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**Charity Registration No: 1159232**
## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
**Report of the trustees and unaudited financial statements Year ended 5 April 2024**
T B Tax Services Bridge House Pattenden Lane Marden Kent TN12 9QJ
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## **East Kent 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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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Reference and Administrative Details For the year ended 5 April 2024**
|**Charity name**|East Kent Gospel Hall Trust|
|---|---|
|**Registered charity number**|1159232|
|**Trustees**|Mr Garth Worsley|
||Mr Nigel Deacon (Chair)|
||Mr Chester Clarke|
||Mr Darren Bedford|
||Mr Roy Deacon|
|**Treasurer**|Mr Darren Bedford|
|**Principal address**|29 Mill Lane|
||Shepherdswell|
||Dover|
||CT15 7LJ|
|**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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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees For the year ended 5 April 2024**
The Trustees present their report along with the financial statements of the Charity for the year ended 5 April 2024. 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 April 1982, most recently amended by Deed of Variation dated 15 August 2014. The Trust was registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 17 November 2014 under Charity Registration Number: 1159232.
## **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 2024 (2023: £nil).
The Trust operates a Gospel Hall and Trustees are chosen from among the regular congregation of the hall. 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 the Holt Street Trust, with whom it shares members of its congregation, and during the year the Charity paid expenses on its behalf, as shown in the donated services note.
## **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.
## **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.
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
**Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **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 Trust has continued to engage with the congregation and encouraging good works by them which benefit the wider community, as described in the annexed report.
Members of the congregation volunteered for the Rapid Relief Team, a registered charity in the work that they do. Work done by the RRT includes providing food boxes and essential supplies to the people of Ukraine displaced by the war, and providing support to homeless shelters in the provision of blankets and warm clothing.
As events open up throughout the remainder of 2024, RRT have plans for the future with some collaborations and support of a number of different charities which the trust will assist with.
## **Plans for future periods**
Despite the increased cost of energy, the trustees feel that these increased costs are not significantly impacting on the ability of the charity 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 300 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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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **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 2024 the Trust had a small deficit of incoming resources over resources expended. This was due to remedial work done on a hall belonging to the Holt Street Trust.
Total voluntary income received this year was £39,348 compared to £86,945 in the previous year.
All funds held were unrestricted funds.
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Report of the Trustees (Cont’d) For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **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. The Trustees aim to ensure that the charity has sufficient reserves to continue to fulfil its charitable objectives.
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 £203,450 (2023: £272,685). This is due to expenses to be incurred to upgrade some of the halls.
## **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 have been reviewed and approved by two Trustees.
On behalf of the Board:
[Darr08BC7F6220114B4... by: Darren Bedford Trustee
12/11/2024
Date: ...........................................
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**East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
**Independent Examiner’s report to the Trustees For the year ended 5 April 2024**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of East Kent Gospel Hall Trust for the year ending 5 April 2024.
## **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.
## [Bull] |[Simon] DocuSigned by:
Simon Bell 12/9/2024
T B Tax Services Bridge House Pattenden Lane Marden Kent TN12 9QJ
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 5 April 2024**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments from:**
**_Donations and legacies:_**
Collections
Contributions from the congregation
Gift Aid donations
Income tax refunds
Donations - East Kent Projects Ltd
Payroll giving
Grants from other Trusts
**_Investments_**
Bank interest
**_Other_**
Profit on sale of assets
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
**_Charitable activities_**
Running meeting rooms
Charitable activities
Cost of donated services
**4**
**Total**
**5**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Gains/(losses) on revaluations of fixed assets
Transfer of restricted fund
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Total**
**funds**
**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
33,600
0
33,600
26,444
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5,748
0
5,748
60,501
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|
|---|---|
||39,348
0
39,348
86,945|
||59,190
0
59,190
36,309
5,279
0
5,279
1,690
16,568
0
16,568
3,775|
||81,037
0
81,037
41,774|
||(41,689)
0
(41,689)
45,171
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
(41,689)
0
(41,689)
45,171
2,906,416
0
2,906,416
2,861,245|
||2,864,727
0
2,864,727
2,906,416|
The notes on pages 11 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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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust Balance Sheet For the year ended 5 April 2024**
||||**2024**||**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Notes**||**£**||**£**|
|**Fixed assets**||||||
|Intangible assets||0||0||
|Tangible fixed assets||2,661,277||2,633,731||
||**6**||2,661,277||2,633,731|
|**Current assets**||||||
|Debtors:||||||
|Loans|**7**|45,748||160,501||
|Prepayments and accrued income||0||0||
|Cash at bank and in hand||165,386||128,345||
|||211,134||288,846||
|**Current liabilities**||||||
|Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:||||||
|Loans||0||0||
|Accruals and deferred income||(7,684)||(16,161)||
|Net current assets|||203,450||272,685|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|||2,864,727|2,906,416|2,906,416|
|Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one||||||
|year:||||||
|Loans|||0||0|
|**Net assets**|||2,864,727|2|2,906,416|
|**Funds**||||||
|Unrestricted income fund|**8**||2,864,727|2,906,416|2,906,416|
|Restricted funds|||0||0|
|**Total charity funds**|**9**||2,864,727|2|2,906,416|
The unaudited financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees of East Kent Gospel Hall Trust on and signed on their behalf by 12/11/2024
[Darr08BC7F6220114B4... by: Darren Bedford Trustee
The notes on pages 11 to 17 form part of these financial statements
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **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 East Kent 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.
