REPORTOF THE TRUSTEES 2021 AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A

CONTENTS

4 Executive Summary

6 Trustee’s Report

8 Governance & Funding

10 Our Collections

12 The Museum

14 Registrar Services

2 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 16 Education & Learning 3

18 Our Partners - AMOC & AML

ASTONMARTINHERITAGETRUST Our Future - why we need to move Drayton St Leonard 20 Wallingford Oxfordshire 22 Planning a New Home OX10 7BG Charity no 1182793 24 Future Fundraising

MAY 2021 26 Aston Martin Heritage Festival

30 Chairman’s Message

All photographs (c) John Warden Photography https://www.johnwardenphotography.com except where indicated The Rapide concept outside the Barn REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A Executive Summary THE AMHT TODAY The Charitable Objective of the Aston Martin Heritage Trust is just as valid today as it was when theAMHT was first formed in 1998. In fact, it remained completely unchanged when the AMHT became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2019. As a ROB SMITH team of Trustees, Staff & Volunteers we strive to record the history and heritage of Aston Martin and to share it at every opportunity.

Our Charitable The collection continues to grow with donations large and small and includes historically significant items Objective such as the Robin Hamilton archive. The Museum, our lectures and our social media posts are enthusiastically "the advancement of education received by those interested in Aston Martin worldwide and our Registrar Services and research available for study and research facilities have never been so busy. The AMHT is in a great position to keep moving forward. of material of all types relating to

AMHT’s AM6 Vantage cutaway is on loan to the MIRA Technology Institute, Nuneaton, from April to September 2021. See p16. (Photo:MTI) the automotive engineering and automotive designs of Aston 4 5 Martin, Lagonda and Aston Martin Lagonda motor cars ('the THE FUTURE OF THE AMHT Marque') for the benefit of the public …” However, there are several challenges facing the AMHT.

Firstly, we have outgrown the Barn in Drayton St Leonard and we must relocate to a new Heritage Centre where we can store the priceless collection in a larger, better climate-controlled environment and to A3’s engine plate numbered ‘1918’ display it to an eager audience in a bigger public museum.

Secondly, we need to engage with more Aston Martin enthusiasts worldwide through a new Friends programme and enthuse them about the stories which make up Aston Martin’s chequered history. This is also important for us to raise the funds to continue caring for and displaying the growing collection.

In addition, we need to be more serious about our role as an educational charity and we have great plans in the formal education and apprentice space. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A TRUSTEES OF THE AMHT Trustee’s Report 2021 Mike Abbott Marek Reichman Tim Cottingham Rob Smith A YEAR OF CHALLENGE Mark Donoghue Garry Taylor The AMHT finished 2019 in a very buoyant mood. Much work was started in the autumn of 2019 on our plans for a new Aston Martin Heritage Centre with several locations under review and an exciting Mark Gauntlett John Warden building layout drawn up by architects ZMMA containing the archive, museum galleries, lecture theatre & classroom, café and public spaces. 2020 started with a very well received Walter Hayes Memorial Nick Hewitt Tom Westley Lecture held at the RAC Club in London where Red Bull F1’s Christian Horner entertained the sell-out August von Joest audience with candid tales from the world of F1.

In March the Covid-19 Pandemic struck and the situation changed dramatically. The Museum was shut to visitors depriving us of much needed income and the staff moved to working from home. However, that meant a change of focus and not a shortage of work and so it was decided early on not to furlough the team. This has enabled us to concentrate on cataloguing the collection and a huge number of images have been scanned, captioned and added to the catalogue. Our social media activities have increased, for which there was a huge demand, and we have posted many historic photographs and created several videos of cars in the collection which were well received. As a board of trustees, we have concentrated on defining our ongoing strategy and adopted video conferencing for trustee meetings with great success.

The collection continued to grow and several new vehicles joined on permanent loan from AML including a DB9 prototype, Lagonda Taraf and Rapide E Cutaway. Important donations have included the Robin Hamilton collection of paperwork and artefacts relating to his racing exploits with “The Muncher” 6 and Nimrod at Le Mans and further afield. We are honoured to be entrusted with such important and 7 personal archives.

