## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01 April 2023 Period start date To: 31[st] March 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Hebron Evangelical Church, Dowlais** ## **Charity registration number: 1129362** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the
purposes of
the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|The advancement of the Christian
faith in accordance with the Basis of
Faith primarily but not exclusively
within Dowlais and the surrounding
neighbourhood; and such other
charitable purposes as shall, in the
opinion of the Managing Trustees
further the work of the
Church| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for the
public beneft, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services
identifed in the
accounts.|Para 1.17
and
1.19|The members of the church have
covenanted together in part to seek
earnestly to spread the gospel of
God’s grace, persuading people to
believe in Jesus Christ as their only
Lord and Saviour. In addition, they
seek to put into practice the love,
compassion, etc. expected of those
who have experienced God’s saving
grace.
To that end, the following activities,
amongst others, are undertaken:
Presentations of the Christian faith on
the church premises at meetings open
to the general public.
Meetings for children and young
people on the church premises.
Seniors Cofee mornings on the church
premises. Lunchtime sessions and
timetabled classes for children in local
primary schools. Provision of money
and/or goods for the relief of spiritual
and physical need, e.g. poverty and
famine relief, both chronic and acute.| |Statement confrming|Para 1.18|In the matters mentioned in Para 1.18| whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit the Trustees declare that they have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Grants (regular and emergency) are
made to and through organisations
and individuals known to and
approved by the church ofcers and
members.| |Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Other than the Minister and
occasional visiting speakers, all
contributions to the activities of the
church and charity are mainly by
members of the church on an unpaid
and voluntarybasis| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
diference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
benefciaries and any
wider benefts to society
as a whole.|Para 1.20|1) Meetings for worship and the
presentation of the Christian faith:
Weekly morning and evening services
were held on Sunday and a weekly
prayer meeting.
In addition to these usual meetings,
the church held:
A monthly meeting to discuss
Pilgrim’s Progress and_Holiness_by J.C.
Ryle,
Annual Welsh Night,
Bi-monthly AECW cluster meetings
A week of prayer in March,
A Harvest service,
One-of events,
Preaching seminars
2) Children’s and young people’s
activities|| |---|---|---|---| The church had a well-attended Holiday Club (26[th ] March – 28[th ] March) where over 40 children from the community came along. Children continue to meet for Sunday School. The church continues to reach out to children and young people through the work of ICE Wales, assemblies at Dowlais and Pant primaries, working with Hope for the Valleys each week with football at the Engine House. The church also visited Pant Primary and Dowlais Primary for a day of Sports ministry. The young people of the church have attended the monthly Youth Links. Six of the young people also attended the Good News Autumn Camp. 3)Voluntary contributions: The church received generous donations towards many good causes supported by the church, such as Romanian Ministries, Morning Star Children’s Centre (South Africa, for children with HIV/AIDS), and Christian missionary societies such as the Africa Inland Mission, the European Missionary Fellowship, London Seminary, UFM, Barnabas Fund and other local churches. 4)Community involvement A Seniors coffee morning continues to be well attended by member of the community. As in previous years, nearly two thousand copies of a coloured wall calendar were distributed to homes in the area. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against|| |---|---| |objectives set|Para 1.41| Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
fnancial position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|The bank balance has decreased by £9k due to
increased expenditure on utilities.
