## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/01/24 To 31/12/24**
**Charity name: Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon**
**Charity registration number: 1154845**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purposes of the church shall be:**
**(1) The advancement of the Christian**
**faith in accordance with the basis of**
**faith primarily but not exclusively within**
**Gorseinon and the surrounding**
**neighbourhood: and**
**(2) such other charitable purposes as**
**shall, in the opinion of the members of**
**the church in a church meeting, further**
**the work of the church.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Worship services twice each Sunday.**
**Weekly evening meetings for youth and**
**primary school children in term time.**
**Weekly morning meetings for mothers**
**and toddlers in term time. Prayer**
**Meetings/Bible Studies weekly. Weekly**
**Coffee Mornings. Support for Christian**
**workers at home and abroad.**
**Participation in community annual**
**Lantern Parade. Engagement with local**
**schools.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the Charity**
**Commission guidance on community**
**benefit.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
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||Para 1.38||
|Policy on grant making|||
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||Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment|||
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|investment|||
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Sunday Morning and Evening services**
**each Sunday, open to all.**
**Weekly Monday Club in term time, for**
**younger children: average attendance**
**was 9.**
**Weekly Youth Meeting in term time:**
**average attendance was 10.**
**Weekly meeting for mothers and**
**toddlers in term time: average**
**attendance was 15 children plus an**
**adult for each.**
**Weekly Coffee Morning, open to all:**
**attendance varied from about 15-30.**
**Prayer Meeting/Bible Study/Missionary**
**Meeting every Tuesday, attended mainly**
**by church members.**
**Members continued to donate to local**
**food banks.**
**Participation in the annual Lantern**
**Parade, providing refreshments and**
**literature.**
**School visits – 2 schools visited the**
**church at Harvest (September) and 2 at**
**Christmas.**
**We continued to support 3 families**
**doing Christian work, 2 abroad and one**
**working from the UK. We also started**
**support for one family in Poland.**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You maychoose to include further statements where relevant about:|||
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
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|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|**Please see Auditor’s report.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We do not have a formal policy on**
**reserves. They are monitored by the**
**Treasurer and at each Officers meeting**
**and Members meeting.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£112,532**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Voluntary donations from members and**
**other attendees.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Spare funds are held in an interest**
**bearing account.**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Members elected as deacons**
**automatically become Managing**
**Trustees.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**All incoming Managing Trustees are**
**required to read the relevant**
**documents, and to attend (whenever**
**possible) the regular Managing Trustee**
**meetings.**|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon|
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|Other name the charityuses|-|
|Registered charitynumber|1154845|
|Charity’s principal address|Bethel Evangelical Church
West Street
Gorseinon
Swansea
SA4 4AA|
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||Derek Dennis|Deacon and
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||Martyn Keane|Deacon and
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||Samuel Reeve|Deacon|||
||Keith Vine|Deacon|||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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|**Derek Dennis**|||
|**Martyn Keane**|||
|**Samuel Reeve**|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets Not applicable. held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Keith John Vine **Position (eg Secretary,** Deacon and coordinator for **Chair, etc)** Trustees Annual Report **Date** 11 September 2025
## p-Ee5 CHARITY COMMISSION | Independent examiner's report on the | Wie) FOR ENGLAND AND WALES | accounts
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Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees | a ; } Og |
| Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon |
On accounts for theended year 31December 2024 | Charityno| 1154845 SC
(if any) | |
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- | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust’) for the year ended “+
- Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
| 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, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
- examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
| have no concerns 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 understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Signed: | s-Penta4—~ | Date: | 19/06/2025 |
Name: |SKKeith sss
qualification(s)Relevant professional FCCA.SO |
or body |
| Enterprise Park, Swansea
1 Oct 2018
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## Disclosure.
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon ~ 1154845 2024 Accounts ¥/E 31 December 2024
## Receipts & Payments Account
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|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Last|
