2022-03-31-accounts

	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for the period	for the period	for the period
	From	Period start date			T o	Period end date
		Day 1st	Month April	Year 2021		Day 31st	Month March	Year 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name[Townhill Baptist Church (Swansea) ]

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1148030

Powys Avenue

Townhill Swansea Postcode SA1 6PH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1	John Idris Baker	Deacon		Church Members’ Meeting
2	Andrew Trevor Brown	Deacon and Treasurer		Church Members’ Meeting
3	Allan David Rees	Senior Elder		Church Members’ Meeting
4	Robert Geoffrey Wellington	Elder and Secretary		Church Members’ Meeting
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name	Dates acted if not for whole year
Sarah Jane Bunce

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Independent Examiner	Mr Philip Tamlyn	10 Gower Street, Llansawel, SA11 2SW

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Unincorporated association How the charity is constituted

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed by Church Members’ Meeting Trustee selection methods

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

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.

The existing trustees are responsible for the recruitment of new trustees but in doing so the trustees seek the views and recommendations of both elders and deacons.

In selecting new trustees, we seek to identify members of the church who are willing to volunteer their time and effort. Potential trustees are invited to attend trustees’ meetings as observers and are given more details of the charity’s aims and activities and, if all agree, they are then proposed as new trustees at the subsequent trustees’ meeting. The process allows due consideration of the person’s eligibility, personal competence and specialist knowledge/skills.

Following appointment, new trustees are introduced to their new role and given copies of the trust deed and a guide to the policies and procedures adopted by our charity. Several publications from the Charity Commission are also provided including the guidance on charities and public benefit and on the advancement of religion for the public benefit. This ensures that

new trustees are aware of the scope of their responsibilities under the Charities Act.

The trustees have assessed the risks the charity faces and keep these risks under review. An annual health and safety check is carried out looking at the activities and premises of the church and all employees and members working with children have current Disclosure and Barring Service checks and Child Protection training as part of our Child Protection Policy.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The objects of the Church for the public benefit are to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs appearing in the Schedule hereto in Swansea and in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Church may from time to time think fit and to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales and are connected with the charitable work of the Church.

The church is committed to engaging with the community with the message of Jesus Christ. We use our building to provide a wide range of activities to benefit the community. To facilitate this community work, we look after and maintain our council-owned building. Our activities as a charity take account of the Commission’s guidance on public benefit and the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. We seek to know God more in our lives through prayer, praise, reading and applying God’s Word (the Bible) and to see people come to faith in Jesus Christ and to know Him more in their lives. The church buildings provide many activities of benefit to the public. In addition to our regular Sunday services and weekly prayer meeting and Bible study, we also have a weekly club for children from Reception to Year 6 and a bi-weekly youth club open to children from Year 6 to Year 13. A toddler group runs once a week and is open to all children and their carers from the community. Looking back over the year (April 2021-March 2022) The pandemic continued to have an impact on the children’s work, and we were unable to resume face to face activities until September 2021. Since our return, the outreach to younger youth has moved from a Wednesday to a Friday evening. TheFriday Fun Clubhas not been as well publicised as we would have wished as schools rightly still had restrictions on visitors. However, we have made a good start with 30 children having attended during the last six months of the year. The children have enjoyed craft sessions, Games, singing, dancing, and most importantly been able to hear the Christian gospel clearly presented.

Townhill Toddlers returned to church in September 2021. Prior to this we were unable to meet due to the COVID restrictions. Prior to opening our doors again we compiled a risk assessment and a list of all the safety measures needed to minimise the risk of exposure to COVID for the carers and toddlers and the church workers, and we followed government guidelines in these areas.

Since reopening we have had many children and parents, grandparents and carers coming through the doors. They found the isolation of COVID hard with such young children and have expressed their relief at having a toddler group to attend. During the toddler sessions we have play, singing, snack and craft. We held Easter and Christmas parties with gifts for the children and parents. We do not charge anything for our toddler group, but we took a collection for Samaritan’s Purse so that as a toddler group we could buy some chicks and bees for a developing nation.

The Friday Youth Group started the year with almost all church children but now youth from the Hill come regularly. It can be a challenge to meet the wide range of needs for the group, but this is taking shape and developing. The games are fun and enjoyed by the youth and it’s a great opportunity to share the good news of the gospel with this age group.

In February 2020, we started the Good News group , a monthly inclusive service for adults with additional needs. We held two meetings, attended by a total of seven adults with additional needs before lockdown. We have maintained contact with some of these adults during lockdown.

