Hebden Brfdge Local Hlstory Soclety Report of the trustees for the year endong 31° August 2024 Objectlves and Actlvltles The purpose of the charlty Is to advance the educatlon of the publlc In the hlstoryi herlta8e and culture of Hebden Brldge. the Upper Calder Valley and surroundln8 areas. The Soclety furthers Its charltsble purposes for the publlc beneflt through a lecture programme, archl¥e collectlons. a webslte, speclal Interest groups and publlcatSons. A serles oltalks on a wlde ran8e of hlstorlcal toplcs Is glven by speakers wlth expert knowled8e In the subjert. These are open to members and vlsltors In a fulty aCce￿Ible town centre venue and advertlsed In advance. The talk5 are also recorded and made avallable to members after the event. A report of each talk15 publlshed In the local paper, on a l(Kal news webslte, In the Soclety newsletter, and on the Soclety webslte. The local hlstory archlve at the Blrchcllffe Centre In Hebden Brld8e Is open to members and vlsltors on two aftemoons each week. Archlve staff are on hand to help wlth general research as well as famlly hlstory. In addltlon, archlve staff answer querles by emall from both members and non- members. The webslte provldes Informatlon on all the actlvltles undertaken by the Soclety as well as access to the archlve catalogue, coples of newsletters, and researth resources Includln8 monumental Inscrlptlons and the work of the Charlestown Hlstory Group. The Sodety has a publlshed bookllrt of 18 books on a wlde range of toplcs relevant to the hlstory of the Upper Calder Valley and surroundln8 areas. These are avallable to buy In local outlets and vla the SocIet￿5 webslte and to consult In Ilbrarles In Calderdale. In plannlng artlvltles for the year, the Soclety kept in mind the Charlty Commlsslon's 8uldance on publlc benefft and fee char8ln8. The membershlp subscrlptlon was kept at £15 per year. Vlsltors to lertures were charged £4. Use of the archlve by members Is free but £3 for vlsltors. Querles by emall cost £2 for members and £5 for non-members. The Socletys webslte has been updated and Includes a wealth of Informatlon on the SoclÈWs actlvltles and the hlstory of the local area. The prlce of books Is kept as low as posslble to Just cover publlcatlon costs. Volunt••rg The Soclety ts run entlrely by volunteer trustees and members. The trustees were greatly helped durfng the year by several volunteers. Diana Monahan helped with technlcal set-up and used her extensive knowledge to answer queries, John Crampton and Jame5 Botten ass1Sted with catalo8uin8 in the archive, Kelth Stansfield and other member5 of the Family History group supported enquiries and research, John Billlngsley kept the Folklore Group allve, and Davld Shepherd advlsed members on pre-hlstory matters. Hebden Brldge Local HistOry5￿￿ty Is o Chorkoble InCorpNrt￿or9onIsatIon Charlty No.. 1196787 Achlevements and Perforniance Membershlp numbers contlnued to be strong at 193 members, down on last year but ¥(111 well above numbers priorto Covid. Talks Despite problems with buildin8 work and heating at the venue there were eleven talks thls year. Subjects ranged from a hlstory of town twlnnlnB In Hebden Royd to tenters In the landscape and Hebden Hey In cr￿ a local fam that rnoved. Elght of the talks were 8lven by members of the Soclety whithls testament to the breadth of knowledge amon8St the membershlp. The talks were well attended wlth an avefa8e of 45 members aiid vlsltors on the nl8ht and 35 members who watched the recordln8S. The archlve recelved a number of donatlons of Iterns durln8 the year Includlng: Fabrlc sample books for 1903 and 1905. Donated by Rebekah Fozard on behalf of Hebden Brld8e Arts Festlval. Research Into the hlstory of the Mytholm area. Donated by James Botten Hebden Brid8e Arts Fe5tiv41 pro8rammes and photO8raphs. Donated by Graham Packham. Boxes of artwork. calendars, portralts of the Farrers and m15cellaneous Items. Donated by Pam Jordan. Vldeo cassettes. slldes and paper on the hlstory of Todmorden hospltals. Donated by Gerard Walnwrlght Preservatlon and catalo8uln8 of these and other donatlons contlnued wlth help from volunteers. Archlve staff answered 10 querles by emall and 427 documents were consulted In person by a total of 29 members and vlsltors. Through Ilnks wlth Pennlne Herlta8e, Huddersfield Unlverslty staff and students also made