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2021-12-31-accounts

Alive Believers Centre

158 Prescot Road Liverpool L7 0JD

. Reg Charity 1119924

Financial Statements

31 December 2021

Alive Believers Centre Reg.Charity1119924

Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31 December 2021

Contents

Page
Contents 2
Administrative Information 3
Trustees’ Report 6
Structure of the Charity 6
Structure of Administration 6
Significant Issues & Landmark 7
Future Projection 10
Declaration & Signature 12
Independent Examiners’ Report 13
Statement of Financial Activities 13
Balance Sheet 14
Notes to the Financial Statements 16

Alive Believers Centre Reg.Charity1119924

Alive Believers Centre is also known as Alive Community Centre

Registered Charity Number: 1119924

Period of the Report 01 January 2021 – 31 December 2021

Charity’s Principal Address Charity’s Place of Operation 259-261 Boaler Street 259-261 Boaler Street Fairfield/Kensington Fairfield/Kensington Liverpool L6 9DH Liverpool L6 9DH

Charity’s Contact Details Telephone:0151-261-9161 Email: alive.believers@yahoo.co.uk

Description of the Charity’s Trusts

The charity is governed by the Declaration of Trust dated 27 July 2002 as amended by supplemental deed dated 25 January 2003 The Charity’s objectives are:

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Alive Believers Centre Reg.Charity1119924

Trustees and Governance

Names of Trustees Dates during which Office Held the named trustee acted (if not for the whole period covered by the report)

Dr Abel Kehinde Adegoke- Chairman Dr Olaposi Simeon Kehinde Dr Victor Ebenuwa Dr Babatunde Ogunbiyi- Secretary

Trustees are appointed at Annual General Meetings. Trustees have the authority to co-opt other people as trustees during the year for the remainder of the year.

Bankers Lloyds TSB Liverpool Law Courts PO Box 1000 BX1 1LT

Independent Examiners TAMACS Management Accounting Solutions 12 Ashleigh Drive Sheffield S12 2SA

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Alive Believers Centre Reg.Charity1119924

Trustees Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2021

Organisational Structure, Activities and Achievements

Structure of the Charity

Trustees and the Cardinal Objectives of the Charity

Board of Trustees first level in administrative structure in Alive Believers Centre, made up ofmemberslistedonpage4of this report designs, sets up and coordinates policies, strategies, activities and administrative structure for running he charity. They are drawn from a wide spectrum of society to reflect the nature and functions . of the charity

The cardinal objective of Alive Believers Centre, as stipulated in its new charter agreed at a General Meeting on 6 October 2010 is to Promote Health & Wellbeing of Children, Youth, Adults & Older Peoplewithout discrimination in terms of sex, age, sexual orientation, race, political or religious affiliation, or other opinions. Trustees therefore promote activities geared towards the development of a total person, by providing members of the public opportunities to improve their wellbeing through health & wellbeing, social, and economic activities; as well as recreational and educative services spanning various aspects of living. The board continues to achieve its objectives by appointing trained professionals and volunteers within the community and society in general, who design, deliver and maintain activities approved by Trustees for the attainment of its objectives set out . on page 3 of this report

Structure of Administration

The Board of Trustees remains the highest level of administration that sets out policies and strategies for achieving objectives of Alive Believers Centre. Management Team is the next level of administration setup to implement policies and strategies and give exception reports to Board of Trustees for verification, evaluation, validation and review. These include cultural leaders and members of the community who contribute to the development of the charity’s objectives. They are appointed to take charge of smaller/ad-hoc tasks and day today running of the charity’s activities. Dr Johnson Abimbola and Dr Adedoyin Abimbola, accomplished individuals, leaders from the start of the charity, continue to give social, financial and administrative services, nurturing and supporting objectives of the charity. Other ad hoc committees are appointed within the membership and board of trustees as these become necessary and needed to implement the activities of the charity.

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Alive Believers Centre . Reg Charity1119924 Trustees Report (continued)

Significant Issues & Landmarks

The year 2021 had its own share of the challenges from the fallout of COVID-19, as we had to open, close and re-open our physical activities depending on the signals we were getting from regulatory authorities. The difficulties of 2020 taught us how to survive and give quality service in period of emergencies. Volunteers and service users demonstrated unusual confidence in our Charity’s ability to weather through COVID-19. We became very flexible in our approach to service delivery, especially because many of our private donors were resolute in supporting flexible and complex approaches. The greatest beneficiary of our innovative online service delivery and the most vulnerable group were the Older People.

