**United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** ## **Chairman’s Report 2021** I would like to welcome everyone to the Annual General Meeting of the Charity the United Church of God British Isles. It is good that we can hold this meeting using Zoom. This past year has been a challenging year for the Church and the Council has learnt many lessons during it. I feel that the most important one and the one that will have the biggest impact on how the Charity is run for many years into the future is Zoom. The pandemic has meant that the National Council couldn’t meet in the way that it has done since its inception and another platform had to be found for the work of the Charity to continue. Since the Church was using Zoom for Church Services it was logical to use it for the Council meetings. This proved to have several advantages. • It improves social interaction at a meeting because you see each member face to face instead of seeing some of the members at the other end of the hall. • The cost of holding meetings is cut because there is no hall hire, no travel expenses and no accommodation expenses. The cost of having meetings for the year 2018/19 was nearly £2500, now we only pay for postage to inform members of the AGM. • The time requirements upon members is reduced down to about half a day per meeting from anything from a long weekend to a full day. In my 2019 report I said “Over the last year or so it has become obvious that those in leadership roles are not immune from the frailties of life – illness, accident and even death. It is therefore imperative that we encourage the younger generations to become involved in the governing bodies of the Church to ensure continuity." This last point that I made about reducing the time requirement on members will hopefully encourage a younger generation to step up to the mark and take an interest in the administration of the Charity because it is more likely that they can afford this reduced amount of time to devote to the Church. I would like to encourage brethren to become more involved with the running of the Charity and thank all those who have given their time and effort in supporting the United Church of God BI – the Charity. I am pleased to see that there are three nominations for the vacant lay member seats on the Council and look forward to working with the successful candidates. I would now like to thank the retiring member, Dot Jarvis, for the work that she has done over many, many years and for the insight and wisdom that she has brought to the meetings. She will be missed. I will now hand you over to our CEO, David Fenney, to give you a more in depth assessment of the functioning of the Church as a Charity. David Payne (Chairman) Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **1** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** ## **CEO’s report 2021** The United Church of God in the British Isles has continued to function through another extraordinary year of disruption within wider society due to Covid-19. Because of ongoing restrictions and lockdown, our congregations have continued to meet for services using _Zoom_ . The 2020 Feast of Tabernacles was not held in person. Several of our part-time office staff have continued to work from home, being in the office only when necessary for essential tasks. As the 2020-2021 year ended our congregations are anticipating a return to in-person Sabbath services and to an in-person Feast of Tabernacles in September. The work of the Church in preaching the Gospel has continued, with Internet advertising and large-scale literature distribution. This report covers the period July 2020 to June 2021. Here are some statistics that provide a snapshot of UCG-BI as of June 2021: - 201 members on file. - 34 prospectives/associates on file. - 142 donors on file. - 133 co-workers on file. - 8 congregations that have met mainly by _Zoom_ this year, individually or in combinations. - 10 elders, plus wives, plus deacons and deaconesses, serving in our congregations. - 7,991 _Beyond Today_ print subscribers as of the May/June 2021 issue. - 166 _Bible Study Course_ students as of June 2021. - 175 _United News_ subscribers as of May/June 2021 issue. - £242,796 provisional total annual income for the year. - £211,334 provisional annual expenditure for the year, with the surplus of income over expenditure mainly because of minimal meeting hall rental and administrative/ministerial travel during the year; this surplus will be carried forward into the new financial year. ## **1. Church/local congregations/work of the ministry:** - a. This area of the Church’s work accounted for **6%** of expenditure (22% previous year). - b. All congregations have continued to be supported, with the ministry or other speakers present for _Zoom_ services wherever and whenever possible. Participation in online services is high, with most members being included. It seems only