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## 

||||SORP reference|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Summary|ofthe purposes|of|Para 1.17|CityGates<br>Church<br>Norwich|exists to com-|
|the charity|as set out in its|||municate<br>and demonstrate|the Christian|
|governing|document|||faith<br>in its community,<br>in Norwich<br>and more||
|||||widely through<br>its various|activities and its|
|||||support of individuals<br>and|organisations|
|||||across the country and internationally||





|Summary<br>ofthe main activi-|Summary<br>ofthe main activi-|Para 1.17and 1.19|Meeting for corporate worship<br>has been ex-|
|---|---|---|---|
|ties in relation to those pur-|||panded<br>with two identical services on a|
|poses for the public|benefit,||Sunday<br>morning<br>to accommodate<br>increas-|
|in particular,<br>the activities,|||ing numbers<br>and then evening<br>meetings<br>too|
|projects or services identified|||which are available<br>online alongside<br>the|
|in the accounts.|||second ofthe morning<br>services. Young|
||||Church meets each Sunday for young peo-|
||||ple to find out more about the Christian|
||||faith. We meet weekly for prayer either at|
||||the church or in homes across the Norwich|
||||area. We have specific activities for older|
||||people which are held during the day,|
||||namely Coffee Time and also Friends at|
||||12:15which caters fora wider age range.|
||||There are midweek<br>activities for young peo-|
||||ple. The three groups<br>currently<br>operating|
||||are Jam, Aim and Switched. We have a|
||||Mums and Toddlers<br>group which we call|
||||Smarties. This group meets collectively on|
||||Friday mornings.<br>Our Christians<br>against|
||||poverty job club has existed to provide and|
||||teach skills to individuals<br>who are struggling|
||||to find work; we help them to build skills and|
||||confidence to aid their search for employ-|
||||ment Our Christians<br>against poverty debt|
||||centre provides coaches to help those who|
||||struggle to arrange<br>and maintain<br>their fi-|
||||nances and who consequently<br>fall into debt.|
||||This year we have introduced<br>support for|
||||people locally for whom<br>English<br>is not their|
||||first language.<br>We have volunteers<br>who are|
||||qualified teachers<br>in this regard to do so.|
||||We support various<br>individuals<br>and organi-|
||||sations locally nationally<br>and internationally|
||||in their carrying<br>out ofmission activities<br>in-|
||||cluding<br>Tearfund,<br>Norwich<br>Youth for Christ,|
||||Friends<br>International,<br>New Tribes Mission|
||||and MAF.|
||||A highlight<br>ofthis year has been a week|
||||long Summerfest<br>22 held at Waterloo Park|
||||in Norwich<br>providing<br>a holiday club for chil-|
||||dren and activities for adults as well as help|
||||groups<br>including<br>CAP and TEFL|
|Statement<br>confirming||Para 1.18|The trustees<br>have had regard to charity|
|whether<br>the trustees|have||commission<br>guidance<br>with regard to public|
|had regard to the guidance|||benefit|
|issued by the Charity|Com-|||
|mission<br>on public benefit||||






## 



||||||CityGates<br>Church<br>Norwich exists to impact|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||and enhance<br>lives both spiritually<br>and prac-|
||||||tically and we continue to focus upon this|
|Summary<br>ofthe main<br>achievements<br>ofthe charity,||||Para 1.20|through<br>our core activities. We hold three<br>services on a Sunday. The services at 9:30|
|identifying|the difference the||||and 11:15are identical<br>and developed<br>as a|
|charity's|work|has made to|||result ofthe pandemic.<br>The numbers<br>that|
|the circumstances|||of its ben-||attend are higher than would be able to fit in|
|eficiaries|and|any|wider ben-||the building<br>together.<br>Refreshments<br>are|
|efits to society as|||a whole.||served between the two services which pro-|
||||||vides a valuable<br>time to mix and develop|
||||||friendships<br>and ensures<br>people feel a|
||||||sense ofbelonging<br>to the whole. There is a|
||||||further service at 6pm. Our attendance<br>on|
||||||Sunday<br>regularly exceeds 300 people and|
||||||our reach over a typical month exceeds 400|
||||||people plus online viewing<br>which is more|
||||||difficult to measure.<br>The teaching<br>is bible|
||||||based and seeks to instruct us in what our|
||||||lives should demonstrate<br>and how we|
||||||should<br>interact with family, friends and|
||||||neighbours<br>etc We have a good range of|
||||||young people activities<br>including<br>Sunday|
||||||provision<br>and midweek<br>groups We run a|
||||||number ofcourses for people interested<br>in|
||||||Christianity<br>and at different<br>points<br>in their|
||||||journey<br>including<br>Christianity<br>explored,|
||||||hope explored<br>and discipleship<br>explored|
||||||Our midweek connect groups meet across|
||||||Norwich<br>and district and give an opportunity|
||||||to meet in smaller groups<br>in informal<br>setting|
||||||to make friends study the bible and pray|
||||||Our work through<br>Christians<br>against poverty|
||||||continues<br>through<br>our job club and debt|
||||||centre.<br>In addition<br>we run CAP money|
||||||courses for those who struggle to manage|
||||||their finances.<br>From time to time there are|
||||||special events such as Summerfest|



