**Sawyers Church Annual Report and Accounts 2020** Companies House Number 07382893 Charity Commission Number 1140322
## **Sawyers Church Annual Report & Accounts for the year ended 31[st] December 2020**
## **Legal Administrative Information**
## **Address**
Sawyers Church Sawyers Hall Lane Brentwood Essex CM15 9BN
## **Trustees/Directors**
Rupert Bugg Thomas Halley Peter Jordan Jon Keel (Resigned as Trustee – October 2020) Alan Maltwood Eric Mensah John Morris OBE Abi Mustafa Olivia Omideyi Rebecca Woollgar
## **Senior Pastor**
Peter Jordan
## **Banker**
Barclays PLC PO Box 2178 Brentwood Essex CM14 4RT
## **Independent Examiner**
Stewardship Services 1 Lamb’s Passage London EC1Y 8AB
## **Solicitor**
Geldards Number One Pride Place Pride Park Derby DE24 8QR
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## **Contents**
|**Introduction**|**Page 4**|
|---|---|
|**Charitable Objectives**|**Page 4**|
|**Governance**|**Page 4**|
|**Trustees/Directors**|**Page 4**|
|**Trustees/Directors responsibilities**|**Page 5**|
|**Risk Management**|**Page 5**|
|**Staff Team**|**Page 6**|
|**Remuneration**|**Page 6**|
|**Eldership**|**Page 7**|
|**Ministry Team**|**Page 7**|
|**Volunteers**|**Page 8**|
|**Activities in 2020**|**Page 8-11**|
|**New Building Project**|**Page 11**|
|**Financial Highlights**|**Page 12**|
|**Reserves Policy**|**Page 12**|
|**Tangible Fixed Assets Register**|**Page 12**|
|**Forward Look**|**Page 12-13**|
**Trustees/Directors Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2020**
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## **Introduction**
Sawyers Church is a charitable company - Companies House (Number 07382893) and Charity Commission (Number 1140322).
## **Charitable objectives**
The objectives of the Sawyers Church charity are the advancement of the Christian faith and the relief of sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind, including through the provision of care and support. These objectives are fulfilled principally in the area of Brentwood, Essex but also from time to time elsewhere in the United Kingdom and in the world as the Trustees may think fit.
Sawyers Church Mission Statement is “To be a Church where **EVERYONE GROW** S through inspiration, connection, action, mission and prayer”. It fulfils this mission by:
- providing opportunities for worship, prayer and teaching;
- meeting for fellowship together in groups of various ages and interests;
- undertaking outreach and social action in the local community;
- providing support for those with pastoral needs;
- providing support to worldwide mission; and
- providing training in ministry skills.
The Charity provides public benefit through seeking to meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of people in the local community and beyond. This was extremely prevalent throughout the year, during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
## **GOVERNANCE**
## **Trustees/Directors**
In line with the Charity’s Memorandum and Articles of Association:
- all non-Elder Trustees/Directors and Elder Trustees/Directors are appointed by the Elders; and
- two Trustees/Directors (Peter Jordan and Jon Keel) are also members of the Staff Team (see below) and, therefore, are paid employees but, in common with all the other Trustees/Directors, do not receive any remuneration including payment of expenses in acting as Trustees/Directors.
The following changes to the Trustees/Directors took place in 2020:
- Jon Keel resigned as an Elder Trustee/Director in October 2020 to take up a position as Assistant Minister at the Milton Keynes Christian Centre.
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## **Responsibilities of trustees under company law**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the trustees' annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of the affairs of the charitable company as at the balance sheet date and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including income and expenditure, for the financial year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
1. select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
2. observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
3. make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
4. state whether the applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
5. prepare the financial statements on a 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 charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Trustees meet monthly as a Board of Management. The discussions are recorded in minutes of the meetings.
The Charity is associated with Stewardship Services, an organisation which assists faith based charities in the exercise of their responsibilities including the provision of consultancy services and training. The Trustees availed itself of these services in 2020 to help ensure the proper fulfilment of their fiduciary duties.
