Registered Charity No. 1150478 


## St.Neots Evangelical Church 

## Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements 

For the year ended 31[st] March 2021 

www.snec.org.uk 

## Registered Charity Number: 1150478 

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## **Contents** 

Legal and Administrative Information ................................................................................................................ 3 Managing Trustees’ Report for the Year Ended 31st March 2021.................................................................... 4 Objectives and activities for the public benefit ............................................................................................... 4 Structure, governance and management ...................................................................................................... 4 Review of Activities & Achievements ............................................................................................................. 5 Sunday Services ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Youth and Children’s Work ........................................................................................................................ 6 Reaching Out with the Good News of Jesus Christ ................................................................................... 6 Building up One Another to Live for Jesus Christ ...................................................................................... 7 Training One Another to Serve Jesus Christ ............................................................................................. 8 Sending Out Workers for Jesus Christ ....................................................................................................... 8 Staff Team & Membership ......................................................................................................................... 8 Health & Safety .............................................................................................................................................. 9 Financial Review ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Financial Statements ................................................................................................................................... 10 Annual GDPR Report .................................................................................................................................. 14 Annual Safeguarding Report ....................................................................................................................... 15 Declaration ................................................................................................................................................... 16 

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||**Legal and Administrative**|**Information**|
|---|---|---|
|**Charity Name:**|St.Neots Evangelical Church||
|**Charity Number:**|1150478||
|**Principal Address:**|Cambridge Street,||
||St.Neots,||
||Cambs||
||PE19 1PL||
||www.snec.org.uk||
|**Managing Trustees:**|Mike Kendall|Paul Slater|
||Caleb Saunderson|Richard Vennelle|
||Geoff Selley||
|**Independent Examiner:**|Brian Kelly, FCCA||
||346 Grace Way||
||Stevenage||
||SG1 5AP||
|**Principal Bankers:**|CAF Bank Limited|HSBC|
||25, Kings Hill Avenue,|5, High Street,|
||Kings Hill,|St. Neots,|
||West Malling,|Cambs.|
||Kent.|PE19 1DE|
||ME19 4JQ||



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## **Managing Trustees’ Report for the Year Ended 31st March 2021** 

## **Objectives and activities for the public benefit** 

The objects of the Church are: - 

1. the advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith primarily but not exclusively within St Neots, Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area; and 

2. such other charitable purposes as shall, in the opinion of the Managing Trustees, in consultation with the members of the Church, further the work of the Church. 

The church is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. 

As a church we exist to glorify God by 

- Reaching out with the good news of Jesus Christ 

- Building up one another to live for Jesus Christ 

- Training one another to serve Jesus Christ 

- Sending out workers for Jesus Christ 

When planning the activities of the Church for the year, the Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. 

We have continued to seek to freely share the good news of the Christian faith with all people in St. Neots and the surrounding area, with a desire to see people become disciples of Jesus Christ and grow in their faith in him.  We are committed to teaching the Bible and prayer and desire to help Christians to grow in their faith and to live lives of love, which seek to do good to all. 

The church continued to organise activities during the year in support of its objectives and for the public benefit.  The Covid19 pandemic had a significant impact on our ability to physically meet and run the usual activities.  However, online platforms and other approaches helped the church to continue to operate in many ministry areas. These included Sunday services for all ages, midweek homegroups, ladies Bible study groups, regular weekly meetings for children and youth, regular meeting for older people, language classes and Bible studies for internationals, drive in services and outreach videos and interviews.  We also had a desire to see the Christian faith grow in other areas and countries and to this end we supported Christian work and activities in the UK and abroad through our mission partnership team. 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

The church is unincorporated and is governed by its constitution.  A new Church constitution was adopted on the 17th July 2012 and registration with the charity commission was confirmed on the 14th January 2013.  Prior to this the church had been treated as an excepted charity under legislation at that time due to its affiliation to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC).  The managing trustees are responsible for the management of the affairs of the church and consist of the elders and pastor.  New elders are appointed according to the Church’s statement of current practice.  Proposals for new elders are made by the existing managing trustees to a business meeting of the church members.  Two months are given for the church to prayerfully consider the proposed individual and to provide feedback. If the elders 

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then feel that it is right to proceed with the appointment, a formal recommendation will be brought before the Church at the next business meeting.  Upon appointment, a period of association with the Eldership will take place before the new Elder is formally set apart. 