As a church, we seek to be positive about disability inclusion. We are linked to the Roofbreaker project run by the Christian disability charity ‘Through the Roof’ whose main aim is 'transforming lives through Jesus with disabled people'. Kerry and Phil Tamlyn are the church Roofbreaker contacts, seeking to be available to discuss any disability issues and find solutions. For example, a boy with additional needs was struggling to cope with Sunday school classes: a new rota was set up to provide 1:1 support and a withdrawal area with bean bag/sensory tools. As a result, he began to positively engage with Sunday school classes again.

During lockdown, Kerry and Phil attended zoom events with Roofbreakers from around the UK discussing how churches can effectively support people with disabilities during/after the pandemic. We hope to resume our Good News Group where people can connect with each other over cake, listen to a simple accessible message about Jesus and join in inclusive worship. The church has been added to an online map on the Through the Roof website so that disabled people looking for a church are able to find us and make contact about their needs if they would like to visit/attend.

During the year we set up a food bank which operates every Saturday morning delivering to up to 10 homes and, over the year we have been able to help 94 people. We have set up collections of surplus foods from Tesco and Greggs; we are registered with the environmental health dept with a 5-star food hygiene rating. These collections were augmented through grant funding which allowed us to purchase staple foods from a local supermarket providing a good, rounded, food parcel to those in need.

We have continued to support families and homes we relate to by:

• Helping with home decorating

• Support to apply for benefits

• Support dealing with housing and helping people get settled

• Support for the vulnerable, in conjunction with the local authority.

• Help applying for jobs

• Help to understand and complete training courses to maintain employment

• Support to attend hospital appointments

• Making doctors’ appointments

We also continue to support the community and liaise with other agencies on the Hill.

Anne Rees has been greatly encouraged with the progress of all the students in English lessons despite not being able to meet at the church. Lessons have been conducted on a one-to-one basis over the telephone. This has proved to be far more effective than teaching them together, considering their varying degrees of ability. Some have opted for audio only, while others have enjoyed Facetime. Either way has been successful.

The Ladies’ Bible Study has taken place on Zoom on a weekly basis, which has catered for a small number of ladies, which is understandable as it is during the day when many ladies are at work. The ladies that attend find it helpful, particularly as it includes a time to pray for one another and share our personal issues and encouragements, which in turn edify and build us up in the faith.

This Youth Bible Study is held fortnightly using Zoom and is attended by the youth of the church, although it is open to all interested youngsters. The youth find it difficult to engage and we look forward to being able to meet again in person. Nevertheless, the young people have continued to come, which is positive.

The church building

The church carried out a much-needed upgrade to the audio-visual system in the church building and this has been a great help as we’ve emerged from the pandemic restrictions and are now able to hold hybrid events with people in the church building and simultaneously taking part on Zoom or watching on YouTube. As we hope to return to some kind of normality, we seek new organisations who are compatible with our aims and who would like to hire our building thus extending our services to the Townhill community.

Missionaries supported

We are very grateful to God that we can share in the work of the missionaries we support by prayer, email communication and finance.

We continue to support a range of missionaries and their organisations during this year through prayer and financial support. We receive regular newsletters from most of them. Much of the work has been constrained by pandemic restrictions, but the work of these dedicated people has continued in a significant measure.

In addition to the newsletters, we were greatly encouraged by our Zoom visit from our Romanian missionary, which was greatly enjoyed by us all.

This has inspired us to invite other missionaries to join us on Zoom, and it is really pleasing to know that most have accepted, for which we thank

God. It is thrilling to anticipate talking to someone we can see and communicate with, whom we have been supporting for years.

Two of our missionaries have very recently finished serving overseas. We look forward to catching up and finding out what new path God will be leading them on, having faithfully led them this far.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Much of the work in our church is carried out on a voluntary basis. We give thanks to God that he has provided many gifted people to work in the church and we continue in prayer for more workers.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

• The church currently has 22 members and between 20 and 50 people regularly come to our Sunday Services including children from the community. A core group of 20 children come to our children’s club each week, 8-15 teenagers enjoy the youth club and between 10 and 20 children come to Townhill Toddlers.

During the past year as we along with other organisations looked to recover from the effects of the pandemic, we were able once again to hold the following outreach events.

• At Easter we held a service called ‘Finding Life’ . Families and contacts were invited to join us in worship in person or online. Gifts were delivered to families known to us and 500 invitations distributed.

• On Bonfire Night we put together 500 goody bags for children who came to see the fireworks. Each bag contained a postcard highlighting that we seek to reach out to the community with the gospel.

