2023-04-06-accounts - His Place

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Trustee name	Office (ifany)		Dates acted ear	ifnot for whole	Name ofpamon lor to a point trustee
Rev Christopher	Chairperson	/	End ofterm Nov 2022
Sears	Treasurer
Margaret Sears			End ofterm Nov 2022
Nicola Roper	Health &Safety /
	Secretary
Caroline Wheeler	Safeguarding
Cllr Trevor Webb			Resigned	July 2022
Nigel Sinden	Chairperson		Nov 2022	onwards	Nicola Roper
Christine Brewer	Treasurer		Nov 2022	onwards	Nicola Roper

Names ofthe t	rustees for the c	harity, ifany, (for example, any custodia	n tr
Name		Dates acted ifnot for whole	ear
Herbert West
Rev Chistopher	Sears
Miss Nicola Roper

Type ofadviser	Name		Address
Heritage Consultant	Dr Katherine	Prior	Brighton
Fundraiser
Heritage Architect	John Bailey		Thomas Ford	&Partners
			177 Kirkdale,	London, SE264QH

				MCA Loan:-
				Risk ofcash flow problems identified as National Lottery Heritage Fund
				only pay 75%ofthe month's bills 20 days in arrears ofclaim. This could
				have led to challenges for His Place in meeting all commitments therefore
				an application for loan of50k was made to Methodist Church Association
				Bank. Who loan money to charities and churches with core cost activities
				and the money is protected and can only be used for the project
				requested. His place where successful with the application and aim to pay offas soon as the Heritage work is completed.
				His Place overriding objective is to be an organisation to benefit the
				public in Hastings and outer areas through all its services and activities.
				This is managed by having no barriers to the locality ofwhere the guests
				come from or what, ethnicity, religion, age, gender they are. Everyone
				can access support, guidance and engage with the different aspects of
				the His Place Charity.
				His Place Charity objective: To be a welcoming environment to all
				members ofthe public making us a truly inclusive open community
				organisation where there are no banters, and all are welcome and able	to
				safely meet and engage in pro social activities.
				Church objective: To advance the Christian faith in accordance with
				scriptures, providing a place ofworship, bible studies, home groups and
Summary ofthe objects charity set out in its governing document			ofthe	prayer support to the members of His Place and any other Christian family who call upon us or visit us. Completing outreach and evangelism to spread the gospel ofthe Good News.
				Cafti objective: To provide a community caf0 which is accessible to
				people from all areas ofthe community where they can afford to eat
				whether they are on benefits, homeless, retired, working and well off.
				Community centre objective: to provide a place ofeducation, social
				opportunities and problem solving through access to activities improving
				integration, skills, problem solving as well as general fun for all ages and abilities. Providing space that can be hired by other charity or community
				and public sector services ensuring that services required by the public are accessible.
				Health and weilbeing objective: provide a place where all regardless	of
				challenges, disabilities, age, nationality will feel included. Services to
				include mental health support, addiction support and life skills to aid
				people to a full and manageable life.
Summary activities	ofthe main undertaken	for	the	Activities undertaken:
public benefit In relation to these objects (include within				Church activities:
this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)				Pastor Graham Compton joined us in April to support as Pastor Chris Sears had been unwell for sometime following a stroke and parkinsons diagnosis. Graham has become a full time member ofthe team and is now responsible for pastoral and church activities within the His Place Charity structure. Pastor Chris remains a senior pastor following his 25+ ears of runnin His Place communi church but due to his deterioratin
TAR				March 2012

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			plans to do future community projects like this once the building	is
			watertight and fully able to open again.
		~	Welcoming all nationalities and ethnicitiss into His Place:
			We have always prided ourselves ofopening our doors to
			everyone regardless ofany social / economical difference and
			this year we have seen a big increase in the number of refugees
			accessing His Place. This has been because offurther
			partnership and joint working with the Refugee buddy project and
			Homes for Ukrainian grant scheme through Hastings Voluntary
			Action. Our biggest group has been the ladies EDE party. The
			building was made available for the ladies to have a party and
			celebrate with food and other traditions without the worry of any
			outside intrusion. The woman therefore not having to worry about
			keeping covered and were free to celebrate this important festival
			for their faith. The refugee buddy project has also used us weekly
			now for providing space for English lessons which again has
			helped with community cohesion as their participants pass though the cafe and engage with speaking to cafe customers and
			community members building on the feeling ofacceptance and
			safety that were able to offer in this diverse community of
			Hastings and St Leonards.
		~	Pastor Chris Sears had recovered from his ill health and has been
			able to get back into the building and been able to continue
			supporting the congregation through guidance and Pastor
			Graham Compton has joined the team officially now after a few
			months ofbeing a guest pastor. The church continued as did the
			charity through the challenges ofPastor Chris's illness as the
			governing and church leadership team are so strong with their
			faith, skills set and determination and therefore no service
			regardless of being community based or church suffered during
			this time. Large organisations can crumble when sudden changes
			occur but the resilience that His Place Charity has shown over all
			the years and the challenges that are not man made prove that
			we do have a past, present, and future that will see us continue to
			serve the communi for enerations too come.
Briefstatement charity's policy	ofthe on reserves	His Place has a policy ensuring that 10kacross the caf0 and church bank accounts is the level that must be maintained to ensure that in the event income ceased or situations unexpectedly arise that there would be this
		figure available to ensure unexpected costs could be covered or that the
		running	costs could be covered for up to 6months. The monthly income
		and expenditure are monitored and trends ofchange in income, giving
		and ex	nditure monitored b the chair oftrustees and treasurer.

									Unrestricted	Restricted	Restricted	Endowment
		Catagortac			I) tail.				funds		funds	funds
									to nearest f'	to	nearest f	to nearest f
B1Cash	funds				Bank + Church		accounts		83,197		10,000
					Cash				46
					tagluu	Total udldnt us		cash funds wlul luuuliuls	83,243		10,000
					and	payments		account(s))
									Unrestricted	Restricted		Endowment
					Details				funds to nearest f	to	funds nearest f	funds to nearest f
B2Other	monetary assets
					Details				Fund to which asset belon s	Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3Investment			assets
					Details				Fund to which asset helen s	Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4Assets		retained for the			Fixed Assets				36000
charity's	own		use		Non Fixed	Assets			49269
					Building				210959
									Fund to	Amount due		When due
									which liability	(optional)		(optional)
					Details				relates
B5Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees behalf of all the trustees				on		Signature			Print Name			Date of a royal
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CCXXR1 accounts (SS)												24/01/2024