The Museum reopened for August and September using an online ticket booking system with timed visiting slots that allowed us to manage the number of people in the museum at any one time and we stuck carefully within the legal limitations of social distancing. This was such a success that we will continue with the online booking system going forward. However, by October the Museum was closed again and, at the time of writing, we are planning for reopening in mid-May when the next level of Covid restrictions are lifted.

ROB SMITH REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 Image: AMHT’s 1934 Ulster REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 Governance & T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A Finance

GARRYTAYLOR,TREASURER

GOVERNANCE The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards. Such reports and statements are subject to an annual Independent Examination by James Cowper Kreston, Chartered Accountants, based in Newbury.

The law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for that year. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

ï select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently. ï observe the methods and principles of the Charities SORP (FRS 102). ï make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent. ï state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards (FRS 102) have been followed, subject to any 8 material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements. 9 ï prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the CIO will continue in business.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the CIO’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the CIO and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the Trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the CIO and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

FINANCE The Trust receives its principal funding from subscriptions and donations. The year ended accounts to 30 September 2020 are currently being reviewed by the Independent Examiners. Subject to any adjustments, the results are: 30September2020 30September2019 Totalincomingresources £221,515 £284,303 Totalresourcesexpended £252,912 £261,222 Surplus(deficit) £(31,397) £23,081 Totalfundsbalance £848,176 £879,573

The impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic from late March 2020 has had a negative impact on events income, museum admissions and shop sales etc., but main funding from subscriptions and donations have remained stable. During the year ending 30 September 2020 the contribution from AMOC subscriptions was £139,750.

The Trustees have considered on the ability of the CIO to continue trading and have a reasonable expect- ation that it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 THEARTEFACTCOLLECTION THE CAR COLLECTION T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A

When the AMOC transferred the ownership of Our Artefact Collection is as diverse as it is extensive. their archive to the AMHT they provided the We are very proud of our continuously growing scale nucleus of a collection that has grown exponen- model collection, as Aston Martin continues to produce tially over the past 23 years and continues to cars. We believe it is one of the largest single marque grow today. The 1934 Aston Martin Ulster (see collections on public display. image p7) has been joined by 30 cars spanning We also have an impressive selection of engineering the whole life of Aston Martin. Cars in the drawings dating from the earliest Bamford & Martin to

A UNIQUE RESOURCE collection include those on loan from private the AMR1 race cars. A group of dedicated volunteers owners and those on permanent loan from Aston was busy organising and conducting a preliminary Martin Lagonda as well as those owned directly inventory prior to the 2020 Lockdown. We hope we by the AMHT. Wherever possible we keep cars can pick up again once the museum reopens in May that can legally driven on the public highway in 2021. road going condition and enjoy exercising them The large trophy case in the museum displays trophies at every opportunity in line with our remit and donated by Lady Paula Brown and cover the heyday of policies. This collection has grown further in Aston Martin Racing culminating in the 1959 World the past 12 months with the addition of a Championship and Le Mans 24hours win. Lagonda Taraf, Vanquish Shooting Brake, DB9 Items not on display, but equally as important are the Prototype and Rapide E Cutaway (image p20). The first DB9 prototype Master Craftsman Phil Davey’s tool chest from Newport Pagnell selection of books, point of sale material, workshop manuals and magazines. We regularly receive donations of publications (books & magazines) and are THEPHOTOGRAPHCOLLECTION grateful that individuals see the AMHT as the perfect Our photo collections centre around 3 prominent photographers. AML Historian Roger Stowers caretaker of all things Aston Martin. (1970s-1990s) (see image p 14), legendary motoring photographer Louis Klemantaski (1940s – Important additions in the past year are the Robin 1950s) (see image below) and Neill Bruce, professional automotive photographer. In addition to Hamilton Archive relating to his exploits at Le Mans professional photographers, we encourage owners to share their photographs with us. BYROBSMITHAND with the Muncher and Nimrod programmes. Also 10 We did not let the pandemic slow us down. We continued to scan and catalogue the backlog of DONNA THOMPSON providing a unique insight into the skills of a master 11 images making them available for publications and research. panel beater is the tool chest and tools of master craftsman Phil Davey (see image on this page) complete with photos of them at use in the Newport

‘DB2 at a USA Dealership’ - Pagnell factory. Both of these collections are donations An image from the Klemantaski and very much appreciated. We also occasionally buy Collection items for the collection and have recently purchased a (Photo: AMHT) small collection of Feltham drawings showing engine cross sections and general arrangements.