• At ‘Carols at Christmas’ we provided families known to us with a box of sweets and an invitation to join us at Christmas and again we sent out 500 invitations to homes around the church.

The Lord has enabled us to maintain a presence in the community during a difficult time, we have been able to respond to the needs of families and individuals, and more importantly been able to share the good news of Jesus Christ.

• The church has continued to implement its Child Protection Policy and all those working with children have up to date DBS checks and receive training from the Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) in Child Protection.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

• Overall, the church posted a small surplus this year (our receipts exceeded our payments by £744).

• Our Special Reserve is set at half our annual spending, so for the new 2020/2021 financial year it will be set to £27,500. This is for real emergencies e.g. significant building repairs, loss of ongoing donations if a number of members were to leave at the same time, or if there was a significant change in financial circumstances of several members. By maintaining this reserve, the church can continue its work for some time whilst dealing with serious financial pressures such as these. When we spend part of the special reserve we need to set the budget in following years to restore it.

• Our General Reserve for the coming year will begin at around £36,450. The General Reserve funds such things as maintaining the manse, the minibus, the church laptop, the dishwasher, church chairs and the church projector.

• The reserves of the church mean that the church doesn’t face a crisis if there’s a major expense such as replacing the heating system or the church roof, and also provides funds to take advantage of short-term opportunities.

• As in previous years, we will also maintain at least £2000 in our current account to ensure we are always in credit.

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.

• The church has seen a significant fall in regular donations compared to last year. Gift Aided donations are unchanged in the 2019/2020 financial year, but donations made to the collection box have fallen again this year, this time by about £1850. We continue to be able to claim tax back on donations received in the collection box via the government ‘Gift Aid on Small Donations’ scheme which amounted to £7647.31 last year.

• We have not received any income from hiring the church building or the manse this year. The rent for the manse is usually about £4000 p.a.

• We received a small amount of money this year from the sale of the old minibus.

• Low interest rates continue but, due to higher balances, interest received on bank balances is slightly higher than the previous year. Interest rates are currently expected to remain low.

• The church has received no grants this year.

• We continue to employ our Community Worker who has used his initiative well to engage with the community as detailed above.

Section F Other optional information

Having suspended face to face meetings before being obliged to do so at the start of the pandemic, and having established successful online meetings, the church adopted a cautious approach to reopening in person. Four main considerations were in play:

1 The remaining formal restrictions. Initially we were required to maintain distancing,

record attendance for contact tracing, use face coverings where possible, use hand sanitiser, and avoid eating and drinking or extended social gathering before and after services. As the restrictions were eased the emphasis shifted from compliance with the rules to a need for judgment about what was reasonable and safe.

2 Judgment & proportionality. We exercised this judgment according to our

understanding of advice on the changing risk locally from time to time and with a sense of proportion, mindful of changing use of distancing and face covering in other settings

such as schools, workplaces and shops. With the increasingly clear evidence on airborne transmission, we initially used open windows to maintain airflow and then added air filtration to minimise the risk while reducing the discomfort and cost of heat loss from open windows.

3 The advantages of remote meetings. We knew that some attendees were more vulnerable and were keen to continue to attend remotely rather than returning in person. We also knew that during the pandemic there were people attending online who were new to the church and who might for various reasons feel unable to attend in person. We therefore chose to maintain an online presence for all meetings, and decided to reopen in person only once we had equipped the building with the equipment to support hybrid meetings – that is, meetings which are held in person but also shared online.

4 A phased approach. Still facing some uncertainty about what was safe, we decided to restart activities one at a time so that we could learn at each stage before moving further. In person Sunday morning services started first in April 2021, then some youth activities. Sunday evening services and midweek prayer meetings remained online only for the time being.

We’re grateful for everyone’s patience and for the hard work behind the scenes to make these steps possible, and above all we’re grateful to God for the safety and freedom we’ve experienced as we look forward to returning to a fuller range of activities.