There were no changes in Managing Trustees during the period covered by this report. 

The Managing Trustees who have held office during the period from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021 are set out on page 3. 

## **Review of Activities & Achievements** 

## **Sunday Services** 

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government restrictions had a significant impact on our normal Sunday services.  From the 22[nd] March to the 2[nd] August gatherings in the church building were not possible at all.  For the rest of the year a booking system and social distancing measures were necessary to comply with government guidelines, allowing a controlled number of people to attend services in the building. 

In the light of these restrictions’ morning services were streamed on YouTube throughout the year.  This enabled those who had been attending before the pandemic to watch the services but also allowed new people to access them.  Recordings of the livestreams were made available on the church’s YouTube channel providing further opportunity to reach a wider group of people. 

The normal Sunday groups for pre-school to year 8 children were not able to be run but the monthly all age service was continued through the year. 

As the normal opportunities for after service refreshments were not possible a Zoom alternative was held each week after the Sunday morning service.  This gave people the opportunity to catch up and share with one another both as a larger group and in smaller virtual breakout rooms. 

An innovation tried in the autumn term was the use of drive-in services.  Longsands Academy kindly allowed the church to use their carpark for these monthly services.   People were able to watch and listen from the secure environment of their vehicles with audio provided via people’s smartphones.  Typically, around 30 household groups booked into these services and they allowed some who were not comfortable meeting back in the building to still be physically present at a service. 

As people returned to the building in the autumn and spring terms it was encouraging to have a number of new people to the church attend services.  Numbers were restricted by social distancing with typically 20 to 30 people physically attending morning services in the autumn and 30 to 40 people in the spring term. Congregational singing was not permitted in the building but on Christmas day the church car park was able to be used to allow socially distanced carol singing outside. 

Morning communion services and an evening meeting were conducted virtually using Zoom.  There were encouraging numbers at both these services with some who had previously not regularly attended joining, particularly those with young families. 

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## **Youth and Children’s Work** 

During the year the church ran a number of activities specifically for children and teenagers.  A full-time youth worker was employed by the church to work among young people. 

**Little Fishes** : Prior to the pandemic this parent and toddler’s group was held on three days a week during term time, with typically, 40 children (plus parents/carers) attending each session.  During the year this was not able to be run due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

**Groups for primary school age children:** The normal Explorers (Infant school years) and Gap (Junior school years) groups were not able to meet in person in the summer term but online alternatives on Friday’s were introduced after half term.  In the autumn term these groups were able to restart meeting in the church building with careful adherence to the government’s social distancing guidelines. In the spring term Covid19 restrictions meant these had to return to online meetings.  The groups sought to teach Bible truths in age-appropriate ways and to provide fun activities. 

**Groups for secondary school age young people** :  In the summer term Attic café, on Friday evenings changed to an online Zoom meeting.  Similarly, the normal 10-24 Bible study groups on Monday evenings also met virtually.  In the Autumn term groups were able to restart again in the building with a single Monday evening meeting.  Government guidelines were followed with socially distanced ‘bubbles’ consisting of 15 or less young people + leaders in each one.  In the spring term Covid 19 restrictions again meant that virtual groups on zoom had to be used instead of meeting in the building.  A single 10-24 group was held on Friday evenings and an ‘Open House’ group aimed at the older young people was held on Sunday evenings.  These various online and face to face groups combined opportunities to study the Bible together, to pray as well as time to chat and participate in fun activities. 

**Sunday groups** : The normal groups, providing age-appropriate Bible teaching during the family services were not able to run.  However, activity and sermon sheets for children and teenagers were provided to help them to engage with the online Sunday morning service. 

A planned youth weekend, secondary school age young people, was not able to take place but an alternative single day of activities and Bible teaching was able to be held in October at the Frontier Centre in Northamptonshire. 

## **Reaching Out with the Good News of Jesus Christ** 

The church continued to seek to share the good news of the Christian message with the people of the town and surrounding area.  The Covid19 pandemic had a significant impact on some of our normal activities: 

**Internationals:** a ministry with the aim of providing friendship, advice and help to international people in the local community.   The previously held regular café style meetings were not able to take place, but weekly conversation classes and Bible studies were able to continue online. 

