## 2022
Trustees’ Annual Report
**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee Company Registration No. 08807913 Charity Registration No. 1156783
**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Table of Contents
Legal and Administrative Details .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Trustees’ Report ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 The Chairman’s Statement (Summary).......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Aims and Purpose .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Objectives, Strategies and Activities .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Achievements and Performance ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Investment Policy and Performance ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 20 Financial Review ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Plans for the Future ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Structure, Governance, and Management ......................................................................................................................................... 24 Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities ............................................................................................................................................... 29 Charity Balance Sheet ................................................................................................................................................................................. 30 Statement of Cash Flows ............................................................................................................................................................................. 31 Notes to financial statements ....................................................................................................................................................................... 32 1. Accounting Policies .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 2. Income from donation income and legacies ............................................................................................................................................................................ 35 3. Incoming resources from charitable activities .......................................................................................................................................................................... 35 4. Incoming resources from trading activities ............................................................................................................................................................................... 36 5. Charitable expenditure ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 37 6. Summary analysis of expenditure and related income for charitable activities ....................................................................................................................... 38 7. Net income/(expenditure) for the year...................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 8. Analysis of volunteers’ costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel .................................................................. 38 9. Tangible fixed assets ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 39 10. Fixed Asset Investments ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 40 11. Debtors and prepayments SKS to confirm any requirements to show group and charity amounts. ..................................................................................... 40 12. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year SKS to confirm any requirements to show group and charity amounts. ..................................................... 40 13. Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year SKS to confirm any requirements to show group and charity amounts. ...................................... 40 14. Analysis of charitable funds ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 15. Analysis of movements in funds - previous year .................................................................................................................................................................... 42 16. Analysis of net assets between funds .................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 17. Analysis of net assets between funds - previous year ........................................................................................................................................................... 43 18. Commitments under operating leases SKS to confirm any requirements to show group and charity amounts. ................................................................... 43 19. Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities .............................................................................................................. 44 20. Analysis of cash and cash equivalents .................................................................................................................................................................................. 44 21. Statement of Financial Activities – Previous Year ................................................................................................................................................................. 45
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Legal and Administrative Details
of the company, its trustees, and advisers
## **for the year ended 31[st] August 2022**
|**Working Name:**|YWAM Harpenden|
|---|---|
|**Trustees:**||
|John Stephen Peachey|Chairman|
|Charles Lynn Green||
|Dale Frederick Lambert|(to 6thOct 2022)|
|Lily Yingli Gong-Smillie||
|Henry David Kendal||
|Julie Burgess Anjo|(from 11thMay 2022)|
|**Executive Leaders:**||
|Laura Mudd|(to 1stJan 2022)|
|Damares Carvhalo||
|Johan Alexandersson|(from 1stJan 2022)|
|**Principal Office:**|6 Highfield Oval|
||Harpenden|
||Hertfordshire|
||AL5 4BX|
|**Independent Auditor:**|Mr James Foskett|
||SKS Audit LLP|
||St Mary’s Court|
||The Broadway|
||Old Amersham|
||Buckinghamshire|
||HP7 0UT|
|**Bank:**|Metro Bank|
||One Southampton Row|
||London|
||WC1B 5HA|
|**Solicitors:**|Neves Solicitors LLP|
||Tollgate House|
||69-71 High Street|
||Harpenden|
||AL5 2SL|
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Trustees’ Report
**for the year ended 31[st] August 2022**
The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2022. The trustees are also the directors of the
charitable company, and this trustees’ annual report, therefore also contains the information required for a directors’ report under company law.
## The Chairman’s Statement
This was a year of celebration and growth as YWAM Harpenden emerged from the restrictions imposed due to COVID. We were able to increase our partnerships with churches and organisations to meet various local needs. This included serving food banks, Azalea, Seniors Lunch, Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees, and a local foster care charity.
Our worship teams have developed and connected well with other young worship leaders accompanied by a desire to serve and encourage churches and youth groups. We are especially grateful to see young people wanting to join us with a passion for prayer, worship, service, and outreach to express their faith in Jesus.
Approximately 140 people completed our training programmes both onsite and online. Our partnership with ‘ReFactory’ in Uganda enabled us to train 500 software developers over the years with 86% of them finding full-time employment shortly after finishing our courses. Our YWAM Maritime Academy offered approved Navigation and Seamanship theory training to sixteen trainees around the world this year. New teams are beginning to form to strengthen our residential training for missionaries. These and other achievements are a fulfilment of our vision to see waves of young people equipped and finding their calling whether in Christian missions or in the marketplace.
Our Refugee Response Team gathered, connected, and communicated with over 220 volunteers (both individuals and teams) to work on the ‘frontline’ of the Ukraine crisis. This service in communication was greatly appreciated by YWAM across Europe. We were also able to send teams from Harpenden to assist refugees at the borders.
Our six team plants, who are pioneering YWAM locations in other cities in England, have achieved amazing results with limited resources under difficult conditions. Many of these teams were able to gather and be celebrated and prayed for at Highfield Oval. We recognise that teams with few members will sometimes need to close and move on. We are thankful and have much to celebrate even when not everything we hoped for came to be.
We were pleased to again have about 120 full-time volunteers working with us this year. YWAM depends entirely on unpaid volunteers' services, for which we are greatly indebted. Much of this service is unseen and given freely and selflessly behind the scenes. We want to thank them for their unstinting commitment and support.
Finally, I want to thank the YWAM Harpenden trustees for offering their expertise, wisdom, and time to ensure that we not only weathered the storms of the pandemic years but have emerged with renewed strength and commitment to prepare for growth. There is a sense of expectant hope amongst us as we plan for the next years.
With gratitude
John Peachey, PhD
Chairman
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Aims and Purpose
YWAM Harpenden is established to advance the Evangelical Christian Faith worldwide as set out in its Memorandum and Articles of Association.
## Objectives, Strategies and Activities
YWAM Harpenden objectives and activities to achieve its purpose are as follows:
**Training:** To effectively train young people and others for involvement in mission work, community development, and Christian witness in the UK and overseas. It will do this by providing Christian training. It offers three-to-six-month programmes to increase knowledge, grow in practical skills, and develop character; short-term (less than three weeks) training and mission opportunities; and equipping people for missional ministry through personal experience and hands-on learning.
**Supporting Communities:** To identify missional needs in Harpenden and the surrounding communities and strategically invest individuals, teams, and resources into those situations to help meet those needs.
We currently focus on the following areas:
- to create greater engagement with some of the local seniors who often experience loneliness and social isolation.
- to equip, encourage, and empower families to grow together in their relationships with one another, with God, and others.
- to provide a safe place for local youth to hang out and socialise outside of school hours, in which they could learn more about Christianity and its tenets for living.
- to provide a place for engagement and building relationships with people from the local and broader community.
Based on the areas above, we regularly host social events and activities to meet these needs. A monthly seniors’ lunch and days out for local foster families create a friendly relational environment to address isolation and stress.
Through the Oval Café, we provide a family-friendly environment for the local community to enjoy. It also represents a locally owned business founded on Christian values and principles.
**Pioneering YWAM Locations:** To encourage individuals and teams to plant new locations in other cities throughout England, and aid them in their endeavours through training, sharing resources, and offering relational and social support.
**Supporting Overseas Work:** To form, support, and partner with missional communities, create projects and institutions to address areas of social need in other nations and advance the evangelical Christian faith worldwide. YWAM Harpenden sends individuals and teams on a short-term outreach to work alongside our mission partners.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
**Creating a missional community:** To provide a living environment for both our residential volunteers and trainees to learn and practice their Christian faith together. Creating such a community includes the social and relational aspects of living, training, and working together and maintaining and improving the physical site through refurbishment and site development. We desire to preserve the property and develop the Highfield Oval site to be more environmentally friendly, better able to serve the local community, and for the continued growth of our training and missions work. We are stewarding the property and beautiful open space to foster positive community relationships.
## **Public Benefit**
The trustees confirm that the charity has complied with its duty under Section 4 of the 2011 Charities Act and has had due regard to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s objectives and activities. In particular, the trustees have considered how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives we have set.
## Achievements and Performance
## _Training_
Forty-seven people graduated from our extended training programmes. Each year we hold and host a wide variety of training seminars. Approximately sixty-three attended shorter seminars and workshops to develop their Christian faith and character and equip them with specific skills to help others. We partnered with overseas YWAM locations and Christian teams in Albania, Uganda, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Together, we shared God’s love and served local people in need.
## Discipleship Training Schools (DTS)
The Discipleship Training School (DTS) is YWAM’s foundational course. It consists of two parts over six months: the three-month lecture phase, where trainees learn more about God and His world through lectures, community living, and practical training; and the three-month outreach phase. The outreach phase is a cross-cultural field placement that focuses on applying knowledge and skills. Two DTSs took place at Highfield Oval, one beginning in September, and one in January. A total of 38 trainees completed DTS.
Each DTS organised a week’s local outreach in different locations in the UK (Cornwall, Bristol, Nottingham, and Coventry), where trainees served local churches, women’s shelters, and refugee ministries, tried different approaches to evangelism, and one team performed in a children’s programme based on C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
Overseas field placements took place in Albania, the Middle East, and Mexico. The teams partnered with local churches, YWAM locations, nonprofit organisations, and other Christian ministries. Trainees prayer walked and worshipped with local believers, preached in church services, and helped expand a church building in an indigenous community. They served in and started English conversation classes, worked in a Christian café, helped to initiate a regular sports ministry, and hosted open mic nights to develop community. They sought opportunities to share the gospel in ways which were culturally appropriate. Trainees also visited people in prison and distributed care packages to refugees.
## Bible Core Course (BCC)
We ran a Bible Core Course (BCC) for three months from September until December 2022. The course had six trainees from six countries. Trainees read the whole Bible and studied fifteen books in depth. The school took a field trip to the British Museum at the end of the Old Testament module. Volunteer staff and trainees also went on a mini outreach to Bedford, while studying the book of Acts, to try to put into action what they were learning about the spread of the Gospel and the work of the Holy Spirit. The team were supported in pioneering this school by the Greenhouse team from YWAM Lakeside Montana as part of a five-year partnership. The Greenhouse team helps YWAM locations start Bible schools and equips local leaders and staff to run the school.