a small number overall do not have access to the Internet or choose not to make use of it. - c. In 2020 Church members kept the entire annual cycle of Holy Days at home, with congregational services taking place via _Zoom_ . This year 2021 all the Holy Days so far have taken place over _Zoom_ ; including a Church-wide combined service on the Last Day of Unleavened Bread. The autumn Holy Days, including the Feast of Tabernacles, are expected to include in-person meetings, but that is still not guaranteed. - d. Overall, UCG-BI is dependent on the work of many volunteers in all areas of its operations. The ministry of the United Church of God in the British Isles remains essentially unpaid. - e. With no in-person congregational services during the annual Holy Days, no congregational offerings were taken up. Members were encouraged to forward their Holy Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **2** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** Day offerings to the Church office, and directly into the Church’s bank account if possible. - f. The Church continues to rely on the support of local leaders within our congregations. The ministry has continued to review existing and future leadership needs. - g. Although no in-person ministerial meetings were held during the year, three ministerial meetings did take place over _Zoom_ . The complement of elders in the British Isles increased to 10 with the return of Peter Corrigan to the UK. - h. The newsletter _News & Events_ has continued to be published on an as-needed basis and distributed to members both in the British Isles and to a sizeable list of recipients overseas who have an interest in or a connection with the Church in the British Isles. All communications from the UCG _IA_ Cincinnati home office intended for the Church members here have been forwarded in a timely manner. - i. By August 2020 it was concluded that it would not be possible to hold the Feast of Tabernacles at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Southport. After discussion with hotel personnel, it was agreed that the Church would hold its annual event in the hotel in 2021. The Feast of Tabernacles itself was not cancelled, it took place with a mixture of _Zoom_ services and fellowship, together with opportunities for watching webcasts of overseas Feast services. - j. With _Zoom_ , activities under the heading of leadership training and development have continued throughout the year, with Bible studies, ladies’ meetings and speaking-inChurch training seminars being provided in various congregations, and in some cases across congregational boundaries. ## **2. Proclamation:** - a. This area of the Church’s work accounted for **64%** of expenditure (48% previous year). - b. The _British & European Supplement to Beyond Today_ magazine has continued to be published. The continuing efforts of Barbara Fenney as editorial coordinator and Jan Schroeder as production manager, together with the efforts of writers and reviewers, are much appreciated. This publication continues to include articles presenting basic biblical knowledge with a Christian-living focus. - c. Circulation of _Beyond Today_ magazine and the _Supplement_ averaged 9,200 subscriber copies during the year, 6 issues: with a high of 9,962 and a low of 8,141. The number of Internet-only readers in the British Isles is not readily quantifiable. - d. Internet _Google_ advertising continued throughout the year in the United Kingdom and Ireland, being undertaken on our behalf by the Media and Communications Services department in the UCG _IA_ Cincinnati home office, at UCG-BI expense. The charge to UCG-BI for this advertising during the year amounted to approximately £27,000. Around 8,360 Internet responses were received during the year, down from around 12,000 the previous year. - e. New subscribers to _Beyond Today_ magazine are offered an initial 12-month or 6-issue subscription. Our historical renewal rate has never been higher than 30%, and in the current year is in the range 3–10%; 4,877 new subscription requests were received in the year, down from around 7,600 in the previous year. Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **3** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** - f. In response to ongoing Internet advertising, the office has continued to experience significant levels of requests for booklets and Bible study aids. In the 12-month period July 2020 to June 2021, the office mailed 13,430 booklets and study aids to those who requested them, down from 17,600 in the previous year. The five most requested titles this year were: _The Ten Commandments_ , _The Book of Revelation Unveiled_ , _You Can Have Living Faith_ , _How to Understand the Bible_ , _You Can Understand Bible Prophecy_ . These five titles accounted for 49% of all booklet mailings. - g. Postage, at around £59,000, was our single biggest expenditure item in the