Trustees. Annual Report for the period
Period start date
01
Apdl
Period end date
31
March
2024
. 2025
From
Section A
Reference and administration details
Charity name
Lowewood Museum Trust CIO
Other names charity is known by
Lowewood Museum Trust
Registered charity number (if any)
1192
Charity's principal address
Lowewo¢)d Museum
High Street
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Postcode
EN11 8BH
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Dates aettd rf not for whole
Trusts* name
Office lif any)
Name of person lor bodyl antltled
toa
olnt trustee
ifan
David Dent
Chair
Peter Dockar
Treasuref
steve Whitlam
Secretary
Broxbourne Borough Council
Broxbourne Borough Council
Siobhan Monaghan
Leone Rayner
Left at end of tern of
office on 1 April 2024
Bryan Hewitt
stephen Harris
Left at end of temi of
Offi￿ on 1 April 2024
Left on 3 July 2024
From 24 May 2024
Liz Robertson
Alan Carter
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12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, Ifor example, any custodian trustees)
Name
Dates acted if not for whole
ear

Names and addresses of advisers {Optional infornlation)
e of adviser
Name
Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional infonnation
Naomi Delamore- Museum Project Manager
Peter Basham - Curator
Section B
Structure,
overnance and mana
ement
Description of the charity's trusts
Constitution
Type of goveming document
leg trust deed, conslilulionl
How the charity is constituted
leg. Irusl, association, company)
Chantable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee selection methods
leg. appninled by. elected by)
Two Trustees are appointed by Broxboume Council.
Olher Trustees are approved by resolution at a propedy convened
meeting ofthe Board.
Additional governance issues {Optional infomiation)
Lowewood Museum is owned by Broxbourne Borough Council as is the
museum collection. Broxboume Borough Council has a five year rolling
service level agreement with the Lowewood Museum Trusl CIO and pays
an annual management fee for the Trust to deliver museum and heritage
services. The Lowewood Museum Trust has a 25 year lease on the
museum building and pays a peppercom rent. The Trust is responsible for
looking after the contenls of the museum whilst Broxbourne Borough
Council is responsible for the exterior, garden and fabric as well as
insurance for the collection and building.
You may choose to include
additional information, where
relevant, about".
policies and procedures
adopted for Ihe induction and
training of truslees.,
the charity's organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works.,
Lowewood Museum Trust is a member of the Museums, Association, the
Association of Independent Museums and the Hertfordshire Association of
Museums. It also works closely wrth Museum Development South East,
the Regional Museum Development Agency for the South Easl of
England.
• relationship with any related
parties.,
IrLJStees' consideration of
major risks and the system
and procedures to manage
them.
Lowewood Museum Trusl works closely with the Friends of Lowewood
Museum, Love Hoddesdon Business Improvement District and the
Broxboume Arts Forum. Other key partners during 2024125 included
Broxboume Big Local, Goffs Oak Community Library Local History Group,
the Lea Valley Growers. Association and WyldEdges CIC.
During 2024125 Lowewood Museum Trust had three staffing positions. A
Museum Project Manager and a Community Engagement Officer were
bolh funded by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Trust
also employed a Curator funded from core budgets. The Community
Alliance for Broxboume and East Herts (formedy known as the CVS)
provides the Personnel and Payroll function for the Trust's employees.

Major risks were identified in the production of the Trust's business plan
for 2022-2025 which was approved by the Board in March 2022. A
security audil was conducted in 2024 and the findings reported to Ihe
Board and implemented.
Ob'ectives and activities
The objects of the CIO are.. to advan￿ education for public benefit in
particular but not exclusively in the archaeology, natural history and
social history of the Borough of Broxboume, Hertfordshire as told through
ils herrtage, landscapes and stories of the people within the Borough by
such means as the trustees see fit, including but not limited to,.
. the provision and maintenance of a pemanent museum and
infomiation service in the Borough of Broxboume".
the care and curation of the museum collections and holdings.,
the exhibition and interpretation of the museum collections and holdings
and the provision of public access to them-
the provision of leaming experiences and activities for the education
and enjoyment of the public-
the provision of exhibitions, conferences, workshops and other events,.
and
to research,
Summary of the objects of the
charity set out in its
governing documènt
romote and ublish studies