## **Risk Management**
The Trustees/Directors sought to manage risks to which the Charity is exposed with a view mitigating these to the fullest extent possible, for example, through insurance.
During 2020, the Trustees/Directors considered a range of risk related matters, including issues associated with Safeguarding, data management and the church rebuilding project. Individual Trustees were allocated particular areas of operational oversight e.g. health & safety, data management/IT, personnel, Safeguarding, etc. to help strengthen control. The Charites policies and practices were regularly reviewed by the Board of Management.
The Trustee/Directors paid special attention to risk management in regard to the Coronavirus Pandemic and took the decision to allow staff to work from home and move Sunday Services to Online and close activities and ministries during the relevant lockdown in adherence to government guidelines. These decisions were regularly reviewed and advice sort from the
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Assemblies of God and Evangelical Alliance. During the use of the building government guidelines were strictly followed in relation to recording who entered the building, making sure hand sanitizer was available and social distancing adhered to. The church purchased a Fogging Machine that allowed us to regularly complete a deep clean for Covid. The Trustees consistently balanced the need for Social Distancing with the mental health of staff, volunteers and users especially in the area of our partnership with Frontline and their work with adults with learning difficulties.
## **Staff Team**
The Charity employs staff to carry out its operations in furtherance of its charitable objectives. The employed staff roles are:
- Peter Jordan - Senior Pastor (Full Time)
- Jon Keel - Assistant Pastor (Full Time)
- Ben Carman - Youth Pastor (Full Time)
- Jonathan Clayton – Operations Manager (Full Time)
- Kate Okunola - Children’s Pastor (Maternity Leave)
- Magali Ellis – Children’s Coordinator (Part Time)
- Eve Rodgers – Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre Manager (Part Time)
- John Newman - Finance Manager (Part Time)
The following staff changes took place in 2020:
- Kate Okunola, at the end of her maternity leave in September 2020, resigned from her position as Children’s Pastor. The temporary employment contract for the duration of Kate Okunola’s maternity leave for Magali Ellis as Children’s Coordinator was extended to December 2021.
- Jon Keel resigned as Assistant Pastor in October 2020 to take up a position as Assistant Minister in Milton Keynes.
- Ben Carman resigned as Youth Minister in December 2020 to launch a church on the Isle of Wight with his family. The church has taken the decision to partially support this Church Plant as part of our commitment to mission, but Ben Carman is no longer a paid staff member of Sayers Church.
## **Remuneration**
The pay of staff is reviewed annually by a Salary Review Panel which comprises the Trustees/Directors, excluding Peter Jordan and Jon Keel (by virtue of also being employees).
The Salary Review Panel decide pay awards against the criteria of affordability, comparability/parity and performance, taking account of equivalent local and national pay benchmarks. In 2020, staff did not receive a pay increase due to the Covid Pandemic and other factors, but each member of staff was given a bonus for their work throughout the year.
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The Charity makes available auto-enrolment to a pension for all eligible staff in line with Government policy and legislation. The pension provider is Aegon. The Charity made a financial contribution towards the cost of pension as part of remuneration to those staff in the scheme.
## **Eldership**
The Eldership has spiritual and pastoral oversight and authority over activities performed in the life and witness of Sawyers Church. The Elders were:
- Thomas Halley
- Peter Jordan
- John Keel (Resigned October 2020)
- Eric Mensah
- John Morris OBE
- Abi Mustafa
The Eldership is responsible for:
- doctrine and truth (informed by the Statement of Beliefs);
- vision and strategy;
- pastoral care;
- approval of volunteer appointments;
- inspiration, connection and action (mission);
- prayer.
