Christian Compassion Ministries UK
Registered Charity No. 1084104
34 Woodland Rise, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. AL8 7LF
Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts
for the year ended 31[st] December 2021
Christian Compassion Ministries UK
Trustees’ Annual Report, year ended 31[st] December 2021
Trustees
The UK Trust in 2021 was made up of 11 Trustees, as listed below. The Chairman, Secretary and Sponsorship Secretary are Trustees, and in addition there is a Treasurer.
Reddy Gonzales Jackie A Gooch Pat Goodrich (Secretary) Alison Heyworth John Lovell Samuel Pearce (resigned January 2021) David Pinchess Pat Pinchess (Sponsorship Secretary) Paul Relf (Chairman) Rebecca Roshanfekr John T Sparrow
Organisational Structure
The governing document of the Trust is a Trust Deed, dated 4 December 2000.
The Trustees meet twice a year and have on-going communication with the Board of CCM in Manila, with the regular exchange of minutes, policy decisions and financial information. Obviously, during this year of Covid lockdowns, no trustees were able to visit Manila, but we kept in close contact throughout.
The Trustees in the UK receive no particular induction or training, but are all Christians who are totally committed to the aims and objectives of the Trust and most of them have at some time visited, and been involved in, the work in Manila. New Trustees are chosen by current members of the Board.
Objectives
The objectives of the CCM UK Trust are to support the charitable work of Christian Compassion Ministries Foundation Inc., Manila, in:-
The relief of poverty, sickness and distress The preservation and protection of health The advancement of education The advancement of religion,
all for the benefit of the street children and indigent families of Manila. The main work of the UK Trust is therefore to fund-raise, to publicise the work as much as possible, to offer support and advice to the workers in Manila and to ensure that the objectives of the Trust are carried out in the best possible ways.
Achievements and Performance
The Trust organises the sponsorship of children in Manila by people in the UK, and the majority of the total giving in 2021 was received from regular Sponsors. They support children in one of three schemes:-
Firstly, the Community Programme, by which children living in the slum areas of Manila are given money for uniform, school books and a monthly allowance, all overseen by the CCM Social Workers; Secondly, the sponsorship of homeless children who live on the streets. A dedicated Social Worker is funded for this work;
Thirdly, the sponsorship of children cared for in the CCM Children’s Homes.
The total number of children sponsored as at the end of the year was: Community – 153 (153 in 2020) Homeless street children – 3 (3 in 2020) In the Girls’, Boys’ and Teenagers’ Homes – 16 (20 in 2020) Whole Home sponsors – 6 (4 in 2020)
As in 2020, referrals to the Children’s Homes are still decreasing, and the turnover of children tends to be much quicker than formerly, mainly due to the Government preference for the fostering of children, or the reconciling of children with their families wherever possible. However, the Homes continue to provide an invaluable service to the children in their care and CCM staff are always concerned that children should only be returned to a safe environment. As a result of the increased turnover, CCM UK is continuing to switch to sponsorship of the Homes, rather than of individual children in the Homes.
The total number of sponsors and co-sponsors in the UK by the end of 2020 was 165. Gifts were also sent for Covid relief activities, for a Staff Gift Fund to encourage the Social Workers and Housemothers, for the Drop-In Centre (though this was not able to function normally during 2021) and for improvement work to the Boys’ and Girls’ Homes.
Sponsors continue to take a strong personal interest in the children they support and their families, corresponding with them regularly, helping with medical expenses and sending gifts for the purchase of personal or household items, and birthday, Christmas and graduation gifts. During 2021, however, as in the previous year, all communication had to be by email only. Gifts are also sent for the Scholarship Fund, which helps with the increased expenses of teenagers moving on to college, or in some cases, sponsors either increase their contributions or double up with others to cover these extra costs. We are still encouraged by the numbers of children from the Community programme and from the Homes who graduate in courses such as nursing and social work. This would have been impossible for them without such sponsorship.
Schooling during 2021 was again very much disrupted by the pandemic, with children not allowed to go out at all, and Homes staff continued to do a large amount of home-schooling and help with on-line learning in addition to their other duties. They also occupied the children with many craft and fun activities, and, courtesy of sponsors, two large portable swimming pools were purchased for the Girls’ Home to help with this. Visits by Social Workers to the children in the community were also very limited, although they did their best to remain in constant contact with them and financial assistance has been provided to many of the Community Programme families.
The valuable work of the parents’ co-operatives was also very much disrupted.
The weekly Drop-In Centre run by CCM for the homeless, where they can receive a hot meal, showers, join in games, receive counselling etc. could again no longer function as normal, but CCM has been able to provide much needed food packs and hot meals to these families on a regular basis.
At the end of the year, CCM were also able to send aid to the Palawan region which had been badly affected by Typhoon Rai.
Fund-raising in the UK is encouraged by the publication of the CCM ‘Update’ magazine and an annual calendar, the distribution of flyers presenting the work of CCM, presentations to churches and groups, articles
in the Christian press, a special Christmas Gift scheme including the sale of CCM Christmas cards, and an online YouTube channel. The website continues to prove invaluable for the promotion of CCM’s work, and the centralised database system greatly facilitates the secure exchange of information within the organisation.
