## **MHT The Chair’s Annual Review for 2024-5**
The process of renewing our mission and widening our perspective on heritage is now well underway and our goal remains to celebrate maritime heritage in all aspects and help our members as they manage change in the great range of projects which they represent.
One illustration of this is the area of school and young person engagement with operational historic craft. No young people equals no future. A few vessels have specialised in youth training or like the Danny host higher education courses and large museums can usually support an education team. A welcome development this year was the Royal Museums Greenwich GCSE day on marine skills and employment in which Maddie Phillips, MHT trustee represented historic vessels. But for the overwhelming majority of preserved craft this is increasingly difficult territory – put off by rules, risk, culture. Thanks to a generous donation from the Lois Cumbers Charitable Foundation, we have established a project with Keystone Heritage http://www.keystoneheritage.org.uk/ to provide operational guidance for vessels on effective youth engagement and the initial report should be available later this year.
Working with Members on their concerns has continued very successfully led by Victoria Wallworth, MHT’s Membership officer and Newsletter Editor (contact Victoria if you have a concern or a project to highlight development@maritimeheritage.org.uk ). We were pleased to host an online briefing on the Funding for Historic Vessels Project commissioned by National Lottery Heritage Fund together with National Historic Ships UK. Watch again on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abhSYx128ts&t=42s I am also pleased to report our success in attracting substantial and unrestricted funding such as the Lois Cumbers award.
Meanwhile Heritage Harbours (and Inland Ports) continues to be a high priority. We have continued to convene meetings (including the first in person “Awayday”) and facilitated sharing of useful approaches such as online trails, social media ideas and joint projects. Two new locations, Gloucester and Ramsgate, joined the network, Ramsgate using the Heritage Harbour concept to great effect, particularly as part of their Dunkirk anniversary events.
The range of experiences in different harbours in World War 2 has enabled creation of “Transformed by war” – online and available for display in large format – based on input from individual harbours and original research by MHT at the National Archives. https://maritimeheritage.org.uk/heritage-harbours/transformed-by-war-exhibition Creating this online has been a volunteer input by Trevor Godbold, MHT Treasurer, who also masterminds the MHT website. The challenge now is to give Heritage Harbours a stronger voice and collective identity. The network has begun the process of thinking how to achieve that and MHT is keen to play a strongly positive role in that discussion. We are grateful for continuing grants in support such as from the Marsh Charitable Trust
This year also sees fulfilment of the MHT renewal of governance that began 3 years ago through attracting new Trustees and widening our mission; However, having been a Board member since 1994, in my case it is time to hand over and I welcome Gareth Maeer of Raybel Charters as Chair Elect. As this will be my last Chair’s report, I would like to give especial thanks to my Trustee colleagues for their support and input – to Maddie Philips and Trevor Godbold, Secretary and Treasurer, Richard Albanese, John Evans, Ken Hamilton, Cat Holt, Hannah Hurford and Delphine Jasmin-Belisle. The future is bright!
**Henry Cleary, Chair, Maritime Heritage Trust**
||**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 2024||**To**|31 March 2025|||
||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Subscriptions - Full Members|**2,430**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,430**||**1,956**|
|Subscriptions - Friends|**365**||**-**|||**365**||**430**|
|Donations|**16,590**|||||**16,590**||**525**|
|Interest|**354**||**-**|||**354**||**364**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**19,739**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**19,739**||**3,275**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**3,275**|
||||||||||
|Subscription - EMH||||||||**1,578**|
|Subscription - HA|**210**|||||||**205**|
|Meetings - room hire and travel|**42**|||||||**90**|
|General Administration|**800**|||||||**1,361**|
|Bank Charges|**31**|||||||**28**|
|Events||||||||**-**|
|ConsultancyAdvice|**7,726**|||||||**4,487**|
|NHS UK Photo Sponsorship||||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**8,809**|||||||**7,749**|
||||||||||
|**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_**|||||||||
|||||||||**7,749**|
||||||||||
||**10,930**|||||
**10,930**||**- 4,474**|
||**-**|||||**-**||**-**|
||**24,402**|||||**24,402**||**28,876**|
||**35,332**|||||**35,332**||**24,402**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
09/09/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**NatWest Current**
**NatWest Reserve**
**PayPal**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1**
**34,850**
**481**
**35,332**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|Signature|Print Name
Trevor Godbold|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|
||Trevor Godbold|27/09/2015|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
09/09/2025
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