## _Registered Charity No. 1126789_
## Trustees’ Annual Report and Statement of Accounts
for the Year Ending 31st March 2023
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_Malpas Road Evangelical Church, Malpas Road, Newport NP20 5PJ_
## **Malpas Road Evangelical Church, Newport**
## **Trustees’ Report**
for the year ending 31st March 2023
## _**www.malpasroadevangelicalchurch.com** Registered Charity Number 1126789_
## **1. Legal & Administrative Information**
Malpas Road Evangelical Church is a registered charity. Its principal address is Malpas Road, Newport, NP20 5PJ
The objects of the Charity (as listed in the Trust Deed) are to further the religious and other charitable work of the Christian Church and hold in furtherance of that object (but not otherwise):
- (a) To hold the freehold premises known as Malpas Road Evangelical Church, Malpas Road, Newport.
- (b) To maintain the fabric and contents of the said premises and the services carried on therein.
- (c) To support Christian mission and advance the Christian Religion throughout the world, financially, and in other ways, as the Trustees may think fit.
## **2. Trustees and Governance**
The Church Trustees (also called Elders) meet as a governing body four times a year. The day to day running of the charity is undertaken by members of Malpas Road Evangelical Church, which consists of the Secretary to the Elders, the Assistant Church Treasurer and 4 other elders.
Trustees may be appointed by the existing trustees but must be Elders appointed by the Church through a ballot of members. The trustees who served on the governing body during the year were:
Mr Richard Clough (Chair of the Church Trustees)
Mr David Harris (Church Trustee and Assistant Church Treasurer)
Mr Tim Powell (Church Trustee and Secretary to the Trustees)
Mr Andrew Miles (Church Trustee)
Mr Peter Harris (Church Trustee)
## **3. Financial Review**
The accounts for this period have been independently examined by Mr Nick Jones of HSJ Accountants and have been accepted by the Trustees.
The church is funded principally by gifts from members (and others who attend) and by gift aid on gift-aided donations, which brings in valuable additional income under HMRC's Gift Aid Scheme. Other one-off gifts may also be received from time to time for specific projects and
appeals and by way of bequests and legacies. We are grateful for the generosity of all those who are committed to the work of the church and trust that this will continue.
The Church's expenditure, detailed further in the following Statement of Accounts, is spent mainly on
- a) salaries and wages of the Church Pastor and Assistant Pastor;
- b) supporting Christian mission workers serving in the UK and overseas;
- c) maintenance and operation of the Church premises.
Receipts for the year amounted to £206k. Expenditure amounted to £228k. The closing balance was £142k.
We give thanks to God for his abundant provision over the last year, which has allowed us to continue mission support and all our other ministries and activities.
## **4. Activities During the Year**
During the period of account, Malpas Road Evangelical Church, has fully opened the church building for those who wished to attend services in person. There are still hand sanitizer points as you enter the building and parts of the church building made available where people can sit if they still feel uncomfortable meeting in a large group. During this period all the usual church services and meetings began to return to normal including Sunday Services, Prayer Meetings, Tots & Co (play group), Cool Kids and YP (children’s and youth groups), Women’s meetings, Men’s breakfast, and Coffee Mornings. Sunday Services and Prayer Meetings are also available through live stream or zoom for those who still feel uncomfortable meeting with a large group.
Pastoral care has always been available and offered to all members and others, especially from our Pastor, his wife, our Assistant Pastor, and the elders.
Our partnership with the Newport Food Bank has continued through the period of this account with weekly collections of food. As we were coming out of the COVID pandemic we were hoping to partner again with Eden Gate and other local churches in the Newport Nightshelter Scheme. This has not proved possible for a variety of reasons, and it is hoped that this will start again in January 2024. A monetary gift was sent to Eden Gate to assist the organisation in its other activities.
