REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 07905909 (ENGLAND AND WALES) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1146306
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR YEAR ENDING 31[st] DECEMBER 2021 FOR HOLLYWOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE
Registered Office 185, Shawhurst Lane Hollywood Birmingham B47 5JR
HOLLYWOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
for the year ending 31[st] December 2021
Registered Charity Number
1146306
Registered Office
185, Shawhurst Lane Hollywood Birmingham B47 5JR
Website
www.hollywoodchristianlifecentre.org.uk
Trustees
D R Foster A J Wright
Secretary
D R Foster
Bankers
The Co-operative Bank P. O. Box 250 Delf House Southway Skelmersdale WN8 6WT
Independent examiner:
Mr. Brian Wilkins, ACIB 43 Ellesboro Road Harborne Birmingham B17 8PU
Landlords
Church Growth Trust The Barn 1Manor Farm Barns Baines Lane Seaton Oakham LE15 9HP
HOLLYWOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
for the year ending 31[st] December 2021
The Church became a Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee in January 2012 with the appointment of 3 Directors/Trustees who are also its Members. In addition to the Trustees we now also have a full time pastor and assistant pastor who are also elders.
The Church is governed by the Directors/Trustees (Elders) and the pastor who are appointed and make decisions in consultation with the Church members. Day to day running is conducted through the pastor, assistant pastor, the elders and leaders of the different activities. Training is offered to trustees through day courses and encouragement to read the Charity Commission guidance on the website. Trustees are also, where seen necessary, given the opportunity to attend training.
We are seeking to appoint an additional Trustee in the future.
The Charity’s objectives are for the public benefit to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs, in the Hollywood area, United Kingdom or the world as the Trustees from time to time may see fit, to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable in connection with its activities.
These objectives are achieved through Church services, Children’s and Young Peoples activities, weeks and weekends away, coffee mornings and ‘Time for Tea’ for the older generation. These activities are advertised to and engaged in by the wider community in the local area. Help is also given for social and practical needs of individual church and non-church members. We also support and work with other local Churches and groups for the benefit of the local community. We are developing our links with the local senior school and junior schools.
We have been able in a controlled way start to open up some of our activities as we continue in the pandemic. Contacts have been maintained with Church members and others in the community where regulations allow. The food bank has continued to operate being supported by local people, councils and businesses.The involvement in the local schools has increased, with our assistant pastor spending 1 day a week in the local senior school. We were also able to help covid testing in this school.
We have a church congregation that covers the complete age range which helps us to cater for the different needs within the church and the local community. Despite the issues limiting our activities we have been encourage by the vast majority of the church maintaining involvement.
On a wider scale financial support is also given to carefully selected national and international charities and appeals. For example, British Heart Foundation, Marie Curie, Birmingham City Mission, The Leprosy Mission. As we have links with a church in Mississippi. We have maintained our support in Zambia. Through a church member from Zimbabwe we have been able to help her start to set up a school in he home village.
Our financial position at the end of the year is healthy, even though there was a decrease in the reserves.
The building we occupy is in a separate trust (Church Growth Trust) to whom we pay an annual rental of £64. One of our Trustees is a member of that Trust.
On behalf of the Trustees Dave Foster (Honorary Secretary)