**Charity Number: 1084921**
## **Living Waters Foursquare Church**
**Receipts and Payments Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **Living Waters Foursquare Church**
## **Receipts and Payments Accounts**
**for the year ended 31 December 2023**
|**Contents**||
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1|
|Independent Examiner's Report|3|
|Receipts and Payments Accounts|4-5|
## **Living Waters Foursquare Church**
## **Trustees' Annual Report**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2023**
Charity Number: 1084921
Principal Address: 41 Holgate Drive, Luton, LU4 0XD
## **Trustees**
Trustees who served during the reporting period: Revd Surekha Hulugalle Nishan Joseph Rajendran Kiloshini Weerakoon (resigned on 01 April 2023) Paul Marriot (appointed on 01 July 2023) Ravishan Gamage (appointed on 01 July 2023)
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity is constituted as a Trust and governed by a Declaration of Trust and the National Foursquare Constitution.
Trustees are appointed by the existing trustees and are ratified by the Church membership.
## **Objectives**
a) The advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with our Statement of Faith. b) The relief of poor, aged, sick and those in conditions of hardship or distress. c) Such other charitable purpose as the Trustees may from time to time determine.
## **Activities and Achievements During the Reporting Period**
## _General_
Church gatherings and discipleship continued in three locations, Northolt, Dunstable and Manchester. The Church moved from Northolt to Kenton from the month of December. The Senior Pastors took a sabbatical of three months. Whilst they were away leaders were appointed to lead all locations. On their return the leaders continued as appointed.
## _Missions_
A highlight in 2023 mission was the ability to support charity projects overseas in Sri Lanka and in Kazakhstan. The Church continued their relationship in sponsoring one family from Ukraine in partnership with the Government sponsorship program whist supporting the Pastor in Ukraine.
## _Membership_
There was a slight growth in the membership in the Dunstable and Manchester locations. There was no change in the leadership.
## _Ukraine War_
As the war broke out in Ukraine, the Living Waters Church decided to support the Foursquare Church in Chernigov through prayer and counselling of leaders. Furthermore, the Pastor's wife and children were brought over to the UK through a government sponsorship initiative and accommodated in the home of a Church family.
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## _Training_
Leadership training and messages of encouragement were brought through speakers invited in person and some through online media from overseas. Regular training was done on Wednesday nights by in-house trainers.
A highlight was to sponsor and conduct an internship program for a young leader from Sri Lanka for a period of 4 months (January - April) and a Bible school graduate from Life Pacific USA.
## _Evangelism_
Evangelism was done on the streets of Harrow and Dunstable. The Dunstable location rented a stall at the town market during the Christmas season handing out free food hampers for families in need. The Church partnered with the national movement “Shine Your Light” to bring the message of Christmas onto the streets during Christmas.
## **Financial Review**
Income for the year was £41,878 and total expenditure was £43,485. Restricted funds include an amount of £3,607 that is held on behalf of our Manchester congregation.
The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees' Report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees
Revd. Surekha Hulugalle Senior Pastor and Trustee
21 October 2024
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## **Living Waters Foursquare Church**
## **Independent Examiner's Report**
## **for the year ended 31 December 2023**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2023, set out on pages 4-5.
Charity Number: 1084921
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“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(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's 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 respect:
a) accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
b) the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mihiri De Silva FMAAT 35 Charlton Gardens Coulsdon Surrey CR5 1AS
21 October 2024
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|**Living Waters Foursquare Church**|**Living Waters Foursquare Church**|**Living Waters Foursquare Church**|||||**1084921**|**1084921**||||||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2023
31/12/2023
es
ee
ee|||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**CC16a**|||
|Offerings and Tithes
**34,742**||**4,465**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**39,207**|**39,207**||**46,252**|**46,252**||
|Gifts for Pastors
**-**||**2,650**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,650**|**2,650**||**2,950**|**2,950**||
|Interest Received
**-**||**21**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**21**|**21**||**1**|**1**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**34,742**||**7,136**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**41,878**|**41,878**||**49,203**|**49,203**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**34,742**
**7,136**
**-**
**41,878**
**49,203**
**A3 Payments**
Salaries
**11,000**
**2,650**
**-**
**13,650**
**14,950**
S5~~55~~||||||||||||||
|Missions and Evangelism
**4,220**||**750**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**4,970**|**4,970**||**4,559**|**4,559**||
|AV Equipment
**1,528**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,528**|**1,528**||**805**|**805**||
|Rent
**7,096**||**1,034**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**8,130**|**8,130**||**6,876**|**6,876**||
|Memberships
**1,800**||**100**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,900**|**1,900**||**2,325**|**2,325**||
|Conferences
**2,788**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,788**|**2,788**||**2,815**|**2,815**||
|Guest Speakers
**1,660**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,660**|**1,660**||**1,270**|**1,270**||
|Elders
**1,900**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,900**|**1,900**||**900**|**900**||
|Other Gifts
**2,121**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,121**|**2,121**||**1,124**|**1,124**||
|Computer
**-**||**507**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**507**|**507**||**1,595**|**1,595**||
|Travel
**414**||**1,400**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,814**|**1,814**||**1,661**|**1,661**||
|Misc office costs
**1,189**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,189**|**1,189**||**338**|**338**||
|Legal and Professional Fees
**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|Internship
**1,328**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,328**|**1,328**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_ 37,044**||**6,441**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**43,485**|**43,485**||**39,218**|**39,218**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**37,044**
**6,441**
**-**
**43,485**
**39,218**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 2,302**
**695**
**- - 1,607**
**9,985**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**41,345**
**2,912**
**-**
**44,257**
**34,272**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**39,043**
**3,607**
**- 42,650**
**44,257**
—————~~—=~~
SSSSS||||||||||||||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**39,043**
**3,607**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,043**
**3,607**
**-**
OK
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
Bank
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
~~—~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**39,043**
**3,607**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,043**
**3,607**
**-**
OK
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
Bank
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Date of
approval
**21/10/2024**
Print Name
Revd Surekha Hulugalle
Signature
**Details**
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