Annual Report 2002/2003
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Annual report 2002/2003 Including Notice of the Annual General Meeting MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION ᭤ Image courtesy of the City Museum Gloucester Contents 1 Director’s Introduction 2 Legal & Administrative Details 3 Report of the Council 9 Independent Auditors’ Report 10 Statement of Financial Activities 11 Balance Sheet 12 Notes to the Financial Statements 18 Corporate Members2001-2002 19 AMA Recipients 2001-2002 20 Notice of the AGM Director’s Introduction In a profession where communication is The association is beginning to take a more everything, and interpretation and subtle and sophisticated look at its core explanation are the core of each activity, audience and tailor products and services how does the sector's professional body to their direct needs. Too often in the past communicate, interpret and explain to its the association has been seen to have the members? The association has been most direct appeal to a relatively small asking itself this question for quite some audience of directors and key decision time. In the past it would have had a simple makers. It is time this image was overthrown. answer: an article in Museums Journal, The remaining three years of the Forward an announcement at conference or a letter Plan will be dedicated to the delivery of in the post. services throughout the sector – services that will be delivered nationwide, services But these days, this simply won't suffice, that will be appropriate and necessary for and communication with the sector is members at all levels from directors to becoming an increasingly challenging area newly arrived entrants to the profession, for the association. The market research services that will be of direct help to members that was conducted in 2001 for the five- in their jobs and services that will be priced year Forward Plan showed that we were at appropriate and affordable levels. succeeding in many areas, but highlighted the need to improve our communications – A major shift is already under way, as more particularly with the large numbers of junior of the association's activities centre around members that are joining the ranks of the the issues which affect people's working profession. For them the association was lives: professional development, salaries, perceived as being too distant, inaccessible leadership and diversity in the workforce. and inessential. We have also begun to re-orientate some of our information products: Museum So, while the association has more than Practice is now more accessible, with a doubled in size in the past ten years, major on-line archive providing a huge developed integrated programmes for professional resource; the website itself policy, events, ethics and professional has been relaunched and the events and development and improved its publications professional development programmes beyond recognition, the organisation's will be further expanded over the next 12 communication skills have not evolved at months. All this has been pulled together a similar pace. with the development of an exciting new This is why communication has been an visual identity. essential theme of the past 12 months and The true measure of success of all this will continue to dominate activities in the work will be when all members, every one next few years. of you, feel that the association is working for and responding to your direct needs. Images courtesy of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery Coventry Watch Museum Natural History Museum Legal & Administrative Details Status Council 2002/03 Councillors retiring at The organisation is a charitable company October 2003: limited by guarantee, incorporated on 20 President: Jane Glaister Terence Bell November 1930 and registered as a charity Professional Vice President: Patrick Greene on 7 November 1962 Charles Saumerez Smith Veronica Hartwich Institutional Vice President: Brian Hayton Governing Document Diane Lees Joanne Howdle The company was established under a Hon Vice President: David Fleming Reg Littleboy Memorandum of Association which Most Recent Institutional Vice Caroline Lowndes established the objects and powers of the President: Nigel Holden Antony Makepeace Warne charitable company, and is governed under Hon Treasurer: Hilary McGowan Rita McLean its Articles of Association. Professional Councillors at Large: Don Price Company Number Valerie Bott Mike Pye 252131 Janet Dugdale Penny Spencer Robin McDermott Charity Number Hilary McGowan 313024 Edmund Southworth Staff Registered Office and Operational Virginia Tandy Address Regional Councillors: Marketing Officer: William Adams 24 Calvin Street East Midlands: Sarah Levitt Finance Administrator: London E1 6NW East of England: Peter Berridge Victoria Chapman