**Special needs ministry:** JAM (Jesus and Me), a provision for adults with special needs was not able to meet. 

**Prison ministry** :  the previous bi-monthly participation in Sunday morning services at Littlehey prison was not able to take place. 

**Good Company Café:** the weekly café style meeting on Friday mornings for older people in the community was not able to meet in the church building but an alternative online version was run instead. 

**Soularium:** This visual evangelism tool was planned to be used again for outreach in the town centre but these had to be cancelled. 

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However, a number of online and other new initiatives aimed at reaching out to others with the good news of the gospel were able to happen: 

**‘Can God fix the world?’** : In the summer term an outreach week was run with a series of videos and interviews.  A new one was released each day on YouTube and the church family were encouraged to share these via social media. 

**Advent readings:** in the run up to Christmas a series of 24 Bible readings by church families were released on YouTube. 

**Real Lives:** In the spring term a series of interviews with church members were created in which they shared the difference being a Christian made in their lives.  These were made available on the Church’s YouTube channel. 

**‘How Easter changed my life’** : In the run up to Easter a series of seven short video interviews with church members were released on YouTube 

**Carols by Car Light Service:** two carol services were held as Drive in services at Longsands Academy.  An open top double decker bus was hired to act as a stage for those taking part. 

**‘Acts of Kindness’ month:** in March the church family were encouraged to do acts of kindness for their neighbours and friends. 

Through the involvement of its members the church also actively supported a number of other Christian based organisations including ACTIOS (Assisting Christian teaching in our Schools), Higher Cambs Youth Mission, the local Foodbank, and Good News for Everyone (formerly known as Gideons). 

## **Building up One Another to Live for Jesus Christ** 

Systematic Bible teaching was provided during the main Sunday services including series in Acts, 1 Timothy, Luke’s’ gospel, stories Jesus told (parables from Luke’s gospel), Proverbs, the New City Catechism (monthly all age services) and a short series in Mark’s gospel leading up to Easter. 

The online Sunday evening meetings were used in a number of different ways with opportunities for different members to share their Christian experience in the ‘new normal’ and in their working lives in a series called ‘this time tomorrow’.  There was also Bible teaching with talks on Romans 12, Isaiah 9, a series looking at various pastoral issues entitled ‘where to find help when’ a short series on the Cross of Christ in the lead up to Easter and a meeting looking at ‘Coronavirus and the Sovereignty of God.’ 

A church prayer meeting was also held once a month on Sunday evenings as well as a number of joint online meetings with Kingfisher and Christ Church Cambourne churches. 

Homegroups played a key role in providing support for the church family during the year.  Eight groups met via online platforms on a regular basis with the aim of providing pastoral care, help and spiritual encouragement.  Daytime women’s Bible study groups also continued to meet via Zoom. 

Virtual men’s breakfasts, women’s brunches and church family quiz nights were also held via Zoom. Covid19 brought limitations to normal Church life, however, pastoral care and support for one another was provided by members of the church family meeting for walks and other ways that were in adherence with government guidelines. 

A church weekend away planned for June was postponed due to the Covid19 pandemic. 

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## **Training One Another to Serve Jesus Christ** 

Although opportunities were limited by the Covid19 pandemic some training was able to be provided for church members and the staff team: 

- Mia Baumgartner, our church intern, attended TEAM, a weekly training course organised by the East Anglia Gospel Partnership. 

- Mike Kendall, our Pastor, attended an online FIEC Pastors’ Network Day Conference 

- Catherine Heath, our women’s worker, attended the online FIEC Thrive event for women in ministry. 

- A course for people interested in finding out more about church membership, called ‘Membership Matters’ was run with a number of people. 

- The leadership programme that was run with 12 members of the church was completed in July and a new programme with 12 different members started in September. 

## **Sending Out Workers for Jesus Christ** 

The Church set aside 15% of all donations for the support of missionary work.  During the year the Church provided support for missionary work in the UK, France, Moldova, West Africa, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. 

The church was in regular correspondence with the missionaries we support in order to be able to provide suitable help and to pray effectively for them.  This year Zoom was regularly used to hear from and meet with a number of our mission partners.  This was a great encouragement to both the church family and the mission partners.  The trustees have appointed a mission partnership team, made up of church members, to supervise this work and make recommendations to the elders with regard to the allocation of financial support. 