year. - h. The subscriber mailing address carriers for _Beyond Today_ and the _Supplement_ have continued to contain ‘ads’ for related literature and for UCG _IA_ ’s _Beyond Today_ TV programme, in the form of ‘mini-advertorials’. This no-cost advertising has borne good fruit and we have continued with it. Several of these returned mailing address carriers have contained comments that are included in the letters page of the _Supplement_ or are forwarded to the Cincinnati home office. ## **3. Administration:** - a. This area of the Church’s work accounted for **30%** of expenditure (30% previous year). - b. The continuing efforts of our office manager Mrs Jan Schroeder to maintain the office functions under challenging circumstances this year are much appreciated. - c. The office, with both part-time employees and volunteers who come into the office and who also work from home, has continued to meet the various demands placed on it. The office continues to function differently from normal during the current situation, with several operations – principally database, editorial and accounting work – being carried out from home by accessing office systems remotely. One staff member works mainly in the office; others make occasional visits to the office to pick up supplies, check on things and to print necessary documents. Staff meetings and discussions take place by video conferencing using Microsoft _Teams_ , linking also to the CEO and treasurer. One staff member has access near home to Bank and Post Office branches, which has facilitated paying in cheque and cash donations received through the mail. - d. Mailing literature is one major function that requires personnel to be present in the office. This is usually carried out once a week by staff observing social distancing guidelines. While the bulk mailing of _Beyond Today_ and _Supplement_ is handled commercially, new subscription requests and back issue requests for _Beyond Today_ magazine are also mailed directly from the Church office. - e. Office equipment: to meet the needs of staff working regularly in the office and now from home, necessary upgrades to office equipment has been undertaken. In addition, to support working from home we have been grateful for the ongoing help and support of Cincinnati’s IT personnel. - f. In addition to the Chalfont St Giles Church office at Peterson House, UCG-BI continues to rent a business unit in Warrington. We essentially use this unit for storage of Church property, records, and equipment. This workshop unit has electrical power and plumbed facilities, plus a loading bay, and could be internally remodelled to enhance basic office workspace if ever needed. The current 3-year lease for this unit runs to July 2024. - g. The annual _International Subsidy_ request to UCG _IA_ for the 2021-2022 financial year was submitted in early January 2021 and later approved as part of UCG _IA_ ’s budget passed at Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **4** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** the May 2021 General Conference of Elders meeting. Our request was for US$27,180, broadly in line with the previous year’s request for US$26,400, This subsidy request is equivalent to around 7% of our total estimated income for the 2021-2022 year. I should point out that, except for the _Supplement_ , all our literature – _Beyond Today_ magazine, _Bible Study Course_ lessons, booklets etc – comes to us from UCG _IA_ without charge, effectively an indirect subsidy from UCG _IA_ to UCG-BI. - h. During the year UCG-BI arranged a charity account with “Amazon Smile”. To quote the details: “ _AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on amazon.co.uk. The difference is that when customers shop through the URL smile.amazon.co.uk, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the net purchase price (excluding VAT, returns and shipping fees) of eligible purchases to the charitable organisations selected by customers._ ” - i. Office work on the Church’s database to comply with the GDPR regulations is continuing. With the overall principles for UCG-BI’s data retention established, work has started, although progress is slow and will likely be completed after normal office working is resumed. ## **Thanks!** - I would like to thank the members and supporters of the United Church of God in the British Isles: - For their continued support and encouragement. - For their active involvement in our major activities. - For their ongoing personal motivation to develop as pillars and leaders. - For their financial support. - For their prayers and for their personal determination to follow God’s lead in their lives. - I would also like to thank the Home Office personnel of UCG _IA_ , together with the Council of Elders and the administration, for their support, advice and sharing of ideas, for the _ucg.org_ website, and for printed literature supplies, provided continually through the year as our stocks deplete. **----- Start of picture text -----**
David Fenney (CEO)
