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CHARITY NUMBER: 1075473

LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

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Charity Information 1
Report of the Trustees 2
Report of the Independent Examiner 6
Statement of Financial Activities 7
Balance Sheet 8
Notes to the Financial Statements 9

LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH CHARITY INFORMATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

TRUSTEES: P Hills
S Maughan
K Maughan
CHARITY NUMBER: 1075473
ADDRESS: Unit 5
Clayfields Estate
Off Tickhill Road
Balby
DONCASTER
South Yorkshire
DN4 8QG
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER Miss Jodie Whinfrey, FCCA
Whinfrey Briggs Limited
Unit 33 Century Business Centre
Century Business Park
Manvers
Rotherham
S63 5DA

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31st March 2025

Structure

The charity was established as a Trust on 05th March 1999.

The charity operates from our premises: Life Changers Church, Miracle Centre, Unit 5, Clayfields Estate, Off Tickhill Road, Balby, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN4 8QG.

Trustees

The trustees who served during the year were:

P Hills S Maughan K Maughan

The charity's policy regarding the selection of Trustees is to be nominated by an existing trustee for serving and helping within the charity for an extended period. The other trustees then vote and then a majority agreement is required.

Principle Objectives

The objective of the charity is to be a charity of excellence in all that we do. We conduct various Christian services, where we preach and teach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and by words and deeds we reveal the love of Jesus Christ. So promoting the spiritual and moral improvement of mankind. We also maintain our long term aim of establishing Christian schools here in Doncaster.

Review of the Year

This last year has been another great year for the Charity. During the year we have yet again continued to grow rapidly numerically. Attendance at our Sunday Celebration Services have now almost trebled since our pre-COVID attendance levels. We continued to have a high percentage of first time visitors actually become long term/permanent attendees which is always encouraging. So again this year we want to put on record our thanks to our staff, trustees and all of our committed volunteers for the way they have continued to help us run the Charity/Church during the past year. We continued to meet the needs of people here in Doncaster that want a true 'Word of Faith Church' that are wanting to meet at Church in still person, as well as online. We continued to provide and further improve our "online" services/meetings, for all those who do still chose to join us online. Most of our meetings last year were again broadcast LIVE on our Facebook Page, but also last year on our YouTube channel as well. Having an online presence still provides us with a new way to get Church and ourselves known to new people here in Doncaster, who other wise may never step inside a Church building. We know that a lot of our new weekly attenders first started watching us online, before then visiting us in person. So being able to do Church in a more professional hybrid way, (both in person and online) has been very beneficial to the charity. It has really helped us to keep growing last year and reach out to even more new people, both here in Doncaster and around the UK and even abroad! So continuing to develop our 'online' offering continues to be a 'work in progress' for us, with our goal remaining to further improve our filming - with more cameras and our video editing as we go forward. Last year we continued to expand our online activities in all areas - on our website, our YouTube channel and also our existing social media channels -Facebook and Instagram etc. We continued (deliberately) to be active on social media most days, with encouraging messages and reminders of upcoming meetings. This has been a big step up for us again, with only having staff/volunteers with very limited social media backgrounds, but we knew that we had to continue to reach and help and support people. We know that our online activities have continued to help us reach NEW and even more people throughout the year. As stated not only new people here in Doncaster, but we have been able to reach people right around the world and we still now have regular viewers from Europe and as far a field as USA and Africa. We have also continued to have more people regularly interact with us on social media as well as also watching our online services.

