Trustees report for Bethesda Church 1052587
01/01/2021 - 31/12/2021
During this year we have been affected by the covid restrictions. We have worked keeping the objectives of the charity going and functioning.
We moved our Sunday services online. Setting up a YouTube channel and posting the meeting on there. We have kept this on after the restrictions were lifted for those who can’t make it to church as well as a chance to reach the community around us. The numbers indicate that we are reaching more people through this than attend on a typical Sunday.
Once restrictions were lifted we began to start up various activities again
Knitting Group:
Throughout the restrictions the knitting group continued online and still knitted many thousands of hats for babies. It also provided friendship and companionship for those who knitted. They has “zoom” knitting meetings, but once the restrictions we lifted they reverted to meeting face to face.
The group now meets multiple times a week in different venues in the community.
Toddlers: Didn’t begin again in this time period. It is now up and running again
Café:
The community café began again. It quickly grew and became a focal point to a group of local people. Many of them non church people. It continued to grow and function in this way.
During this time we looked at what we used to do and what we wanted to restart. It was a process of emerging from the restrictions and fitting
our activities to the need and the people we have to serve the community
Iain Somerville Pastor of Bethesda
## **Bethesda Church 2021 Statement of Income & Expenditure - Main Church activities**
|**Income**|**Income**||**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Balance b/f|**£**|**24,469.21**
|Admin|£|6,107.43
|
|Tithes & Offerings|£|46,558.69
|Catering / Events|£|295.55
|
|Other Income|£|-
|Church Ministry|£|7,215.58
|
||||Misc|£|-
|
||||Missions|£|504.00
|
||||Premises|£|5,557.16
|
||||Transfers|£|-
|
||||Wages|£|23,184.43
|
||||Balance c/f to 2022|**_£_**|**_28,163.75_**
|
||**£**|**71,027.90**
||**£**|**71,027.90**
|
## **Bethesda Church 2021 - Fund Statement**
|Brought forward from 2020|Brought forward from 2020|**£**|**226,789.50**
|
|---|---|---|---|
|**In year position**|Church|£|3,694.54
|
||Café|£|120.00
|
||Campaigners|-£|40.00
|
||Interest accrued|£|1,046.19
|
|Total to carry forward to 2022||**£**|**231,610.23**
|
|**Cash**|Café|£|149.00
|
||Campaigners|£|8.62
|
|**Current Accounts**|Church|£|28,163.75
|
||Café|£|4,101.01
|
||Campaigners|£|980.21
|
||**Reserves**|£|198,207.64
|
||Total|**£**|**231,610.23**
|
## **Bethesda Church 2021 Statement of Income & Expenditure - Main Church activities**
|**Income**|**Income**||**Expenditure**|**Expenditure**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Balance b/f|**£**|**24,469.21**
|Admin|£|6,107.43
|
|Tithes & Offerings|£|46,558.69
|Catering / Events|£|295.55
|
|Other Income|£|-
|Church Ministry|£|7,215.58
|
||||Misc|£|-
|
||||Missions|£|504.00
|
||||Premises|£|5,557.16
|
||||Transfers|£|-
|
||||Wages|£|23,184.43
|
||||Balance c/f to 2022|**_£_**|**_28,163.75_**
|
||**£**|**71,027.90**
||**£**|**71,027.90**
|
## **Bethesda Church 2021 - Fund Statement**
|Brought forward from 2020|Brought forward from 2020|**£**|**226,789.50**
|
|---|---|---|---|
|**In year position**|Church|£|3,694.54
|
||Café|£|120.00
|
||Campaigners|-£|40.00
|
||Interest accrued|£|1,046.19
|
|Total to carry forward to 2022||**£**|**231,610.23**
|
|**Cash**|Café|£|149.00
|
||Campaigners|£|8.62
|
|**Current Accounts**|Church|£|28,163.75
|
||Café|£|4,101.01
|
||Campaigners|£|980.21
|
||**Reserves**|£|198,207.64
|
||Total|**£**|**231,610.23**
|