Although our on-site Luncheon Meetings became haphazard as we opened our on-site activities when COVID-19 restrictions permitted, and resorted to our Online initiative whenever it became imperative to halt physical interaction of members. This created serious disruptions to the ways we functioned. Nevertheless, we continued to deliver online Health and Wellbeing activities, such as Health Talks, Group Dynamics meetings on the Zoom, and Telephone Services as much as practicable. The determination ofour Trustees and a good number of Rainbow 50+ members gave us the much-needed encouragement even in the midst of the challenges. It’s worth mentioning that the National Lottery Community Fund and All Churches Trust funded significant aspects of our Older People’s activities, while well-meaning members of the Charity gave so much to other causes, such as Kids and Teens Empowerment project.

The help and support we were getting from COSTCO Stores (through OASIS Food Project) faced very serious decline, as we were unable to travel to COSTCO Store at Elsmere Port where we were collecting the food allocated to our charity. Members of the charity however rose up to the challenge by sending in food donations, some quantifiable, others without price tags. Thus, the decline we experienced in terms of Store food allocation was ameliorated by a phenomenon growth in community donation. The emphasis of our charity was on the total person, but more efforts had to shift to our Older People who had become the most vulnerable in our community because of need for Post Covid community-based support that would address loneliness and isolation; sedentary lifestyle, loss of physical fitness; mental and emotional needs. Trustees therefore set up a Steering committee that sent out questionnaires in December 2021 to determine the most effective way of providing Post Covid community-based support for our older people that would effectively resettle them back into the fabrics of communal activities.

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Acute financial shortage was the greatest of our challenges, because, whereas the Steering Committee the trustees set up came up with workable activities from the series of surveys, questionnaires and consultations they carried out, finance became a limiting factor. An unexpected breakthrough was that our community continues to demonstrate implicit confidence in our services, especially as we were delivering our services mostly

online to tackle the epileptic way we were opening and closing our doors due to incessant restrictions. The Liverpool Council was also helpful in supporting and sustaining our unrestricted services to the Kensington/Fairfield community making us a reference point, in terms of delivering functional and sustainable services for the development of Older People’s wellbeing. Though we still lack sustained funds to execute our veritable activities, trustees, management, volunteers and the community continue to stand up by supporting the work morally, physically and financially. This has given us a mark of distinction as Alive Believers Centre continued to widen the scope of “Community Development Model”.

Appreciation and Acknowledgements

We cannot overemphasise the life-saving financial support we received from Steve Morgan’s Foundation, LCVS, National Lottery Community Fund, and Liverpool City Council, which had helped us to weather through the storm of 2020 and given us the impetus to work harder in 2021. Community members and COSTCO Stores (through our benefactors, the OASIS) also gave us food items without which some of our older people would have gone down, not necessarily with COVID, but the ripples of its effects. These support networks have also empowered us to begin to work towards sending in expansion bids to traditional funders. We recognise our Councillors in Kensington/Fairfield ward who recommended us for fund and supported us to gain access to critically good practices to sustain the work.

Some Important Statistics

The year 2021 witnessed growth in the number of beneficiaries and volunteers, in spite of the critical challenges of unstable pattern of restrictions. Greater number of individual older people, carers and families accessed our services in 2021, as more organisations, such as Health Watch, Liverpool City Council, Citizens Advise Bureau, Life Room and even private individuals referred many clients to our services. Our Kids and Teens Club also witnessed a significant growth considering the global health condition that locked more people in and gave parents some apprehension. Our older people’s service continued to grow because of the online opportunity of accessing our services. Alive Dance Crew under the guidance of an efficient Dance Facilitator was able to enlist more children in the community who come in at every opportunity when our doors were opened. We planned a mini-Summer School to support single parents who needed to go back to work. The result was overwhelming as 32 children enrolled and 14 community volunteers emerged.

