## **REPORT OF THE CRANFORD SUPPORT TRUST 1 APRIL 2022 TO 31 MARCH 2023** The Cranford Support Trust was registered on 22 December 2010. The charity registration number is 1139445. The Trust’s purpose is the advancement of the Christian faith primarily but not exclusively within Cranford and the surrounding neighbourhood, through the financial support of a full-time minister of the gospel based at Cranford Baptist Church. Robin Asgher has been employed full-time with the Cranford Support Trust since 6 April 2011. Robin Asgher’s role is to fulfil all the duties of a pastor in respect of Cranford Baptist Church including preaching, teaching, leadership, pastoral and children’s and youth work. The present Trustees are: Mr Gary Brady Chairman Mr David Magowan Secretary / Treasurer Mr Basil Howlett Mr Andrew Heron Mr Ron Hollands Mr Geoff Maxted The trustees met on 2 occasions in the 12 months covered by this report – on 22 September 2022 and 26 January 2023. Throughout the year, the church met weekly on Sunday mornings and on Wednesdays for Bible study and prayer. The church ran a children’s club on Friday evenings, a toddler group on Wednesday mornings, and Sunday School on Sundays. Robin Asgher has conducted a number of baptisms over the course of the year. In July 2022, the church organised a Holiday Bible Club with 40+ children attending and Christian literature was distributed in the local community at Christmas. An Indian (Telagu) church meets in the back hall on Sunday mornings and Robin Asgher has provided some leadership training. Over the course of the year, Robin Asgher has also been responsible for pastoral care of the congregation of Cranford Baptist Church. Significant maintenance work has been carried out on the premises. Robin has also worked part-time (employed by the Home Office) as a chaplain at the Immigration Detention and Removal Centres in Colnbrook and Harmondsworth, visiting detainees, holding Bible studies, and distributing Christian literature. _David Magowan September 2023_ |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Cranford Support Trust**||**1139445**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01.04.2022
Period start date|31.03.2023
Period end date
**To**||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,100**
**25,045**
**180**
**72**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,297**
**-**
**-**
**25,297**
**- 197**
**-**
**28,536**
**28,338**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**25,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,100**
**25,045**
**180**
**72**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,297**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,297**

**- 197**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**25,100**|||||**24,817**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**25,100**|||||**24,817**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**24,817**| |||||||| |
Salaryand related expenses|**25,045**|||||**22,659**| |Office and miscellaneous costs|**180**|||||**180**| |Bank charges|**72**|||||**96**| |||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**25,297**|||||**22,935**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |||||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**22,935**| |||||||| ||**- 197**|**-**|**-**|
**- 197**||**1,882**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**28,536**|**-**|**-**|**28,536**||| ||**28,338**|**-**|**-**|**28,338**||**1,882**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 27/04/2023 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**28,338**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,338**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||||| ||||| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 27/04/2023 2 **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**|Cranford Support Trust|Cranford Support Trust|Cranford Support Trust| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31 March 2023|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1139445| ||||| ||1-2||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 December 2022 **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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; or - 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 **Signed: Date:** 15 September 2023 **Name:** Mark Richardson **Relevant professional** ACA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 9 Catherine Street, Reading, RG30 1DN 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER**