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Charity Registration No. 1154100 (England & Wales)
Charity Registration No. SC044708 (Scotland)
BETHEL SOZO UK
TRUSTEES REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD
1ST JANUARY 2023 TO 31ST DECEMBER 2023
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BETHEL SOZO UK
LEGAL AND ADAIINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Trustees
Mrs Chrtstine West
Mrs Paige Squirrel
MT5 Deborah Carter (Chair)
Charity numbers 1154100 (England & Waies) sc044708 (Scodand)
isterod Office
Mlllerfs Barn
Church Farm Mews
Stslham
Norfolk
NR12
United Kingdom
Telephone 07918 973937
Emall dawd.
8OZthO
Website vhww.bethels
zo.o
.uk
IndeF¢ndent Examir*
DS Audrl & Book-kfjeping Services
32 Newton Abbot Road
Northflèet
DA117DT
Bankers
CAF Bank Ltd
25 Klngs Hill Avenue
Kings Hill
West Mailing
Kent ME19
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CONTENTS
P•Je Number
Rwrt ol the Tn
Staten*nt of tru¥tees' r88powbil*
Independent Exaninw8 Rekvt IEThJland & Iwasl
10
Independent Ex8rrirws RerK)rt Iscolandl
11
Receipt & PayJYKnts A¢))xJnts
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Statement otAssets & L￿bil￿oeS
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Bethel Sozo
Trustees Re
rt for 2023
Charitable Context
Bethel Sozo UK was e8tsblisheA 05 a registered charity in 2013 wilh the d)ariiabk o*'e¢ts
• Promoting & supportiro the BSUK le*ler8hip communty.
• Training and mentsxing Indi¥￿Uals & thurrj
. DistritrMJticM of rdevwrt tsairMrwJ resour
It does this by..
. Carrying OLrt personal sozo ministy 8ession8
. OrganN8ing onwing Training events
• Provision of training & develownent resour
. Supp)rting other chatthes
The public benefit is.
• More cohespie communty relatronships
• Healthy family manter relationships
. Help F￿￿48 with controlling issues
Activities
As GhurGhg5 have recovered from meeliro restrictson8, the apFebk for live training events
has retumed,
8aslc Tralnln
Our trainers Contin￿ to deliver Basic Training events in tre UK and I￿se are the most
powlar events.
Plymouth
Copenhagen. Denmark
Sl Step￿.8, Nomch
Lighthouse, London
Coventy Elim
Darrell & Anthea Cow)
Chrtstine & DavKI West
February
May
May
Christine & DavKI West
Cmstine & David West
June
ChriS￿ne & Da¥wJ West
July
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Eastgale churth. Grav95erffl
s￿land
christi￿ & David W88t
July
Ab50n Lennie
Septemter
October
Ashington church. Charthnbury
NPSSM, StLKktoTrorFTee5
Wrthester Vin8yard
Chrtstkne & DavKI West
Christine & Dawd W8St
October
Claire & Mervyn Suffield
Advanc•d T Inln
Sale
Lry Gr8gg
Christne & Davpj West
May
July
S8Ptembar
Colchester
Nethedand¥ ts"ointty with T Liet¥sch8r)
Chrislin8 & David West
Oth•r"Evants"
Church Leadership Téam# Davvj & Chrisline have met with various church & other
leadership teams regarding Sozo. Occaslonally have visited a church to gNe the
1&gdership team personal Sozo sessions.
Their attendan￿ at church, ministry events typicaly resutt in offeriryJ Sozo 8e8sions in the
context of those gatherings.
David & Chri#tin8 minister li a wKle of settirvJs aTra Sozo (named or anonymous)
inevilably happens.
Healin
Rooms ( y1￿￿.healIr*4ToornS.¢xg.uk )
Christine & Dav￿ were invited to run 2 8eminars at their 2thJ3 Conferen￿ in March. Tl
were again invrted to SFe3k, this time at tsir Le*rship c0ntsr8￿e in NovemL*r arKI are
5chgdu18d fcf th8ir 2024 c(Mference in April.
