## **CHARITY REGISTERED NUMBER: 1155777**
## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
**RECEIPT AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020**
## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020**
## **CONTENTS**
||**Page**|
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|Trustees’ Annual Report|1|
|Receipt and Payment Accounts|3|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|4|
|Notes to the Accounts|5|
## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020**
## **CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1155777**
## **The charity's principal address is:**
48 Roman Way Glastonbury Somerset BA6 8AD
## **Names of the charity trustees:**
Peter Brown IIa Mazumdar Carl Stonier Linda Toms Dorothy Turner Heather K. Veitch Tracy Wheeler
## **Structure, governance and management**
The governing document is that of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and was registered with the Charity Commission on 13 February 2014. Its trustees are appointed at trustee meetings. The trustees have appointed a Chief Executive to run the charity in accordance with the charity's objectives and who directly reports to the trustees. Chief Executive fees for consultancy and expenses totalling £2,450 were paid during the year.
## **Objectives and activities**
To advance education and training in the practice of spiritual companionship; in particular but not exclusively, to professionals and voluntary carers with the purpose of the relief of the sick and vulnerable.
In planning and monitoring our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit at our trustee and executive meetings. The focus of our activities remains the development of educational programmes and resources in the field of a holistic approach to pastoral care and multifaith chaplaincy. This benefits carers and those for whom they care. The skills and resilience of carers, volunteer and professional, are improved and the care received by those in need is enhanced. We develop these programmes and resources in a way that welcomes diversity and is fully inclusive, working with all people regardless of personal background, faith, gender or personal circumstances. This holistic approach to compassion in action enriches the lives of professional and volunteer carers, leading to enhanced care for those in need.
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## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT CONTINUED**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020 CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1155777**
## **Achievement and performance**
## _Covid and Lockdown_
Our ability to maintain our normal educational operations were completely derailed by the Covid crisis and lockdown. This meant that all our courses and in-person events for 2020 were cancelled or postponed.
## _Spiritual Companions_
During the year we supported the personal and professional development of **342** individuals within our network through regular email newsletters, webinars on spiritual health and meditation, and support for Home Groups. We also inaugurated a once-a-week online wellbeing meditation, which supports a large group of over forty people.
## _Education_
As we wrote above in the opening paragraph, lockdown made it impossible to run any of our usual in-person courses or events. Nevertheless we made substantial developments in planning an online delivery of our qualification, which is scheduled for launch in Autumn 2021.
## _Your Spiritual Health Programme_
We continued to distribute our 40-page publication in hard copy and in digital PDF form. Over 1000 printed copies were distributed. At the same time we began to offer an online version of the course. Towards the end of 2020 we received a small Lottery grant to support a focused delivery of the programme in Norwich and surrounding areas; and to create resources for the digital offer. Both these projects are due for completion by Summer 2021.
## _Publications_
Downloads of the PDFs of our two resources ‘Meditation Masterclass’ and ‘Spirituality and Mental Health’ continued throughout 2020.
## _Policies and Financial Review_
In line with the requirements for being a centre that delivers a qualification on the Ofqual Register we further developed and updated all our policies which can be found listed on this web page: https://spiritualcompanions.org/downloadspolicies/
In relation to our finances, we thus far have insufficient reserves to merit the development of a reserves policy. We will develop the appropriate policy if and when our income substantially exceeds expenditure and we have reserves.
The trustees declare that they approved the trustees' report above.
Signed on behalf of the Charity Trustees
Trustee name: Peter Brown
Date: ……………….2021
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## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020**
|**Receipts**
Benefactor donations
Registration fees
Event and other income
Bank interest
Grants
**Payments**
Office rent
Room and venue hire
Chief executive wages
Administrative wages
Consultancy
Telephone and broadband
General office expenses
Materials and handouts
Course development
Advertising and marketing
Website costs
SC trust membership and insurance
Registration fees
Bank and paypal fees
Executive team expenses
Travel expenses
Accountancy
Fixed asset depreciation 100%
Net (payments) receipts for the year
Transfers between funds
Cash funds last year end
**Cash funds this year end**|2020
£
Unrestricted
Funds
6,330
850
680
20
-
_____
7,880
______
2,340
224
2,200
10,882
2,279
123
625
465
33
-
2,064
851
250
142
250
118
400
-
______
(23,246)
(15,366)
-
34,415
______
19,049
______|2020
2020
2019
£
£
£
Restricted
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
Last year
-
6,330 7,766
-
850 7,736
-
680
1,193
-
20
64
9,050
9,050 -
______
______
______
9,050
16,930
16,759
______
______
______
-
2,340
2,340
-
224
895
-
2,200 8,200
-
10,882 14,403
-
2,279
1,625
-
123
111
85
710
1,442
466
931
2,071
-
33
-
-
-
3,653
-
2,064
3,286
-
851
211
-
250
3,360
-
142
209
-
250
358
-
118
329
-
400
650
-
-
230
______
______
______
(551)
(23,797) (43,373)
______
8,499
(6,867)
(26,614)
-
-
-
-
34,415
61,029
______
______
______
8,499
27,548
34,415
______
______
______|
|---|---|---|
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## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2020**
||2020|2020|2020|2019|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||£|£|£|£|
||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
||Funds|Funds|Funds|Last year|
|**Monetary assets**|||||
|Bank and cash in hand|19,049|8,499|27,548|34,415|
||______|______|______|______|
|**Net current assets**|19,049|8,499|27,548|34,415|
||______|______|______|______|
|**Total assets less liabilities**|19,049|8,499|27,548|34,415|
||______|______|______|______|
|**Represented by:**|||||
|**Cash funds**|||||
|Cash funds for the year|19,049|8,499|27,548|34,415|
||______|______|______|______|
|**Balance as at 31 December 2020**|19,049
______|8,499
______|27,548
______|34,415
______|
Read and approved …………….2021
Trustee name: Peter Brown
On behalf of Spiritual Companions Trust
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## **SPIRITUAL COMPANIONS TRUST**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020**
## 1. **Tangible fixed assets**
## **Office equipment**
|Cost at 1 January 2020
Additions
Cost at 31 December 2020
Depreciation 1 January 2020
Charge
Depreciation at 31 December 2020
NBV at 31 December 2020
NBV at 31 December 2019
|3,565
-
______
3,565
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3,565
-
______
3,565
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-
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-
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## **2. Particulars of any guarantees given by the CIO**
There are no potential liabilities under any guarantee outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities.
## **3. Particulars of any debt outstanding**
There is no debt outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities which is owed by the CIO and which is secured by an express charge on any of the assets of the CIO.
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