6 Spa Top, Caistor LN7 6RB
Mobile: 07503 204443
**FINANCIAL REPORT** _for the period ended_ **31[ST] DECEMBER 2022**
Report of the Trustees Notes concerning Finance Statement of Financial Activities Balance Sheet Notes to the Accounts Independent Examiners Report
Registered Charity No: 1102348
1
**SPRINGS CHURCH** (A registered charity)
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES**
The Trustees present their annual report along with the financial statements of the charity for the period ending 31st December 2022. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities Act, 2011 using the receipts and payment basis and have been independently audited
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT**
The charity is administered in accordance with the constitution adopted in 2004. The Trustees of the charity being Mrs Paula Teal (Chair); Mr John Lechler and Pastor Catherine Hills (Secretary) as of December 2022.
## **CHARITABLE STATUS**
The Declaration of Charitable Trusts was signed on 10 February 2004. Copies of this deed are held by the Trustees and Messrs Robinsons, Solicitors.
## RELEVANT ORGANISATIONS
Bankers: National Westminster Bank Brigg Branch, 14 Market Place, Brigg. DN20 8EU
Solicitors: Messrs Robinsons 83 Friar Gate, Derby. DE1 1FL
## **OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES**
1. **The advancement of the Christian faith and the worship of God in the United Kingdom and overseas by any means whatsoever including (but not by way of limitation) the preaching and proclamation of the Christian Gospel, the teaching of Christian doctrine and its principles, the pastoral care of Christian people and the printing and distribution of the Bible and Christian literature including video and audio recordings and by any other media which is or may become available.**
2. **The Worldwide advancement or education on the basis of Christian principles and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the provisions of such education in any educational establishment and if the Trustees so decide the provision of one or more charitable education establishments for the general education of children or adults on the basis of such Christian principle.**
3. **The furtherance of the other charitable work of the Church consistent with the above.**
2
The Trustees seek to achieve the charity’s objectives by undertaking the following activities:
- Organising events, groups, courses and other such activities.
- Attending and participating in conferences and events.
- Running events and outings (e.g. for children and other generations).
- Supporting and teaching about Christian outreach overseas.
- Supporting and raising the profile of charitable Christian organisations and activities.
## **PERFORMANCE & ACHIEVEMENTS**
In respect of objective (1):
Springs Church has held regular Sunday services throughout the year for worship, taking of Communion and delivering teaching. This included special seasonal services for personal remembrance, National Remembrance and celebration of Christian festivals like Christmas and Easter. Of particular note was our Church 20[th] Birthday Celebration event in January 2022.
Springs Church continued holding 4 regular mid-week groups in 2022, meeting at various times of the day and evening. Each group is unique, but undertakes Biblical study based on specific concepts using a variety of media such as study guides, dvd and audio teaching. These meetings can also include fellowship, worship and prayer
The Church has remained an active member of the Ground Level Network of Churches and has attended conferences, events meetings organised by it (both inperson and online) throughout the year. A member of the Church embarked upon Leadership training through the network, whilst the Pastor has taken on coresponsibility for support of several local Churches in the Humber to Wash region. Springs Church is also a member of Churches Together in all Lincolnshire (CTAL).
Springs Church has contributed to the running of the ‘Arise’ Celebration event in July (Skegness) where Churches within the region gathered for fellowship, worship and teaching. The cost of the posters was met by Springs Church and the Pastor lead the Chaplaincy team throughout the weekend.
Springs Church has remained committed to praying for Caistor and the surrounding villages, as well as the wider world and Church: holding weekly prayer meetings inperson and on-line and encouraging prayer at key times (eg Pentecost and Thy Kingdom Come). Prayer gatherings are common-place within the Church Emmaus Room, as well as an increased commitment to the Humber to Wash regional prayer gatherings.
Springs Church has continued its support for Christian organisations both financially and non-financially: raising their profile in the Church, in the UK and beyond. This can be seen in the financial accounts. Of particular note are the 20 gifts of £100 to various local Churches and Christian organisation whom the Church is linked with- as part of our 20[th] birthday celebration. Representatives from organisations are welcome visitors to our Sunday service as well as delivery of material in services to educate the Church by the Pastor.