One of our display cases with memorabilia including racing helmets from Sir Stirling Moss and Roy Salvadori (Photo:AMHT) Our Collections REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 ARCHIVESERVICESBYAMHT AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A

Heritage Certificates – A Heritage Certificate The Museum is a DVLA approved document that is often used as dating evidence. BYDONNATHOMPSON,GENERALMANAGER Build Sheets / Service Records – are internal documents used by the factory giving details of HOW IT STARTED how a car was when it left the factory. Designs and formats will vary by model. Copies of The Aston Martin Heritage Trust was formed in 1998 when the Aston Martin Owners Club had the foresight to original build sheets are available from the set up an independent trust to preserve artefacts collected by Dr Cecil Gibson and Alan Archer, to name but a Bertelli era models through to the current AML few, and continue to record the history of Aston Martin Lagonda. Many of those original artefacts are on model range. display in the museum: Sir Stirling Moss and Roy Salvadori’s racing helmets (see image p11), the chequered flag from the 1959 Le Mans win, and several steering wheels were all part of the original gift from the AMOC. Research Reports – Research conducted by the AMHT staff of the records held within the A museum is “a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the AMHT’s collection. The research process public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage includes searching through back copies of of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment”. The AMHT embodies AMOC Registers, Members Lists and these beliefs of collecting, preserving and most importantly sharing. Every visitor through our doors leaves publications. with the feeling that they learned something new. Photograph requests – Images are supplied for both commercial and private use.

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Image: Some of AMHT’s cars in local storage. From the back: NPX prototype, AM6 Vantage cutaway, DB11 prototype. These are all important vehicles but we have no room to display them. THE MUSEUM TODAY

Originally open to the public on a Wednesday afternoon, maximum visitor numbers were less than 300 per year. Pre-Covid, we were open 5 days per week plus every other Saturday. We welcomed over 3000 visitors in 2019, our best year to date. Currently closed, the Museum looks forward to reopening again in May with a reduced schedule but back to the full 5-6 days per week by July 2021 (after the Aston Martin Heritage Festival!) (see p26).

The Museum has changed quite a bit over the years. It started with just 3 cars (Ulster, AMR1 and a Lagonda) to the current display of 7 cars that includes pre-war, Feltham, Bloxham & Gaydon. In 2012, prior to AML’s Centenary, 5 bespoke museum cases were installed, each sponsored by an individual or group. These cases have enabled us to tell the story of Aston Martin through Lionel Martin’s personal photos and tea set, Mort Morris-Goodall and Jock Horsfall memorabilia to modern trim pieces used by AML today. Each and every object has a story to tell. The Aston Martin Museum in the Barn

at Drayton St Leonard, showing some 2021 will be the first time that we put on a temporary display. ‘The Long and of the vehicles on display. Short of It’ will tell the story of the VH Platform and how it enabled Aston Left to right: Martin to develop their “most important car range in AM history”; the DB9, 2018 Vanquish Carbon Fibre cutaway; V8/V12 Vantages to the DBS and One-77. Preliminary planning has already 2003 DB7 Zagato; Nimrod; Rapide started with the exhibition expected to run from October to January 2022.

