LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
30 November 2023
Charity Number 1083834
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Year Ended 30 November 2023
| CONTENTS | Page |
|---|---|
| Trustee annual report | 3 - 6 |
| Statement of fnancial actvites | 7 |
| Income & expenditure account | 7 |
| Balance sheet | 8 |
| Notes to the fnancial statements | 9 - 10 |
| Detailed statement of fnancial actvites | 11 |
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Trustees Annual Reports
Year Ended 30 November 2023
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the company for the year ended 30 November 2023.
Reference and Administrative details
Registered Charity Name Liberty Christian Ministries Charity Registration Number 1083834 Principal Office 1A Norbury Crescent, London, SW16 4JS
The Trustees:
The trustees who served the company during the period were as follows:
Rev Sandra Kerr CBE
Rev Ann-Marie Lawrence
Rev Joseph Campbell
Structure, Governance and Management
Overview
Liberty Christian Ministries was established to serve its local community and support vulnerable people from disadvantaged backgrounds and alleviate poverty.
Liberty Christian Ministries relies on regular voluntary donations from members of Liberty Church who believe in giving of their increase and earnings to the poor and conducting charitable acts of kindness.
The cost of the lease for the venue which Liberty Christian Ministry hosts its Sunday services and weekly training and activities are met by the regular voluntary donations from the local congregation .
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December 2022 – November 2023
Overview
Liberty Christian Ministries has been able to continue to serve its charitable purpose and to support vulnerable people from local communities and from disadvantaged backgrounds. We are based in the Borough of Croydon, one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in London.
Our main income continues to be from voluntary donations from the Liberty Church members. And we continue to rely on voluntary food and financial contributions from members of the local church to help us with weekly provisions for the weekly Food Bank.
The voluntary donations from the church members enables Liberty Christian Ministries to fulfil its charitable objectives to members, extended family and friends, neighbours, collaboration with local charities and vulnerable people within the wider community.
LIBERTY SUNDAY SERVICES – THE YEAR OF NEW WINE 2023
The Senior Pastor introduced the theme ‘The Year of New Wine’, This theme has been promoted to encourage individuals to seek to find refresh and review the purpose for the work they do, acquire new skills and encourage others to do the same. We actively encourage volunteering within the community. We have continued with our hybrid model of weekly gatherings and continue to stream Sunday gatherings online via YouTube and Facebook, ensuring those who are unable to leave their homes can still participate in services virtually.
LIBERTY TRAINING INSTITUTE – DIGITAL
The Liberty Training Institute weekly classes have been adapted to align to the ‘Year of New Wine’ which typifies renewal and refreshing focusing on fundamental principles with an ‘Elements’ theme. These sessions continue to occur at 7:00 – 8:00pm on Wednesdays via Zoom. These weekly sessions continue to provide safe spaces for people to learn and ask questions on a range of topics. These online sessions attract 30-50 people on a weekly basis. These sessions run during school term times. These sessions are led by leaders in Liberty Church and guest teachers for specific topics. This year focussed on foundational elements of Christian living and a range of teachers presented on the different topics.
LIBERTY KIDZ CHURCH – DIGITAL
These sessions continue on Zoom for 30-minutes from 2:00-2:30 pm on Sunday afternoons. The children are broken into smaller groups for 10-minute segments with age 3-6, 7-9 and age 10-12. The children sing and hear stories of children in the bible and actively participate in storytelling and share how they are using what they have learned in school and at home. All the teachers have been DBS checked. We continue to have 25 - 30 children who join us online. When they reach age-13 they move on to Dunamis Youth Group which meets on Fridays, both face-to-face and online.
As in earlier years the children have presented the themes for Mother’s and Father’s Day Celebrations as well as Easter, Back to School in September and this year we are planning to present a Christmas play. Which has been great for the children to practice, memorise the script, dress up in costumes, help to select props and plan to present. These public presentations continue to be a highlighted part of the annual calendar. The children have enhanced their presentation and public speaking skills during the practice and preparations for these services.
The themes have been learning about the significance of the King’s Coronation in May 2023, which many of them watched on TV and heard the strong themes of ‘Service’. We continue to focus on the importance of being obedient to parents, being kind to friends and neighbours and well behaved at
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school. Many of the children have shared the additional tasks that they have been appointed to within their schools. It is great to see their growth, development and increase in confidence. This has been inspiring for both the parents and teachers.
