## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 21[st] October 2021 To 31[st] May 2022** **Charity name: The Guild of Enamellers** ## **Charity registration number: 1196237** ## **Objectives and Activities** The Guild’s objectives are 1. to further the preservation, skill, excellence and improvement of craftsmanship in vitreous enamelling for the benefit of the public, and **2.** to advance public education in such craftsmanship. The activities that have been carried out since October 2021 in support of these objectives are - Annual conference – April 2022 - Regional work shops - On-line workshops - The quarterly journal - Web site – short tutorials, articles added. - Bursary Award 2022 More detail is given on each of these in the following section. Membership of the guild of enamellers is open to any member of the public who is interested in vitreous enamelling so all of these activities are aligned with the requirement that the Guild must operate for the public benefit. The trustees are fully aware of the guidance from the Charity Commission with regard to operating for public benefit. The Guild is run by an enthusiastic volunteer community, the two principle components are the Regional Representatives who co-ordinate activities with in their regions, and the Executive Committee who are responsible for overseeing Guild activities. ## **Achievements and Performance** ## **Annual conference – April 2022** The annual conference was held in Sparsholt College and was attended by 54 Guild members. The attendees benefited from recognised experts in the field of vitreous enamelling who gave their time to deliver a master class in enamel painting and seven workshops. The workshops covered the following subjects - Everlasting flowers - Fold forming - Crackle enamel - Screen printing - Colour blending - Gold and silver foil and leaf - Torch fired beads The master class was also made available over Zoom for people who were unable to attend the conference in person. In many cases people who attended the conference went on to deliver the same workshop in their local regions thus meeting the Guild’s second objective to advance public education in vitreous enamelling. Regional work shops - Regions 1 and 2 There have been three workshops on screen printing, one each in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Cumbria. The Cumbria group have been meeting once a month for a led Zoom session and have covered subjects such as discussing the fold forming workshop from conference, preparing silver for laser cutting to use in plique-a-jour, discussing the reinvention pieces, and the use of crackle enamel. There was also a self led workshop in March. - Region 3 Region 3 has run no workshops during the period because we have been unable to find a representative to co-ordinate the region. As a result Region 3 members have been invited to join Region 4 workshops. - Region 4 This busy region held workshops covering: - Lustre powder with stencils/sgraffito techniques - Enamelling on silver - Region 5 The Guild welcomed a new Regional Representative to Region 5 in 2022. This is a geographically disparate region so meeting in person tends to be infrequent. - Region 6 Region 6 ran one workshop during the period, ◦ Torch fired beads - Region 7 Region 7 have run one workshop in the period: - Kiln fired beads - Region 8 Region 8 do not run workshops but join and help to co-ordinate online workshops which benefit many who still feel uncomfortable with meeting in person or who cannot travel. ## **Web site** The web site continues to evolve as the Guild finds more ways to reach people who are interested in enamelling. The Photograph Archive has migrated and been made more accessible. A forum has been added for people to ask questions on enamelling. The Guild also hosted a guest exhibition of the work of Ukrainian enamellers which was made available to the general public and well received. ## **Bursary award 2022** The 2022 Bursary was awarded to Olga Komisarova, the runners up were Imogen Hales and Jin Guo. The Bursary is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors - Milton Bridge, Proops Brothers, Vitrum Signum and the British Society of Enamellers. For the 2023 Bursary we are delighted to welcome additional sponsorship from Harrison&Harrison and Corby Kilns. ## **The Journal** The Guild continues to produce 4 issues of the Journal each year, these are sent to all members. The educational/instructional articles from the Journal have been added to the relevant section of the website. ## **Financial Review** Review of the charity’s fnancial position at the end of the period. In reading this summary and looking at the accounts it should be noted that because we have changed the financial year end the accounting period was longer than usual – from 1[st] January 2021 to May the 31[st] 2022. The Guild’s financial position at the end of the accounting period (May 31[st ] 2022) is healthy. The primary source of income is still the annual membership fees, as a charity we are now able to recover Gift Aid on these, no claim was made in this financial period but the additional income has been shown in this year’s accounts. We would strongly encourage all members to complete a Gift Aid form (if they are eligible) when renewing membership as this helps us to maintain membership fees at the current level. Although it was necessary to subsidise the 2022 conference there were sufficient reserves to allow us to do so, the loss was £3724. Conferences will continue to be priced to break even. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 the Executive committee had met face to face three times a year – travel expenses were paid for attendance at these meetings. During the pandemic the Guild moved Executive meetings online which has resulted in a considerable saving. It is expected that the Executive committee will continue to meet online. DVD sales which used to be a source of income have declined gradually over the years and are expected to cease eventually. The DVD contents have been made available online in small sections which are available to purchase, however it is not expected that the revenue from these sales will compensate for the loss of revenue from DVD sales. The Bursary fund continues to be sponsored by a number of companies (see above) – but all in the form of vouchers. Prior to 2021 WG Ball provided a £500 cash sponsorship but this ceased after the sad death of John Ball and the company’s decision to stop supplying members of the public. The only external cash sponsor for the Bursary prize is the British Society of Enamellers who generously provide £300. The Guild matches this with the proceeds from the raffle held at conference - £350. Technology expenditure has increased slightly due to the requirement for Zoom and Vimeo accounts but we have also been able to drop an expensive DropBox subscription as Microsoft provide provide charities with free access to a comprehensive range of business tools – including OneDrive for storage. Policy on holding reserves The Guild aims to hold sufficient reserves to be able to cover the cost of an annual conference. The conference is the Guild’s highest annual expenditure and highest risk item. In the event that we had to cancel a conference at short notice, it may be difficult to recover money that has already been committed to the venue. The amount of reserves is held is: £36329.03 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The Guild’s governing document is the Constitution and the Guild is constituted as an Association CIO. Trustees are voted in annually at the Guild’s AGM in accordance with section 13 in the constitution. It is expected that trustees will be members of the Executive Committee and will usually include the three chairs (vice, current and retiring) and the holders of the following positions: - Secretary - Treasurer - Membership Secretary - Webmaster An additional trustee responsible for outreach is elected from one of the following positions: - Selection and awards secretary - Bursary secretary - Publicity officer This position is currently held by the Awards and Selection secretary. ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Guild of Enamellers| |---|---| |Other name the charity
uses|-| |Registered charity
number|1196237| |Charity’s principal
address|2-3 Stable Court
Herriard Park
Herriard
Hampshire
RG25 2PL| ||| Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity |1
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4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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20|Trustee name|Ofce (if any)|Dates acted if not for
whole year|Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee
(if any)| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Zoe Slattery|Webmaster||| ||Roselyn Ann
Jones|Awards and
Selection
secretary||| ||Susan Rowley|Treasurer||| ||Jacqui Clarkson|Secretary||| ||Shirley Gore|Retiring chair
(2022)||| ||Laura Selway|Chair (2022)||| ||Julia Riddington|Membership
secretary||| ||Joy Funnell|Retiring chair
(2021)|October 2021 – April
2022|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Declarations** **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 **Date** ## **The Guild of Enamellers** ## **Income & Expenditure account for the 17 months ended 31 May 2022** |**Income & Expenditure account for the 17 months**|**ended 31 May**|**2022**|| |---|---|---|---| |**2022**
**£**
**£**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
_General membership income and expenditure:_
Subscriptions
15,166.81
Journal
7,669.00
Executive committee travel
86.34
Exhibitions
0.00
Stationery & printing
60.70
Telephone and postage
290.85
Region 4&7 expenses
351.23
Website
800.91
Library
134.92
Insurance
1,484.00
Sundry
115.37
Accountancy fees
720.00
PAT testing
63.95
Bank charges
1,383.16
Depreciation 25% RB
986.80
15,166.81
14,147.23
_Other income and expenditure:_
Conference fees and tutoria 28,842.44
24,214.81
DVD/online video sales
1,235.95
132.88
Awards & selection
60.00
764.60
Risos
10.00
0.00
Raffle and other income
75.65
0.00
Interest
1.06
0.00
Bursary
645.00
629.00
(Deficit)/Surplus for the year|