|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Year|
|Al|Receipts|
|Collection|£19,556.11|£19,556.11|£14,289.00|
|Direct Credit|£39,957.00|£39,957.00|£38,515.00|
|Gift|£715.00|£715.00|£4,560.00|
|Inland|Revenue|- Gift Aid|£11,423.15|£11,423.15|£10,911.11|
|Other income|£2,364.00|£2,364.00|£120.72|
|Interest|£1,905.72|£1,905.72|£1,387.25|
|£75,920.98|£0.00|£0.00|_£75,920.98|_£69,783.08|
|ee|
|A2|Asset &|Investment|Sales|0|0|0|
|Total|Receipts|£75,920.98|£0.00|£0.00|£75,920.98|£69,783.08|
|A3|Payments|
|Business Expenses|£15,493.15|£15,493.15|£11,259.01|
|Charitable|donations|£0.00|£0.00|£100.00|
|Cleaning|£1,914.01|£1,914.01|£2,443.99|
|Evangelism|£1,924.81|£1,924.81|£1,355.25|
|Good|news|club|£597.87|£597.87|£516.93|
|Missionaries|£7,938.00|£7,938.00|£3,861.00|
|Other ministers|£1,170.00|£1,170.00|£4,300.00|
|Pension|Payment|£3,116.00|£3,116.00|£2,791.94|
|Salary|Pastor|£23,042.39|£23,042.39|£15,163.46|
|Stationary|£170.12|£170.12|£91.09|
|Subscriptions|£0.00|£0.00|£370.42|
|Taxes|Paid|£4,954.24|£4,954.24|£2,967.12|
|Domestic|bills|£6,470.41|£6,470.41|£4,338.95|
|Youth|Work|£264.43|£264.43|£234.85|
|Funeral|expenses|£589.84|£589.84|£626.47|
|Pastorial fund|expenditure|£8,623.55|£8,623.55|£1,713.14|
|Mothers & Toddlers|£78.55|£78.55|£0.00|
|Sunday School|£81.89|£81.89|£0.00|
|£76,429.26|£0.00|£0.00|£76,429.26|£52,133.62|
|A4|Asset &|Investment|Purchases|
|Audio|Equipment|£838.20|£838.20|£0.00|
|Computer|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|
|£838.20|£0.00|£0.00|£838.20|£0.00|
|aNN|NN|eT|
|Total Payments|abt|267.46|S000|£0.00|_—£77,267.46|_|£52,133.62|
|Net of receipts/Payments|-£1,346.48|£0.00|£0.00|-£1,346.48|£17,649.46|
|AS Transfers between funds|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|
|A6|Cash Funds|last year end|£120,806.73|£0.00|£0.00|£120,806.73|£103,157.27|
|Cash|Funds This Year end|£119,460.25|£0.00|£0.00|£119,460.25|£120,806.73|
|Cash Movement|-£1,346.48|£0.00|£0.00|-£1,346.48|£17,649.46|
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## Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
## B1 Cash Funds
|Details|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|
|HSBC Account|£6,928.13|||
|Business money manager|£112,532.12|||
|Total|£119,460.25|£0.00|£0.00|
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| Bethel Evangelical Church Gorseinon |
On accounts for theended year 31December 2024 | Charityno| 1154845 SC
(if any) | |
dat auton pages | 5>; s—veinenrneecanoeeenene bible i i sienniaiiionieinanitin a |
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- | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust’) for the year ended “+
- Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
| 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, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
- examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
| have no concerns 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 understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Signed: | s-Penta4—~ | Date: | 19/06/2025 |
Name: |SKKeith sss
qualification(s)Relevant professional FCCA.SO |
or body |
| Enterprise Park, Swansea
1 Oct 2018
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## SectionB
## Disclosure.
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Give here brief details of ‘None — EE | any items that the | examiner wishes to | disclose. | | | | H | | **|** | i | | |
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## Receipts & Payments Account
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|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Total|Last|
|Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|Year|
|Al|Receipts|
|Collection|£19,556.11|£19,556.11|£14,289.00|
|Direct Credit|£39,957.00|£39,957.00|£38,515.00|
|Gift|£715.00|£715.00|£4,560.00|
|Inland|Revenue|- Gift Aid|£11,423.15|£11,423.15|£10,911.11|
|Other income|£2,364.00|£2,364.00|£120.72|
|Interest|£1,905.72|£1,905.72|£1,387.25|
|£75,920.98|£0.00|£0.00|_£75,920.98|_£69,783.08|
|ee|
|A2|Asset &|Investment|Sales|0|0|0|
|Total|Receipts|£75,920.98|£0.00|£0.00|£75,920.98|£69,783.08|
|A3|Payments|
|Business Expenses|£15,493.15|£15,493.15|£11,259.01|
|Charitable|donations|£0.00|£0.00|£100.00|
|Cleaning|£1,914.01|£1,914.01|£2,443.99|
|Evangelism|£1,924.81|£1,924.81|£1,355.25|
|Good|news|club|£597.87|£597.87|£516.93|
|Missionaries|£7,938.00|£7,938.00|£3,861.00|
|Other ministers|£1,170.00|£1,170.00|£4,300.00|
|Pension|Payment|£3,116.00|£3,116.00|£2,791.94|
|Salary|Pastor|£23,042.39|£23,042.39|£15,163.46|
|Stationary|£170.12|£170.12|£91.09|
|Subscriptions|£0.00|£0.00|£370.42|
|Taxes|Paid|£4,954.24|£4,954.24|£2,967.12|
|Domestic|bills|£6,470.41|£6,470.41|£4,338.95|
|Youth|Work|£264.43|£264.43|£234.85|
|Funeral|expenses|£589.84|£589.84|£626.47|
|Pastorial fund|expenditure|£8,623.55|£8,623.55|£1,713.14|
|Mothers & Toddlers|£78.55|£78.55|£0.00|
|Sunday School|£81.89|£81.89|£0.00|
|£76,429.26|£0.00|£0.00|£76,429.26|£52,133.62|
|A4|Asset &|Investment|Purchases|
|Audio|Equipment|£838.20|£838.20|£0.00|
|Computer|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|
|£838.20|£0.00|£0.00|£838.20|£0.00|
|aNN|NN|eT|
|Total Payments|abt|267.46|S000|£0.00|_—£77,267.46|_|£52,133.62|
|Net of receipts/Payments|-£1,346.48|£0.00|£0.00|-£1,346.48|£17,649.46|
|AS Transfers between funds|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|£0.00|
|A6|Cash Funds|last year end|£120,806.73|£0.00|£0.00|£120,806.73|£103,157.27|
|Cash|Funds This Year end|£119,460.25|£0.00|£0.00|£119,460.25|£120,806.73|
|Cash Movement|-£1,346.48|£0.00|£0.00|-£1,346.48|£17,649.46|
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## Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
## B1 Cash Funds
|Details|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|
|HSBC Account|£6,928.13|||
|Business money manager|£112,532.12|||
|Total|£119,460.25|£0.00|£0.00|