sl8nificant use of the archlve. Webslt• A major addftlon to the ￿search resources on the webslte thls year was the settlement sectlon. This has Infomatlon on the hlstory of named settlements fields In the townshlp of Stansfield lfi 1805 and bulldln8s and ￿reets In Hebden Brldge and Is the result of extenslve research undertaken by members of the Soclety. ExhlblUon5 The Sodety fadlltated two exhlbltlons on hlstorical subjects at the Town Hall in Hebden Brid8e. Hebden Bridge LocalHi5tcvySociety is o Chorftable Incornomted Orqanlsatlon Charlty No." 1196787 Publl¢atlons 439 bfy)ks were sold durinB the year- 268 throu8h retsll outlets, 88 throu8h the website and 83 directty to mernbers and vlsltors and at events. The Sodety was dell8hted to publlsh a revlsed edltlon of The Llttle Hlll Fomi by W.B. Cmmp, first publlshed In 1951. The book was greatly enhanced by the new Illustratlons drawn by Peter Brears. The review In the Yorkshlre Archaeologlcal Journal sald It all: "Hebden Brldge Local History Sodety has produced another excellent publicatlon, a collaborative and Ima8lnatlve trlbute to the efftirts of an important re8lonal historian. Crump rescued much for posterlty; the Hebden Brld8e 8roup has returned the compllment." Hebden 8rldoe and the Rallwoy by Davld Taylor was reprlnted. Flnanclal Revlew The Soclevs alm Is to fund the talks, admlnlstratlon of the $￿Iety and the runnlng of the archlve from Income other than that recelved from book sales. Thls allows the proceeds of current book sales to be used to fund the publlcatlon of future tltles. Thls arran8ement allows the Sodety to remaln vlable ff there are no new 1x￿kS publlshed. At the end of the flnanclal year the Soclety had £23,303 In unrestrlcted funds. The maln flnanclal rlsks are the loss of premlse5 to house the archlve, damage to archlve Items and stora8e space, a reductlon In membershlp numbers, loss of premlses to hold the talks and an Inablllty to recrult sufflclent trustees and other volunteers. The So¢lety alms to keep £10,000 In reserves to cover the rlsks. Stnirture, Govem•nc• and Manag•ment The Soclety Is a Charltable Incorporated Organisation ICIO). It Is admlnlstered by a mana8ement commlttee of trustees, which can have up to 12 members. The commlttee meets every 2 months. In accoraance wlth the constltutlon one third of trustees retlre each year at the annual general meetlng but they are ellglble for re-electlon. New trustee5 can be elected at the AGM to fill vacancles or can be appolnted by the trustees durln8 the year. All trustees glve thelr tlme voluntarlly and recelve no remuneratlon or other beneflt. Followlng the reslgnatlon of the Chalr at the last AGM none of the exlstlng trustees felt able to take on the role. It was therefore a8reed to rotate the posltlon of Chalr at meetln8s and to redlstrlbute the other re5ponslbllftles amongst the other trustees. This arran8ement has worked well thls year. The Soclety has contlnued to develop polldes to 8uide Its actlvltles. Thls year a pollLy on serlous Incldent reporting has been approved by the trustees. The Soclety works In partnershlp wlth Pennlne Herfta8e Ltd {regi5tered charlty no: 509974) as South Pennine Archives. The So¢iety follows relevant pollcles of Pennlne Herltage and Hebden Brldge Methodist Church for it5 activities at the archlves and lecture hall respectjvely. Hebden Brfdge L(xolHiStory￿1etyls o Choritoble Incorp￿￿(￿90nI$otI0n Charity No.. 1196787 Reference and Admlnlstratlve Detalls Hebden Brid8e Local History Society IHBLHS), charlty No. 1196787, is registered at The Birchcllffe Centre, Blrchdlffe Road, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8DG. Trustees All trustees served for the full year. Barbara Hall- Secretary Rachel Smith - Treasurer Nlgel Smith- Archlvlst Barbara Atack Davld Cant Hllary Fellows Shella Graham Sarah Keates Anne Mealla The trustees dedare that they have approved the trustee's report above. Slgned on behalf of the charltys trustees. Sl8nature: Full name: IA trIfvLL, Posltlon: Slgnature: Full name: £Aét¢trL (f4 1171 Posltlon: frt44L Oate: 7./0 2 Hebden Brfdge Lttol HistorySocletyls a Chorltable Incorpomted Oryonlsotlon Charity No.. 1196787 ||**Hebden Bridge Local History Society**
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|**1196787**|**1196787**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||01/09/2023||**To**|31/08/2024||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**2,524**