## **Ministry Team**
The Eldership, in exercising its spiritual and pastoral oversight of Sawyers Church, delegates responsibility, as it sees fit, to the Ministry Team for the outworking of the vision and strategy. The Ministry Team is also a place where new leaders are developed and trained. The main areas of responsibility of the Ministry Team are:
- Inspiration
- Connection
- Actin
- Mission
- Prayer
- Youth Ministry
- Children’s and Family Ministry
- Seniors Ministry
- Vulnerable Adults
The day-to-day management of individual ministries and activities is devolved to staff and volunteer ministry leaders under the leadership of the Senior Pastor. The staff team (and
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volunteers) met from time to time with the Elders to ensure alignment with the strategic direction of the church and co-ordination across the range of activities that take place within individual ministries.
## **Volunteers**
The church’s ability to run its activities is heavily dependent on the willingness of people associated with the church to volunteer their time and gifts in support of the paid staff team. Volunteers are unpaid. There were 80 or so people who committed to volunteering in a range of activities and roles including befriending in the CAP Debt Centre. As necessary, training was provided for all our volunteers, for example, in respect of Safeguarding. There was additional training organised for those volunteering in the Debt Centre.
Additional volunteers were recruited and trained to support our local community throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic. This was especially in the area of shopping for people in isolation, chatting to people who were vulnerable on the telephone and opening up a Food Hub at Sawyers Church in partnership with the Daily Bread Café in Hutton.
## **ACTIVITIES IN 2020**
The following is a commentary on activities carried out during 2020 and the public benefit achieved through serving the spiritual and pastoral needs of people in the local community and beyond. In planning and delivering these activities, the Trustees/Directors have had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission.
Throughout 2020, Sawyers Church organised a range of activities for adults, youth and children in fulfilment of its charitable objectives. The church serves over 700 people weekly who attend these activities. At the start of the year, before the pandemic, the church building, located in Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood, was used each day of the week, during the day time and evenings. The main activities were as follows:
- Monday Senior Adults (‘Thought for the Week’), Adults (Café)
- • Tuesday Senior Adults (‘Hour Together’) Adults with learning disabilities (‘Tuesday Club’)
• Wednesday Adults (Café) Adult (Worship Practice)
• Thursday Parents and Toddlers (‘POP’) Youth (Drop-In) Adult (‘Alpha’ course) Adult (‘Freedom in Christ’ course) • Friday Adult (Café) Youth (‘The Event’) Brentwood Street Pastors
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- Saturday
All age (various ad hoc events)
- Sunday All age worship, prayer, and Bible teaching and Children’s Church
## Sunday services
The main Sunday services and children’ activities continued to be held at a local senior school (Becket Keys Church of England School located in Sawyers Hall Lane) because there was insufficient room at the church premises to accommodate the numbers that attended. During 2020, attendance by adults, young people and children was over 200 people each week.
The Youth continue to meet separately on Sunday mornings at the church premises in Sawyers Hall Lane. This meeting is called the “Surge”. Once a month the “Surge” join the main congregation at Becket Keys School. Forty young people attend the “Surge” each week.
With the commencement of lock down, due to the coronavirus pandemic, we moved all of our services online and continued this throughout the year. We did not use Becket Keys School or the Church Building for the best part of 8 months in 2020. This transition to online was smooth and we saw additional people benefit from the church being online across the community.
## Children/youth
The children’s work and youth work is well established and the various children’s clubs and youth clubs continued to be popular at the start of the year. With the pandemic we had to close our youth clubs, toddlers group and children’s clubs both during the week and on a Sunday due to government restrictions.
Our Children’s work continued as part of church online with a special recorded slot each week for kids and families. There were also children’s resources made available to parents which included craft, stories, media, quizzes. We also held special events online for children around Easter and Christmas.
Our Youth work continued online on Zoom, every Thursday evening, and we were able to support our young people throughout the pandemic and those going to university.
We continue to maintain contact with our parent and toddler group and will look to re-open this in the future.
## Learning disability
The church continued its work with people with learning disability. A key activity is the Tuesday Club which provides an opportunity for such people to meet together socially. Around 75 people met regularly at the start of the year. During the Pandemic we had to close Tuesday Club due to restrictions but our volunteers continued to keep in contact with our clients. On the advice of Essex County Council we were able to open Tuesday Club at specific times during the pandemic with strict social distancing in place and a rota system to help our clients’ mental health.
