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**o**|Period end date|||| ||||6|April|2021||5|April|2022|| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Damascus Trust ## **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1013236 **Charity's principal address** 27 Prospect Street Tamworth Staffordshire **Postcode B79 7EU** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
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0||||| **April 10/11** **TAR** 1 |||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**| |---|---|---|---| |||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Accountant**|Mr Nigel Smith||| |**Bankers**|Lloyds||| ||Cooperative Bank||| ||Virgin Money||| ||||| |**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 Trust Deed (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Trust (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointment by resolution passed by trustees meeting where there is a (eg. appointed by, elected by) majority of trustees present ## **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. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **April 10/11** **TAR** 2 **Summary of the objects of the** In accordance with the Trust Deed section 4. **charity set out in its governing document** ||In accordance with the Trust Deed section 4.| |---|---| |**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|Bible teaching in partnership with the local Church both in the UK and
overseas.
Evangelistic activities in partnership with the local Church both in the
UK and overseas.
Providing teaching and training resources for the local Church both in
the UK and overseas.
Teaching, training and support for Christian workers through partner
organisations both in the UK and overseas.
Inclusion of volunteer team workers both in the UK and overseas.
Providing help and relief from hardship and poverty in other countries
through partner organisations.
Working with partners on new initiatives to help people socially and
spiritually both in the UK and overseas.
Financing the provision and installation of Water-Harvesting Projects in
Rwanda.
Sale of hand-made cards, baskets and bags in the UK in support of
widows, orphans and related projects in Rwanda.| **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **April 10/11** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **April 10/11** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, much of our face-to-face ministry was interrupted or curtailed. Due to the ongoing pandemic, our regular visits to Rwanda (July) and Romania (April & October) did not happen. In Romania, Path of Life Association continued to provide guitar classes online and face to face with social distancing in place. They also visited the Night shelter and Ineu orphanage as restrictions allowed. The prison ministry started again towards the end of 2021 and into 2022 but on a very limited level. The Path of Life team continued to distribute food and essentials on a weekly basis to some of the poorest families. As a result they were able to offer other practical help to these families. The Support A Pastor and Support A Parish programmes have continued in partnership with our CPOs in India and Rwanda respectively. This has been a huge help as the income for pastors has all but stopped to due to the closure of church buildings / services. An emergency help fund was set up to help pastors and their families as well as the most vulnerable in their communities. Over £26000 has now been given and shared between our partners in Rwanda and India. The Water Harvesting Projects continue to develop, both in the income generated as well as the number of participating parishes. In response to the dire needs of the pastors and elderly within the parishes due to the effects of the pandemic, it was agreed with Bishop Emmanuel to allow WHP income to be used to help meet these needs rather than other projects. DT Bible teaching went online. Three courses have been run in 21/22 and this has become a new means of fulfilling our teaching ministry. We plan to keep this going in the coming years. As lockdowns were lifted, some face-to-face ministry restarted. This included the Tamworth Men’s Breakfast / Extra as well as speaking engagements at church services. Regular mailings have been printed and mailed to partners in the UK and abroad. The majority of our mailing is done electronically so saving paper and postage. _‘ENGAGE with the Bible_ ‘ in both text and audio versions, continues to grow as more people subscribe. We continue to get positive feedback from subscribers. The website continue to be developed. An online payment system has been set up and is used for purchasing DT resources as well as making donations to DT ministries. **April 10/11** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s** In accordance with the Trust Deed sections 7 & 8. **policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - 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)** Andy Paine **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)** **Date** 05.12.22 **April 10/11** **TAR** 6 ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**The Damascus Trust**||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||6th April 2021||||5th April 2022||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |General Donations|**11,787**||**4,372**||**-**||**16,159**||**28,842**| |Gift Aid Donations|**10,539**||**10,660**||||**21,199**||**22,515**| |Sales|**434**||||**-**||**434**||**12**| |Interest|**66**||**-**||**-**||**66**||**246**| |Tax reclaim|**7,712**||**-**||**-**||**7,712**||**7,110**| |Overseas|**5,481**||||**-**||**5,481**||**7,254**| |Other|**23**||**-**||**-**||**23**||**100**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**36,042**||**15,032**||**-**||**51,074**||**66,079**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**36,042**||**15,032**||**- 0**||**51,074**||**66,079**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Staff workers|**25,920**||**-**||**-**||**25,920**||**25,920**| |Post & Print|**342**||**-**||**-**||**342**||**133**| |Vehicles / Travel|**70**||**-**||**-**||**70**||**-**| |Telephone|**404**||**-**||**-**||**404**||**419**| |Literature & Study materials|**- 0**||||||**-**||**14**| |Office / Admin|**2**||**-**||**-**||**2**||**245**| |Professional fees / costs|**853**||**-**||**-**||**853**||**829**| |Overseas|**21,643**||**12,302**||**-**||**33,945**||**41,646**| |Equipment|**36**||**-**||**-**||**36**||**-**| |Insurance|**553**||**-**||**-**||**553**||**473**| |Ubushuti Costs|**26**||||||**26**||| |Other|**- 0**||||||**-**||**800**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**49,849**||**12,302**||**-**||**62,151**||**70,479**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**49,849**||**12,302**||**- 0**||**62,151**||**70,479**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**-**
**13,807**||**2,730**||**-**||**-**
**11,077**||**-**
**4,400**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**1,000**||**-**
**1,000**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**49,280**||**14,189**||**-**||**63,469**||**67,869**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**36,473**||**15,919**||**-**||**52,392**||**63,469**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 09/12/2020 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Virgin||||**39,617**||**-**||**-**| ||Coop||||**-**
**54**||**5,127**||**-**| ||Lloyds||||**-**
**3,174**||**10,792**||| ||Petty Cash||||**84**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**36,473**||**15,919**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|Office equipment||||**4,000**||**-**||**-**| ||Other equipment||||**1,400**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 09/12/2020 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts to the trustees of The Damascus Trust** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 5 April 2022. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity’s trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which give me cause to believe that, in any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. N K Smith FCA 19 Highbury Way, Great Cornard, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 0HE 24 December 2022