KING AND QUEEN’S CORONATION RECOGNITION
In May 2023, we celebrated the Coronation weekend with a Markee and outdoor party. We reflected on the strong theme of Service during the Coronation to encourage and re-energise the church members to continue with all volunteering efforts and out reaches.
LIBERTY WOMEN – HEROINES IN HEELS – ENGAGEMENT OF WOMEN
Heroines in Heels now has four work streams that are active. Restoration and wholeness, mothers and carers, enterprise and wellbeing, health and mentorship. Events are now face-to-face and online. Sessions have included times of prayer, testimonies and sharing information on topical issues and how to navigate and overcome them successfully. Much of the catering and support for key events are provided by service teams within the church, some include both men and women.
WINDRUSH GENERATION 75[TH] ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
The Heroines in Heels – Helping Hands Sub-Group has enabled us to actively support the seniors within Liberty Church, For the first time we dedicated a special service to recognise those within Liberty Church who came to the UK during the Windrush period of 1948 – 1971. The Senior Pastor presented Certificates of Service to the many seniors, some who worked for 30 – 40 years in the health sector, transport sector, service and hospitality, manufacturing, government administration and construction sectors. It was great to spotlight individuals who had worked for many years within their workplaces and sectors and had never been formally thanked or recognised for their contributions. Light refreshments were provided for everyone.
LIBERTY - ANTHROPOS – ENGAGEMENT OF MEN
Anthropos have continued to meet face to face to provides support for men in the church and the wider community. They have focussed on mental health and wellbeing and continue to focus conversations on their plans and personal projects and business ideas. They led and co-ordinated the Father’s Day service and provided special serving and catering after the Mother’s Day service, with free hot meals for everyone.
THAMESMEAD MEN’S PRISON MINISTRY
This ministry continues to be led by one of our Pastors at Thamesmead men's prison with monthly visits. These monthly services continue to be well attended and have seen inmates wanting to turn their lives around and deciding to be baptised and become practicing Christians. These sessions continue to be used to encourage, inspire and challenge inmates that they can learn from their mistakes, make good decisions, and make plans for their future. We will engage with prisons by invitation and will continue to serve in any way that we can, to add value.
UNSTOPPABLE CONFERENCE
We hosted the Unstoppable Conference in August for the church members, families, friends and international guests. This year’s conference was based in London. It was a great 3-day conference which enabled the Liberty Church family to reconnect with families and friends.
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LIBERTY PASTORAL CARE – DIGITAL AND FACE-TO-FACE
The Pastoral Care Team continued with 32 active carers during the year 2023. They have been vital in ensuring that all members and friends of Liberty feel connected and valued by the Church. The team were assigned to reach out to any regular members who were missing from the weekly services or online gatherings and were a point of contact if someone was unwell or in need of support. The checkins were made by text, calls or visitation. We have continued to provide In-House Bereavement counselling and a Listening Ear for those that wish to talk.
Training workshops for the whole team as well as Peer support groups for team leads have been held regularly to offer guidance when caring and to look at the wellbeing of the team in general. Many messages of thanks and appreciation have been received for those on the receiving end of the care.
LIBERTY ICARE CLINIC
Liberty ICare Clinic continues to offer additional support to those from the Community and Church that use the Food Bank in several areas: Benefit & Housing Advice, Budgeting, Counselling, Bereavement Support. Listening Ear Clinic & Homeless Support (Pathwaze).
Liberty worked together with Croydon Council to provide Benefits and Housing Advice to any clients in need on Wednesday during the clinic. Sadly, owing to changes within Croydon Council the Benefits & Housing Advice was withdrawn in July 2023. However, 84 appointments were made to help those needing advice and guidance up to that date.
A small team of trained volunteers were available as part of the Listening Ear Café, for anyone that wanted to talk to someone over a cup of tea. This service reached out to over 36 individuals. Counselling and Bereavement support was available on an appointment basis, with 21 service users being offered support.
For anyone requiring money and debt advice they were offered support and guidance from CAP (Christians Against Poverty). The team supported 141 people by the end of November 2023. We have seen many lives enhanced and positively impacted from the help and support being offered.
LIBERTY WEEKLY FOOD BANK
Owing to an increase in costs and vacancy for a Food Bank co-ordinator, the Liberty Food Bank was placed on hold for a period of time, but we were glad to be able to resume offering this service to the church and community and relaunched on the 2[nd] August 2023. Giving out over 640 food parcels to those in need, including those with life threatening illnesses and no recourse to funding for those four months. Although we do not offer a delivery service, a couple of our volunteers very kindly drop off food to those that are housebound.
