MIRACLE CENTRE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (UK) Reports and Financial Statements 31ST DECEMBER 2025
Legal and administrative information
Status
Registered charitable organisation since 28 April 2005
Board of Trustees
Rev. Alexander Donkor Rev. Paulina Donkor Rev. Micheal Darko Mr Kofi Ntim Mr Nelson Gomelesio Mr Kofi Kyei-Mensah-Osei
Registered Charity No
1109266
Registered office address Miracle Centre Assemblies of God UK 11 Cuckoo Hall Lane LONDON Edmonton N9 8DH
Bankers
Barclays Bank plc TSB Bank plc HSBC plc
Accountants
AL Accounting Solutions Limited Chartered Certified Accountants 21A Brighton Road South Croydon Surrey CR2 6EA
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1.0 INTRODUCTION :
The 2025 Annual report for Miracle Centre Assemblies of God (MCAG (UK)) will cover areas of interest and importance – focusing more on the following areas; Operation: Our branches; Trustee’s management committee; our programme of activities; the executive committee; our activities, monitoring & evaluation and challenges.
2.0 . AREAS OF OPERATION:
MCAG (UK) is an international organisation currently operating in the United Kingdom, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has always been our desire to extend our services and efforts and expand to other parts of the world where and whenever we deem appropriate.
3.0. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION .
MCAG (UK) BOARD OF TRUSTEES continues to be the management committee of the organisation operating from our head office at Edmonton.
3.1. BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The Charity currently has a six- member Board of trustees, whose responsibility span from managing the affairs of the Charity, keeping and managing the finance and inventory as well as steering it to achieve its set objectives for each year.
They remain as follows; Rev. Alexander Donkor: General Overseer
Rev/Mrs Paulina Donkor: – .
Rev Michael Darko: Special Assistant to the General Overseer
Rev. Kofi Ntim: Administrative Secretary/Convenor Deac. Nelson Gomelesio: Financial Secretary/Personnel in charge of Gift Aid. Deac. Kofi Kyei-Mensah-Osei: Coordinator, MCAG Ministries/Departments
3.2. GENERAL COUNCIL MEETING
The last meeting of the General council, highest decision making body, was held on 10th January 2026 at 11 Cuckoo Hall Lane Edmonton (our church premises). At the meeting, all activities of the organisation within the year 2025, were discussed, and all relevant decisions were made.
3.3. BRANCH PASTORS
Currently, all our pastors form part of the Board of Trustees, but primarily act as the spiritual leaders and head of their respective branches. They are as follows;
Edmonton – Rev/Mrs Pauline Donkor
Barking – Rev Michael Darko
Northolt - Rev Kofi Ntim.
Their main responsibilities have always included seeing to the spiritual development, guidance and counselling of the members and any member of the public who required their services.
As usual, they spearheaded our provision of Counselling services, advice on parenting and family life as well as Career guidance to all who were effectively in need. These services continued to be so very important in the lives of many individuals and families.
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3.4. BRANCHES :
The organisation consists of 4 main branches currently operating in London, and situated in the following locations; Edmonton, Barking, and Northolt. Our membership has grown up to approximately 290 permanent and 70 casual members, aside a number of floating participants in our activities.
All these branches have their respective local boards or committee, who work with the local pastors. They are selected through elections and appointments. The branches are as follows; 1. Edmonton, 2. Northolt, 3. Barking, 4. Bedford
4.0. DEPARTMENTS
The church has six (6) departments namely;
1.Men’s Ministry, 2.Women’s Ministry, 3.Sunday School Department, 4.Children’s Ministry, 5.Youth Ministry and 6.Missions and Evangelism.
Representatives/Leaders for all these departments are chosen in all local branches, who lead directly at the local level. Each department has a Director who organizes all programmes and activities relating to their various departments at the national level. They work under the supervision of the Coordinator of Ministries/Departments who is a trustee.
4.1. WOMEN’S MINISTRY DEPARTMENT.
The Women’s Ministry celebrated their annual anniversary and fund raising in all our four branches in May 2025. The Women’s Ministry Director organised a joint programmes on ‘Marriage and family matters’ and ‘Health education’. These two programmes were well and proved very effective. Our Northolt Women’s ministry arranged for an Insurance Advisor to give the whole church talks on topics ‘Financial stability & financial’. The Edmonton branch also held a programme entitled ‘Encounter with the Holy spirit, which had a massive impact on all the women
4.2. MEN’S MINISTRY DEPARTMENT.
All the Men’s Ministries in our various branches celebrated their annual anniversaries in June.
The Men’s Ministry Director organised an all-day prayer retreat session in which most of the attendees were spiritually blessed. On another note they organised a programme on Marriage to discuss the cause of problems in some marriages and families. This programme highlighted and clarified doubts in the minds of some of the men, and this led to help to an extent of solving a lot of marriage and family that issues.