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## Cafés
The cafés held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays provided employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities that would otherwise not be available to them; light meals and refreshments were served to a wide range of people who used the cafe including senior citizens which also provided a means of social interaction. Unfortunately like all of our other activities we had to close the café during the pandemic but again we still kept in contact with the vulnerable people we support.
## Seniors
At the start of the year, each week, events were held for seniors at ‘Thought for the Week’ and ‘Hour Together’. These clubs were closed during the pandemic but we set up a very successful support network for our senior people whereby they were contacted regularly by someone in the church and we had a team of volunteers supporting our seniors by getting shopping and their prescriptions for them.
## Life Groups
The church family is organised into “Life Groups” (small groups) which meet weekly or fortnightly usually in private homes. These groups also provided opportunities for people to forge closer connections within the church family that also fostered a means for pastoral support and social activities.
During the year, as a result of the pandemic, these groups moved on line using zoom and we added extra groups to support people in the church who were not currently in a Life Group. We regularly met and supported our Life Group Leaders throughout the year. This was also done through Zoom.
## Alpha
The Alpha course is an evangelistic course which seeks to introduce the basics of the Christian faith through a series of talks and discussions. The church ran an Alpha course online and a wide range of people tuned in and some came to faith in Christ for the first time; others renewed their Christian faith.
## Pastoral care
The church operates a Pastoral Care Team of volunteers led by the Senior Pastor which provided a range of practical support to people associated with the church family. This involved people suffering with sickness, bereavement, financial and other difficulties. Where necessary, specialist counselling was obtained. This was a key part of our ministry during the Covid Pandemic and the pastoral care team was extended to meet additional needs.
## Frontline Charity
The church continued its work alongside Frontline, a local charity that serves people in the local community with learning difficulties. This partnership helped to successfully deliver support for these people and remained a key relationship in serving the local community.
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## Christians Against Poverty
During 2020 our Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre continued to operate in partnership with other churches and Christians Against Poverty (CAP). Personal visits were replace with telephone calls and online meetings and we were able to support people struggling financially with shopping and supplies during the pandemic. Throughout the year we continued to see people become debt free through the support and expertise of CAP.
## Brentwood and District Evangelical Fellowship (BADEF)
The church remained connected to BADEF, comprising 20 other churches in the local area.
## Brentwood Schools Christian Worker Trust (BSCWT)
The church also supported the BSCWT which explains the Christian faith to pupils in local schools. A number of people in the church family served in various capacities with the BSCWT in its work with children and youth in primary and secondary schools. Most of their work throughout the year was done online.
## Street Pastors
Throughout the early part of 2020 the church continued to facilitate the work of ‘Street Pastors’ - a national organisation that operates in many towns and cities across the UK - in conducting patrols in Brentwood town centre, working in partnership with the local council and police. As restrictions were implemented during the pandemic, this ministry ceased temporarily because of various businesses being closed and the need of some of our volunteers to self-isolate.
## Mission Support
The church continued to support various missions including ‘Stand By Me’, a local charity that supports orphanages overseas, ‘The Wycliffe Bible Translators’, and a church plant in Brittany (France). We also commenced support for a Church Plant on the Isle of Wight called Altitude Church and continued to support our CAP Debt Centre.
## **New church building project**
The church building in Sawyers Hall Lane is reaching the end of its serviceable life. It has insufficient capacity to meet all the current requirements of the church and its configuration means there is a lack of flexibility in the use of space which constrains the ability to expand activities. It is also costly to maintain. A redevelopment of the premises is necessary and the church has embarked on a project to build a new fit for purpose facility on the existing site, at a potential cost of circa £2.4m, which will provide a modern, flexible and cheaper building from which to operate. It is planned that this new building will be completed in two phases.
Allen Associates continues to provide specialist building architect and management services in preparation for this rebuild alongside our Building for the Future Team and the Trustees.