3
In respect of objective (2) in addition to the above:
Springs Church holds specific weekly teaching for children and/or teenagers when required or requested. This can include teaching activities, song/music and craft sessions at in-person gatherings. In 2022 this has often taken the form of teaching within Church as well as key gatherings such as Christmas or Easter for all-age events. Childrens activities have been provided upon request.
Resources are sometimes passed onto families for self-directed/home study, particularly at key seasons such as Advent; tailoring resources and teaching to age. This has been extended to families outside of Church attendance through our work with Safe Families for Children UK, via trained volunteers and also in conjunction with the local foodbank
Springs Church has committed to supporting Safe Families for Children on a monthly basis in 2022, as well as sponsoring a child via Compassion UK to widen our support to children across the globe.
Springs Church holds a monthly family ‘Café-type’ service which offers a more varied and less formal programme of teaching for all ages to worship together using a variety of media on key themes
As the opportunity arises, Springs Church run Alpha Courses (Introduction to Christianity), discipleship or parenting courses are performed upon application.
In respect of objective (3) in addition to the above:
Springs Church has contributed financially to the Ground Level Network of Churches and to the charitable projects supported by it, as well as other Christian causes in the UK/worldwide. It also supports CTAL financially through membership.
The Church may contribute to emergency funding as required (for example in the Ukraine conflict) via Christian Organisations, in accordance with the Trust Deed Springs Church continues to work with Safe Families for Children, UK: supporting it financially on a monthly basis and impacting families in the area with befriender support, prayer and practical resources.
Closer to home, the Church continued a successful monthly lunch club in a local village hall: aimed at bringing together people who have limited social contact or mobility. This is run on Christian principles with a number of willing volunteers from the Church. A small grant has been awarded this year to aid the Church with food provision and village hall hire (Courtesy of the local Co-op)
In November the Church launched ‘Warm and Well’: a registered warm space to benefit those in the community who may require help or company over the winter This was aided by a small grant from a District Councillor, allowing breakfast and a warm space to be provided free of charge in the Emmaus Room. We obtained a matchfunded grant to enable over 100 Bags of Kindness to be distributed to all guests of the Lunch Club, Warm and Well and the local Foodbank over the Christmas period.
An informal, monthly musical ‘Acoustic Lounge’ evening continues, bringing together the musically-minded or mere music lovers for an evening of friendship and song Breakfast and lunch social gatherings as well as coffee ‘get-togethers’ allow for community integration and fellowship on a monthly basi
4
## **SPRINGS CHURCH** (a registered charity)
## **NOTES CONCERNING FINANCE**
## **INCOME & EXPENDITURE**
Details of the comparison of income over the expenditure for the financial year are given at page 6.
## **ASSETS**
It should be noted that the Trust has no assets involving property, vehicles or investments. A summary balance sheet is found on page 7.
## **BANKING**
The Church has two accounts with its bankers, current & savings. No charges for this service have been made. Interest is received on one of the accounts.