## **Staff Team & Membership** 

Mia Baumgartner, joined as a voluntary church intern in September.  Previously Mia had been a student at Capernwray Bible School during which she had visited us for a week-long placement in February 2020. 

Mike Kendall – Pastor of St. Neots Evangelical Church Richard Carding – Church Youth Worker Catherine Heath – Women’s Worker Jan Sim – Personal Assistant to the Pastor 

Alex Williams – Church Apprentice Mia Baumgartner – Church intern 

During the year the staff team undertook gospel related roles and speaking engagements outside of the church.  These included the Pastor chairing the East Anglian Gospel Partnership steering committee and being chairman of the FIEC trust board. 

At the beginning of the year there were 129 members of the Church.  This had increased to 134 at the end of March 2021.   Church members meetings were held via Zoom with generally increased attendance.  The annual covenant service at the start of January was also held online. 

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## **Health & Safety** 

During March 2020 the managing trustees and staff agreed a health and safety policy for St. Neots Evangelical Church. The aim of the policy is to provide and maintain safe and healthy working conditions, equipment and systems of work for our employees, casual labour and voluntary helpers. The trustees (elders) have overall responsibility for this and Richard Vennelle has been appointed as Trustee (Elder) with specific responsibility for the policy and its implementation. The St. Neots Evangelical health and safety policy, risk assessments and guidance documents are held centrally on a Google drive and the link has been circulated to church members who head up the various SNEC ministries. 

A risk assessment was drawn up for the church premises in March 2020, though many of the action points were put on hold with advent of COVID-19 lockdown. Several assessments of COVID-19 risks have been drawn up in relation to activities taking place on the church premises. A system of continual review is in place and risk assessments have been updated in response to changes to government guidance on COVID19 precautions. 

## **Financial Review** 

The general fund receipts during the year were 205,741 (up 9% on the previous year) with payments totalling £192,572 giving a receipts surplus of £13,169.  In addition to the general fund receipts a Hardship fund was set up during the year.  It was recognised that the Covid19 pandemic could lead to financial hardship for some people connected to the Church family and this fund was created to enable short term relieve to be provided in a timely manner as needs arose. Total receipts into this fund were £9,765 with £2,412 given to those in need of assistance during the year.  This combined with the general fund created a total receipts surplus of £20,522. 

The church’s income was mainly received through regular giving from members and friends of the church of which £138,142 were gift aided donations.  £30,761 was received in the year as a tax refund on gift aided donations to the general fund. 

71% of expenditure was spent on staff costs.  15% of the church’s income was set aside for the support of mission work outside of the church, of which £31,266 was used for this purpose in the year.  5% of the Church’s income was set aside for the upkeep of the building in the fabric fund.  During the year £10,476 was allocated to the fund and £6,227 was paid out for repairs and renewal of equipment. 

The net income and expenditure surplus for the year ended March 2021 was £12,689. 

The trustees have adopted a reserves policy of maintaining reserves at a minimum level of three months of staff costs.  This policy was achieved throughout the year under review. 

Mr Mike Kendall (Pastor) was employed by the Church on a full-time basis and is also a trustee. The remuneration of the Pastor is reviewed by the elders each year.  In accordance with the church’s constitution, the Pastor does not attend the meetings at which the staff pay reviews take place.  None of the other trustees of the Church received any remuneration from the Church during the year. 

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## **Financial Statements** 

||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (ifany)**|**No (ifany)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**St Neots Evangelical Church**|||||**1150478**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||1stApril 2020||||31st March 2021|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Tithes & offerings|**36,766**||**-**||**-**||**36,766**||**33,073**|
|Gift aid donations|**138,142**||**-**||**-**||**138,142**||**123,046**|
|Tax refunded ongift aid donations|**30,761**||**-**||**-**||**30,761**||**29,969**|
|Bank interest|**22**||**-**||**-**||**22**||**78**|
|Sundries|**50**||**-**||**-**||**50**||**2,557**|
|Hardshipfund|**-**||**9,765**||**-**||**9,765**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**205,741**||**9,765**||**-**||**215,506**||**188,723**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**||||||||||
||||||||||**-**|
||||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**205,741**||**9,765**||**-**||**215,506**||**188,723**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Staff costs|**137,952**||**-**||**-**||**137,952**||**134,235**|
|Missionary giving|**31,266**||**-**||**-**||**31,266**||**33,918**|
|Services|**11,746**||**-**||**-**||**11,746**||**12,664**|
|Books,stationary& sundries|**2,169**||**-**||**-**||**2,169**||**3,410**|
|Repairs & renewals|**6,227**||**-**||**-**||**6,227**||**4,723**|
|Supplies|**2,674**||**-**||**-**||**2,674**||**1,704**|
|Events &groups|**538**||**-**||**-**||**538**||**2,089**|
|Hardshipfund|**-**||**2,412**||**-**||**2,412**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**192,572**||**2,412**||**-**||**194,984**||**192,743**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**192,572**||**2,412**||**-**||**194,984**||**192,743**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**13,169**||**7,353**||**-**||**20,522**||**-              4,020**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**43,603**||**500**||**-**||**44,103**||**48,123**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**56,772**||**7,853**||**-**||**64,625**||**44,103**|