## Documentary Film School (DFS)
We facilitated an on-location Documentary Film School. In this three-month course, our students from the US and Brazil developed their skills and knowledge towards documentary filmmaking. Students produced various projects from telling the story of a pottery studio to a story on revival in the UK. After the lecture phase, three students completed a three-month internship. Two students served the movement, ‘The Send’, and another student created promotional materials for two YWAM locations.
Short film projects included our YWAM Harpenden site development and the Kinahan Lodge project. Also, for World Vision and the Global Leadership Summit (GLN) we assisted in the post-production for a global story. For a local independent Christian school, a promotional Documentary style film was produced. During the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, we worked for CBN as part of their media production. On two trips we created content for CBN News to highlight the need in this crisis.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Seminars and Short-Term Training
The Track is a nine-week program for incoming new staff. We teach practical leadership principles and how they apply to volunteering with YWAM. Our goal is to provide ourselves and other locations around the world with the best possible volunteer staff. From September 2021 to August 2022, we ran two tracks with ten new staff.
A team of volunteer staff led a Hospitality seminar in September 2021 with seven participants. The training focused on understanding God’s heart for hospitality, and learning skills to help people grow in their ability to host and welcome people.
In October 2021, volunteer staff led a two-week Living Word seminar, in conjunction with a visiting speaker, a former President of YWAM. There were thirteen multi-generational participants, most of whom were from the local area. The seminar used questions that encouraged participants to slowly study the first few verses of Galatians, contemplating with the Holy Spirit as to its meaning and personal application, then reflecting together on the passages. A further seminar in December 2021 was held at The Kings Lodge, Nuneaton with eight participants, focusing on the Beatitudes.
A group of volunteer staff partnered with HOPE Together UK and Fusion to create a Mission Experience for young adults, 18-25 years old. This programme ran in June 2022, with 25 participants. It included an initial mission preparation period at Highfield Oval, a week of outreach in local churches around the UK and a debrief camp. Teams worked with churches in Cambridge, Reading, York, Nottingham, and Cornwall. The programme’s emphasis was on discipleship and evangelism. Participants grew in their understanding of the Father’s love for all people, experienced worship in mission, saw God work in the lives of those outside the church and learnt how to talk about their faith. There were also opportunities for the participants to be mentored and grow in leadership.
We welcomed palaeoclimatologist, Dr Ben Richards, to run a training session on ‘Creation Care’ for the entire volunteer staff, followed by a focused seminar for seven staff on climate change.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Leadership Training
Highfield Oval is one of the centres for global leadership training in Youth With A Mission. Lynn Green’s office, founder of YWAM England, regularly trains leadership in many YWAM locations. This past year, the live streams, podcasts, and blogs have reached tens of thousands of people, both working within YWAM and the public. Lynn was International Chairman until he, with a small group of global leaders, felt it was right to do away with executive positions and titles. There is now a group of senior, global elders called The Founders’ Circle, of which he is a part. In that role, he provides a measure of crisis leadership as required, oversees communications on behalf of YWAM as a whole, and engages in a range of leadership development initiatives. We continued with online training, resumed a growing number of face-to-face initiatives, and mentored several younger leaders locally and online. Lynn and Marti Green also provided perspective and advice for the local leadership in Harpenden.
The YWAM Europe Leadership Training School (LTS) curriculum team was led by one of our staff, Dr John Peachey. The final two modules of the 15-month course convened for intensives in Slovenia and the Netherlands, and 59 leaders from across Europe completed the school. Dr Peachey also helped lead the international Masters in Christian Formation and Discipleship with 26 candidates.
## YWAM’s Maritime Academy
YWAM’s Maritime Academy is part of the University of the Nation’s College of Science and Technology. The international coordination office is hosted by, accountable to, and registered with YWAM Harpenden’s charity. From 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2022, YWAM’s Maritime Academy instructors (Capt Brian Sloan in Harpenden and Rev Matt Webster in Wales) offered approved Navigation and Seamanship theory training to Schools of Navigation and Seamanship (SoNS) around the world. During this period, we trained seven students in YWAM Corpus Christi, Texas; six in YWAM Singapore; two In Finland, and one in Moro Bay, California. We delivered the curriculum by distance learning using an interactive Moodle we wrote during 2020 lockdowns supported by Zooms.
Additionally, the Academy is partnering with YWAM Ships Switzerland to convert and deploy a medical relief vessel to Madagascar. During this period, the vessel was purchased from another UK charity for £70,000 (paid for and owned by YWAM Ships Switzerland), registered in the UK, brought up to safety standards, crewed and delivered to Conwy, Wales. Nearly all the overhauling of systems and the material conversion is being donated and work carried out by volunteers, mostly from Wales and NW England. No costs are being accrued by YWAM Harpenden. For example, the local marine college took both generators off, stripped them down and rebuilt them as a project for their engineering trainees. These two generators were returned completely overhauled in fantastic condition. For details see: www.ywamships.ch
The plan is for the vessel to sail from Conwy, Wales to Madagascar through the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. We plan some PR events onboard in early 2023 to ensure ongoing support for the venture. She will have a fully equipped dental lab, doctors’ consultation area, pharmacy, and ophthalmology unit onboard by early 2023. In Madagascar, the vessel will be chartered from YWAM Ships Switzerland to YWAM Ships Madagascar, a division of the existing YWAM Mercy Ministry team who have been providing medical assistance there for the last 15 years. YWAM Maritime Academy is coordinating the training of the local crews to meet shipping requirements for the Madagascar ministry.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Safeguarding Training
YWAM Harpenden’s Safeguarding policies and procedures were reviewed and a new membership with The Independent Safeguarding Service (ISS), an independent charity run by safeguarding experts who seek to support charities in all aspects of safeguarding, was established. The Safeguarding Lead, in conjunction with YWAM’s National Safeguarding Advisory Team, updated and revised safeguarding processes in each stage of our work and ministry, including safer recruitment, training, and ongoing monitoring of all people involved in our YWAM ministries. This included: monitoring the application process to include safeguarding focused questions in interviews, up-to-date information for handling references and Background Checks, and an overhaul of our safeguarding training.
Safeguarding Training continued in two key areas over the last two years:
1) The continued use of the induction training video that forms the initial stage of the training process for all new volunteers and short-term teams. This has been shown to about 150 people at Highfield Oval and others in Cornwall and Luton.
2) Outsourcing SG training courses provides a layer of accountability outside of YWAM and gives individuals a nationally recognised certificate (CDP). In the reporting period, at least 20 bookings were made with ISS. All volunteer staff attended ‘Safeguarding in the Faith Sector’ training, and many have also attended additional courses. Records of training are continually maintained as evidence of an individual’s training, and certificates of participation are attached to Personnel files.
## _Supporting Communities_
Every year our staff are involved in various ministries and activities as we identify missional needs in Harpenden and the surrounding communities.
We strategically invest individuals, teams, and resources into those situations to help meet those needs. We saw an increase in public engagement through our physical site, as we continued to offer our property as a place for locals to take their daily exercise, walk their dog, get a coffee, and play outside with their children.
## Seniors Lunch and Local Charity Work
In March 2022, we restarted our monthly Seniors Lunch event for local seniors. We provided a home-cooked meal, dessert, and entertainment such as quizzes, games, and musical performances. Even though we started back up after a long pause due to COVID, we received 18-30 guests per month with many regulars returning each month.
Our volunteer staff supported other local charities with their time and efforts. Two or three volunteer staff served weekly with the Salvation Army food bank in partnership with Bethany church to sort and distribute donations and put food packages together for local families in need. We also sent a team to assemble 100 Christmas Hampers which were distributed to all the households that the food bank had supported throughout the year. Several other volunteer staff served weekly with Azalea, a charity that runs a help centre in Luton to provide care and support for sexually exploited and vulnerable women. We raised funds, prepared and packaged over 100 homemade frozen meals every month for their food bank, sorted and distributed donations, and made and delivered baked goods.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Events
Rory Brown held an art exhibition "Light into the Darkness " in November 2022. Kings Chamber Orchestra performed three concerts in the chapel on 4 December with 450 attending. Fireseeds held their annual three-day student gathering in February 2022 with 38 participants. Frontiers held their four-day modular training school for fifteen participants in March and October 2022.
We did not hold a Summer Fair this year due to other events on and off the Oval. We held a Summer Camp for Ukrainian families in August 2022. Fifty parents and children attended over four days. Twenty-one staff served on the team to lead a variety of activities including Bible stories, crafts, and games.
Local churches used our rooms for Holy Spirit away days, youth meetings, and church leadership away days. The Chapel was used for student music recitals. Circuit Riders held a three-day student discipleship training and evangelism event in August 2022 for over forty students and thirty staff. There have been three weddings during the Spring/Summer 2022. Apple Festival 2022 was led by Sharon and John Mansour along with teams of helpers.
The Dog Walkers’ permit renewal has been changed from January to March. It included three extra months and an engraved dog tag as well as the lanyard permit. Permits will be renewed in March 2023.
The Colts rented our two football pitches on Sunday mornings from September 2021 until April 2022. We maintain the pitches and they organise lines to be painted. Initially, their request to renew their contract for September 2022 was declined as we are developing Kinahan Lodge's surrounding. After renegotiation, we rented out one pitch for the 2022/23 season.
## Heritage Project / Poly Tunnel
The "Hope Patch" and community garden began in 2019. Our small team uses the Highfield Oval Orchard site to create a community garden project. The focus is to serve vulnerable groups in our local area. The fullest expression of this has been monthly events run with Children In Care. These events are created as a day of engagement with nature and the outside world bringing respite and connection to both the children and their carers. After two years of this work being funded by a grant, social services have offered to continue funding the events as they found them so beneficial. Our desire is to expand this work into a more specific focus on well-being and instilling children with a sense of hope and resilience, equipping them with some of the tools to access these skills as they move through life.