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Some Clips of our Activities

Social Distancing Chair-based Exercises

Community Donation of Food, Drinks & Materials

Healthy Meal Delivery Service for older people Continued in 2021 A volunteer dropping meal at older people’s doorstep

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Important Changes

Human resources were our greatest asset in 2021. We overcame the challenges of 2020 and 2021 through the invincible hands of selfless management team who carried the burden of erratic delivery of appropriate, effective and specialised services. The situation was further compounded by lack of sufficient funds, coupled with highly sensitive, frail and Clinically Extremely Vulnerable older people and ageing population of our community. The Steering Committee set up by trustees to study the way forward in the midst of these uncertainties, was inundated with endless list of concerns raised by Parents, Single parents, Volunteers, Women and Men Groups in the community. In it all, the saving grace had been the resilience of our ever-ready volunteers, most of who “wore so many caps”, rendering multi-dimensional services at their own expense.

Future Projections

Trustees have capitalised on feedbacks from our pilot services to our everincreasing service users to improve on our innovations of Online delivery of services and Befriender initiatives. The direction in which trustees are driving our services going forward is the development of these innovations and technological advancement to become more visible to greater number of beneficiaries, globally. Online Health Talks which has gained much acceptance among our older folks was further enhanced by the community spirit of our Partners, Professionals across health disciplines and individual donors of money and materials. Trustees were pleading to friends of the charity to come to our aid by donating telephone sets so we can expand the already successful Telephone Befriending Service. We are also planning to raise funds for the employment of in-house Telephone Befrienders, Community Engagement and Visitation worker in future. We look forward to procuring more basic phone sets in 2022 as more volunteers are recruited, in view of the growing rate of Vulnerable Older People referrals. Trustees are exploring means of collaborating with other charities who are beginning to buy into our service.

Trustees have started to develop a strong Management Team, both on ground and Online as a means of expanding the reach of our service deliveries, improve the scope of our engagement, and expand the involvement of larger diversities locally. We are also working towards the engagement of tried and tested friends of the charity nationally and internationally, especially involving professionals who can help us drive our online initiatives. This drive towards unifying our services to benefit more people will result in enlisting trained and equipped service users to take on key volunteering responsibilities.

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Trustees are also sensitising management to engage more with people from different forms of protected characteristics as a means of offering holistic service to a wider audience and across people’s peculiar needs. A big leap in 2022-2023 is trustees’ plan to upgrade the charity into an Incorporated Charity status to give both Rainbow 50+ Group and Kids and Teens services a wider outlook.

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Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

In compliance with the requirements of Charity Commission in England and Wales, we have prepared financial statements for the year 2021 which give true and fair view of the charity’s financial activities during the year and show . its financial position at the end of the year In preparing those financial statements, we have:

We have kept accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity and which enable the external examiners to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Statement of Recommended Practice (revised 2005). We have also safeguarded the assets of the charity and taken reasonable steps to prevent and detect fraud and . other irregularities

External Examiners

TAMACS Management Accounting Solutions have agreed to continue to offer themselves for appointment as external examiners of the charity.

Signature and Declaration

I declare, in my capacity as a trustee, that:

Signed Abel Kehinde Adegoke (Chairman Board of Trustees) 10July 2022

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Independent Examiner’s Report on the Accounts

Independent Report to the trustees of Alive Believers Centre on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 set out on pages 13 to 21

Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

Basis of Independent Examiner’s statement

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. I also include 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; . consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts

Independent Examiner’s Statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:

(ii)to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: Dated: 11 Oct. 22 Name Titus Abayomi FCA, ACMA, CGMA, MSc. Address 12 Ashleigh Drive, Sheffield S12 2SA

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Alive Believers Centre

Reg. Charity 1119924

Statement of Financial Activities

For the Financial Year Ended 31 December 2021

NOTE Y/E December 2021
£
Voluntary Income
1A
61,703.55
Restricted Fund
1B
24,896.00
Other Income
1C
30,320.00
Total Income
116,919.55
Resources Expended
Service Costs
5
64,903.44
Support Costs
5
43,005.83
Governance Costs
5
200.00
Total Resources Expended
108,109.27

Net Movement in Funds
8,810.28

Funds Brought Forward
211,316.46

220,126.74
2020
£
65,279.77
37,558.21
36,009.77
138,847.75
81,569.45
31,086.49
200.00
112,855.94
25,991.81
185,324.65
211,316.46