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Alan Maltwood, who is one of our trustees, continues to help us in preparation for building to commence. We currently have Planning permission for this new building with the council.
The ability to commence construction will be determined by the need to generate funds to pay the cost of the new building. By the end of 2020, £749,732 of what has been raised from within in the church and also people and organisations outside and through various specific initiatives remains unspent and is to be used to meet future costs. Promises of gifts continue to be available from the Norwood and Newton Settlement and other churches in the local area and we have invitations to apply for grants from the Laing Trust and the Fowler, Smith and Jones Trust.
The Charity Bank had agreed, in principle, to considering offering a mortgage of £1,000,000 but this agreement has now expired and will need to be reviewed in 2021 with a revised application which we are in the process of completing.
## **Financial Highlights**
Total income from all sources was £331,648 compared to £432,718 the previous year. Principal sources of income were: £263,117 in gifts/offerings, £53,794 reclaimed tax (Gift Aid), £33,980 in new build donations, £10,777 donations for CAP Debt Centre and £12,520 in other income.
Total expenditure was £281,244 compared to £323,728 the previous year. The principal costs were £191,275 staff employment costs; £22,326 on site and buildings (including the hire of Becket Keys School), £18,478 including staff costs on CAP Debt Centre and £21,908 on local and overseas mission.
## **Reserves Policy**
It is the Charity’s policy to hold reserves. The aim is to help to ensure the on-going solvency of the Charity and, thereby, the ability to continue performing its charitable objectives and provide public benefit, through providing protection against unforeseeable financial demands in specific circumstances. The amount of reserves is set at the time the annual budget is established for the forth-coming new financial year. The Reserves were set at £20,000 and are ring-fenced and held on deposit in a dedicated Reserve Fund.
## **Tangible Fixed Asset Register**
The value of tangible fixed assets is:
- premises - £1,000,000
- IT equipment - £1,455
- equipment including PA and television - £2,262
- furniture - £nil
- Assets under construction - £302,870
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Forward look
Durln8 2021 the church expects to continue to operate all Its attivities. Specific tasks will be
undertaken 35 follows:
The Trustees and Building for the Future Team will continue to prepare for work on
the new build to commence once funds are in place. This work will be done with Alan
Maltwood and hls construction company 4Front Construction. The Trustees have
SOU8ht advice on appolnting Alan Maltwood's Company from Geldards Solicitors and
Stewardship Servlces and understand It5 obllgations In re8ards to confllcts of Interest.
The Trustee5 will continue to look at fund raisin8 for this project.
The Trustees will look to recruit and appolnt a Youth Pastor to lead the Youth Team at
Sawyers Church and develop a youth outreach into the local community.
The Church Leadership wlll continue to develop its partnership wlth the Assemblles of
God IAOGI in the UK as a church afflllated to AOG. Two of the Church's members wlll
be commencin8 their Ministers in Training Course durln8 the year and opportunity will
be given to them to pastor and mSnister wlthin the context of the local church.
The Elders, alongside the Senior Mlnister, wlll revlew the leadership of Sawyers Church
and look to brlng on new leaders to expand the eldership so It Incorporates mlnistry
gifts and brings about a more diverse leadership team around ethniclty, age and
Sender,
The Church Leadership will help to brin8 the con8re8ation out of lock down after the
pandemic and reopen its activities and ministries whilst at the same time adhere to
80vernmenl guidellnes. Discipleship and connection wlll be central to the church to
rebulld community as we enter thls new season whlch is post lock down.
Signed,.........
Peter Jorda
Senior Pastor
rustee
Director
Thls report was approved by the 8oard of Monogement ond signed on behalf of the
Trustees/Directors on24september 2021
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT**
## **TO THE TRUSTEES OF**
## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **("the company")**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2020 on pages 15 to 23 following, which have been prepared on the basis of the accounting policies set out on pages 17 to 18.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independentexamination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
Since the Company’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirementsof section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirementthat the accounts give a ‘true and fair' view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
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.