In addition to working with children in care, we ran events for Ukrainians in the local area and a gardening club for the displaced Hong Kong community. We worked with a special educational needs (SEN) school from a neighbouring town helping to create and facilitate work experience placements for five of their students. We also ran a weekly Tuesday volunteer morning open to anyone wanting to connect with others and enjoy the outdoor space. The project is working on another bid which will allow us to focus both on our connection points and invest in the infrastructure of the site, making it more accessible for all.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Creative Arts
From January to April, we trained a group of seven young people in art, creative writing, and music techniques once a week. They developed their gifts and were taught how to connect their faith with their creative expressions. From April to June, they used their learning whilst on outreach in different international locations, which enriched the type of missional activities they were doing. Three of the graduates have returned with an expressed desire to continue to develop their work, integrating being in YWAM with creative and artistic ways of reaching out to people.
## Mobilising Teams
This year we began work to help 'mobilise' churches in the UK for missions. To do this, we are sending out small teams to visit churches across the UK and overseas. We share about missions and encourage churches and individuals in missional living. Our aim is to build strong relationships with different churches and organisations in the UK to open further opportunities for partnership.
## Mission Adventures
Our Mission Adventures team, who provide training and short-term mission trip opportunities for youth aged 13-18, ran an Easter time programme for a Christian school from Washington State who brought ten students and two school staff. The programme ran in Northern Ireland in partnership with YWAM Rostrevor assisted by a small staff team from YWAM Harpenden. Stu and Amy Matheson (Mission Adventures International Elders) spent time during the year training their staff to run Mission Adventures. YWAM Harpenden running the programme in Rostrevor helped pioneer the ministry in Northern Ireland and made it feasible for the Christian school due to COVID related travel restrictions. The team engaged in ministries across Rostrevor and Belfast like volunteering in a Business As Mission flower farm, street evangelism, street art ministry, running children’s clubs, learning about the Troubles, and interceding for reconciliation.
In the summer, we ran a Mission Adventures training camp for six young adults before their outreach to South Africa. The outreach was arranged by Helena Kittle (YWAM Birmingham) consisting of young adults from her home church. During November we took a team of five staff to run a weekend youth retreat for Cranleigh Baptist church focusing on identity-related teaching. They had thirteen youth participants of which three made first-time commitments to Christ during the first night. Chapel Co. joined for the first night bringing a worship team of five in addition to the five staff staying for the weekend. We visited two church youth groups for a missions inspiration night during their regular youth group meeting. We took teams of five to seven people and delivered worship, teaching, and games/activities to inspire young people to engage in both local and international missions.
## The Oval Cafe
The Oval Café continues to apply biblical values to run a business under Highfield Oval Ltd. Profit generated from this ministry helps fund other areas of YWAM Harpenden’s operations. The purposes and objectives of the café team are in line with the charity to train people for the nations and build a missional community. The cafe adapted to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, including implementing online ordering which is still in place. Inflation forced price increases for the first time in three years.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
The bar area of the café was renovated to make it more modern. This also improved the flow behind the bar and helped the underbar storage. Dog walkers are now able to order inside with their dog, allowing us to be more hospitable to this group of people. The Oval Café is proud to champion young people. Last year the café welcomed volunteers, including teenagers, from the local community. Some have been volunteering now for over two years. DTS trainees were also equipped with skills in the café. The assistant manager is finalising her apprenticeship. The management team grew with the addition of two new assistant managers.
## Wildfire Kids Ministry
Weekly activities are offered for kids who want to grow in their relationship with God. We aim to help lead children and their families to know God deeply, bringing Him joy and together making Him and His Kingdom known. After setting some foundations in September 2021, God led the team to open for local kids that are linked to the YWAM Harpenden community. We ran the after-school club every Monday receiving roughly 30 kids each week from 5 to 11 years old. The kids learn how to use and read the Bible, discover their identity in God, hear His voice, worship, and share His love with others. Occasionally, we run a special intercession event called ‘Nations Day’ to pray for the nations. They learned about and prayed for Colombia, China, Albania, Ukraine, and Japan. Also, we join with the prayer passport from Open Doors to pray for the persecuted church around the world. We ran one Open Hill Easter Edition called ‘Peace Makers’. During this two-hour activity, the kids did art, baked bread, did a treasure hunt, and played games. We received 35 kids from 7 to 11 years old. Our kids were able to invite some friends.
## Youth Work
We continued our youth ministry led from the campus for resident teenagers and any friends they want to include. This includes weekly Bible Study groups (an 11-14 boys’ group, an 11-14 girls’ group, and a mixed 15-18 group). These groups create discussions around biblical topics and passages and provide information for young people, aiming to teach them how to study the Bible for themselves. Other projects include finding mentors for the young people from the adults on campus and seeking out missional and evangelism opportunities. Running social events to build relationships and community such as our 'movie marathon nights' has become a staple. We are now beginning to regulate our seasonal 'study cafe' where the older students facing exams can come to a warm environment to do homework and revise together on a weekly basis during appropriate times of the year.
## JUMP!
We partnered with Religious Education projects in Harpenden local schools with the aim to bring Christianity to life through exciting and engaging lessons, equipping children to explore the foundations of the Christian faith. One of our volunteer staff worked regularly with ‘Jump!’, a programme in primary schools that offers lessons in Christianity which complement and fulfil the requirements of the Herts Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education. The team, made up of volunteers from local churches of various denominations, offers classroom-based learning enriched by trips to local churches and visits from church leaders to talk about their roles and beliefs. The impact of COVID-19 on the schools was huge, meaning that in some schools was not possible to go back in person. However, the recorded lessons which were made in collaboration with the YWAM Harpenden Studio provided a great resource for the schools and towards the end of the academic year we facilitated 24 lessons plus four StepUp Days.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## STEP
Several staff regularly volunteer with the local charity STEP. They coordinate with local schools to teach lessons and lead retreats for students, sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in applicable and relevant ways to their lives. The lessons can cover all secondary school years, with popular themes being ‘Fairtrade’, ‘Prejudice’, ‘Who Is Jesus?’, and ‘The Trinity’. The Harpenden schools team partnering with STEP as one team offer a range of interventions and lessons, lunchtime clubs, and CU support. This year we noticed a trend towards schools looking for more help with pastoral care. There is increased interest in ‘Haven’ (anxiety intervention course), ‘Tough Stuff’ (course on grief), and mentoring 1-1. Building resilience and strategies to help with the ever-increasing anxiety in students are greatly desired. St George’s also worked with us to create retreat days and Y12 blueprint and leadership courses. We told the resurrection story through the images of Narnia. This brought the ‘wow’ factor into the classroom and students left buzzing with intrigue.
## The Oval Gym
The Oval Gym is run by a team of three, Shammah Nakawesi, Mark Weiderick and Sharon Mansour. Since 2019, it has been a joy to see The Oval Gym used daily. We have worked hard to create a sense of community and a focus on improving skills, accountability, and growth in health. It is the team's philosophy that our bodies are gifts from God to enable us to do all the things he has called us to. We want to ensure that people are not held back from their callings by a lack of physical fitness. If it is something we can help with, we want to help. We ran several classes for staff and trainees weekly. We facilitated Bootcamp sessions on a few Saturday mornings which were well attended and enjoyed. Shammah, who is a Level 3 trained personal trainer, facilitated an excellent 'Fitness Track' on the Catalyst DTS, with four trainees joining her weekly.
The Oval Gym partners with several other groups including The Kings School Harpenden, Marchon Gym who train our Personal Trainers (PTs), and David Hulford. David Hulford, a former YWAM Harpenden leader who is now a PT, uses The Oval Gym to train his clients throughout the year. He is a wonderful example of using fitness to share faith and pastor people as you walk alongside them. We plan to continue running classes while growing into new areas. We want to see an increased focus on partnering together as a community, growing in accountability, and emphasising the importance of fitness in all we do. We would love to see the reach of The Oval Gym extend to those struggling to access fitness, helping them to begin a new journey.
## Studio
By the grace of God and many hours of preparation and work, we reached our goals. We partnered with TBN to create content for their breakfast devotional series, ‘Start Your Day”. Live streaming included Friday afternoon at 4 pm with Lynn Green videos and podcast, and DTS and BCC Graduations. Also, we released two EPs with musicians from YWAM Harpenden and local churches all produced in our studio. From the Studio, we have supported YWAM TV with short videos of DTS outreach testimonies. Our team went to Norway to be part of the global conference, The Send, and worked with the media team to live stream twelve hours of content. We also produced local artists and partnered with KXC, New Wine Worship, King’s Cross Baptist Church, and ONE church. We supported The Vineyard Church on social media, online presence, and worship. Our plan for next year is to produce more inspirational content like Girl Talk, EPs, testimonies, and live streams.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## _Pioneering YWAM Locations_
YWAM Harpenden planted teams in Bristol, Carlisle, Cornwall, Mosaic in Luton, Newcastle, and Norwich. Our extended staff were involved in a wide variety of ministries and community activities, including running a local food bank, partnering with local churches and events, prayer walking, and running DTSs.
## YWAM Bristol
In Autumn 2021, we were a team of four full-time and two part-time volunteers. YWAM Bristol continued to support the food bank that we set up with St Paul's Church, Southville at the start of the pandemic. However, it was in a more supportive role as we were stepping back from the oversight and handing the project over to the church. We continued to build on the Christian leaders' unity networking in South Bristol. Our main focus in this season was preparation for a DTS starting April 2022. However, this sadly did not happen as two of our staff left YWAM in March 2022. As a result, we cancelled our school and various activities that we were planning to support the school. The YWAM Bristol leaders took a step back to try to discern what the Lord was saying as well as reflect and refresh. We continued to teach on DTS and serve our local church, also teaching in other churches. One new opportunity is around the arts as Rossie Henderson-Begg has been building relationships and networks as her own art has been taking off. Heading into the future there are still some questions as to what YWAM will look like in Bristol.
