**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1157025**
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
Quest Chartered Management Accountants Trustees Report Branston Street Jewellery Quarter B18 6BA
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES**
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the Charity’s financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the Trustees should follow best practice and:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have
- been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume
- that the Charity will continue in operation.
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the Charity’s financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the Trustees should follow best practice and:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in
- the financial statements;
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to
- presume that the Charity will continue in operation.
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Charity and which enable them to ascertain the financial position of the Charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with (applicable law, regulations and trust deed). They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Trustee
N Whateley
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
The trustees who are also directors for the purposes of company law, have pleasure in presenting their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2025
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
Registered Charity Name:
THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE
Charity Registration Number: 1157025 Registered Office: Hargate Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71 1PH
## **The Trustees**
The trustees who served the company during the year were as follows:
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
V Ketcher N Whateley A Hopkins
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
Operating independently from government and from its funders, Christian Youth & Community Trustees have responsibility for policy, the establishment of priorities and full financial, employment, financial and legal responsibility for the Trust and its activities, services and assets.
## **Trustees Report**
During the period of this report the charity has been governed by a Board of 3 Trustees, bringing a diverse skill set, knowledge of the sector and knowledge of the charity. Throughout the year we have continued to develop the governance of the charity, ensuring there are robust procedures in place to safeguard the charity and its people.
The charity employs a CEO Andrew Bent and a team of 2full time(35hrs) staff and 2 part time staff (21-10hrs). During the year we have continued to value the huge contribution of volunteers, maintaining the level of volunteers on roll and investing into the development of the volunteer journey and building relationships.
The Charity operates from its core values:
a passion for the family a passion to be welcoming to all a passion to empower people a passion for quality
The Charity continue to progress towards an exciting building program to support our vision to build capacity and sustainability in delivering our play work and increasing community provision; plans have been submitted for approval by Sandwell’s Local Authority. The initial decision met minor objections, but we continue to work with the Local Authority to mitigate these and to gain full approval.
We continue in the meantime to make improvements to our current build, transforming it into a therapeutic environment for everyone who accesses our services to benefit from. We have also secured planning permission to install an external ramp to the side of our centre, making accessibility to the centre more inclusive. We will have consent for internal works to erect a bathroom for those who have a disability, again ensuring our community hub is inclusive and accessible to all our community.
We will also be extending and refurbishing our kitchen and food storage area, to enhance our community offer and enable us to build on our brand-new project “Discover yourself through Cooking”
Time2Play (providing a stimulating environment for children young people and communities to explore, grow and develop through play)
Like many other wraparound services, our Time2play service continues to be negatively impacted by the rising cost of living, following the pandemic. We remain acutely aware of the need for children and families to have quality provision to access.
The Play Team continue to provide a quality service to local families, including our before and after school clubs and holiday play scheme provision. The team continue to partner with TPC therapy in Cheadle, who continue to provide professional development and mentoring for our play team, supporting our therapeutic approach to delivery and environment. This model is being extended across the whole organisation as we have seen an increase in support to those with low mental wellbeing.
The Time2play team are continuing to develop new and innovative ways of engaging local children and families with their offer including extending our offer to families that would not normally be able to access due to financial constraints.
The Time2Play team along with Time2Connect and Time2Buildup continue to offer ‘above and beyond’ services to our families and communities, including our family play evenings and support with costs of accessing our play schemes, thanks to funding from Awards for All. Wider initiatives include our Christmas ‘A time to love’ initiative, community remembrance service and distribution of food gifts to our families who need support.
Time2Connect (Connecting individuals, families, and Communities to create supportive networks)
Our Time2Connect Lead has been busy throughout the year making meaningful connections within the community enabling the charity to support and receive support from other charity and agencies within the locality.
Securing funds from National Lottery to deliver 2 projects, the first of the projects was to support the cost-of-living crisis, providing essential emergency food, warm packs and essential items to some of the most vulnerable within our local community. The second project being 4 years funding to support the charity’ community offering of engaging, involving and empowering local people.
We continue to work closely with colleagues from our Local Authority and Public Health, Sandwell Council for Voluntary Organisations and Sandwell Church Links.