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Registrar Services ‘ONEOF…..’CERTIFICATIONSERVICE ASTON MARTIN HERITAGE TRUST Sometimes the best ideas come about by chance. A club member in British Columbia was applying to get ASTON MARTIN HERITAGE TRUST BYTIMCOTTINGHAM,AMHTREGISTRAROFCARS,AND the desirable ‘Collector Plates’ for his Aston Martin ONE OF... CERTIFICATION SCHEME CHRISBOLTON,DEPUTYREGISTRAR and needed evidence as to the rarity of his particular model. After a few nights sleeping on it, the ‘One DIGITISINGTHEREGISTERANDREGISTRARASSETS of…………’ Certificate was born. It’s a sort of bespoke heritage certificate specifically aimed at The Covid lockdowns have galvanized the needs of the registrars to have access to our own shared digital archive. owners of the more recent Aston Martin cars from We are now more than halfway through digitising the paper records of the Master Register although many months DB7 onwards. Each owner gets a PDF information of scanning is still ahead. We now have a growing shared digital archive of build sheets and have a comprehensive sheet about their car and build specification together archive of photographs of chassis identification marks. Once events begin again later this year, we will both be with a detailed breakdown of the numbers of cars This Ceriticate certifies that: Chassis No. SCFAC133X4B501383 collecting more photographs to assist with future services for the DVLA and overseas vehicle registration built with similar cosmetic and mechanical Model: V12 Vanquish was built to a specification that agencies. specification. What most owner want is to know that makes it absolutely unique. This car is One of One. their car is unique and how we know this is true. See overleaf for the detailed research. Issued to: Richard Gibbon th Feedback has been phenomenal but, like the cars, the THE 100,000 ASTON MARTIN - ‘PROJECT 100k’ Date: 16 November 2020 number that we can produce is limited due to the At some time during 2021, Aston Martin will produce its 100,000th car. To some, that might sound like a bespoke nature of the product. John Wood, Collections Manager Tim Cottingham, AMHT Registrar lot of cars from a boutique manufacturer. But of course, it represents less than 1000 cars a year for every year of the marque’s existence. Ferrari have made more than double this and Porsche make more than Information given here is provided by the AMHT Archive & Registrar and is deemed to be correct to best of knowledge on the date the Record was produced. double every year. www.amht.org.uk Charity No. 1182793

How do we know this for sure that there have been 100,000 cars? Because the Aston Martin Register exists 14 and has done since 1947. It of course includes data of the legacy cars but also those cars that are brand new 15 to the market, right up to the V12 Speedster and Valkyrie. Registrars have always had a list of the totals of V765 AND OTHER DVLA SERVICES each model. Yet we started again from first principles to produce an accurate count of all the cars built, diligently checking for every anomaly and omission both with our own files and those supplied by Aston The AMHT has been, since its inception, the DVLA’s Martin Lagonda. Now that this has been done, the next task is to split this down into hand of drive, prescribed organisation to provide evidence and advice on transmission and accurate numbers of each special edition, each model year and so on. Each iteration of the registration of historic Aston Martins. This mostly this developing document is shared with the company so both AMHT and AML give the same answer to involves the provision of providing dating evidence and to the same question. It might never be absolutely complete as sadly some data has been lost over time or is support cars through the V765 scheme. Dating evidence or inaccessible to us at present. But the registrars continue to work to fill every gap that we can. We still ‘dating letters’ are provided for individual cars so that the delight at the most obscure questions and make every effort to come up with the correct answer. DVLA has an accurate information of the age of a vehicle so that the correct Vehicle Excise Duty is charged. The V765 Keep counting, Tim, only 90,000 to go….one of AMHT’s photographs from the Stowers Collection. (Photo: AMHT) scheme is an extension of this whereby we provide evidence and support the application by an owner to have the original UK registration number reassigned to a car that may have lost it over time. 2020 was a challenging year mostly because we were not able to inspect many cars in person which is a requirement of the V765 scheme. Fortunately, we experimented with remote video inspections for cars that are already well known, and this has so far proved a success. Although our first preference is for a proper in person physical inspection, it is fortunate that we have a fall back if necessary. Even with the lockdowns, we have been successful in reuniting Tim checking over a DB6 Mk2 saloon for the V765 service. several cars from pre-war to AMV8 with their original Within a few weeks, the DVLA consented for it to regain the numbers. Many more cars are expected to require the V765 original registration number it had lost when it had been service over the forthcoming year either due to importation exported a few years previously. (Photograph used with kind