## YWAM Carlisle
YWAM Carlisle got involved in outreaches associated with motorcycling including in the Isle of Man. After lockdowns, all the CMA (Christian Motorcycling Association) events were back to normal. Richard Lowe is chairman of both CMA Carlisle, which he pioneered, and the Isle of Man branch. During lockdowns, he joined local motorcycle clubs. Some notables are the Reiver Riders, Cumbria Classic Motorcycles, the Random Riders, and the Fuddy Duddies! Great relationships formed and continue. Richard is featured in the new 'Biker Bible' too under the title of ''Ambushed by Jesus delivered from drugs'' and his auspicious door-opening testimony is often given away with the “Biker Bible”. Since buying the new YAMAHA GT 900 last June, Richard rode 15,000 miles and this year has ridden the Tyrells, Alps, and the Dolomites through Holland, Germany, Austria, and Italy and closer to home Snowdonia in Wales the North Coast 500 in Scotland twice and the 'wild Atlantic Coast in Northern Ireland' where he spent a week debriefing an ex-terrorist. The Lord opened many opportunities to debrief people from all walks of life! Our YWAM Carlisle staff are also into the 22nd year of men's retreats.
Miriam Lowe continues with her assistant pastor role with Carlisle Vineyard Church and wears her YWAM Carlisle hat project managing 'Give a Day to the City'. For many years we ran weekly 'Space to Talk' and 'On the Streets' outreach for people impacted by the pandemic. The public came and were invited to 'talk' and offload in Carlisle's town centre. Thousands were listened to by the faithful team who ministered through many weather conditions. The 'regulars' were very sad that this outreach came to an end. The staggering amount of loss, grief, and loneliness certainly impacted us. We are so blessed in YWAM where we do team and global connection with purpose, destiny, and eternal fruit. There's no recession in the Kingdom .... we just lack workers who are willing as the harvest is still plentiful.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## YWAM Immerse Cornwall
YWAM Immerse Cornwall served several outreaches and internships. We received six teams with 40 individuals. The groups were from the UK, Spain, the USA, and Germany. The DTS served Newquay and opened a door to work with a new church. The Counselling School served Redruth and Camborne. The Dance School served Truro and Wadebridge through Creation Fest. The Discipleship Bible School (DBS) served Redruth churches, and Wild Hope served Camborne church. Our second DTS ran in Newquay with four trainees. We ran a Discipleship Seminar for the church alongside the DTS and five people attended. Our Freedom Course ran at one of the Redruth Churches with 30 people attending. YWAM Immerse’s long-term team includes nine adults with six kids from four nations. Three new local volunteers joined, so we now have six local volunteers. We worked with six churches daily (Redruth 2, Camborne 1, Lanner 1, Scorrier 1, and Newquay 1). Our staff attend local churches and have main roles now in each one of them.
We sent and prayed for three local young people going to DTS in other locations. Working alongside Creation Fest, we served a youth event, Glow, attracting more than 150 teenagers from all over the county. We held worship events in different parts of the county with 40 local people. We served an event, Unity Watch, where 80 to 100 leaders and pastors in Cornwall came together to pray for each other. We started a community garden and pottery ministry to serve the local community to support well-being. Zumba courses, run by one of our leaders, also connected locals and supported well-being. We welcomed 30 guests to our space for hospitality and held several fundraising events to support the work.
## YWAM Mosaic
YWAM Mosaic (operating in St Albans and Luton) continued to collaborate with local communities to prepare Christians for a life of discipleship, leadership, spiritual awakening, and transformative action. We did this through after school youth drop-in times, weekly prayer walks, weekly evangelism, church-based networks, prayer with local pastors, church-based counselling services, and the Treehouse at Bedfordshire University. In February 2022, we had the pleasure of hosting a 72-hour city-wide prayer event. We ran DTS schools and outreaches from September 2021March 2022. We also ran an English language experience and an Alpha Course for university students. We will hold an anti-human trafficking conference in September 2023.
## YWAM Newcastle upon Tyne
We served various youth activities including running a youth group (fourteen to eighteen members), helped lead the youth work at Cedarwood Festival with Youth for Christ and the Message Trust, and a short-term faith and sports club. We volunteered at our local food bank and participated in weekly international student outreaches. We held an evangelism training day to reach international students and partnered with Agape and Friends International with 20 participants. We plan to run this again in October and February.
## YWAM Norwich
YWAM Norwich closed on 2 March 2022, and the remaining funds were distributed to the other team plants. The team leaders began serving as program directors for Peace Catalyst International in Norwich.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## _Supporting Overseas Work_
## Circuits
YWAM Harpenden sends individuals and teams on short and long-term outreach to work alongside mission partners, particularly in our circuit nations of Uganda, Albania, Himalayas, the Middle East, Central Asia, and areas where there are refugees. We responded rapidly to the Ukraine crisis. We sent one long-term volunteer to Albania, and another is about to move next year. Two DTS teams went to Albania and another team went to Central Asia and the Middle East. In Albania, they partnered with local ministries to share in schools, hand out Bibles, and share the gospel. In Central Asia, they were able to host English clubs, pray for people on the street, and share the gospel. They were also able to visit people in their homes and distribute food parcels while in the Middle East. We had several volunteer staff go to the Himalayas and others spent time in Albania teaching and serving as debriefers for a regional staff gathering. Teams also went to Mexico to work alongside mission partners and several of our volunteer staff went to Poland, Macedonia, and Romania to help many Ukrainians fleeing the war. We plan to send volunteers to Uganda to join with Oral Bible Translation projects.
## Refugee Response
The Refugee Response Team was set up in March 2022 to gather, manage, connect, and communicate between international volunteers (both individuals and teams) and YWAM teams working on the ‘frontline’ of the Ukraine conflict. Since that time, we have communicated with over 220 volunteers from more than 27 nations, sending the vast majority to six locations in Poland, Ukraine, Romania, and Germany. We worked in partnership with other aid organisations including Operation Blessing, AirX, & Sunflower Aid, as well as with companies such as Marchon. We facilitated the distribution of over £57,000 in financial donations to projects working directly with people in transit, or in conflict zones in Ukraine. Our response is needs-based and will continue for as long as the situation requires. At our peak, we were a team of five but currently have two members.
## ReFactory / IT Uganda / Lift 256
We continued the work of ‘ReFactory’ in Uganda and have now trained nearly 500 software developers with 86% of them finding full-time employment shortly after finishing our courses. Our courses are designed to help IT graduates rapidly expand their IT knowledge to embrace the latest IT trends, soft skills, and all with a focus on character development. The “learn by doing” approach has seen us successfully complete over 40 local and pan-African IT projects and develop partnerships with several local and international organisations. The project entered a new stage by setting up a standalone Ugandan company that is seeking to become self-sustaining from a financial perspective. We also continued to be involved in developing an East African IT solution to the problem of modern-day slavery, focused on the trafficking of people from East Africa to the Middle East.
## Britcare
Britcare continued to meet weekly to pray for the ministries and personal needs of British YWAM members serving abroad. We also wrote official letters, gave advice, and supported British YWAM members where needed.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Orphans Know More
Orphans Know More (OKM) supports the Jinja Foster Family Network in Uganda, strengthening 25 Ugandan families who have fostered/adopted more than 200 orphaned and vulnerable children since 2005. We funded another house to create a permanent home for one family in the network. COVID-19 restrictions continued to severely impact our families in Uganda. For some time, schools remained closed. OKM was able to send more funds for emergency food distribution and agricultural land preparation to improve food security and help with education costs. OKM also funded a playground for Hope Kids pre and primary school with 50% of the cost given by Our Lady of Lourdes Harpenden Developing World Group. Hope Kids school was started to enable the children of widows living with AIDS to have a better education. Our annual Classical Christmas Concerts in December 2021 held in the Highfield Oval Chapel resulted in a collection for OKM. We were able to send a Christmas gift for each of the families. We were informed that these interventions brought hope. Fundraising efforts continued to be severely impacted in the UK, but thanks to monthly donations the work has continued.
## Disciple Making Movements and YWAM Frontier Missions (FM) (ywamfm.org)
Fred Smith is part of the Team 3 leadership team for YWAM Multipliers (multipliers.info), overseeing an international group of about 25 trainers and prospective trainers. YWAM Multipliers run modular training events with ongoing mentoring and follow-up for YWAM and non-YWAM church planters. In the last few years, they have averaged two training sessions a month, online and face-to-face. More than 600 people go through this training each year.
Fred is also part of the Team 4 leadership team overseeing YWAM FM internationally, working with about 50 leaders overseeing regions and transnational ministries in FM. On the last count, several years ago, there were over 2,000 YWAM staff globally who run local ministries they consider as FM. FM has three main categories of ministries: Mobilisation, Training, and Disciple Making. The main outcome for FM internationally is to start and develop Disciple Making Movements among the Unreached. A Disciple Making Movement is defined as a minimum of 500 baptised believers plus a minimum of four generations of multiplying fellowships. In 2021, the global FM survey for this work among Unreached People Groups reported 127,000 believers, 10,500 fellowships, and 21 Movements.
## _Creating a Missional Community_
YWAM Harpenden’s full-time volunteers living at Highfield Oval have committed to being part of a live/learn missional community and agree to uphold YWAM’s foundational values. They engage in regular patterns of worship, prayer, and work on a daily and weekly basis, both corporately and individually. Creating this missional community is essential to our calling as missionaries and is a gift we offer to welcome others in and from which we are sent out. We invest significant time in the relational aspects of Christian community, practising the New Testament ‘one anothers’. The physical facilities of Highfield Oval are essential to enable this shared life together, providing space where we can learn to follow Jesus’ ways, and space where we can invite others in to experience something of this life and the peace and joy it brings. The Oval site has extensive residential accommodation which is used primarily for residential training purposes and for missionaries and interns working in the local community. It is also used as housing for many of the volunteer staff. Contributions are received in respect of all such use, which is included in the accounts as ‘housing contributions’.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
Volunteers are engaged in all aspects of the charity’s activities including senior management and training roles. Such volunteers, as is usual in missionary organisations, often receive support from their own sponsors and other supporters or have other sources of income including from self-employed activities.
