**MILBORNE PORT HISTORY & HERITAGE GROUP**
# **CHARITY COMMISSION NO: 1186468**
**PERIOD: 01.06.2022 – 31.05.23**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
## **Contact Address:**
68 Foliat Drive Wantage Oxfordshire Mob. No: 07480 143678 Email: lynharrison.mjh@gmail.com
## **Trustees:**
Harold Clarke (Chair) Appointed:28 September 2021 Stephen Charles Underwood Appointed:18 November 2019 Marilyn Joy Harrison (Secretary/Treasurer) Appointed:18 November 2019 Lesley Wray (Historian) Appointed:18 November 2019 John P Fanning Appointed:18 November 2019 David James Roberts Appointed:18 November 2019
## **Structure:**
The **Trustees** , meet twice a year to discuss matters pertaining to the Charity Commission and are responsible to them. The six Trustees were originally five founder members of the Milborne Port History & Heritage Group but we have now appointed an additional Trustee who has shown a particular interest in the management side.
The **Committee** , which meets every 4 – 6 weeks and deals with the general running of the group ie making decisions on membership and admission to talks charges/donations, also speakers, visits etc and decisions relating to the Museum along with making recommendations to the governing body of Trustees.
## **Activities & Objectives:**
The aim of the Milborne Port History & Heritage Group is ‘To share the history of the village, preserve our heritage & foster a sense of community for the future’.
To achieve this, we now have a museum to which many locals have donated items of interest to the village and local area, this is open regularly during the summer months and also on request from members of the public.
Our activities include: a monthly ‘speaker’ evening and we provide visits to places of interest and guided walks around the village.
## **Benefits & Achievements:**
We have provided a safe storage place ie the Museum and we have been given and/or loaned various papers, photographs and artefacts and which are available to anyone who wishes to see them. It is quite clear that many people are glad to know that their items will be available
to future generations. Our ‘oral history’ is growing with more of the older generation showing an interest in recording their village memories and our 6[th] booklet has now been published which is entitled: **A Village Native – The Life & Work of Fred Pearce** (in his own words) edited by Dr Lesley Wray
We have created an inventory of all that has been loaned/donated over the year which is currently in the process of being updated. We have also introduced a system of recording donations or loans to the Museum and our archives.
Although we have decided not to proceed with the Accreditation process we are taking many of their suggestions and using them to benefit the smooth running of the Museum and are in regular contact with the Somerset Museum in Taunton to use their archives and expertise.
The amount of material on our website: milborneporthistory.org.uk, is increasing as is the number of people joining adding comments and items of interest to our Facebook page. Our monthly speaker meetings are proving very popular and are attended by approximately 40 – 60 people each month.
We have a database over approximately 150 people who are contacted each month to update them on future events.
We continue to make strong links with the local Primary School which has included a visit to the school and also a class group visiting the Museum where we laid on a special exhibition of old/new toys and books.
This year we secured a visit to the local ‘big house’ – Ven House, which was extremely popular with our members and their friends
## **Financial:**
We are in a good position financially even though we are entirely reliant on donations and membership subscriptions.
There are no debts or reserves, just our Treasurer’s Account with Lloyds Bank. No funds are held as a custodian trustee.
Marilyn J Harrison Secretary/Trustee 10 February 2024
Milborne Port History Heritage Group Accounts 1 June 2022 -31 May 2023
|DATE
01.06.22
06.06.22
09.06.22
10.06.22
13.06.22
27.06.22
27.06.22
04.07.22
04.07.22
08.07.22
08.07.22
11.07.22
02.08.22
08.08.22
19.08.22
04.11.22
24.11.22
25.11.22
05.12.22
04.01.23
23.01.23
13.03.23
21.04.23
24.04.23
12.05.23
12.05.23
16.05.23
15.05.23
16.05.23
17.05.23
30.05.23|DEPOSITS
Membership
Ven House
Ven House
Ven House
Ven House
Deposit 500048/talk
Deposit 500048/talk - cheque
Membership
Ven House
Deposit 500049 - membership
Deposit 500049 - Ven House
Ven House & Membership
Deposit 500050/Ven House Cash/Other
Membership
Deposit 500051 - various donatons
Deposit 500052 - Sept/Oct talks
Church Booklets
Booklets Postage
Deposit 500053/talk/sales
Deposit 500054/talk/Christmas Fair
Deposit 500055/talk/membership
Deposit 500056/talk/membership
Deposit 500057/Membership/talk/sales
Membership
Membership
Donaton
Membership
Membership
Membership
Booklets Sale
Donaton|AMOUNT
£16.00
£15.00
£30.00
£15.00
£30.00
£231.50
£15.00
£16.00
£60.00
£20.00
£45.00
£31.00
£136.60
£16.00
£177.83
£219.50
£7.50
£4.50
£321.00
£231.60
£146.00
£115.00
£285.80
£16.00
£18.00
£20.00
£25.00
£25.00
£18.00
£25.00
£100.00|DATE
09.06.22
10.06.22
13.06.22
27.06.22
28.06.22
02.08.22
12.08.22
18.08.22
23.08.22
1.09.22
07.11.22
08.11.22
18.11.22
09.12.22
03.01.23
28.02.23
28.02.23
16.03.23
11.04.23
26.03.23
10.04.23
12.05.23
28.04.23|Expenditure
Church House/Projector Hire
Remous Ltd: Newtown Booklet Inv 57106
M J Harrison - Printer Ink
SOMP Stall at Fete
Church House/Kitchen Hire
M Fisher - Ven House
SSE
MJHarrison/Lesley:Flowers/Refreshments
Church House - Kitchen Hire
MPCS - Computer Services
SSE
SOMP Christmas Tree
Website Services
FOMPL - Stall at sale
Church House - Hall Hire Inv. LET0712
SSE
SSE/Final account and closure
BGL - Electricity - DD
Lesley Wray/Tea towels & Bags
Cheque incorrectly writen (see 102)
Insurance Policy/replacemant cheque
BGL - Electricity - DD
Remous Ltd: St Johns Reprint Inv 59936
Total Expenditure 22 - 23|AMOUNT
£22.00
£167.00
£44.19
£15.00
£11.00
£930.00
£101.95
£53.09
£8.00
£66.00
£110.64
£10.00
£50.00
£10.00
£203.00
£272.65
£91.79
£55.86
£96.50
£192.04
£22.86
£243.00
£2,776.57|Ch. No|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||84
85
86
79
87
88
89
91
92
90
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
DD
101
100
102
DD
103|
Milborne Port History Heritage Group Accounts 1 June 2022 -31 May 2023
30.05.23 Booklet payment £24.30 Total Income 22 - 23 £2,457.13