**Charity No.1092224**
**International Prayer Palace Church Trustees Report and Financial Statement For the year ended 30 September 2020**
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**International Prayer Palace Church Information For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
## **TRUSTEES**
Mr Simeon Nyante
Mr Brendan Lee Smith
**REGISTERED OFFICE** 8G Harding Way
St Ives
Cambridgeshire PE27 3WR
**CHARITY NUMBER** 1092224
## **ACCOUNTANTS**
Rocksons Chartered Certified Accountants
Suite 8 Stewart House 56 Longbridge Road Barking, Essex IG11 8RW
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**International Prayer Palace Church Contents For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
## **Table of Contents**
**Statement of Assets and Liabilities……………………………………………………11 Notes to the Statement Of Financial Activities………………………………………12**
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**International Prayer Palace Church Trustees' Report For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
## **Aims and objectives**
The principal objects of the charity are to advance Christianity enabling as many people as possible to worship at our church and to become part of our Christian community. When planning our activities for the year, we have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We encourage ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our Christian community through:
- Worship and prayer; learning about the Gospel and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus Christ
- Provision of pastoral care for people living in the community
- Missionary and outreach work
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period:**
## **Worship and Prayer:**
International Prayer Palace Church as a ministry has continued to give worship and prayer to members. We have programmes during weekdays and weekends. Prayers are also offered through home cell or house groups where the focus is on individual needs. This system of approach has in our opinion brought a lot of spiritual and social benefit to the community. The Worship Ministry of the church has the vision of focusing first on God and secondly on serving the needs of the local congregation. We seek to combine different talents in the church in vibrant worship services and special events. Our mission is to reach the youth, the locals and the entire community.
## **Pastoral and Care:**
The trustees have ensured that every member of International Prayer Palace Church has been attended to throughout the year. International Prayer Palace Church has a strong pastoral team that ensures that counselling and moral guidance is rolled out effectively. Pastoral care is given under the strums of counselling, career and education. Teaching programmes are scheduled throughout the year in partnership with other ministries in the community. Members of International Prayer Palace Church are encouraged to contact the pastoral team should they need any help.
## **Mission and Evangelism:**
We evangelise and follow up those who want to know more about Christianity. We continue with them in our outreach programme focuses to discipleship training courses. We endeavour to help locally and internationally.
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## **International Prayer Palace Church Church Activities of Public Benefit:**
In addition to the general achievements mentioned above, the following specific activities which we deem fit for public benefits were undertaken during the year:
- We provided care and support by way of church services, prayer meetings and counselling to prison inmates in Cambridgeshire. We also supported some of them when they come out of prison by setting up a rehabilitation programme enabling them to gain self-confidence to fit back into society.
- We organized free summer trips for less fortunate families during school breaks, we run a youth and kids club; organize discos, video evenings, quizzes, dance and spelling competitions for them.
- We train youth in the community to play musical instruments and work on sound and technical equipment to divert their interests from the streets and low lifestyle and to gain interest in endeavouring to achieve ambitions.
- We provide care and support to Coneygear Homeless Shelter by way of food and toiletries supplies to residents, counselling, and providing some with transportation for school drops and pickups.
- We provided soup kitchen to the elderly and disabled in the community and organise games for them. We also provide transportation for those who need them to go on day trips to the shops, coffee shops and hairdressers.
- We provide computer and internet facilities for some vulnerable people in the community who need such facilities to enable them find jobs, apply for benefits, or contact friends and family by email etc. at a period in their lives when they do not feel ready to use public facilities such as libraries and job centres.
- The international prayer palace church cares for an abused mother and her three children in Ghana supporting them by providing accommodation and safe environment.
- The Prayer Palace Church, in association with the Huntingdon Community Group and the Mayor of Huntingdon, organizes annually a highly successful multicultural fashion show in Huntingdon promoting unity in the community with the project.
- The Prayer Palace Church is invited annually by the Huntingdonshire District Council to offer prayers before the council’s major annual corporate meeting will commence.
- The international prayer palace church cares for a Congolese refugee family of six in Nairobi by supporting them to have a better life enabling them to eat a decent meal and provide education for the children.
- The Prayer Palace Church adopted an orphanage of fifteen orphans in India just before Covid-19 pandemic, and we support them with food clothing decent accommodation and education
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
## **Financial review**
The total incoming resources of the church during the year amounted to £30,982 (2019 £96,345).Of this total £21,366 (2019 £30,498) was derived from general tithes and offering from members, £3,460 (2019 £30,977) from donations for building fund and Income derived from other sources including grants amounted to £1,247 (2019 £15,197) lastly, gift aid tax refunds received which amounted to £4,909 (2019 £19,763).
