Accounts of Village Organisations 1891
Wheatley Village accounts in 1891 sumnmarised as below. Fuller details can be seen in WVA only.
Wheatley National Schools
The Education Dept. made a grant of some £149, Bishop Moss’s charity gave £45, Curzon Charity £10, voluntary subscriptions and other provided the balance of £105. Outgoings were £220 to teachers and monitors, £18 for books, £38 for building repairs and £18 for fuel, light and cleaning.
Provident Clubs
84 members gave some £70 paid to trades people. So, a sort of food bank.
Mothers’ Meetings
£12 in and out
Choir Fund
Some £10 subs met the cost of an outing for the choir.
Offertory account
This met the needs of the sick and needy, about £10
Churchwarden’s account
About £35 met payments for the clerk, cleaning, mowing churchyard, lighting and heating in the church and other items.
Missionary Accounts
Income of some £10 met the cost of ‘Home Missions’
Town Meadow Charity
Rent from Thomas Robbins of £21 went to the ‘Poor of Wheatley’.
The Sims Charity
This gave £18 for the repair and upholding of the Church
The Old Churchyard
Donations of some £14 met the upkeep of this
Wheatley and Holton Horticultural Society
Subscriptions of some £14 (probably 100+ members) were spent on prizes
Children’s free dinners at the Merry Bells
1084 free dinners at a cost of some £7 were met from donations.
School library
70 volumes. Members pay 1d. per month
Penny Bank
Not sure of its purpose, but 85 members most with a Post Office account
Others
There were 2 or 3 others involved in relatively small sums of money.