**----- End of picture text -----**
Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **5** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** ## **CEO’s business plan** As this 2021-2022 financial year starts, much uncertainty surrounds a potential return to what we used to refer to as “normal”. Several questions remain unanswered: When will we return to inperson church services and what will they be like? How will we interact with each other at Church? Will this year’s Feast of Tabernacles go ahead as anticipated? During the last almost 18 months, the pattern of our expenditure has swung towards proclamation, or preaching the gospel. As we return to “normal” that pattern will swing again to include in-person congregational meetings, along with ministerial and administration travel. As I mentioned last year, we must not lose sight of our mission, which is: “The mission of the United Church of God, _an International Association_ , is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God in all the world, make disciples in all nations and care for those disciples.” Paraphrased, this mission statement becomes the slogan “Preaching the gospel, Preparing a people.” In whichever way this new financial year turns out, we must continue to place a high priority on identifying, developing, training, and encouraging additional leaders, speakers, and administrators within our Church community. We must continue to utilise the skills, abilities, talents, and spiritual gifts of those God has placed within its community – even enhancing the skills of both young and old so that they can work together for the common good and towards a shared goal. Our previously stated key challenges remain: 1. To equip the saints in terms of identifying, training, developing, and mentoring a new generation of leaders within our Church congregations who can make those congregations work even better and who can in turn become the core of future congregations that we need to develop. 2. To inspire others to carry on the work of this present generation of volunteer administrators, that they in turn might contribute to our support structure at all levels: in the local congregations, in the National Council, in providing our major annual events such as the Feast of Tabernacles, children, youth and family activities, training activities and this annual general meeting. 3. To provide a welcoming Church environment in our present and potential future congregations that will encourage – alongside God’s calling – the interest, growth and development of people who contact us in response to our preaching of the Gospel. From our experience over almost 18 months, the first two key challenges are readily do-able with mid-week _Zoom_ meetings linking participants from multiple congregations. The third key challenge must be picked up again soon, when our congregations once again welcome new people to inperson meetings. ## **1. Church/local congregations/work of the ministry:** - a. **26%** of the Church’s overall expenditure budget has been allocated to this area. - b. The immediate challenge under this heading will be to manage the return to in-person Sabbath and Holy Day services. Issues that will likely need to be addressed include: dealing with ongoing restrictions; consideration of our members’ attitudes and opinions towards being back in Church and the ways in which they might be expected to interact Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **6** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** in-person with others; the potential for welcoming new attendees; the continued use of _Zoom_ for members at home; the potential ongoing need to combine some congregational groupings for speaking schedule reasons; the practicalities of congregational travel by the ministry and other speakers. - c. While the volume of enquiries about visiting our Church meetings is currently low, we do continue to receive requests for information about services from both members and others who are remote from our existing congregations. The need remains to work towards establishing new regular meetings, ultimately leading to new congregations; to achieve this, further pastoral development, together with the encouragement and motivation of existing members, is required. - d. While we do anticipate in-person congregational services during the 2021 autumn Holy Days, we will again encourage our members to continue to make their Holy Day offering donations directly to the Church, with no congregational Holy Day offering collections being arranged. For the congregations, there is the ever-growing challenge of finding and visiting convenient bank branches for paying in Holy Day offerings, and in that context this approach may become a permanent feature. - e. Member training that addresses