South Hams Christian
Fellowship
shcf.kingsbridge@gmail.com www.south-hams-christian-fellowship.org
11[th] May 2021
Trustees Report for y/e 31[st] March 2021
The Trustees have met with the Leadership Team to review the activities, to receive the accounts for the year and to discuss plans for the forthcoming year.
The year past has been a year of change for SHCF, as with most of the world, due to the restrictions posed by the Government’s response to the Covid pandemic. The Fellowship has not been able to meet in person for services, house-groups or other activities and has had to maintain the ‘life’ of the Fellowship through Zoom services and by personal phone calls to support members.
Overall, although like most, we feel a little weary of this means of communication, we have seen the members of the Fellowship work hard to support each other, particularly caring those who live alone. Members of the Fellowship also volunteered to help in community service like the Kingsbridge Food Bank and to train as vaccinators for the application of the vaccine for Covid.
The accounts for the year were presented and accepted and it was noted that SHCF had maintained its intention of using incoming funds, that were not required to maintain the work of the Fellowship, in the support of Christian mission and relief both in the U.K. and across the world. This support amounted to 49.63% of total income.
It was also noted that the 2021 Gift Day in support of the ‘Chapel Project’ had raised an additional amount of approximately £16,000, inclusive of Gift Aid, and this amount was recorded as both Restricted and Designated Funds within the accounting records.
This year has seen the Fellowship progressing with the restoration, repair and refurbishment of the Chapel building in Kingsbridge and at the time of writing this report, the Fellowship is preparing to hold its first service there at the beginning of July with an ‘official opening’ at the beginning of September.
As with any project of this nature, we have experienced additional expense to that identified in the original survey. This has pushed up the costs of restoration to £365,000 but we have experienced great generosity of giving from both members of the Fellowship, the Trustees of the Chapel and the grant making trusts that we have approached and have gathered £336,000 at the time of this report. As a Fellowship, we are thankful to God for His provision thus far and are trusting Him for the remaining requirement.
The physical work on the Chapel has progressed, even during the ‘lock-down’ period, thanks to the efforts of Steve Bruce, our Principal Contractor, who has worked tirelessly himself and managed the trade contractors as they have come on site to do the specialist work – the Trustees recognise all Steve’s endeavours and thank him accordingly.
The Trustees are looking forward to the challenges of the coming year in respect of finishing the restoration work in the Chapel and are looking forward to a resumption of Fellowship life in the new premises once the building is completed and the Covid pandemic allows.
Signed on behalf of all the Trustees
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| South Hams | Christian Fellowship | Christian Fellowship | Christian Fellowship | Registered no. 1155568 |
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| Receipts and payments accounts | CC16a | ||||
| For the period from |
1stApril 2020 Period start date |
To | Period end date 31stMarch 2021 |
Section A Receipts and payments
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 10,740 6,050 50 4,429 21,269 0 |
Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 10,740 6,050 50 4,429 21,269 0 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ 625 10,000 12,700 100 171,545 10,592 2,000 8 3,416 210,987 0 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ 625 10,000 12,700 100 171,545 10,592 2,000 8 3,416 210,987 0 |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ 10,740 6,050 50 625 4,429 10,000 12,700 100 171,545 10,592 2,000 8 3,416 232,256 0 |
Total funds to the nearest £ 10,740 6,050 50 625 4,429 10,000 12,700 100 171,545 10,592 2,000 8 3,416 232,256 0 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Gen Fund - Gift Aided | 10,740 | 10,275 | |||||||
| Gen Fund - not Gift Aided | 6,050 | 6,295 | |||||||
| Gen Fund - Appeals | 50 | ||||||||
| Designated income | 593 | ||||||||
| Gen Fund - GA Tax return - fory/e Mar 2020 | 4,429 | 4,323 | |||||||
| Chapel Project - Gift Aided | 8,000 | ||||||||
| Chapel Project - not Gift Aided | 5,730 | ||||||||
| Sale of equipment | 690 | ||||||||
| Grants | 5,854 | ||||||||
| Chapel - VAT returns | |||||||||
| Chapel - GA Tax return fory/e Mar 2020 | |||||||||
| Interest received | 3 | ||||||||
| Depon window mnfctgreturned | |||||||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 21,269 | 41,763 | |||||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Sub total | 0 | ||||||||
| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 21,269 | 210,987 | 232,256 | 41,763 | ||||||
| 84 925 9,840 685 10 2,694 20 111 399 14,767 0 |
1,779 116,548 536 107 118,970 0 |
0 0 |
84 925 9,840 685 10 2,694 20 111 399 1,779 116,548 536 107 133,737 0 |
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Hire of hall |
84 | 1,497 | |||||||
| Speaker's expenses | 925 | 2,483 | |||||||
| Gifts out | 9,840 | 9,633 | |||||||
| Designated expenditure | 685 | 811 | |||||||
| Heating | 10 | 270 | |||||||
| Insurance | 2,694 | 415 | |||||||
| Stationery | 20 | 31 | |||||||
| Website costs | |||||||||
| Equipment costs | |||||||||
| Junior church | |||||||||
| Sundries | 111 | 320 | |||||||
| Fees/subscriptions | 399 | 243 | |||||||
| Chapel Project - general expenses | 191 | ||||||||
| Chapel Project - building works | |||||||||
| Chapel - utilities | |||||||||
| Chapel -sundries | |||||||||
| Evangelism & outreach | 558 | ||||||||
| Refreshments & consumables | 105 | ||||||||
| Sub total | 14,767 | 16,557 | |||||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Equipment & furniture | |||||||||
| Sub total | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 14,767 | 118,970 | 133,737 | 16,557 | ||||||
| 6,501 -18,630 36,461 24,332 |
92,018 18,630 1,644 112,291 |
0 | 98,519 38,105 136,624 |
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| 6,501 | 92,018 | 98,519 | 25,207 | ||||||
| -18,630 | 18,630 | ||||||||
| 36,461 | 1,644 | 38,105 | 12,898 | ||||||
| 24,332 | 112,291 | 0 | 136,624 | 38,105 |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B1 Cash funds |
Signature Details Details Digital projector PA equipment Amplifiers Details Details GA - claim outstanding for y/e Mar 2021 GASDS - claim outstanding for y/e Mar 2021 Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Natwest Current a/c Natwest Business Reserve a/c rounding error |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 23555 113068 23555 113068 113068.39 Agreement Error Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 2885 2350 1039 961 Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) General 300 General 311 General 356 Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Print Name |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | |||
| OK | |||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| 200 | |||
| 250 | |||
| 300 | |||
| When due (optional) |
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| Date of approval | |||
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