5
## **SPRINGS CHURCH** (a registered charity)
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **Period : 1 January - 31 December 2022**
|**Sum of Total Income /**
**Expenditure**|Accounts Year
2022
2021
Note Ref
5,985
6,023
27,369
26,516
**33,354**
**32,539**
2b
250
2e
526
2f
820
795
2a
2,000
10
942
2c
248
2g
2d
**3,603**
**1,986**
(841)
(814)
(40)
(898)
(1,200)
2b
(5,034)
(1,882)
1
(250)
2e
(526)
2f
(6,190)
(7,030)
(2,302)
(1,414)
2a
(224)
(220)
(159)
(253)
(698)
(1,650)
(15)
(22,092) (21,031)
(856)
2c
(17)
(3,635)
(3,354)
(157)
(225)
(200)
(110)
(140)
2g
(28)
2d
**(43,096) (40,391)**
**(6,138)**
**(5,866)**
20,135
26,001
**13,997**
**20,135**|
|---|---|
|Category
Description||
|Income
Gift Aid||
|Offerings||
|Other Income||
|**Income Total**||
|Other Income
Acoustic Lounge||
|Covid- Safe Families||
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme||
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme 2022||
|Home Alone Lunches||
|Israel||
|Legacy||
|Lunchclub||
|Other Income||
|Springs C19 Response||
|Warm&Well||
|Xmas Friendship||
|**Other Income Total**
Edit
Adiitti||
|xpenure
mnsraon
Capital expense||
|Covid- Safe Families||
|Gift||
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme||
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme 2022||
|Hall Hire||
|Home Alone Lunches||
|Insurance||
|Lunchclub||
|Miscelaneous||
|Outreach||
|Pastor Expenses||
|Salary||
|Soul Sisters - Teen Club||
|Springs C19 Response||
|SundaySchool||
|Tithe||
|Training||
|Visitor expenses||
|Warm&Well||
|Xmas Friendship||
|**Expenditure Total**||
|**Net Income / (Outgoings)**
Balance of Funds 1 January
**Balance of Funds 31 December**||
6
## **Balance Sheet Financial Period Ending December 2022**
||31/12/2022
31/12/2021|
|---|---|
|Cash at Bank|13,896
20,070
101
66|
|PettyCash||
|Total Cash|**13,997**
**20,135**|
|||
|Retained Income|**13,997**
**20,135**|
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **1. Gifts**
|||||Accounts Year||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditure**||||||
|Description|||Subcode|2022|2021|
|||Gift|Alive Church|(100)||
||||Barnabas Fund|(1,000)|(600)|
||||Bible Society|(300)||
||||Caistor Methodist Church|(300)||
||||Caistor Parish Church|(100)||
||||Christians Against Poverty|(200)||
||||CityChurch Grimsby|(100)||
||||Compassion UK|(456)|(132)|
||||DailyBread|(100)||
||||Good News|(100)||
||||Ground level: One event|(300)|(500)|
||||Groundlevel|(100)||
||||Hope Community|(100)||
||||Life Church Horncastle|(100)||
||||Lifewords UK|(100)||
||||Nettleton Church|(100)||
||||New Life Market Rasen|(100)||
||||Open Doors|(100)|(350)|
||||Other Gift|||
||||Our DailyBread Ministries|||
||||Paogin Haokip|(100)||
||||Safe Families|(180)|(300)|
||||Samaritans Purse|(300)||
||||SanctuaryFoundation|(18)||
||||St Thomas More Church|(100)||
||||Storehouse Skegness|(380)||
||||Threshold|(100)||
||||TryPraying|(100)||
|**Gift Total**||||**(5,034) **|**(1,882)**|
|**Net Income / (Outgoings)**||||**(5,034) **|**(1,882)**|
7
## **2. Grant Funded Activities**
|**2. Grant Funded Activities**|||
|---|---|---|
|||Balance c'f|
|Springs Church has been awarded|the following Grants:|31/12/2002|
|2018|Lottery Grant to start lunchclubs to serve local rural communities, in||
||particular those who are isolated within those communities.|0|
|2020|Lincolnshire County Council Emergency Response Fund to offer||
||support to families outside the local area during the Covid restrictions.|0|
|2020|Lottery and Government Grant fund to support isolated people in the||
||Caistor area|0|
|2020|Lincolnshire County Council Grant to provide a Christmas Gift to all||
||attendees of the lunchclubs in Nettleton and North Kelsey who had||
||been unable to meet through much of 2020.|0|
|2021|Good Neighbour Scheme|0|
|2022|Good Neighbour Scheme|0|
|2022|WLDC Warm & Well|108|
