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**Charity Registration No: 1159093**
## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
**Report of the trustees and unaudited financial statements Year ended 5 April 2022**
T B Tax Services Bridge House Pattenden Lane Marden Kent TN12 9QJ
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Contents**
||Pages|
|---|---|
|Reference and administrative details|3|
|Report of the trustees|4-7|
|Independent examiner’s report|8|
|Statement of financial activities|9|
|Balance sheet|10|
|Notes to the financial statements|11-17|
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Reference and Administrative Details For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
|**Charity name**|The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust|
|---|---|
|**Registered charity number**|1159093|
|**Trustees**|Philip Smith (resigned 22/12/21)|
||Ken Hutchins (Chair)|
||James Hutchins|
||David Glass|
||Paul Cable (resigned 22/12/21)|
||Michael Smith (appointed 22/12/21)|
||Neil Woodfield (appointed 22/12/21)|
|**Treasurer**|Michael Smith|
|**Principal address**|Brethrens Meeting Room|
||Snape Road|
||Knodishall|
||Saxmundham|
||Suffolk|
||IP17 1UT|
|**Independent examiner**|Simon Bell|
||T B Tax Services|
||Accountants|
||Bridge House|
||Pattenden Lane|
||Marden|
||Kent|
||TN12 9QJ|
|**Accountant**|T B Tax Services|
||Accountants|
||Bridge House|
||Pattenden Lane|
||Marden|
||Kent|
||TN12 9QJ|
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
The Trustees present their report along with the financial statements of the Charity for the Year ended 5 April 2022. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on page 11 and comply with the Trust Deed and applicable law.
## **Structure, governance and management**
## **Governing document**
The charity is controlled by a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity.
The Charity is an unincorporated trust constituted by a Deed of Trust dated 21 October 1978, most recently amended by Deed of Variation dated 12 August 2014. The Trust was registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 6 November 2014 under Charity Registration Number: 1159093.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
The names of the Trustees who served during the year and since the year end are set out on page 3. None of the Trustees, nor any person connected with them, received any remuneration or expenses from the Charity in the Year ended 5 April 2022 (2021: £nil).
The Trust operates Gospel Halls and Trustees are chosen from among the regular congregation of the halls. New Trustees are nominated by the existing Trustees or by the congregation and must be appointed by unanimous resolution of the congregation. They are selected according to their skills and experience and are expected to use both in furthering the objects of the Charity. Checks are made to ensure the Trustees’ eligibility to act and incoming Trustees are made aware of their responsibilities by the existing Trustees, who ensure that new Trustees read the Trust Deed and relevant Charity Commission guidance.
## **Wider network**
The Trustees maintain informal links with similar charities with a view to pooling experience considered useful in pursuing the objects of the Charity. The Charity also maintains particular links with Alliston Gospel Hall Trust, with which it shares members of its congregation.
## **Risk management**
The Trustees have identified and reviewed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed and confirm that they have established systems or procedures to manage and mitigate those risks.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
**Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **Objectives and activities**
## **Objectives and aims**
The charitable purposes of the Charity are the advancement of the Christian religion for the public benefit, including by the carrying on of the service of God in accordance with the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible as followed by those Christians forming part of the world-wide fellowship known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (the “Brethren”) and any other charitable purposes connected with Brethren. The core doctrine of the Brethren and proper practices in furtherance of certain aspects of doctrine are summarised in two schedules to the Trust Deed.
## **Public benefit**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty under section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance to charities on public benefit.
## **Main activities and achievements**
The Trust provides and maintains Gospel Halls where religious meetings are held by the local Brethren community. Details of the origins, teachings and way of life of the Brethren can be found on the website - www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org and in the schedules to the Trust Deed.
The trustees have also operated an Emergency Needs fund for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic and any resultant economic downturn. This is providing limited financial assistance by the way of grocery vouchers to households, who have experienced a recent and significant decrease in income due to the pandemic, such that it is likely to impact on the health and/or welfare of members of the household. The trust has appointed a Local Welfare Panel to manage the application process and to administer the vouchers to qualifying applicants.
The Trust has continued to engage with the congregation and encouraging good works by them which benefit the wider community, as described in the attached report.
