Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year T Day Month Year From 6 4 20 o 5 4 21
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name
Hope Church
Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any)[1145555]
Charity's principal address 24 Catherine Street
Crewe Cheshire Postcode CW26HD
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if whole year any) Chair of Trustees 1[Emma Howell] Church Leader Trustee 2[Joseph ] Laycock 3[Janice Smith] Trustee Trustee 4[Philip Howell] Church Leader 5[Jayne Harris] Trustee From 1/2/2021
6
7
8
9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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 Trust Deed
- (eg. trust deed, constitution
How the charity is constituted Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Appointed by Spiritual Leadership
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
You may choose to include We are very pleased that Jayne Harris has agreed to be a Trustee additional information, where of Hope Church. She is also a member of the Leadership team. 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
To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statements of belief in Crewe, the UK or the world.
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
To relieve sickness and financial hardship by the provision of goods, funds or services, including support in Crewe, the UK or the world.
When considering our activities for the year, the Trustees and Spiritual Leadership of Hope church have taken the Commission’s guidance on public benefit into account and in particular the guidance on the advancement of religion. All weekly activities in Hope church seek to enable people to live out their Christian faith in the community, and to reach out to the local area with the Christian faith. This is done in the following ways. In a normal year, there are weekly Sunday meetings, which are open to all. Hope kids takes place during this meeting for 4-11 year olds and a creche for pre-school children. Young people also have a fortnightly meeting during the sermon.There are special services for Christmas, Easter and Harvest. Most Sundays a bring and share lunch is held, to which all are invited. There are also baptismal services for new believers and dedication services for parents who wish to bring their child up in the church. This year our Sunday meetings took place on facebook as a livestream or on Zoom for midweek prayer meetings. There were some who met in person at Hope Church Central, when permitted, so services became a hybrid of livestream and inperson Church. Prayer meetings support the life of the church and we meet weekly online or in person and fortnightly on a Wednesday evening. Home groups meet fortnightly, which provide the Summary of the main opportunity for people to meet in small groups and discuss and activities undertaken for the ask questions about the teaching on Sunday. These have also public benefit in relation to taken place online and in person when possible. these objects (include within this section the statutory The Youth group meets weekly for 11-17 year olds. This has declaration that trustees taken place online and also in person when possible. A young have had regard to the adult group (18-30s) meeting usually takes place weekly, but this guidance issued by the year has met informally online irregularly. Charity Commission on public benefit) There is an asylum seeker cafe, where we provide English conversation, distribute food donations and offer table tennis and table football. This became a food delivery service during lockdown and a once-weekly provision in our building when permitted. This year we have not held any Community Sales. This is where we sell second hand items at low prices to the local area, all profits are given away to charities. We have also not held any coffee mornings this year. A weekly lunch club is held in a local high school, where young people can explore faith. A Christian Union is run at the local college and is open to all. Neither of these have been possible due to Covid, but we intend to restart these when possible. This year we have not undertaken any organised Street outreach. Normally this happens every week, where free teas and coffees are given out. Literature about the Christian faith is on hand and people are available to talk and to pray, should someone wish it. The Alpha Course, which in an introduction to Christianity, is run twice a year, with other churches in Crewe and is open to anyone. This has taken place online. Hope church’s website provides information of how to become a Christian, and includes information about the church. It is updated regularly. ~~Hope church is also a contributor to the local food bank~~
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
-
policy on grantmaking;
-
policy programme related investment;
-
contribution made by volunteers.
| Section D | Achievements andperformance | |
|---|---|---|
| Summary of the main | This past year saw a move to livestream Church, which enabled | |
| achievements of the charity | many people to engage twice weekly with both Church and each | |
| during the year | other. Our ‘closed’ group has grown to roughly 230 members over | |
| the year. We have had some people engaging online who would | ||
| not normally come to Church and people from other areas, which | ||
| has been encouraging. | ||
| Since August 2020 we have had some in-person attendance at | ||
| Hope Church Central, from where we ran our meetings, which | ||
| allowed roughly 15-18 people to attend with the Covid restrictions | ||
| in place. This was an enormous encouragement to those who | ||
| were isolated, single people and those who genuinely found | ||
| encouragement and support from even the small contact that was | ||
| allowed. | ||
| A number of families and individuals joined us over the year and | ||
| we have had a new Start Rite discipleship group for new | ||
| Christians. | ||
| When permitted we held 2 baptismal services which were a great | ||
| encouragement to all. | ||
| The Farsi Bible study continued through the year, as it was a vital | ||
| support to these men who were isolated and vulnerable, many in a | ||
| new town with no personal relationships. The number of asylum | ||
| seekers we were engaged with grew to 85, due to a massive | ||
| increase in those being placed in Crewe. From January on we | ||
| supported them with weekly food deliveries and brief | ||
| conversations on the doorstep, but both were greatly appreciated. | ||
| There has been a constant stream of asylum seekers needing | ||
| help with documents, or practical matters, or just a listening ear as | ||
| many are facing very difficult situations. Even in lockdown a | ||
| socially distanced walk made a great difference for many. | ||
| We received food deliveries from Marks and Spencer and Aldi to | ||
| support this work, and were also able to support Church members, | ||
| neighbours, family members, and those in need a number of times | ||
| through the difficult year. It enabled quick pastoral visits on the | ||
| doorstep to see how people were, and also allowed people to help | ||
| anyone they knew who was in need, as they could ask for a parcel | ||
| or flowers to be delivered. | ||
| The Church has met many needs this year, both practically and | ||
| spiritually. There were a number of times when people contacted | ||
| us for clothes or household items and we were able to provide | ||
| them. We helped those who had had accidents, or who were | ||
| bereaved, or who lost a job, with food, meals and support. Phil and | ||
| Emma took a number of funerals. | ||
| Love Crewe continued this year in the form of online zoom | ||
| meetings and town-wide prayer meetings held on zoom. These | ||
| were encouraging and especially the Christmas project drew many | ||
| people. The Church Leaders decided to distribute 10000 | ||
| Christmas parcels, with a hot chocolate sachet, Gospel of Luke | ||
| and an invitation to an online Christmas Carol service. This was | ||
| quite a feat, but happened successfully with many volunteers. 2 | ||
| online Alpha courses took place with a number of people attending | ||
| and some finding faith and joining churches. | ||
| The Youth work has continued over the year and has been a | ||
| blessing to the Church young people in their isolation. We very | ||
| much appreciate Steve and Glenda Christner and their team of | ||
| helpers, who cared for the young people of high school age this | ||
| year. | ||
Section D Achievements and performance
Neither the Church weekend away nor Revive, our annual conference, could happen in person, but we did value the Revive online sessions in August.
Crewe Street Pastors did not take place for most of this year. We did manage to go out for patrols from Sept to December when we were able to. This is another great project between the churches across the town. Each week there is a team that walks around the town centre area and talks to young people and is available to help. This will restart as soon as possible.
Phil is heading up a ROC (Redeeming Our Communities) group, which is a national organisation run by Christians, who work in partnership with local authorities and the police and many other charity groups. The aim is to focus on a few key areas in Crewe that have been identified by the police, research and local involvement, to bring change and improvement. This has also taken place online over the year.
ser.tion E Fin3nr.ial rpvipw é fi5ic?s hariws policy Lyb •rY I churth a¢. D•tilL8 of any furbY$ maictrlaly in d•fioil Fwth•r fiTranElo1 Ikntulls loptill1 infprniatiml You m•y IJ P(bryP r fir4nrM4 frrMT. ,.15 nrwrfitrp. dclii3fia InlonThali¢r. lvbgri ao3)rth'ng to a th'G-, fiDarKioI 1. P& d sla% FV th..Iflty'p sources offjnds (inraiinll Fjny r•nJm•'•i ?n Ir= *• mon•j Ji¥én lo )11 paia work•s aid ThnIst0 4xJprtr.d thr. kc'o lTh¥•strn•rf rrfJlry ano lltrj1aAH Mr¢ hit in gslmwt itr. Section F Otl)er optional inforniatioii Section G Th•v• •pofo¥• • f•POrt kn•. Siqn•d on b•half of Ih ¢harl 81gnAturrfs> '• Irustws Full nam¥> L- J'thk( Pmllion (89 8ocrelBryi
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR INGLAND AND WALE5 Indop8ndgnt examinerfs report on the accounts S•clion A IndependL'iil Examin9r g Raport Report to the truglÈel m•rnb&rB hL(rl{ (I ¢kn fvr th• y401 i Chwity no Iw•ny) Ily ¥s' r 8¢t out on pw l TVPCrt to ltre Irus1ew• 4)Tl •llp' 13XolT1i..¢ RewJoMlblllUes and ctAnty tr.Jpaes el IPt¢ Tru31. rÈrMixlJlM lry ry•parl 2Cd l j Il)¢ undft-. 145 ol the 3)11 A¢t •nd In r. ¥irio iiul my arnini(STr I ha¥e fr4[ld t?e awlitsiibly D,mtsl8 Ihe cNiity G)nMni55•)n Jftder tthJn 14sj-.jbl 4.'l.Fi• Id. Irbd•pKKknt I eK.rffiiet¢8 my CAamino1lL. l iorihiiii no oxamlnsrfs slaknmnl r. tr ny 3ttérf1 m exaffiTh•tcn ¥thich glytx 'ri )Ilio'0è Ihat In, Iiidluib rcp£rt." .I¢WLmtir4 rrde nol kpl In wrih s¢¢liw 130 the ilA lfft court5 th) ncrt ¢01 ¥rtli I1 I ravtr rbj crfficenis rcmry Jcro56 ro gther nMtt¢is ¥1 ¢unngctyc "rtlll) i:JurniriAlvn lo shoul2 t¢ drwn in c¥l¥r Icb a ¢x)per un¢v.Triindn9 cf Ihc a(unt9 bp ir . thc ffi LY>tfJaA rfrr4qyrti Art.Mty. Namt. 4-1 R¢levant pwofegOtIMI ryalhlGatiL4nl¥) or body -I=LL04L rJt•iJ, L ds5cJ CIPTI.fjf.l i,< IIIArl Addv•8s: Cxir)b•r 2018
Sr.11Th B D i•¢lo•UV IrTEkfwdw.t ol 0nts.. arml exanirK'rsl any Ihat e%Ythnorwi5hè9 t diiGIo IER October 2018
cxARirY cO,MMISSl pv frnv IriNJ "lJtI AJl-.- Receipts and paym•nts account8 CCl6a Irv SpGLion A RDr.pi t£ ind i?,Iyiifjnts AI 05. 1bl Iw¥ Sub T•J r Jp •• r 1.191 ¥r4 iftr A4 Irthv.ith(y T¢ tI.IlT ywj h ¢wi#s 1•J13
Sectior. B Fthnl of a5S8ts aTrd lialJililii.':- ,1 t thr_ Fknd of the period L'i IA t Bl CJh fuTrd• 31 - r•sv•i & '.• 19 D•¥ Llabllfti or•4• Th3ty85 Lth F Q.JJ Pa9* 4