## **MHT The Chair’s Annual Review for 2023-4** As we continue to face big challenges for the sector, our goal remains to help its members develop new approaches and reach more people to share our enthusiasm and enjoy the maritime past. In 2023-4 our lead project has continued to be helping establish the **Heritage Harbours (and Heritage Inland Ports)** movement because of its potential to reach a wide community (not just vessel enthusiasts), to generate local support for retaining and improving harbour facilities and to promote enjoyment of the wider waterside environment. MHT (which works alongside NHS UK and HE on this) hosted 3 meetings of the 25+ member national group, provided additional promotion with creation of new Facebook pages and agreed criteria and the “Ten Aims” for the scheme. In January, two new Heritage Harbours joined the scheme – Bideford and Ipswich – bringing the total to 12 (and it is still developing). As well as using our own funds on this, we gratefully acknowledge support received from htps://www.marshcharitabletrust.org/ For more see the dedicated MHT webpages at htps://maritmeheritage.org.uk/heritage-harbours/about-heritage-harbours **Working with members** and highlighting new approaches is a key activity led by our part time Membership Officer, Victoria Wallworth (also with National Historic Ships). Victoria has developed a “Powered vessels group” meeting regularly online, informally, to discuss current problems and share possible solutions. This work includes a series of Members’ talks highlighting new approaches, a good example being the work of SS Freshspring on harnessing VR and games technology to create a portable tour of the vessel and others, including the Newport Ship, can be seen on the MHT Youtube for Members. We have also continued our joint series with National Historic Ships with the key governance topic “Would your maritime heritage project stand up to scrutiny?” htps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcmFR2aC7Ic&t=16s **Threats** As the year progressed it has become clear that more and more operating vessels are under threat due to increased costs of maintenance, decline in income etc – the number of Thames Sailing Barges up for sale, withdrawal of sail training vessels – and other cases where the owning preservation trust just cannot continue. The problems are not universal; the Paddle Steamer Waverley continues to be a major success htps://waverleyexcursions.co.uk/supportngwaverley/the-paddle-steamer-preservaton-society/ as well as her sister the PS Kingswear Castle (celebrating her 100[th] anniversary this year). However overall the situation is really concerning. We very much welcomed the decision of National Heritage Memorial Fund (and their partner NLHF) to commission a major consultancy on this issue (currently awaiting publication). MHT had a meeting with Gareth Maeer, the lead consultant, including Maddie Phillips, Richard Albanese and the Chair providing evidence and commentary on costs and issues facing individual vessels and operations. **European Maritime Heritage (EMH** ) has now been completely reconstructed on an open membership basis with a new Board elected at the General Assembly in Lisbon on 14 January. This includes Scott Pereira (MHT Vice President) as EMH Secretary. We await news of further progress. For many, the first experience of **sailing** is on a dinghy but the famous designs of their day are often discarded when outmoded and much of this heritage is lost or at risk. MHT Trustee, John Evans, is keen to reverse this. If you can help on this or have other concerns please contact us info@maritmeheritage.org.uk My thanks in particular to our **Trustees** without whom MHT would fold and in particular Maddie Phillips as Secretary, Trevor Godbold as Treasurer and webmaster, and to Hannah Hurford, Delphine Jasmin-Belisle, John Evans, Cat Holt and Richard Albanese. Henry Cleary 28 September 2024 Chairman ||**THE MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST**|**THE MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST**|**THE MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST**|**THE MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST**|**THE MARITIME HERITAGE TRUST**|**268609**|**268609**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||31 March 2023||**To**|31 March 2024||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
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**to the nearest £**| |Subscriptions - Full Members|**1,956**||**-**||**-**
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**-**|**1,956**||**1,086**| |Subscriptions - Friends|**430**||**-**|||**430**||**370**| |Donations|**525**|||||**525**||**1,288**| |Interest|**364**||**-**|||**364**||**124**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
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**A3 Payments**||||||||| |||||||||**2,868**| |||||||||| |Subscription - EMH|**1,578**|||||||**-**| |Subscription - HA|**205**|||||||**190**| |Meetings - room hire and travel|**90**|||||||**216**| |General Administration|**1,361**|||||||**361**| |Bank Charges|**28**|||||||**27**| |Events||||||||**-**| |ConsultancyAdvice|**3,540**|||||||**3,928**| |NHS UK Photo Sponsorship||||||||**250**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,802**|||||||**4,972**| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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**- 4,474**||**- 2,104**| ||**-**|||||**-**||**-**| ||**27,929**|||||**28,876**||**30,980**| ||**24,402**|||||**24,402**||**28,876**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 26/08/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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Trevor Godbold|**Endowment**
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