Increased expenditure on maintenance was covered
by a grant of £25k for the refurbishment of the Church
building.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating why
theyare held|Para 1.22|There is always a risk of signifcant
building costs, so some contingency is
required| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially
in defcit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
goingconcern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds
(including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social
investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the
principal risks facing the
charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|Trust| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Designated by Church Rules| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|Hebron is an independent Baptist church,
governed by the elders in accordance with
the Church Rules.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The Managing Trustees of the Charity are
appointed according to office held in the
church, as specified in the Church Rules.| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|The church is a member of the Associating
Evangelical Churches of Wales, which
provides close links on a local, regional and
all-Wales level. Close links are also
maintained with the Evangelical Movement
of Wales| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Hebron Evangelical Church, Dowlais |Other name the charity uses|Hebron, Dowlais| |---|---| |Registered charity number|1129362| |Charity’s principal address|High Street
Caeharris
Merthyr Tydfi
CF48 3PH| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |Rev James Allan|Pastor||| |Eric Kelly|Elder||| |Kendal Smith|Elder||| |Robert Bates|Finance Officer||| |Gareth Morgan|Deacon||| |Ian Burgum|Deacon||| ||||Church members, as per
Church Rules| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Kendal Smith
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**Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 27/01/2025 ## **Charity Name HEBRON EVANGELICAL CHURCH, DOWLAIS** ## **Receipts and pa** Period start date **For the period from** 01/04/202 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted funds** ## **Restricted funds** ## **to the nearest £** **to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Offerings||62,019||||**-**|| |Missions||6,023||||**-**|| |Other Income exc Interest||40,095||||**-**|| |Interest||549||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**108,686**||||**-**|| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, etc.**||**-**||||**-**|| ||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**108,686**||||**-**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||| |Ministry||46,986||||**-**|| |Missions||9,811||||**-**|| |Maintenance||47,670||||**-**|| |Children's Work|||||||| |||414||||**-**|| |Other Expenses||13,059||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**117,941**||||**-**|| |**A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc.**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 117,941**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 9,254**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**77,262**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 68,008**|**-**| |---|---| ||| ||**-**| ||| ||**-**| ||**-**| ||**-**| ||**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the per** ## **Categories** ## **Details** ## **B1 Cash funds** Current Account Deposit Account High Interest Bond ## _**Total cash funds**_ (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) ## **Details** ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **Details** ## **B3 Investment assets** ## **Details** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **Details** ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees ## Signature #VALUE! |**a**|||**No (if any)**
**1129362**|**No (if any)**
**1129362**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**y**||||| ||23|**To**
||Period end date
31/03/2024|| ||||||| ||||||| |||**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**62,019**
**6,023**
**40,095**
**549**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**108,686**
**-**
**108,686**
**46,986**
**9,811**
**47,670**
**414**
**13,059**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**117,941**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||||**60,155**| ||||||**8,514**| ||||||**40,710**| ||||||**146**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**109,524**| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||**109,524**| ||||||| |||**-**||**46,986**|**45,142**| |||**-**||**9,811**|**11,147**| |||**-**||**47,670**|**21,006**| |||**-**||**414**|**98**| |||**-**||**13,059**|**4,519**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**|**-**| |||**-**||**117,941**|**81,913**| ||**-**||||||**-**||||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||| |||**-**|||||**117,941**||||**81,913**|| |||||||||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**|**9,254**||||**27,611**|| ||**-**||||||**-**||||**-**|| ||**-**||||||**77,262**||||**49,651**|| ||**-**||||||**68,008**||||**77,262**|| ## **iod** ## **Unrestricted funds** ## **Restricted funds** ## **Endowment funds** |**to nearest £**
48,597
3,873
15,538
**68,008**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||OK| ## **Unrestricted funds** ## **Restricted funds** ## **Endowment funds** |**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---| |**-**|**-**|**-**| |**-**|**-**|**-**| |**-**|**-**|**-**| |**-**|**-**|**-**| |**-**|**-**|**-**| |**-**|**-**|**-**| **Fund to which asset belongs** |
**belongs**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**-**|**Current value (optional)**| |---|---|---| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**-**| |||**Current value (optional)**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**| |**Fund to which liability**||**Amount due (optional)**||**When due (optional)**|| |**relates**|||||| |||**-**|||| |||**-**|||| |||**-**|||| |||**-**|||| |||**-**|||| |Print Name||||Date of approval|| |Kendal Smith||||27/01/2025|| ||||||| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|**HEBRON EVANGELICAL CHURCH, DOWLAIS**|**HEBRON EVANGELICAL CHURCH, DOWLAIS**|**HEBRON EVANGELICAL CHURCH, DOWLAIS**| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||**31st March 2024**|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|**1129362**| ||||| ||**1 and 2 of the Receipts and Payments Accounts**||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2024. **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: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records. 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. **Signed:** E Williams **Date:** 28/01/2025 **Name:** Elisabeth Williams **Relevant professional** FCCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Seabourne House, 88 Parc Nant Celyn, Efail Isaf, Pontypridd, CF38 1AJ 1 **Oct 2018** **IER**