Rfjg1slw￿￿ Charity Number 11405CK*
THE CROSSING CHURCH
REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2023
CONTENTS
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Statement of Fknèneial AKliwEies 2021
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|Registered|Registered|Charity|number:<br>1140500||||||
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|Principal|address:||Newcastle<br>Street,|Worksop,||Nottinghamshire,||$80 2AT|
|Independent|||N M Knowles ACA,||Williams|Knowles &Co|||
|Examiner:|||Lloyd Chambers,|139Carlton Road, Worksop,||||S81 7AD|
|Solicitors:|||Andrew<br>&Co||||||
||||St Swithin's<br>Square,||Lincoln, LN2 1HB||||
|Bankers:|||Lloyds Bank||||||
||||CAF Bank Limited||||||
||||Central Finance Board ofthe Methodist||||Church||
|Minister:|||Rev Julie Coates||||||
|Treasurer:|||Annette Westerby||||||
|Church|Council:||Deacon Emily Hoe-Crook||||||
||||Annette Barker||||||
||||iris Franks||||||
||||Bob Heathcote||||||
||||Anne Taylor||||||
||||Griff Wynne|||Passed away November 2022|||
||||Kath Jordan|||Appointed|March 2023||
||||Richard Peake|||Appointed|March 2023||
||||Margaret<br>Merrils|||Appointed|March 2023||



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|Statement ofFinancial Activities (SOFA)|Statement ofFinancial Activities (SOFA)|Statement ofFinancial Activities (SOFA)|Statement ofFinancial Activities (SOFA)|Statement ofFinancial Activities (SOFA)|for the year ended 31August 2023|for the year ended 31August 2023|for the year ended 31August 2023||||
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|||||Notes|General Fund|Designated|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Total|
||||||Unrestricted|Funds|Funds|Funds|2022-23|2021-22|
|||||||Unrestricted|||||
|Income|||||||||||
|1|Offerings||||26,190||||28,190|28,640|
|2|Donations@Grants|||4a|52,382||2,603||54,985|12,948|
|3|Giftaid||||7,440||||7,440|8,861|
|4|Interest and investment|income|||1,073||512||1,585|377|
|5|Income from investment|properties|||||||||
|6|Internal organisations||||||||||
|7|Other charitable<br>income|||4b|86,648|154|3,277||90,079|68,929|
|8Total income|||||175,733|154|6,392||182279|119,555|
|Expenditure|||||||||||
|9|Circuit assessment<br>or share||||30,900||||30,900|30,900|
|10|Grants and donations||||||||||
|11|Property maintenance||||34,605||||34,605|27,756|
|12|Insurance, utilities etc||||28,829||360||29,189|19,116|
|13Depreciation|||||19,677||||19,677|20,161|
|14 <br>15|Office expenses<br>Other expenditure||||5,838<br>47,477|329|732||5,838<br>48,538|5,537<br>37,556|
|16|Internal<br>organisations||||||||||
|17|Total charitable<br>expenditure||||167,326|329|1,092|-|168,747|141,026|
|18|Gains/(losses)<br>on monetary||investments|||||||(482)|
|19|Gains/(losses)<br>on investment|||properties|||||||
|20|Net income/(expenditure)||||8,407|(175)|5,300||13,532|(21,953)|
|21|Transfers<br>between funds||||(1,600)||1,600||||
|22|Other gains/(losses)||||||||||
|23|Net movement<br>in funds|for||the year|6,807|(175)|6,900|-|13,532|(21,953)|
|24 Total funds brought forward|||||1,611,543|230|17,760|-|1,629,533|1,651,486|
|25Total funds carried forward|||||1,618350|55|24,660|-|1,643,065|1,629,533|





|THE CROSSING CHURCH|THE CROSSING CHURCH|THE CROSSING CHURCH|THE CROSSING CHURCH||Circuit no:<br>25 no 19|Circuit no:<br>25 no 19|||||
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|Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA)||||for the year|ended 31August 2022||||||
||||Notes|General|Designated|Restricted|Endowment||Total|Total|
|||||Fund|Funds|Funds|Funds||2021-22|2020-21|
|||||Unrestricted|Unrestricted||||||
|Income|||||||||||
|1|Offerings|||28,640|||||28,640|32,640|
|2|Donations<br>&Grants||4a|10,596||2,352|||12,948|17,726|
|3|Giftaid|||8,661|||||8,661|9,670|
|4|Interest and investment|income||183||58|136||377|226|
|5|Income from investment|properties|||||||||
|6|Internal<br>organisations|||||||||425|
|7|Other charitable<br>income||4b|68,540|80|309|||68,929|37,775|
|8Total income||||116,620|80|2,719|136||119555|98,462|
|Expenditure|||||||||||
|9|Circuit assessment<br>orshare|||30,900|||||30,900|35,015|
|10Grants and donations||||||||||15,728|
|11|Property maintenance|||17,839||9,917|||27,756|25,750|
|12Insurance, utilities etc<br>13Depreciation||||19,116<br>20,161|||||19,116<br>20,161|16,027<br>20,860|
|14|Office expenses|||5,537|||||5,537|4,651|
|15|Other expenditure|||36,494|367|662||33|37,556|24,130|
|16|Internal<br>organisations||||||||||
|17Total charitable<br>expenditure||||130047|367|10579||33|141,026|142161|
|18 <br>19|Gains/(losses)<br>on monetary<br>Gains/(losses)<br>on investment||investments<br>properties||||(482)||(482)|1,288|
|20|Net income/(expenditure)|||(13,427)|(287)|(7,860)|(379)||(21,953)|(42,411)|
|21|Transfers between funds|||1,137||10,428|(11,565)||||
|22|Other gains/(losses)||||||||||
|23|Net movement<br>in funds|forthe year||(12,290)|(287)|2,568|(11,944)||(21,953)|(42,411)|
|24 Total funds brought forward||||1,623,833|517|15,192|11,944||1,651,486|1,693,897|
|25Total funds carried forward||||1,611,543|230|17,760|-||1,629,533|1,651,486|





