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Dorset Buttons MUSEUM FRIEND Newsletter for the Friends of Lyme Regis Philpot Museum Issue no. 30 July 2017 CHAIRMAN’S LETTER Dear Friends Mission accomplished! By the time you read this we hope that our Mary Anning Wing museum extension will have been completed, a cause for great celebration. Our museum Director, David Tucker, was recruited by the Trustees to oversee the planning, grant raising and building of the extension and we give him credit and our thanks for accomplishing this task. We understand that navigating the multitudinous requirements of the Heritage Lottery Fund is no mean achievement. Details of the official opening and related activities will be published on the museum’s website. It is all change on the Friends committee. I have been elected as Acting Chairman following the resignation of Margaret Rose after many years of dedicated service. My main task is to work with the committee with the aim of getting us into a position which will be sustainable for the next five years or so. We have made a great start following the recruitment of Angela Main and Valerie Hayward; the influx of new energy and ideas is already apparent. To complete our transformation we need three more committee members, hopefully including a potential chairman. We are a very affable bunch of people who enjoy working together to support our museum. Please contact me if you are interested in joining us. Angela will take over from me as Treasurer and Val has plunged in, all guns blazing, as Newsletter Editor, Secretary and Publicity Coordinator. Other positions and duties remain unchanged; namely: Sylvia Oliver continues as Membership Secretary; Alison Mitchell as Database Manager and general computer guru; Richard Wells as digital presentations expert and eBay sales specialist; finally but by no means least, Joe Tesoriere, our all-seasons Eminence Grise and all-purpose helper. I would like to thank the small army of helpers on the Friends’ volunteer roster who help us with our various activities, such as the book sales. More hands definitely make less work but more than that, these activities are enjoyable and present an opportunity for us to interact socially, particularly with new members. There is a very 1 noticeable buzz and atmosphere of enthusiasm surrounding the Friends activities which is great to see. Please contact me if you wish to be added to our volunteer list. We hope that you will enjoy reading this ‘bumper’ edition of our Newsletter, Val’s first as editor, which celebrates the completed Mary Anning Wing. Our aim for the future is to continue to include items of general interest to members. The contribution of articles, comments, letters to the editor etc. will be most welcome. Please send your comments and contributions to Valerie Hayward via her email address [email protected] or at 25a Mill Green, Lyme Regis, DT7 3PH. With best wishes David Cox MARGARET ROSE With Margaret’s retirement as Chairman of the Friends Committee, we have reached the end of an era. Margaret was co-opted on to the committee 15 years ago, in 2002, under the chairmanship of John Lello, with the specific brief of introducing a Newsletter for the Friends. The first edition appeared in January 2003 and has been published twice a year since then. Margaret’s final production, the January 2017 issue, No. 29, took Margaret into her 15th year of editorship and production; a formidable record! Our new editor, Valerie Hayward, has a tough act to follow. Following the retirement of John Lello in April 2009, Margaret was elected to be our new Chairman, a post that she has held for the past eight years. This has been a period of stability and achievement under Margaret's direction. When I look back for significant milestones there is no doubt that the raising of £68,000 towards the 2 Mary Anning Wing extension of our museum takes pride of place, especially given that the museum Trustees set us a target of £50,000. We have our loyal membership to thank for their generous donations and our hard working fund raisers. Margaret quite rightly takes great pride in having recruited Sir David Attenborough as our first Patron; he has since been a most generous, charming and consistent supporter of the Friends. Shortly afterwards she recruited Tracy Chevalier, author of ‘Remarkable Creatures’, based on the life and discoveries of Lyme’s Mary Anning. Tracy has also been an active and generous supporter. Most recently, Margaret made a superb job of organizing the black tie Literary Dinner, an event that became part of the Arts Festival 2016 in Lyme Regis. With Tracy Chevalier as guest speaker, the event raised more than £1,100. Margaret also initiated our involvement with Local Giving, a government inspired