MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Annual Report 2009/10
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MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION Annual report 2009/10 Contents 02 President’s and director’s introductions 03 Reference and administrative details 04 Report of the council 4 Independent auditors’ report 5 Statement of financial activities 6 Balance sheet 7 Notes to the financial statements 25 Corporate members 2009/0 27 AMA awards 2009/0 28 Notice of the AGM 30 AGM 2009 President’s Director’s introduction introduction Any year that includes a general election Critical to the future of almost all museums in the The past two years have been We are also developing a new business model is going to bring the expectation of UK will be how local authorities respond to this turbulent for the country and there is that will shift the balance of our services and the new period of austerity. Without their continuing way we work. We aim to deliver more of what our change. This year we all knew that support for both their own museums and every indication that the coming years members have told us they want – in particular change was inevitable. independent museums, there is a danger that a will offer little relief from the difficult stronger advocacy and lobbying and an While we were at conference in Liverpool news of part of the local and community backbone of this economic times we are enduring. increased dialogue with all our members. A the banking crisis broke. Twelve months later, country might be seriously damaged. The public sector is firmly in the firing significant element in achieving this is the proposed change to our governance structure. when we met last year in London, we were in an It is already clear that we are in the middle of line and that has direct implications for This will make us a more dynamic association, economic recession. In the run up to the general significant structural changes in our sector. The the association. more engaged with its members. election all the principal political parties were focus in the short term is going to be on whether warning of a significant reining back of structural change and a sharp reduction in public We are an independent, not-for-profit, 2009/0 was not an easy year. The future will be public-sector expenditure. However, the new subsidy will lead to more long-term changes. private-sector company, but our members, difficult too; but the museum sector needs the coalition government promised the most Museums must play their part and use their funders and stakeholders are largely from the MA more than ever. In order for us to fulfil this draconian cuts in public expenditure in modern imagination and ingenuity to find ways to continue public sector. The difficult times we have vital role we need a new business model to times and, as I write in July 200, is certainly to provide the great service they offer to the endured over the past year are a direct result of ensure we are strong enough to make a delivering on that promise. nation. The MA will be working its hardest to help the squeeze on all our members. difference. Concern about the scale and potential impact of them weather this storm. Yet this is the time when the museum sector the public-sector cuts all across the UK has needs its professional association most. It needs accelerated since May. There has been a large our strong independent voice, our advocacy, our measure of agreement between politicians’ practical advice, our networking links and our thinking and the hopes of most museums. We all information provision. This is why membership of feel that there has to be retrenchment but that Stuart Davies the association is at record levels. cuts should, wherever possible, fall hardest on President, Museums Association In the past year we have been advocating Mark Taylor bureaucracy and back-room activities rather than strongly on our members behalf. It is essential to Director, Museums Association on frontline services to the public. The recent do this collectively and individually, and this is announcement of the abolition of the Museums, why we developed the Love Museums campaign Libraries and Archives Council has therefore been to help museums advocate for themselves. We accepted without a great amount of dissent , but have built a significant body of information on final judgement must await whatever new our website that members can use to make the structures reveal themselves in the autumn. case for their museum. The Museums Association (MA) got its advocacy campaign into gear long before the election and thus the new ministerial team came in well briefed about the social, economic and cultural value of museums. We have particularly emphasised the importance of Renaissance in the Regions, regional museum development officers and free admission to national museums. 