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2024| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** THE CHURCH OF GOD – A WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION – BRITISH ISLES **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1141326 **Charity's principal address** ## **Postcode** COGWA-BI 57 Coates Lane High Wycombe Buckinghamshire **HP13 5ET** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||David Treybig|||Two original trustees| ||Peter David
Hawkins|Chair||| ||Michael Murdoch||Since November 2022|The trustees| ||Gareth John
Gordon||Since November 2022|The trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **2024** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) > [Constitution ] How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)[As a trust ] The initial trustees were selected as Trustees upon adoption of the Trustee selection methods Constitution. Thereafter, the trustees can appoint additional trustees who (eg. appointed by, elected by) are confirmed as trustees at the Trustee meeting that follows his or her appointment. ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the** OUR MISSION IS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF **charity set out in its** GOD AND MAKE DISCIPLES FROM AMONG THOSE WHOM GOD **governing document** CALLS **2024** **TAR** 2 **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory** As above – the continued operation of active worshipping congregations **declaration that trustees have** and associated activities. **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** The trustees of the Church of God, a Worldwide Association - British Isles met on Saturday 18th May 2024. This report includes details of the discussions and includes certain additions and amendments to provide final “end of year” details. ## **2024 Finance summary** Trustee Gareth Gordon, opened with prayer, and then Chair Peter Hawkins (PH) reported on the 2024 finances to date. The figures follow, You **may choose** to include adjusted with end of year updates: further statements, where £129,700 Opening balance 1st January 2024 [Jan. 2023, £109,000] relevant, about: - £129,700 Opening balance 1st January 2024 [Jan. 2023, £109,000] £ 95,404 Income at 31 Dec 2024 [cp 2023, £51,206] which includes £56k paid by participants towards tours at the Feast. 2024. Gift aid for this year has not been requested yet - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - investment; £71,758 Expenses for 2024 [cp 2023, £ 29,117] which includes Feast tour and hall expenses of £65k balanced by fares paid by participants -  contribution made by and offerings. From 2024 the Irish site was defined as an International - volunteers. site administered from the U.S. £154,980 Balance at 31-December 2024 [cp 31-Dec. 2023, £102,800] We presently have more than a three month cushion for expenses. During the year the dollar exchange estimated avg. $1.25 per £1.00. **Responses from Google Ad Grant campaigns in 2024** : NB This programme is calculated in US$. GoogleGrant Ads: Views 84,600 for 2024, 17,500 Clicks to LHT at $3.18 **2024** **TAR** 3 per click, 20.7% click through rate. $55.700 of possible $120,000 spent. ## **2025 budget** Our proposed 2025 budget was sent to Leon Walker and Doug Horchak, the International Coordinator, in September. Some of the highlights include the good starting bank balance of £129,700 on Jan 1st, 2024, higher than the predicted amount in last year's budget, due to new contributors. The budgeted Income was set at £93,600, while the Budgeted Expenses was £88,000. The dollar exchange estimate for 2024 is $1.25 per £1, but this is a guesstimate. The following items for 2024 were included: 1. Combined services twice per month. 2. Planning began for the retirement of Regional Pastor Peter Hawkins and the transfer of U.S. pastor Paul Carter to the U.K. 3. We rely on Google Grants (to the value of $10,000 per month) to reach Britain and draw viewers to Life, Hope and Truth. 4. Expenses for flights to Church Youth Camp have been set aside for seven campers, and three staff will be travelling privately. 5. We increase the three-month cushion for expenses to £30,000 due to member visits in Europe. ## **Festival report for 2024/2025** The Festival site was designated a US site as the majority of attendees were from the USA. The highest attendance In Ashbourne, Ireland in 2024 was 310 with a good mixture of overseas and European visitors. The site in Ireland is also planned as a US site for 2025. As in 2024, tours and hotel contacts have been organised by UK and US members. The Tunbridge Wells satellite site will also operate in 2025 as 2024.. ## **Congregational matters** Combined services continued twice per month in Caterham. This enabled more fellowship between brethren, and more members being able to attend due to the location. Soper Hall is usually available, unless a local activity takes precedence. ## Section D Achievements and performance **2024** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance **2024** **TAR** 5 Section D Achievements and performance **2024** **TAR** 6 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The charity intends to hold reserves sufficient to meet its foreseeable upcoming costs for at least three months. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** Not applicable ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Peter David Hawkins **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Chairman of the Trustees ] **Date** 24th July 2025 **2024** **TAR** 7 ||**A WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - BRITISH ISLES**
**CHURCH OF GOD**|**A WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - BRITISH ISLES**
**CHURCH OF GOD**|**A WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - BRITISH ISLES**
**CHURCH OF GOD**|**A WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION - BRITISH ISLES**
**CHURCH OF GOD**|**1141326**
**Charity no**|**1141326**
**Charity no**|**1141326**
**Charity no**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|1st January 2024
Period start date||**To**||31st December 2024
Period end date||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**79,107**
**18,554**
**-**
**56,226**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**153,886**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**153,886**
**13,991**
**6,212**
**17,540**
**7,158**
**4,421**
**6,359**
**65,967**
**4,977**
**-**
**126,623**
**1,968**
**1,968**
**128,591**
**25,295**
**-**
**129,684**
**154,980**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**79,107**
**18,554**
**-**
**56,226**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**153,886**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**153,886**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |General offerings and tithes|**79,107**|||||||**65,054**| |HolyDays|**18,554**|||||||**7,622**| |Gift Aid|**-**|||||||**-**| |Other|**56,226**|||||||**5,223**| |Investment income|**-**|||||||**-**| |||||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**153,886**|||||||**77,899**| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| ||**-**|||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||| |||||||||**77,899**| |||||||||| |Office expenditure|**13,991**|**-**||**-**||**13,991**||**15,375**| |Church - meetinghalls|**6,212**|**-**||**-**||**6,212**||**4,638**| |Church - travel|**17,540**|**-**||**-**||**17,540**||**5,247**| |Church -youth|**7,158**|**-**||**-**||**7,158**|**# **|**2,514**| |Church - other|**4,421**|**-**||**-**||**4,421**||**14,146**| |Postage|**6,359**|**-**||**-**||**6,359**||**5,392**| |Festivals|**65,967**|**-**||**-**||**65,967**||**14,809**| |Assistance|**4,977**|**-**||**-**||**4,977**||**4,432**| |Proceeds of sale of Fixed Assets|**-**|**-**|**# **|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**126,623**|**-**||**-**||**126,623**||**66,553**| |||**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||||**1,968**
**-**
**1,968**
**128,591**
**25,295**||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||| |Equipment and software|**1,968**|||||||**-**| |||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,968**|||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||| |||||||||**66,553**| |||||||||| ||**25,295**|**-**||**-**||**25,295**||**129,684**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**129,684**|**-**||**-**||**129,684**||**118,338**| ||**154,980**|**-**||**-**||**154,980**||**129,684**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 29/07/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
Bank account
Savings account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Equipment and Software|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**118,338**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,338**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
unrestricted funds
**22,262**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Peter Hawkins|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Peter Hawkins|24th July 2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 29/07/2025 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name Church of God – a Worldwide Association – British Isles **members of** **On accounts for the year** 31st December 2024 **Charity no** 1141326 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 and 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/12/2024** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 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 ~~(other than that disclosed below *)~~ in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do 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 order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Date:** 29th July 2025 **Name:** David Michael Green **Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Gowers Limited, The Old School House, Bridge Road, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley, Herts. WD4 8SZ **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**