ALLESLEY PARK EVANGELICAL CHURCH CHARITABLE TRUST TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT- Aprll 2023 to March 2024 Jesus said: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perlsh but have etemal life. For God did not send his Son to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3 V 16-17 NIV As an Evangelical Church, we believe we have a responsibility to teach others about the Love of God that led him to send His Son-jesus Chrls to dle on a cross to pay the penalty for our wrongdoings. INDEX TO ACCOUNT5 PAGES: Trust Information 3- 10 Trustees Report Appendix l - Independent Examiner's report Appendix 2 - Annual accounts Statement of Financial Activities Balance sheet Notes on accounts ALLESLEY PARK EVANGELICAL CHURCH TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 202312024 TRUST INFORMATION STATUS A Charitable Trust- Company Limited by Guarantee Company Registration No.. 07561921 Charity Registration No: 1142237 TRUSTEES Paul Ferris Andrew Holdham Brian Rollason Appointed at Church Meeting on 16 June 2010 Re-appointed at Church Meeting on 22nd October 2023 ELDERS Alan Blatchford, Brian Rollason, Paul Ferris CHURCH REGISTERED ADDRESS Bethesda Whitaker Road Allesley Park Coventry CV5 9JE corresponden￿ Address: Mr. B P Rollason 25 Madeira Croft Coventry CV5 8NX Email: brian.rollason Tel: 024 76670094 Web.. www.a Email.. contact Facebook: htt btinternet.com ec-coventr .or ec-covent .or www.facebook.com APECcov Instagram: htt www.insta ram.com ec covent INDEPENDENT EXAMINER Martin Denness ALLESLEY PARK EVANGELICAL CHURCH CHARITY TRUST TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1st APRIL 2023 to 31st MARCH 2024 OBJECTS The Charitable purposes of the Company / Charity shown in our Articles of Association are: 'Yo advance the Chrlstlan Falth through the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Chrlst throughout the world and the local community" The primary aims of the Trust are to fulfil the role of a Christian Church in the Whoberley and Allesley Park areas of Coventry and to provide help to others in promoting the Christian faith in the United Kingdom and overseas. THE CHURCH: ITS AIMS AND OBJEcfSVES We believe that the Church is not a building, it is a gathering of ordinary people of different ages and backgrounds, whose lives have been changed by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The New Testamont model for the Church is a community of people, properly taught and c3red for, whom by loving and serving Jesus Christ, were also committed to love and care for each other and to bring a blessing to the area in which they lived. Allesley Park Evangelical Church, its Trustees, Elders and Members are committed to the restoration of those New Testament principles. The vision is to see the people of Allesley Park and Whoberley come into this experience of knowing Jesus as their Lord, Saviour and friend. The mission statement of the Church is: "Reoching peoplefvrjesus helping and encouraglng each other to become commltted and effertlve dlsclples of Chrlsv Directions relating to the Company/charitable trust are made by the Directorsnrustees in consultation with the Church Elders, who are responsible for governing the life and teaching of the church. The Trustees and Elders make day to day decisions on expenditure and activities run by volunteers responsible in the church, with the finances being monitored by the Trustees. It is the work of every member of the church, and volunteer5 that makes the difference in achieving its great commission. This is done by demonstrating and sharing God's love amongst the people they interact with every day,. by prayin& visiting the sick and others in need, being involved in discipling others, public teaching and worship, and in administration. The members provide the financial resources of the church and their private assets and equipment are regularly used in the work of the church. Much of this work 15 done privately, without recognition, and the hours and value of that time cannot be quantified. Alle51ey Park Evangelical Church does not have any paid employees; all the activities that are provided by the church to the local community are undertal(en and provided by volunteers, fY105t of whom are church members. THE YEAR: ffs OBJECTIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS We have again been blessed through God's wonderful provision of practical and financial support throughout the year April 2023 to March 2024 and great achievements have been made possible. Praise the Lord for He is good• glves thanks to God, praise His name. During the year that ended 31st March 2024 we have achieved our charitable purposes for the public benefit as follows: a} Regular weekly activitles: Although the restrictions of the COVID pandemic were behind us we did continue to us Zoom for those members who were unable to get out to the Church building on a Sunday ¥nornlng. We instigated a process to regularly contart all those members who gave their mobile phone numbers andlor email address to disseminate important information about services and prayer requests. This proves Is now well established and the "prayer line" ha5 been found to be a real blessing to many in times of ill health or having any other needs. Between April 2023 and March 2024, our attendance on a Sunday Morning service was maintained at between 40 to 60. b) Fulfllllng the objectlves in teaching, preaching and showlng practical care in the com- munity:" The aims of the teaching, preaching and discipleship programs include the impact upon lifestyle arising from following the teaching of Christ to 'Love God and your neighbour as yourselr. c) Impacting the next generation. We have continued to strengthen link with children (primary School) and young people Isenior school) on a Friday evening. We have a group called 'Explorers" for primary aged children every Friday evening in Term time with on average 20 children attending to have games, craft, quizzes, and a short Bible talk. We started a Youth Group in May 2022 which we continue to run on alternate Friday evenings 19'.30 to 21.00, aptly named APEC Youthl We regularly have between 12 and 16 young people across the full secondary school age group. In September 2023, we attended "Fresher wee1(" at Warwick University and as a result we had another student who started attending APEC on a regular basis on Sunday Mornings. We occasionally have a small group