The total resources expended in the year amounted to £45,790 (2019 82,363) leaving a net deficit of £14,808 (2019 surplus £14,072). **Funds**
No part of the funds of the church is under any form of restriction.
## **Statement of financial responsibilities of the trustees**
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees as managing trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees should follow best practices and;
- I. Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- II. Make judgement and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
- III. State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed subject to any materials departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
- IV. Preparing the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the church will continue in business.
The Board of Trustees is responsible for keeping proper accounting records, which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the church and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulation 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the church.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:
Simeon Nyante
Date: 26 July 2021
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**International Prayer Palace Church**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2020 which are set out on pages 8 to 14
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 144(2) to the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners (under section 145(1) (a) of the Act), whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the financial statements.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination of the church funds , nothing came to my attention
which gave me cause to believe otherwise than that the financial statements accord with the accounting records of the church, and that those records satisfied the requirements of the Act.
I am not aware of any matter to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached.
Mr Alexander R Kludje MBA, FCCA
Signature: Date: 26 July 2021 Rocksons Chartered Certified Accountants Suit 8 Stewart House, 56 Longbridge Road Barking, Essex IG11 8RW
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
## **Receipts and Payment Account For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
|**Notes**
**RECEIPTS**
**Voluntary Receipts**
Planned Giving
Tax Refunds
Donations- building fund
Grants
Hall/Property & others
**Investment Income:**
**Other Incoming**
**Resources**
**Investments Realised**
**Total Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
_Endowment_
_funds_
2020
2019
**£**
**£**
**£**
_£_
£
£
21,366
21,366 30,948
4,909
4,909
19,763
-
3,460
3,460
30,977
**-**
_-_
0
1,247
1,247
15,197
0
0
0
0|
|---|---|
||27,522
**-**
3,460
**_- _**30,982 96,435.|
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
## **PAYMENTS**
|**Church Activities**
General Parish Expenses
**Total Payments**
**NET SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR YEAR**
Net Surplus/(Deficit) For Year
Cash/Bank Balance 1 October 2019
Cash & Bank Balance 30 September 2020|42,330
3,460|
|---|---|
||42,330
**-**
3,460|
||(14,808)
**-**
**0**|
||(14,808)
-
14,818|
||10
-
0|
The notes on pages 12 to14 form part of these accounts
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## **International Prayer Palace Church Statement of Assets and Liabilities For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
|**Statement of Assets and Liabilities**
**For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Notes Unrestricted Designated||Endownment|This Year|Last Year|
||Funds £|Funds £|Funds £|Total £|Total £|
|**Monetary assets**||||||
|Cash Balances|17|||17|_500_|
|Bank Current Accounts|(8)|||(8)|_104_|
|Deposit Accounts|1|||1|_14,214_|
|**Totals**|10|-|-|10|_14,818_|
|**Assets retained for Church**||||||
|Floats|1,000|||1,000|_1,000_|
|Tangible Assets|6030|||6,030|_9,530_|
|Other monies due to church|||||_0_|
||7,530|0|0|7,530|_10,530_|
|**Liabilities**||||||
|Falling due within one year|1,800
|||1,800|_2,720_|
||1,800|0|0|`1,800|_2,720 _|
|Approved by the Board of Trustees on 22 July 2021 and signed on their behalf by:||||||
|Simeon Nyante||||||
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**International Prayer Palace Church Notes to the Accounts**
## **For the Year Ended 30 September 2020**
## **1. Accounting policies**
The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with both the Charities Act 1993, Section 42(3) on the Receipts and Payments basis, and the Church in Wales Accounting Regulations.
## **2. ANALYSIS OF FUND MOVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR**
- (i) UNRESTRICTED FUNDS may be used by IPCC for any ordinary purposes. The movements in the fund are shown in the Receipt and Payment Account.
- (ii) DESIGNATED FUNDS represent sums set aside, out of ordinary unrestricted funds, for specific designated purposes, but they can be transferred back into general funds at any time.