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Alive Believers Centre

Reg. Charity 1119924

Balance Sheet

as at 31 December 2021
Schs 31st December 2021
Furniture, Fittings
£
& Equipment
2
10,835.00
Prepayment RBS (Boaler Street) 421,123.00
Loans (Re Boaler Street) 4
198,816.00
222,307.00
Current Assets:
Cash in Hand & at Bank
24,102.00

Total Current_Assets
24,102.00
Less Creditors & Accruals 4
23,491.00

_Net Current Assets

611.00
Net Assets
233,753.00

Charity Current Account
Balance B/F
224,943.00
Excess of Income
Over Expenditure
8,810.00
Total Fund
6 233,753.00
233,753.00
Unrestricted Fund
-
2020
£
13,217.00
185,558.00
32,559.00
32,559.00
6,391.00
26,168.00
224,943.00
198,951.00
25,992.00
224,943.00
224,943.00
-

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Alive Believers Centre

Reg. Charity 1119924

Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Financial Year Ended 31 December 2021

1. Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements

Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared on the basis of historic cost convention in accordance with:

Change in basis of accounting

• There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and methods of accounting) since 2007 accounting period Change to previous accounts

2. Accounting Policies

Incoming resources

Recognition of incoming resources

These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:

Incoming resources with related expenditure

Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported . gross in the SoFA

Grants and Donations

Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.

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Tax reclaims on donations and gifts

Incoming resources from tax claims are included in the SoFA at the same . time as the gift to which they relate

Contractual income and performance related grants

These are only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.

Gifts in kind

Donated services and facilities

These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.

Volunteer help

The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the accounts but . is described in the trustees’ annual report

Investment Income

This is included in the accounts when receivable.

Expenditure and Liabilities

Liability recognition

Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation . committing the charity to pay out resources

Governance costs

This includes costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.

Support costs

These include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of resources, e.g. allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff costs by the time spent and other costs by their regular usage measurement.

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Assets

Tangible fixed assets for use by the charity

Land nil
Buildings 50 years straight line
Plant, fixtures and fittings, equipment 4 years reducing balance
Motor Vehicles 4 years reducing balance

Investments

. Investments on a recognised stock exchange are valued at market value at the year end Other investments assets are included at trustees’ best estimate or market value.

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Alive Believers Centre

Reg. Charity 1119924

Statement of Financial Activities
Schedules for the Financial Year Ended 31 December
1. Income
2021
A. Voluntary Income
£
Donations
61,703.55

61,703.55

B.Restricted Income:
Beat Loneliness – Award for All
9,896.00
Hope Beyond – All Churches Trust
15,000.00

Liverpool Council (Mayoral Fund 50+)
-

Steve Morgan’s Foundation Covid-19
-

Community Fund 50+ Covid-19 Project
-
LCVS Violent Reduction Project
-

24,896.00

C.Other Income
Gift Aid
-

Facilities Usage by others
12,320.00

Merseyside Yoruba Donation
-

Food Donations
18,000.00

Total Other Income
30,320.00

Total Income
116,919.55
2020
2020
£
65,279.77
65,279.77
-
3,508.19
2,500.02
28,000.00
3,550.00
37,558.21
16,493.77
11,166.00
200.00
8,150.00
36,009.77
138,847.75
2020
2020
£
65,279.77
65,279.77
-
3,508.19
2,500.02
28,000.00
3,550.00
37,558.21
16,493.77
11,166.00
200.00
8,150.00
36,009.77
138,847.75


















2. Furniture Fittings & Equipment
Cost (As at 01/01/2021)
Addition in 2021

Cost (As at 31/12/2021)
Depreciation
Depreciation(As at 01/01/2021)
Depreciation for the Year (25% Red)
Depreciation (As at 31/12/2021)
Net Asset (As at 31/12/2021)
2021