In addition to the residential staff and trainees that contribute towards the expenses of maintaining the property, we also allow individuals and some groups the use of our private grounds and facilities. We have opened areas of our property for local sports and fitness groups, such as Fit Mums and Pilates, Harpenden Colts Football Club, Marchon Fitness, Brambleton Railway, pottery classes, a Forest School, visits from local schools, and hosted events for church groups and charities. Except for holidays and special events, much of our property is open to the public throughout the week, and our grounds continue to be a popular destination for individuals and families to enjoy the beautiful scenery, play in the large open spaces, or ride their bikes and scooters around the Oval. We also have about 80-100 dog walkers each day. Some of these donate. We register the dog walkers and communicate with them about the use of the site.
## Oval Prayer Room
The heart of the Oval Prayer Room is to marry missions with prayer and worship through unbroken communion with God. We believe that prayer should be the lifeblood of a missional Christian community, so we are creating rhythms and atmospheres for people to hear God and obey Him.
We facilitated Bible meditation every weekday morning from 7:30am to 8:00am. At Bible Meditation we selected a book to work through, and then each morning we simply read a small passage of that book and meditated on it for 10 to 15 minutes. We then share, encourage one another with our reflections, and then pray together.
In partnership with the Leadership Track and the Catalyst DTS, we have been running prayer sets multiple times throughout the week. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings we have been facilitating aimed prayer times from 8:00 am to 9:00 am. These times are focused on revival in the UK, praying for the nations, and initiatives on campus. Also, on Tuesday afternoons we facilitated a prayer set for the DTS, which is an hour and a half of intercessory prayer mingled with worship and adoration.
## Oasis and Hospitality
We continue to offer our Oasis ministry to care for missionaries and provide them with a retreat space where they can be restored and empowered spiritually, emotionally, and physically, thus enabling them to continue their work. We have a two-bedroom flat in our hospitality building reserved for this purpose, open to single missionaries, as well as couples and families, with priority given to guests from our focus nations. We also accept missionaries that are under Britcare and friends of missionaries in Harpenden that are serving in Europe or elsewhere in the world. There is a suggested minimum donation to cover the running cost and ongoing maintenance. We have had many missionaries access the Oasis facilities post-pandemic and have received families staying in Oasis and had debriefing sessions that empowered them to keep moving on with the work that God has called them to do in the nations. Hospitality House has cared for 1,416 guests in this time period; mainly family and close friends of staff, school speakers, WISE (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) YWAM convenors, Team Plant leaders for At Home Days and leaders for events and meetings at Highfield Oval.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Worship and Chapel Co
Our YWAM Harpenden community gathers several times weekly for sung worship with different worship leaders and musicians.
Chapel Co. is a band that writes and produces Christian music. In the last year, we produced a live recording of four of our own songs and recorded two more versions of previous songs in an acoustic style. We sang at different churches and youth groups across the UK and performed at David’s Tent, a Christian music festival. We are working on our second live recording and plan to release five new songs. We connected with other Christian artists across the UK and are working in collaboration with them for this new recording. Over the year, we became verified artists on Spotify and have 782 monthly listeners. On YouTube, we have received over 1000 views. We plan to continue to write and produce music and to connect with the Christian music network across the UK and Europe to inspire and collaborate.
## Site Development
This has been an exciting year for the Site Development Team. Two major projects are in their final stages. Two Electrical Sub Stations have been built, complete with transformers, that will power our electricity needs for the next 50 years. One will be activated soon enabling electricity to be connected to Kinahan Lodge, our second major project this year. Kinahan Lodge's exterior build is complete, and we plan to complete the interior. Hard landscaping including walkways and decks has begun with the landscape around Kinahan Lodge changing rapidly. A rainwater system soakaway, that includes an allowance for a 100-year rain event will drain freely and through a series of gravity-fed swales dispersing any overflow in the orchard. Mark Eddison, the architect, and his team have designed an eco-friendly water disposal system which is second to none.
Financially, we have continued to see generous donations flow into these projects _(most of these donations were given directly to Youth With A Mission Limited, the asset holding entity)_ . The Lord has been so faithful to us during very hard times financially, for both corporate and individual donations. Other achievements include the demolition of the scout hut. It has been a rewarding year, and the fulfilment of years of prayer and sacrifice are starting to bear solid fruit. We look forward to opening the Kinahan Lodge.
## Investment Policy and Performance
## **Financial Review**
The results for the year ended 31 August 2022 are given in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities together with the Consolidated Balance Sheet giving details of the assets and liabilities. The Comparative figures are for the year ended 31 August 2021.
The trustees are pleased to report a total income of £1,313,000 (2021: £879,000), a 49% increase from 2021. It reflected the divine provision, the hard work of our faithful volunteers, and the generosity of our donors and supporters. Our total expenditure was £1,207,000, a 33% increase from 2021 (£908,000).
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
Total funds brought forward from 2021 were £295,000 (including a deficit of £29,000 from 2021), and those carried forward are £401,000. See notes 2 - 4 for income-related breakdown and 5 -8 for charitable expenditures; note 14 - 15 for charity funds.
## **Principal Sources of Income**
The primary sources of income for the charity continued to be training schools, ministries and projects, hospitality, catering and events, and financial contributions made by our resident full-time volunteers toward the cost of maintaining the missional community at Highfield Oval.
We received a total of £251,000 (2021: £79,000) donations and grants. Of the total donations received, £137,000 were restricted for the Refugees Fund (2021: nil). £56,000 is for general purpose (2021: £40,000), £58,000 (2021: £39,000) designated to our ministries/projects and pioneering other locations. See note 2.
The charity’s live-on-site-volunteers community has contributed a total of £300,000 (2021: £287,000) toward the running and maintenance costs of the Highfield Oval site, where the charity is based. Various activities focusing on supporting communities generated a total income of £179,000 (2021: £81,000).
The total income included £119,000 (2021: £156,000) charitable trading income generated by the charity’s 100% owned trading subsidiary, Highfield Oval Limited. See note 4. The trading expenditure totalled £86,000 (2021: £100,000). The Oval Café started operating under Highfield Oval Limited from 1st January 2020. During each financial year and at the end financial year, the subsidiary transfers back its trading profit to the parent charity. The total transfer was £37,000 (2021: £54,000).
Our total income from training was £219,000 (2021: £84,000), which was 136% higher than the previous year. Our core training programme, the Discipleship Training School (DTS), has had a total income of £197,000 (2021: £73,000). Total income from other schools and training programmes was £22,000 (2021: £11,000). See note 3.
Our teams in Bristol, Cornwall (Redruth) and St Albans income totalled £105,000 (£69,000 in 2021). These incomes are designated to these teams and used directly for each operating location’s activities.
## **Expenditures**
Our three main charitable objectives: creating a missional community, supporting communities and training continue to drive our major operating expenditures. See note 5. The total spending relates to the maintenance and development of the Highfield Oval missional community totalled £611,000 or 55% of total charitable expenditures (2021: £580,000, 72%).
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
Resources directly spent on activities supporting communities through various ministries, community projects, and events totalled £188,000 or 17% of total charitable expenditures (2021: £109,000, 13%). Total spending relates to our training activities totalled £126,000, 11% of charitable expenditures (2021: £50,000, 6%).
Other charitable expenditures totalled £196,000 (2021: £69,000), 17% of total resources spent. They are related to our other objectives: Pioneering YWAM locations £107,000 (2021: £52,000), and Supporting Overseas Works, projects in Uganda, £18,000 (2021: £13,000) and £57,000 (2021: £nil) restricted fund spent on refugees’ response projects. The remaining £14,000 were governance costs (2021: £4,000). The significant increase is due to the audit fee £11,000 (2021: £Nil). The charity reached the audit threshold of £1M income in 2022. See note 5.
## **Going Concern**
After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the Accounting Policies.
## **Investment Policy**
The trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds and have found that deposit accounts meet their requirements to generate a reasonable return with security capital and ease of access. The charity has one 100% own trading subsidiary (with £1 capital). The subsidiary company remits 100% of its profit back to the charity at the end of its financial year.
Most of the charity’s funds are to be spent in the short term so there are few funds for long term investment. The Board of Trustees are empowered under the Articles of Association to expend the funds of the charity in such manner as they shall consider most beneficial for the achievements of the objects, and to invest in the name of the charity such part of the funds as they may see fit, and to direct the sale or transposition of any such investments.
## **Reserves Policy**
The trustees have established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets (‘the free reserves’) held by the charity should be kept to a minimum, but sufficient to provide working capital of three months’ expenditure. This is in line with the spirit and ethos of the founding purposes of the charity. At the end of 2022 the unrestricted funds of the charity, shown in note 15, were £313,000 (2021: £288,000). This corresponds to 3.5 months (2021: 3.7 months) of unrestricted operating costs and is considered sufficient by the trustees.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Plans for the Future
**Operational Structures** : We plan to strengthen our new operating structures and teams by meeting more regularly with leaders of our visionary ‘hubs’ and operational ‘gears’. We will work to develop a team for a new communications operational gear.
**Training** : We plan to continue the Catalyst DTS every September and Fusion DTS (in Spanish and English) every January. We plan to start a trilingual DTS every April. We also plan to continue the Biblical Core Course (BCC) in September.
**Studio:** We plan to expand the use of the recording studio and collaborate with other musicians and artists. We will partner with local churches and other organisations to record various content and review how best to move forward with those projects. Another season of a talk show style series called GirlTalk will be produced.
**Events** : We plan to increase our capacity to host short term mission events and training such as a Bible week to highlight the need for Bible translation, distribution, and engagement in every language.
**Site Development:** We will continue to partner with YWAM Ltd to work toward completing the Kinahan Lodge building project. A new team will be formed for fundraising and completing the interior. Maintenance will continue to restore and paint windows and replace ageing bathrooms in areas such as hospitality.