During 2024125. Lowewood Museum was open every Friday and
Saturday 10am to 4'.30pm. ex￿pt for January 2025 when it was closed
for cleaning and redevelopment including the removal of two skips worth
of broken furniture, 0￿dated marketing material, old electrical equipment
etc. When open, the museum is staffed by a team of highly committed
volunteers supported by the Trustees and the staff team. Total visits
during 2024125 totalled 6,049.. up from 5.358 in 2023￿4.
During 2024125 the Trust continued lo develop its collection. Highlights
include Masonic jewellery from the Waitham Cross lodge, Boy Scout
badges and literature from the Womiley pack in the 1960s, a bronze age
blade discovered in gravel pits near Broxbourne, a record by the band
Argent {who have local links) and catalogues for East Herts College's Art
Exhibitions from the 1970s. Many photographs from the museum's
extensive photographic wllection were added to the collection
management software.
The Borough Beats exhibition, telling the story of the Borough's rock and
roll music heritage, had opened in November 2023 and continued until
June 2024., it continued to attract people from across the Borough and
from further afield. The exhibition was accompanied by live music
sessions in the museum and-an audience with. event with musicians
from that era at the Imperial Club in Waltham Cross in May 2024.
The next exhibition was Toys of our Time which opened in June and was
curated by the museum's volunteers. This ran until the end of 2024.
During the summer school holidays, a number of family events were put
on to link to the Toys exhibition. The Glasshouse Legacy, telling the story
oflhe Borough's horticullural history, opened on 14 February 2025 and
had been c(>crealed with the Lea Valley Growers, Associalion, former
employees of Rochford's nurseries as well as local environmental
organisations including Wld Edges and the Seed Harvest Organisation.
Summary of the main
activities undertaken for the
public benefit in relation to
these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)
The museum renovated the Ward gallery in 2022 into a temporary
exhibilion space to showcase items from the museum's extensive
photographic collection. Curated by Tumford was installed in February
2024 curated by local residents who provided information and memories,
and remained in-silu all year. Work began on Curated by Goffs Oak with
a community event at Goffs Oak Library in March 2025.
The Community Space on the ground floor exhibited a collection of
stained glass works by artist Teresa Verrecchia from January 2025. This
was followed by a small display on the history of Cheshunt's almshouses.
The Petler Gallery. the main pemanent exhibition space, was refreshed
in January 2023 to enable the showcasing of other objects from Ihe
museum's collection. In 2024 this included a display marking the 50
anniversary of the creation of Broxboume Borough Council. New lighting
racks were also installed in January 2025.
Leaming experien￿$ included a talk on Beating the Bounds in June
2024 and a history walk in Hoddesdon the same month. These were part
oflhe Hoddesdon Midsummer Festival which also saw a blue heritage
plaque installed on the outside of the museum. This was formally
unveiled by the Mayor of Broxboume along with three other plaques in
Hoddesdon. A Fossil Fun day with Rockwatch was held in February
2025.
Family events included a Spring Craft morning (April 2024), an Ostara
and Spring event (April 2024), a Children's Music event with the
Hertfordshire Music SeNice
June 2024 , Music at the Museum
June

20241, Family Games Days (July and August 2024), Model Railway Day
(August 20241. a Halloween Spooky Day (October 20241, a Festive
Thank You Day (December 2024) and Fossil Fun (February 2025)
The museum continues to work with the Friends of Lowewood charity to
produce and sell a number of research booklets on aspects of local
history.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional infomiation
You may choose to include
further statements, where
relevant, about..
policy on grantmaking.,
policy programme related
investment.,
contribution made by
volunteers.

Summary of the main
achievements of the Gharity
during the year
Exhibitions
Borough Beals opened on 4 November 2023. The exhibition celebrated
the Borough's rock and roll music heritage especially the role of the
Cheshunt Boys, Club which enabled the development of many bands and
musicians who would go on to achieve local, national and international
Suc￿Ss. The exhibition ran until June 2024 and was accompanied by live
music sessions in the museum as well as question and answer sessions
with some of the musicians featured.
Toys of our Time opened in June 2024 and was curated by the
museum's volunteers. This ran until the end of 2024. During the summer
school holidays. a number of family events were put on to link to the Toys
exhibition.
The Glasshouse Legacy, telling the story of the Borough's horticultural
history. opened on 14 February 2025 and had been co-crealed with the
Lea Valley Growers, Association, fomier employees of Rochford's
nurseries as well as local environmental organisations including Wyld
Edges and the Seed Harvest Organisation.
Curated by Tumford, a display of photographs of Tumford from the
Museum's collection selected by local residents ran from March 2024 to
April 2025.
Events
Events held at the museum during this period included..
Spring Craft moming (April 2024),
Ostara and Spnng event (April 2024),
Music at the Museum-The Cougars (April 2024),
Children's Music event with the Hertfordshire Music Service (June
20241,
Music at the Museum - Garden Party (June 2024),
Beating the Bounds talk {June 2024),
Hoddesdon Heritage Walk (June 2024)
Family Games Days (July and August 20241,
Model Railway Day (August 2024),
Halloween Spooky Day (October 2024),
Glasshouse Legacy Community Appeal Day (November 2024),
Festive Thank You Day (December 2024),
Fossil Fun (February 20251.
Broxboume At War Community Appeal Day (March 20251.
Quiet hours are provided at all family-orientated events to support
children with additional needs.
The museum's garden hosted the annual Holocaust Memorial Day
service in January 2025.
A school visit from the Robert Barclay Academy happened in July 2025.
The Museum also hosted a visit from the Friends of Hertford Museum.
Oulreach events included An Audience with the RoLJleltes and Friends al
the Imperial Club in Wallham Cross {May 2024}, an exhibition to mark 50
years of Fairfield Primary School {June 20241 and the Curated By Goffs
Oak co-curation day al Goffs Oak Library (March 2025} The Borough
Beats exhibition panels were on display at Cheshunt Young Person's
Centre and communit
curators have laken the Windrush exhibition

