2021-03-31-accounts - Manor Park Evangelical Church

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Manor Park Evangelical Church

Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021

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Managing Trustees’ annual report	1 - 4
Receipts and payments accounts	5
Notes to the accounts	6
Independent Examiner’s report	7

Registered Charity No. 1154885

Manor Park Evangelical Church Report of the Managing Trustees For the Year ended 31 March 2021

The Managing Trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2021

1. Legal and administrative information

Church address

C/o 2 Vernon Park Road Worcester WR2 4NF

Governing documents

Church Constitution (November 2009) revised in May 2013. The Church was registered with the Charity Commission on 5 December 2013, registered Charity number 1154885. The Church is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC, registered Charity number 263354).

Managing Trustees

Roy Summers – Pastor, salaried Mike Loveridge – Assistant Pastor, salaried Steve Mitchell – Elder (Chair) Mike Wilson – Elder (Treasurer) Brendan Scanlon – Elder John Coleman – Elder

Independent Examiner

Alison Bevins MICB BA(Hons) Ichthus Bookkeeping Limited 30 Barley Crescent, Worcester, WR4 0HW Institute of Certified Bookkeepers Registered Practice 20015

Principal Banker

Barclays Bank Plc 54 High Street Worcester WR1 2QQ

2. Structure, Governance and Management

Trustees and membership

The government of the Church is vested in a body of Elders (including Pastors) who are the Managing Trustees of the Charity and who are appointed by a two-thirds majority vote in a Church Members Meeting. Unsalaried Elders serve for three years and then are eligible for re-election, which is by a two-thirds majority vote in a Church Members Meeting.

Membership of the Church shall be open to such persons who profess the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith and have satisfied such other requirements as have been specified in the Church Rules.

The Elders meet on a regular basis to consider their spiritual oversight of the Church and their other responsibilities as trustees. When new Managing Trustees are appointed, they are provided with the information about the role of trustees and Charity law.

Remuneration of Managing Trustees

The Church Constitution makes provision for certain Elders to be remunerated: (Paragraph 10) “ The Minister, any assistant Minister(s) and a church administrator of the Church appointed in accordance with the Church Rules may receive reasonable compensation for carrying out their duties as office holders and/or employees notwithstanding that they are or may be Managing Trustees of the Church.”

All Managing Trustees may receive reimbursement for reasonable and proper expenses incurred in carrying out their duties.

Responsibilities of Managing Trustees

Charity law requires the Managing Trustees to prepare accounts for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity. In preparing these accounts, they are required to: -

Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently.
Make adjustments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent.
Prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in operation.

The Managing Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Charities Acts. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. The Managing Trustees confirm that the accounts comply with the current statutory requirements.

Risk management

The Managing Trustees have identified and considered the major risks to which the Charity is exposed. They have put in place procedures to manage these risks and these include a robust child protection policy.

3. Objectives and Activities

The objects of the Charity are the advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with its Basis of Faith primarily but not exclusively within Worcester and the surrounding neighbourhood and such other charitable activities as shall, in the opinion of the Managing Trustees further the work of the Church.

The Managing Trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance in considering our aims and activities during the year.

The Charity’s key aims are the adding of new believers, engaging with the local community to present the claims of Jesus Christ and the building up of existing believers. These are delivered and supported by a wide range of activities run by the Church and are detailed on our website.

Regular worship services are held each Sunday where preaching and teaching of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ takes place alongside worship, prayer and testimony. These services are fully open to the public and various ways of publicising these services takes place. Regular and systematic ministry of God’s Word is undertaken, not only in Sunday services but also through home groups that meet weekly, various discipleship groups and youth events. These activities are held with the hope and expectation that new believers will come to a personal and living faith in Jesus Christ and that those who already believe will be built up and discipled. God-given gifts are encouraged to be put to use in serving God and one another, both in practical and spiritual ways. The Church strongly believes in planting new churches in other areas, as the Lord adds to the number of believers.