movement designed to encourage year-round charitable giving by the public. Each autumn a set sum of money is provided whereby a £10 donation from Friends and supporters is doubled. We, the Friends, have benefitted significantly since the introduction of the scheme. A further significant event was our highly successful hosting of the annual regional (SW) BAfM conference in October 2011. We organized lectures, events and a magnificent lunch at the Royal Lion. Delegates could choose two of the following: Tour of the Museum; Tour of the Town; Know Your Fossils, with our resident geologists. Naturally I am biased but, having attended a number of BAfM regional conferences, I know that ours was up there with the best (actually it was the best!). As you can see, Margaret has a record that she can be proud of and we wish her well in her many remaining charitable endeavours. David Cox 3 TREASURER’S REPORT As you will have already read, the Friends has donated a total of £68,000 towards the cost of the Mary Anning Wing museum extension and we look forward with eager anticipation to the museum opening. Completion of the building work will hopefully coincide with the publication of this Newsletter. The Trustees have given the go-ahead for building work on Phase 2 of the museum’s redevelopment. This work has planning permission, is on a much smaller scale than the Mary Anning Wing and affects only the eastern side of the museum. It will provide more space, including working and storage areas for the curatorial staff and the Research Team. Completion is planned for 2020, at which point our museum will be viable and sustainable for decades. Thus, it will be business as usual for our fund-raising activities! Our financial objective for the next 2-3 years will be raising money towards the Phase 2 building work. A copy of the examined accounts for 2016 is included in this Newsletter. This is my 11th year as treasurer and I now hand over to Angela Main who has my full confidence and best wishes. SUBSCRIPTION REMINDER • Single membership: £8.00 pa / Family membership: £12.00 pa • Subscriptions are due in January each year. Cheques, payable to ‘Friends of Lyme Regis Museum’, should be sent to Sylvia Oliver, 3 Barnes Meadow, Uplyme, DT7 3TD. If you wish to pay by bank transfer, our bank details are: ‘Friends of Lyme Regis Museum’; NatWest; Sort Code 60-13-57; Account Number 73484172. • Most members pay by standing order, which is simple and really helpful. If you wish to do this, please contact Sylvia on 01297 445537 or by email at [email protected] • Before paying your subscription by cash or cheque, please check that you do not already pay by Standing Order. Double payments are not infrequent! David Cox 4 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS (2016) 5 YOUR COMMITTEE IS RECRUITING With the retirement of Margaret Rose the committee underwent an overhaul, but there is still a need for more volunteers to ensure its continued smooth running. Being a committee member is not onerous. It meets no more than ten times a year and, in between, it organises numerous fundraising activities and the production of the Newsletter. Some committee members obviously have specific roles, but others take on ad hoc tasks as and when the need arises. Possibly the only constraint to becoming a committee member is that you would, ideally, be local to Lyme Regis. Please give it some thought. And if you’d like to give it a try, please contact David Cox on 01297 443156. Thank you. Some committee members saying farewell to Margaret (seated). From left to right Richard Wells, Valerie Hayward, Joe Tesoriere, David Cox and Sylvia Oliver. Valerie Hayward 6 DIRECTOR’S REPORT On behalf of the Trustees of the museum, I would like to thank the Friends for the £68,000 that has been contributed to the Mary Anning Wing. I would also like to thank all the volunteers, be they Friends or not, for all their hard work this year. Most especially I would like to thank Margaret, as retiring Chair, for all her endeavours and wish David Cox well for his period as Chairman. The last year has been a momentous one in the museum’s history. We had our busiest first half year in recent times. But by September the museum had suffered its quietest summer in recent years – purely as a result of less than a millimetre of rain falling in August. Meanwhile, the museum was preparing for the start of the build process that would see the creation of the Mary Anning Wing, the new gallery and more. Whilst it has been a momentous year, it has also been a difficult year. The rate of change at the museum has been difficult for everyone to cope with and this, I feel, needs to be acknowledged - it would be the same for any organisation.
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