**Children and Youth Work:** We plan to continue to grow this ministry with Wildfire (Primary school age) and Secondary school age children on our campus, leading them in Bible studies and youth group activities. Our children and youth invite children from the local community who are interested to join. We plan to gather and pray with leaders of youth groups and organisations in the UK and Ireland.
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A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## Structure, Governance, and Management
## **Governing document and body**
The company was incorporated on 9[th] December 2013. Its Memorandum of Association sets out its objects and powers and it is governed by its Articles of Association. The governing body of the charity is the Board of Trustees. The trustees are also the directors for the purposes of Companies Acts.
## **Recruitment, appointment and ongoing training of trustees**
As the charity is of a very relational nature, new trustees have traditionally been recruited through the extensive network of the current trustees and the leadership in the charity to meet the needs of the charity in different fields of expertise. Each new trustee is given a personal induction programme, including a notebook outlining the responsibilities of a trustee, a meeting with the chairman and a time to meet the other trustees to ask questions. All trustees also receive additional ongoing training through charity sector updates, and they are invited to charity sector seminars. The trustees may appoint any member to become a trustee provided the prescribed maximum is not exceeded. Any trustee appointed in this way is required to retire and be formally elected at the next annual general meeting. They would be eligible for re-election by the members. Under the Articles of Association, one third of the trustees must retire at the AGM, although they are eligible for re-election every three years.
## **Governance**
The Board of Trustees are responsible for the property and financial monitoring and approving the strategy and vision of the charity and ensuring the strategy is being implemented. It receives reports on all aspects of the work and meets formally two to four times a year. It delegates the main day to day decisions to the Executive leaders. The trustees also liaise with Youth With A Mission leadership both nationally and internationally to ensure that the values and vision of YWAM internationally are being applied.
## **Risk Management**
At least twice a year, reviews of the types of risks the Charity faces are conducted. The potential impact and likelihood of occurrence and means of mitigating the risks are identified. The Board will receive an updated risk register twice a year to review and analyse, or as soon as a potential significant risk is identified. One of the major risks identified is to improve our budgetary control and financial reporting. The trustees have set policies on risk and internal controls to minimise the potential risks to the charity. Through the risk management process, the trustees are satisfied that the major risks have been identified and have been adequately mitigated where possible. It is recognised that systems can only provide reasonable but not absolute assurance that major risks have been adequately managed.
## **Volunteers**
The charity relies entirely on the contributions of unpaid volunteers to carry out its activities but placing a monetary value on their contribution is impractical and cannot be measured reliably for accounting purposes. Therefore, this contribution is not included in the charity’s accounts.
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## **Trustees Report (Continued)**
## **for the year ended 31st August 2022**
## **Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities**
The Trustees (who are also directors of Youth With A Mission Harpenden Limited for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting practice).
Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. ln preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Statement as to the disclosure of information to Auditors**
So far as the Trustees are aware, there is no relevant information of which the charitable company’s auditors are unaware and each Trustee has taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as a Trustee to make them aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charitable company’s auditors are aware of that information.
The Trustees approved this report on 20[th] June 2023 and signed on their behalf by
|John Peachey|Lynn Green|
|---|---|
|John Peachey|Lynn Green|
|Chairman|Trustee|
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Independent Auditor's report
To the members of Youth With a Mission Harpenden Limited
## **Independent Auditor’s Report to the Trustees of Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
## **Opinion**
We have audited the financial statements of Youth With A Mission Harpenden (the ‘charity’) for the year ended 31 August 2022 which comprise a Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and notes numbered 1 to 16 to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the financial statements:
- give a true and fair view of the state of the charity’s affairs as at 31 August 2022, and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
- have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
- have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.
## **Basis for opinion**
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity
in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
## **Conclusions relating to going concern**
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
## **Other information**
The other information comprises the information included in the trustees annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report
thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Independent Auditor's report (continued)**
Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
## **Other matter**
Comparative information in the financial statements is derived from the company's prior period financial statements which were not audited. Sufficient opening balances tests were done and no issues were identified from these.
## **Matters on which we are required to report by exception**
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 require us to report to you if, in our opinion:
the information given in the financial statements is inconsistent in any material respect with the trustees’ report; or
- the charity has not kept adequate accounting records; or
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement set out on page 3, the trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
- In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
## **Auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements**
- We have been appointed as auditor under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report in accordance with regulations made under section 154 of that Act.
- Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## **Independent Auditor's report (continued)**
As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:
- Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
- Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the charity’s internal control.
- Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the trustees.
- Conclude on the appropriateness of the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the charity to cease to continue as a going concern.
- Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation (ie. gives a true and fair view).
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
## **Use of our report**
This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with Part 4 of the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity’s trustees those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
## James Foskett
Mr James Foskett SKS Audit LLP St Mary’s Court The Broadway Old Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 0UT
27[th] June 2023
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities
## **(Including an Income and Expenditure account)**
**for the year ended 31[st] August 2022**
|**Notes**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Total**
**Funds**
Total
Funds|
|---|---|
||**2022**
**2022**
**2022**
2021|
||£'000
£'000
£'000
£'000|
|**Incoming resources:**|114
137
**251**
79
943
-
**943**
644
119
-
**119**156|
|Donations and legacies
2||
|Charitable activities
3||
|Charitable trading activities
4||
|**Total incoming resources:**|1,176
137
**1,313**
879
(1,064)
(57)
**(1,121)**
(807)
(86)
-
**(86)**
(101)|
|||
|**Resources expended:**||
|Charitable activities
5||
|Other trading activities
4||
|**Total resources expended:**|(1,150)
(57)
**(1,207)**
(908)|
|||
|**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before**
**transfers:**|26
80
**106**
(29)
-
-
**-**
-|
|Transfer from / to other YWAM charities:||
|**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before other**
**gains (Losses):**|26
80
**106**
(29)|
|||
|**Transfers between funds:**||
|**Net Movement in Funds:**|26
80
**106**
(29)|
|**Reconciliation of funds:**||
|**Total funds brought forward:**|288
7
**295**
324|
|**Total funds carried forward:**|314
87
**401**
295|
All gains and losses arising in the year have been included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA). This SOFA incorporates an Income and Expenditure account as required under the Companies Act 2006.
(For prior year comparatives, see note 21)
All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities. The notes, on pages 32 to 45, form part of these financial statements.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Charity Balance Sheet
**as at 31[st] August 2022**
||**Notes**||**2022**||**2021**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**£ 000**|**£ 000**|£ 000|£ 000|
|**Assets / (Liabilities) of the Charity**||||||
|**Fixed Assets**||||||
|Tangible assets|10|**80**||81||
|**_Total fixed assets_**|||**80**||81|
|**Current Assets**||||||
|Debtors|12|**63**||52||
|Cash at bank and in hand||**360**||245||
|**_Total current assets_**||**423**||297||
|Creditors: Amounts falling due within one
year|13|**(99)**||(80)||
|**_Net current assets/(liabilities)_**|||**324**||217|
|**_Total assets less current liabilities_**|||**404**||298|
|Creditors: Amounts falling due after more
than one year|14||**(3)**||(3)|
|**_Net Assets_**|||**401**||295|
|**Funds of the Charity**|15|||||
|**Restricted funds**|||**87**||7|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||**314**||288|
|**_Total Funds_**|||**401**||295|
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provision in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to company’s subject to the small companies’ regime. The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
The notes, on pages 32 to 45, form part of these financial statements. The trustees approved these accounts on 20[th] June 2023 and signed on their behalf by
## John Peachey
John Peachey Chairman
## Lynn Green
Lynn Green Trustee
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Statement of Cash Flows
**as at 31[st] August 2022**
||**2022**|
2021|
|---|---|---|
|**Cash flows from operating activities:**|**£ 000**|
£ 000|
|**Net cash provided by operating activities**|**136**|
50|
|**Cash flows from investing activities:**|||
|Purchase of fixed asset|**(21)**|(12)|
|**Net cash provided by investing activities**|**(21)**|
(12)|
|**Cash flows from financing activities:**|||
|Repayments of borrowing|**-**|
**-**|
|Cash inflows from new borrowing|**-**|**-**|
|**Net cash provided by finacing activities**||-|
||**-**||
|**Change in cash or cash equivalents in reporting period**|**115**|
38|
|**Cash and cash equivalents at 1 September**|**245**|
172|
|**Cash and cash equivalents at 31 August**|**360**|
210|
The notes, on pages 32 to 45, form part of these financial statements.
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to financial statements
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 1. Accounting Policies
- 1.1 General information and basis of preparation of financial statements
The company is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The members of the company are the Trustees named on page 1. In the event of the company being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1 per member of the company.
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
Youth With A Mission Harpenden Limited meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy.
- 1.2 Income recognition
- Voluntary income received by way of donations and gifts (non-exchange transactions) is included in full, with the associated income tax recovery under Gift Aid, in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when receivable and the SORP criteria has been met i.e. there is entitlement; its monetary value can be measured reliably and there is sufficient certainly of receipt. The value of services provided by volunteers, in the absence of a reliable measurement basis, has not been included.
- Voluntary income which is restricted to a specific purpose are shown as restricted income if the SOFA; grants that have performance related conditions are included in income only when the conditions have been met and when this is not the case they are treated as deferred income until those conditions have been met.
- Fee income relating to a contract for goods and services is recognised in full in the Statement of Financial Activities in the year in which there is entitlement and it is receivable.
- Incoming resources from the sale of food and drinks, books, and other merchandises included when receivable. If it is impractical to measure the value of goods donated for resale they will be recognised as income when they are sold.
- Income from investments is included when receivable. Investment income is earned through holding assets for investment purposes such as on short term bank deposit and solely comprises bank interest.
- Gifts in kind are recognised as income on receipt of the goods or services and are valued at their fair value unless it is impractical to measure this reliably. If it is impractical to measure the value of goods donated for resale they will be recognised as income when they are sold.
- Legacy income is regarded as receivable when the charity is legally entitled to it, its receipt is probable, and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 1.3 Expenditure recognition
- Grants payable are charged in the year when the offer is conveyed to the recipient except in those cases where the offer is conditional, such grants being recognised as expenditure when the conditions attaching are fulfilled. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year-end not accrued as expenditure.
- Certain expenditure is directly attributable to specific activities and has been included in those cost headings. Costs of raising funds are allocated according to the number of volunteers involved with each activity.
- Costs of raising funds are those costs incurred in attracting voluntary income.
- Charitable activities include expenditure associated with the charity's charitable activities and include both the direct costs and support costs, including governance costs, relating to these activities.
- Governance costs are included in support costs, and are those costs incurred in the governance of the charity and its assets and are primarily associated with constitutional and statutory requirements.
- Irrecoverable VAT is charged as an expense against the activity for which expenditure arose.
## 1.4 Fund accounting
- Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purposes and are available as general funds.
- Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the Trustees for particular purposes.
- Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as required down by the donor.
- Direct expenditures which meets these criteria is charged against these funds including a fair allocation of support costs.
- Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## 1.5 Investments
In the financial statements investments in subsidiary undertakings are stated at cost. The carrying amount is subject to an impairment review by the Trustees at the end of each accounting period.
## 1.6 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
Tangible fixed assets are carried at cost, net of depreciation and any provision for impairment. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following basis: It is the policy of the trustees to capitalise items in excess of £5,000.
- Any impairment losses are assessed and recognised as expenditure in the SOFA
- Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows:
- Fixtures, fittings & office equipment – Over 5 years straight line
- Motor vehicles Straight Line - Over 4 years straight line
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**Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 1.7 Interest receivable
Interest on funds held on deposit is included when receivable and the amount can be measured reliably by the company; this is normally upon notification of the interest paid or payable by the Bank.
## 1.8 Debtors
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## 1.9 Cash at Bank and in hand
Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.
## 1.10 Creditors and provisions
Liabilities are recognised when there is an obligation at the Balance sheet date as a result of a past event, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefit will be required in settlement, and the amount of the settlement can be estimated reliably. Liabilities are recognised at the amount that the company anticipates it will pay to settle the debt or the amount it has received as advanced payments for the goods or services it must provide. Provisions are measured at the best estimate of the amounts required to settle the obligation.
## 1.11 Tax
The charity is an exempt from UK taxation under section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
## 1.12 Operating Leases
Rentals applicable to operating leases where substantially all the benefits and risks of ownership remain with the lessor are recognised as expenses on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.
## 1.13 Going concern
The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis. The use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate because there are no material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt about the ability of the charity to continue as a going concern.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 2. Income from donation income and legacies
||Unrestricted
Restricted
**Total**
Total
2022
2022
**2022**
2021
£ 000
£ 000
**£ 000**
£ 000
56
- **56**40|
|---|---|
|||
|||
|**General purposes:**||
|||
|**Sub total:**|**56**
**- 56 40**
27
-**27**24
29
- **29**14|
|**Supporting communities:**||
|Orphans Know More Ministry||
|Designated to supporting communities||
|**Sub total:**|**56**
**- 56 38**
- 137**137**
-
-
-
-
-|
|**Supporting overseas work:**||
|Refugee||
|Projects in Uganda||
|**Sub total**|**-**
**137**
**137**
**0**|
|**Creating a missional community:**||
|Site development||
|**Sub total**|**-**
**- -**
**-**
2
- **2**
1|
|||
|**Other:**||
|Designated to pioneering YWAM locations||
|**Sub total**|**2**
**- 2**
**1**|
|||
|**Total donations**|**114 137 251 79**|
## 3. Incoming resources from charitable activities
||Unrestricted|Restricted|**Total**|Total|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||2022|2022|**2022**|2021|
||£ 000|£ 000|**£ 000**|£ 000|
|**Training:**|||||
|Discipleship training school|197|-|**197**|73|
|English & cultural orientation school|-|-
|**-**|5|
|Other training programs|22|-|**22**|6|
|**Sub total**|**219**|**-**|**219**|**84**|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## **3. Incoming resources from charitable activities (continues)**
|**Supporting communities:**|6
**- 6**6
49 -**49**49
124- **124**26|
|---|---|
|Orphans Know More Ministry||
|Other Ministries & projects||
|Hospitality, catering & events||
|**Sub total**|**179 - 179 81**
97 -**97**50
8- **8**19|
|**Pioneering YWAM locations:**||
|Bristol, Redruth and St Albans||
|Other locations||
|**Sub total**|**105 - 105 69**
19
-
19
20|
|**Supporting overseas work:**||
|Projects in Uganda||
|**Sub total**|**19 -**
**19**
**20**
300 -**300**287
52 -**52**55
13 -**13**8
56 -**56**40
-
**-**
-|
|**Creating a missional community:**||
|Volunteers housing contributions||
|RHI Repayment||
|Base vehicles usage contributions||
|Spare space usage contributions||
|Other||
|**Sub total**|**421 - 421 390**|
|||
|**Total income from charitable activities**|**943 - 943 644**|
* RHI Repayment: Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) rebate based on the amount of heat produced from burning woodchip instead of natural gas
The charity benefits greatly from the support and involvement of its many volunteers and supporters. In accordance with FRS 102 and the Charities SORP (FRS 102), the economic contribution of general volunteers is not recognised in the accounts.
## 4. Incoming resources from trading activities
||Unrestricted
Restricted
**Total**
Total|
|---|---|
||2022
2022
**2022**
2021
£ 000
£ 000
**£ 000**
£ 000
119
-**119**
156
**119**
**- 119**
**156**
(86)-
**(86)**
(101)|
|||
|**Trading activities:**||
|The Oval Café||
|**Total income from other trading**||
|Less:||
|**Fund raising trading expenses:**||
|The Oval Café||
||**33**
**- 33**
55|
The Oval Café is trading under the Highfield Oval Limited (a 100% owned subsidiary of the charity). Its operating profit is transferred 100% back to the charity by the end of each financial year.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 5. Charitable expenditure
|**Training:**
Discipleship training school
English & cultural orientation school
Other training programs
Training centre management and admin
**Total**
**Supporting communities:**
Orphans Know More Ministry
Other Ministries & projects
Hospitality, catering & events
Heritage Project (restricted fund)
Designated to supporting communities
**Total**
**Pioneering YWAM locations:**
Bristol, Redruth and St Albans
Other locations
**Total**
**Supporting overseas works:**
Projects in Uganda
Refugees
**Total**
**Creating a missional community:**
Buildings and ground property services
Biomass boiler woodchip cost
Utilities
Council tax
Base vehicles
Site development
Site occupant contribution
Information technology
Communication
General management and admin
Volunteers’ development & care
Depreciation
Other
**Total**
**Governance costs**
Auditor's remuneration
Auditor's non-audit costs
Accountancy services
Independent Examination
**Total**
**Total Charitable expenditure**|Unrestricted
Restricted
**Total**
Total
2022
2022
**2022**
2021
£ 000
£ 000
**£ 000**
£ 000
117
-
**117**
44
1
-
**1**
4
4
-
**4**
-
4
-
**4**
2|
|---|---|
||126
-
**126**
50|
||77
-
**77**
48
23
-
**23**
38
67
-
**67**
14
-
-
**-**
-
21
-
**21**
9|
||188
-
**188**
109|
||99
-
**99**
46
8
-
**8**
6|
||107
-
**107**
52|
||18
-
**18**
13
-
57
**57**
-|
||18
57
**75**
13|
||114
-
**114**
149
113
-
**113**
116
75
-
**75**
80
27
-
**27**
30
8
-
**8**
13
87
-
**87**
-
106
-
**106**
106
14
-
**14**
13
6
-
**6**
5
37
-
**37**
42
2
-
**2**
4
22
-
**22**
21
-
-
**-**
-|
||611
-
**611**
579|
||11 -**11**-
-
-**-**
-
3
-
**3**
2
-
-
**-**
2|
||14
-
**14**
3|
||1,064
57
1,121
807|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 6. Summary analysis of expenditure and related income for charitable activities
|**Three main charitable activities:**|Creating a|Supporting|Training:|Other|Other|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||missional|communities:||activities||**2022**|
||community:||||||
||£ 000|£ 000|£ 000|£|000|**£ 000**|
|Costs|(611)|(274)|(126)|(196)||**(1,207)**|
|Income from donation|-|56|
-||58|**114**|
|Income from charitable activities|421|179|219||124|**943**|
|Income from charitable trading activities|-|119|-||-|**119**|
|**Net cost funded from other income**|**(190)**|**80**|**93**||**(15)**|**(31)**|
|**Net cost funded from other income in**|||||||
|**2021**|**(175)**|**10**|**33**||**102**|**(30)**|
|The charity has other charitable activities. The|three areas mentioned above||are the main|ones.|||
## 7. Net income/(expenditure) for the year
|**This is stated after charging:**|**Total**|Total|
|---|---|---|
||**2022**|2021|
||**£ 000**|£ 000|
|Depreciation of tangible fixed assets:|||
|-owned by the charity|**22**|21|
|Operating lease expense|**12**
|12|
|Auditor's remuneration - audit|**11**
|-|
|Auditor's remuneration - accounting|||
|services|**-**|-|
|Independent Examination Fee|**-**
|3|
8. Analysis of volunteers’ costs, trustee remuneration and expenses, and the cost of key management personnel The charity relies entirely on the contributions of unpaid volunteers to carry out its activities but placing a monetary value on their contribution is impractical and cannot be measured reliably for accounting purposes. Therefore, this contribution is not included in the charity’s accounts.
The Charity trustees were not paid salary or received any other benefits for performing the duties. However, the trustees are reimbursed for legitimate costs that the trustees have had to meet personally to carry out their duties.
A total of £110 was reimbursed to one trustee in 2022 (2021: £nil).
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## Note 8 (continued)
Income was received from the trustees and their related parties, totalling £1,183 (2021: £2,088). One of the trustees provided professional service on an arm’s length basis via The Butterfly Beats Ltd to assist with the 2021 accounts preparation and supporting independent examination. The professional fee is £nil (2021 £1,800).