4.3. YOUTH MINISTRY DEPARTMENT.
The Youth Ministry in the church activities include, Youth Service; Entrepreneurship development; giving moral and Spiritual support to young people; Encouraging and supporting young people to do well in their chosen academics. In April, some of our youth from Barking branch were supported to attend the AoG GB three days organised Young Lions programme at Kidderminster; they returned with renewed enthusiasm and changed attitudes both for the work of God and in the community at large. On 9[th] August, the Youth Ministry Director organised a very powerful joint programme for all our four branches to engage in conference, a very interactive day with workshops that looked at a range of different topics in the youth’s life, with practical biblical discipleship principles to apply daily. On 1[st] November, the Youth organised another programme – ‘Altar of God: Flame my altar’ . This was a day full of worship and praise and unconditional prayer.
4.4. CHILDREN MINISTRY DEPARTMENT.
Children’s ministries in all our branches organised successful day celebrations, providing a platform for Spiritual growth, emotional well being. They continued with the new curriculum introduced by the Director from the previous year. It focuses on Biblical story–telling and hands-on learning like colouring and painting for little children. The children’s participation in Bible memory verse challenge has increased by 30%, which is a proof that it is working positively. Our dedicated volunteers in all three branches are committed to supporting and caring for the children during church activities, organising fun games and other activities.
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4.5. MISSIONS/CHARITY
During the year, as part of our missions and charity activities, we supported about 45 individuals in the form of feeding and provision of essential commodities. We organised various impactful evangelism activities in all our branches including Jesus march at our Barking branch. Also, there were community engagement activities organised by Northolt and Barking branches respectively, donating food items to their local food banks. Edmonton branch served tea, coffee and pastries in street corners in their local community.
4.6. SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
This department successfully organized Sunday school bible teaching for adults, youth, and children every Sunday for all our branches. The weekly activity across the branches has always been a strong base for biblical experience and knowledge for all and our visitors in our church. It throws more light on sound Biblical doctrines and solid grounds for development and stability in the Lord, which in turn positively affects the communities and societies.
During the year we offered training to workers and volunteers in the Sunday School Department and workers were acknowledged and appreciated.
5.0 . WELFARE AND SUPPORT.
The church as a whole, across all our branches provided financial and emotional support to some vulnerable and underprivileged members and neighbours. And where necessary, we continued to provide counselling support and services to those within the church and the wider community.
6.0 . FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Financial Management continued to be the responsibility of a three/four member -Team who prepare and manage our finances; they work under the control of the Trustees. They are; Nelson Gomelesio (Trustee and leader) Deacon Kofi Kyei-Mensah-Osei (Trustee) Deacon Charles Nsiah Deaconess Elizabeth Assensoh
The Church’s Finance Team continued working in close consultation with AL Accounting Solutions, Accountants based in Croydon and Bristol.
6.1. FUND RAISING
The Charity’s fund raising activity continues to be by Tithes, free will Offerings, Donations, Pledges and Sponsorship. During the year, these fund raising activities happened each Sunday; others happened during Easter Convention services in April; Mid-year and Annual Thanksgiving Harvest which took place in July and December respectively. Members freely contributed to support the charities activities and the church.
6.2. FINANCIAL POLICY:
The charity always adheres to a pragmatic and more comprehensive Financial Policy alongside our constitution to ensure judicial use of funds. Systems and mechanisms of check and balance are in place to ensure proper funds disbursements; this appropriately runs through all our branches.
This policy was reviewed and updated to accommodate current trends of financial issues.
7.0 PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES:
The Trustees managed and organised the under listed activities during the year under review. Board Meetings: During the year, the Trustees had four (4) quarterly meetings and seven (7) emergency meetings to discuss and deal with issues pertaining to the organisation.
7.1. VOLUNTEERS & VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES.
During the year, 50 volunteers across the branches served in different capacities.
Some of their activities included directing and assisting people during events, caring for, and supporting children, distributing gospel materials, serving children’s meals, teaching at our various children and Sunday school services, teaching and supporting the Youth and assisting the elderly people who needed help. Others supported elderly and lonely people in their shopping and other domestic chores.
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7.2. EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL SUPPORT
This is an on-going activity in which several people who have various spiritual, social, emotional and other related problems freely and voluntarily sought assistance from the Charity. The Charity supported them in; counselling, prayers, financial and material needs and with other social recreational activities.
7.3. FEEDING THE LESS PRIVILEGED/ VULNERABLE:
Hot meals were also provided by the church to over 220 people along the Seven Sisters road leading to the tube station. Our Northolt branch engaged the local community around the Northolt post office area and served hot meals and soups to about 50 members of the community.
7.4. DONATIONS TO CHARITY OUTSIDE UK:
The charity seeks to make donations to the needy and the less privileged anytime and where necessary. During the year in question, we spent £768 sponsoring 8 children in Africa in their education through Compassion UK, and £270 in other mission and charity events.
7.5. MONITORING AND EVALUATION:
We can affirm that the trustees are monitoring every activities of the charity with monitoring tools such as weekly checks, proper and judicious use of funds, following laid down financial practices and procedures monitoring visits and periodic review of practices are in place to ensure conformity, probity and accountability.
