
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 01 January 2022  to 31 December 2022** 

## **Charity name:  JIREH CHURCH WARRINGTON TRUST** 

## **Charity registration number: 1155800** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the Christian faith for the benefit<br>of the public in accordance with the<br>statement of beliefs appearing in the<br>schedule and in such parts of the world as<br>the Trustees from time to time may think fit.<br>To relieve sickness or financial hardship or<br>to promote and preserve good health by the<br>provision of funds, goods or services of any<br>kind in such parts of the world as the<br>Trustees from time to time may think fit.<br>To promote and fulfil such other charitable<br>purposes beneficial to the community in the<br>local area and in such other parts of the UK<br>or the world as the trustees may from time-<br>to-time think fit.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|To advance the Christian faith we have the<br>following meetings and activities available to<br>the public:<br>1.<br>Morning worship and Communion<br>2.<br>Sunday School and Youth Groups<br>3.<br>Bible teaching<br>4.<br>Praise evenings<br>5.<br>Youth group<br>6.<br>Prayer times<br>7.<br>A Tots group<br>8.<br>Children’s activity group<br>9.<br>Ladies’ bible study<br>10.<br>Coffee morning<br>11.<br>Over 50’s group<br>12.<br>Family services<br>We support bible teachers who help us in<br>our church, some of whom attend local<br>schools to give bible teaching.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public|Para 1.18|Our activities are planned for the year and<br>the Trustees consider the Commission’s<br>guidance on public benefit including the<br>specific guidance on charities for the<br>advancement of religion.|





benefit 

## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Gifts and donations to individuals and<br>organisations are made from offerings<br>received from those individuals attending the<br>church and from any tax repayments<br>received on Gift Aid.<br>A special collection is made once a month<br>and the recipients are decided upon at a<br>yearly meeting of the Trustees.<br>Other gifts and donations may be made at<br>the discretion of the Trustees.<br>All gifts and donations received for a<br>particular person, organisation or use are<br>passed on or used for that cause.|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|All activity groups are led and assisted by<br>volunteers and the Trustees thank them for<br>their continuing efforts.|
|Other||**None**|



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|The following activities were undertaken:<br>Jireh Tots<br>Kids Rock sessions for<br>children of primary school age<br>Sunday School and Youth Group.<br>Family Services<br>Praise Evenings<br>Christmas Services<br>Outdoor Carol Services|





Holiday Bible Club Prayer meetings and Home Prayer Groups Worship and Communion services. Bible teaching services Sunday School and Tots sessions. Quiz nights. External displays were created to celebrate Remembrance Day and Christmas 

## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|There is a bank balance at the year-end of<br>approximately £ 23,000  This has<br>decreased/increased by approximately £ 700<br>since 2021.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Our policy is to maintain a balance of<br>unrestricted funds of at least three months<br>unrestricted payments (where possible) and<br>reserves for any future major purchases.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£7500|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity’s principal sources of funds are:<br>Donations from those attending the church<br>Gift Aid donations<br>Gift Aid tax repayments|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**n/a**|
|Other||**n/a**|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed dated 26thJanuary 2014 as<br>amended on 29 January 2017|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by a resolution of the Trustees|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Jireh Church Warrington Trust|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|Jireh Church|
|Registered charity number|1155800|
|Charity’s principal address|Lingley Road<br>Great Sankey<br>Warrington<br>Cheshire<br>WA5 3PG|





## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||A Duncan|Chair/Secretary|||
||J Riley|Treasurer|||
||A Bradley||||
||G Griffiths||||
||A Tracey||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name n/a** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of Name Address adviser** 

**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||Alan John Duncan|John Riley|
||<br>Chairman/Secretary|Treasurer|
||October 2023||
||October 2023||





**Charity Name Jireh Church Warrington Trust** 


## **Receipts and paymen** 

Period start date **For the period from** 01/01/2022 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

## **Unrestricted Restricted funds funds** 

## **to the nearest      £** 

## **to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|Weekly offerings|**2,586**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Gift Aid offerings|**18,542**||**110**|
|HMRC repayment on receipts|**3,644**||**595**|
|Restricted monthly offerings|**-**||**1,602**|
|Donations|**1,220**||**250**|
|Other receipts|**1**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**25,993**||**2,557**|




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A2 Asset and investment<br>sales, (see table).<br>                                 -                            -<br>                                 -                            -<br>Sub total  [                                 - ]                           -<br>Total receipts                     25,993                  2,557<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>




