## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **Day 01 April 2021 Day31 March 2022** **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details ## **Charity name[ST.GREGORIOS INDIAN (MALANKARA) ORTHODOX ] CHURCH. LONDON** **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1000423 **Charity's principal address** St. Gregorios Church, Cranfield Road London **Postcode SE4 1UF** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Fr. Nithin Prasad Koshy|Chair||Diocesan Bishop| ||Mr.Jacob Parakkala
Mathew|Trustee
(Secretary)||General body| ||Mr.Roys philip|Trustee
(treasurer)||General body| ||Mr.Praveen Mathew|Trustee||General body| ||Mr George Babykutty|Exofficio||General body| ||Mr Sisan Chacko|Trustee||General body| ||Mr.Varghese Joseph|Trustee||General body| ||Mr.Shiju Rajan|Trustee||General body| ||Mr Binu Ninan Chandy|Trustee||General body| ||Mr Santhosh K Abraham|Trustee||General body| ||Mr Joseph K Mathew|Exofficio||General body| ||Mr Sabu koshy|Exofficio||General Body| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** **March 22** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Governing documents as Constitution passed by the church 2[nd] July 1989 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Society How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected managing committee members are the trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. Trustees are elected from the eligible members at the Annual General Body meeting in March each year, which is followed by a joint meeting between the outgoing trustees and the incoming trustees. The formal handover of the reports and accounts takes place in this joint meeting as well as a briefing is given to new trustees emphasising their duties and responsibilities. The Indian Orthodox Church, also known as the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an Autocephalous Orthodox Church with its central office in the Indian state of Kerala. The IOC is autonomous church and headed by the Catholicose. Its present primate is Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II, Catholicose of the East. The structure of St. Gregorios Church, London is also episcopal polity. Churches in UK, Europe and African Diocese is currently under pastoral care of diocesan bishop His Grace Abraham Mar Staphanos The chairperson of the charity is the Vicar, who is normally appointed by the Diocesan Bishop for a period of three years. Trustees are the managing committee members. Their term of office is one year. The managing committee is responsible for maintenance of the church and day to day administration. The trustees meet at least once a month. Risks are mitigated by a careful evaluation and budgeting of the income and expenditure at the start of the financial year. Misuse of funds and church property are safeguarded by strict adherence to the rules and regulations by all the trustees and church members. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **TAR** **March 22** 2 The principal object of the charity is advancement of Christian religion and particularly Orthodox faith, enabling as many people as possible to worship in our church and become part of our parish community. The primary objective of the St. Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church is the **Summary of the objects of the** manifestation of faith in the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) in **charity set out in its** accordance with the Apostolic and ancient traditions of the Malankara Orthodox **governing document** Church. Our services and worship put faith in to practice through prayer and scripture and sacraments. The church shall enter into any activity to provide for the religious, educational and cultural needs as proper to the life of a Parish Church with the approval of the appropriate authorities and also benefiting the wider community. When planning our activities for the year, the trustees have considered the commission’s guidance on public benefit and in particular the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our parish, through the Holy Eucharist, learning about the Gospel and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus Christ. The church as followers of Christ, tries to carry out the mission given to us by caring for the marginalised, less fortunate in the society. The disabled, diseased deprived people are supported with humble efforts. Holy Eucharist is celebrated all Sundays and on every main Christian festival **Summary of the main** such as Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and **activities undertaken for the** Christmas, enabling people from all communities join these services. For the **public benefit in relation to** convenience of the worshipers, simultaneous services are held at St. Andrew – **these objects (include within** By-The –Wardrobe Church, London EC4 and St. Gregorios Church, London **this section the statutory** SE4. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** Pastoral care is an integral part of the whole ministry of the Church. Having a **issued by the Charity** great variety of expressions, it focuses appropriately on the needs of individuals **Commission on public** and social groups within the Church and wider community, irrespective of **benefit)** religious and cultural barriers. The church is keen to offer a range of services during the week and over the course of the year that our community find both beneficial and spiritually uplifting. The Feast of our Patron was held from Sunday 31[st] October to Sunday 7[th] November at Brockley Church, comprising of devotional addresses and Holy Eucharist rejuvenate the Christian fellowship and oneness in Christ. **TAR** **March 22** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Ecumenical Relationships. The church is a member of the Churches together in Britain and Ireland and Oriental Orthodox Churches and Brockley local churches. The Church encourages all members to take part in the church activities in some form or the other. The large gathering of the faithful in these events imparts positive network of family and friends within a spiritual atmosphere enhances personal, socio-cultural and spiritual development. Charitable activities. In addition to advancing Christian religious faith, the church supports variety of charity work. In the reporting year , the church was not celebrated the Parish Day due to COVID-19 Pandemic. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Food bank for local community needs were undertaken with the generous contribution of the members.. In addition to advancing Christian religious faith, the church supports variety of charity work. In the reporting year a total of nearly twelve Thousand pounds were dispersed to various charitable activities in India and U.K. Monetary grants to individuals in India with poor economic background to support their medical treatment and relief of sufferings. Food bank for local community needs were undertaken with the generous contribution of the members.. The policy on grants is very transparent. The application for grants are thoroughly vetted by the trustees and vicar and an appropriate amount is allocated based on the circumstances without any involvement of a third party agency and thus avoiding any overhead expenses. ## Section D Achievements and performance ## SENIOR CITIZENS FORUM Two virtual meetings of senior members and young adults were held on 3rd November 2021 held under the leadership of our vicar Fr. Aby Philip Varghese and on 5th march 2022 , held under the leadership of our vicar Fr. Nithin prasad Koshy . ## CHRISTMAS event Our Parish Christmas service “Nuhro - 2022” was conducted on 18[th] December 2021, Saturday followed by the evening prayer. ## SPORTS ACTIVITIES No sports activities were conducted this year due to COVID-19 Pandemic. ## YOUTH