**244**
**57 **
**3,112**
**131 **
**371**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**| |Membershipsubscriptions|**2,524**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,524**||**3,071**| |Visitors to lectures|**244**|||||**244**||**340**| |Donations|**57 **||**-**|||**57 **||**296**| |Sale of Publications|**3,112**||**-**|||**3,112**||**3,828**| |Queries|**131 **||**-**|||**131 **||**70**| |Bank interest|**371**|||||**371**||**70**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**6,439**||**-**||**-**|**6,439**||**7,675**| ||**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,439**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||**-**
**-**
**-**||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales,(see table).**||||||||| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**
|||||**-**||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||| ||||||**-**|**6,439**||**7,675**| |||||||||| |Cost of lectures|**1,058**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,058**
**1,839**
**1,402 **
**49**
**1,598**||**1,440**| |Administration|**1,839**||**-**|||||**710**| |Archive costs|**1,402 **||**-**|||||**2,083**| |Newsletters|**49**||**-**|||||**180**| |Cost ofpublications|**1,598**||**-**|||||**2,518**| |**_Sub total_ **|**5,946**||**-**||**-**|**5,946**||**6,931**| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**
~~**-**~~|**-**||| ||**-**|||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|~~**-**~~|||||~~**-**~~||~~**-**~~| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||| ||||||**-**|**5,946**||**6,931**| |||||||**493**||| ||**493**||||
**-**|**493**||**744**| ||**-**||||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**22,810**|||||**22,810**||**22,066**| ||**23,303**||||
**-**|**23,303**||**22,810**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 27/10/2024 1 Unr•8trlct•d RMtrlct•d Endowm•nt fund• fuDds lund• to n••r••t £ to n•arn•t £ lo nMr••t £ 2,119 10,238 10,203 693 D•tsl Bl Ca•h fvnd• Current account Savings account 32 day account PayPal £c¢ount Ca8h account Totsl cmh fund8 18grno balanw ￿1th recelpt8 •nd paym•nts a¢￿UntI8)I OK Unr••lrlct•d lund8 OK Endowm•nt fund• fund• Fund to whlch a•••t b•lon Currnnt D•tal (optloml Fund to TwhlGh ••••t v•ly• D•tsl (opllon•l) B4 A•••l• r•l*ln•d lor th• ch•rV• own Fund Amount du• Vlh•n du• T*hlch Il•blllty (Wnal) D•t•l BO Ll•blllll•• Slgned ty on8 er two tru8tae8 on behaff of all the tru8te88 Signature Prlnt Nomo 14IL•LY ￿, Eéu£¥JS 1wirm24 CHA￿Th COMMISSION Independent examinerfs report on the accounts SL¥Ctioii A ¢￿7￿1V Na￿. Hebden Brldge Local Hlstory Soclety (kn •ccounts for tho year •nd•d 3111 August 2024 Charlty no (ff any) 1196787 Sot out on pag•s 1&2 I report to the t￿Sta￿S on my 8xamlnation of tho accounts of the above charlty {Iha Trusf) for tho year andod 31108 12024. R•spon$lblllll•s and ba•1• of r•port As th8 charws trustees. you are re8ponslbl8 for the prep8ratlon of tho a¢￿unt3 in accordance %*lth the requirements of tho Charitwd Aci 2011 (Ihe Arf). I report In rn8pect of my examlnailon of the Tru8Vs aco>unts cwrled (xrt und8r 88Ctlon 145 of the 2011 Act and In carylng (Mjt my examlnallon, I hav8 followed all the ap[A￿al￿o Dlrectkjns glven by th8 Charlty ConMn1881on under sedton 1445Mb) of the Aci. Indowndent I have ccynpleted my examlnatlon. I confimi that no matsrlal matters have •xamln•fs •tat•mont come to my attent￿￿ Sn (x)nn8Ctlon wlth the examlnalon (other than that dlsc108ed bolow'} 9lv88 me cau88 to belleve that In, any materlgl the a¢￿untIng records were not kept In accordance wlth 8ectlon 130 of the Charltles Act: or the acthunts dld not accord vAth the accounilng re(x)rd8: or th8 accounts dld not C•)mpty wlth th8 appllcablo reqidrements concerning the fomi arKI content of accounts sel In the Ch¥lUg8 (Accounts and Rep￿ts) Regulatk)ns 2008 other than any r8qthmw that the 8ecounts glve a and falrf vlew whlL*18 not a maller ¢on$ldered 88 part of an Independent examlnatlon. I have no concerns and have corne acros3 no other mattews *ith the exarnination to which artention should be drawn In this rwl kn order to ènablo a proper understandlng of the ac(wnts to be ' Please delete ffta words In the brackets Ilthey do not a￿. Slgn•d: If. /•. Name: (If any): I £owOrt£) 5f￿r. A£49fiJ MQ(<, 8OF OGt 2018