FUND NAME FUND PURPOSE Bal 1Oct19 Receipts Payment Bal 30Sep20 Totals (per Receipt & Payments Account) 0 0 0 0 Notes:
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
- (iii) RESTRICTED FUNDS represent either income from trusts or endowments which may be expended only on those restricted objects provided in the terms of the trust or requested, or donations or grants received or invited for a specific purpose. The funds may only be spent on specific purposes for which they were given. Any balance remaining unspent must be carried forward as a balance on that fund and cannot be absorbed into general funds.
|FUND NAME
FUND PURPOSE
Building Fund
Acquiring church building
Totals (per Receipts & Payments Account)|Bal 1Oct 19
Receipts Payments Bal 30 Sept 20
0 3,460
3,460
0|
|---|---|
||0 0
0
0|
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
Notes:
(iv) ENDOWMENTS FUNDS are funds whose capital must be maintained: only income arising from the investment of the endowment may be used either as restricted or unrestricted funds depending upon the purpose for which the endowment was established.
Bal 30 FUND NAME FUND PURPOSE Bal 1 Oct19 Receipts Payment Sept20 Totals (per Receipt & Payments Account) 0 0 0 0 Notes: **ASSETS FOR CHURCH PURPOSES** 30 Sep 2020
Tangible assets recognised and valued in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities include: Computers, Fixtures & Fittings, PA system, keyboard and overhead projector
Assets recognised but not valued in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities include a van.
## **1. INVESTMENTS**
There were no investments.
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## **International Prayer Palace Church NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2020 ANALYSIS OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ITEMS**
||RECEIPTS
Planned giving
Donations-Building fund
Gift aid tax refunds
Grants
Other income
PAYMENTS
Wages and salaries
Employer’s NI contribution
Members support & welfare
Visiting preachers expenses
Special activities and similar costs
Rent, lease and similar costs
Insurance
Lighting, heating & water
Prior year costs adjustments
Equipment maintenance &upgrade
Printing, postage & stationery
Advertising and television production||Unrestricted
Funds £
Designated
Funds £
Restricted
Funds £
Endowment
Funds £|**This Year Total £**|**Last Year Total £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||21,366
3,460
4,909
0
1,247|21,366
3,460
4,909
0
1,247|30,498
30,977
19,763
0
15,197|
||||27,522
3,460
0|30,982|96,435|
||||0
0
0
(610)
0
(8,159)
(3,460)
(700)
(775)
(14210)
(1,444)
(1,701)
(1,032)|0
0
0
(610)
0
(11,619)
(700)
(775)
(14,210)
(1,444)
(1,701)
(1,032)|0
0
(2,546)
(2,615)
0
(22,572)
(1,303)
(1,097)
0
(1,735)
(5,748)
(1,166)|
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|**International Prayer Palace**|**Church**|
|---|---|
|Telephone|(2,047)|
|Website & other computer cost|(1,912)|
|Motor expenses|(2,324)|
|Travelling and similar costs|(980)|
|Legal & professional|(500)|
|Accountancy|(930)|
|Bank Charges|(72)|
|Books, tapes & training|0|
|Youth training|( 884)|
|Moving expenses|(371)|
|Fixed asset expenses (New Building)|( 0)|
|Premises hire costs|(881)|
|Sundry expenses|(1,549)|
|Charitable donations-Other|(362)|
|Subscriptions|(269)|
|Short term loan repayment|(0)|
|Telephone|(2,047)||(2,147)|(1,348)|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Website & other computer cost|(1,912)||(1,912)|(1,244)|
|Motor expenses|(2,324)||(2,424)|(2,197)|
|Travelling and similar costs|(980)||(1,080)|(3,124)|
|Legal & professional|(500)||(500)|(3,980)|
|Accountancy|(930)||(930)|(1,780)|
|Bank Charges|(72)||(72)|(130)|
|Books, tapes & training|0||0|0|
|Youth training|( 884)||(884)|(571)|
|Moving expenses|(371)||(382)|(4,202)|
|Fixed asset expenses (New Building)|( 0)||(0)|(4,663)|
|Premises hire costs|(881)||(881)|(2,154)|
|Sundry expenses|(1,549)||(1,856)|(2,259)|
|Charitable donations-Other|(362)||(362)|(809)|
|Subscriptions|(269)||(269)|(120)|
|Short term loan repayment|(0)||(0)|(15,000)|
|||||-|
||||45,790|(82,363)|
||||(14,808)|14,072|
|**PAID EMPLOYEES**||This year||Last year|
|Gross wages and salaries|||0|0|
|Employer's national insurance costs|||0|0|
|Pension contributors|||0|0|
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## **International Prayer Palace Church**
|**nternational Prayer Palace Church**|||
|---|---|---|
|Total staff costs
Average number of employees in the year
**PAYMENT TO IPCC MEMBERS**
Expenses paid to trustees (other than clergy/ministers)
Number of trustees paid expenses|0|0|
||0|0|
||Thisyear|Lastyear|
||0|0|
||0|0|
||0|0|
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