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

|**Categories**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|HSBC Accounts||**25,173**||**7,853**||**-**|
||CAF Accounts||**31,081**||**-**||**-**|
||Cash||**518**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**56,772**||**7,853**||**-**|
||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments<br>account(s))||OK||||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|Gift aid reclaim for 2020/21||**34,535**|||||
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs **||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|Baby grand piano|||||||
||Panasonic projector (PT-EX620LEJ)<br>~~with zoomlens~~|||||||
||<br>Rodgers W50 keyboard|||||||
||PA equipment, drum kit, chairs, TV<br>~~monitors~~|||||||
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs **||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|Church building, Cambridge Street,<br>~~StNeotsPE19 1PL~~|||||||
||<br>50% share of 41, Gordon Close, Little<br>~~PaxtonPE19 6PF~~|||||||
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Missionary allocation not yet spent||||**13,761**|||
||Fabric reserve||||**6,032**|||
||PAYE/NIC liability for March 2021||||**3,129**|||
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## **Annual GDPR Report** 

We are committed to the following from our data protection policy: 

- “An annual report on the level of compliance with or variance from good data protection practices will be produced by the Data Protection Compliance Manager” 

## **1. Actions taken towards good data protection practices** 

- Maintained ICO membership by payment of annual fee. 

- Advised on ad hoc data protection questions emerging during life of the church. 

## **2. Areas for future improvement** 

- Provide advice and update our position as new situations emerge in coming year. 

- Legitimate interest assessments were not updated as usual in May last year; several church ministries have since been able to resume more operations due to lifting of COVID restrictions. 

   - May 2022 hoped to be a good opportunity to work with ministry leaders to update our documentation as ministries (hopefully!) arrive at a more stable way of operating. 

- Consider more general training for church membership in the future, if we identify reasons to think it is needed. 

   - Changing COVID regulations over the last year have meant this would probably not have been well timed for general church membership this last year. Perhaps consider general training when the COVID situation is more consistently stable. 

For inclusion in annual SNEC report "Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements" 2021. 

Michael Newton Data Protection Compliance Manager 2 October 2021 

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Registered Charity No. 1150478 


## **Annual Safeguarding Report** 

In the course of our ministries, ‘St. Neots Evangelical Church’ (SNEC) undertakes a number of works with vulnerable adults and children. We continue to operate these ministries in line with our ‘Safeguarding Policy’ (SP) and with help and support from Christian Safeguarding Services (CSS) a national safeguarding advisory service. 

In line with this policy, we continue to check and recheck volunteer leaders both as a church and also with the DBS (where appropriate), securely store documents in line with GDPR and deal with any safeguarding issues that are raised in an appropriate manner. 

Our safeguarding team is currently comprised of Adrienne Dunn & Richard Carding as the SNEC safeguarding officers and Alastair Bond as our lead recruiter. 

This year as a church family we have decided to make safeguarding one or our areas to focus on. To this end, along with Kingfisher church Little Paxton who share a number of our policies and procedures we have contracted CSS to undertake an audit of our current safeguarding policy. Also, with the resumption of Sunday Groups we’ve instituted having an adult helper in each group. We’ve also managed to make our recruitment process paperless using google forms to streamline the process. 

In the year ahead, it’s our aim to conduct and then make changes and additions to our safeguarding in line with the CSS audit, particularly in the areas of how reviewing non group work with young people and vulnerable adults and having procedures and pathways for the rapidly evolving safeguarding category of ‘pastoral malpractice’ within our church family setting. We would also like to expand our safeguarding team from the current 3 persons as the area itself expands as well as clearly avoiding conflicts of interest. 