Financial Review 2021
The total income for the financial year 2021, the twenty-first year of operation for CCM UK, was £140,991. The income for the previous year was £180,076, which included a legacy donation of £35,000. No such income was received in 2021.
During 2021, donations to the General Fund amounted to £29,995. The previous year, donations to this fund totalled £64,360 including the £35,000 legacy. Donations for the Homes increased, from £26,798 in 2020, to £28,207 in 2021.
Income for the Community Fund fell from £52,118 in 2020 to £49,710 in 2021, while contributions to the Fund for the Homeless remained broadly the same, being £4,219 in 2020 and £4,091 in 2021. For the 2021 financial year, tax recovered on donations under the Government’s Gift Aid scheme totalled £16,355.
Expenditure on Publicity, which includes printing of the quarterly ‘Update’, was £866 in 2021, being a slight fall on the previous year’s expenditure of £1,017. Although four issues of the Update were published during the calendar year, payment was only made for three during the 2021 financial year.
Administration costs rose from £1,703 in 2020 to £2,084 in 2021, due mainly to higher total postage costs as a result of the additional mailing of the Update in 2021, when compared with the previous year.
There were no deputation costs in 2021. As in 2020, due to the pandemic and resulting restrictions, Trustees’ meetings were held virtually, using donated Zoom slots, therefore no Governance costs were incurred. The charity incurs no payroll costs, as all those working on its behalf in the UK, such as the trustees and the Treasurer, give their services voluntarily.
The Trust’s bankers are CAF Bank, while an independent examination of the annual accounts was carried out by Mrs Dawn Brooks.
Reserves Policy
During the year, all of the income received, less expenses and the balance in hand, was transferred to CCM in the Philippines. As interest rates had been very low for several years the trustees agreed to close the COIF account and the balance of £500 was transferred to the CAF current account.
Data Protection
All confidential information regarding sponsors’ details is kept by the Sponsorship Secretary and the Treasurer on a personal computer, to which only they have access, or in locked cabinets. The information is only ever divulged to fellow Trustees or to the CCM office in Manila. A central password protected web-based database has been developed by one of the UK trustees. This records supporters’ contact details and can only be accessed by authorised staff in Manila, the USA, Australia and the UK. The CCM UK trustees have reviewed procedures and made adjustments to comply with GDPR, which came into force in May 2018.
Risk Management
The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular financial, operational and reputational, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate our exposure to major risks.
We are once more grateful to God, that despite the worldwide pandemic and ensuing restrictions, He has enabled us to demonstrate His love to some of the street children and indigent families of Manila, providing shelter, education, livelihood training and loving care. We trust that God will continue to enable us to maintain our work in the Philippines throughout 2022.
| Charity Name | No (if any) | |||
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| Christian Compassion Ministries UK | 1084104 | |||
| Receipts and payments accounts | CC16a | |||
| Period start date For the period from 1st January2021 |
To | Period end date 31st December 2021 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 29,995 - - - - - - - 29,995 - - - 29,995 27,201 2,084 866 - - - - - - 30,151 - - - 30,151 - 156 500 196 540 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ 94,641 16,355 - - - - - - 110,996 - - - 110,996 108,803 - - - - - - - - 108,803 - - - 108,803 2,193 - 5,910 8,103 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 124,636 16,355 - - - - - - 140,991 - - - 140,991 136,004 2,084 866 - - - - - - 138,954 - - - 138,954 2,037 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
| Donations | 29,995 | - - - - - - - - - |
163,954 | ||
| Gift Aid | - | 16,121 | |||
| Interest | - | 1 | |||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
29,995 |
180,076 | |||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total | - | - | |||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| - | 180,076 | ||||
CCM Phillipines |
27,201 | 184,000 | |||
| UK Administration | 2,084 | - - - - - - - - - |
1,703 | ||
| Publicity | 866 | 1,017 | |||
| Governance Costs | - | ||||
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| **Sub total ** | 30,151 | 186,720 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table) |
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | |||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| - | 186,720 | ||||
| - 156 | - | - 6,644 | |||
| 500 | - 500 500 |
- 6,606 |
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| 196 | - | ||||
| 540 | - | 8,643 | - 6,644 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
10/10/2022
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at | the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds |
Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Debtor - Gift Aid Tax Refund CAF Bank Account Details Details Details Signature |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 540 8,103 - - - - 540 8,103 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - 11,661 - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name |
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
10/10/2022
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Indopendent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of Christian Compassion Ministries UK (Charity Reg. No. 1084104) I report to trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year erKled 31st December 2020 As the charity trustees of the Trusc you are responsible for the preparats'on of the accounts in accordan wilh the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act arKI in carying out my examinab"on, I have followed the applicable Directions gNen by the Chanty Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I wnffirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connectÈon with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect accounting records were not kept in accl)rdan with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no COnmS arKI have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enabte a proper understsrKling of the accounts to be reathed. Signed.. Name: Mrs D Y Brooks Address: 10 Saffrons Close Woolpit BURY ST EDMUNDS Suffolk IP30 9RA Date: