**==> picture [202 x 51] intentionally omitted <==** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/01/2023 Period start date To 31/12/2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Bere Regis Congregational Church** ## **Charity registration number: 1144980** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The advancement of the faith in accordance with
the basis of faith primarily but not exclusively
within Bere Regis and the surrounding
neighbourhood.
Such other charitable purposes as shall, in the
opinion of the members of the church general
meetngfurther the work of the church| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|We have provided the opportunity for people to
worship within our church buildings and have
contnued live streaming on You Tube to spread
the Good news of the Gospel to a wider
audience.
We have also sought to reach out to the wider
community ofering guidance and help to any
seeking to live a Christan life or who are in need
of comfort and help.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|When considering the churches actvites
consideraton was given to the commission’s
guidance on the public beneft and in partcular
to the guidance for charites for the
advancement of religion| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Weekly Sunday worship meetngs open to all
have been held and we contnue to live stream
our services for those unable to physically
atend. The services are also recorded and are
available to view any tme on You tube. These
have been viewed many tmes so are reaching a
wider audience with Christan teaching.
Two midweek house groups contnue for
teaching and fellowship again open to all who
may be interested.
The Mother and Toddler group contnues to
ofer fellowship for any mothers in the village.
An open meetng ofering teaching on the
creaton/ evoluton debate was held and was
well atended.
Some street evangelism has been carried out in
Dorchester and we also held a Christmas carol
service in a local retrement home.
We contnue to ofer spiritual support and
guidance to any seeking help.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |||| Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|As shown in our accounts the charity is in a
sound financial position.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|It is the policy of the church to hold sufcient
reserves to cover the normal running costs but
also to cover anyemergencyrepairs| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£10,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No funds in deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution dated 12thOctober 2011| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CharitableTrust| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Elected by the members| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Bere Regis Congregational Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Bere Regis Chapel| |Registered charity number|1144980| |Charity’s principal address|Butt Lane
Bere Regis
Wareham
Dorset
BH20 7HZ| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||I Stevens|Treasurer||Appointed by Church
members| ||R Kirk|||As above| ||G Gee|||As above| ||P Jackson|||As above| ||G Bennington|||As Above| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |Evangelical Fellowship of
Congregational Churches||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|I Stevens|G Gee| |---|---|---| |||| ||Ivan Richard Stevens|Graham Gee| |||| ||Treasurer|Trustee| ||31/07/2024
31/07/2024|| ||31/07/2024|| ||**Charity Name**

**Bere Regis Congregational Church**|**Charity Name**

**Bere Regis Congregational Church**|**Charity Name**

**Bere Regis Congregational Church**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
1/1/2023|**To**|Period end date
12/31/2023|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
WeeklyOfferings
**21,034**
Donations
**935**
Tax Return
**4,324**
Trental Income
**5,520**
Bank Interest
**196**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,009**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 32,009**
**A3 Payments**
Ministry
**7,267**
MissionaryGiving
**4,469**
Maintenance of Church Premises
**3,549**
Electricity/Gas/Oil
**2,910**
General Expenses
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 19,175**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 19,175**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 12,834**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 12,834**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,034**
**935**
**4,324**
**5,520**
**196**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,009**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**32,009**
**7,267**
**4,469**
**3,549**
**2,910**
**980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,175**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,175**
**12,834**
**-**
**-**
**12,834**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||**-**|**21,034**|**16,714**| ||||**-**|**935**|**190**| ||||**-**|**4,324**|**4,194**| ||||**-**|**5,520**|**5,340**| ||||**-**|**196**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**32,009**|**26,438**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**32,009**|**26,438**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**7,267**|**12,687**| ||||**-**|**4,469**|**2,535**| ||||**-**|**3,549**|**11,426**| ||||**-**|**2,910**|**1,785**| ||||**-**|**980**|**4,287**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**19,175**|**32,720**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||||| ||||**-**|**19,175**|**32,720**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**|**12,834**|**- 6,282**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**12,834**|**- 6,282**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Current Account
Deposit Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Church /manse Buildings
Church Contents
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**34,351**
**20,196**
**-**
**54,547**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
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**-**
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OK
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**Cost (optional)**
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**funds**
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**funds**
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**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
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**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of Bere Regis C(MvJregational Church On accounts for the year £1St DeceMtr￿ 2023 Charity no lif any) 1144980 Sèt out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charty (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charFty trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordan￿ vlith the r￿ju1re￿erts of the Charities Act 2011 (llhe Arf). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusfs accourts carried out under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in c￿ing out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under sedion 145(5)(b) of the A(1 I have completed my examination. l (xjnfirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me Cause to believe that in, any material respect accountirvJ records not kept in aCCor￿ce with sedion 130 of theAdor the accounts do not acc¢xd wilh the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no Gon￿mS and have (x)me across no other matters in connection with the examination to attention shoukl te drawn in order to enable a oper urKlwstartding of the accounts to be readjed. . Please delete the words in the br￿kets rfthey do not appty. Signed: ts-/o il kQY(E Name: Robbie Lee Brian Green Relevant professional qualifi&*lon(s) or body (rf any): BA Hons Accounting & Finan￿ Degree Address: .gwn QE8EI LoiJWIJ ESTI Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of d]arrty accounts: diredtons and guidan￿ for examiners). IER OCto￿r 2018