|Additional<br>information<br>(optional)|Additional<br>information<br>(optional)||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|You ma<br>choose|to include further|statements|where relevant|about:|
|||Para 1.41|||
|Achievements|against objec-||||
|tives set|||||
|Performance|offundraising||||
|activities against objectives||Para 1.41|||
|set|||||





Investrnent perfomance
against objectives
Para 1.41
Other

|Review ofthe charity's|finan-|Para 1.21|Sufficient donations<br>were|received|during|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|cial position at the end|ofthe||the year to cover expenditure<br>and||maintain|
|period|||adequate<br>resources|||
|Statement<br>explaining<br>the pol-||Para 1.22|The Church<br>Management|Team ensure suf-||
|icy for holding<br>reserves|stat-||ficient resources are held|to support the||
|ing why they are held|||work of CityGates<br>Church|Norwich|and|
||||meet regularly<br>to keep this under review|||
|Amount ofreserves<br>held||Para 1.22|Sufficient reserves are held<br>in the||General|
||||and "earmarked" funds to|cover at|least 3|
||||months<br>fixed overheads,|should an orderly||
||||closure ofthe charity be required|||
|Reasons for holding zero re-||Para 1.22|N/A|||
|serves||||||
|Details offund materially<br>in||Para 1.24|None|||
|deficit||||||
|Explanation<br>ofany uncertain-||Para 1.23||||
|ties about the charity contin-||||||
|uing as a going concern||||||



|Additional<br>information<br>(optional)|||
|---|---|---|
|You ma<br>choose to include further|statements|where relevant about:|
|The charity's<br>principal|Para 1.47||
|sources offunds (including|||
|any fundraising)|||
|Investment<br>policy and objec-<br>tives including<br>any social in-|Para 1.46||
|vestment<br>policy adopted|||
|A description<br>ofthe principal|Para 1.46||
|risks facing the charity|||
|Other|||





## 

|Description|ofcharity's||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|trusts:|||||||
|Type of governing<br>document|||Constitution||||
|How is the|charity consti-|Para 1.25|Charitable|Trust|||
|tuted?|||||||
|Trustee selection methods||Para 1.25|Elected by|Church|membership|for defined|
|including<br>details ofany con-|||period oftime||||
|stitutional|provisions e.g.||||||
|election to|post or name of||||||
|any person|or body entitled||||||
|to appoint|one or more trus-||||||
|tees|||||||



## 

|Policies and|procedures||Para 1.51|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|adopted for the induction||and||||
|training oftrustees||||||
|||||Affiliated|to the FIEC|
|The charity's|organisational|||||
|structure<br>and any wider net-|||Para 1.51|||
|work with which the charity||||||
|works||||||
|Relationship|with any related||Para 1.51|||
|parties||||||
|Other||||||



## 



|Charity|name|name||CityGates|Church|Norwich|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Other name||the charity uses||CityGates|||
|Registered||charity|number|1155670|||
|Charity's|principal||address|2 —6 Botolph Street|||
|||||Norwich|||
|||||NR3 1DU|||






||Trustee name|Trustee name|Office (ifany)|Dates acted ifnot for<br>whole year|Name ofperson (or body)<br>entitled to appoint trustee<br>(ifany)|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Gill Blake||Secretary|||
||Stephen|Girl-|Treasurer|||
||ing|||||
|3|Claire Dove|||||
|4|Andrew|Mor-||||
||rish|||||
|5|David Rimmer|||||
|6|Andrew|Rees||||
||Philip Macdon-||Chair|||
||aid|||||
|10||||||
|12||||||
|13||||||
|14||||||
|15||||||
|16||||||
|17||||||
|19||||||
|20||||||





|Trustee name||Dates acted ifnot for whole year|
|---|---|---|
|Christopher|Hutchinson||
|Sarah<br>Hall|||
|Phil Dove|||
|Richard<br>Pennington|||
|lan Masson|||
|David Moore|||