David's Tent
net
We have taken a Sozo team to thk8 evert for several y•ar8. Lisa Wckham once again put
logethw a team that continues to delrver increasing numbets of 80ZO Sessions over the
weekend. R8qU8St's for Sozo sessions far ex￿eded our Capacity desprte the organisers
provhjiry increased1fr8el s* aside tents. Davhl & Christine especially are well eM￿ded
W￿1h the DT kadership team and were invow in a lot of personal ministy lo leadership
over the weekfjnd. This was the Lasl year that Lisa will oversee the ministry @ DT.
The change of lo&ition to Malmstrxjry requires ne* leadershi>. Mark & Laura Russell will
lead the team for 2024, hopefully ongoing.
￿ent￿ft P
rams
These varied events give wactsboners OPFKJrtunty to wat*1￿ arkd get instant fe8dback
Such programs SignifiCan￿Y ao2leTate P￿FIe,5 competence and builds ￿￿r￿lenCe.
TypiGally, there wouhd be mentoring athty * I￿al & region￿ team meetings, both °live" &
online. Some of these be "one oif meetings. Others wouhj be a moTe structured
program wnning over 88veral conse(>Jbve evenir¥Js.
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Sozo b Zoom
As ￿VIOUs￿ reFortsd. these CCAttinue to be very popular and by air accounts are very
effe￿1Ve. While they will not suit everyone. they are definitely a pemlanent part of ths Sozo
landsca￿ going fornard. unintended 8ffec* ts that UK practitiows ar6 regularly d￿ng
online Sozo sessions with ddegates from overseas- geography is not an ithiLytor for online
sessions. Such overseas appoinknents are nTh¥ commonth.
Assoclated Minlstrles
Financrdl Sozo - Lry Gregg Contin￿ to steward Finanaal Sozo. accounlabk to
Sl&ve Desifva. Muth of her related trainirg harv8ns on14ne.
Sozo for Cou
les, Darrell & Anthea Cocup and Liz Gregg contlnue to devglop th18
associated ministy. They have delivered training se￿OnS txrth IN9 and online.
Liz Gregg of Kingdom minisir￿ arKI Tania McNeil of Chroma church
Birmingham have run occasional Art Sozo W￿.
Children's Sozo Tandy Ruoff Contin￿ to provide leadership and in discussion
Sue Elliott (global Children's Sozo) ha5 WTitten & pulA18l￿d the r*w book. 'Sozo for
Families..
BSUK Nati
I COnfWe￿ 202
This year we went back to our"roots". retuming to the thurcth venue we hekl our first
nat￿nal UK l EuroFean cOnferen￿- New Life Churth, NorthamFlon.
We rthrned to the preV￿u5 format wrth each SFeaker addrèssing all tslegates. The onty
exceptson was Iwo specialist breakout sessions for those doiro the Shabar ministy & trained
l training counsellorn.
In addition to a range of UK sp8cialists, speakers were Tere5a L￿b$c￿er & Margaret Nagib
Itolh from the USA) as weFI as Paul Mamyariw from the UIL
We had excellent feedbad( from nearty 21)0 attendees who apkYeu*ed the irfomialty and
the'¢afé" seating $￿e. While this may seem like a small dwNJe, r( made a great drfferen
lo bèiro sealed in rows. PeO￿e mad8 more and better cOr￿￿c*"0nS wrth eath other-
consistent with our high value for a Guliure of famify. We were Etth hO$￿able & generous lo
all concemed for makn.ng rt a 8UCLX88. the unseen I￿r0e5. Financially the cOnfe￿nce broke
èven.
rnationall
This continue5 to grcw both personally & tyganisationalty.
Since doing Sozo ty Zoom ap￿IGabQ￿ fr￿ people overseas for personal Sozo session8
continu&8 to grow. Most Weeks Chrr5tne *ryll Sozo someone frMI outSKle the UK
Over the years Christien & David have run Sozo trJiniThJ evenls in Poland. Swilzedand,
Neth6Tlar￿S and Denmark. At Teresa Liebscherfs request tw are providing 8UPPOrt to
those countries & emergiroly to Swed￿.
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Product sales continue to be modest ￿1th the exwtion of manual s*s al training events.
All income is gfj￿rat￿ by produrt I manual salets.
We have laken cost sav1￿ in areas suth as,.
Travel exFenses
* Management costs.
We wlll continue to monitorfin8n￿ dosety." do not have brfftmryro faciffities and nor
would we want them.