£

60,960.07
1,229.39
62,189.46

47,742.89

3,611.64

51,354.53

10,834.93
2020
£
60,960.07
-
60,960.07
43,337.16
4,405.73
47,742.89
13,217.18



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3. Debtors & Prepayments

Deposit towards 259 Boaler Street up to 31/12/2020 369,694.00

4. Creditors (Re: Boaler Street Contribution)

Accountancy Charges (Governing 200.00

Property Loan:
Royal Bank of Scotland
Rev Dr Johnson Abimbola
Rev Dr Adedoyin Abimbola
Bro Kunle Abimbola
Bro Akin Abimbola
Bro Jide Abimbola Jr
Sis Bade Olusunmade
Dr Babatunde Ogunbiyi
Loan Total

Beat Loneliness_Award for All_
2021
2020
81,586.15
81,586.15
60,154.57
60,154.57
29,000.00
29,000.00
13,025.60
13,025.60
5,500.00
5,500.00
5,000.00
5,000.00
1,350.00
1,350.00
3,200.00
3,200.00
198,816.32 198,816.32
4, 600.00
Beat Loneliness_Award for All_ 4, 600.00
-
Hope Beyond_All Churches Trust_ 12,500.00
-
Outstanding Invoices
5,815.62 5,815.62
Rainbow Community
(Legal Charges) 375.00 375.00
Governance Costs - £200* 200.00
200.00
Accruals Total
23,490.62
6,390.62

* Governance Costs is the £200 payable to External Accountant

5. Resources Expended

Charitable Activities Y/E December

Services Costs 2021 2020
Staff Expenses – Alive Centre
51,547.56 38,493.08

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Restricted Funds Expenses (Note 6):
Beat Loneliness - Award for All
Hope Beyond All Churches Trust
National Lottery Community Fund
Steve Morgan’s Foundation
LCC Mayoral Fund – Note 6c
LCVS Violent Reduction Fund
Programs & Events **

Welfare

5,296.00
2,500.00
-
-

-

-

4,430.42
1,129.46
64,903.44
-
28,000.00
2,500.02
3,508.19
3,550.00
1,610.70
3,907.45
81,569.45

**Programs, events & feasts sponsored by members of the Charity have not been included

Y/E December
Support Costs
Rent (Payable to RBS)
Repairs & Maintenance
Transport &Travelling
Printing, Postage & Communications
Electricity, Water &Gas
Insurances

Fees, Charges and Licences
Bank Charges
Depreciation
2021
£
18,000.00

10,031.79

1,118.53

706.44
6,755.02
2,030.74

470.53

281.14

3,611.64

43,005.83
2020
£
15,680.00
222.40
1,903.69
501.56
5,498.53
2,087.88
341.16
445.45
4,405.73
31,086.49

6. Expenses on Restricted Funds

Note 6a. Award for All Fund

Note 6a. Award for All Fund Note 6a. Award for All Fund
Beat Loneliness Project for Rainbow 50+ Older People: £
Total Fund 9,896.00
2021 Expenditure:
Cooking Demonstration Materials @ £200/Month 1,409.20
Project Wages:
Online Digital analyst/coordinator 1,650.00
Older People’s Lead 1,200.00
2,850.00
Telephone Befriender Air time Credit @ £5/Phone/Week 720.00
Room Hire 240.00
Publicity & Stationery
76.80
5,296.00
Balance C/f to 2022 4,600.00

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Note 6b. All Churches Trust Fund Hope Beyond Grant
Live Well Age Well Project:
•80 Hot meals (+ Delivery) for 80 persons in 4 weeks

(Supplemented with Food Donations1,200)
Project Wages:
•Befrienders Coordinator

•Online Digital analyst/coordinator


TOTAL COST

Balance C/f to 2022
£
1,220.00
740.00
540.00
1,280.00
2,500.00
12,500.00

7. 2018 Outstanding Invoices (Paid by PayPal)

Outstanding Invoices B/F
Publicity (Websites)

Stationery Items

Kitchen Utensils

Repair Kits

Music Project Instruments

Total Outstanding Invoices
5,031.54
117.14
186.56
21.29
12.49
446.60
5,815.62

8.RestrictedFunds

Alive Reserved Fund Portfolio £ 233,753

– Trustees resolved in 2009 that 85% of voluntary income (as at 2020 £224,943) be set aside as ‘Capital Redemption Reserve Fund’ meant for procuring Boaler Street property gradually, thus reducing the interest of Royal Bank of Scotland annually.

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