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||||Balance Sheet|as at 31August|2023||||
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||||General Fund|Designated|Restricted|Endowment|Totals 2023|Totals 2022|
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|Fixed Assets|||||||||
|Church<br>buildin<br>and other|ro e|12|1 548099||||1,548,099|1,567,776|
|Investment<br>ro<br>rties|||||||||
|Investments||13|||||||
|Total fixed|assets||1,548,099||||1,548,099|1,567,776|
|Current Assets|||||||||
|Debtors and<br>re a ments||14|12,407||||12,407|17706|
|Loans b<br>the Churches|||||||||
|Investments<br>with TMCP|||||||||
|Central<br>Finance Board Deposits||15|||||||
||||67,477||24,660||92,137|57,151|
|Cash at Bank and<br>in hand<br>Total, curren&essets||"<br>15|14,671|55|||14,726<br>=158vt79|12,425<br>'87 282|
|Current<br>liabilities|||||||||
|Creditors<br>due inunder1|ear|16|3,402||||3,402|3423|
|Grants<br>a<br>ble within 2021-22|||||||||
|Tote) curient fiabilrtieK|||3,402 '||||||
|Net current assetslliabilities|||91,153|55|24,660||115868|83859|
|Total aisets less curtent|||||||||
|liabi 'ties|||1,639,252|55|24,660||1,663,967|1,851,835|
|Long term liabilities|||||||||
|due after more than one|year)||||||||
|Grants<br>a able after 2021-22|||||||||
|Loans to the Church|||20,902||||20,902|22,102|
|Net|assets||1,618,350|55|||43,065|1,629,533|
|Funds ofthe Church|||||||||
|General<br>Fund<br>Unrestricted||18|1,618,350||||1,618,350|1,611,543|
|Desi nated Funds<br>Unrestricted||||55|||55|230|
|Total Unrestricted|Funds||||||1,618,405|1611773|
|Restricted<br>Funds|||||24,660||24660|17,760|
|Endowment<br>Funds|||||||||
|Total|Funds||1,618,350|55|24,660||1,643,065|1,629,533.|





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|4a. Donations<br>&grants|4a. Donations<br>&grants||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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|Donations<br>&gifts|||10,861|2,103|12,964|10,448|
|Legacies|||39,426||39,426||
|Grants|||||||
|Notts County|Council- Re energy||1,785||1,785|2,500|
|URC- Re energy|||310||310||
|Methodist<br>District - Warm spaces||||500|500||
||||52,382|2,603|54,985|12,948|
|4b. Other charitable|income||||||
|Fund raising|||5,042||5,042|309|
|Lettings|||55,041||55,041|52,096|
|Other|||6,995||6,995|16,444|
|Transfer from The|Crossing SEC Ltd||8,256|3,277|11,533||
|Flower fund (designated)|||154||154|80|
|Seated exercise|||3,597||3,597||
|Oaf&|||7,717||7,717||
||||86,802|3,277|90,079|68,929|
|5. Property maintenance|||||||
|Service contracts|||6,099||6,099|10,234|
|Repairs and renewals|||22,619||22,619|12,717|
|Cleaning<br>equipment||&services|3,013||3,013|2,416|
|Window cleaning|||438||438|312|
|Business waste|||2,436||2,436|2,077|
||||34,605||34,605|27,756|
|6. Insurance,<br>utilities etc|||||||
|Light &heat|||22,958|360|23,318|14,303|
|Insurance|||4,399||4,399|4,157|
|Water rates|||826||826|135|
|General rates|||646||646|521|
||||28,829|360|29,189|19,116|