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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)

Date

Townhill Baptist Church (Swansea)

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1148030
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Receipts and payments accounts

CC16a

For the period 1st April 2021 31st March 2022 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £

A1 Receipts

A1 Receipts
Donations and legacies
Donations andgrants	50,362		2,595		-		52,957		59,325
Other trading activites
Buildings Hire	-		-		-		-		-
Buildings Rent Received	-		-		-		-		-
Other income
Vehicles - Sales	-		-		-		-		-
Investments
Interest Received	9		-		-		9		121
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	50,371		2,595		-		52,966		59,446

Sub total(Gross income for AR)	,		,					,		,
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
Sub total	-		-			-		-		-
Total receipts	50,371		2,595			-		52,966		59,446
A3 Payments
Expenditure on charitable activities
Activities(Sundays & Midweek)	1,616		-		-			1,616		500

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

02/07/2022

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Activities(Kids Club)	98		-		-		98		-
Activities(Townhill Toddlers)	479		-		-		479		-
Activities(Youth)	47		-		-		47		-
Activities(Special events)	775		-		-		775		298
Activities(Mission)	4,405		595		-		5,000		6,565
Activities(Food Bank)	-		1,703		-		1,703		-
Activities(Food)	8		-		-		8		-
Activities(Licencing)	168		-		-		168		-
Activities(Misc)	-		-		-		-		-
Activities(Accommodation)	-		-		-		-		- 90
Financial HardshipAssistance	523		-		-		523		-
Salaries(CommunityWorker)	14,008		-		-		14,008		10,598
Salaries(Pastor)	3,219		-		-		3,219		12,343
Training	-		-		-		-		-
Other Payments
Administration Fees	567		-		-		567		489
Advertisingandpublicity	914		-		-		914		270
Buildings Fixtures and Fittings	-		-		-		-		-
Church Insurance	883		-		-		883		810
Manse Insurance	321		-		-		321		296
Church Maintenance	2,063		-		-		2,063		3,290
Manse Maintenance	4,815		-		-		4,815		217
Bank charges	-		-		-		-		-
Church cleaning	1,120		-		-		1,120		880
Cleaningsupplies	70		-		-		70		33
Electricity (Church)	282		-		-		282		271
Electricity (Manse)	193		-		-		193		82
Equipment Maintenance(General)	-		-		-		-		6
Equipment(General)	7,499		1,000				8,499		270
Gas(Church)	2,159		-		-		2,159		624
Gas(Manse)	137		-		-		137		- 111
ICT Hardware	20		-		-		20		1,394
ICT Software	169		-		-		169		387
Internet - Connection	431		-		-		431		456
Internet - Hosting	96		-		-		96		103
Legal costs	278		-		-		278		743
Publications	-		-		-		-		-
Stationeryand Supplies	32		-		-		32		48
Telephone	-		-		-		-		-
Vehicle - Purchases	-		-		-		-		-
Minibus Fuel	15		-		-		15		30
Minibus Insurance	1,001		-		-		1,001		978
Minibus Maintenance	1,793		-		-		1,793		1,059

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

02/07/2022

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Minibus Tax	165		-		-		165		165
Council Tax(Manse)	3,086		-		-		3,086		2,977
Water(Church)	147		-		-		147		143
Water(Manse)	136		-		-		136		4
**Sub total **	53,739		3,298		-		57,036		46,130

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	-		-		-		-
	-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	-		-		-		-		-
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
									46,130
	- 3,367		- 703		-		- 4,070		13,316
	-		-		-		-		-
	76,283		1,000		-		77,283		-
	72,916		297		-		73,213		13,316

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories

B1 Cash funds

B2 Other monetary assets

Gift Aid Cash Details Deposit Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Current Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Unrestricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Restricted funds to nearest £	Endowment funds to nearest £
	169		-		-
	42,499		297		-
	30,248		-		-
	72,916		297		-
					OK
					Endowment funds to nearest £
Gift Aid	7,414				-
	-				-
	-				-

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

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-		-		-
-		-		-
-		-		-

B3 Investment assets

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

B5 Liabilities

Freehold property Minibus Toys Laptop Details Details Football equipment Church library Audio/Visual equipment Details	Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates	Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - 12,165 1,500 800 500 3,000 5,750 - - Amount due (optional) - - - - -	Current value (optional)
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			-
			-
			-
			-
			Current value (optional)
			-
			4,866
			150
			640
			50
			50
			4,600
			-
			-
			When due (optional)
		-
		-
		-
		-
		-

CCXX R4 accounts (SS)

02/07/2022

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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature	Print Name	Date of approval

CCXX R5 accounts (SS)

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs port on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Townhill Baptist Church On accounts for the year ended 31" March 2022 Charity no (if any) Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust-) for the year ended Responsibiliti83 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 20111.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 14515){b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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 a￿ord with the accounting records Independent examlner's statsment I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should 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. Slgned: Date: 2110711 Name: PHILIP JAMES fA(n UY•K) Relevanl professional qualificationlsl or body (if any): Address: I C) GcxJ)ER 5TREEr 6RifoM FEK IER October 2018