panels to seven schools and community venues throughout the Borough,
engaging with 165 children and 90 adults.
Attendances
There were 6,049 visitors to Lowewood Museurn during 2024125. The
busiest month was April 2024 with large attendances al the events
associated with the Borough Beats exhibition. The quielest month was
January 2025 when the museum was closed for three weeks for cleaning
and the refreshing of the galleries.
National Lotte
Herita
e Fund
In September 2021 the Lowewood Museum Trust successfully bid for a
grant of£228,800 by the National Lottery Heritage Fund INLHFI. This will
fund Your Heritage, Your Museuffl. This three year project will work with
diverse communities throughoLrt the Borough of Broxboume, who haven't
traditionally used the Museum's services, to capture their stories. The
programme will recruit community curators through a series of outreach
activities, pop up events and locally generated exhibitions. They will help
redefine and refresh Ihe Museum galleries to tell local slories, past and
present, replacing the dated slatic displays alongside an enhanced virtual
presence and digital engagement.
The NLHF programme includes funding for members of slaff., a
Museum Project Manager and a Community Engagemenl Officer. A new
Community Engagement Officer was recruited in June 2024.
Key achievements over the course of the project so far include Ihe
recruitment and training of 21 community curalors, delivery of five
communty history projects. refreshing the upstairs galleries,
development of an audience development plan, engagement with the
local communty especially those from the South ofthe Borough.
undertake environmental suslainability initiatives and evaluale the
programme.
Much of the focus dunng 2024125 has been around identifying next steps
once the current NLHF grant finishes in January 2026. NLHF have been
extremely helpful. funding a consultant to work with the Museum on
options for the future. which will lead lo a new grant submission in the
summer of 2025.
other Grants
The Lowewood Museum Trust has also re￿iVed grant funding from..
Hertfordshire Couniy Council's Locality Budgets
Broxbourne Borough Council- Small Grants Scheme
Tesco Community Grant
The Museum worked with local partners including the Communily
Alliance, Broxbourne Borough Council, B3Living housing association,
Peabody housing association, Peace Cottage and Hertford Regional
College on an application to the Arts Council's Creative People and
Places fund.
Annual General Meetin
The Museum Trusl held ils AGM in November 2024, attended by 28
people including community partners. volunteers and members ofthe
public. The Trust published its third annual report.

Award
The Borough Beats exhibition won the Community Engagement award at
the Hertfordshire Museums Association's annual award ceremony in
February 2025. A Rornan clay rooftile with animal paw prints came
second in the Object of the Year category whilst Helen Giles and Humam
al Hashimi received Heritage Hero awards.
Volunteers
The museum is heavily dependent on volunteers to provide 'front of
house., collections development. simple maintenance and gardening.
Addilional volunteers were recruited and trained during 2024125.
Volunteers contnbLrted over 2,980 hours in 2024125. A Volunteer
Christmas and Thank You event was held in De￿mber 2024.
Communi
Venue
The Museum continues to host the Woolly Crafters knitting group.