## **Plans for future periods**
With the commencement of lockdown restrictions in the UK the trust ceased using the gospel halls it operates. During the financial year, restrictions were eased sufficiently to allow the congregation to use the gospel halls for the Lord’s Supper (Communion). The use of the rooms was conducted in a manner which always complied with the government guidance, and the trust intends to continue using the rooms when it is safe to do so. The trustees do not consider that the Covid-19 pandemic will have any effect on the ability of the trust to continue as a going concern.
## **Meetings**
Meetings held at the Gospel halls include the Lord's Supper (Communion), Gospel preachings, Bible readings and Bible addresses. There is a structured weekly schedule of meetings and, depending on the particular meeting, between 30 and 450 people normally attend these occasions.
The meetings are attended by the regular congregation and most are open to other properly disposed visitors. The notice board outside the Hall welcomes visitors and displays the times of Gospel preachings, along with a telephone number for those seeking further information or help. Gospel tracts, which are distributed by street preachers, also display this information.
Bibles and an extensive range of other Christian reading material are on display at the hall and visitors are free to help themselves.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
**Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **Spreading the Gospel message and the life of a Christian**
The Gospel Halls are a base from which the regular congregation and others who attend the meetings are encouraged to spread the Christian Gospel, in word and deed.
Members of the congregation participate in a programme of street preaching and Gospel tracts are provided free of charge by the Charity to such preachers to be handed out to interested members of the public.
In carrying out this work, the congregation considers itself to be living out its faith in practice, as particularly exemplified in the following extract from the schedule to the Trust Deed on living a Christian life:
- We seek and are encouraged to live exemplary lives in all our relationships with others in the wider community (including former Brethren), in accordance with the teachings of Holy Scripture (1 Tim 2:2).
- We regularly go out from our homes to preach on the streets, to distribute Christian literature and engage with the wider community (including former Brethren) in order to present eternal salvation, available to all men by faith in Jesus Christ. (2 Tim 4:2).
- We seek as members of the public to lead Christian lives as husbands and wives, parents, children, employers, employees and neighbours. (Col 3:22-25, Col 4:1).
- The preservation and protection of the family unit is fundamental and children are prized as a blessing from God. (Psalm 127:3-5). The elderly are valued members of the community, for whom both their family and the wider community are expected to care.
- Holy Scripture commands us to be good neighbours to others, and deal with all other people (including former Brethren) openly, honestly and fairly and consistent with these principles, we should give our time, talents and money to assist those in need in the wider community, in so far as reasonable given our abilities and our available resources. (Matt 7:12, Matt 22:39, Eph 4:28).
## **Funding**
Funding is sought through gifts from the congregation and Gift Aid is claimed on eligible donations. Funding is sometimes received from other charitable trusts with complementary objectives.
## **Financial review**
## **Financial position**
In the Year ended 5 April 2022 there was a good surplus of income over expenditure.
Total voluntary income received this year was £71408 compared to £70120 in the previous year.
All funds held are unrestricted funds.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **Reserves policy**
The Trustees have considered the level of reserves they wish to retain, appropriate to the charity's needs, based on its size and the level of its financial commitments. The Trust has no employees and its regular outgoings are minimal. Accordingly, the Trustees have decided to adopt a policy of maintaining no significant reserves. There is a build up of reserves to fund the building of a new Gospel Hall, and also the possible purchase of additional land.
The congregation is kept regularly informed as to particular needs for funds, and other relevant matters and the Trustees aim to ensure that the Charity will be able to continue to fulfil its charitable objectives even if there is a temporary shortfall in income or unexpected expenditure, by raising a funds appeal to the congregation.
Free reserves at the year-end were £168987 (2021: £118717).
## **Statement of Trustees’ responsibilities**
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations and the provisions of the Trust Deed require the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the Charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the Trustees are required to
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations and the provisions of the 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. All transactions are approved by at least two Trustees.
On behalf of the Board:
Michael Smith Trustee
10/31/2022 Date: ...........................................
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**The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
**Independent Examiner’s report to the Trustees For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust for the year ending 5 April 2022.
## **RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES AND EXAMINER**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
## **BASIS OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS 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 statement below.