Jacob Farley ACA Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
September 2021
Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage London
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **Summary Income and Expenditure Account**
|Note
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Voluntary income
3
Charitable activities
4
Coronavirus job retention scheme
Investment income
Total income and endowments
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities
5
Total expenditure
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Transfers between funds
11
**Net movement in funds**
Fund balances at 1 January 2020
11
**Fund balances at 31st December 2020**|Unrestricted
Restricted
Total Funds
Total Funds
Funds
Funds
2020
2019
£
£
£
£
273,458
43,453
316,911
397,185
12,520
-
12,520
32,124
661
-
661
-
250
1,305
1,555
3,409|
|---|---|
||286,890
44,758
331,648
432,718
262,766
18,478
281,244
323,728|
||262,766
18,478
281,244
323,728|
||24,124
26,280
50,404
108,990
80,529
(80,529)
-
-|
||104,653
(54,249)
50,404
108,990
1,315,593
807,128
2,122,721
2,013,730|
||1,420,246
752,879
2,173,125
2,122,721|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year.
All income and expenditure derive from continuing operations.
The statement of financial activities also complies with the requirements for an income and expenditure account required by the Companies Act 2006.
The notes on page 17-22 form part of these accounts.
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SAWIERS CHURCH
B•l•nceSh¢et
As Al 31 DeC*M 2020
Note Unre5tvl¢ttd
Funds
Restrlrted
Funds
2020
2019
FIXED A55Ers
Tonfflble 45sets
1,307,761
186
1,307,947
1,307.947
1,229,533
1,229,533
1.307,761
186
CURRENT Assfrs
Dtthors
Cash at bank
4,916
117,DJ8
1,394
751,298
6,311
868,306
7,130
890,462
121,924
752,692
874,617
897,592
CURRENT UABiimES
•blllti*s f•lli*a due vlthln one Year
Net Current A55•ts
io
9,438
112,486
9,438
865,179
4,403
752,692
893,188
NÉT ASSErs
1.420.247
752,879
2,173,125
2,122,720
FUND bALINCES
Unrestrlcted fvTrds
General Fund5
1,420,246
1.420.246
1.315.593
Risiilrted Funds
752,879
752,879
752,879
2,173,125
807.127
1,420,246
2.122.720
The ch•ritsble cornpany Is entitled to exemptlon from audlt under 5octlon 477 of the Comynl•s Act 2LbJ6
for the ye4r ended 31 Dttember 2010.
The mernber5 h•ve not requlrtd the ¢ornp•ny to obtsln an audlt of Its flnanclal statements for the yeor
ended 31 December 2020 In accordance *¥th Sectlon 476 01 the Cornpanles Act 2006 howevor, In
accordance vAth Sectlon 145 01 the charl¢5 Art 2011, the •¢¢ounts h•Ye been ex•mlned by •n
Independent exlmlner •nd thelr report has been Intlud¢d In these finandal ststements.
The dlrectors (who Ire the charltable companV5 trustee5 for the purp05•s tsf ch•rfty l•wl #kr•doe thelr
respon51bllitle5for..