## **2a. Home Alone Lunches**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**||||Accounts Year||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Description|||Category|||Subcode|2022|2021|
|||Home Alone Lunches|||Other Income|Donations N Kelsey|820|125|
|||||||Furlough||670|
||||**Other Income Total**||||**820**|**795**|
||||||Expenditure|Food|(422)|(104)|
|||||||Hall Hire|(484)|(88)|
|||||||Other|||
|||||||Pay|(1,220)|(1,200)|
|||||||Equipment|||
|||||||Management costs|||
|||||||General|(176)|(22)|
|||||||Printer|||
||||**Expenditure Total**||||**(2,302)**|**(1,414)**|
|**Home Alone Lunches Total**|||||||**(1,482)**|**(620)**|
|**Grand Total**|||||||**(1,482)**|**(620)**|
## **2b. Covid-19 Safe Families**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**||||Accounts Year||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Description||Category|||Subcode|2022|2021|
||Covid- Safe Families|||Other Income|Grant|||
|||**Other Income Total**||||||
|||||Expenditure|Gifts||(159)|
||||||Childrens Resources||(103)|
||||||Mileage||(339)|
||||||Room Rental||(130)|
||||||Office||(58)|
||||||Capital||(50)|
||||||PPE||(116)|
||||||Postage||(87)|
||||||Refreshments||(158)|
||||||Unspent Grant|(898)||
|||**Expenditure Total**||||**(898)**|**(1,200)**|
|**Covid- Safe Families Total**||||||**(898)**|**(1,200)**|
|**Grand Total**||||||**(898)**|**(1,200)**|
8
## **2c. Springs Covid-19 Response Grant**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**||||Accounts Year|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Description||Category|||Subcode|2021|
||Springs C19 Response|||Other Income|Grant||
|||**Other Income Total**|||||
|||||Expenditure|Stationary||
||||||Courses||
||||||Zoom||
||||||Cleaning|(45)|
||||||Room Rental|(811)|
|||**Expenditure Total**||||**(856)**|
|**Springs C19 Response Total**||||||**(856)**|
|**Grand Total**||||||**(856)**|
## **2d. Christmas Friendship Grant**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**||||Accounts Year|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Description||Category|||Subcode|2021|
||Xmas Friendship|||Other Income|Grant||
|||**Other Income Total**|||||
|||||Expenditure|Gifts|(28)|
||||||Publicity||
|||**Expenditure Total**||||**(28)**|
|**Xmas Friendship Total**||||||**(28)**|
|**Grand Total**||||||**(28)**|
## **2e. Good Neighbour Grant 2021**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**
Accounts Year|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**
Accounts Year|
|---|---|
|Description|Category
Subcode
2021|
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme|Other Income
Grant
250|
||**Other Income Total**
**250**|
||Expenditure
Food
(250)|
||**Expenditure Total**
**(250)**|
|**Good Neighbourhood Scheme Total**
**0**||
|**Grand Total**
**0**||
## **2f. Good Neighbour Grant 2022**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**
Accounts Year|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**
Accounts Year|
|---|---|
|Description
Category
Subcode
2022||
|Good Neighbourhood Scheme 20
Other Income
Grant
526||
||**Other Income Total**
**526**|
||Expenditure
Food
(526)|
||**Expenditure Total**
**(526)**|
|**Good Neighbourhood Scheme 2022 Total**
**(0)**||
|**Grand Total**
**(0)**||
9
**2g. WLDC Warm & Well Grant 2022**
|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**|**Sum of Total Income / Expenditur**||||Accounts Year|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Description||Category|||Subcode|2022|
||Warm&Well|||Other Income|Grant|248|
|||**Other Income Total**||||**248**|
|||||Expenditure|Food|(51)|
||||||Other|(89)|
|||**Expenditure Total**||||**(140)**|
|**Warm & Well Total**||||||**108**|
|**Grand Total**||||||**108**|
10
INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS REPORT
22 Lthyd W*t. Dlljl 2LU
Vhw/F•x OX472 322874
Mob•le 07771 751•5•
711•1
mAAllT XYblJ.
PTQP. f M BAIIIDnslFFrr4. IFJllFrllcyW I,FIPI
11