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DEVELOPING THE FUTURE

JOHN WARDEN

Since its formation, AMHT has always design, so we are offering temporary loans to provided education in all things Aston, through educational establishments. For the first of the museum, archive services, publishing and these, during 2021 we have loaned our AM6 public lectures. However the Trustees for some Vantage cutaway to the MIRA Technology time have wished to do more in the education Institute at Nuneaton, where the students can field and utilise the wonderful assets the Trust study it every day in the foyer (photo p4). holds. Hence during 2020 AMHT began to expand its education remit to provide more A continuing concern of the Trustees is the active engagement with the public, schools and skills shortage in engineering and employers in the Aston Martin community. manufacturing, which impacts the ability to maintain and restore our cars. Hence AMHT is “The advancement of education of available for study We will continue to provide educational working with other partners which support and research of material of all types relating to the material at the Museum, and at events such as apprentices and skills development such as: the 16 the Festival where we will offer a range of Heritage Skills Academy, which trains automotive engineering and automotive designs of Aston 17 information and activities. apprentices in heritage skills; the Federations Skills Trust, which provides grants to support Martin, Lagonda and Aston Martin Lagonda motor cars As part of our wider remit, we are developing a automotive apprenticeships; and StarterMotor, (“the Marque”) for the benefit of the public…” schools outreach programme, working with a charity which encourages young people to Stowe School, Silverstone UTC, the Heritage engage with heritage motoring. Working with Skills Academy, Ecurie Bertelli and Aston these partners, AMHT aims to encourage, Martin Lagonda plc to provide a series of support and signpost employers and apprentices presentations, teacher-led activities and visits in the AML community to maintain the skills targeted at secondary school children.; these needed in our heritage sector. will all be based on assets and information held by the Trust and its partners. The programme primarily links to core GCSE subjects and aims to inform subject choices and future career goals; the pandemic has delayed work on this project but we intend to begin later in 2021.

In conjunction with the outreach project, we are GCSE ENGLISH developing a number of subject-based GCSE TEACHING RESOURCE Teaching Packs which use teaching material GCSETEACHINGUSING ASTONMARTINHERITAGE and concepts based on AMHT’s assets and MATERIAL

KEY STAGE 4 archive. The first of these, for teacher-led FIRST EDITION 2021 GCSE English, is in the process of being developed and in due course will be available BY HEATHER EISENHUT on the TES Resources website.

GCSE English Teaching Pack We want to use our wonderful cutaways to REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 show Aston Martin’s innovative engineering AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A Our Partners WORKINGTOGETHERTOSUPPORTOURHERITAGE

ROB SMITH

The AMHT enjoys good relations with our two major partners – Aston Martin Lagonda and the Aston Martin Owners Club - An AMOC member’s lovely DB7 Vantage at AMOC’s 2019 and we thank them for their continued strong support. Each organisation nominates two of our Trustees. DB7 25 th Anniversary event at Wormsley Estate, where the AMHT provided a special display of unique DB7 types

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2020 began with a proposal from some AMOC members that Our relationship with AML has continued to grow with many new supporting the AMHT became optional. However, this was cars on loan from AML and both sales & marketing and technical thrown out by votes cast in their March AGM. items donated to the AMHT’s collection. The AMHT also supports AML’s sales & marketing activities with images and information We therefore continue to enjoy a good relationship with the from the collection. AMOC, providing content for both AM News and AMQ publications and putting on special displays at their In 2020 there was a great demand from AML for F1 pictures of the concours events. DBR4 and DBR5 single seaters to support the exciting news that Aston Martin are once more a F1 team. We are working together to provide member access to the online Register but GDPR and data format issues have made AML also kindly supports some AMHT activities such as the this a difficult process to date. Aston Martin Heritage Festival (p 26) where they are bringing their F1 Safety Car and DBX Medical Car, as well as a display of AMOC members enjoy special privileges with the AMHT current sports cars and DBX. such as free entry to the Museum. AML and AMHT are working together on educational projects REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 such as STEM outreach (p16). Some of AMHT’s cars in local storage. From the back: NPX

prototype, AM6 Vantage cutaway, DB11 prototype. These are all T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A important vehicles but we have no room to display them. AMHT’s Future Why we need to move

ROB SMITH

The Barn at Drayton St Leonard has been the AMHT’s home from our inception and the fabulous thir- teenth century barn has been a fascinating site – but now it is too much of a challenge and is a serious restriction to us growing and full achieving our charitable goals.

