## **KING’S CHURCH BARKING**
**(CHARITY NO: 1015872) TRUSTEES REPORT AND ACCOUNTS**
**YEAR END 31 MARCH 2024**
## _**KING’S CHURCH BARKING**_
## _**TRUSTEES REPORT**_
## **YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
The Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31st March 2024.
## _**The Trustees & Governance**_
Trustees who served during the period were - Mark Figgins (also member of church leadership team) Jean Playle Deborah Marsden Gerald Toop
King’s Church activities are administered by the church leadership team, one of whom is a Trustee. The church leaders meet several times each month and the Trustees meet for the financial administration of the church and as required for ad hoc consultation.
## _**Charitable activities**_
The main objective as a Christian church in Barking is to advance the Christian faith and express the Christian message in practical ways, in particular with regard to worship, Christian discipleship and communication of the Christian message, in culturally relevant ways and including community interaction and service. The church continued to pursue those aims during the period under review.
Worship is a central part of our Sunday church service and throughout the year we held several worship evenings open to other United Reformed Churches and also open to other churches in Barking and Dagenham.
## _**Partnering with Barking United Reformed Church**_
We partner with Barking United Reformed Church to hold Sunday Services, activities, and meetings together.
This year we held a week of prayer in October.
## _**KING’S CHURCH BARKING**_
## _**TRUSTEES REPORT**_
## _**YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**_
## _**King’s Church in the Local community**_
Activities in and for the benefit of the local community included –
## _**Community Coffee Mornings**_
We run a weekly coffee morning for the local community for free tea, coffee and friendship. Both passersbys and locals frequent, we have many regulars.
## _**Kidz Klub**_
We hold holiday clubs for children with crafts, games and bible teaching. An Easter holiday club for children had on average 18 children and a holiday club in August saw 22 children come.
At Christmas 35 people came to a family crafts day.
## _**Friday Youth Group**_
The Friday youth group runs every fortnight. With activities such as board games / pool / table tennis / play station games it’s been a space for the young people to grow in confidence in who they are and learn to relate to one another.
## _**Cuppa at Christmas**_
We hosted Cuppa at Christmas _**-**_ a place for people to pop in for a cup of tea and a friendly chat on Christmas Day.
## _**Ladies Group**_
In June, the Ladies Group held a Charitable Fundraiser with a Balkan folk band. Over 40 participants enjoyed an evening of music and folk dance. We hosted a mental health talk with a speaker from the charity Mind.
## _**Barking Churches Unite, BCU**_
King’s Church together with Barking URC supported the work of Barking Churches Unite, (organizer of interchurch events and projects for the local community) Our worship team led the BCU annual Christmas Carols singing in Vicarage Field Shopping Centre as well as the worship at several BCU, United Prayer Events where churches across Barking come together to pray.
In April, we hosted and worked with BCU and Dagenham Churches Together to run an Easter outreach crafts and dinner event for families in the community food clubs. This had 60 participants.
We took part in the annual BCU Christmas and Easter prayer outreach weeks where we prayed with people passing through the shopping centre and in June we hosted a BCU Away day for staff and volunteers.
_**KING’S CHURCH BARKING**_
## _**TRUSTEES REPORT**_
## **YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
## _**Local Foodbanks and Schools**_
We provide monthly financial support to foodbanks in Barking and Dagenham. We also support local schools providing monthly financial support to a local school's own internal foodbank and providing financial support to help fund activities for vulnerable children in another school.
## _**King’s Church support of UK and Overseas mission and charities**_
In the period, King’s Church supported Christian ministries and charities working both in the UK and overseas.
## _**Finances**_
## _Basis of accounts preparation_ -
All receipts and payments for the period are disclosed in the attached Receipts and Payments account.
## _Year under review_ -
During the year, income from Tithes and Offerings from church members was £26,815. This continues to demonstrate the generosity of the King’s Church membership.
The income tax recovery on Gift Aided payments, amounted to £5,954.
## _Reserves Policy -_
The Trustees have agreed that sufficient funds should be maintained to ensure that the main charitable activities could be supported for a minimum of three months.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees
G Toop
## Gerald Toop
Date: 7/8/2024
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~~—————~~||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**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 £**|||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Designated Offerings & Gifts||**-**||**342**||**-**|**-**||**342**|**342**||**1,578**|
|General Tithes & Offerings||**26,815**||||**-**|**-**||**26**|**26,815**||**26,756**|
|Tax Rebate||**5,954**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**5**|**5,954**||**6,346**|
|Bank & Other Interest||**858**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**858**|**858**||**152**|
|General Fund Income||**-**||**344**||**-**|**-**||**344**|**344**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||_(Gross income for_|||||||||||
||_AR)_|_AR)_**33,627**||**686**||**-**|**-**||**34,313**|**34,313**||**34,833**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total _ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 33,627**
**686**
**-**
**34,313**
**34,833**
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Premises||**3,913**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**3**|**3,913**||**13,007**|
|Pastoral & Ministrycosts||**800**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**800**|**800**||**2,328**|
|Consultant Ministries||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,310**|
|Mission and charitysupport||**9,100**||**250**||**-**|**-**||**9**|**9,350**||**9,670**|
|Catering& hospitality||**1,184**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**1**|**1,184**||**1,377**|
|General Fund Expenses||**-**||**188**||**-**|**-**||**188**|**188**||**-**|
|Conferences & Training||**670**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**670**|**670**||**291**|
|Equipment & Accessories||**1,965**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**1**|**1,965**||**903**|
|Insurance||**454**|||||||**454**|**454**||**436**|
|Independent Reviewer||**115**|||||||**115**|**115**||**110**|
|Outreach & Children's work||**2,268**|||||||**2**|**2,268**||**3,179**|
|Subscriptions & MembershipFees||**956**|||||||**956**|**956**||**1,033**|
|BuildingExpenses||**- 1,731**||**-**|||||**- 1**|**- 1,731**||**4,685**|
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|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**19,693**||**438**||**-**|**-**||**20,131**|**20,131**||**39,329**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 19,693**
**438**
**-**
**20,131**
**39,329**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**13,934**
**248**
**- 14,182**
**- 4,496**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**64,354**
**137**
**-**
**64,491**
**68,987**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**78,288**
**385**
**- 78,673**
**64,491**
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Bank Current Account
Bank Savings Account
Bank Building Fund Account
**Details**
Bank General Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**|Bank Current Account
Bank Savings Account
Bank Building Fund Account
**Details**
Bank General Account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**2,190**||**385**||**-**|
||||**75,947**||**-**||**-**|
||||**149**|||||
||||**1**||**-**||**-**|
||||**78,288**||**385**||**-**|
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||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||G. Toop
Signature
D. A. Marsden||Print Name
D. A. Marden
G. Toop|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||D. A. Marsden||D. A. Marden||||07/08/2024|
||G. Toop||G. Toop||||07/08/2024|
_**KING’S CHURCH BARKING CHARITABLE TRUST 31ST MARCH 2024 INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**_
I report on the Receipts and Payments accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31 March 2024 which are set out on the attached pages 4 and 5, referenced ‘CC16a’.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As the charity’s trustee you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 43 (7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. 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 you as trustee concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 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.
Name: Christopher Sykes Signed: C. Sykes
Date: 7/8/24