Key Achievements April 2003-04

1. Business Plan completed
2. National Heritage Register started with most St. Helena Books and Prints, and some antiques
3. Sale of donated Calendars and postcards, and donations from Q5 souvenirs have amounted to a good sum.
4. SHNT Publications are starting, adding to available research.
5. Membership drive instigated
6. Promotion includes
• Media – weekly radio programmes, monthly SHH articles, Quarterly Newsletters
• Website
• Monthly talks
• The site of Broadway House
• Links to other publications and organisations
7. Alerting SHG to our concern for historic buildings, and instigating discussion.
8. Ongoing Input to Tree Preservation Orders, LPDCA, Wrecks Legislation
9. PROJECTS

• Flax Mill – SHG has agreed we share the Pipe Building with the Police prison department, and they have the means to do up the building, so this benefits all. We need to fund display boards
• School Resource Packs – 5 packs completed so far and presented to each Middle School.
• Millennium Forest – new Committee, still with much needed help from SHG, but now SHNT Administrative Assistant performs secretarial and treasurer duties. Website updated and Newsletter sent out.
• Museum – needs sustainable funding of around £22,000p.a. A request has been made to SHG. This is a much appreciated public facility.

Goals for 2004/5

• Flax Mill Museum opened in Pipe Building
• Schools Resource Pack Project completed
• Protect, consolidate and expand Gumwoods planted at the Millennium Forest
• Funding secured post FCO Start Up Grant for SHNT recurrent expenses.
• Security of funding for Museum, an essential asset to the island
• National Heritage Register completed
• We have been successful in our Bid for funding from OTEP for a Protected Area Plan for the Central Peaks, and this will begin this year
• We hope to acquire Broadway House and Bertrand’s Cottage from SHG to help us set an example in restoration, and raise some funds to help ourselves
• We hope to be able to receive Gift Aid donations in UK soon if the Friends of St. Helena, as a UK Registered Charity, agree to take this on.
• Updated and improved website
• Amendments to Ordinance and Regulations secured

The new Trust Council is as follows:-

Dr. Rebecca Cairns-Wicks  President (SNCG rep; MF and OTEP Project Coordinator)
Mr. Terry Richards              Vice-President and Fishermen’s Assoc. rep.
Mrs. Olive Williams             Treasurer
Mrs. Emma Bennett           Secretary and Dive Club rep.
Miss Isabel Peters                “At Large” Member
Mrs. Serena Thorpe             “At Large” Member and Art and Crafts Assoc rep.
Mr. Tony Leo                       Farmer’s Association rep.
Mr. John Newman               Heritage Society rep.
Mr. Steve Biggs                   Tourism Association rep.
M. Michel Martineau          French Properties
Mrs. Pamela Young            SHG rep.
Mr. Alan Nicholls SHG rep.
Co-opted:- Mrs. Barbara B. George Director                 
Mrs. Edith Timm                            Acting Museum Curator during Lucy's absence
We have an exciting and busy year ahead of us with the challenge of securing funding to continue after October 2005.

Related Information

Council Meeting October 2003