Our weekly 'IGNITE' Believers prayer meetings have continued to generate lots of prayer requests with people contacting us each week. We also have our NEW Church 'Prayer Warriers' WhatsApp group, that meets daily at the start of the day to pray for people. Our aim remains that the charity has to be here for our Church family but also to be a voice of hope to our wider community, in a practical way, as many people are still fearful over things and have needs that they want prayer for. So last year we continued to advertise all of our services and how people could contact us. Our plans remain for our online meetings to continue, to enable us to reach even more new people that we can help, especially those not in Doncaster but around the UK and the rest of the world. So we our proud that our hybrid approach meant that last year we were able to keep growing numerically (as well as financially). Last year we were able to hold another 'Water Baptism' service, where several people were water baptised. Sadly last year, we did have a member of our Church family pass away and we held the funeral service here at Church (for which we did not charge) to be a blessing to the family and people/friends in the local community. We also had an invited "Special Guest Sunday", where we held a meeting/service with a visiting speaker coming up to Doncaster from London. We also had a very special weekend Conference, with invited guests from New York, USA. Our conference/special guest events were (free) ticketed events and were real highlights for the Church from last year. Having visitors travel to come and join us from all over the UK. We remain committed to making our Church a full part of the local community. We demonstrated this in many ways, for example by holding a FREE summer BBQ and a fun day for children with a bouncy castle and games etc. This was one of our best attended events by our Church members and also members of the local community. We want the benefits of a thriving local Church to flow out from us into our City. As the Bible teaches us firstly to reach into 'our' Jerusalem - our local community of Balby and then out into our City of Doncaster. Then, as our sphere of influence continues to increase, we want to be able to go onto effect the other "DN" (Doncaster) postcodes and then further afield into Yorkshire and eventually the rest of the UK and even further afield around the world.

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It remains our strong desire to promote the whole mission of the "Church" including evangelistic, pastoral care and the social well being of people. To this end our services and our worship put our faith into practice through various means. For example, through prayer - we are open to all, for prayer requests and regularly (each week as we receive requests from the public - from people here in Doncaster and from other areas of the UK and even from abroad) we pray for the sick and the needy during our weekly corporate prayer meetings. We know that so many people in our City have various health, or financial issues and we know that prayer works. Throughout the year we received testimonies of answers to prayer. So we continued to advertise and actively encourage people to approach us with their prayer requests for their spiritual and physical needs. We continue to have numerous channels for people to contact us in different ways. For example through our Church telephone number, Email, our Church Web Site, or through social media such as our Facebook Page, Twitter (now X) or our Instagram account, (where we have a dedicated lead to help us reach out to new people). This year again, we have continued to dramatically increase the number of followers. A further example of trying to help people is through a strong use of Bible scripture, our aim is to act and live out what the Bible teaches and to see people grow as they walk in Godly knowledge and wisdom. To achieve this we continued to have practical weekly Bible Teachings last year (both online and in person). Where people can join us in person at Church, or even just watch online at home and still learn and grow in their Christianity walk. We remain committed to build people up and help people reach their full potential in life and become true disciples of Jesus Christ. Our Bible Teachings try to focus on very practical issues, that we know people need help with, such as finances, employment and relationships etc. We also aim to make our all of our meetings including our Praise and Worship relevant and engaging for all, through the use of modern music and lively new songs. This year we have continued to build up and expand further our Praise and Worship band/team. With our worship remaining LIVE, rather than previously relying on CD's/recorded music in the past. We always try to keep our Praise and Worship family orientated with a modern and lively style, which appeals to most people. This continues to help us engage and encourage our "Overcomers" (our young children in Church aged 3 to School year 6) and our "LCC Youth" (our teenagers from School Year 6 up to aged 16). Our Children's and Youth Meetings all continued as weekly face-to-face / in person meetings. Our LCC Youth especially, has again expanded/grown over the last 12 months. We continue to use an audio visual system in the Church building and strive to make the best use of multi media whenever we can, to get our message across and be as relevant to as wide an audience as possible. Our baby/toddler room (for under three's) has been a great success again last year where we have a TV and equipment so that parents can watch/hear the services while being in the baby room, so that they are not missing out on the meeting and our teachings. We always actively look for ways to help people from the local community and be a blessing to our local community. As being a blessing and helping people, putting others first, is the DNA of this charity. Evidence of this was by our "Christmas Appeal". We raised funds from our Church members for 'Divine Favour Ministries', a Christian Charity in Uganda, Africa which runs an orphanage - offering food, a home and an education to children. We continued to work with them throughout the year, as well as at Christmas. We may think that we see poverty here in the UK, but these children in Uganda have literally nothing and they live from meal to meal. The Church was so generous in it's giving to enable us to help them. It was a joy and a real blessing to be able to make a difference in the lives of these children.

