## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From January 1 2025 Period start date To December 31 2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Discover Church** ## **Charity registration number:1050248** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ at**
**home and abroad to all ages, with**
**particular emphasis on children & youth.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Regular services on Sunday and during**
**the week. Visitation of the sick and**
**housebound. To create a learning**
**environment for children and young**
**people who are not typically found in a**
**church or faith based environment and**
**to engage in missions abroad.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Grant making to missions and**
**missionary organisations for those**
**preaching the Gospel and working with**
**the disadvantaged throughout the world**
**and particularly those involved with**
**children.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers work with the children’s**
**programmes, go on missions, provide**
**services to the public in our meetings**
**and in visitation. Look after the church**
**premises and run the minibus for**
**picking up children for the clubs.**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The support received by our**
**missionaries has been invaluable in**
**helping them provide food, education**
**and homes for orphans. It helps those**
**who are on the front line in countries**
**where they do not receive such services.**
**In this country we are providing religious**
**services to those who need it and**
**visitation for the lonely and disabled.**
**We create a learning environment for**
**children and young people who are not**
**typically found in a church or faith based**
**environment and fun play and learn**
**facilities. We are at present looking for**
**new premises as the places we have**
**been using will not be available for long.**
**We hope to have our own building later**
**in the year.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The finances of the charity are stable.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We have reserves mainly for the**
**purchase or acquisition of new**
**premises.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**83,019**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The freewill giving of our members,**
**visitors and members of the public. 1**
**legacy.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Discover Church trust.**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**trust deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**trustees are appointed by the current**
**trustees.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**We are part of the Assemblies of God**
**inc. and adhere to their beliefs and**
**principles.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Discover Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1050248| ||Charity’s principal address
For contact:
25 Linden Road,
West Parley.
BH22 8RR| |---|---| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|Julian
Christopher
Downward|Chairman
Senior Minister||A consensus of the
remaining trustees| ||David N
Hughes|Inland Revenue
contact||Ditto| ||Daniel Edward
Morgan|IT and P.A
Assistant||Ditto| ||Brian
Downward|trustee but
retired||Ditto| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** J C Downward **Full name(s)** Julian Christopher Downward **Position (eg** Chairman **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 02/06/26 ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Discover Church**|||||**1050248**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||01/01/2025||||31/12/2025||| ||||||||||| |**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**|||||||||| |Donations|**57,375**||**5,616**||**-**||**62,991**||**46,117**| |Gift Aid Donations|**19,886**||**-**||**-**||**19,886**||**32,366**| |Gift aid Tax Refund|**5,800**||**-**||**-**||**5,800**||**7,733**| |Investment interest|**928**||**-**||**-**||**928**||**1,338**| |Sale of equipment|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,575**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**83,989**||**5,616**||**-**||**89,605**||**89,129**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total _**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**83,989**||**5,616**||**- 0**||**89,605**||**89,129**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Children, youth & minibus|**5,349**||**-**||**-**||**5,349**||**11,130**| |Insurance|**291**||**-**||**-**||**291**||**1,436**| |Missions/Missionaries/Ministry|**14,903**||**3,915**||**-**||**18,818**||**26,859**| |Office Exp & Licences|**1,103**||**-**||**-**||**1,103**||**1,683**| |Rent|**3,183**||**-**||**-**||**3,183**||**4,476**| |Maintenance & Equipment|**2,809**||**-**||**-**||**2,809**||**2,473**| |Staff Salaries|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**25,241**| |NI,Tax, Pensions|**4,765**||**-**||**-**||**4,765**||**7,026**| |Trustees Exp.|**23,283**||**-**||**-**||**23,283**||**2,600**| |Refund to donor|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,150**| |Bank Charges|**405**||**-**||**-**||**405**||**488**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**56,091**||**3,915**||**-**||**60,006**||**84,562**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**56,091**||**3,915**||**- 0**||**60,006**||**84,562**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**27,898**||**1,701**||**-**||**29,599**||**4,567**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**46,120**||**14,305**||**-**||**60,425**||**55,858**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**74,018**||**16,006**||**-**||**90,024**||**60,425**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**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**|Cash in bank||||**74,018**||**16,006**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 19/01/2026 1 ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**74,018**||**16,006**||**-**| ||(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**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**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| ||||||Daniel Morgan||||| ||||||David N Hughes||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 19/01/2026 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examtner's Report Rgportto the trusteesldirectorsl members of On aeeounts forthe year •ndgd 31 2ox Charity no.: 10<021 Company no.: Set out on pages I report lo the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended Responslbllltles and basis of report As the ¢harity's trustees of the Company Iwho are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company lawl, you are re$pon$ibk for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wlh the requirements of the Companies Act 20061°11* 20￿ ACV'I. Having satisfied myseff that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited for thi8 year under Part 16 of the 2LXJ6 Act and are eligible for indeptrndent examination, I report in respect of my ex8minalion of your charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 he 2011 Acfl. In carrying out my examin*'on, I have folli)wed the Directions given by the Charity Commission {under section 14515llbl of the 2011 Act. Independgnt examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention I which gives me cause lo believe that". * 8ccounliThJ re¢ords were not kopl in 8¢¢¢wdance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006., or . the accounts do not a¢¢ord wlh $u¢h re¢ords, or • the accounts do not comply with re￿vant accounting requirements under section 396 of the Companies Act 20(b other than any requirement th81 If accounts give a 'true and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an l￿deF￿ndent examin*ion", or •the accounts have not t￿n prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP IFRS1021. IFP nr+nfr￿r ?niR I have no concèms and have come across no othe¥ matters in ¢onnection wf(h the examination to which attention should b& drawn in this report in order to enable a proper un(Jer8tsnding ofthe accounts to be reached. . Please delete Ihe wo￿$ in the b￿ckets rfthey do not apply. Slgnod: Nam•: Jtsti￿ ￿[¥£0¢4 Relevant professional qualifi¢•ti¢nl$l or Ix>dy Ilf any): Address: Pa Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matenal matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of ¢hanty accoun15.' direth'ons and guidance for exaMi￿rs1. Givg herg brièf detsils of any items that the •xamln•r wl$h¥ to disclose. IER October 2018