lèl en5urlnB that the ¢harti•ble ¢omyny keeps •¢¢ountlni records whlch ¢omply wlth Sectlons 386 and
387 of the Companles Ad 2006 and
Ibl PrePan@ hnanclal statements whlch 8lve a true and lalr ¥lew of the state of affalr5 01 the charltable
cornpany as at the end of each financl•l ye•r and of Its ntt lrtcome or experNllture for e•¢h ftn•ncl•l
ve•T In •¢**Voluntary income**
General donations
Tax recoverable
**4**
**Other Incoming Resources**
Income from charitable activities
Income from car parking
Other Income|Total
Total
2020
2019
£
£
263,117
334,285
53,794
62,899|
|---|---|
||316,911
397,184|
||Total
Total
2020
2019
£
£
5,656
12,099
1,310
3,850
5,554
16,176|
||12,520
32,124|
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
|**Charitable activities**
**a**
**Direct costs**
Staff salaries expenses and pension
Site costs, buildings and utilities
Youth and children's work
Sunday services (inc. hall hire)
Membership Subscriptions
Interns and training
Evangelism
Other ministry expenses
Pastoral care
Worship
Other costs
Motor vehicle running costs
Catering
Grants payable
Note 5c
**b**
**Support Costs**
Church administration
Computer expenses
Depreciation
Accounts and examination
**Combined charitable activity cost**|Total
Total
2020
2019
£
£
191,275
199,272
14,967
23,809
3,857
16,943
7,359
19,029
9,478
3,750
1,047
1,301
1,575
2,121
6,455
9,470
1,072
2,244
181
876
144
2,126
1,614
1,456
351
2,391
21,908
18,841|
|---|---|
||261,281
303,629|
||9,518
11,649
4,315
2,986
3,129
2,727
3,000
2,736|
||19,963
20,099|
|||
||281,244
323,728|
## **5 Charitable activities**
Fees payable to Stewardship, other than for the annual accounts and independent examination, for payroll bureau services, totalled £1,071 (2019: £988).
|**c**
**Grants**
Grants < £1,000
Wycliffe Bible College
Brentwood Schools CWT
Stand By Me
Jose Aguerdos
Christians Against Poverty
Altitude Church|Institutions
Individuals
2020
Institutions
Individuals
2019
£
£
£
£
£
£
200
1,000
1,200
600
1,000
1,600
4,200
-
4,200
4,200
-
4,200
3,686
-
3,686
3,647
-
3,647
3,000
-
3,000
3,000
-
3,000
3,422
-
3,422
3,995
-
3,995
2,400
-
2,400
2,400
-
2,400
4,000
-
4,000
-
-
-|
|---|---|
||20,908
1,000
21,908
17,841
1,000
18,841|
## **6 Staff & Trustees**
The average monthly number of employees during the year was 8 (2019: 8). Most of the charity's activities are carried out by volunteers.
No staff received salaries at a rate of more than £60,000 per annum.
The charity's key management comprise the trustees and the key staff named on the Company Information page. Total employment benefits payable to key management for the year were as follows:
|||Employer||
|---|---|---|---|
||Wages &|pension|2020|
||salaries|contributions|£|
|Trustees:||||
|Peter Jordan|49,440|-|49,440|
|Jonathan Keel|29,102|2,037|31,140|
||||80,580|
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **6 Staff & Trustees contd.**
The following amounts were payable in the previous year:
|||Employer||
|---|---|---|---|
||Wages &|pension|2019|
||salaries|contributions|£|
|Trustees:||||
|Peter Jordan|47,015|-|47,015|
|Jonathan Keel|32,640|2,285|34,925|
||||81,939|
Peter Jordan and Jonathan Keel served as church leaders and received the above payments for serving in that capacity, not for serving as trustees; these payments are permitted by the charity's governing document.
|**7**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**
Cost
At 31st December 2019
Additions
At 31st December 2020
Accumulated Depreciation
At 31st December 2019
Charge for the year
At 31st December 2020
Net book value
At 31st December 2020
At 31st December 2019|Freehold
Equipment
Land &
Assets under
Furniture
Motor
IT
Total
Building
construction
& Fittings
Vehicles
Equipment
2020
£
£
£
£
£
£
1,000,000
222,341
29,460
3,967
19,316
1,275,084
-
80,529
-
-
1,014
81,543|
|---|---|
||1,000,000
302,870
29,460
3,967
20,330
1,356,627|
||-
-
26,407
2,154
16,989
45,550
-
-
791
453
1,885
3,129|
||-
-
27,197
2,607
18,875
48,680|
||1,000,000
302,870
2,262
1,360
1,455
1,307,947|
||1,000,000
222,341
3,053
1,813
2,327
1,229,533|
The assets under construction relate to expenditure on the church building project. These costs have been capitalised in accordance with the accounting policy 1d) above.