Rich Carding 

Youth & Children’s Worker 

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Registered Charity No. 1150478 


## **Declaration** 

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above 

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees 

**Signature Full name Position Date** 

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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
St Neots E￿ngelIcal Church
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For the perlod
To
1st
ri12020
315t March 2021
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
Total funds
Last year
to th& nèarost£
ioth• neart*£ to tho wrest£
to thp neare5t£
A1 Recelpts
Tithes & offeDngs
Giftaid donations
Tax refurtded on giftaid
Bank interest
Sundnes
Flardship fund
36.766
134142
30.761
22
33,073
123,046
29,969
7B
2,5S7
138.142
30,761
9.765
9.765
Sub total (Gmss income for
ARJ
3)5.741
215,￿6
18&723
A2 Asset and Investment sales.
(see table).
Sub total
205.741
9.765
215.506
188,723
A3 Payments
staff costs
Miswonary gi￿￿9
SeNiees
8DoKs. Sta(￿ary & ￿KIrieS
Repairs & renv*¥s
sup￿les
Events & grwps
Hardship
137.952
31,2fj6
11.746
1169
227
2.674
538
137,952
31.266
11.746
1169
6,227
1674
538
1412
194.984
134.235
33,918
12.664
3,410
4,723
1,704
2,089
2.412
1412
Sub total
1915T2
192,743
M Asset and Investment
purchases. Is8• tabl•l
Sub total
192,572
2.412
194,984
192,743
Net of receiptsl(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
13.169
7.353
20.522
4.020
43.603
.772
44,103
64.625
48.123
44.103
7,853
CCXX R1 accounts ISSI
17112r2021

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestrided
funds
to noarest£
Restracted
funds
to nearest£
Endowment
funds
to neatsst £
Catsgories
Details
81 Cash funds
25.173
3t,081
st8
Total Cash funds
56,772
7,853
(51)
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
fijnds
trj nearestÉ
Endowment
funds
to near•st£
Details
B2 Other monetary assets
Fund towhich
Cuwtentvalue
onal
Details
Baby graKI piatK>
Cost{optional)
B3 Investmont assots
P3nasonicwc4¥tr IPT.EX6WJI
PA equKrfwL thm TV
Fund to whKh
Details
txrililTWJ. CantxN*Je S
Cost loptionall
Currentvalue
B4 Assets retained for the
charity's own use
Fund to*hith
Afflount d
When dug
Detai15
BS Liabilities
13,T61
6.032
PAYEINIC LthlitytsktythZ)21
1129
S￿ne￿ by one ortWD trl￿teeS on
bohawof all the trustees
sIgna￿Te
Prmrt Name
Date of
roval
IF.Ii'ii
17.12-zl
CCXX P2 accour%ts ISSI
17112r2021

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report
on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Sf bJf•rS cli￿OL
On accounts for the year
ended
1 14k(LG4 2021
Charity no
(if any)
Set out on pages
to the pwJe nufnbets of addilional $hè8ts;.
I report lo the trustees on my examination of the ac(x)unts of the above
charity llhe Trust") forthe year ended
R¢sponsibilities and As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 1.the Acr).
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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5)(b) of the Act.
Independent rrhe charity's gross incame exceeded £250.000 and l am qualified to
examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of linsert name of
applicable listed bodyl]. Delete [ l rf not applicable.
I have Completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention lolher than that disclosed below "l in connection with
the examination which gives me cause lo believe Ihal in, any material
respect,:
the a¢xounb"ng records were not kept in ac(x)rdance with seclion 130
ofthe Act,. or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting ￿e0rds. or
the accounts did nol comply with the applicable requirements
con￿mIng Ihe fonn and content of accounts set out in the Charities
{Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accnunts give a 'true and fair. view which is not a matt8r
considered as part of an independent examinab'on.
I have no coricems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understandirrfj of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
1011
Name:
Relevant professlonal
qualificationls) or body
Irf any):
Fc£.A.
IER
October 2018

Address:
3 L CdlAQ LJA
Sr￿￿￿￿11fr&
s&1 s
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight matters of concem (see CC32.
Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for
examiners).
Give here details of any
items that the examiner
wishes to disclose.
IER
October 2018