1,019.58
4,627.63
1,103.07

(704.60)

10.00

75.65

1.06

16.00
6,148.39
**Surplus/**
**(Deficit)**|**2020**
**£**
**£**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
8,180.00
5,167.61
1,126.10
0.00
60.81
148.71
0.00
264.27
88.69
172.03
93.74
0.00
0.00
345.94
744.68|














(32.58)

(56.00)

2,644.79

0.00

40.00
47.16
8.41

(500.00)
**Surplus/**
**(Deficit)**| |||8,180.00
8,212.58|| |||0.00
56.00
3,310.01
665.22
0.00
0.00
40.00
0.00
47.16
8.41
0.00
500.00|| ||||2,151.78| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WAIES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Sa¢tion A 11idependent Examiner's Report Report to the tntstees THE GUILD OF ENAMELLERS On aceounts for tho penoa ended 31 st May 2022 Charity no (If any) 1196237 Set out on pages I reFK>rt iu the uustees on my exam￿atIOn of the accounts of the above chanty rthe Trusf) for the period ended 3110512022. As tho charitys trustees, are t85pmslble for the preparntion of the accounts in aC￿rdan(￿ with the rwuiremerrts of the Charities Aci 2011 (Ihe A￿. Responsibilities and basis of report I report in respect of [￿Y examlnao.on ot the Trusts accounts carried out under sectinn 145 of tho 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all ts applicable Directions given by th• Charity Commission und@r section 145{5)(b) of the Act Indopendent tThe charitys gross i11(L￿e eX￿eded £250,1)00 and l am qualified to examiners statement undertake thp examinati￿ by being a qualified member of [insen name or applicable listed bodyIl. De￿Ie [ i ff not applicable. I have ￿rTIpl81￿j my examination. I confimi that no material matters have cnme to my attention in Connection with Uie examlnation (other than that disd05ed l)elow") which giv8.$ me cause to bolieve that in, any matsrial respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordants wrth section 130 of the Chartties Act", or the accounts did not accord vitth the aoxjunting recorus. or the accounts aid not cnmply wilh th8 applicablo requirement5 con￿mIng the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts ana Reports) Regulation$ 2CQ8 othcr than any requir&netrt that the a¢￿Unts give a 'true anrj taif view vmich is not a matter consKJere(J as part of an inde￿ndant examin8ti0n. I havg no concoms arKI have come across no other matters In connectiiin th Uie examlnakn.on to which attention should ba drawn in this report in order to anable a proper understandiiig of the acojunts to be re2ched. . Fyease tslete the words in the bRckets rfthey do not apply. Dato.. 23103f2023 Signed: Name: Mr Jonathan David Mills Bsc (Hons) CA ACCA ICAS and ACCA Relevant professional qualifi¢ation(5) or body (rf any): Address: 2-3 Stable Couo Hemar(J Park, Basingstoke, Hants. RG25 2PL Sectioii B Disr.losiire Only cA)mplete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts: d1￿ctionS and auid3nce for oxaminers). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. WA