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**2023**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ChristChurch Wrexham Trust ## **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1075397 **Charity's principal address** C/o Mr R A Fogg, Trustee 98 Erddig Road, Wrexham **Postcode LL13 7DR** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr C E Elliott|Chair|1/7/22 to 14/8/23
Resigned as Trustee|| ||R A Fogg|Treasurer||| ||G W Jones|||| ||Mrs E A Williams|||| ||G R Williams|||| ||F P Collins|Chair|From 15/8/23|| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** |**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |N/A|| ||| ||| ## Section B **Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Trust deed (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust - (eg. trust, association, company) New trustees are approached and appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) CCWT March 2023 1 ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees. - The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works. - Relationship with any related parties. - Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. Trustees are familiar with all aspects of the Trust’s activities. They take advice from specialists on aspects of charity governance on which they are unfamiliar. Trustees keep themselves aware of current issues in charity governance. The charity is led by a leadership team, which submits major proposals to congregational meetings for members’ approval. One of the leaders is designated Senior Church Leader and is remunerated. Other members of the church serve in various leadership roles for specific activities. In addition to the Senior Church Leader, four other members of the church were paid (part-time) for specific work during the year. The trustees have produced and kept under review a Health and Safety policy that covers all aspects of the Trust’s activities. There have been no incidents that have required disclosure to a statutory agency. The Trust operates Safeguarding policies ensuring all officers of the church and volunteers working with children and young people are subject to enhanced DBS disclosure checks. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** _to advance the Christian Faith holding to the authority of scripture in all matters of faith and conduct in Wrexham and in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the trustees may from time to time think fit;_ **Summary of the objects of the** _to relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are_ **charity set out in its** _aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused thereby in Wrexham and_ **governing document** _in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the trustees may from time to time think fit; to promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in Wrexham or such other parts or the United Kingdom or the world as the trustees may from time to time think fit._ The trustees have reviewed our objectives and activities to ensure they continue to reflect our aims. In carrying out this review, the trustees took into account the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and in particular its supplementary guidance on the advancement of religion for the public benefit. They consider that the Trust provides public benefit to the community through the Sunday and midweek activities, through its grant-making, and through its involvement and active participation in town-wide **Summary of the main** initiatives. **activities in relation to these objects** The principal activities of the Church (the Trust) comprised: Weekly public worship and other meetings for teaching and fellowship. Sunday and midweek activities for Children & Youth Support of Christian Ministries in Wrexham, Christians Together in Wrexham, etc and abroad through various agencies for the relief of suffering via: Tear Fund, and other agencies and supporting disaster appeals (Turkey Earthquake, Pakistan Floods) etc. Support of Community projects within the local Community e.g. Street CCWT March 2023 2 Pastors (Wrexham), Foodbank, _Feeding the Roofless_ , Baby Basics, Tiddlers (playgroup). Elsewhere we support GNF (Hungary), and through UK organisations Fundatia Incredera (Romania) and a project in Nepal. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - Policy on grantmaking - Policy programme related investment - Contribution made by Volunteers Grants are made to various organisations and are reviewed by the leadership team regularly and changes approved by members at congregational meetings. Most of the activities of the Trust depend on the voluntary effort of members of the congregation. The majority of members are involved in one or more activities of the Trust. The trustees, with the exception of Mr G W Jones, receive no remuneration, as noted in the accounts. The trustees continue to review the public benefit arising from the activities, and are satisfied that they do provide significant benefit to many within the community. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Weekly public worship** : The style and content of worship aims to be **Summary of the main** contemporary and accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, **achievements of the charity** and particularly to people who are unfamiliar with public worship. **during the year Church based Youth and Children’s activities** ran throughout the year adapting to the composition of the group. Most of our activities returned to face-to-face in the year, though some activities are accessible on-line. **Support for Christian and relief work:** The Trust has used its own resources and raised and distributed funds from the congregation for projects locally and abroad. These include, supporting the international relief work of TEAR Fund and other agencies, and initiatives. The Trust has worked with other organisations in Wrexham to promote initiatives via Christians Together in Wrexham. • The Trust has responded to various appeals for relief in response to natural and other disasters and emergencies throughout the period, notably in Ukraine (through a Polish church), Turkey earthquake & Pakistan floods. **Community projects** . The Trust has continued to support the following : - The ongoing work of Street Pastors (Wrexham) to provide a caring presence in the town centre on busy evenings. - • Wrexham Foodbank. • Baby Basics Wrexham – providing support for individuals/couples or families with newborn children - • Tiddlers (a Carers and Toddlers group providing friendship & support for children & families) and - • Y Bont (IPAC) - . **and outside the UK:** • Continued to support Fundatia Incredera in Oradea, Romania (alcohol and substance abuse education), a community project in Nepal, and a church in the Roma community in Hungary. CCWT March 2023 3 Section D Achievements and performance **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Section E Financial review** The trustees believe that it is appropriate for the Trust to maintain **Brief statement of the** sufficient reserves to enable it to meet its current expenditure for six **charity’s policy on reserves** months without further income. Reserves are currently higher than this level, but are being reduced, and the trustees have considered how this excess should be utilised in accordance with the objectives of the Trust. At the end of the year no funds were in material deficit, and any small **Details of any funds materially** deficits in Restricted Funds were met from transfers from the General **in deficit** Fund. **Further financial review details (Optional information)** CCWT March 2023 4 You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising). The charity’s main source of funding is the voluntary donations of members and friends of the Trust. The main items of expenditure are salaries, support for youth and community activities and grant-making. - How expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity. - Investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** The trustees offer a contributory pension scheme that complies with the The Pension Regulator’s autoenrolment requirements. All staff pay is at or above the Real Living Wage. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** RAFogg FPCollins **Position (eg secretary, chair, Chair etc) Date** 15/11/2023 CCWT March 2023 5 ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Christchurch Wrexham Trust**|||||**1075397**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||**01/04/2022**||||**31/03/2023**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Donations and collections|64,576||11,801||**-**||76,377||**80,333**| |Events inc Lunch Club|209||||**-**||209||**30**| |Interest|656||-||**-**||656||**745**| |Grants & Legacies|1,000||||**-**||1,000||**500**| |Other Income|||||**-**||**-**||**126**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_** _(Gross income for AR) _|**66,441**||**11,801**||**-**||**78,242**||**81,734**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**66,441**||**11,801**||**-**||**78,242**||**81,734**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Wages,Salaries,Pensions and NI|54,677||-||**-**||54,677||**41,746**| |Training,Conferences & Affiliations|649||300||**-**||949||**660**| |Hire of Premises|5,588||1,325||**-**||6,913||**3,490**| |Resources for Church|3,311||1,441||**-**||4,752||**4,120**| |Youth & Childrens Activities|699||143||**-**||842||**349**| |Donations and Grants|12,626||7,404||**-**||20,030||**24,716**| |Office Costs|590||188||**-**||778||**2,033**| |Cost of Events & Fundraising|1,688||31||**-**||1,719||**1,269**| |Legal and Professional fees|528||-||**-**||528||**480**| |Insurance|882||-||**-**||882||**862**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**81,238**||**10,832**||**-**||**92,070**||**79,725**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_**|**81,238**||**10,832**||**-**||**92,070**||**79,725**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**(14,797)**||**969**||**-**||**(13,828)**||**2,009**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**100,966**||**-**||**-**||**100,966**||**98,957**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**86,169**||**969**||**-**||**87,138**||**100,966**| ||||||||87,138||| ||||||||-||| CC16a-2022-23 Revised.969 10/01/2024 1 ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Christchurch Wrexham Trust**|||||**1075397**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date|||| ||||**01/04/2022**|||**31/03/2023**|||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Current Account||||**10,219**||**969**||**-**| ||Deposit Account||||**8,893**||||**-**| ||30 Day Notice Account||||**18,937**||||| ||95 Day Notice Account||||**48,085**||||| ||Petty Cash||||**35**||||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**86,169**||**969**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
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**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
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**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the char**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
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approval| ||FP Collins||||F P Collins||||05/12/2023| ||RAFogg||||R A Fogg||||05/12/2023| CC16a-2022-23 Revised.969 10/01/2024 2 ## ## ## ##