Time2Buildup (Empowering people through volunteering, student placement and work experience)
Securing funds from The National Lottery has meant we were able to recruit a dedicated member of staff to develop a robust volunteer program. Engaging new and existing volunteers from across the community, again this year developing our relationships with our local college and schools to provide work placements and experience to our young people.
Our Time2Buildup lead works closely with our other thematic leads to ensure we provide the very best journey for our volunteers and placements.
Our volunteers play a major part in our community offer delivery, supporting our Leads in activities such as
- Parent and toddlers,
- Craft groups,
- Community meals,
- Food parcel distribution,
- Community engagement and building,
- Administrative tasks,
- Fund raising and social events.
Again, this year we held our Volunteer Appreciation celebration which was a great success and helped us thank everyone for their hard work as well as celebrate their successes and achievements.
Our monthly ‘Our Community’ meetings continue, engaging staff and community members. Empowering our volunteers and community to have a voice in our community offer and the events they wish us to plan and deliver, in a way that benefits them and their community best.
We have continued to build and develop our connection with Westminster School (our Local SEND School and College). We have developed a new project with the support of the school staff “Discover yourself through Cooking” which is a 12-week project where students can develop practical skills of cooking and develop basic food safety knowledge. Our staff work with students in an informal and nonjudgemental way to help the young person discover who they are, what barriers they might be facing and identify ways they might be able to manage their way around or through those barriers. Our hope is to extend this project to other schools and in the future possibly extend the offer to young people exiting the care system, offering them life skills that will empower them to become contributing ‘ ’ citizens in the adult world .
This is the third year of our community allotment, and we have continued a great connection with Black Country Housing Association, who have provided staff to volunteer with us in site preparations, planting and harvesting. We continue to work towards the allotment becoming an accessible environment for our local community to use to volunteer, and a safe environment for children and young people using our services to access to gain knowledge about nature, growing and the environment.
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
Name Position Signature Date
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 Mar 2025 set out on pages below.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner.**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts under section 43(3)(a) of the act and state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under Section 43(7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to our attention.
## **Basis of the independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect,
- to keep proper accounting records in accordance with Section 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of Sections 394 and 395 of the Companes Act 2006 and with the methods and principals of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and
have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Nick Bonnaud ACMA
Quest Chartered Management Accountants
Date:
**THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|Notes
**INCOMING RESOURCES**
**Income**
Monthly Donations
Other Donations
OOSC Grant
General Grant
Other Income
HMRC JRS Grant
Fundraiding Events
OOSC Fee
General Donation
Community Café
Bank interest
New W/C Fund
**Total incoming resources**
**RESOURCES EXPENDED**
Adminstration
Wages, NI and Pension
Building
Administration
Software
Insurance
Bad Debts
Legal and Professional
Interest and Finance Charges
Utilities
Training
Marketing
Stripe processing fee
Bank Charges and Interest
Internet and Broadband
Photocopy cost
Stationary
Bookeeper cost
Telephone
Accounts package cost
Trustees Report
Resources
Miscellaneous
Resource Bank
Resources
OOSC
OOSC Catering
Just giving
Volunteer Expenses
Government
Travel and Subsistence
Fuel and Repairs
Community Café (Food Purchase)
Trip Admission
travel
Promotion
Interest
Fundraising Expenses
Activities
Motor
Artists
Premises Expenses
Depreciation
General Expense
Total Expenditure
Surplus (Deficit) for year
Transfers
At 1 April 2024
At 31 March 2025|Unrestricted
Funds
£
1000
98289
7676
1445
37013
1569
4179
19
10429
**161,619**
95,343
2,348
1,765
5,030
9,885
3,665
1,273
79
1,441
288
169
1,386
2,873
604
126,149
5,383
1,308
292
72
1,970
9,025
1,003
38
1,041
9
6,245
7,209
4,253
17,716
**153,931**
7,688
75,571