The biggest challenge is that of space. Both the Museum and Archive areas are completely full and busting at the seams. This means that we cannot display all of the cars and ephemera we have in the collection. We have to pay for storage elsewhere which is an expensive overhead. The lack of space makes it difficult to curate a meaningful Aston Martin story on the museum floor and display cabinets. We want to be able to display the majority of our collection, and in such a way that the visitor makes the most of the experience, coming away feeling they have learned and experienced something special. The new Heritage Centre will be able to tell the Aston Martin story in a much more coherent manner and allow us to tell the stories of many of our items.

The second biggest challenge is that of the environment. We have priceless artefacts in the collection 20 which need special care to preserve them for the future. We are unable to regulate temperature and 21 humidity in an ancient barn, it is not well sealed against dust and we have to take special precautions against both insects and rodents. The new Heritage Centre will be fully climate controlled, with offices separate from the archive space and special areas for quarantining and cleaning incoming items.

Our Educational facilities form an important part of our new Heritage Centre plans with both a lecture theatre and classroom included to enable us to host events and lectures in-house. These facilities will also be available to rent by the local community and other organisations, bringing in valuable income too.

Finally, but by no means least is the provision of facilities which our visitors expect of a public museum including a coffee shop, adequate toilets and of course, a proper museum shop!

Rapide E cutaway showing battery storage, control systems and Some of our archives REPORT OF TH TRUSTEES 2021 REPORT OF TH TRUSTEES 2021 electric motors, currently stored off-site REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A Plans for our new home

The AMHT team for realisation of the project negotiating for adjacent land to provide for a new Aston Martin Heritage Centre is sufficient parking spaces for cars and coaches. running several tasks concurrently. Negotiations should be completed around Summer 2021, to provide an ideal site at Firstly, to identify the ideal location for the virtually no cost to the Trust. new Heritage Centre. Selection of the best site involves many factors, including proximity to Meanwhile, the project team has worked with both public transport and major transport links; specialist architects to determine the space sufficient size for the building and visitor requirements and a design concept. Initial parking; while also being affordable for the concepts proved rather expensive, so now, Trust. mindful of the need to raise all funds for the project from generous and enthusiastic Secondly, to design the building and landscaped supporters, the team is looking very closely at site, to accommodate current and future options to provide a facility which fulfils the exhibits, and the Trust’s extensive archives, Trust’s objectives, while achieving this in the which must be stored in a protective envir- most cost-effective way. This work will be 22 onment to provide long-term stability. ongoing during 2021. 23

And thirdly, to ensure that the Trust’s The project team will ensure always that the educational objectives are promoted and AMHT’s core values: education; and highlighted by the new facility. To achieve this, preservation of our irreplaceable exhibits and we are planning to include a lecture theatre and archives, are fully incorporated. The result will classroom in the plans, as well as support for be a unique and world-class museum and educational programmes and outreach. heritage centre, of which all contributors, supporters and visitors can be justly proud. The Town Council for Newport Pagnell, the home of Aston Martin Lagonda for 50 years, have offered an attractive site, and Trustees are MIKE ABBOTT REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 Images showing initial design concepts for the new Heritage Centre (Images: AMHT) VANTAGE ROADSTER A3 EDITION T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A

A very exciting project for 2021 is the Vantage Roadster A3 Edition, created by Q by Aston Martin and taking its design cues from A3.

Arun of three cars is planned and the first will be unveiled at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival. This project is only possible with the support of our friends as HWM (Aston Martin Walton-on-Thames) who are underwriting the purchase costs of the cars and sharing A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE the resale profits.

Images of the car are currently under embargo but we believe there will be strong demand for this very limited edition which features some brilliant styling details.

FUNDINGOURNEWPREMISES

The fund raising activities described on these pages cover our general running costs including staff Our 2018 Walter Hayes Memorial Lecture & Dinner salaries. The new premises programme will be at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London. financed separately with a major fund-raising This event is the centrepiece of our events calendar campaign specifically to enable us to build a world and raises funds through ticket sales and donations. class Aston Martin Heritage Centre. We are engaging a Photo: AMHT firm of fund-raising consultants to ensure that we 24 tackle this activity in the most effective and profitable 25 way.