Without the continued support of the church financially and the volunteers that give up their time, we would not be able to offer this service.
We continue to look for funding to help us expand our reach to those in need and are seeking to explore other models of delivery that are more sustainable in the longer term as the cost-of-living crisis continues to impact the most vulnerable in our communities.
LIBERTY HOMELESS MINISTRY
A team from Liberty work closely with Pathwaze Supported Living. A charity that offers the homeless guidance and advice in finding them accommodation and getting them integrated back into society following a period of homelessness.
The team go out once a month with Pathwaze, taking warm food, clothing, toiletries and a food maintenance pack to those that are homeless within the Borough of Croydon. Taking time out to talk to them and be a listening ear. All funded by the kind generosity of donations from Liberty Church
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members.
LIBERTY PRAYER AND COUNSELLING CLINIC
In July 2023 Liberty launched a prayer/counselling clinic. This is a confidential service to those requiring a combination of emotional healing and release, offered through prayer and counselling. Each service user is initially offered four sessions. So far the team has been able to help 6 individuals. We are looking at ways to offer training to those that are interested in being part of this ministry and aiming to put a programme together in 2024.
LIBERTY FOOD PANTRY
Twice a month cooked meals are provided by a small catering team who volunteer their time to serve in preparing meals that can be sold at reasonable prices and donated for special Sunday’s designated in the calendar.
Liberty Christian Ministries Trustees Report November 2023
Signed Trustees of Liberty Christian Ministries
Pastor Sandra Kerr
Pastor Ann-Marie Lawrence
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Statement of Financial Activities
Year Ended 30 November 2023
| Note Incoming Resources Resources from generatng funds: Voluntary Income 2 Total Incoming Resources Resources Expended Charitable actvites 3 Total Resources Expended Net incoming Resources for the year 4 Reconciliaton of Funds Total funds brought forward Total Funds Carried forward |
Total Funds 2023 £ 225,880 225,880 (251,706) 2 ,767 141,553 115,727 |
Total Funds 2022 £ 323,586 |
|---|---|---|
| 323,586 | ||
| (332,977) - 150.944 |
||
| 141,553 |
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a statement of total recognised gains and losses had not been prepared.
All the above amounts relate to continuing activities
Income & Expenditure
Year Ended 30 November 2023
| Note Voluntary Income Total Expenditure Operatng Surplus Surplus/(Defcit) for the Year |
2023 £ 225,880 (251,706) (25,826) (25,826) |
2022 £ 323,586 (332,977) |
|---|---|---|
| (9,391) | ||
| (9,391) |
The notes on pages 9 – 10 form part of these financial statements.
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Balance Sheet
Year Ended 30 November 2023
| Note Fixed Assets Tangible Assets 6 Current Assets Debtors 7 Cash at Bank Creditors:Amounts falling due within one year 8 Net current assets Total assets less current liabilites Creditors:Amounts falling due afer more than one year 9 Net assets (Liabilites) Funds:Unrestricted income funds 10 Total Funds |
2023 £ 11,065 121,823 6,111 (2,456) 125,478 136,543 (20,815) 115,727 115,727 115,727 |
2022 £ 15,004 9,865 136,754 (2,456) |
|---|---|---|
| 144,163 | ||
| 159,167 | ||
| (17,613) | ||
| 141,553 | ||
| 141,554 | ||
| 141,553 |
These financial statements were approved by the members of the committee an authorised for issue on the 2[nd] August 2024 and are signed on behalf by:
Pastor Sandra Kerr CBE
Pastor Ann-Marie Lawrence
The notes on pages 9 – 10 form part of these financial statements.
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Year Ended 30 November 2023
1. Accounting Policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention an in accordance with applicable United Kingdom accounting standards and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ issues in March (SORP 2005).
