Charity registration number: 1050320
**COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025**
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**Coastal Community Church Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2025.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
Mrs Andrea Rowan - Chair Mrs Kerissa Wright Mrs Patricia Gover Mrs Julie Warrender Mr Gary Yeo
## **Charity Number**
1050320
## **Principal Address**
St Andrews Street North Tiverton Devon EX16 6PH
## **Independent Examiner**
Cloud Accountancy Solutions Ltd Institute of Financial Accountants Cloud Accountancy Solutions Ltd Institute of Financial Accountants 94 Lower Cross Road Barnstaple Devon EX31 2PJ
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## **Coastal Community Church**
## **Overview**
The trustees of Coastal Community Church are pleased to report on another positive and impactful period of activity serving Barnstaple and the surrounding communities.
Throughout this reporting period, the church has continued to advance its charitable objectives by promoting the Christian faith and providing practical, pastoral, and community support to people of all ages.
Our activities have focused on community engagement, wellbeing support, youth development, leadership training, and charitable giving, alongside regular worship and discipleship gatherings.
## **Community Engagement & Support**
## **Alpha Course**
During 2024/25, the church delivered its annual **Alpha Course** , a Christian discovery programme exploring the basics of the Christian faith. The course was well attended and provided a welcoming environment for individuals to ask questions, explore faith, and build community connections.
## **Kintsugi Wellbeing Course**
The church delivered the **Kintsugi Hope Wellbeing Course** in Barnstaple. This course was open to the wider community, with invitations extended locally. Attendance was strong and engagement was encouraging.
The course addressed a wide range of topics including anxiety, shame and guilt, loss, perfectionism, resilience, forgiveness, healthy relationships, and honesty.
Trustees are planning to run this course again and are exploring opportunities to extend delivery into a local college setting to support young people.Practical Community Support
Throughout the reporting period, the church continued to support the community through the provision of food to provide practical relief for individuals and families in need.
## **Youth Work & Development**
## **Weekly Youth Clubs**
Weekly youth clubs continued to operate on Friday evenings. These sessions provide a safe and welcoming environment for young people and include music, games, quizzes, food, movie nights, and a tuck shop. These clubs serve both church families and young people from the wider community.
## **Youth Camps & Residential Events**
Over the past 12 months, young people from the youth clubs and church attended several national Christian youth events:
- **Young Lions** – A three-day AoG youth leadership development programme delivered in various locations across the UK, focusing on building skills and encouraging leadership growth in young people.
- **SPREE South West** – A three-day camping event combining funfair rides, inflatables, music, bands, life skills teaching, and community meals. This year, young people from the local community who attend our youth clubs participated for the first time.
- **Creation Fest** – A week-long summer camping festival attended by people of all ages. The event includes teaching, music, and activities designed to support faith development and community building.
These events have significantly contributed to personal development, confidence, leadership skills, and social connection among our young people.
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## **Coastal Community Church**
## **Church Life & Community Activities**
## **Monthly Church Breakfast**
The church continued its monthly community breakfast, offering tea, coffee, bacon sandwiches, pastries, fruit and refreshments. This remains an open invitation event and provides an accessible and informal space for connection.
## **Community Ceilidh Dance**
During the reporting period, the church hosted a community ceilidh dance featuring a 22-piece band. The event was organised to honour volunteers and supporters of the charity and was open to the wider community. It was well attended and included hot food and refreshments.
## **Connect Groups**
Two additional Connect Groups were established during this period. These smaller groups provide pastoral care, fellowship, shared meals, prayer, and mutual support in a more personal setting.
## **Walking Group**
A walking group called Connected Ramblers was launched by a church member, Walks are taken place in various locations including the Tarka Trail and the South West Coastal Path. This initiative promotes wellbeing, friendship, and community engagement.
## **Easter Community Celebration**
At Easter, Coastal Community Church joined with other local churches in Barnstaple for a public celebration of the Christian faith. A Churches Together choir led worship in Barnstaple High Street and surrounding areas, engaging the wider community in the Easter message.
## **Baptisms**
During the reporting period, the church celebrated baptisms, marking important steps of faith for individuals within the church community.
## **Leadership Development**
The church invested in leadership training and development during this period by:
- Sending leaders to Assemblies of God (AoG) Zone and Area events for training and equipping.
- Hosting in-house leadership development sessions for ministry teams and leaders serving within the church.
These initiatives have strengthened governance, pastoral care, and ministry effectiveness.Charitable Giving
Coastal Community Church was able to give part of its income to charitable causes over the year. During this period, financial contributions were made to selected charitable organisations such as Compassion, Christians Against Poverty, Creationfest, Kintsugi Hope, and mission work in Europe. Additionally, the church gave £500 to a food project in India, enabling individuals to receive a celebratory roast chicken meal on Christmas Day
- a provision that would not normally be available to them.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty under Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance.
All activities described above have been undertaken to advance the Christian faith and to provide tangible social, emotional, and practical benefit to the wider community
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**Coastal Community Church**
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Mrs Andrea Rowan Trustee 27/02/2026
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**Coastal Community Church Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Coastal Community Church For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Coastal Community Church (the Trust) for the year ended 30 April 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed 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 giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents 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.
