## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] July 2024 Period start date To 30[th] June 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Scampton Heritage Group** ## **Charity registration number:1193701** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**a. To increase public knowledge of the**
**heritage of RAF Scampton and the acts**
**of heroism that are associated with its**
**roles from 1916 until its closure.**
**b. To advance the education of children**
**and young people with regard to their**
**understanding of the aviation-related**
**responses to conflict spanning the**
**period from 1916 to the present day.**
**c.To advance the education of the public**
**with regard to the contribution and**
**sacrifices of RAF Scampton personnel;**
**the Royal Air Force; the people of**
**Lincolnshire and the military more**
**generally to the achievement of peace**
**and reconciliation from 1916 until the**
**present day.**
**d. To preserve and provide increased**
**public access to artefacts and**
**documents associated with the history**
**of RAF Scampton.**
**e. To advance education and further**
**preserve original documents associated**
**with the history of RAF Scampton by**
**digitisation and the facilitation of online**
**access by the public.**
**f. To encourage esprit de corps among**
**RAF personnel by commemorating and**
**illuminating the auspicious acts of**
**heroism and distinguished service of**
**those who served at RAF Scampton**
**from 1916 until its closure.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Our Charitable Incorporated**
**Organisation (CIO) was set up in 2021 in**
**anticipation of the closure of RAF**
**Scampton and its RAF managed**
**Heritage Centre in December 2022.**
**The initial principal activity of planning**
**for station closure, and how our**
**charitable objects would be taken**| |||**forward with the station’s new owners,**
**was overtaken by HM Government’s**
**plans to house Asylum seekers on the**
**station once it was decommissioned.**
**With the subsequent abandonment of**
**that plan, we are again exploring how**
**our charitable objects could be taken**
**forward with the station’s prospective**
**new owners. Trustees contribute their**
**time pro bono.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit for the**
**only expenditure, the commemoration**
**event.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Our CIO does not make grants and does**
**not plan to do so.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Our CIO has no plans for social**
**investment in the foreseeable future.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Trustees are volunteers. In the year**
**to which this statement refers, no other**
**volunteers have been required to**
**contribute their time as the charity is**
**largely dormant until the future of the**
**former Station is known.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**In the reporting period, the charity has**
**been unable to progress due to the**
**uncertainty with the future of the former**
**RAF Scampton.**
**Operating from RAF Scampton is**
**essential to the charity’s core operation.**
**Being physically present gives a unique**
**context to the events associated with**
**the station and allows visitors to follow**
**the layout and use of the site.**
**The charity’s future is inextricably**
**linked with the station’s and so we have**
**maintained contact with West Lindsey**
**Council and possible future**
**owners/occupiers so as to be well**
**positioned to carry out our charitable**
**aims immediately circumstances allow.**| |---|---|---| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As the Charity is financially dormant, it**
**has not been necessary to**
**develop a policy for reserves at this**
**stage. This policy will be developed**
**once the operating model is tested. This**
**will enable further reserves to be**
**securely accumulated**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Inextricably linked with the future use of**
**the former RAF Scampton.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risk facing the charity is**
**that heritage commemoration is not**
**embraced by the new owners of RAF**
**Scampton The physical location is**
**central to the charity’s commemoration**
**ethos.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO ‘Foundation’ model constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointment of charity trustees (1)**
**Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every trustee must be appointed for a**
**term of three years by a resolution**
**passed at a properly convened meeting**
**of the charity trustees. (2) In**
**selecting individuals for appointment as**
**charity trustees, the charity**
**trustees must have regard to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed**
**for the effective administration of the**
**CIO. (Section 10 of our CIO's**
**Constitution)**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Induction and training of Trustees - Not**
**required in 2024-25 but will be**
**developed from best-practice guidance**
**when needed.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**In 2024-25, the CIO had five trustees**
**who continued to liaise with volunteers**
**who provided guiding services to the**
**RAF Scampton Heritage Centre until**
**its closure. The CIO co-operates with**
**Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire (AHL),**
**an informal gathering of aviation themed**
**museums to share best practice.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Scampton Heritage Group| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Nil| |Registered charity number|1193701| |Charity’s principal address|Scampton Heritage Group's Secretary
7 York Road
Brookenby, Market Rasen
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Keith James Batty|Chair|Whole Year|| ||Christopher Mark
Bowles|Secretary|Whole Year|| ||David Broughton|Vice-Chair|Whole Year|| ||Daniel Pearce|Treasurer|Whole Year|| ||Thomas Evans||Whole Year|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** 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 Nil held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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)**
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**Date**|Signed electronically under
password control|Signed electronically under password
control| |---|---|---| ||Keith James Batty|Christopher Mark Bowles| ||
Chair|Secretary| ||11/04/2026|| ||11/04/2026|| ||**Charity Name**
**Scampton Heritage Group**|**Charity Name**
**Scampton Heritage Group**|**Charity Name**
**Scampton Heritage Group**|**No (if any)**
**1193701**|**No (if any)**
**1193701**|**No (if any)**
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