## **Hope for Life Ministries Registered Charity Number 1097076** ## **Annual report 2023** Hope for Life exists to support various organizations working in and around the city of Constanta in the southeast of Romania. It also helps poor people and families in need with individual gifts and donations. Hop for Life Ministries continues to work alongside the Centre run by Project Romania Rescue (PRR) in supporting street children with money for food, overheads and staff wages. The project has now extended its work and houses children and young people in two care homes. It feeds and clothes the children who are homeless along with medicine etc. The charity has continued to expand its work in Romania especially amongst poor people in deprived areas. The first Children's feeding centre is completed. Three more are being developed. The Hope Mission centre is in its final stages of completion and includes a food bank. The Trustees are very grateful to the many people who give so generously and and the volunteers who support Hope for Life Ministries with their time. On behalf of the Trustees **HOPE FOR LIFE MINISTRIES** ## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2023** |||**RECEIPTS**||||**PAYMENTS**||||**ANALYSIS OF INCOME**|**ANALYSIS OF INCOME**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**2023**||**2022**||**2023**||**2022**||||||**2023**||**2022**| |||||||||||||||||| |January||1,078.50||972.75||0.00||40.00||Donations||||15,190.39||9,594.45| |February||825.00||455.00||0.00||0.00||Gift Aid Tax Reclaim||||3,507.21||1,811.14| |March||41,495.48||646.53||2,562.00||0.00||||||||| |April||1,352.73||233.00||6,065.00||2,192.00||||||||| |May||4,492.91||1,979.10||614.94||457.20||Spring Mission||||470.00||230.00| |June||845.00||1,164.96||7,452.00||2,800.00||Winter Mission||||544.00||517.01| |July||2,028.34||1,150.00||0.00||0.00||Poor Families||||0.00||0.00| |August||2,085.55||1,680.94||9,572.00||1,042.00||Children’s Feeding Centre||||1,320.00||40.00| |September||2,402.32||401.32||0.00||25.00||Children’s Rescue Mission||||0.00||0.00| |October||2,921.50||965.10||1,022.00||0.00||Food Parcels||||1,380.00||378.00| |November||4,649.08||5,192.81||1,037.84||1,012.21||Bibles||||880.00||530.00| |December||2,311.64||604.09||9,610.88||7,576.00||Advertising||||0.00||20.00| |||||||||||Promotional sales||||0.00||52.00| |||66,488.05||15,445.60||37,936.66||15,144.41||Leper Community||||737.00||688.00| |**CASHFLOW**
Balance 1st January 2023
RBOS Bank Balance
3,773.84
Receipts
66,488.05
Payments
-37,936.66
Surplus
28,551.39
**32,325.23**
Balance 31st December 2023
RBOS Bank Balance
**32,325.23**||||||||||Project Rescue||||1,932.50||1,073.10| |||||||||||Ukraine||||681.00||500.00| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||Interest Receivable - Current Account||||360.95||11.90| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||**Exceptional Item**||||||| |||||||||||Sale of Casa Shalom||||39,485.00||0.00| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||**Total Income**||||**66,488.05**||**15,445.60**| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE||||||| |||||||||||Promotional Items||||0
3176.94
7452
9522
10335.72
65
50||192.29
2122
3257.2
1022
8345.92
165
40
0| |||||||||||March Mission||||||| |||||||||||June Mission||||||| |||||||||||August Mission||||||| |||||||||||December Mission||||||| |||||||||||Poor Families||||||| |||||||||||Bibles||||||| |||||||||||Mission Funds transferred to Romania||||||| |||||||||||UCB Broadcasting||||||| |||||||||||P.R.R||||313.00||| |||||||||||Ukraine||||1,022.00||0.00| |||||||||||Christmas Appeal||||0.00||**0.00**| |||||||||||||||||**0.00**| |||||||||||**Exceptional Item**||||||| |||||||||||Purchase of land||||6,000.00||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||**Total Expenditure**||||**37,936.66**||**15,144.41**| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||**Surplus**||**28,551.39**||**301.19**| |||||||||||||**Deficit**||||| |**HOPE FOR LIFE MINISTRIES**||||||||||||||||| |**INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2023**||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||**DETAILS OF MISSIONS TO ROMANIA DURING 2023**||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**March**|**June**|**August**|**December**||||| |||||||||||||||||| |Mission Support Worker-Viorel||||||||||||||||| |Bibles||||||||||600.00||500.00||||| |Children's Feeding Centre-Galesu||||||||||350.00|3500.00|350.00||||| |Children's Feeding Centre-Tortaman||||||||||350.00||350.00||||| |Children's Feeding Centre Babadag|||||||||600.00|350.00||350.00||||| |Children's Feeding Centre-Porta Alba||||||||||||350.00||||| |Food Parcels||||||||||1,000.00||1,000.00||||| |P.R.R. Sponsorships|||||||||420.00|500.00|2000.00|940.00||||| |P.R.R. Emergency needs Ukraine|||||||||1,500.00|2,000.00||1,500.00||||| |Cioculia Project||||||||||1,000.00|4000.00|1,000.00||||| |Logs for poor families||||||||||||770.00||||| |Toys for childrens presents & Christmas story books||||||||||||300.00||||| |Parcels for Leper community||||||||||||950.00||||| |Extra support for essential needs||||||||||455.00||||||| |Simenoc afterschoolprogram||||||||||||400.00||||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||**-**|**2,520.00**|
**6,605.00**|**9,500.00**|**8,760.00**||||| |||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| |Vehicle Repairs/parts||||||||||||200.00||||| |Expenses-Air Fares/Ferry/Telephone/fuel etc|||||||||614.94|480.00||1,353.72||||| |Sundry Expenses & Charges|||||||||42.00|367.00|22.00|22.00||||| |||||||||||||||||| |**TOTAL MISSION COSTS**||||||||**-**|**3,176.94**|
**7,452.00**|**9,522.00**|**10,335.72**||||| |||||||||||||||||| |**Note**||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| |**Contribution to aid fares included as Income**||||||||**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**||||| |||||||||||||||||| |**TOTAL MISSION COSTS**||||||||**-**|**3,176.94**|
**7,452.00**|**9,522.00**|**10,335.72**||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl Hope for Life Ministries members of On accounts for the year 31 December 2023 ended Charity no 1097076 (if any) Set out on pages 1 arKJ 2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31 December 2023. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of basis of report the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Yhe Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi 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: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statsment I have no concems 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. Signed: Date: 5th October 2024 Name: John D WKJdowson Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (rf any): Address: 6 Chatsworth Drive North Wngfield Chesterfield S42 5HJ IER October 2018