London: Vicky Woollard Deputy Director: Maurice Davies Bankers North East of England: Ian Watson National Westminster North West: Steve Garland Information Officer: Katie Dawson Bloomsbury, Parr’s Branch Northern Ireland: Michael Houlihan Prof Development Administrative 126 High Holborn Scotland: Steve Callaghan Assistant: Kate Dunk London WC1V 6QB South East: Simon Townsend Deputy Editor, Museums Journal: Nottingham Building Society South West: Janet Bell Sharon Heal 112 Jermyn Street Wales: Kevin Mason London SW1Y 6LS West Midland: Robin Hill Staff Writer, Museums Journal: Yorshire: Matthew Stephens Felicity Heywood Solicitors Institutional Councillors: Head of Advertising: Stephen James Sinclair Taylor & Martin Local Authority: Charity Team at Senior Sales Executive: Cllr John Commons Maria Knight Russell-Cooke Cllr David Dickinson 8 Bedford Row Cllr Marcus Johnstone Research & Production Editor: London WC1R 4BX Cllr Susan Knowles Catrina Lucas Auditors Cllr Lexie Scott Head of Publications: Jane Morris Sayer Vincent Cllr Doreen Westmoreland Events Co-Ordinator: Chartered Accountants Cllr Ernie White Lorraine O’Leary Registered Auditors Cllr Malcolm Wood 8 Angel Gate Independent: Editor, Museum Practice: Javier Pes City Road Tony Condor Membership Administrator: London EC1V 2SJ Robert Clark Pamela Poynter Oliver Green Events Production Manager: National: Sue Robinson Jane Carmichael Gordon Rintoul Professional Development Manager: University: Nick Merriman Jane Seaman Affiliated: Mary Yule Head of Finance & Administration: Lucie Slight Marketing Assistant: Zoe Spencer Directors’ Assistant: Georgie Stagg Director: Mark Taylor Professional Development & Ethics Adviser: Ratan Vaswani Systems Manager: John Wellington Policy Officer: Helen Wilkinson Head of Marketing: Michael Wright 2 Report of the Council Images courtesy of Geevor Tin Mine Museum Harewood House Horniman Museum The council of management presents its Investment policy Financial review report and the audited financial statements Under the memorandum and articles of Remarketing and redecorating the for the year ended 31 March 2003. association, the charitable company has Clerkenwell Close property in order to the power to make any investment as the attract a party interested in taking the Legal and administrative information set out council sees fit. Investment performance is assignment of the remaining 14 year term on page 1 forms part of this report. The monitored monthly and formally reviewed at of the lease and the protracted negotiations, financial statements comply with current least once a year. during which time the rent and rates still statutory requirements, the memorandum had to be borne, meant the associated and articles of association and the Risk management costs in the year were £124,909, £94,232 Statement of Recommended Practice – In 2000 the Association commissioned an more than budgeted. The council agreed Accounting and Reporting by Charities. extensive market research exercise to determine what the members perceived as that £70,000 could be released from the Objects of the charity its strengths and weaknesses. From this Property Reserve to help meet these costs. The objects of the charitable company are research and an analysis of risks that could The assignment of the lease to Jean Muir to advance education in, and to foster and affect the charitable company, the council Ltd is now completed and there is no encourage the preservation and better drew up a five-year development plan further financial commitment for the understanding of, the material heritage of (2002-2007) focusing on identified Association unless that company should mankind and the environment for the public opportunities for the development of be wound up . That risk has been assessed benefit by the promotion and development services and income generation and is considered to be unlikely. of museums and galleries and by opportunities to fund that development. The contribution from all publications encouraging the involvement of members Progress against the objectives set out in was up slightly from the previous year. of the public in their work, and to establish, the plan is monitored by the council, a The relaunch of Museum Practice in uphold, and advance the standards of report being presented to each of its 2003/04 and the accompanying web- professional education, qualification, quarterly meetings. The plan is also based archive is expected to result in training and competence of those reviewed each year, the review additional income from that publication. employees in museums and galleries. concentrating on external and internal risks, Museums Journal met its tough advertising The review of activities below demonstrates the development of systems to mitigate target and contributed £30,000 over budget. how the Association has worked