Section E
Financial review

ReseNes are funds the trust holds as a buffer against future
commitments (foreseen or otherwise) that it would otherwise not be able
to meet. These typically range from 3- 12 months. In setting our
reserves policy we considered..
Brief ststement of the
charity's policy on reserves
rf Cash-flow: the trust's ability to meet majority of cash-flow volatility in
6 month period.
O Contingency: A Risk Analysis considered the potential financial
risks and mitigants with contingency put in pla￿ to cover the most
challenging and credible. For Lowewood, this is primarily the risk of
delays to the Borough Of Broxbourne Council grant {paid April and
October) and issues in accessing National Lottery Heritage Fund
(NLHF) grants which are paid 3 months in arrears.
O Closure: Amount of funds required to complete all obligations and
close down the charity.
Given the stability of our primary funding source (Borough of Broxbourne
grant} and the NLHF we have set a minimum reserves policy of 4 months
of planned expenditure (salaries. rates etcl currently £37k which we
hope to build to 6 months over the coming years.
Our current free reserves position for the year end is £77.6k (vs a cash
balan￿ £53k due to timings of NLHF payments which are in arrears) is
comfortably ahead of our policy (and meets our 6 month resetve
ambition} although we expect both to fall over 25126 in line with expected
fluctuations of expendtture.
Wrth the current NLHF funding due to end in January 2026, maintaining
reserye levels above our stated minimum is a prudent position to take if
any funding bridges are required ahead of any new phase of the
programme.
The NLHF fund is £24k in deficit at year end. This is due to the grant
funding being paid in arrears (typically 3 months after the costs were
incurred). The reseryes policy allows for this, and payments continue to
be made by NLHF to us in line wrth the scheme rules.
Details of any funds materially
in deficit
Further financial review detsils Ioptional infomiation
You may choose to include
additional information, where
relevant about..
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 investmenl policy
adopted.
Financially, our fourth year as a Trust has progressed well and in line
with expectations.
We re￿iVed £107.6k across our various funding sources and spent
£106.6k so ended the year with a cash balance of £53k slightly up on last
year1£52.Ok}.
Income:
Over the course of the financial year the Trust has raised £107.6k vs.
£120k in the previous year.
The NLHF °Your Herilage, Your Museum. accounted for £54.5k (2024 -
£67.4k) We have now used £174.6k of the £241 k grant with the
programme due to complete in January 2026, although we are in
discussions with NLHF on options for further extensions.
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The NLHF programme complements our £37k core funding from the
Borough of Broxbourne Council (BBC). Additionally, we received a
generous £7.8k in other grants including-
£3.3k BBC grant towards new lighling in the Petter Gallery
£1 k from Friends of Lowewood Museum also towards the lighting.
local councillor grants which we used to support our part-time
curator.
£1 k was awarded from Tesco Community
£2.5k generously awarded from local councillor gfants to support
the broadening of our funding base.
Shop sales of £4.1 k were flat year on year but created an improved net
contribution of £2.4k to the museum (2023 = £1.9k).
Finally, donations of £2.1 k were also in line with the previous year. This
includes £0.4k from our new digital donation point installed in July 2024.
Expenditure:
In total the trust spent £106.6k in over the course of the financial year
(2024 = 105.6k).
£37 8k related to the day-to-day operation of the museum (Rates,
Utilities. Exhibrtions, Shop expenditure. Insurance, part-time curator etc}
and was broadly in line with last year (2024 £38. 6k)
£63.7k (2024 - £67.4k) was NLHF funded°Your Heritage, Your Museum.
related of which the majority1£49.6k) was staff salaries with the
remainder supporting the various events and inilialives outlined in the
main report.
Overall:
Overall, we have a closing cash position of £53.Ok (2024 = £52.Ok) which
meets our reserves policy and sees us in a good position to support the
growing work of the Trust over the coming years well as having the
financial resilien￿ to withstand any unexpected shocks.
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
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Signaturels)
l. Wl)IF/
Full namels)
Position leg Secretary, Chair.
etc)
David Dent
Steve Whitlam
Secretary
Chair
Date
31 July 2025
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(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Lowewood Museum CIO
On accounts for the year
ended
315t March 2025
Charity no
(if any}
1192966
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination ofthe accounts ofthe above
charity (llhe Trust") for the year ended 3110312025
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
aGcounts in accordan￿ wrth the requirements of the Charities Acl 2011
{'the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trusl's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515)(b) of the Act.
Independent
examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention in conneclion wrth the examination which gives me
cause lo believe that in, any material respect-
accounting records were not kept in accordance w¢th section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concems and have come across no olher matters in
onnection with the examination to which attention should be drawn
in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be
reached.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
Keith Grover
Relevant professional
qualificationlsl or body
(if any):
Member of ICAEW
Address:
HB Accountants
Plumpton House. Plumpton Road
Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, EN11 OLB
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Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examinerwishes to
disclose.
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