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## 

|||||Receipts|and payments||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unresmcted|Restricted funds|Endowment|Total funds|Last year|
|||||funds||funds|||
|Receipts|||||||||
|Voluntary|Receipts|||370,029|90,835||460,864|321,290|
|Fundraismg|Acevtttes|||0|0||0|0|
|Investments||||0|0||0|0|
|Charitable|Activities|||0|0||0|0|
|Other Receipts||||0|0||0|0|
|||||370,029|90,835||460,864|321,290|
|Asset and Investment|||sales etc||||||
|Total receipts||||370,029|90,835|0|460,864|321,290|
|Payments|||||||||
|Voluntary|Income|Costs||0|0||0|0|
|Fundraising|Costs|||0|0||0|0|
|Charitable|Activities Costs|||299,943|91,883||391,826|319,238|
|Governance|Costs|||427|0||427|0|
|||||300,370|91,883||392,253|319,238|
|Assets and|mvestments||gainsRosses|0|0||0|0|
|Total payments||||300,370|91,883||392,253|319,238|
|Excess ofreceipts over payments||||69,659|-1,048||68,611|2,052|
|Transfers between||Funds||-1,628|1,628||0|0|
|Cash Funds Last Year|||End|172,435|125,775||298,210|296,158|
|Cash funds|this year end|||240,466|126,355||366,821|298,210|





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## 

## 

|March 2023|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|Al Receipts|||||||
|Al|||||||
|Al Voluntary<br>Receipts|||||||
|Cheques and cash||5,580|5,244||10,824|14,636|
|Direct credits||285,088|13,801||298,889|238,183|
|CGO &GAYE||7,245|900||8,145|7,645|
|Recovered tax||63,746|3,651||67,397|55,110|
|Bequests and legacies||0|0||0|199|
|SCFC||376|0||376|300|
|Smarties||24|0||24|0|
|CAP||0|62,086||62,086|0|
|Other Directed Income||2,331|1,918||4,249|1,011|
|Summerfest<br>donations||1,655|0||1,655|0|
|Photocopier||18|0||18|0|
|Use ofthe Building||589|0||589|430|
|Interest received||3,145|0||3,145|1,698|
|All other income||232|0||232|2,078|
|Christmas<br>seasonal offering||0|3,236||3,236|0|
|||370,030|90,836||460,865|321,290|
|Al Fundraising<br>Activities|||||||
|Al Investments|||||||
|A I Charitable<br>Acnvities|||||||
|Al Other Receipts|||||||
|A2 Asset and Investment|sales etc||||||





|March 2023||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|A3 Payments||||||||
|A3||||||||
|A3 Voluntary|Income Costs|||||||
|A3 Fundraising<br>Costs||||||||
|A3 Charitable<br>Activities Costs||||||||
|Gifts/grants|given||342|121||463|8,098|
|Salaries and|wages||141,075|15,062||156,136|138,912|
|Pension contributions|||16,909|0||16,909|12,786|
|Training<br>and|conferences||11,852|0||11,852|6,641|
|Expenses|||10,348|2,495||12,843|8,405|
|Other|||1,925|0||1,925|240|
|Holiday<br>Club|||96|0||96|0|
|AIM &Switched|||200|0||200|0|
|615pods|||63|0||63|0|
|Young Church|||165|0||165|824|
|Students|||546|0||546|612|
|Messy Church|||97|0||97|477|
|SCFC|||133|0||133|941|
|Youth Work|—Other||1,843|0||1,843|581|
|M Support<br>—Friends in||N Afric|2,500|0||2,500|2,000|
|M Support -|Hookers (Crosshnk||2,500|0||2,500|2,500|
|M Support -|NYFC||2,100|0||2,100|2,100|
|M Support -|Friends Intematio||3,000|5||3,005|3,000|
|M Support -|Misc Grants &Top||2,100|375||2,475|3,400|
|M Support -|UEA CU||850|0||850|500|
|M Support -|Christmas|Gins|1,500|0||1,500|1,500|
|M Support -|Willcocks|New Trib|1,500|0||1,500|1,500|
|M Support -|ECM||500|0||500|500|
|MST- Friends firn Central Asia|||1,200|0||1,200|1,200|
|M Support<br>—Dohnavur|||500|0||500|500|
|M Support -|MAF||500|0||500|500|
|M Support -|Sht Trm bursaries||1,031|0||1,031|1,000|
|M Support -|Other||1,340|185||1,525|145|
|CAP support|||40|30,755||30,795|35,283|
|Guluddene,<br>Uganda|||0|755||755|0|