83,259|Restricted
Funds
£
**0**
0
0
0
0
**0**
0
29,493
29,493|31/03/2025
31/03/2024
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
£
£
0
0
0
0
1000
8999
98289
121801
7676
9450
0
0
1445
2430
37013
41130
1569
3560
4179
3681
19
10429
100
161,619
191151
95,343
67071
0
0
0
0
2,348
2761
1,765
1667
0
0
5,030
18871
0
0
9,885
9712
3,665
0
1,273
382
79
513
0
-52
1,441
775
288
169
157
1,386
2,873
1885
604
126,149
103742
0
0
5,383
21,109
1,308
1,080
292
636
72
216
1,970
2,045
0
0
9,025
25086
0
0
1,003
1145
0
85
38
825
1,041
2055
0
0
0
0
0
578
0
0
9
0
0
6,245
4302
7,209
2330
4,253
3279
17,716
10489
**153,931**
**141,372**
7,688
49,779
105,064
55285.5
112,752
105,065|
|---|---|---|---|
**THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **BALANCE SHEET**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|£
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible assets
38,408
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Debtors
1526
Petty Cash
125
Other Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
73893
75544
**CREDITORS**
Short Term loan
Mortgage / Loan
Trade Creditors
1048
PAYE
53
Other taxes to pay HMRC
32
Attachments
75
Other Creditors
1208
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
Capital Account
Assets Transferred from Charity 1095825
Balance brought forward
Surplus (deficit) of income over expenditure
Trustees Report
**TOTAL FUNDS**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**NET ASSETS**|31/03/2025
£
38,408
74336
112744
55,286
7,688
62974
29492.88
33480.62|£
27509
2453
1380
73890
77723
1448
1009
2457|31/03/2024
£
27509
75266
105,065
55285.67
0
55286
29492.88
25792.62|
|---|---|---|---|
62974
55286
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED….) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
The charity is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2025.
The members have not required the charity company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on ……………………………………
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
…………………………………… Trustee N Whateley
**THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008), the Companies Act 2006 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice, Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charity is legally entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
|Land & Buidlings|No Depreciation|
|---|---|
|IT Equipment|- 25% Reducing Balance|
|Fixtures|- 25% Reducing Balance|
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
**THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **2. Fixed assets**
|**Cost**
At 31 March 2024
Transfer from Charity 1095825
Additions
Disposals
**At 31 March 2025**
**Deprecation**
As at 31 March 2024
Charge for the year
Disposals
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2024
At 31 March 2025
**3. Restricted Funds**
Building Fund
National Heritage
DCMS Heart of England
The World Ministry
Children In Need
Other|**Land &**
**Building**
£
27,016
-
-
**27,016**
1881
1065
-
2,946
25,135
0
24070
0
**2025**
0
═══════|**IT Equipment**
£
2,204
1,444
**3,648**
1469
654
-
2,123
735
0
1,524.60
0
2024
29,493
29,493
═══════|**Fixtures**
£
7,918
14375
-
**22,293**
3990
5490
-
9,480
3,928
0
12813
0|**Total**
£
37,138
0
-
**37,138**
7,340
7,209
-
14,549
29,798
38,408|
|---|---|---|---|---|
**THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**4.**
**VOLUNTARY INCOME**
Donations
Grants
**5.**
**ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS**
Fundraising events
**6.**
**NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES**
Net resources are stated after charging:
Depreciation|31-Mar-25
£
1569
136302
137,871
31-Mar-25
£
1,445
31-Mar-25
£
7,209|31-Mar-24
£
3,560
171,930
175,490
31-Mar-24
.
2,430
31-Mar-24
£
2,330|
|---|---|---|
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **7. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
During the year no trustees received remuneration or benefits.
## Trustees' Expenses
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: £Nil)
## **8. STAFF COSTS**
|**STAFF COSTS**|||
|---|---|---|
||31-Mar-25|31-Mar-24|
||£|£|
|Wages, salaries, employers NIC and pensions|95,343|67071|
## **THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **9. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS DUE FALLING WITHIN ONE YEAR**
|Trade creditors
Taxation and social security
**10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS DUE FALLING AFTER ONE YEAR**
Ms. Bent Relating to Building Loan
**11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
At
31-Mar-24
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
25,793
**Restricted funds**
29,493
**Transfer from old charity**
**TOTAL**
55,286|31-Mar-25
£
1,448
1,009
2,457
Net movement
in fund
£
7,688
-
7,688|31-Mar-24
£
1,448
1,009.00
2,457
At
31-Mar-25
£
33,481
29,493
62,974|
|---|---|---|
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