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Principal activities | |||||||
We work in partnership Children’s University Network, North Yorkshire Council, Scarborough Heritage Forum, Scarborough Archaeological & Historical Society, Scarborough Library, Scarborough Civic Society and Scarborough Museums Trust, Discover Yorkshire Coast tourism agency, local schools & colleges. Members of the public continue to donate valuable memorabilia that our volunteers catalogue, digitise and display. Volunteers help answer family and local history enquiries from residents and globally via the Internet. Our trustees keep our charity policies and risk assessment up-to-date including: data protection guidelines; whistleblowing; complaints; volunteers; safeguarding; and financial reserves (all on our website). We have publice liability insurance, building insurance and Local Authority Landlord's Certification. |
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From December 2023 to November 2024 we received nearly 4,500 visitors to the centre. Every month, 4,000 people view our website and our facebook page. In December 2023, we put on a special exhibition about scarborough's boxing day traditions in conjunction with an art show held at the old boatyard on Sandside. Many Christmas visitors to the town saw this along with our maritime themed special festive window display. From March to June our exhibition was about 'Women at Sea' and was created in partnership with the Lloyds Register Foundation. From July to September our exhibition focussed on the history of the British seaside experiance. From September to November our exhibition looked at the eccentric Sitwell family who had a summer home in Scarborough. During the year we recruited some new volunteers in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage funded project called 'What the Sea Saw'. The project was run by Digital Drama and they transcribed all our old oral history recordings to create a QR code audio trail in the Old Town recounting the lives of fishermen and their families. Another partnership project was with the Old Parcel's Office art gallary and we helped them create an exhibition for National Heritage Open Days looking at the history of fishing in Scarborough. For Scarborough's annual summer maritime festival, Seafest, we had a wide ranging display of our previous exhibitions covering some twenty topics. Over 10,000 viditors attended the weekend event. For Scarborough's Armed Forces Day in June, several volunteers sold books on the seafront about Scarborough in World War One and Two. We still get plenty of visitors to our 'History Box', an old BT red telephone box by the harbour, displaying history information and an audio guide. |
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Our Sea Wall Heritage Trail, with 29 information 'portholes' around the Marine Drive continues to be much appreciated and visited. SMHC trustee, Huw Roberts, continued to interview local residents about their memories of old Scarborough. In partnership with a local seafront business we helped them put a display on about a WW1 deck gun along with apop up display about Scarborough in WW2. In partnership with 'Forge Photography and Film Production Limited' we helped them to create a new documentary about the 1914 Bombardment of Scarborough. Our volunteers continued to catalogue and digitise the huge collection of maritime photographs donated to us by Mr Scales and Mr Coull. |
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Funding | |||||||
Our largest annual expenses has been £4,000 to install double glazing in the flat above that we rent out along with £2,500 for painting and scaffolding of the window frames. Our next largest expenses was £981 for the rental of an off-site overflow storeroom for our larger archived items. Donations from the public continue to support our work along with the rental income from our tenants. | |||||||
Conclusion | |||||||
It has been another busy year with more partnership working than ever before. We would like to thank everyone who has supported the SMHC this year, especially our volunteers who gave up their valuable time to make it all possible. | |||||||
Directors | |||||||
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Mark Vesey | |||||||
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Mark Vesey | |||||||
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Restricted funding | - | 283 | ||||||
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Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre Ltd is a private company limited by guarantee and incorporated in England. Its registered office is: | ||||||||
45 Eastborough | ||||||||
Scarborough | ||||||||
North Yorkshire | ||||||||
YO11 1NH | ||||||||
8 | Ultimate controlling party | |||||||
The company is under the control of the members who have elected the directors to run the charity on their behalf. |