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S STATEMENT**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; Or
2. The accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. The accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Bridge House ……………………………………… Pattenden Lane T B Tax Services Marden 10/29/2022 Kent TN12 9QJ
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Statement of Financial Activities For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments from:**
**_Donations and legacies:_**
Collections
Contributions from the
congregation
Gift Aid donations
Income tax refunds
Donated services
Other donations
Grants from other Trusts
**_Investments_**
Bank interest
**_Other - Solar power revenue_**
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
**_Charitable activities_**
Running meeting rooms
**5**
Charitable events
**5**
Cost of donated services
**4**
**Total**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Gains/(losses) on sale of fixed
assets
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**2022**
**Total**
**funds**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
45989
1450
0
47439
49444
19175
0
0
19175
16540
4794
0
0
4794
4136
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
28
0
0
28
16
3799
0
0
3799
3495|
|---|---|
||73785
1450
0
75235
73631|
||20946
0
0
20946
22158
0
1450
0
1450
12900
3173
0
0
3173
2304|
||24119
1450
0
25569
37362|
||49666
0
0
49666
36269
0
0
0
0
0
49666
0
0
49666
36269
953675
0
0
953675 917406|
||1003341
0
0 1003341 953675|
The notes on pages 12 to 17 form part of these financial statements. All of the above activities are classed as continuing and there are no gains and losses other than those included above.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
|**Notes**
**Fixed assets**
Intangible assets
Tangible fixed assets
**6**
**Current assets**
Debtors:
Loan
**7**
Prepayments and accrued income
Cash at bank and in hand
**Current liabilities**
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income
Loans
**8**
Net current assets
**Total assets less current liabilities**
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:
Loans
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Unrestricted income fund
Designated funds
Restricted funds
**Total charity funds**
**9**|0
834354|**2022**
**£**
834354
168987|0
834958|**2021**
**£**
834958
118717|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||0
1800
268978||
150000
1845
68961||
||270778
(711)
(1080)
(100000)||220806
(1009)
(1080)
(100000)||
||||
||
|||1003341
0||953675
0|
|||1003341||953675|
|||1003341
0
0||953675
0
0|
|||1003341||953675|
The unaudited financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees of The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust on 10/31/2022 and signed on their behalf by
Michael Smith Trustee
The notes on pages 12 to 17 form part of these financial statements
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **1. Accounting policies**
## 1.1 Basis of financial statements
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014, and incorporating update bulletins 1 and 2, and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
The functional currency of the charity is sterling (£).
The Trust 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 note(s).
## 1.2 Income
Donations are recognised in the year in which there is entitlement and probability of receipt and the amount can be measured with reasonable certainty. Income is only deferred when the charity has to fulfil conditions before becoming entitled to it or where the donor has specified that the income is to be expended in a future year. Gift aid is added to the value of the donation to which it relates.
Donated services are recognised as income and expenditure in the financial statements when organisations or individuals offer their services and support pro bono. The value of these donated services to The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust is considered to be equal to market value which would be paid were the service formally procured. This includes services paid for by other trusts.
Investment income is accounted for on a receivable basis.
## 1.3 Expenditure
Expenditure is included on an accruals basis. Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources.
Charitable activities comprise those costs directly attributable to the fulfilment of the charitable objects.
## 1.4 Governance and support costs
Support costs have been allocated between governance costs and other support costs. Governance costs comprise all costs involving the public accountability of the charity and costs related to statutory requirements. Governance and support costs are allocated to charitable activities on the basis of capacity used.
## 1.5 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
Tangible fixed assets (costing more than £500) are stated at cost less depreciation. Freehold land is not depreciated. 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 and Fittings
25% reducing balance
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## 1.6 Taxation
The Trust is a registered charity and is not liable to United Kingdom income or corporation tax on charitable activities, provided income falls within the charitable exemptions and is spent on charitable purposes.
## 1.7 Funds
The general unrestricted fund is free for the Trustees to use for any purposes in furtherance of the trust’s charitable objects.
Restricted funds arise from donations to the trust, which are made for a specific purpose. Restricted funds can only be used for the purpose for which funds were given.
## 1.8 Preparation of consolidated financial statements
The Charity does not have a trading subsidiary and there is no requirement to prepare consolidated accounts
## 1.9 Going concern
The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern. The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period. The Trustees do not consider that the Covid-19 pandemic will have any effect on the ability of the Trust to continue as a going concern.
