## **Trustees' Annual Report**
For the period from 01/04/2023 to 31/03/2024
## Charity Name: **SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH**
Also known as: SCCC
Registered charity number: 1087945
## **Charity's principle address**
The Chapel Ancasta Road Southampton Hampshire SO14 6SL
## **Name of Trustees**
Dr Tat Shing Yam Mr Ho Lee Wong Mr Erik Hu
## **Governing document** Constitution adopted 6 July 2001
The charity is constituted by Trust
## **Trustee selection method**
Candidates must be 18 years of age or over and are members of the SCCC and have demonstrated over a sufficient length of time that they are faithful and spiritually mature members of the body of Christ. Existing trustees can nominate new trustees for election at the SGM or AGM.
## **Policies and Procedures**
There is a safe-guarding policy (updated in February 2024) in place. We carried out DBS check for all Youth group / Sunday School teachers and helpers. These checks will be renewed every three years as recommended.
Ongoing review of the health and safety issues including COVID-19 policy to ensure all statutory requirements and standards are met and aligned with the UK government guidance.
## **Objectives of the charity**
l. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Chinese, primarily but not exclusively, in Southampton and its surrounding areas.
2. To provide a spiritual home for Christians and to care for their spiritual welfare.
3. To equip Christians for service
4. To collaborate with other Christian churches or organisations.
5. To relieve those in need, hardships and distress
## **Church Vision**
By God’s grace, we will become a living and an outreaching church
## **Highlights of 2023-24**
In 2024 SCCC entered its second phase – Growth – of our church vision. We continued to focus on building our church community through fellowships and home groups which provided a platform to reach out to new people, to share gospel, to support one another and to encourage spiritual growth. There were eleven fellowships and eight home groups meeting regularly at various locations, such as church centre, university campus as well as brothers and sisters home.
Both of Cantonese Sunday morning service and multi-lingual afternoon service continued to take place at the Richard Taunton Sixth Form College and Portswood Church respectively. With a gradual increase in the number of congregations, on average there were about 220 people attending either Sunday service on each Sunday. As more and more Cantonese speaking youths joining our Sunday morning service, a Cantonese youth group was also established at RTSFC and their meetings took place at the same time as the adult Sunday morning service and Children Sunday School. Occasionally, children and youths also had their additional activities on Saturday or weekdays at Portswood Church and church centre.
During this twelve-month period, our church ministries were supported by two visiting pastors. Pastor Man His Lin and Sister Shirley from Malaysia visited us for 3 months (July – September 2023). Pastor Lin was also the speaker for the mandarin camp at our summer retreat. In January 2024 Pastor Marshall Wong from Hong Kong visited us for two months.
SCCC had the whole church summer retreat at Pioneer Centre, Kidderminster in July 2023. The theme of this retreat was ‘Cross the wilderness and undertake the mission’ and it was attended by over eighty people. In 2023 there were two baptismal services where a total of four brothers and ten sisters were baptised into our Lord Jesus Christ. In addition, another eleven brothers and sisters applied to become members of SCCC.
Weekly Wednesday online prayer meetings and online adult Sunday school courses were continued to complement various church ministries and sustain the spiritual growth of brothers and sisters in Christ.
SCCC continues to care for the spiritual needs of the new immigrants from Hong Kong but also provides practical support to help them settle down in Southampton and its neighbouring areas. Throughout the summer 2023 SCCC provided face-toface talks on gardening, safe driving and supporting children.
## **Financial review**
Our principal sources of funds are from members of the church. There is no outside fundraising or donation from outside organisation. The key expenditures for this year include the rental cost for our Sunday meeting venue, staff salary and wages, as well as financial support to the external Christian Mission organisations and our mission partners. We also donate to other charity organisations for the relief of natural disasters (earthquake in Turkey and Morocco and flooding in Libya) as well as the local homeless. The charity employs one part-time worker for the children ministry, one part-time pastoral worker in training and one full-time pastor.
The general fund includes a reserve of one year of staff salary, pensions and operating expenses to ensure that the trustees can respond to any unexpected changes in income and expenditure.
The charity has no deficit.
The charity has a property as Church Centre which was purchased in December 2016.