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## 

## 

|March 2023|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|Tearfund||||0|5,795||5,795|8,341|
|Directed giving payment||||320|12,142||12,462|3,350|
|Outreach Activities||||3,636|630||4,266|9,839|
|Passion for Life Outreach||||0|932||932|0|
|Summerfest<br>expenses||||10,219|0||10,219|360|
|Norfolk Gospel Partneship|||expe|624|0||624|0|
|Pastor's discretionary||gifts||0|150||150|180|
|Visiting Preachers||||1,767|0||1,767|2,164|
|Worship<br>support||||7,105|0||7,105|5,274|
|Other||||2,647|527||3,174|0|
|Supporting<br>Materials||||2,671|0||2,671|465|
|SCRAM||||61|0||61|0|
|Other||||10|567||577|0|
|Cleaning||||2,758|20||2,778|2,755|
|Repairs &Maintenance||||3,061|0||3,061|9,465|
|Name change expense||||20,875|0||20,875|0|
|Lin maintenance||||0|0||0|768|
|Utilities||||12,342|0||12,342|5,012|
|Other||||0|0||0|102|
|Telephone/broadband||||2,042|0||2,042|866|
|Postage||||13|0||13|240|
|Gen support &Stanonery||||831|0||831|220|
|Photocopying||||2,501|0||2,501|3,077|
|Printing||||270|583||853|375|
|Website||||2,313|0||2,313|971|
|Catering||||42|0||42|0|
|ITcosts||||0|0||0|61|
|Equipment<br>purchases||&repmrs||7,641|20,784||28,425|21,070|
|Tributes||||95|0||95|460|
|Advertising||||22|0||22|622|
|Refreshments||||972|0||972|554|
|Audit &accountancy||costs||990|0||990|180|
|Subscriptions<br>61Licences||||2,814|0||2,814|2,859|
|Insurances||||3,641|0||3,641|3,240|
|Bank charges||||145|0||145|224|
|Other||||760|0||760|2,000|
|||||299,943|91,883||391,825|319,239|
|A3 Governance<br>Costs|||||||||
|Traululg||||427|||427||
|||||427|||427||
|A4 Assets and investments|||||||||
|gains/losses|||||||||
|A5 Transfers between||Funds|||||||
|Transfers between|funds|||1,628|-1,628||||
|||||1,628|-1,628||||





## 


## 



## 

|||||Receipts|and payments||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unresmcted|Restricted funds|Endowment|Total funds|Last year|
|||||funds||funds|||
|Receipts|||||||||
|Voluntary|Receipts|||370,029|90,835||460,864|321,290|
|Fundraismg|Acevtttes|||0|0||0|0|
|Investments||||0|0||0|0|
|Charitable|Activities|||0|0||0|0|
|Other Receipts||||0|0||0|0|
|||||370,029|90,835||460,864|321,290|
|Asset and Investment|||sales etc||||||
|Total receipts||||370,029|90,835|0|460,864|321,290|
|Payments|||||||||
|Voluntary|Income|Costs||0|0||0|0|
|Fundraising|Costs|||0|0||0|0|
|Charitable|Activities Costs|||299,943|91,883||391,826|319,238|
|Governance|Costs|||427|0||427|0|
|||||300,370|91,883||392,253|319,238|
|Assets and|mvestments||gainsRosses|0|0||0|0|
|Total payments||||300,370|91,883||392,253|319,238|
|Excess ofreceipts over payments||||69,659|-1,048||68,611|2,052|
|Transfers between||Funds||-1,628|1,628||0|0|
|Cash Funds Last Year|||End|172,435|125,775||298,210|296,158|
|Cash funds|this year end|||240,466|126,355||366,821|298,210|





## 

## 

## 

|March 2023|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|Al Receipts|||||||
|Al|||||||
|Al Voluntary<br>Receipts|||||||
|Cheques and cash||5,580|5,244||10,824|14,636|
|Direct credits||285,088|13,801||298,889|238,183|
|CGO &GAYE||7,245|900||8,145|7,645|
|Recovered tax||63,746|3,651||67,397|55,110|
|Bequests and legacies||0|0||0|199|
|SCFC||376|0||376|300|
|Smarties||24|0||24|0|
|CAP||0|62,086||62,086|0|
|Other Directed Income||2,331|1,918||4,249|1,011|
|Summerfest<br>donations||1,655|0||1,655|0|
|Photocopier||18|0||18|0|
|Use ofthe Building||589|0||589|430|
|Interest received||3,145|0||3,145|1,698|
|All other income||232|0||232|2,078|
|Christmas<br>seasonal offering||0|3,236||3,236|0|
|||370,030|90,836||460,865|321,290|
|Al Fundraising<br>Activities|||||||
|Al Investments|||||||
|A I Charitable<br>Acnvities|||||||
|Al Other Receipts|||||||
|A2 Asset and Investment|sales etc||||||