8.0. CHALLENGES :
Our challenges remain the same as in the previous year; we faced few challenges in the discharge of our duties in the year however we believe that our achievements overshadowed the challenges that faced. We know that there is always room for improvement and as such we continue to work hard to address the challenges and improve upon the past achievements.
Pas. Kofi O. Ntim
Statement of trustees' responsibility
Charity regulations requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the charity's financial activities during the year and its financial position at the end of the year.
In doing so the trustees are required to:-
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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make judgements and reasonable and prudent judgement;
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state whether applicable accounting standards and statement of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable law, regulations and the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
By order of the Board
………………………………. Nelson Gomelesio Trustee
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Independent Examiner's report to the Trustees for the year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2025.
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the above period.
Responsibilities and basis of report:
As the charity's trustees, 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 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 which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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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.
Alhassan Bangura FCCA AL Accounting Solutions 21A Brighton Road South Croydon Surrey CR2 6EA
Date.....................................................
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Reports and Financial Statements
Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2025
| Unrestricted Funds Notes £ Incoming resources: Voluntary income 255,727 Gift Aid Claims 43,198 Investment income 516 Total Incoming resources 299,441 Resources Expended: 5 202,513 Total Resources Expended 202,513 Net Surplus / (Deficit) for the year 96,928 Opening funds 545,032 Closing Funds 641,960 |
Total Funds 2025 £ 255,727 43,198 516 299,441 202,513 202,513 96,928 545,032 641,960 |
Total Funds 2024 £ 212,937 41,250 253 254,440 193,190 193,190 61,250 483,782 545,032 |
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Balance Sheet as at 31ST DECEMBER 2025
| Fixed assets Freehold Premises at cost Other Fixed Assets Current assets: Debtors & prepayments Cash at bank Less: Current Liabilities Mortgage Loan Net Assets Represented by: Unrestricted funds Signed on behalf of the trustees |
Notes 2 3 4 |
2025 £ 900,000 60,785 15,712 193,217 208,929 (3,911) |
2025 £ 960,785 205,018 (523,843) 641,960 641,960 641,960 |
2024 £ 900,000 29,464 929,464 12,400 144,163 156,563 (5,998) 150,565 (534,997) 545,032 545,032 545,032 |
2024 |
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………………………………. Nelson Gomelesio Trustee
Date: ....................................................
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MIRACLE CENTRE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (UK) Reports and Financial Statements
Notes forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2025
1 Accounting policies
a) The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued in October 2019 and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Practice as it applies from 1 January 2019.
b) Voluntary income is received by the way of donations towards religious tithes and offerings. Donations received is included in full in the Statement of Financial Activities in the year in which they are received.
c) Resources expended are recognised in the period in which they are incurred. Resources expended include attributable VAT which cannot be recovered.
d) Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life as follows:
- Freehold Imporvments 5% Straight line
-Plant & Machinery 20% Reducing balance
e) Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds.
2 Other Fixed Assets
| Other Fixed Assets | |
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| Leasehold Equipment & Improvements Furniture £ £ Cost: As at 1 Jan 2025 21,519 72,094 Addition 36,681 - As at 31 Dec 2025 58,200 72,094 Depreciation: As at 1 Jan 2025 4,304 59,845 Charge 2,910 2,450 As at 31 Dec 2025 7,214 62,295 Net Book Value: As at 1 Jan 2025 17,215 12,249 As at 31 Dec 2025 50,986 9,799 |
Total £ 93,613 36,681 |
| 130,294 | |
| 64,149 5,360 |
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| 69,509 | |
| 29,464 60,785 |
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Notes forming part of the financial statements for the year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2025
| 3 Creditors: amount falling due within one year Accruals Other taxes and social security Pension liability 4. Mortgage Loan Balance brought forward Less: Repayment Add: Interest plus adjustment Balance carried forward 5 Resources Expended Honararium & Members Welfare Outreach & Events Salaries, wages & pension cost Allowances & other staff cost Training & Development Rent, Rates & Utilities Vicarage Cost Telephone & Internet Travelling & motor expenses Bank Charges & Interest Repairs & Renewals Insurance & Licences Mortgage Loan Interest Depreciation Legal & Professional Fees Accountancy Fees Total |
2025 Total £ 3,000 818 93 3,911 2025 £ 534,997 (49,499) 38,345 523,843 2025 Total £ 4,000 32,203 70,617 7,546 600 18,596 13,200 818 - 1,263 3,410 1,772 38,345 5,360 1,000 3,783 202,513 |
2024 Total £ 3,000 2,998 - 5,998 2024 £ 544,082 (52,766) 43,681 534,997 2024 Total £ 5,778 12,207 66,659 16,917 700 17,565 15,200 948 162 1,366 2,089 1,821 43,681 4,138 192 3,767 193,190 |
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Registered Charity No: 1109266
MIRACLE CENTRE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (UK)
Reports and Financial Statements Year ended 31ST DECEMBER 2025
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Contents
| Page No | |
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| 1 | Legal and administrative information |
| 2-5 | Trustees Report |
| 6 | Independent Examiners Report |
| 7 | Statement of Financial Activities |
| 8 | Balance Sheet |
| 9-11 | Notes forming part of the financial statements |