Fixed Assets
All fixed assets are initially recorded at cost
Depreciation
Depreciation is calculated so as to write off the cost of an asset, less its estimated residual value, over the useful economic life of that asset as follows:
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Equipment 20%: reducing balance method
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Fixtures & Fittings 20%: reducing balance method Motor Vehicles 20%: reducing balance method
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Leasehold Property straight-line method over 5 years period
2. Voluntary Income
| Unrestricted | Total Funds 2023 £ | Total Funds 2022 £ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funds £ | ||||
| Donatons | ||||
| Donatons Received | 225,880 | 225,880 | 323,586 | |
| 3. | Costs of Charitable Actvites by Fund Type | |||
| Unrestricted Funds £ |
Total Funds 2023 £ | Total Funds 2022 £ | ||
| Charitable actvity type 1 (amend desc’s | ||||
| for a/cs 330A, 330B and 330C to | 135,565 | 135,565 | 176,886 | |
| altercol headings | ||||
| Support Costs | 116,141 | 116,141 | 156,111 | |
| 4. | Net Incoming Resources for the year | |||
| This is stated afer charging: | 2023 £ | 2022 £ | ||
| Depreciaton | 2,767 | 0 |
5. Staff Costs and Emoluments
No salaries or wages have been paid to employees, including the members of the committee
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during the year.
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6. Tangible Fixed Assets
| Cost At 1 Dec 2022 At 30 Nov 2023 Depreciaton 1 Dec 2022 Charge for the year 30 Nov 2023 Net Book Value At 1 Dec 2022 At 30 Nov 2023 |
Equipment Fixtures & Fitngs Motor Vehicles Leasehold Property £ £ £ £ 49,044 8,827 7,500 49,044 8,827 7,500 40,180 7,508 3,852 1,773 264 730 8,864 1,663 4,477 7,091 1,056 2,918 |
Total £ |
|---|---|---|
| 65,371 | ||
| 65,371 | ||
| 51,359 | ||
| 2,767 | ||
| 15,004 | ||
| 11,065 |
7. Debtors
| Brighter Life Supported Living Other debtors Prepayments TOTAL |
2023 £ 115,471 6,352 0 121,823 |
2022 £ 0 6,352 3,513 |
|---|---|---|
| 9,865 |
8. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
| Accruals and deferred income Other Creditors Trade Creditors TOTAL |
2023 £ 876 324 1,256 2,456 |
2022 £ 876 324 1,256 |
|---|---|---|
| 2,456 |
9. Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than a year
| 2023 £ | 2022 £ | |
|---|---|---|
| Other long term loans + Dividends Paid |
20,815 | 17,613 |
10. Unrestricted Income funds
| Balance as at 1 December 2022 |
Incoming Resource | Balance as at November 2023 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| General Funds | 141,553 | (25,826) | 115,727 |
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LIBERTY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities
Year Ended 30 November 2023
| Incoming Resources Voluntary Income Donatons Received Gif Aid Total Incoming Resources Resources Expended charitable actvites Establishment – Rent Establishment – Water Establishment – Light & Heat Establishment – Repairs & Maintenance Establishment - Insurance Establishment - cleaning Storage Costs Motor Vehicle & Maintenance Professional Accountancy Fees (Other Professional Services) Bank and credit card charges Ofce expenses – Telephone and internet Ofce expenses – postage, printng and statonery Depreciaton Direct charity actvity 1 – Ministry Expenses Direct charity actvity 1 – Honoraria Direct charity actvity 1 – Hospitality Direct charity actvity 1 – Entertainment Direct charity actvity 1 – Small Equipment and consumables Direct charity actvity 1 – Subcontractors Direct charity actvity 1 – Advertsing & publicity/promotonal Direct charity actvity 1 – The Pantry Direct charity actvity 1 – Subsistence Direct charity actvity 1 – Training & Educaton Direct charity actvity 1 – Food Bank Direct charity actvity 1 – Travel & Accommodaton Direct charity actvity 1 – Travel/Petrol Direct charity actvity 1 – Ofce & General Administratve Sundry Expenses – computer costs Total Expenditure Net Incoming resources for the year |
2023 £ 210,038 15,842 225,880 34,742 760 14,826 14,810 3,919 - - 8,408 1,156 843 5,115 370 2,767 40,579 33,069 23,390 11,836 5,362 - 5,806 - 700 10,453 3,614 18,096 6,372 3,954 761 251,708 (25,826) |
2022 £ 247,604 75,982 |
|---|---|---|
| 323,586 | ||
| 66,538 - 11,110 7,616 3,902 - - 9,978 750 2,791 5,261 513 - 81,471 35,705 18,952 14,159 3,939 - 5,321 1,988 250 12,290 13,406 24,779 8,414 3,845 - |
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| 332,978 | ||
| (9,391) |
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