2024-03-31-accounts - Balham Pentecostal Church

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The Annual Trustees Report for Financial year ended 31/03/2024.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Charity Name: Balham Pentecostal Church (BPC) 'the Church' Charity Registration Number: 1015671 Registered address of the Charity: 18 Balham New Road, Balham, SW12 9PG

Board of Trustees:

Mrs Beryl L Brown

Miss Patricia E Maxwell

Miss Barbara S.M Richards

Miss Simone A Patterson

STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE

Officers

Overseers: Beryl Louise Brown Evangelists: Patricia E Maxwell Simone A Patterson Donna-Marie S Dawson Malcom Management Chairperson: Beryl Louise Brown Treasurer: Simone A Patterson Secretary: Patricia E Maxwell

Bankers

Barclays Bank PLC, 188 Clapham High Street, Clapham, London, SW4 7UF

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

The Balham Pentecostal Church (BPC) or 'the Church' is a registered Christian charity and has been in operation since 1972. The Aim of the Charity is the advancement of the Christian Religion as declared by our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles.

The BPC's objectives are to promote the evangelical, pastoral and social agenda of the Church: to establish a place of worship accessible to Born Again Christians and those who wish to practise the Christian Religion in the community of Balham and surrounding communities.

The BPC plan to achieve this through:

The promotion and advancement of the Christian Religion through personal and street evangelism.
To provide assistance wherever and whenever with the spiritual financial and personal needs of the community.
To encourage and build up the spiritual needs of fellow Christians.
To promote Christian fellowship
To provide a place of worship for Christians and members of the community who wishes to practice the Christian faith.
To assist in the relief of poverty whenever and wherever necessary.

Activities

The BPC facilitates a centre for Christian worship. During the period of 2023/24 The Church offered a range of activities of which the trustees considered to be beneficial to the spiritual needs of its members and to the wider community. These activities includes

Word in Life

Word in life sessions are aim at challenging the believer towards spiritual maturity. These sessions last for approximately two hours on Sunday mornings between the hours of 11am and 1pm, and are design to help individual in the advancement of their spiritual growth.

Bible Studies

Bible study classes are run every Thursday night between the hours of 6pm and 9pm. These classes are open to fellow Christian as well as non-Christians. All lessons are

based on the Holy Scriptures and are taught by the Pastor of the church, and are designed to bring about Christian maturity.

Prayer Meetings

Prayer meetings are held every Tuesday night between the hours of 6pm and 9pm, and are open to Christian and non-Christian members of the community. They can of course present their personal needs by means of prayer.

Worship Services

Sunday mornings from 1:15pm to 3pm and again from 6:30pm to 9pm and are open to Christian and those who would like to come in and worship the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.

Evangelism

Evangelism is the main channel of propagating the Christian religion, it is also the great commission given to the Christian church by our Lord Jesus

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The Charity’s combined income for 2023/24 was £54,752.00 this largely made up of Tithe and offering. The combined expenditure for this period was £49,691.88of which £32,016.11 is relating to refurbishment work both at the Church and at 154 Frant.

PLANS FQR THE FUTURE

To continue to work with all members of the community to educate them on how to be responsible citizens.
To continue to minister the Gospel through personal and group evangelism, which is the charity’s primary objectives.
To have the housing project at 154 Frant Road completed, as this is earmarked for accommodation for the homeless.
To offer aid and support where necessary to members of the community suffering hardship through poverty.