Various outreach activities are also undertaken to serve the wider community by way of children’s and youth groups, engaging with internationals, student support, production of a discipleship magazine, various outreach missions from time to time and providing support for those in need in numerous ways.

4. Review of the year

For all of the year covered by this report the activities of the Church were very much limited by the Covid Pandemic and various periods of lockdown, during which we were not able to meet at the school or carry out any activities that required us to meet in person.

Instead the activities of the Church were carried out on line using various tools such as Zoom and YouTube, including Sunday morning services, Weekly Home group meetings, Prayer meetings, Weekly socials, Business meetings, Teaching seminars and Youth Group. These all proceeded as per the previous Church timetable.

Manor Park Church continued to be based at Dines Green Primary School, led by a team of Elders and Deacons ending the year with a formal membership of just over 90 and a Sunday morning congregation of around 120, although at times over 200 were watching the service on YouTube. The Church has successfully maintained these numbers through the whole period.

This work was led by two full time Pastors, Roy Summers (Lead Pastor) and Mike Loveridge (Assistant Pastor) who carried out the main work of running services, preaching and teaching, ministry to the congregation and engagement with the local community.

Our Church Administrator Russ Young (originally appointed in May 2017) continued through the year to assist the Pastor and Trustees with administration jobs on a one day per week basis.

Because of the pandemic, outreach activities were limited through the year. We maintained contact with local community, especially families known to us, through the periodic and personal distribution of ‘Bags of Hope’ containing useful or entertaining items and literature. We are hoping that this will keep contacts open for when our families outreach is able to resume.

5. Financial review

The general fund income for the year of £126,330 was sufficient to cover the general fund expenditure of £121,707 leaving a surplus of £4,623. The total cash balances at the yearend were £65,775.

Monthly income was steadily maintained through into 2021 and the increase in cash balance for the coming year is forecast to be £4,500

6. Policy for distributing gifts

The Managing Trustees have a policy that a sum of circa £12,000 from the general fund is budgeted for missionary support and other charitable giving. The decisions as to which individuals and organisations are to be supported by this sum require the approval of the Managing Trustees and this is reviewed regularly.

7. Plans for future periods

The Elders will continue to seek God’s plans for the future development of the Church and intend to continue to remain true to Scripture and its teachings in any future work that is undertaken.

8. Independent Examiner

The Managing Trustees have voted to appoint Alison Bevins as our independent examiner for 2020/21

This report was approved by the Managing Trustees on 10 January 2022 and signed on their behalf by:

Mike Wilson, Trustee

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Receipts and Payments Accounts
for theyear ended 31 March 2021

					General	Restricted	Total
				Note	Fund	Funds	Funds
2019/20					2020/21	2020/21	2020/21
£					£	£	£
	Receipts:

26,307	Offerings				17,775	-	17,775
95,306	Offerings subject to Gift Aid				86,229	-	86,229
26,456	Tax recovered under Gift Aid				20,539	-	20,539
148,069	Total offerings			2	124,543	-	124,543
5,000	FIEC grant				-	-	-
5,027	Church Activities				1,426	-	1,426
1,398	Sundry income				305	-	305
186	Interest receivable				56	-	56

159,680	Total receipts				126,330	-	126,330

	Payments:

6,568	Rent				1,685	-	1,685
180	Equipment & setting up				4,714	-	4,714
856	Catering				83	-	83
52	Worship				-	-	-
1,672	Outreach				2,955	-	2,955
316	Young church				-	-	-
176	Explorers & 3D				53	-	53
236	Youth work				360	-	360
413	Holiday Bible Club				-	-	-
519	Messy Church				-	-	-
235	Website				287	-	287
102,185	Payroll				80,788	-	80,788
-	Recruitment				-	-	-
358	Bank charges				79	-	79
2,516	FIEC affiliation fee				2,179	-	2,179
924	Ministry (internal) and training				-	-	-
110	Speakers'expenses				-	-	-
6,313	Church Activities				106	-	106
-	Welfare				-	-	-
1,178	Administrative costs				638	-	638
1,338	Licences, legal and professional				957	-	957
320	Independent examiner's fee				280	-	280
974	Insurance costs				472	-	472
27,222	Gifts made			2 & 3	25,712	-	25,712
533	Evangelism				360	-	360
-	Other				-	-	-

