Over the past year, with the retirement, resignations and death of a number of senior council members, the charity has had a chance to consider again what its purpose is and should be, given the continuing challenges of being a small charity in a world where the demands made of small charities which seek to support other charities is becoming ever more arduous. I very much hope that the following web pages give you fuller details of all aspects of the charity and that readers are attracted to the charity, its work, its events and most important of all, the organisations and charities that benefit from the funds raised by the charity.

The Woolnoth Society Charitable Trust has decided that in accordance with its original mandate and recognising that the traditional view of the City of London has expanded to include Canary Wharf, it needs to broaden its membership to all those connected with the financial service industry, both in the 'old' City as well as the 'new' City to the east. Therefore both in 2005 and again in 2006, the charity will conduct a number of membership drives as part of its social programme, with a view to increasing the number of corporate and sponsor members. This should also coincidentally increase the number of supporters there will be for any fund raising event.

Recognising that all the administration of the charity is voluntary, the charity must make ever greater use of the internet, to attract new members, to inform existing members of social events and to report on the success of those events. At the same time, there is a greater and greater use of the internet by those charities and organisations seeking funds and therefore our web site needs to be as up to date as possible such that we receive requests from charities for which we are probably an ideal donor. To this end, the charity is likely to have to use external resources efficiently to create and keep up to date this web site.