congregational, administrative, ministerial, and pastoral needs is being undertaken, with presentations already held in some congregations, and others to be held on an ongoing basis. Mid-week _Zoom_ meetings facilitate this process. - f. The Church will continue to make provision for appropriate individuals and couples to attend UCG _IA_ ’s training activities, as opportunities present themselves. - g. For the Feast of Tabernacles this year, 2021, planning has been hampered by the ongoing restrictions and by the impact of the lockdown earlier in the year (2021). While we currently anticipate going ahead with an in-person Feast of Tabernacles at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Southport, with a full schedule of Church services, it will also likely be with a reduced attendance, with very few – if any – overseas visitors, and with a minimal formal programme of social and other activities. - h. For the Feast of Tabernacles next year, 2022, a decision for location and venue will need to be made soon. A core Feast planning team has been developed over recent years. As it is impractical to train up multiple independent teams to handle Feast sites in different places in different years, the Feast planning team will remain a standing function of the ministry, with a membership that includes the core team, supplemented by individuals who are local to each year’s Feast site and who are able to contribute to the teamwork necessary for the Feast. - i. Proposals for family activities for summer 2020 were developed early last year (2020) but were impacted by the Covid-19 situation. A family activity that was being planned for the west of England last summer later became an anticipated winter activity, then in 2021 it again became a proposed summer activity. It is still not possible for this event to be confirmed. - j. Regular member and co-worker letters are still required, perhaps by adapting equivalent letters from UCGIA. If necessary for cost reasons such communications might be included on the ucg.org.uk website on a regular basis. ## **2. Proclamation:** - a. **50%** of the Church’s expenditure budget has been allocated to this area. Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **7** of **9** UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** - b. Together with our overall income, this area of the Church’s expenditure will be the one to watch most closely as congregational in-person meetings and associated hall rental, together with ministerial and administrative travel, all begin to return to previous patterns and levels of expenditure. - c. Our _Beyond Today_ subscriber list in the UK and Ireland stands at a little over 7,000 for the July-August 2021 issue. This level fluctuates over time – historically, it has been as low as 1,500 and as high as 12,000; recently it reached just under 10,000. Clearly, most of our subscribers are not Church members. Our subscription level is essentially dictated by the tension between two opposing factors: (1) increases because of Internet advertising; and (2) losses due to non-renewals – our renewal rate is extremely low. - d. Maintaining and increasing that circulation level further remains a priority. We will continue to use Internet advertising as our primary advertising tool and will continue to fund the UCG _IA_ Home Office to do this advertising on our behalf. In addition, we will look at the process we use for renewals and examine possibilities for increasing our renewal rate. - e. UCG _IA_ anticipates publishing a new booklet during the year. We will make copies available to our members and advertise it to our overall mailing list. While this does cost money for advertising and postage, it also generates interest and useful feedback from our readership. - f. The subscriber mailing address carriers for the _Beyond Today_ magazine will continue to carry no-cost ‘ads’ offering various items of literature or highlighting the _Beyond Today_ TV programme. In the past we have made use of both sides of the mailing address carrier to allow us the scope for additional interaction with our readers. - g. Our writing skills need to be encouraged, developed, and enhanced. Articles for the _Supplement_ , mini-advertorials for mailing address carriers and possible blogs for the _ucg.org.uk_ website, are all needed – in the form of concise, yet challenging inspiring and encouraging, biblically-based Christian-living material for both the ‘un-churched’ and the ‘mainstream-churched’ audiences. A training session addressing writing skills took place during the Feast of Tabernacles in 2019, and a follow-up session is anticipated before this year’s Feast of Tabernacles, to be conducted using _Zoom_ . ## **3. Administration:** - a. **24%** of the Church’s expenditure budget has been allocated to this area. - b. The immediate challenge under this heading will be to manage the balance between working in the office and working from home. At