155,194	Totalpayments				121,707	-	121,707

4,486	Excess of receipts over payments			4	4,623	-	4,623
56,666	Cash funds at beginning of year				61,152	-	61,152
61,152	Cash funds at end ofyear			5	65,775	-	65,775

The Accounts were approved bythe ManagingTrustees on							and
signed on their behalf by:





		Trustee


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Manor Park Evangelical Church	Manor Park Evangelical Church	Manor Park Evangelical Church	Manor Park Evangelical Church
Notes to the Receipts and Payments Accounts
for theyear ended 31 March 2021

1	Accounting Policies
	The Accounts are prepared on a receipts and payments basis.

2	Restricted funds - Receipts& Payments
			2020/21	2020/21		2019/20	2019/20
			Receipts	Payments		Receipts	Payments
	Purpose of gift received:		£	£		£	£
	Warndon Church Plant		-	-		-	-
	Full Time Worker		-	-		-	-
	FIEC Grant		-	-		-	-
			-	-		-	-
	The Good Soil Trust		-	-		-	615
	Destiny Rescue		-	-		-	-
	Asst Pastor Relocation Fund		-	-		-	-
	Morning Star		-	-		-	-
	Compassion UK re Idalis		-	-		-	885
	Gaines Christian Youth Centre		-	-		-	312
	Cedar Tree Worcester		-	-		-	-
	Individuals (-)	(2020: 0)	-	-		-	-
			-	-		-	1,812

	Total		-	-		-	1,812

				2020/21		2019/20
3	Gifts made (from general fund)			£		£
	The Good Soil Trust			-		2,000
	Morning Star			1,300		1,300
	Gaines			500		-
	Open Doors			500		300
	Barnabas Fund			100		400
	Slavic Gospel Association			250		-
	Ukraine			250		-
	Cedar Tree Trust			250		300
	OMF			-		250
	Destiny Rescue			2,000		600
	Community Church Warndon			15,000		10,841
	Individuals (5)	(2020: 5)		5,562		9,419
	Total			25,712		25,410

4	Movement in cash balances		01-Apr-20	Increase	31-Mar-21
			£	£	£
	Bank deposit account		16,310	7	16,317
	CAF 90 Day Deposit A/c 2		28,603	49	28,652
	Bank current account		16,239	4,567	20,806
	Total cash		61,152	4,623	65,775

5	Movement in funds
			General	----------------Restricted Funds--------------			Total
			Fund	Church Plant	FTW	Other	Funds
			£	£	£	£	£
	At 1 April 2020		61,152	-	-	-	61,152
	Income		126,330	-	-	-	126,330
	Expenditure		(121,707)	-	-	-	(121,707)
	At 31 March 2021		65,775	-	-	-	65,775


6	Debtors & prepayments					31-Mar-21	31-Mar-20
						£	£
	Gift Aid Claim for income in year					1,734	2,209
	Rent, insurance, subscriptions and licences prepaid					1,428	1,694
						3,162	3,903
7	Creditors & accruals					31-Mar-21	31-Mar-20
						£	£
	Creditors					2,863	3,530
	Received in advance					-	-
						2,863	3,530

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Independent Examiner’s Report on the Accounts

Report to the Trustees of Manor Park Evangelical Church on the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021 set out on pages 5 and 6.

Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act), and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair” view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiners statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act;
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or
(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed

Date

Alison Bevins MICB BA(Hons) Ichthus Bookkeeping Limited 30 Barley Crescent Worcester WR4 0HW