in all aspects of Industrial Archaeology in and around the county of Somerset. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** March **2012** **TAR** 2 Publication, thrice yearly, of a Bulletin (ISSN 0954-7029 lodged at the British Library) with reports of IA, sent to members, adjoining local IA societies, the AIA, and available in the Somerset Heritage Centre. Fortnightly lectures in winter months, open to all, alternating face to face meetings with Zoom meetings. Field trips and visits, mainly in summer months. All activities are advertised locally and on the Society’s website (www.sias.me.uk) **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public** This year, organising the annual South Wales and West of England **benefit in relation to these** Regional Industrial Archaeological Conference for 2025. This involved a **objects (include within this** day of lectures and visits to local sites of industrial archaeological interest. **section the statutory** The event is run in rotation with other IA groups. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** The trustees have had regard to the public benefit guidance issued by the **issued by the Charity** Charity Commission. **Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Money may be gifted to societies or groups in and around the county whose interests reflect those of the Society. There may be a visit to view the work of the group, or a talk to members from them about their work. The Society is run entirely by volunteers. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Educating and informing the public about industrial archaeology is the primary purpose of the Society. The programme of fortnightly lectures and visits, open to all, fulfils that function. There are often visitors to the Society’s events. For preservation of heritage, the trustees keep a close watch on planning applications which may affect industrial heritage, and they submit responses to local authority planning departments. The Society is frequently asked for advice and information by members of the public, and by virtue of having a comprehensive archive in a selffinanced archive store, is happy to respond where possible. The Society is also consulted by various researchers and local authorities on matters of IA concern. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** Reserves are held to fund contingencies. **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: Membership subscriptions are the main source of funding. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** March **2012** **TAR** 5 TAR March 2012 **Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1/1/2025 12/31/2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Subscriptions
**1,740**
Donations
**136**
Publications
**622**
Gift Aid
**310**
Bank Interest
**311**
Miscellaneous
**233**
SWWERIAC
**1,194**
**4,546**
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**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,546**
**A3 Payments**
Speakers
**375**
Venue
**436**
Insurance and AIA subscription
**189**
Equipment and maintenances
**48**
Postage
**465**
Printingsupplies
**2,325**
SWWERIAC
**1,026**
Publicationspurchased
**142**
Miscellaneous
**323**
**_Sub total_ 5,329**
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**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 5,329**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 783**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ - 783**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,740**
**136**
**622**
**310**
**311**
**233**
**1,194**
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**4,546**
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**436**
**189**
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**-**|**1,740**|**1,839**| ||||**136**|**300**| ||||**622**|**1,010**| ||||**310**|**759**| ||||**311**|**202**| ||||**233**|**493**| ||||**1,194**|**25**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**4,546**|**4,628**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**375**|**340**| ||||**436**|**386**| ||||**189**|**206**| ||||**48**|**-**| ||||**465**|**24**| ||||**2,325**|**1,782**| ||||**1,026**|**100**| ||||**142**|**118**| ||||**323**|**246**| ||||**5,329**|**3,202**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**- 783**|**1,426**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**- 783**|**1,426**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Current Accounts
Savings Accounts
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
High Viz vests
Paper
Printing consumables
Publications
Stamps
Container
Card Reader
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**81**
**8,112**
**57**
**8,250**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
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**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
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**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
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**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**12**| |||||**570**| |||||**677**| |||||**2,977**| |||||**76**| |||||**1,312**| |||||**48**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
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approval| |---|---|---|---|