All trustees are volunteers and do not receive any remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
Prepared by
Dr Tat Shing Yam
Trustee Chairman of SCCC Management Committee
## **SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR FROM 1st APRIL 2023 - 31st March 2024**
## **CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTERED NUMBER: 1087945**
||**Note**
**General Fund**
**RECEIPTS**
General Fund
Bank interest
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**
**PAYMENTS**
Rent for church meetings
Pastor ‘s accommodation rental cost
Speaker Fee
Salary and tax
Contribution to Workplace Pension
DBS Check
Bibles & books
Courses
Insurance
Music Licence
Sundry payments
**1**
Donation to other charities
**2**
General expenses in Church Centre
**3**
Children and Youth ministry
**4**
Outside Mission Support
**5**
Church events
**6**
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**
**BALANCE of General Fund this period**
ADD balanced fund b/f from last year 22/23
LESS transferred to Reserved Fund
**Balance of General Fund @31/03/2024**|**2023/24**
**£**
90,585
835
**91,420**
19,316
9,900
2,863
35,589
1,767
133
345
498
740
375
2,366
2,400
1,935
168
18,919
9,801
**105,522**
-15,695
120,752
**106,650**
A|**2022/23**
£
99,574
738|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**100,312**|
||||19,227
9,900
3110
32,354
621
350
395
-
660
830
1,798
500
3,109
629
11,400
2,409|
||||**87,292**|
||||13,020
107,732|
||||**120,752**|
## **SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH**
## **FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR FROM 1st APRIL 2023 - 31st March 2024**
## **CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTERED NUMBER: 1087945**
||**CHURCH CENTRE FUND**
Offering received
Less:
Repair & Renewal
Capital Expenses for Church Centre
BALANCE of Church Centre Fund this period
Add Retained fund from lastyear 22/23
**Balance of Church Centre fund @31/03/2024**
Reserved Fund @ 31/03/2023
Balance of Reserved Fund @ 31/03/2024
**TOTAL FUND @31/03/2024**
**ACCOUNT SUMMARY**
**Total income for the year**
**Total expenditure for the year**
**Total Net gain/loss for the year**
**Add Balance b/f from last year**22/23
**Balance Fund for this year 23/24**
**Allocation of funds @31/03/2024**
General Fund
Church Centre Fund
Reserved Fund
**TOTAL FUND**|**2023/24**
£
-
1,593
-
-1,593
26,683
**25,090**
B
50,000
**50,000**
C
**181,740**
A+B+C
91,420
105,522
-15,695
197,435
D
**181,740**
106,650
A
25,090
B
50,000
C
**181,740**|**2022/23**
£
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||-
26,683|
||||**26,683**|
||||50,000|
||||**50,000**|
|||||
||||**197,435**|
||||100,312
87,292|
||||13,020
183,515|
||||**197,435**|
||||120,752
26,683
50,000|
||||**197,435**|
## **SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR FROM 1st APRIL 2023 - 31st March 2024**
## **CHARITY COMMISSION REGISTERED NUMBER: 1087945**
|**Statement of Assets &**
**Liabilities**
**Assets**
Church Centre building
Legal and survey fee
Fixtures, fittings & equipment
Improvement to Property
Deposit accounts
Bank current account
Cash in hand
**Liabilities**
**NET Assets/(Liabilities)**|**2023/24**
£
166,250
2,176
7,787
39,956
80,000
101,740
-|**216,169**
**181,740**
**397,908.83**
0
**397,908.83**|**2022/23**
£
166,250
2,176
7,787
39,956
80,000
120,752
-|**216,169**
**197,435**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**413,604**|
|||||0|
|||||**413,604**|
## **SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS FROM 1 April 2023 - 31 March 2024**
## **Notes on Accounts**
**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**|Charity Name
SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH|SOUTHAMPTON CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH||
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|**On accounts for the year**||**Charity no**|1087945|
|**ended**|31STMARCH 2024|**(if any)**||
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|**Set out on pages**||||
||(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)|
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above|||
||charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/03/2024**.|||
|**Responsibilities and**|As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the|||
|**basis of report**|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 all 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 (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** _[A Khan ]_ **Date:** 30/01/2025
**Name:** Asif Khan
|**Relevant professional**|ACCA|
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|**qualification(s) or body**||
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|**Address:**|26 Kent Aveue|
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**IER**