Signature of Trustee:

Signature ~~a~~	Print Name	Date of Approval
	Pastor B.L Brown	31/01/2025

BALHAM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Combined Statement of Income and Expenditure For 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024

A1 Receipts Tithes and Offering Tithes General Offering Mission Offering Donations Fundraising Special Meetings Loan repayment Refund Gift Aid TOTAL RECIEPTS A2 Payments Mortgage - 154 Frant Road Building Insurance Water Gas Electricity Printing Stationaries Website Travel Pastor Tithes Mission /Gift Repair/Maintenance Payment to GOSHCC Business Rates/ Council Tax Item Purchased for Fundraising Loan Repayment Building Works Planning Cost Legal Cost TOTAL PAYMENTS		Unrestricted Fund Church WIT Branch Branch £ £	Unrestricted Fund Church WIT Branch Branch £ £	Total 2024 £	Total 2023 £
		0.00 17,405.43 33,967.00 1,515.00 1,667.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 197.57 0.00 54,752.00 18,967.04 467.19 0.00 1,196.78 1,888.97 359.40 1,306.64 0.00 2,458.09 70.2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 22,780.00 0.00 0.00 197.57 49,691.88	0.00 140.00 0.00 0.00 3,650.00 3,762.00 0.00 1,400.00 0.00 0.00 8,952.00 0.00 0.00 339.05 0.00 2,358.78 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 454.58 0.00 5,813.56 124.35 0.00 9,236.11 650.00 1,020.00 0.00 20,096.43	0.00 17,545.43 33,967.00 1,515.00 5,317.00 3,762.00 0.00 1,400.00 197.57 0.00 63,704.00 18,967.04 467.19 339.05 1,196.78 4,247.75 359.40 1,306.64 0.00 2,558.09 524.78 0.00 5,813.56 124.35 0.00 32,016.11 650.00 1,020.00 197.57 69,788.31	45,559.90 0.00 0.00 0.00 6,226.94 3,257.00 1,726.70 3,800.00 0.00 17,697.97 78,268.51 17,069.68 475.00 607.53 973.80 3,320.43 359.40 700.00 0.00 180.00 476.00 30.00 3,743.46 341.36 0.00 30,885.13 1,100.00 5,600.00 65,861.79

A3 Assets and investment sales 0.00 TOTAL 0.00 A4 Asset and Investment Purchases 0.00 TOTAL 0.00 A5 Transfers and movements TOTAL 0.00 TOTAL Year Movement 104,443.88 A6 Cash Fund balance brought forward at 1st April 2023 Cash Fund balance carried forward at 31st March 2024 *Difference*	0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 29,048.43	0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 (6,084.31) 51,776.27 45,691.96 ----	0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 12,406.72

BALHAM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH

Statement of Assets and Liabilities as at 31st March 2024

				Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted Restricted	Unrestricted Restricted
					Funds	Funds
					2024
					£
		Assets
B1		Cash Funds
		Bank Current Account			45,066
		Bank WIT Account					626
		Total Assets			45,066		626
B2		Other Monetary Assets	Other Monetary Assets		----	----
B3		Investments Assets
					0		0.00
B4		Assets retained for Charity own use		Fund to which asset belongs
		Freehold Property-18 Balham New Road,
		Balham SW12 9PG			Church
		Freehold Property- 154 Frant Road, Thornton
		Heath, Surrey, CR7 7JW	Heath, Surrey, CR7 7JW		Church
		Keyboards			Church
		Guitars			Church
		Microphones and Stands	Microphones and Stands		Church
		Personal Address System			Church
		Projector			Church
		Computer			Church
		Cameras			Church
		Television			Church
		Furnishing					WIT
		Liabilities
B5		Mortgage - 154 Frant Road		£120,593.53
		Loan - Faith United COG	Loan - Faith United COG				1,000
		Total Liabilities			0		1,000
	Signed by Trustee on behalf of the BPC Charity
	~~BUBrowm~~	Signature Print Name Date of Approval Pastor B.L Brown 31/01/2025 ~~aOO~~ ~~BUBrowm	~~

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees

Charity Name

The Balham Pentecostl CXhurch

On accounts for the year ended

Set out on pages

2024

Charity no 1015671 (if any) (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2024 .

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 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 [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did 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.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed:

Date:

Name:

Relevant professional

Oct 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Oct 2018

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