Trustees report March 2024 Friends of the Laing Art Gallery
The generous legacy from Irene Hindmarsh was distributed between the Learning dept which is in dire need of a practical upgrade, and the L-ink project which involves young people collaborating and working with artists and curating exhibitions. Our recent legacy of a gentleman’s large collection of Davidson Cloud glass is still proving to be impractical in terms of being shipped from its present home in Gosport to our local auctioneers but we hope this will be sorted soon.
Our continuing programme of talks and day trips as well as short breaks has meant we were able to give a grant of £20,000 to the Laing Art Gallery to go towards staging exhibitions.
We are grateful to our loyal core of members whose presence and encouragement enables us to continue to support the gallery we all love. We know the future will be challenging. People’s expectations increase while our resources diminish. There are plenty of critics who don’t seem to appreciate that we are volunteers however with your support we’ll hope to adapt and change when appropriate and look forward to another year knowing we play a significant part in promoting the Laing.
*At the AGM in June 2024 the following amendment to the constitution was agreed.
Bearing in mind the current shortage of volunteers, the following amendment had been compiled and agreed in committee and was proposed for consideration and adoption.
“Elected Members of the Management Committee shall serve for three years and will then be eligible for re-election for such further periods of three years as shall be agreed by the members at the AGM.”
This motion was approved unanimously with no abstentions.
Friends of the laing Art Gallery.Treasurers report 1st April 2023 to 31st Mara Transactions RECEIPTS IN PAYMEpif5 OUT Subxripiions.. £11854. £2.295ffj3 Donatbns £269.15 Bafm if&urarKe& 5th5 NFV InsurarKe Ne¥bsletter5141 Merntser5hip¢¥ds Printed StatK>nÈry& rthtait £1,046.(K EX6 £3.gJ4AN) E192 ÉZ59.45 GIftd re¢laimed £1,789.73 Events £6,810.35 E¥ents f 3,561.50 Trinsfersfrom Redwood Iyr Sklpttsn B.Sot E20.[1> EIO.LDJnl DOn•trtonILG. £30XX)ts) go$trnr61erinwcF Éioxth)A) Tot41 Iras•ctloh$111 ÉS4.723.23 Tot•bo £515 8•nkolko¢wnd 1(• 31.3.23 É5.928.13 8•rtholkotknd bal 3lJ24 É9.585.70 Total £60,651.36 Total OUT £f4).65L.36 Events surplus crfflprvJir46tlips, S ialks aThJ 2 thr5.. £3,247.85 Asset5 on 31.3.24 bfr•StMentl sthr Bink of Scotland BarcK4y5 04nk OFlke petty c*th £9,505.70 4.72 £323.99 CQF Athoood Bank 95 511pton Bsoc. £32563DI £22.293.69 ÉIOh92.35 5.13Xvt £9,914.41 Toui thNe.' £65,549 £7SJ6JA9
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of Ff21a-W)l ) &K f Hi 79th G 4LL££x Nhlq441 20 2 On aGcounts for the yoar ended Charlty no Ilf any) Qgo70 Set out on pages I report to tha trustees i)n my èxaminaiion of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trust") for th8 year ended 31 03 20 2t Rosponslbllltles and As the charity trustees of th8 Tnjsl. you are responsible tor the prep8r8tion bas1$ of report of the accounts in accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 rthe Acr). l port in respert of my examination of th8 Trust's accounts carrbed oul under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in rying out my 8xamination, I have followed the applicabk8 Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(51{bl of the Act. I have completed my examinalk>n. I confirm that no materfal matters havè come lo my attention (other Ih8n that disclosed below") in connection with the examination lhhich gNes me cause to believe that in. any material respect.. accounting recxxds were not kept in accordance with $ection 130 of the Act or the acc4)unts do not accA)rd Vth the accounting records Independent examlnerf8 slatsment I have no concems and have come a(¥oss no ¢)ther matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to te reached. Please dele the words in the brack8ts if they do not apply. Slgnod: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualificallon{s} or body (If any}: Address: 7& tw& . HE L G . LIEW fth-• Le hJE 3 -sPy IER &fv i i&wl £•kn-IlFIGo i iM£Q E iA F, 4 PRo4)6o HknNL£. October 2018