social evening for students and your peo- ple and as a result friendships are made between our own young people and the stu- dents. Who join us for Food and games. d) Bringing support to churches working elsewhere both in the United Kingdom and overseas. We have for many years now, held a special toy service for Christmas where donations of toys were collected and then given to the Coventry City Mission who provide support and help to the poor and most vulnerable families in the city. We are one of several churches in Coventry that serve as an outlet for Coventry Food Bank, part of the Trussell Trust. Every Friday volunteers could run the Food Bank to provide the needs of local people who were struggling because of being unable to work or because of the Cost of Liv- ing crisls. We are especially grateful for those volunteers who assist to enable the food bank to open every week. The meimbers of the church have consistently been applying the principles of church life outlined in the New Testament to be "salt and light" in the community, in the places they live and work and in haviiig an impact on social attitudes in wider national society. This is a very major part of the purpose of the church and much of it is done without publicity and the amount of time spent in this way cannot be quantified. We do not have any paid employees- all our activities are provided by volunteers who give their time freely for the good of the Church working In the local Community. The Trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission in December 2008. One of our objectives was to enable "Community use of the building" and we have enabled ivs use by a community choir who use it for their practice every Monday, two local Resident groups, several birthday parties, and another local Church group who use it for their Full Immersion Baptisms. In 2022, a Local Home Education support group started meeting at APEC on a Monday morning, and have continued to do 50 during 2023124. PLANS FOR THE NEW FINANCIAL YEAR Our aim 15 to attract other local families and residents in to our building so that they can hear about the Love of God and share in that with us in both a spiritual and practic31 manner. We again attended the University of Warwick Freshers week to inform students how welcome they are to attend our church. We currently have two students who regularly attend each week. FINANCIAL REVIEW This is our Ilth year in our new building and we are enjoying the new facilities and the activities it has enabled us to offer. St is through Gods gracious provision that we have seen the financial resources of the Church strengthened during the year as members have continued to give very generously. The General fund is used for the Church Running Expenses and the financial support for a local evangelists. the wife of an evangelist who is now with his Lord, and another Christlan worker that we have financially and prayerfully supported to a small degree for many years. GRANT MAKING POUCY We are not set up to make grants to other organisations and are unlikely to be in a financial position to be able to do so. The Trustees, based on need and fulfilment of the charitable objectives, do consider making gifts to external organisations and individuals as a need arises. All visiting Speakers are offered gift to cover their expenses. 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Namb oitsU$te• or¢￿ne¢￿a porty AmDuntDwing ygar L￿tY*#t L•yl authDrKy Duoto truste￿ •nd related parU•s DuèfwmtlU51ees and relatod Mono 14A 0thlrtrll￿5*Lt[Dn1Sj wkn trust￿ or rthtsd N4m•ofth•tYust••or￿I*t4d Thls yBar Lasty•ar R•lakn$hl to Gh4r D•scrf on of th•tra*4a¢tlon Section C Notes to the accounts Icontl allo51ey park ¢v￿l￿gelIc￿ chvtrh Note 15 Addltlonal Dlsclosure$ The following ar8 Significant mattèrs which are not covered In other notes and need to be Included to provide a proper understanding of the accounts. If there is insufficient room here. please add a separate sheet. We have prepared these accoun15 on tha basis that thèy start from 1st Aprll 2023 to 31st March 2024. APEC became Incoiporated with Cornpanies House on the 14th March 2011 as a Charitable Company i.e. a Company limited by Guarantee, we do not function any dIffe￿ntlY now than we had done for the previous 45 years. Our cornpany registration number is 07561921. APEC is also registered with Chaiilie8 Cornmission and our iegi8lralion nutnber is 1142237 To enabl8 us to cornplete a new bu51ding project in 201212013, we had a total tnortgage advance of £175.000120131 which we are pleased to say the mortgage liability was completely repaid in September 2021 to our lender Stewardship. Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Allesley Park Evangelical Church Coventry On accounts for the year ended 31, March 2024 Charlty no (if any) 1142237 Set out on pages Appendix 2 Rospoctive Tha charily's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The responslbilities of charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under Irustees and section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an examiner independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to.. examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Acl. to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission {under section 14515}(b) of the Charities Act, and lo state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basls of Independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Direclions given examiner's by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the statement accounting records kept by the charity 8nd a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and conséquently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention examiner's 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in. any material respect, statement the requirements.. to keep 8ccounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., and to prepare accourlts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met- or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: Martin Denness IER November 2024 Relevant professional qualification{s) or body lif anyl: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Associate Member IACMA) Address: Chapel House, Post Office Lane, Stockton. Warwickshire CV47 8JR Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight material problems. Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER November 2024