2 Reference and administrative details Status Solicitors Council 2009/10 Institutional councillors: Staff 2009/10 Research & production The organisation is a charitable Russell-Cooke, Solicitors editor: President: Local authority: Head of sales and marketing: company limited by guarantee, 2 Putney Hill Catrina Lucas* Stuart Davies Cllr Ged Bell William Adams incorporated on 20 November Putney Cllr Elizabeth Cameron Professional development 930 and registered as a charity London SW5 6AB Professional vice president: Policy officer: Cllr David Gemmell administrator: on 7 November 962. Vanessa Trevelyan Nikola Burdon* Auditors Cllr Wendy Golland Emma Mitchinson Governing Document Sayer Vincent Hon vice president: Cllr Anne Hawkesworth Finance administrator: Events coordinator: The company was established Chartered Accountants Virginia Tandy Cllr Michael Pye Jolanta Stevens Lorraine O’Leary under a Memorandum of Registered Auditors Cllr David Smith Most recent institutional Sales executive: Association which established 8 Angel Gate Editor, Museum Practice: vice president: Independent: Anastasia Churchill* the objects and powers of the City Road Javier Pes* Nichola Johnson Tony Butler charitable company, and is London ECV 2SJ Collections coordinator: Richard de Peyer Membership administrator: governed under its Articles of Hon treasurer: Sally Cross Investment managers Rhian Tritton Pamela Poynter Association. Brian Hayton Schroder Investments Limited Sarah Staniforth Deputy director: Events production manager: Company number 3 Gresham Street Professional councillors Maurice Davies National: Sue Robinson 2523 London EC2V 7QA at large: Stephen Allen Sales executive: Isabel Churcher Diversify coordinator: Charity number Paul Davis Richard Eckles Gina Koutsika Lucy Shaw 33024 Tonya Nelson University: Head of professional issues: Head of finance & Registered office and Emma Warren Sally MacDonald Caitlin Griffiths administration: operational address Ros Westwood Affiliated: Marketing manager: Lucie Slight 24 Calvin Street Regional councillors: Nick Poole Janson Harrison London E 6NW Marketing officer: Northern Ireland: Head of publications: Zoe Spencer Bankers Scotland: Joe Traynor Sharon Heal National Westminster North east: Alec Coles Director’s assistant: Bloomsbury, Parr’s Branch East Midlands: Jonathan Wallis Senior journalist, Georgie Stagg 26 High Holborn South west: Alison Bevan Museums Journal: Website editor: London WCV 6QB East of England: Robin Hanley Felicity Heywood Patrick Steel North west: Catriona West Nottingham Building Society Museum development Yorkshire: Mary Kershaw Deputy editor, 5-3 Upper Parliament Street officer: West Midlands: Rachel Cockett Museums Journal: Nottingham NG 2BX Charlotte Holmes South east: Jo Bailey Simon Stephens United Trust Bank Wales: Rachael Rogers Professional development Director: 80 Haymarket London: Judy Lindsay & ethics coordinator: Mark Taylor London SWY 4TE Rebecca Jacobs* Head of events: Sales executive: Ratan Vaswani* Dennis Jarrett Systems manager: Project assistant: John Wellington* Phoebe Kallin* Projects officer: Production assistant: Helen Wilkinson* Geraldine Kendall* Project assistant: * indicates person left before end of year Vicky Kinahan 3 Report of the council The trustees, who are also directors of Organisation and governance Investment policy Risk management the company for the purposes of the The MA is administered by an elected council of By the terms of the memorandum and the The council has approved a three-year forward Companies Act, submit their annual management which meets in full session three articles of association of the MA, the council has plan which identifies development targets and report and the audited financial times a year. Members of council are trustees of the power to make any investment it sees fit. income-generating activities to fund that the registered charity and directors of the The council has determined that surplus development. Progress against the objectives statements for the year ended 3 charitable company. Subcommittees and panels unrestricted funds are not sufficiently large to of the plan is monitored by council, a report March 200. of members of the council and others meet make long-term investments prudent. Surplus being presented at each of its meetings. during the year to oversee professional cash is held in interest-earning bank and building Reference and administrative information set A business plan working group has been development, ethics, publications and events. society accounts with funds of the out on page 3 form part of this report. The established to review the risks that face the Members of council are themselves members of grant-making trust being invested in charity financial statements comply with current organisation and to develop the MA’s strategic