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|7. Office expenditure|7. Office expenditure||||||
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|Telephone|||3,427||3,427|2,813|
|Stationery<br>&postage|||82||82|10|
|Printing expenses|||2,329||2,329|2,714|
||||5,838||5,838|5,537|
|8. Other expenditure||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|2023|2022|
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|Service expenses||797|||797|491|
|Sundries||1,081|132||1,213|1,287|
|Bank charges &interest||272|||272|149|
|FOTC fundraising|costs|240|||240|1,303|
|Accountancy||1,939|||1,939|2,166|
|Card sales||548|||548|513|
|Cafe||1,767|23||1,790|3,172|
|Licences||493|||493|319|
|IT &Equipment||1,727|577||2,304|2,777|
|Administration<br>wages||11,589|||11,589|4,900|
|Caretakers<br>wages||21,264|||21,264|18,006|
|Donations to external organisations||2,031|||2,031|2,106|
|Seated exercise||3,225|||3,225||
|Training||504|||504||
|Flower fund (designated)||329|||329|367|
|||47,806|732||48,538|37,556|



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|Previously<br>the Church|did not directly employ|did not directly employ|staff,|amounts|amounts|were paid to The Crossing|were paid to The Crossing|were paid to The Crossing|were paid to The Crossing|SEC||
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|Limited<br>in respect of management||and administration,|||caretaking||and|cleaning.||||
|During the current year staff have||been transferred||to|be directly||employed||by The Crossing Church.|||
|Gross wages, salaries|and benefits|in kind||||||||32,853|23,615|
|The average number ofemployees||engaged|by the|charity||amounted||to 3|(2022 - 3).|||
|12.Tangible Fixed Assets|||||||||Church|Fixtures||
||||||||||Building|fittings<br>&||
|||||||||||equipment|Totals|
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|COST||||||||||||
|At 1 September 2022|||||||||1,836,164|110,572|1,946,736|
|Additions||||||||||||
|Disposals||||||||||||
|At 31August 2023|||||||||1,836,164|110,572|1,946,736|
|ACCUMULATED<br>DEPRECIATION||||||||||||
|At 1 September 2022|||||||||275,400|103,560|378,960|
|Charge for the year|||||||||18,360|1,317|19,677|
|On disposals||||||||||||
|At 31 August 2023|||||||||293,760|104,877|398,637|
|NET BOOK VALUE||||||||||||
|At 31August 2023|||||||||1,542,404|5,695|1,548,099|
|At 31 August 2022|||||||||1,560,764|7,012|1,567,776|



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|||||||2023|2022|
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|Market value|brought||forward||||11,944|
|Add: additions|to investments||||at cost|||
|Less: disposal|at carrying|||value|||(11,462)|
|Net gain/(loss)|on|revaluation|||||(482)|
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|14.Debtors &prepayments||||||Total|Total|
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|Debtors from|lettings|||||5,762|10,096|
|Gift aid receivable||||||2,500|3,000|
|Other debtors|||||||675|
|Prepaid<br>circuit|assessment|||||2,575|2,575|
|Other prepayments||||||1,570|1,360|
|||||||12,407|17,706|
|15.Cash at bank|and|in|hand|||||
|Bank balance|held|in|CFB|||92,137|57,151|
|Bank balance|held|in|CAF|||14,644|12,336|
|Cash||||||82|89|
|Total||||||106,863|69,576|
|16.Creditors: Amounts|||falling||due within one year|||
|Trade creditors|||||||64|
|Accruals||||||3,402|3,359|
|Other creditors||||||||
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|18.Analysis offunds|18.Analysis offunds|Opening|||||Closing|
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|||balance|Income|Expenditure|Transfers|Revaluation|balance|
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|Restricted funds||||||||
|Designated<br>gifts||1,397|47|(127)|||1,317|
|Benevolence||91|3|||||
|Church reserve||12,301|459||1,600||14,360|
|Music||90|3||||93|
|Singing<br>with dementia||1,008|504||||1,512|
|YMCA project||1,254|1,000|(120)|||2,134|
|Youth &Children|TMCP 1579|1,619|||||1,619|
|Warm spaces|||4,376|(845)|||3,531|
|||17,760|6,392|(1,092)|1,600||24,660|
|Unrestricted<br>funds||||||||
|General reserve||1,611,543|175,733|(167,326)|(1,600)||1,618,350|
|Flower fund||230|154|(329)|||55|
|||1,611,773|175„887|(167,655)|(1,600)||1,618,405|
|Total funds||1,629,533|182,279|(168,747)|||1,643,065|





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|||General<br>fund|Designated|Restricted|Total|Total|
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|||unrestricted|funds|funds|2023|2022|
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|Fixed Assets||1,548,099|||1,548,099|1,567,776|
|Current|assets|94,555|55|24,660|119,270|87,282|
|Current|liabilities|(3,402)|||(3,402)|(3,423)|
|Long term liabilities||(20,902)|||(20,902)|(22,102)|
|||1,618,350|55|24,660|1,643,065|1,629,533|



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