Cheryl Manning - Institute of Financial Accountants 27/02/2026 94 Lower Cross Road Barnstaple Devon EX31 2PJ
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## **Coastal Community Church Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**4**
Charitable activities:
**4**
Religious Activities
**NET EXPENDITURE**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**9**|**2025**
**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
80,981
855
81,836
71,947|
|---|---|
||-
2
2
-
(75,407)
(10,492)
(85,899)
(88,569)|
||(75,407)
(10,490)
(85,899)
(88,569)|
||5,574
(9,635)
(4,061)
(16,622)|
||5,574
(9,635)
(4,061)
(16,622)
227,550
88,405
315,955
332,577|
||233,124
78,770
311,894
315,955|
The notes on pages 7 to 10 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Coastal Community Church Comparative Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities:
**4**
Religious Activities
**NET EXPENDITURE**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**9**|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
71,647
300
71,947|
|---|---|
||(78,416)
(10,153)
(88,569)|
||(6,769)
(9,853)
(16,622)|
||(6,769)
(9,853)
(16,622)
234,319
98,258
332,577|
||227,550
88,405
315,955|
The notes on pages 7 to 10 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Coastal Community Church Statement of Financial Position As At 30 April 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
**7**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**8**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**9**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
200,000
-|**2025**
**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
200,000
200,000|
|---|---|---|
||200,000
-
115,347
78,770|200,000
200,000
194,117
116,255|
||115,347
78,770
(82,223)
-|194,117
116,255
(82,223)
(300)|
||33,124
78,770|111,894
115,955|
||233,124
78,770|311,894
315,955|
||233,124
78,770|311,894
315,955|
|||78,770
88,405
233,124
227,550|
|||311,894
315,955|
On behalf of the board
Mrs Andrea Rowan
Trustee
27/02/2026
The notes on pages 7 to 10 form part of these financial statements.
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**Coastal Community Church Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Coastal Community Church is an unincorporated charity registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 1050320. The principal address is St Andrews Street North, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6PH.
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Charities Act 2011.
The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Freehold
No depreciation
## 2.3. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|Donations and gifts
Other
Donations and gifts
Other|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
75,443
855
76,298
5,538
-
5,538|
|---|---|
||80,981
855
81,836|
||**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
**£**
62,935
300
63,235
8,712
-
8,712|
||71,647
300
71,947|
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**Coastal Community Church Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
## 4. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|Raising funds
Religious Activities
Religious Activities
5.
**Support Costs**
Employee costs
Premises expenses
General administration
Employee costs
Premises expenses
General administration|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
-
6,267|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 5)
**£**
(2)
79,632|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
(2)
85,899|
|---|---|---|---|
||6,267|79,630|85,897|
||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
10,811|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 5)
**£**
77,758|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
88,569|
||**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
(2)|**Religious**
**Activities**
**£**
50,761
4,520
24,351|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
50,761
4,520
24,349|
||(2)|79,632|79,630|
||||**2024**
**Religious**
**Activities**
**£**
46,389
12,792
18,577|
||||77,758|
## 6. **Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: 4 (2024: 4)
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**Coastal Community Church Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
## 7. **Tangible Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1 May 2024
As at 30 April 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 30 April 2025
As at 1 May 2024
.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income
.
**Movement in Funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Building Reserve (The Hub)
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
Building Reserve (The Hub)
**Total funds**|**2025**
**£**
81,863
360
82,223
**As at 1 May**
**2024**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
**£**
227,550
79,529
(73,955)
88,405
855
(10,490)
315,955
80,384
(84,445)
**As at 1 May**
**2023**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**£**
**£**
**£**
234,319
71,647
(78,416)
98,258
300
(10,153)
332,577
71,947
(88,569)|**Land &**
**Property**
**Freehold**
**£**
200,000|
|---|---|---|
|||200,000|
|||200,000|
|||200,000|
|||**2024**
**£**
-
300|
|||300|
|||**As at 30**
**April 2025**
**£**
233,124
78,770|
|||311,894|
|||**As at 30**
**April 2024**
**£**
227,550
88,405|
|||315,955|
8. **Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
9. **Movement in Funds**
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**Coastal Community Church Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
## **10. Exceptional receipts**
There was a receipt of £81,863.07 from HMRC during the year. This was a payment made in error and has been returned to HMRC in the next accounting year. The balance is shown in 'Other creditors'.
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## **Coastal Community Church Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 30 April 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts
Other contributions
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Sundry expenses
**Charitable Activities:**
**Religious Activities**
Employers pensions - defined contribution schemes
Travel and subsistence expenses
Computer software, IT consumables and maintenance
Marketing and advertising costs
Subscriptions
Wages and salaries
Rent
Light and heat
Computer software costs
Repairs, renewals and maintenance
Insurance
Advertising and marketing costs
Training seminars and workshops
Website costs
Accountancy fees
Legal fees
Subscriptions
Bank charges
Other office costs
Sundry expenses
**NET EXPENDITURE**|**2025**
**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
74,846
63,235
5,538
8,712|
|---|---|
||80,384
71,947|
||80,384
71,947
2
-|
||2
-
(1,976)
(2,155)
(2,393)
(8,285)
(1,675)
-
-
(371)
(223)
-
(49,309)
(46,389)
(3,993)
(12,168)
(527)
(624)
-
(466)
(1,078)
(1,753)
(2,577)
(506)
(452)
(7,401)
(7,178)
-
(325)
(344)
(577)
(240)
-
(6,546)
-
(1,266)
-
(1)
-
(54)
(12,164)
-|
||(84,447)
(88,569)|
||(84,445)
(88,569)|
||(4,061)
(16,622)|
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