We continue to benefit from the fact that we have bourght and own our Church building, so not only are we saving on rent payments but having our own permanent local premises means we are able to continue to hold regular weekly meetings (up to 4 meetings a week). Having so many different meetings enables us to continually try and reach out to more people and new demographics. For example having our "Overcomers" Children's meetings for those aged 3-11, our "Adored" Women's Meetings, our "Band of Brothers" Men's Meetings, our "LCC Youth" Meetings for those aged 11-16, or our "Timeless" meetings for thosed aged 50 or over. Last year we re-launched and started afresh our monthly Timless meetings with new ministry leaders and it has proven to be a great success. So we always try to reach out to as many different demographics as we can. Our ladies have continued to meet in person with their monthly meetings called "Women of Worth" which has been a great way that we have been able to grow and reach out to more and different women this year. The purpose of our "WOW" meetings are also to disciple and help the ladies grow and develop in their relationship with God. For over 'Overcomers' (Children) at Halloween, we also held a FREE 'Light Party'. As well as a Christmas party, all of which were FREE for all children to attend. Also, last year we ran our thriving "Eden" Coffee shop, which was open after all of our meetings. Open to everyone to have some (heavily subsidised) refreshments and some fellowship with us, which continues to be a great help for us in reaching more people and deepening relationships/friendships. We also still have a small dedicated number of people who join us for Church online only, including those not actually living in Doncaster. So again last year, was another great year of growth for the Church. We have continued to see further growth in BOTH our 'Overcomers' Children's Church and our 'LCC Youth' last year, with many families and also single parent's joining us. Our desire remains to equip and disciple our current congregation further, providing even more teachings and wisdom, to empower them through the teaching of life skills, (which sadly so many in our community desperately need). Our daytime "Timeless" meetings for the over 50's were another area we are continuing to grow now. As we really want to continue to help the elderly and people who live alone, to provide them with the opportunity for extra fellowship and relevant meetings just for them. Providing great pastoral care to everyone in the Church is always at the heart of everything we do, this again was a big focus for us last year, as we continued our Pastoral Care team specifically with this aim. Providing friendship and just an informal ear for a chat, being there to offer our help and advice. So in many ways last year was a great success for us with our multiple weekly meetings and offering support to people here in the Church and to our local community here in Balby and across the wider Doncaster postcodes.

Being a Church located in a highly deprived area in our City we know only too well that people need help and support and guidance with various life events. So to help our congregation and the local community at large, we continued to offer free help and counselling to people. Along side our Pastoral Care team, our Pastors were also always available to help people. Everyone was able to book a private appointment with our Pastors /Pastoral care team to gain the advice and support that they desired. This is always widely advertised within the Church, on our website and via our various social media channels. We have continued to try and build up and improve further our Church YouTube channel again last year. YouTube has also been another tool we have used to try to reach out to new and different demographics. We also hold specific monthly prayer meetings where we pray specifically for (Doncaster) our city, it's Council and it's people, in fact we cover the whole of the "DN Postcodes" in our prayers. In everything we do, we always try to put the people of our community and our city first. We have continued to try and expand our outreach ministries again last year, whereever we could, through special events at our Church building. All of our events have been free or heavily subsidised and were advertised and open to all in the local community to join us. Another major financial achievement of the last year has been, that we were again able to maintain the hours of our employed staff. We have employed five members of staff throughout the year. With BOTH of our Pastors - Pastor Philip and Pastor Janet Hills being employed by the Charity full-time. Last year we were able to increase the Pastors wages again slightly, as being able to continue to employ them both full-time makes the day to day running of the Charity so much easier, as they are able to work and concentrate solely on the charity. It continues to give them the freedom to dedicate all of their time and energy to help us move forward with a renewed vision, energy and excitement. Our part-time staff - one who helps out with general admin duties and helps with our social media has really helped benefit the day to day running of the charity. It still our desire (we hope in the next financial year) to increase the part-time hours/employ other staff in the future as we grow and as soon as our finances practically allow this. By having both of our Pastors employed full time and also three other part-time staff (including two part-time cleaners) this has really enabled the Charity to grow further and to reach out to even more people in our community. Our Pastors continue to come and be at our Church building regularly and they have the time to plan for the Charity's future and put actions in place. This enables us to grow and improve things even further for the benefit of our local community. So employed staff remains a huge asset for the charity.