present it seems likely that some working from home will continue, compared to working patterns prior to Covid. - c. Concerning office workload generally: the office is still a part-time work environment, with personnel typically working three days per week. - d. Office personnel, including the CEO and Treasurer, will continue to support activities such as: Database maintenance; Accounts records and bill-paying; Donations and Holy Day offerings records and paperwork; Website content management and maintenance; Safeguarding policies, procedures, and record-keeping; Payroll and associated matters; Gift Aid and associated record-keeping. - e. Activities such as the production of, maintenance of, distribution of all other Church and/or Charity-related policies cannot be handled by office personnel at present. Both UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **8** of **9** ## **United Church of God – British Isles** , **Annual General Meeting, 25[th] July 2021** UCG _IA_ and the National Council require that the Church operates in accordance with various policies and procedures, for example, policies for personnel, travel and subsistence, health and safety, safeguarding. While UCG-BI does operate in accordance with such policies and procedures, additional work is needed to (1) keep our policies upto-date and (2) keep our personnel up to date with sensitive Church-wide matters such as safeguarding. Church-wide training of personnel is also required on an on-going basis. These topics need to be reviewed and overseen by the National Council. - f. The _ucg.org.uk_ website needs to include more topical content, together with Church news, local sermons, and other messages. - g. Our long-term goal of eliminating our request for a financial subsidy from UCG _IA_ remains. The non-financial subsidy we receive from UCG _IA_ in the form of literature stocks sent to us without charge will likely remain. - h. Under the heading of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), work is underway to remove old data from our database. We also need to implement enhancements to our record-keeping and to our records storage facilities. We also need to address technical issues such as the use of corporate email addresses by all those who are involved with working with the Church’s data records in their various forms. Under GDPR it is essential that the Church has the appropriate consent of its members and others for potentially sensitive personal information which the ministry might compile and share during their Church work. This overall aspect of the Church’s work has progressed slowly during the past year. - i. A Strategic Plan still needs to be developed in conjunction with the National Council, with the aim of formally adopting a Strategic Plan for UCG-BI. - j. The current lease of Peterson House in Chalfont St Giles will expire in February 2022; another lease extension will be arranged. ## **Conclusion** I would like to conclude with a Bible passage: 2 Thessalonians 2:13–3:2. **Firstly** : from verses 13-14, there are two assertions: (1) God has chosen people for salvation; and (2) God has called people by means of the Gospel being preached. **Secondly** : from verse 15 and verse 1, there are two imperatives: (1) that Church people are to stand fast and hold to what they have been taught; and (2) Church people are to pray that the word of God may run swiftly and be glorified in the lives of those to whom it is being preached, just as it was when they themselves originally heard the word preached. **Thirdly** : verses 16-17 are Paul’s prayer of encouragement to the Church: that Jesus Christ and God the Father would comfort the Church and establish or strengthen it in every good word and work. We might reflect on this encouragement and adopt it and adapt it for doing the work of God in our time, in our world with its ever-changing – and deteriorating – culture, values and spiritual condition. David Fenney (CEO) UCG-BI AGM 2021Chairman and CEO's reports Second draft 25[th] July 2021 Page **9** of **9** RE ACCOLINT FOR THÉ VEIJI EPIDED 30JiIIIE 2021 2020 133180 66251 24312 4319 General Incoffle Holy Day Offerings Gift Aid Refvnds Festival Donat￿n5 WelfaTe General Other Income 155216 68750 5289 3016 356 1039 18081 19206 93 Interest Recefved 246592 252521 Dedurt thur el￿1 9857 6984 19114 348 Church Administration Local Church Travel and Subsistence Local Churth Hall Hlre Local Church M15cellaneous YoLTth Festiva15 Welfare and Asslstance Local Church Wages 3524 57 2353 178 713 11712 367 127 49 6370 55225 6562 13090 3069S 18420 57369 10416 8293 2404 Medla Publlcaiions WaBe5 PublI￿lS0n5 Postage and Shlpplng Publications Contracted Servlces Publl¢atlon5 Prlntlng and Pre-Press Publlcatlons Envdope5 and Llterature Publi¢atlon5 Trav Publlcation5 Supplies 27960 26678 59647 10482 11)099 1946 855 471 128305 138138 Admini5tratlon Wages and National Insurance Contributlons