The approved a￿O￿nts for 2023 arp attached to thr6 Report
How extensive is the minlst ?
We are frequenlty a$￿J, 'Thow many churthes have Sozo ministy7'. th8 artsv•V is
hav8 no idea"
Sozo 1$ a church-based ministy.. the UK leadership train. mentor and off thurch team
leaders as comwent. Afterthal, they are CL¥nmissioned bytheir own thurch leadership and
they 8wie accwrrtable to that le*rship.
The UK leadership only W fomially invofv8d wrth Ioc81 thurth teams by eX￿ptiOn, when
invited or when they become aware of an wue Ihat neèds to te addressed. We work hard
at not being "controlling" or rterfering"
The Sozo rknrk ift the UK corrtIn￿ to not only grow ixrt be h8atthy. Sozo is certainly
worknng in hundreds of UK thUrctr￿ from just abcmrt every dgnLYnination & stream. We have
Tnaintained our active mailing lffjt in oxcess of 3.300 peoFA8 ￿711 in r•om8 way be
involved In Sozo.
The fiijit of the ministy is ¢kep, ev•Jent and la8tirKJ for ¢ountless hundreds of here in
the UK, te8timonie5 abourKI. We are grateful to our Hea¥enty Faher, je￿ and Holy S￿"r11
for this freedom for which we were set free.
Signed on Behalf of Trustees.
Chair of Tru5t888'. 1)ebornh Carter ..
..Da8...l.0￿2O24
Trustee.. Pafvaa Squirr611 .......
-Date.IlJ...•l.12024..
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TATEMEKf OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILMES
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEhlBER 2023
The trustees preserrt their report arKI accourts forthe y8¥wiod 1st January
to 31st December 2023.
The aoxunts have te8ft FKepared in act￿On￿ With the
accourrting poliue8 set out in the SL*ment of RecommerKled
Prachce 'Accwnting and ReFOrting by Charitses- issued in
March 2CIJ5.
Structure Governan￿ and M
The charity is registered numter 1154100 in EnglaThJ & Vlal8s and tEglstered numker
SC044708 in Scotland incorwrated 2&d Odoter 2013.
Trustse8 are appointed by eommrtl* in al%￿￿ with
the constitLrtion. SuitatAe training is provided.
The Iruslees have assessed the major risks to whlth tr* tharity is exposed
and are sakn'sfied that Sy8tems are in ￿ace to mitigale exposure to major risks.
We have a council of refererKe.'
John PUg￿SMIthIBarrtster, Anglican thurch)
Ruth Bumham (LIcen￿d Lay IAinister in the Angfican ethurch)
R8v Mark Ruoff {Anglican Minister)
This team understand & support the min*ty their role is athiisw onty. They serve 8$
referen* poirrt for the leadership team & trustees as and wthen they fad the rleed to
Canvass a perspedive from a wider group.
ank%atronal Stru
The charity is Jed on a daY-t￿daY basis by Christs'ne West arKI Da¥KI Wesl.
members of the UK Bethel Sozo ￿adershiP team. They consult wilh the
Tnislees & Coune41 of Reference indivpjualty & corporatety as and when
requlred.
For the public benefft to •fvancethe Christian reiigion in particajlar by promoting and
$upporting the development. education and training of the UK Sozo Leadership
Community, Individua￿ and churth groups. The carying out of the per¥onal Sozo
Ministy session and prc*JucirvJ andlor distributing literatu￿.
Financial
The unrestrit#ed fttrxl sho**d a loss for the pwiod of £145.
Risk Man
ement
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The trustees have assessed the ma4tt rtsks to thè charity is exposed
and are satisfied that sy*ms are in place to mthgate expcwreto majorrisks.
eserves
Fixed costs are minimal in the ￿lon rf £120 per month insurance and
one contra(A5. The trustees seek to maintain tets￿n 3 months res
as a conlingency.