## **2. Trustees’ remuneration and expenses**
No Trustees received any remuneration or other benefits from an employment with the charity and no Trustees were reimbursed for expenses (2021: None).
## **3. Wages and salaries**
There are no employees (2021: none).
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **4. Donated services**
|Outgoing - Alliston Trust|**2022**
**£**
3173
3173|**2021**
**£**
2304|
|---|---|---|
|||2304|
## **5. Resources expended**
|**_Current Year_**
**Direct costs:**
Insurance
Repairs & Maintenance
Event expenses
Utilities
Loan interest
Donations
Legal and Professional Fees
Depreciation
**Governance costs**
**_Prior Year_**
**Direct costs:**
Insurance
Repairs & Maintenance
Event expenses
Utilities
Loan interest
Donations
Legal and Professional Fees
Depreciation
**Governance costs**|**Meeting rooms**
**£**
1809
9325
0
3030
3000
0
1979
603
1200
20946
**Meeting rooms**
**£**
1780
6043
0
7486
3000
0
1845
804
1200
22158|**Other**
**charitable**
**activities**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
1450
0
0
0
1450
**Other**
**charitable**
**activities**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
12900
0
0
0
12900|**2022**
**£**
1809
9325
0
3030
3000
1450
1979
603
1200|
|---|---|---|---|
||||22396|
||||**2021**
**£**
1780
6043
0
7486
3000
12900
1845
804
1200|
||||35058|
Governance costs include £1080 (2021: £1080) in respect of accountancy and independent examiner’s fees.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **6. Fixed assets**
|**Cost**
B/f at 06/04/2021
Additions
Disposals
**At 5 April 2022**
**Depreciation**
B/f at 06/04/2021
Charge for the year
Impairment
Disposals
**At 5 April 2022**
**Net book value**
**At 5 April 2022**
**At 5 April 2021**
**Freehold Property:**
Snape Road, Knodishall
Gromford Lane, Snape
Carlton Road, Kelsale
**7.**
**Loans – Current Debtors**
Private Loans
**TOTAL**|**Development**
**costs**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
**Title No**
SK147008
SK142224
SK292371|**Freehold**
**Property**
832544
0
0
832544
0
0
0
0
0
832544
832544
SK308749|**Equipment**
18467
0
0
18467
16054
603
0
0
16657
1810
2413
**Cost**
413878
265759
125000
**2022**
**£**
0
**0**|**Total**
851011
0
0|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||851011|
|||||16054
603
0
0|
|||||16657|
|||||834354|
|||||834957|
|||||**2021**
**£**
150000|
|||||**150000**|
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **8. Loans – Current Liabilities**
|Private Loans
**TOTAL**
**9.**
**Analysis of net assets between funds**
_9.1_
_Current year_
Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long term liabilities
**Total funds**
_9.2_
_Prior year_
Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long term liabilities
**Total funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
834354
270778
(101791)
0
1003341
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
834958
220806
(102089)
0
953675|**2022**
**£**
100000
**100000**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0||**2021**
**£**
100000
**100000**
**Total**
**£**
834354
270778
(101791)
0|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||
|||||1003341|
|||||**Total**
**£**
834958
220806
(102089)
0
953675|
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **10. Movement in funds**
|_10.1_
_Current year_
**Restricted funds**
**Designated funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total funds**
_10.2_
_Prior year_
**Restricted funds**
**Designated funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at**
**6 April**
**2021**
**£**
0
0
953675
**953675**
**Balance at**
**6 April**
**2020**
**£**
0
0
917406
**917406**|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
0
1450
73785
**75235**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
0
12705
60926
**73631**|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
0
(1450)
(24119)
**(25569)**
**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
0
(12705)
(24657)
**(37362)**|**Realised/**
**unrealised**
**gains and**
**losses**
**£**
0
0
0
**0**
**Realised/**
**unrealised**
**gains and**
**losses**
**£**
0
0
0
**0**|**Balance**
**at 5 April**
**2022**
**£**
0
0
1003341|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**1003341**|
||||||**Balance**
**at 5 April**
**2021**
**£**
0
0
953675
**953675**|
## **11. Transactions with related parties**
During the year the Trust purchased goods from Beacon Lights to the value of £37 (2021: £146), a business owned by Phil Smith, Trustee. This was at arms length.
