2023-01-31-accounts

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TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JANUARY 2023

Index to the Trustees Report and Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 January 2023

Page No

3 Trustees’ Report 4 Aims and Objectives 5 Achievements and Yearly Review 8 Independent Examiner’s Report 9 Statement of Financial Activities 10 Balance Sheet 11 Notes to the Accounts

Emmanuel Christian Centre Trustees’ Report for the year ended 31 January 2023

Reference and administration details

Charity Name	Emmanuel Christian Centre	Emmanuel Christian Centre
Charity Number		1052196
Address		Mill Street
		Ulverston
		Cumbria
		LA12 7EB
Board of Trustees:
Chairman		David Darren Roy
Secretary		Lisa Smith
Other Trustees		Colin Thornhill
		David Smith
		Paul Sedgwick
		Andrew Wright
Bankers		TSB Bank Plc
		Lunedale House
		4 Market Street East
		Morecambe
		Lancashire
		LA4 5DW
Independent Examiner		Knox Accountants Limited
		Unit 1 The Old Fire Station
		1 Abbey Road
		Barrow in Furness
		Cumbria
		LA14 1XH

Structure, Governance and Management

Organisation

Emmanuel Christian Centre (ECC) has been registered with the Charity Commission since 23[rd] January 1996, in practice operating as a church. ECC is a member of the Evangelical Alliance and Churches in Communities International, governed by its Constitution and Trust Deed last updated in 2012.

Organisational Structure

ECC is administered and managed by a board of trustees known as the Church Council, chaired by the senior ordained minister. Members of the Church Council give their time freely and receive no remuneration for managing ECC as trustees. Each trustee has an equal vote on decisions of the Church Council which meets at least four times a year to ensure ECC carries out its purposes for public bene�it in accordance with charity law and its Constitution. Every issue considered by the Church Council is determined by a simple majority of the votes cast. For the sake of public con�idence, whenever a member of the Church Council has a personal interest in a matter to be discussed, they are required to declare their interest and then be absent from that part of the meeting.

Recruitment & Appointment of Trustees

The senior minister nominates an individual to be a trustee and the Church Council sanctions the appointment. This ensures that any new trustee is a respected member of the Christian faith who understand the foundational tenets and can effectively promote our objects. Trustees are selected to bring varying skills and insight to the Church Council and to fairly represent the bene�iciaries of ECC.

Induction & Training of Trustees

Induction and training of a new trustee is under the guidance of the existing Church Council. A new trustee is given a copy of the Constitution and Trust Deed, booklet CC3 ‘The Essential Trustee’, adopted policies, procedures and a guide booklet to the operation of the Church Council. Safeguarding training is completed before appointment. Trustees are made aware of their responsibilities, accountability, scope and limits.

Risk Management

The Church Council has assessed the major strategic and operational risks which ECC faces and they have systems in place for protection, including a regularly reviewed reserves policy. Reports are produced so that necessary steps can be taken to lessen any risks. Insurance cover is always in place, �inances are kept under review, policies are regularly updated, and appropriate background checks are undertaken for volunteers. Checks are also carried out on organisations ECC works with to ensure compliance with safeguarding and �inancial transparency.

Mrs Terry Piper was the Safeguarding Coordinator for 2022-2023, working with Thirtyone:eight (formerly the Churches Child Protection Advisory Service) to protect children and vulnerable adults using or attending ECC.

Overview of Aims and Objectives

The purposes listed as ECC’s charitable objects are the primary goals for the charity and the various internal departments are assigned to achieve these. From the founding of ECC in 1986 the vision statement of the Church is still actively pursued and each member of ECC is encouraged to demonstrate our latest core values.

ECC is accredited by Churches in Communities International, recognised in the Free Churches Group, and it is a member of the Evangelical Alliance. Biblical teaching and training advice has also been provided by Servants of the Lord Ministries although they do not have a day-to-day controlling in�luence on ECC as a charity.

The vision statement of ECC as a church is to:

enable the saints at Emmanuel Christian Centre to hear and obey the voice of God;
equip, then encourage, each person to serve in their God-given ministry;
be a church of unity and Christian fellowship, built upon the love of Jesus Christ.

The 2022-2023 core values are summed up as: love, community and honour. This means to love God and others, to be a community of growth and unity, and to honour God and people according to the Scriptures.

Charitable Objects

The main objects of the ECC charity are to:

advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Evangelical Alliance Basis of Faith;
relieve sickness and �inancial hardship and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind including through the provision of counselling and support; and
advance education; in such ways and in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Church Council form time to time may think �it.

After consultation and review with the various departments, the trustees are con�ident that ECC is meeting all its objectives with due regard to public bene�it according to guidance published by the Charity Commission.

[ The following overview is based on activities up to 31 January 2023]

Achievements and performance

Review of the Year

During the year, ECC continued to promote and ful�il the charitable objects through regular Sunday worship and teaching services which is the main public-facing provision available to all. Furthermore, all of the objects have been promoted through various departments as follows:

Royal Rangers

The Ulverston outpost of Royal Rangers (RR) was formed at ECC in August 2021. RR is a uniformed, practical based programme involving scouting type activities, adventure in the outdoors and achievement. Some part of the curriculum meet our objective of advancing the Christian faith to young people aged between 11-17 years. Primarily it advances education in range of practical skills and activities, including the increasingly popular skills of bushcraft. RR is on Wednesday evening (term time).