Premlses Rent etc Telephone Travel Costs Postage, Pfintin8 and Supplie5 Stationery and offi￿ Supplies Professlonal Fees Insurance 17090 20664 32521 32?88 1174 1157 2896 89 62 43 4616 8777 1094 975 1630 452 1375 Sundry Expense5 Bank Charges Depreuatoon Contracted Se￿tes Exchange Rate Variance SuspenselMi5PC5tlngs 891 12C 1005 10987 828 119 175 179 78636 196 65196 216424 1155741 Net Surplusl{Defidtl 36097 UNITED CHURCH OF GOD- BRITISH ISLES CHARITY NO: 1079192 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR ThE YEAR ENDED 30JUNE 2021 UNITED CHURCH OF GOD- BRITISH ISLES FOR THEYEAR ENDED 30JUNE 2021 Chari 's Princl al Address Peterson House The Green Htgh Street Chalfont St Gile5 Bucks HP8 4QF Bankers HSBC g Penn Road Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire HP9 2PT Charl Trustee5 D Fenney CEO D Payne Chairn)an D Jarvis Crook B Ellams UIIITED CHURCH OF GOD- BRITISH ISLES INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity. United Church Of God - British Isles, for the year ended 30 June 2021. RESPONSIBILITIES AND BASIS OF REPORT A5 the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111"the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under Section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5llbl of the Act. INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS STATEMENT I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material re5pect'.- accounting records We￿ not kept in accordance with section 130 Df the Act or the accounts do not accord with accounting records PJ Craighan & Co. l Broseley Avenue Culcheth Warrlngton Cheshlre WA3 4HH UNITED CHURCH OF GOD - BRYfisH ISLES BAiANCE sHE￿- 30 JUNE 2021 2020 Notes 3014 Flxed Assets 2483 Current Assets Debtors and Prepayments Cash at Bank-_ Current Account Nat West Reserve Account Paypal Account Current Account HSBC Liquidity Account HSBC Savlngs Account 5789 15424 825 263 52600 49009 278 373 124561 7463 24356 825 1941 78209 49013 278 698 162783 Cash In Hand Current Llabllltles Creditors and Accruals- due within one yeHr 1836 3430 159353 125739 Totsl Net Assets 161836 Re resented B Members General Fund 125739 161836 125739 161836 . B Fenney (Treasurer) . D Payne (Chairmonl . B Crook Imemberl Date.................................................... RIT 15LES IN ME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOIJNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021 2020 133180 66251 24312 4319 General Income Floly Day Offerings Gift Aid Refvnds Festival Donations Welfare General Other Income Interest Received 155216 68750 5289 3016 356 18081 93 1039 19206 246592 252521 edurt Church Church AdminF5tration Local Church Travel and 5ub515ten¢e Local Church Hall HI Local Church MIS￿lIaneoUS Youth Festiwa15 WelfaTe and A5SiStance Loral Church Wages endI￿re 9857 6984 3524 57 19114 2353 348 178 713 11712 367 127 49 6370 55225 6562 13090 Proclamatlon Medla Publlcations Wages Publications Postage and Shlpping Publications Contracted Services Publlcation5 Printing and Pre.Press Publlcation5 Envelopes and Llterature Publicatior15 Travel Publlcations Supplies 30695 18420 57369 27960 26678 59647 10416 10482 8293 IQ099 2404 1946 855 471 128305 138138 Administratlon Wages and National Insurance Contrlbutions Premises Rent etc Telephone Travel Costs 17090 20664 32521 32788 1157 1174 2896 89 62 Postage. Printlng and Supplie5 Stationery and Office Supplie5 Professlonal Fees Insurance Sundry Expenses Bank Charses Depredailort Contracted Services Exchange Rate Vailance SuspenselMi5P05tlngs 43 4616 8777 1094 975 1630 452 891 1375 1200 S28 1005 10987 119 175 179 196 78636 65196 216424 1155741 NÈt Surplusl{Defldt) 36097 UNITED CHURCH OFGOD- BRITISH ISLES NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021 Accountin Pollcle5 The accounts have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities and the Charities SORP. Inde erbdent Examiner's Remuneration 2020 2021 Examlnatlon Fee Pald 950 975 Em ee Remuneratlon 20 2021 Total Amounts paid to Employees 41880 53904 Average number of employee5 during the year ible Flxed Assets Fixtures Fittin ment Cost at 1.7.2020 Additions Dlsposals Cost at 30.6.2021 19743 297 20040 Depreciation at 1.7.2020 Charge for Year Written Back on Dlsposals Depreciation at 30.6.2021 16729 828 17557 Net Bookvalue at 30.6.2021 2483 Net Bookvalue at 30.6.2020 3014 DepreciatiDll 15 charged at a rate of 25% per annum on a reducing balance basis. UNITED CHURCH OF GOD- BRITISH 15LES NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021 Creditors and Accruals- Due ifjfithin One Year 2020 2021 Trade Credttors Bank Loans and Overdraft5 Tax and Social Security Other Creditors 1836 1836 3430 3430 Other Disclosure Issues 2020 2021 Commitments not provided for in the accounts Guarantees provided for Amount of Assets secured Members. General Fund At 1.7.2020 Net Surplus/lDeficitl for the Year Prior year adjustments Balance at 30.6.2021 125739 36097 161836