There were donations in the year of £4835 (2021: £2515) from related parties.
## **12. Volunteers**
The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust relies entirely on volunteers to carry out the management, administration and general maintenance work. The Trust has no paid staff or paid Trustees.
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## **The Leewood Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the Year ended 5 April 2022**
## **13. Comparative Statement of Financial Activities**
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**Notes**
**Income and endowments from:**
**_Donations and legacies:_**
Collections
Contributions from the
congregation
Gift Aid donations
Income tax refunds
Donated services
Other donations
Grants from other Trusts
**_Investments_**
Bank interest
**_Other - Solar power revenue_**
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
**_Charitable activities_**
Running meeting rooms
**5**
Charitable events
**5**
Cost of donated services
**4**
**Total**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Gains/(losses) on sale of fixed
assets
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**2021**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
36739
12705
0
49444
16540
0
0
16540
4136
0
0
4136
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
0
0
16
3495
0
0
3495|
|---|---|
||60926
12705
0
73631|
||22158
0
0
22158
195
12705
0
12900
2304
0
0
2304|
||24657
12705
0
37362|
||36269
0
0
36269
0
0
0
0
36269
0
0
36269
917406
0
0
917406|
||953675
0
0
953675|
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## LEEWOOD GOSPEL HALL TRUST
## PUBLIC BENEFIT REPORT
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## LEEWOOD
GOSPEL HALL TRUST
## **LEEWOOD GOSPEL HALL TRUST PUBLIC BENEFIT**
One of the Trust’s principal activities that furthers its objects is providing a facility for the coordination of “outreach” work into the wider community.
Members of the congregation, acting under the directions of the trustees and with their full active encouragement, have continued with “outreach” work which they have carried out for many years.
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## LEEWOOD
## GOSPEL HALL TRUST
## **2021 SUMMARY**
The trustees of the Leewood Gospel Hall Trust confirm that they have complied with their duty under section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s general guidance to charities on public benefit.
Whilst general restrictions were much less throughout 2021 and into 2022, we have proceeded with caution as a community and still hold many of our worship meetings through video conferencing, to ensure protection of the congregation, particularly the elder and more vulnerable.
The trustees and the regular congregation members are determined to continue their public benefit works and as we support people and communities around our places of worship.
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## LEEWOOD GOSPEL HALL TRUST
## **STREET PREACHING AND TRACT DISTRIBUTION**
Once the Covid restrictions were lifted we have resumed our efforts to get the message of the Goodness of God out through preaching on the street. This is done mainly on the high street in Aldeburgh, were members of the congregations also hand out tracts and gospel cards to passers-by.
Any enquiries received by the trustees or made to central office have been followed up fully, and where applicable people have been directed to the following website where literature can be purchased or downloaded for reading in multiple languages.
## https://christiandoctrineandgospelpublishing.org/
Other church leaders and ministers from time-to-time request some of the early printed ministry by the leaders which is made available from the website listed.
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## LEEWOOD
## GOSPEL HALL TRUST
## **COMMUNITY BENCHES**
Over the years, we have provided benches in public areas for the local communities around our places of worship. The ones in the Aldeburgh town had become worse for wear in recent times, so members of the congregation have been involved in refurbishing them to bring them back up to standard.
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## **WORKING WITH OTHER CHARITIES**
As seeking to express the Christian principles of care and compassion, members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church continue to be engaged in the care and benevolent support for those around them. This is largely coordinated through the work of the Rapid Relief Team (RRT), which many members are volunteers for. With the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and hardship felt by so many, charitable activity has included the ongoing distribution of well in excess of a hundred food packages to local charity group IP17 Good Neighbour Scheme, on whom many local residents have had to lean for vital food supplies, furniture and other household items. Each food package contains long-life food supplies which can feed a family of four for a number of days.
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## LEEWOOD
## GOSPEL HALL TRUST
In addition, RRT volunteers from Aldeburgh and the surrounding area have been pleased to donate breakfast bars and learning activity books to local schools including Coldfair Green Primary School in Knodishall, as part of the RRT’s Early Bird Learning Programme. This support helps all children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to get a good start to their school day when they would otherwise struggle to learn due to hunger and poor concentration. This extended to also providing food boxes for some of the children and their families over the Christmas break in 2021.
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