Chaplaincy

ECC had 3 dedicated chaplains serving particular sectors in the community; namely the emergency services, youth and students, and those of older age. Each chaplain operated according to the needs and protocols of the sector, thus ful�illing ECC’s objectives to advance the Christian faith, relieve sickness and �inancial hardship, and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of services including through counselling and support. Examples of ways ECC chaplains have been involved in the community include attending Police duty meetings, remembrance services, visiting Fire stations, conducting school assemblies, running self-worth courses, counselling vulnerable young people and signposting, visiting homes for the elderly, befriending and offering practical assistance. There is also an additional member of ECC who conducts funerals independently but in line with our values and charitable ethos.

All-Stars Junior Church

All-Stars is the children’s church at ECC which runs on Sunday mornings. During this year, All-Stars was run by a team of parents and helpers who on a rota basis were teaching the children Christian messages and Bible stories. All-Stars used scripture Union resources as a basis to provide fun lessons. All-Stars is open to all children in the area and it promoted the objectives of advancing education and the Christian faith. The lessons from All-Stars teach the children to be respectful, caring and good citizens within their community. This has an impact on bene�iting society as a whole.

 Emmanuel Toddlers

Emmanuel Toddlers continued this year on Monday afternoons. It served young families in the community by providing a warm and stimulating environment for parents, toddlers and babies to interact and build supportive relationships. There is a clear Christian element with Bible stories and songs.

As an objective this is about the advancement of the Christian faith, relief of sickness and �inancial hardship, and the promotion of good health by the provision of a service with counselling and support. Emmanuel Toddlers uses the minor hall at ECC and has seen a steady growth as the year progressed.

 Missions Department

This year the Missions Department had the purpose of raising funds and communicating with people and organisations that bene�it from the Emmanuel Christian Centre charity, both locally and internationally. The Missions Department reported to the Church Council and presented requests from organisations and individuals who were in need of charitable assistance. There has not been any new overseas charitable donations where recipients could no longer provide ECC with evidence of good safeguarding practice.

 Carelink

The purpose of Carelink is to demonstrate the love of God in a practical way mainly through the provision of meals. The meals offered are either part of Carelink’s regular meals service which replaced Cumbria County Council’s meal-on-wheels provision, or they are given as Carelink free meals which were open to anybody in the community experiencing short-term crisis because of illness or �inancial hardship.

The community meals service has been running for over 9 years and, as anticipated, there was an increase in the number of people served. At Christmas Carelink provided a free Christmas dinner at the Centre for those who wanted one or would bene�it.

 House-groups

Emmanuel Christian Centre concurrently ran 4 house-groups throughout the year. The aim of the groups was to provide Christian teaching, develop relationships between members and to prepare members for work in the community. The groups have different formats and no two are the same, as you might expect with people gifted in differing but still as valuable talents. The groups thus met our objectives of advancing education and advancing the Christian faith as well as the provision of counselling and support to group members.

 Worship and Music Group

As a Christian organisation our Music Group plays an integral part in our objective to advance the Christian faith. The team provides live music at our Sunday services and also supports all the other departments in various ways. The Music Group allows for our members to meet for corporate expressions of worship and none of this would be possible without their regular practice nights and training.

 Training Department

This department has been involved with a correspondence course based on the book ‘My Sheep Hear My Voice’ by J.C. Hedgecock. This forms the �irst step in any future training for candidates wishing to train for ministry with Servants of the Lord Ministries and to some extent ECC. Over 90 people from all over the world have completed the course and have been issued with a certi�icate. Some have now gone on to seek further training for ordination.

The Emmanuel School of Leadership and Ministry still provides a competence-based approach to ministry training similar to vocational studies. In 2022, when possible, the school was run as an extension made up of 2 groups; the Development Group and the Theology Extension. The full course and curriculum has not been operational since the restrictions imposed for covid-19 but it is hoped this will be restarted.

 Kintsugi Hope

ECC partnered with Kintsugi Hope during 2021 to form a wellbeing group which is a safe and supportive space for people who feel or have felt overwhelmed. By providing tools for self-management, the group was able to cover subjects such as disappointment, loss, anxiety, anger perfectionism, depression, shame and resilience. Initial feedback was somewhat positive and a review of ECC’s wellbeing group will be conducted before �irm plans to present further courses are established.

 Connections Coffee Shop

Renovation and redecoration of the former Revista coffee shop have taken place, with the coffee shop area now running as Connections. There are still some changes to be made but the initial redecoration and update is progressing to allow Connections to compliment other ECC initiatives through the provision of fellowship and meetings spaces. The vision will be ful�illed in stages, beginning with making use of the area for ECC, Churches Together and ad-hoc events, including opening to the public one day each week until there is capacity to increase.

A signed copy of the following accounts is available at Emmanuel Christian Centre

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Reference and administration details

Organisation

Organisational Structure

Recruitment & Appointment of Trustees

Induction & Training of Trustees

Risk Management

Overview of Aims and Objectives

Charitable Objects

Achievements and performance

Review of the Year

 Emmanuel Toddlers

 Missions Department

 Carelink

 House-groups

 Worship and Music Group

 Training Department

 Kintsugi Hope

 Connections Coffee Shop

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