BY ROB SMITH

As a charity we increasingly rely on fundraising to support our work and we raise money from a variety of sources. BECOME A FRIEND

The majority of our income comes from our friends programmes. Every AMOC member is also a friend of the DONATIONS AMHT and a portion of their AMOC subscription is passed to the AMHT. We are very grateful for the AMOC’s Monetary donations are always very gratefully accepted, especially with UK Gift Aid continued support and enjoy working closely with AMOC. where appropriate, and we are usually happy to allocate those funds to a specific project

if the donor has a particular area of interest. However, there are many more Aston Martin owners and enthusiasts than members of the AMOC and we are planning an much bigger friends programme to attract those individuals to support the AMHT. A two tier programme Links to making a donation can be found on our website, and our CRM system makes is envisaged with an on-line only version and a premium version with physical deliverables. A huge amount of making donations very easy. information from our archives will be made available on our website that can only be accessed by our Friends.

During 2020 we began to roll out a Corporate Friends programme where marque specialists can support the AMHT SHOP and offset their annual fee against Registrar Services. Our shop sales were low in 2020 with no museum visitors or events where our

merchandise could be seen before purchase. However, online sales remained buoyant and Details of how to join these Friends programmes will be available on our website shortly. we have a good range of items available on the website shop. During 2021 we plan a major review of what the AMHT sells in our shop. Fundraising REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 AGETRUST S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A A3’s 100th Birthday

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Aston Martin chassis number 3, known as A3, is the jewel in the AMHT’s collection and is the oldest surviving Aston Martin. It was built in 1921 and so marks its 100th Birthday in 2021. To celebrate this momentous occasion the AMHT has planned an Aston Martin Heritage Festival to be held at the Dallas Burston Polo Club in Warwickshire on 26th June 2021.

The event has three main aims:

To celebrate A3’s 100th birthday and unveil the AMHT’s own Q by Aston Martin Vantage Roadster with many unique features and design cues taken from A3.

As a fund-raising activity for the AMHT. A3 alone has needed back axle, gearbox and engine rebuilds over the last two years which have depleted our bank reserves.

To meet our educational charity goals by leading the visitor through Aston Martin’s history via displays and guided walks through the era themed carparks.

With strong ticket sales and a great take up from a wide variety of Aston Martin related trade stands it is proving to be a popular event. A number of rare Aston Martins are confirmed to be on show and Aston Martin Lagonda themselves are putting on a major display of their current range 26 and exciting projects. 27

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AMHT’s 2003 DB7 Zagato, a pre-production car originally retained by AML, and featured in Top Gear and Evo magazine. This car was loaned to AMHT by AML in 2019. It is in full working order and is registered for road use.

28 29 REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 REPORTOFTHETRUSTEES2021 Thank you T S U R T E G TA I R E H N I T R A M N O T S A for your support

CHAIRMAN”S MESSAGE 30 31 The last 12 months or so have proved challenging for the AMHT with the Covid-19 Pandemic closing the Museum, the team working from home and the lack of face-to-face meetings. However, trustees, staff and volunteers have stayed positive and refocussed to minimise the impact of the pandemic and to keep the work of AMHT going whilst pushing forward with our plans for the future.

The enthusiasm to meet the AMHT’s charitable objectives has not been dimmed and we look forward to pressing on with the new Heritage Centre projects whist continuing to grow the collec- tion and sharing it with enthusiasts the world over.

We are always looking for volunteers to help with the work of the AMHT – cataloguing, helping at events, museum guides, etc. If you would like to join our enthusiastic team and indulge in the fascinating history and heritage of Aston Martin please do not hesitate to get in touch.

ROB SMITH REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES 2021 PRESERVINGASTONMARTIN’SHERITAGE

ADDRESS

The Aston Martin Heritage Trust Drayton St Leonard Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 7BG

TELEPHONE

+ 44 (0) 1865 400414

ONLINE

https://amht.org.uk https://amht.org.uk/support-the-amht-become-a-friend https://astonmartinheritagefestival.co.uk [email protected]

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