On tehalf ofthe board oftru8tees
Deborah Carter- Ch&r of Tru
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Independent Examiners R•port- (England & Wales)
BEfHEL SOZO UK
31$1 Decembei 2023
Cl• 11541Ch)
12To13
06101110l(k
DENNIS EDWARD SCUDDER
DS AUDIT & 800K-KEEPING SERVICES
AddF•4•:
32 NEwfoN ABBOT ROAD, NORTHFLEEf, KENT DA117DT
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Independent Examiners Report- IScotland}
Indgpondent Examlnerfs Report to th& TA￿l￿e6 of Beth•l Sozo UK- SC044708 IS¢otlandl
I report on the acco￿lts offhe charity for the year e￿1￿1 31* DeCem￿r 2023 which are set out
on pgges 12to 13.
Regpectlve respon$lbllitl•s of tru3tees and examlner
The (4)artys trust￿ are re¥M)r¢sible for Ihe prepar*ion ¢)f the alxounts in accordance with the
terms of the Chariknes and Trustee Inv8stsnent {Scotlandl Act 2rAJ5 and the Charibe5 Accounls
(Scoland) Règulatiorts 2006 {as amended}. The charity trustees consdw1hat the audit
requir8ment of Regul*ion 10{11 (dl of the 2(KJ6 A￿Ounts Regul*"ons does not appty. 11 is my
responsibilty to examine the accounts a8 required under set*"on 44(11 (c) of th8 Act arKI to state
whether particular matters have come to my attenllon.
Basis of independent examSneV8 Staternent
My examination i8 carri8d Olrt in accordancèwth R￿Ulation 11 ofthe 20118 Accounts
Regulattons. An examination indudes a rewew of ts acC￿nting records kept by the charity and
a comparison of the accounts presented wilti those w￿r￿s. It also inclutles consideration of any
unusual items or disdosures in the accounts. and seeks eXi￿ana￿onS from the tsustees
con￿mIng any such matters. Th8 procedures undertaken do not provhle all the evTrdence that
would te requi(￿ in an au¢Jrt and ojnsequenty I do ￿t express an audrt opinion on the v
givgn by the accounts.
Independent examlnefs quaiifwl statement
In the Course of my exaffinalion. no matter has coffE to my attention.
whith gNes me r8ason8ble cause to telieve that in any Matori￿ res￿ the ￿qUIrements..
to keep accounting ￿ordS in ac(a)rd￿￿ wilh Secthn 4411) (a} of the 2005 Act ark
Regulats"on 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
to prepar8 atxounts which ac￿rd wrth the ac¢ountirvJ records and compty with
Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regul8tr'L)ns
have not been mèt, or
2. to which. in my oynion. attention thould be dravm in orderto enable a proper
understsndirrfJ ofthè actounts to be reaGW.
Signed."
Name.. Dennis Ethvard Scudder
DS Audit & Book-keeping Services
Address.'32 N&Yton Ab￿ Road, Norlhfleel, Kent DA117DT
Date. CLI 02 liol
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BETHEL SOZO UK
RECEIPT AND PAY￿NT ACCOUNT
FOR THE PERIOD FftOII 1 JANIIARY 2023 TO 31 OECEiiaER 2023
01m1ra723
TO
RECEIPTS
01K1112022
31112Q023
31112WJ22
CONFERENCE, PRODucf AND SHIPPING
DONATIONS RECEIVED
GIFT AID RECLAIMED
REIMBURSED EXPENSES
OTHER INCOME
INTEREST
34313
4819
1115
1467
113
12948
1270
262
63
45
TOTAL RECEIPTS
418n
PAYPIEfrrrs
DIREcf CHARITABLE AcnvmES
AUTHOR ROYALTIES
PRODLicf RELATED
CONFERENCE EXPENSES
GIFTS GIVEN AWAY & HOSPITALrrY
ADMINISTRATION COSTS
TRAVEL AND SUBSlSfENCE
IT AND WEBSITE
INSURANCE AND FINAN￿ COSTS
720
20
5140
23863
1058
1569
1599
2751
853
2129
18
2939
2355
211
TOTAL PAYIEKrs
14594
pl￿ INCOIE OR LOSS-
-145
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BETHEL SOZO UK
STATEMEKf OF ASSESTS AND LIABILMES AS AT 31ST DeceMBER 2023
31n2r2023
3111Z12022
CASH FUNDS
CASH AT BANK AND IN HAND
TOTAL BANK CASH FIJNDS
201
201
346
THE ACCOUNTS WERE APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRu￿EE5 ON
01
DEBORAH CARTER
PAIGE sauiRRE
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