The Church's partnership with Christians Against Poverty and Emmanuel Baptist Church, in providing a Newport Debt Centre Service, has restarted and the Debt Centre Manager (Neil Jenkins), is now able to maintain a service for those seeking help. Several of the church members volunteer as Street Pastors on a Saturday night in Newport City Centre.
We are grateful to God for His keeping during the past year at Malpas Road Evangelical Church.
## **Richard Clough**
Chair of the Church Trustees
_on behalf of the Church Trustees_
## **Statement of Accounts**
|**Receipts**|2021-2022|2021-2022|2022-2023|2022-2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Restricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Unrestricted|
||£|£|£|£|
|General Offerings||170,151||151,703|
|HMRC (Gift Aid Received)||33,596||35,824|
|Missions/Appeals Income|15,827||12,470||
|Cheer Fund Offerings|100||||
|Vision for the Future Fund|4,344||3,944||
|Other Income|860|
4,041|
1,953|
24|
|Savings interest||||**208**|
|**Sub totals**|**21,131**|**207,788**|
**18,367**|
**187,759**|
|**Total**||**228,919**||**206,126**|
|**Payments**|2021-2022|2021-2022|2022-2023|2022-2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Restricted|Restricted|Restricted|Unrestricted|
||£|£|£|£|
|Pastor, Assistant Pastor, Pensions,
Payments & on-costs||78,510||96,320|
|Visiting Speakers (including
Missions Speakers)||1,280||2,641|
|Support to Missionaries, Missions
Organisations and Missions Visits|13,115|45,029|
15,182|40,724|
|Church Buildings Maintainance,
Utilities, Insurances, Cleaning etc.||25,399||38,598|
|Livestream / PA / Website||9,692||6,221|
|Church administration, secretary, office
resources||4,261||3,402|
|Evangelism / outreach||1,882||3,403|
|Christians Against Poverty||7,652||8,004|
|Cheer fund|487|
699||1,150|
|Benevolent fundpayments||995||4,152|
|Children andyoung people's work||683||1,100|
|Catering||1,157||2,344|
|Miscellaneous|860|
1,139|
933|
3,884|
|**Sub totals**|**14,463**|**178,379**|
**16,115**|**211,955**|
|**Total**||**192,842**||**228,070**|
|**Bank Reconciliation**|2021-2022|2021-2022|2022-2023|2022-2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Opening Balances:|£|£|£|£|
|Reserve Account||95,155||95,164|
|Current Account||32,436||68,504|
|**Total**||**127,591**||**163,668**|
|Receipts|228,919||206,126||
|Expenditure|-192,842||-228,070||
|Excess income over expenditure||36,077||-21,944|
|Closing Balance:||**163,668**||**141,724**|
|Reserve account||95,164||95,372|
|Current Account||68,504||46,352|
|**Total**||**163,668**||**141,724**|
||**Allocation of Funds at End of Year**|2021-2022|2021-2022|2022-2023|2022-2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Restricted|Unrestricted|Restricted|Unrestricted|
|||£|£|£|£|
||General reserve fund||40,000||40,000|
||Building fund|9,570|20,000|
13,514|20,000|
||Missions and appeals|2,712||1,020||
||**Sub totals**|**12,282**|**60,000**|
**14,534**|**60,000**|
||Total allocated funds||72,282||74,534|
||Unallocated funds||91,386||67,190|
||**Total**||**163,668**||**141,724**|
|||||||
||**Church Assets***||||£|
||Main Church Premises||||400,000|
||Noddfa (Pastor's Home) 1/2 share of £400,000||||200,000|
||**Total**||||**600,000**|
## _**Notes to the Accounts**_
_1. Church Assets* - The figures shown above are estimates. As soon as is practicable, new valuations will obtained from a local estate agency to reflect more accurately current values._
_2. The Church operates a cash sub-account for the Woman to Woman Group, which is administered by designated activity leaders and is audited by the Church Treasurer._
_Opening balance at 1.4.22: £237. Closing balance at 31.03.23: £223. Net change in funds during the year: -£14._
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