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Last year we again continued to build on our successful weekly Bible Teachings, where we teach people relevant life skills that local people in our local community really need - subjects taught included finances, working and employment and building strong relationships etc. These are areas that we feel really benefit people in their daily lives. So it is not just giving people spiritual food, but also the practical knowledge and skills they can put into action in their daily lives as well. Our aim is always to give people in the community the practical and relevant skills to lead a better life. Last year we continued to encourage other new people from within the Church to step up and train to deliver Bible Teachings, as well as our Senior Pastors. It is always good for people to "see and hear" different people and guest speakers. So we continue to try to encourage and build people up from within the Church. The congregation also enjoys hearing various different people speak and teach on different subjects, in addition to our two Pastors. When planning our activities for the year ahead we carefully consider the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and in particular the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion.

From our two Pastors, our trustees, leadership team and our Pastoral Care team we always aim to provide a great level of pastoral care to everyone in the local community. We openly advertise our contact details and welcome all requests for prayer, or practical help. As well as by telephone, Email and our Church web site, in this modern age, we continue to expand our use of social media, such as our growing Facebook page and even Twitter (Now X) and Instagram as well as YouTube too. We also continue to use our 'WhatsApp' groups as a way of communicating with people within the Church. For example of Men's and Women's groups. With the aim of reaching out further in a relevant way to even more people in the local community and further afield. We remain really proud of our Facebook page which has continued to dramatically grow with followers throughout the last year. Many different and new people now regularly post on our Church page with various requests for help and prayer. To encourage people to join us at our events and meetings we always widely advertise them on our website and in our social media channels. In addition we also offer free transportation to people to get to our meetings and events and many of the people who join us at Church we collect and take home each week, as a free service to help the people in our city.

As a Church we also continue to look for opportunities to support Missionary Work, an example being through our relationship with Gerard Vander Vegt who runs "Good Shepherd Homes" which is a Christian rescue charity providing homes for homeless children in India. As well as "Divine Favour Ministries" the Orphanage in Uganda that we continued to help and support. We also sent a lot of our Church tithe money to bless and support various Christian ministries abroad. As well as abroad, we are always keen to reach out to our local community here in Doncaster, whenever we can, especially at Christmas and Easter times etc. As a tithing Church we are committed to tithe (give away) 10% of our Charity income to support BOTH individuals in need and other Ministries in the UK and around the world, as we are led by the Lord to give.

It is our aim to continue to provide our various meetings and offer the support which the community finds both beneficial and spiritually fulfilling. As already mentioned, attendance at our weekly Sunday morning Celebration Service has again increased further this year. We also continue to have certain meetings on regular set Sundays or days of the week (e.g. first, or last Sunday of the month etc) which people welcome and find beneficial. We spend a great deal of time and put a lot of thought and effort into our various services making sure that they are relevant to people's needs.