## **A3 Payments** 

|**A3 Payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Speaker's expenses/Gifts/Missionary<br>etc.|**11,600**||**4,124**||
|Building Fund - Jireh Trust|**4,000**||**-**||
|Books / Courses|**241**||**-**||
|Printing|**1,120**||**-**||
|Sunday School/Youth Groups|**223**||**-**||
|Catering, kitchen and cleaning supplies|**625**||**-**||
|Services - Gas, Electricity, Water and<br>Telephone|**3,588**||**-**||
|Building maintenance and fittings etc.|**1,020**||**-**||
|Other|**1,387**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**23,804**||**4,124**||



|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||
|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||
||||**4,124**|
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||**2,189**||**-               1,567**|
||**-**|<br>|**-**|
||**22,337**||**-**|
||**24,526**||**-               1,567**|





## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of** 

## **Categories** 

## **Details** 

## **B1 Cash funds** 

Cash at bank and in hand - - 

## _**Total cash funds**_ 

(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) 

## **Details** 

## **B2 Other monetary assets** 

HMRC repayment due P1 2022 HMRC repayment due P2 2022 HMRC repayment due P3 2022 HMRC repayment due P4 2022 - - 

## **Details** 

## **B3 Investment assets** 

## **Details** 

**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 

- - - - - - - - - 

**Details** 



## **B5 Liabilities** 

Cheque in transit - - - - 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 


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**No (if any) 1155800** 

## **nts accounts** 

## **CC16a** 

Period end date **To** 31/12/2022 

## **Endowment funds** 

## **Total funds** 

## **Last year** 

**to the nearest £** 

|||**to the nearest**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**to the nearest £**||<br>**£**<br>**to the nearest £**|||
|**-**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**2,586**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**-**|
|**-**||**18,652**||**19,717**|
|**-**||**4,239**||**3,569**|
|**-**||**1,602**||**-**|
|**-**||**1,470**||**5,115**|
|**-**||**1**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**28,550**||**28,401**|




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|**-**||**15,724**||**15,996**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**-**||**4,000**||**4,000**|
|**-**||**241**||**435**|
|**-**||**1,120**||**661**|
|**-**||**223**||**179**|
|**-**||**625**||**211**|
|**-**||**3,588**||**1,722**|
|**-**||**1,020**||**429**|
|**-**||**1,387**||**1,147**|
|**-**||**27,928**||**24,780**|



|**-**|<br>|**-**|<br>|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|||||**24,780**|
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|||||**3,621**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**18,716**|
|||||**22,337**|





## **f the period Unrestricted funds** 

## **Restricted funds** 

## **Endowment funds** 

## **to nearest £** 

## **to nearest £** 

## **to nearest £** 

**24,526 - - 24,526** OK 

## **Unrestricted funds** 

**-            1,567 - - -          1,567** OK 

## **Restricted funds** 

**-** OK 

## **Endowment funds** 

## **to nearest £** 

## **to nearest £** 

## **to nearest £** 

|**1,386**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**131**|<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**1,153**||**68**||**-**|
|**1,392**||**71**||**-**|
|**1,446**||**150**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|



## **Fund to which asset belongs** 

|**Cost**<br>**(optional)**|**Cost**<br>**(optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
|**-**|<br> <br> <br> <br>|**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**|



## **Fund to which asset belongs** 

**Cost (optional)** 

**Current value (optional)** 

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**Fund to which liability relates** 

**Amount due (optional)** 

**When due (optional)** 



|Unrestricted||98||44,927|
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|Print Name||Date of approval|
|---|---|---|
|JOHN RILEY||31/12/2023|
|ALAN DUNCAN||**31/12/2023**|





CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
I&£H CHuRCkl TA￿5r
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On accounts for the year
ended
31 D&cEm/36i 2022
1155YOO
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I report to the trustees on my examinalM)n of the accounts of the above
charity ('the Trusf) for the year ended
Responsibilitios and As the charity twstees of the Trust, you are resFyJnsÉble for ￿ preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance will) the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 {Ihe Acr).
I re￿ in respect of my examinat*)n of the Trusvs accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examinalion, I
have followed the aPF￿1Cab1e Directtons given by the Chaiity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
ome to my attention I
") in connection with
the examination which gives me Gause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accountirKJ records were noi kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord wllh the accounttng records
Independent
examinevs statement
I have no concem5 and have come across r#) other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
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