EVENT The annual Harvest Festival took place on 31 October 2021. The Youth were involved with organizing various games sessions and fundraising activities in order to raise money for the church. The Youth also continued to host and participate in virtual events during this time. ## FOOD BANK As a service to our local community, instead of donating canned and non-perishable food donated by parish members, this year the Church has donated £1000 for the Lewisham council food bank as local charity. **TAR** **March 22** 4 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** The church has membership of nearly 345 families, many of whom are residents in other part of U.K but our services are open to all, We enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. There were 2 baptisms, and through baptism we thank God for the gift of life. The Church realizes that the children are the foundations of the future society and hence great emphasis is given to provide for the development of their character enabling them to achieve and contribute to the society. Regular Sunday school classes were conducted virtually over zoom every Sunday for the children. The school follows the curriculum of the Orthodox Sunday school Association of the East. The curriculum focuses on lessons and thoughts from the Bible, history and traditions of the Church, prayers and offices of liturgy as well as activities including singing and drama, to promote selfdevelopment and social interaction. Through this, the Sunday School aims to provide a proper understanding of human values and how the Christian way of life can provide a caring and compassionate outlook to the society. The church lays strong emphasis in the organizing of the Orthodox Vacation Bible School. This is an intensive programme aimed towards the children. Church members volunteer to organize the various activities as a part of the programme. OVBS was Two day online event this time with 4 sessions of classroom learning and multiple music sessions. Our children enjoyed the delightful songs, some intense learning sessions. In addition, personality development sessions were held for the benefit of the young children. We have developed our Safeguarding Policy a mandatory requirement and the volunteers who deal with children are all vetted by CRB checks. **TAR** **March 22** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** **Total receipts of funds were £** 150,373 **and total expenses were £** 145,391 **The policy of the church is to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments, equivalent to £25,000 to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time.** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Principal source of the funds of the church is from voluntary contributions You **may choose** to include of membership and donations. additional information, where relevant about: The expenditure is budgeted ,spread in proportion to the needs of the various activities - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Mr. Jacob Parakkala Mathew **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Authorised person **etc)** **Date** 28/12/2022 **TAR** **March 22** 6 **ST.GREGORIOS INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ,LONDON No (if any) 1000423** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2021 31/03/2022 ## **CC16a** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**55,839**
**39,483**
**22,214**
**20,666**
**-**
**-**
**170**
**138,372**
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**-**
**-**
**138,372**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,000**
**12,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,000**||**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**55,839**
**39,483**
**34,214**
**20,666**
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**-**
**170**
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**150,372**
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**-**
**150,372**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |VoluntarySubscription|**55,839**||||||||**50,574**| |VoluntaryDonations|**39,483**||||||||**25,930**| |Activities forgeneration of funds|**22,214**||||||||**14,765**| |Gift Aid HMRC|**20,666**||||||||**37,860**| |Cultural events|**-**||||||||| |Sundry (Property)|**-**||||||||| |SundaySchool|**170**||||||||**1,000**| |Church Repair Insurance Claim|||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**138,372**||||||||**130,129**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**130,129**| ||||||||||| |Wges(NI,Taxes)|**17,569**||||||**17,569**||**15,047**| |Grants and donations|||||||**-**||**-**| |Mission of Congregation|**22,115**||||||**22,115**||**22,115**| |PropertyMaintenance|**6,390**||||||**6,390**||**22,990**| |Runningcosts|**38,032**||||||**38,032**||**6,637**| |Statonery ,Printing,Utilities|**801**||||||**801**||**625**| |Cost of fund rasing|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Cultural events|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Ecumenical &Organisational|**5,000**||||||**5,000**||**5,000**| |Travel reimbursement|**1,627**||||||**1,627**||**585**| |St.Andrws Church|**3,750**||||||**3,750**||**3,750**| |Diocese Clergy,visitingdignatories|**11,150**||||||**11,150**||**7,450**| |Sundyschool activities|**389**||||||**389**||**1,510**| |Vicars exgratia,solicitors fees,visa,|**6,000**||||||**6,000**||**-**| |Parsonage mortgage,expenses,bills|**32,567**||||||**32,567**||**28,254**| |**_Sub total_ **|**145,390**||**-**||**-**||**145,390**||**113,963**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |Parsonage Purchase|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**113,963**| ||||||||||| ||**- 7,018**||||||**4,982**||**16,166**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**90,636**||||||**126,062**||**102,280**| ||**83,618**||||||**131,044**||**118,446**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
St. Gregorios Church Building
Parsonage
Furniture and Fixtures
Other assets for church services
**Details**
**Details**
Cash Funds
Reserve Fund
Icons, Puthuran etc
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**49,649**
**20,702**
**49,254**
**746**
**15,426**
**98,903**
**36,874**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**1,000,000**
**395,000**
**35,000**
**10,000**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which liability**
**relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Roys Philip
Jacob Mathew|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**1,250,000**| ||||**420,000**| ||||**20,000**| ||||**900**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Roys Philip|28/12/2022| |||Jacob Mathew|28/12/2022| **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** ## **Report to the trustees/** ST,GREGORIOS’ INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, LONDON **members of** ||||| |---|---|---|---| |**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|31/03/2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1000423| ||||| ||2
3(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, - to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and - to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the **examiner’s statement** Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. ## **Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other than **examiner's statement** that disclosed below *) 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act - have not been met; or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**
||`30/12/2022`| |---|---|---| |||| ||`Sunil Joseph`|| |||| |||| |||| ||`198 Tamworth Lane`|| ||`Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1DE`|| 1 **IER** **March 2022** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems. **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **IER** **March 2022** IER March 2022