Easter, Christmas and the New Year were again very busy periods for us last year. We organised additional special meetings at these busy/popular times, specifically aimed at reaching out to our local community. With our special Christmas Carol Service again a highlight of the year for us, where we put on a free refreshments after the meeting. Plus, we also held a special Christmas treat for BOTH our "Overcomers" our Children's Church, those aged 3-11 years old and our 'LCC Youth, for those aged 11-16 years old. These events were advertised and open to all in the local area to join us. As a Charity we firmly believe that we are "blessed to be a blessing" so Christmas was a very busy time of the year for us in terms of trying to reach out to people in need in our local community. Christmas time is a great joy for us when we can make a difference to people and bless them with gifts, but also share the love of Jesus with them and letting people know that we are here for them and care about them. We reached out and blessed many people with gifts. We again reached out with gifts to many of the other local businesses on the Clayfields Industrial Estate where the Church is based. Helping us to continue to build good will and great good local relationships with local people and businesses. As this is so important to us as a charity.

As a Church we have an outreach initiative called "hapnin". The aims of which are: To connect with everyone (including non-Christians) in a way that’s relevant to them. To reach our local community and grow Life Changers Church as a modern and relevant Church. To spend quality time together as a Church family, getting to know each other on a deeper level. To promote the benefits of a balanced, fun-filled life. To help people Integrate into our Church and grow and to make the most of events, places, activities and venues in and around Doncaster. Last year our "hapnins" were limited, but we do hope to arrange a lot more "hapnin" activities this coming year.

The Church also has a Ministry called "Women of Worth" (WOW) which holds regular meetings and special events for ladies. Dealing with relevant topics and issues for the modern woman. At these special meetings we have worship and relevant practical teachings. We also hold other fun events with free refreshments and activities. Our "WOW" meetings held during the day and in the evenings are really popular and are very successful, with several new ladies from outside of the Church joining us. We see this as a great way of reaching out to more women from Doncaster and our local area. Again we hope to expand WOW further again next year.

Building on the success of our "WOW" Ladies Ministry, we also have our Men's Ministry, called "Band of Brothers" (BoB). This is a Ministry open to all of the men in our city. We held various men's meetings, with speakers and various fun events, including FREE food and fellowship and testimony nights to uplift and encourage one another. Just like the ladies meetings our Men's meetings (BoB) are a great way of growing and reaching out to new men in our community, who may not normally think about coming initially to a Church service. Again we hope to continue with more Band of Brothers meetings next year and further developing/helping the men in Church to grow further.

Last year, in addition to our regular weekly services, we hosted guest speakers and weekend events and another Water Baptism service. As our congregation grows we plan to have more water baptisms services next year using our very own baptismal tank. As a local church it is always our aim to provide the services that the local community and our Church congregation requires. Last year we again continued to invest a lot of time and effort in keeping our Church web site up to date as the main method for people to keep in touch with us and find out about our online events etc and we are proud of the look and the content of the site and we know that a lot of people find us and visit us for the first time after visiting our web site. Another major focus of last year was in developing and trying to expand further our live Praise and Worship Team. We continue to have a drummer, guitarist, keyboard and a conga player. We continue to play live music with our team of singers every Sunday and this year they have continued to gel together as a team and continued to improve. So we are really pleased with how our Praise and Worship developed and improved further last year. Our keyboard player has started to write/compose some of his own Praise and Worship songs which we now sing regularly on a Sunday. The Church is really enjoying and responding well to our live praise and worship, rather than just singing to a CD, like we previously used to. The plan still remains (where finances allow) to continue to improve the Church building further next year with repairs/maintainance and buying new equipment that we now need. As the Church continues to grow in number, we are now already at our maximum capacity and are desperately runing out of space on a Sunday. Last year we started our "Building Fund2" appeal to raise further funds to enable us to look into the option of buying a new larger Church building. We were previously looking into having a Church extension built to give us some extra room, in the meeting room, that we now need, but we felt that even with an extension to our main meeting room, else where we still don't have enough room in our current building. So we are looking into various other options including buying new land/buildings on the Clayfields Industrial Estate. We went ahead with the initial planning permission and planning permission was actually granted for the extension. But throughout the year we soon realised that the proposed extension would not actually be big enough for our demand. So we are now still in the process of looking at and considering our options. With the favoured option at present being to continue to raise funds through our "Building Fund2" appeal and use these donated funds to actually buy a new/bigger Church building. Ideally still here on the Clayfields Industrial Estate, or if not on another site, ideally still here in our district of Balby.