## **8 Debtors and Prepayments**
|||
|---|---|
|**8**
**Debtors and Prepayments**
Tax recoverable
Prepayments
Other debtors
**9**
**Cash at Bank and in Hand**
Bank operating accounts
Bank deposits
Petty cash|2020
2019
£
£
3,823
4,695
1,620
1,567
868
868|
||6,311
7,130|
||2020
2019
£
£
111,955
79,676
755,887
810,557
465
228|
||868,306
890,462|
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **10 Creditors: liabilities falling due within one year**
|||
|---|---|
|**Creditors: liabilities falling due within one year**
Grant payable
Accruals|2020
2019
£
£
4,000
-
5,438
4,403|
||9,438
4,403|
## **11 Funds**
The restricted funds represent amounts received for specific purposes and the movements in the year are as follows:
|New Building
Brentwood CAP Centre
Tangible fixed assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year|Opening
balance
2020
£
796,281
10,846|Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
Closing
resources
resources
in year
balance
2020
2020
2020
2020
£
£
£
£
33,980
-
(80,529)
749,732
10,777
(18,478)
-
3,146|
|---|---|---|
||807,127|44,758
(18,478)
(80,529)
752,878|
|||General
Capital
Restricted
funds
funds
funds
2020
£
£
£
£
-
1,307,761
186
1,307,947
4,916
-
1,394
6,311
117,008
-
751,298
868,306
(9,438)
-
-
(9,438)
Unrestricted Funds|
|||112,486
1,307,761
752,879
2,173,126|
The transfer is to reimburse the general fund for the cost of the asset. **Prior year comparatives**
|New Building
Brentwood CAP Centre|Opening
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
Closing
balance
resources
resources
in year
balance
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
£
£
£
£
£
707,240
90,304
(1,263)
-
796,281
6,112
23,185
(18,451)
-
10,846|
|---|---|
||713,352
113,489
(19,714)
-
807,127|
|Tangible fixed assets
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year|General
Capital
Restricted
funds
funds
funds
2019
£
£
£
£
-
1,229,123
410
1,229,533
5,735
-
1,394
7,130
85,138
-
805,323
890,461
(4,403)
-
-
(4,403)
Unrestricted Funds|
|---|---|
||86,470
1,229,123
807,128
2,122,721|
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
## **12 Connected Charities**
The Sawyers Hall Lane Chapel Christian Workers Trust holds an equity share of the house owned by the Senior Pastor and his wife. It was anticipated that the Sawyers Hall Lane Chapel Christian Workers Trust would close in 2018 but this is not now expected to happen until 2022 when this equity stake will be transferred to the Sawyers Church Charity. The balance included in Note 8 is a debtor owed to Sawyers Church.
## **13 Transactions with related parties**
During the year the charity:
- a) received donations totalling £39,149 (2019: £53,660) from related parties (which includes trustees, any other members of key management and anyone closely connected to them).
Except as disclosed above and in note 6 'Analysis of staff costs', there have been no other transactions with related parties during the year.
## **14 Members**
Each member of the company commits to contribute if the charity is wound up an amount of £10.
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## **SAWYERS CHURCH**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities with Comparatives**
## **Year Ended 31 December 2020**
|Note
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
3
Charitable activities
4
Investments
**Total income and endowments**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities:
5
**Total Expenditure**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
**Transfers between funds**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
12
**Total funds carried forward**
12|||General
Designated
2020
2020
£
£
273,458
‐
12,520
‐
250
‐
286,229
‐
262,766
‐
262,766
‐
23,463
‐
‐
‐
23,463
‐
1,315,593
‐
1,339,056
‐
Unrestricted funds|Restricted
2020
£
43,453
‐
1,305
44,758
18,478
18,478
26,280
‐
26,280
807,128
833,408|Total
2020
£
316,911
12,520
1,555
330,987
281,244
281,244
49,743
‐
49,743
2,122,720
2,172,464||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||General
2020
£
273,458
12,520
250||||||
||||286,229||||||
||||262,766||||||
||||262,766||||||
||||23,463
‐||||||
||||23,463
1,315,593||||||
||||1,339,056||||||
||||||||||
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