|March 2023||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|A3 Payments||||||||
|A3||||||||
|A3 Voluntary|Income Costs|||||||
|A3 Fundraising<br>Costs||||||||
|A3 Charitable<br>Activities Costs||||||||
|Gifts/grants|given||342|121||463|8,098|
|Salaries and|wages||141,075|15,062||156,136|138,912|
|Pension contributions|||16,909|0||16,909|12,786|
|Training<br>and|conferences||11,852|0||11,852|6,641|
|Expenses|||10,348|2,495||12,843|8,405|
|Other|||1,925|0||1,925|240|
|Holiday<br>Club|||96|0||96|0|
|AIM &Switched|||200|0||200|0|
|615pods|||63|0||63|0|
|Young Church|||165|0||165|824|
|Students|||546|0||546|612|
|Messy Church|||97|0||97|477|
|SCFC|||133|0||133|941|
|Youth Work|—Other||1,843|0||1,843|581|
|M Support<br>—Friends in||N Afric|2,500|0||2,500|2,000|
|M Support -|Hookers (Crosshnk||2,500|0||2,500|2,500|
|M Support -|NYFC||2,100|0||2,100|2,100|
|M Support -|Friends Intematio||3,000|5||3,005|3,000|
|M Support -|Misc Grants &Top||2,100|375||2,475|3,400|
|M Support -|UEA CU||850|0||850|500|
|M Support -|Christmas|Gins|1,500|0||1,500|1,500|
|M Support -|Willcocks|New Trib|1,500|0||1,500|1,500|
|M Support -|ECM||500|0||500|500|
|MST- Friends firn Central Asia|||1,200|0||1,200|1,200|
|M Support<br>—Dohnavur|||500|0||500|500|
|M Support -|MAF||500|0||500|500|
|M Support -|Sht Trm bursaries||1,031|0||1,031|1,000|
|M Support -|Other||1,340|185||1,525|145|
|CAP support|||40|30,755||30,795|35,283|
|Guluddene,<br>Uganda|||0|755||755|0|





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## 

## 

|March 2023|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Year Total|Last Year|
|Tearfund||||0|5,795||5,795|8,341|
|Directed giving payment||||320|12,142||12,462|3,350|
|Outreach Activities||||3,636|630||4,266|9,839|
|Passion for Life Outreach||||0|932||932|0|
|Summerfest<br>expenses||||10,219|0||10,219|360|
|Norfolk Gospel Partneship|||expe|624|0||624|0|
|Pastor's discretionary||gifts||0|150||150|180|
|Visiting Preachers||||1,767|0||1,767|2,164|
|Worship<br>support||||7,105|0||7,105|5,274|
|Other||||2,647|527||3,174|0|
|Supporting<br>Materials||||2,671|0||2,671|465|
|SCRAM||||61|0||61|0|
|Other||||10|567||577|0|
|Cleaning||||2,758|20||2,778|2,755|
|Repairs &Maintenance||||3,061|0||3,061|9,465|
|Name change expense||||20,875|0||20,875|0|
|Lin maintenance||||0|0||0|768|
|Utilities||||12,342|0||12,342|5,012|
|Other||||0|0||0|102|
|Telephone/broadband||||2,042|0||2,042|866|
|Postage||||13|0||13|240|
|Gen support &Stanonery||||831|0||831|220|
|Photocopying||||2,501|0||2,501|3,077|
|Printing||||270|583||853|375|
|Website||||2,313|0||2,313|971|
|Catering||||42|0||42|0|
|ITcosts||||0|0||0|61|
|Equipment<br>purchases||&repmrs||7,641|20,784||28,425|21,070|
|Tributes||||95|0||95|460|
|Advertising||||22|0||22|622|
|Refreshments||||972|0||972|554|
|Audit &accountancy||costs||990|0||990|180|
|Subscriptions<br>61Licences||||2,814|0||2,814|2,859|
|Insurances||||3,641|0||3,641|3,240|
|Bank charges||||145|0||145|224|
|Other||||760|0||760|2,000|
|||||299,943|91,883||391,825|319,239|
|A3 Governance<br>Costs|||||||||
|Traululg||||427|||427||
|||||427|||427||
|A4 Assets and investments|||||||||
|gains/losses|||||||||
|A5 Transfers between||Funds|||||||
|Transfers between|funds|||1,628|-1,628||||
|||||1,628|-1,628||||