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Finally, we express our thanks to our staff, but most importantly to our volunteers who work so hard to make our Church the lively and vibrant community that it is. We especially thank everyone for helping us deal with our rapid and continued growth.

Reserves Policy

It is the Church's policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible) of at least £10,000. Now that we have paid for the Church building in full, we no longer need to keep a reserve as high as £20,000 for the annual payments we had to have to buy our Church building. Restricted funds are in relation to special offerings and these are then immediately distributed accordingly upon the end of the collection period. Therefore restricted funds are generally at a zero balance at any given point.

Future Prospects

As mentioned, even though we now own our Church building, we still have plans to continue to physically improve/update the Church building further next year, with the long term view to actually purchase a new building entirely and sell the existing Church building. We also want to continue to build on the many great achievements of last year, for example our success in doing Church LIVE online. We are now already planning for many more events for next year, ranging from more Water Baptism services to more 'Overcomers' and 'LCC Youth' meetings. We also have plans to hold more 'WOW' Women's meetings, 'Band of Brothers' Men's meetings also more 'Timeless' meetings for the over 50's. We would also like to host an annual Church conference next year, and have more invited special guest weekends/speakers throughout the year. We would also like to continue working with Doncaster Council and/or others to reach out even further to the people and children in need here in our City. We intend to grow further and we plan to keep working on maintaining/improving our Church web site, as well as continuing to use our social media channels to increase our "followers" on our Church Facebook group further. As stated, where funds allow, (from our Building Fund 2 appeal) our long term plans continue to be looking into purchasing a new larger Church building. They also include looking at possibly purchasing some more digital cameras to enable us to record our meetings in a more professional way and to try to get onto Christian television. Also, the long term goal is to be able to employ more staff to work for the Charity. We also want next year to keep developing our new Praise and Worship team further, adding more musicians and instruments to the team - believing for more male vocalists and instruments to join the team. We also want to help grow and develop further the young Children and Youth in the Church. We also want to continue to offer the Church and the local community the help and support that people need through the counselling/practical advice that our pastoral team now offers. We also want to have more "hapnin" events (with "hapnin" being the outreach initiative of the Church) and more fun 'inviting opportunities' at Church for people to invite their friends and family to next year. So that we can reach out to new people even more and grow the congregation and the charity even further. We want to help new people connect with us and feel at home, so we still have plans to further improve our welcome team and the welcome/new to Church experience even further. The greatest desire of all though, is to continue to reach out with love and without judgement and to be able to help our local community and the people of Doncaster and the DN Postcodes and to grow the Church further in all areas next year.

Signed on behalf of the Trustees

P Hills Chair of the Trustees Date: 26th January 2026

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and Examiner

The Charity's Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) and that an Independent Examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act;

Basis of Independent Examiner's Report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An Examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanation from you as Trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent Examiner's Statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

or

(b) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Miss Jodie Whinfrey, FCCA Whinfrey Briggs Limited Unit 33 Century Business Centre Century Business Park Manvers Rotherham S63 5DA