## 9. Tangible fixed assets
|**Cost or valuation**
**Balance brought forward**
Additions
Revaluations
Disposals
Transfers
**Balance carried forward**
**Accumulated depreciation (SL) and impairment**
**provisions**
**Balance brought forward**
Depreciation charge for year
Impairment provisions
Revaluations
Disposals
Transfers
**Balance carried forward**
**Net book value**
**Balance brought forward**
**Balance carried forward**|**Plant, machinery**
**&**
**motor vehicles**
**Fixtures, fittings and**
**equipment**
**Total**
**2,022**
**2,022 2,022**
**£'000**
**£'000**
**£'000**
**22**
**100 122**
-
21 21
-
- -
-
- -
-
- -|
|---|---|
||**22**
**121 143**|
||**9**
**32 41**
3
19 22
-
- -
-
- -
-
- -
-
- -|
||**12**
**51 63**|
|||
||**13**
**68 81**|
||**10**
**70 80**|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 10. Fixed Asset Investments
The company’s investment at the Balance Sheet date comprises of the following investment:
## **Highfield Oval Limited**
|**Highfield Oval Limited**||
|---|---|
|Company number:|12101579|
|Registered in:|England & Wales|
|Class of Shares:|Ordinary|
|Shareholding:|100%|
|Net Asset:|£1|
|Profit per account at 31stAugust 2022:|£Nil|
The company was incorporated on 13[th] July 2019 started trading on 1[st] January 2020. Aggregate capital and reserves £1 (2021: £1)
## 11. Debtors and prepayments
||**Group**|Group||**Charity**|Charity||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**2022**|2021||**2022**|2021||
||**£'000**|£'000||**£'000**|£'000||
|Trade debtors|||||||
||**40**||25|**37**||22|
|Other Receivable - Tax refund/ Gift Aid|||||||
||**6**||14|**6**||14|
|Amount due from Highfield Oval Limited|**-**||**-**|**7**||32|
|Other Receivable|**5**||-|**5**||-|
|Prepayments and accrued income|**11**||13|**11**||12|
|**Total**|**62**||52|**66**||80|
## 12. Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year
|nts falling due within one|year||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Group**|Group|**Charity**|Charity|
||**2022**|2021|**2022**|2021|
||**£'000**|£'000|**£'000**|£'000|
|Trade creditors|**15**|42|**15**|39|
|Accruals and deferred income|**60**|16|**56**|16|
|Other Creditors - YWAM Ltd|**7**|14|**7**|14|
|Other Creditors|**16**|8|**7**|4|
||**98**|**80**|**85**|**73**|
## 13. Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year
||**Group**|Group|**Charity**|Charity|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**2022**|2021|**2022**|2021|
||**£'000**|£'000|**£'000**|£'000|
|Housing deposits|**3**|3|**3**|3|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 14. Analysis of charitable funds
|**Unrestricted funds**
**General fund**
**Designated funds**
Ministries & Projects
The Oval Café
Hospitality, catering and events
Training
Other YWAM Locations
Assets
**Unrestricted funds total**
**Restricted funds**
Africa IT fund
Refugees
Site Development
**Restricted funds total**
**Total funds**|**Balance**
**1 September**
**2021**
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
In / (Out)
**Balance**
**31 August**
**2022**
**£ 000**
£ 000
£ 000
£ 000
**£ 000**
**11**
478
(602)
157
**44**|
|---|---|
||**11**
478
(602)
157
**44**
**161**130
(139)
-
**152**
**7**
119
(86)
(33)
**7**
**1**123
(67)
(51)
**6**
**5**219
(127)
(94)
**3**
**22**106
(107)
-
**21**
**81**
-
(22)
21
**80**|
||**277**
697
(548)
(157)
**269**|
||**288**1,175
(1,150)
-
**313**
**-**
- -
-
**-**
**7**138
(57)
-
**88**
**-**
- -
-
**-**|
||**7**138
(57)
-
**88**|
||**295**1,313
(1,207)
-
**401**|
The General fund is an unrestricted undesignated fund which can be used for operating activities, including contributions towards administration costs.
The Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the Trustees for the following purposes:
- **Ministries and projects:** for charitable activities focus on meeting missional needs in Harpenden and surrounding communities and overseas. See objectives and activities description of Supporting Communities and Supporting Overseas Work on pages 4-5.
- **The Oval Café:** to provide working capital, also fund for equipment purchases and maintenance of the café.
- **Hospitality, catering and events:** for hosting social events and activities that will benefit the local Harpenden community; to provide working capital for the hospitality and kitchen teams.
- **Training:** to provide working capital, scholarship fund for various schools and training programmes.
- **Other YWAM locations:** for charitable activities at other operational locations (Bristol, Redruth and St Albans).
- **Assets:** is currently identifying the net asset value of vehicles and equipments owned by YWAM Harpenden.
The Africa IT fund is a restricted fund for the project partnered with YWAM Hopeland (Jinja, Uganda).
The Refugees fund is a restricted fund for projects focusing on refugees in Europe and the Middle East.
See page 17 under “Supporting Overseas Work” for more details about the two restricted funds.
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 15. Analysis of movements in funds - previous year
|**Unrestricted funds**
**General fund**
**Designated funds**
Ministries & Projects
The Oval Café
Hospitality, catering and events
Training
Other YWAM Locations
Assets
**Unrestricted funds total**
**Restricted funds**
Africa IT fund
Refugee
Site Development
**Restricted funds total**
**Total funds**|**Balance**
**1 September**
**2020**
Income
Expenditure
Transfers
In / (Out)
**Balance**
**31 August**
**2021**
**£'000**
£'000
£'000
£'000
£'000
**46**
431
(563)
97
**11**|
|---|---|
||**46**
431
(563)
97
**11**
**163**
113
(108)
(7)
**161**
**1**156 (101) (49)
**7**
**1**
26
(14)
(12)
**1**
**1**
83
(50)
(29)
**5**
**15**
70
(51)
(12)
**22**
**90**
-
(21)
12
**81**|
||**271**
448
(345)
(97)
**277**|
||**317**
879
(908)
-
**288**
**-**
-
-
-
**-**
**7**
-
-
-
**7**
**-**
-
-
-|
||**7**
-
-
-
**7**|
||**324**
879
(908)
-
**295**|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 16. Analysis of net assets between funds
||Unrestricted|
Restricted|
**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|
Funds|
**Funds**|
||2022|
2022|
**2022**|
||£ 000|
£ 000|
**£ 000**|
|Tangible fixed assets|
80|
-|
**80**|
|Investment property|
-|
-|
**-**|
|Current Assets|
335|
88|
**423**|
|Creditors due within one year|
(99)|
-|
**(99)**|
|Creditors due in more than one|
(3)|
-|
**(3)**|
|year||||
||**313**|
**88**|
**401**|
## 17. Analysis of net assets between funds - previous year
||Unrestricted|
Restricted|
**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Funds|
Funds|
**Funds**|
||2021|
2021|
**2021**|
||£ 000|
£ 000|
**£ 000**|
|Tangible fixed assets|
81|
-|
**81**|
|Investment property|
-|
-|
**-**|
|Current Assets|
283|
7|
**290**|
|Creditors due within one year|
(73)|
-|
**(73)**|
|Creditors due in more than one|
(3)|
-|
**(3)**|
|year||||
||**288**|
**7**|
**295**|
## 18. Commitments under operating leases
Total future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases:
||||**Group**|Group|**Charity**|Charity|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**2022**|2021|**2022**|2021|
||||**£ 000**|£ 000|**£'000**|£'000|
|Rental property - expiring in less than|1|year|1|4|1|4|
The lease was for 5 months from 22 Mar 2022 (followed by a 1 month rolling contract).
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 19. Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities
||**2022**|
2021|
|---|---|---|
||**£ 000**|
£ 000|
|Net income / (expenditure) for the reporting period
(as per Statement of Financial Activities)|**106**|
(29)|
|**Adjustment for:**|||
|Depreciation|**22**|
21|
|(Loss)/Profit on disposal of tangible fixed assets|**-**|
-|
|(Increase)/decrease in stocks|**-**|
-|
|(Increase)/decrease in debtors|**(11)**|
6|
|Increase/(decrease)in creditors|**19**|
52|
|**_Net cash provided by /(used in) operation activities_**|**136**|
50|
20. Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
||**2022**|
2021|
|---|---|---|
||**£ 000**|
£ 000|
|Cash at bank and in hand|**360**|
210|
|Overdraft facilityrepayable on demand|**-**|
-|
|**Total cash and cash equivalents**|**360**|
210|
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## **Youth With A Mission Harpenden**
A company limited by guarantee, Company Registration No. 08807913, Charity Registration No. 1156783
## Notes to the Financial Statements (continued)
## **For the Year Ended 31[st] August 2022**
## 21. Statement of Financial Activities – Previous Year
||||**Notes**||**Unrestricted**
**Funds**||**Restricted**
**Funds**||**Total**
**Funds**||Total
Funds|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**2021**||**2021**||**2021**||2020|
||||||£'000||£'000||£'000||£'000|
||**Incoming resources:**|||||||||||
||Donations and legacies||2||79
644
156||-
-
-||**79**||115|
||Charitable activities||3||||||**644**||726|
||Charitable trading activities||4||||||**156**||39|
||**Total incoming resources:**||||879
(807)
(101)||-||**879**||880|
|||||||||||||
||**Resources expended:**||||||-
-|||||
||Charitable activities||6||||||**(807)**||(867)|
||Other trading activities||4||||||**(101)**||(22)|
||**Total resources expended:**||||(908)||-||**(908)**||(889)|
|||||||||||||
||**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before**
**transfers:**||||(29)||-||**(29)**||(9)|
||Transfer from / to other YWAM charities:||||-||-||**-**||2|
||**Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before other**
**gains (Losses):**||||(29)||-||**(29)**||(7)|
|||||||||||||
||**Transfers between funds:**|||||||||||
||**Net Movement in Funds:**||||(29)||-||**(29)**||(7)|
||**Reconciliation of funds:**|||||||||||
||**Total funds brought forward:**||||317||7||**324**||331|
||**Total funds carried forward:**||||288||7||**295**||324|
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