2024-03-31-accounts - Manor Park Evangelical Church

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Manor Park Evangelical Church

Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024

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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 - 8

Manor Park Evangelical Church Report of the Managing Trustees For the Year ended 31 March 2024

The Managing Trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 31 March 2024

1. Legal and administrative information

Church address

C/o 4 Fountain Place Worcester WR1 3HW

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 Wilson – Elder (Chair) Brendan Scanlon – Elder John Coleman – Elder Peter Jelfs – Treasurer Gwilym Batchelder - Elder

Independent Examiner

Ian Jarvis (FCA MBA) Vertis Accounting Limited, Independence House, 16 Queen Street, Worcester, WR1 2PL

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 the Lead Pastor) 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

Manor Park Church continued to be based at Honeywell Primary School, Worcester, led by a team of Elders and Deacons ending the year with a formal membership of just over 70 and a Sunday morning congregation of around 140.

This work was led by full time Pastors Roy Summers (Lead Pastor), and Peter Oram (Trainee Pastor, appointed 1[st] May 2022) who carried out the main work of running services, preaching and teaching, ministry to the congregation and engagement with the local community.

On 1st January 2023 we also appointed our part time paid intern Nathan Gray to become a second full time Trainee Pastor to support specific ministries of the church such as music, youth and student outreach.

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 part time basis.

Outreach activities continued to be a key focus for the church. We ran a Holiday Bible Club in the summer holidays for the local children, to supplement our weekly outreach to children in the form of Explorers (primary age children) and Trailblazers (secondary age) as well as our Sunday evening meetings for church-based youth. Various other activities were also run through the year, with quizzes, Christianity Explored courses and guest services. A weekly ministry to the elderly was maintained, based at a neighbouring residential home.

5. Financial review

The general fund income for the year of £130,500 was not quite sufficient to cover the general fund expenditure of £161,350 leaving a deficit of £30,850. However, this was as budgeted and total cash balances were sufficient to cover this. At the year-end these were £59,703.

While we continue to employ a second Trainee Pastor (until May 2025) a deficit of £20,000 per year is expected. A specific decision was made to use some of our cash reserves for this purpose.

6. Policy for distributing gifts

The Managing Trustees have a policy that a sum of 10% of income received (~£13,000) is budgeted for mission 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 Ian Jarvis, Vertis Accounting Limited, as our independent examiner for 2023/24

This report was approved by the Managing Trustees on 14/10/24 and signed on their behalf by:

Mike Wilson, Trustee

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Receipts and Payments Accounts
for theyear ended 31 March 2024

					General
				Note	Fund
2022/23					2023/24
£					£
	Receipts:

27,872	Offerings				20,068
78,236	Offerings subject to Gift Aid				80,119
19,723	Tax recovered under Gift Aid				19,159
125,831	Total offerings			2	119,346
-	FIEC grant				6,000
3,187	Church Activities				4,014
24,011	Sundry income				551
151	Interest receivable				589

153,180	Total receipts				130,500

	Payments:

6,920	Rent				7,911
9,850	Equipment & setting up				1,515
551	Catering				311
864	Outreach				2,469
649	Young church				753
631	Explorers & 3D				200
133	Youth work				367
612	Students				1,317
498	Holiday Bible Club				455
321	Seniors				169
279	Website				327
97,838	Payroll				115,487
155	Bank charges				144
1,980	FIEC affiliation fee				2,712
1,960	Ministry (internal) and training				3,176
160	Speakers'expenses				155
3,930	Church Activities				4,320
1,182	Administrative costs				1,208
1,132	Licences, legal and professional				966
120	Independent examiner's fee				120
516	Insurance costs				540
8,490	Gifts made			3 & 2	16,728

138,771	Totalpayments				161,350

14,409	Excess of receipts over payments			4	30,850 -
76,144	Cash funds at beginning of year				90,553
90,553	Cash funds at end ofyear			5	59,703

The Accounts were approved bythe ManagingTrustees on 24th October 2024
and signed on their behalf by:
			Barclays Deposit		9539
			Barclays Current		20974
			CAF Deposit		29190
					59703

		Trustee
Mike Wilson


The Accounts	were approved bythe ManagingTrustees on 24th October 2024
and signed on	their behalf by:
			Barclays Deposit	9539
			Barclays Current	20974
			CAF Deposit	29190
				59703

		Trustee
Mike Wilson

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Notes to the Receipts and Payments Accounts
for theyear ended 31 March 2024

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

				2023/24		2022/23
2	Gifts made (from general fund)			£		£
	Operation Mobilisation			1,200		1,200
	Morning Star			1,300		1,300
	Gaines			4,000		-
	Open Doors			1,000		-
	Slavic Gospel Association			250		250
	Cedar Tree Trust			300		250
	Worcester University CU			200		-
	Gilgal High School			-		1,000
	Individuals (3)	(2023: 3)		8,478		4,490

	Total			16,728		8,490

3	Movement in cash balances		01-Apr-23	Increase	31-Mar-24
			£	£	£
	Bank deposit account		16,354	6,815 -	9,539
	CAF 90 Day Deposit A/c 2		28,786	404	29,190
	Bank current account		45,413	24,439 -	20,974

	Total cash		90,553	30,850 -	59,703

4	Movement in funds
			General
			Fund
			£
	At 1 April 2023		90,553
	Income		130,500
	Expenditure		(161,350)

	At 31 March 2024		59,703















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