Date: 26th January 2026

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

Notes Unrestricted
Restricted
2025
£
£
£
INCOMING RESOURCES
Donations
2
173,534
-
173,534
Investment Income
4,143
-
4,143
Charitable Trading
3,880
-
3,880
181,557
-
181,557
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Direct Charitable Expenditure:
Tithes
18,402
-
18,402
Ladies Events
280
-
280
Men's Events
306
-
306
Children & Youth
783
-
783
Coffee Mornings
254
-
254
Conference
977
-
977
Christmas & New Year
1,375
-
1,375
Other Events
461
-
461
Outreach
-
-
-
Charitable Trading
1,401
-
1,401
Sound/Media Costs
613
-
613
Licences
1,436
-
1,436
Gifts to Ministers
2,300
-
2,300
Wages & Salaries
3
26,068
-
26,068
Premises Costs
Rent
3,910
-
3,910
Water Rates
402
-
402
General Rates
156
-
156
Heat & Light
2,894
-
2,894
Insurance
817
-
817
Cleaning
2,747
-
2,747
Gardening costs
5
-
5
Repairs
3,506
-
3,506
Administration costs
Postage, Stationery & Advertising
593
-
593
Telephone & Internet
678
-
678
Depreciation
6,798
-
6,798
Profit on disposal of Assets
(80)
(80)
Motor & Travelling
205
-
205
Sundry
897
-
897
Bank Charges
48
-
48
Team Bonding/Training
-
-
-
Legal Fees
338
338
78,570
-
78,570
NET SURPLUS/(DEFICIT)
102,987
-
102,987
Balance of funds brought forward
538,685
-
538,685
Balance carried forward
641,673
-
641,673		 2024
£
184,368
2,814
3,012
190,194
18,902
821
417
1,363
-
-
3,988
120
-
1,621
639
1,458
900
28,800
3,602
334
110
3,034
687
3,543
-
834
200
660
7,234
-
126
384
59
-
131
79,969
110,225
428,459
538,684

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

Note
Fixed Assets
4
Current Assets
Stock
Debtors
5
Bank & Cash
Creditors - Within 1 Year
6
Current Assets
Creditors - After 1 Year
Surplus Funds
B/Fwd
7
In Year
7		 £
£
188,027
320
8,814
446,186
455,320
643,349
1,678
641,671
-
641,671
538,684
102,987
641,671
0
2025		 £
£
192,061
320
8,375
346,281
354,976
547,037
8,353
538,684
-
538,684
428,459
110,225
538,684
0
2024		 £
£
192,061
320
8,375
346,281
354,976
547,037
8,353
538,684
-
538,684
428,459
110,225
538,684
0
2024
547,037
8,353
538,684
-
538,684
428,459
110,225
538,684
0

The Financial statements were approved by the Trustees on: 26th January 2026

P Hills S Maughan K Maughan

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Charities Accounting Standards and the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005).

Income

All income is treated as unrestricted income, unless the donor has placed restrictions on the manner in which donation or grant may be spend, in which case it is treated as restricted income.

Tangible fixed assets

Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.

Property Improvements - 10% and 20% on cost Fixture and fittings - 10% and 20% on cost

Stocks

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

Assets obtained under hire purchase

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the profit and loss account on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

2
DONATIONS
Tithes & Offerings
Gift Aid
Give as You Live/Other income
3
STAFF COSTS
Wages & Salaries
Social Security		 2025
141,146
32,372
16
173,534
2025
26,068
-
26,068		 2024
152,560
31,673
135
184,368
2024
28,800
-
28,800

Remuneration paid to the trustees during the year was £9,000 (2024: £9,000). On average there were 3 employees during the year (2024: 4).

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LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH 2025

4 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Property
COST
At 1st April 2024
170,000
Additions
-
Disposals
-
At 31st March 2025
170,000
DEPRECIATION
At 1st April 2024
-
Charge for year
-
Disposal depreciation
-
At 31st March 2025
-
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31st March 2025
170,000
At 31st March 2024
170,000
5
DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Other debtors
Gift Aid Recoverable
6
CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
Other creditors
7
RESERVES
Unrestricted
£
At 1st April 2024
538,685
Surplus/(Deficit) for the year
102,987
At 31st March 2025
641,674		 Fixtures and
fittings
£
57,791
2,764
(325)
60,230
35,730
6,798
(325)
42,203
18,027
22,061
2025
£
684
8,130
8,814
2025
£
1,678
1,678
Restricted
£
-
-
-		 Totals
£
227,791
2,764
(325)
230,230
35,730
6,798
(325)
42,203
188,027
192,061
2024
£
768
7,607
8,375
2024
£
8,353
8,353
Total
£
538,685
102,987
641,674

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