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## 1.5 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
Tangible fixed assets (costing more than £1500) 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:
Freehold Land and Buildings Not depreciated Fixtures and fittings 20% Reducing balance
## 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 majority of transactions undertaken by the subsidiary are already reflected in the accounts of the Trust through recharges. On this basis consolidated accounts for the year ended 5 April 2024 have not been prepared.
## 1.9 Going concern
The Trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
- 1.10 Significant estimates and judgements
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.
## **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 (2023: None).
## **3. Wages and salaries**
There are no employees (2023: none).
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
**Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **4. Donated services**
## Holt Street Trust
|**2024**
**£**
16,568
16,568|**2023**
**£**
3,775|
|---|---|
||3,775|
## **5. Resources expended**
|**_Current Year_**
**Direct costs:**
Insurance
Repairs & Maintenance
IT costs
Utilities
Congregation support
Activity costs
Donations to other trusts
Legal fees
Depreciation
**Governance costs**
Donated services (see note)
**_Prior Year_**
**Direct costs:**
Insurance
Repairs & Maintenance
IT costs
Utilities
Congregation support
Activity costs
Donations to other trusts
Legal fees
Depreciation
**Governance costs**
Donated services (see note)|**Meeting**
**rooms**
**£**
3,084
11,767
293
15,559
3,358
22,623
0
2,316
190
0
59,190
59,190
**Meeting**
**rooms**
**£**
212
3,575
196
18,639
0
3,430
0
10,004
253
0
36,309
36,309|**Other**
**charitable**
**activities**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
2,590
669
0
0
2,020
5,279
16,568
21,847
**Other**
**charitable**
**activities**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,690
1,690
3,775
5,465|**2024**
**£**
3,084
11,767
293
15,559
3,358
25,213
669
2,316
190
2,020|
|---|---|---|---|
||||64,469
16,568|
||||81,037|
||||**2023**
**£**
212
3,575
196
18,639
0
3,430
0
10,004
253
1,690|
||||37,999
3,775|
||||41,774|
Governance costs include £2,020 (2023: £1,690) in respect of independent examiner’s fees.
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **6. Fixed assets**
|**Cost**
B/f at 06/04/2023
Additions
Disposals
**At 5 April 2024**
**Depreciation**
B/f at 06/04/2023
Charge for the year
Impairment
Disposals
**At 5 April 2024**
**Net book value**
**At 5 April 2024**
**At 5 April 2023**
**Freehold Property:**
Eythorne
Land at Church Lane, Barham
Land at Whitfield
**7.**
**Loans made**
Loan to East Kent Projects Ltd
**TOTAL**|**Gospel Hall**
**Freehold**
**Property**
1,990,959
642,014
27,736
0
0
0
2,018,695
642,014
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2,018,695
642,014
1,990,959
642,014
**Title No**
TT4157
TT48602
TT89243/TT89245/TT53203|**Equipment**
28,173
0
0
28,173
27,415
190
0
0
27,605
568
758
**Cost**
139,410
80,000
422,604
642,014
**2024**
**£**
45,748
**45,748**|**Equipment**
28,173
0
0
28,173
27,415
190
0
0
27,605
568
758
**Cost**
139,410
80,000
422,604
642,014
**2024**
**£**
45,748
**45,748**|**Total**
2,661,146
27,736
0
2,688,882
27,415
190
0
0
27,605
2,661,277
2,633,731
**2023**
**£**
160,501
**160,501**|**Total**
2,661,146
27,736
0
2,688,882
27,415
190
0
0
27,605
2,661,277
2,633,731
**2023**
**£**
160,501
**160,501**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||
|||||||
|||||||
||||**45,748**||**160,501**|
The loan to East Kent Projects Ltd is interest free and is to fund work in progress. It will be repaid on completion of the project.
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **8. Analysis of net assets between funds**
|_8.1_
_Current year_
Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long term liabilities
**Total funds**
_8.2_
_Prior year_
Fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities
Long term liabilities
**Total funds**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
2,661,277
211,134
(7,684)
0
2,864,727
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
2,633,731
288,846
(16,161)
0
2,906,416||**Designated**
**funds**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
**Designated**
**funds**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0||**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0
**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
0
0
0
0
0||**Total**
**£**
2,661,277
211,134
(7,684)
0
2,864,727
**Total**
**£**
2,633,731
288,846
(16,161)
0|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||||
||||||||||
|||||||||2,906,416|
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **9. Movement in funds**
|_9.1_
_Current year_
**Restricted funds**
**Designated funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total funds**
_9.2_
_Prior year_
**Restricted funds**
**Designated funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total funds**|**Balance at**
**6 April**
**2023**
**£**
0
0
2,906,416
**2,906,416**
**Balance at**
**6 April**
**2022**
**£**
0
0
2,861,245
**2,861,245**||**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
0
0
39,348
**39,348**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
0
0
86,945
**613,251**||**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
0
0
(81,037)
**(81,037)**
**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
0
0
(41,774)
**(23,915)**||**TFR fund**
**for works**
**£**
0
0
0
**0**
**TFR fund**
**for works**
**£**
0
0
0
**0**||**Balance at**
**5 April**
**2024**
**£**
0
0
2,864,727
**2,864,727**
**Balance at**
**5 April**
**2023**
**£**
0
0
2,906,416|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
||||||||||**2,906,416**|
- The unrestricted fund is for use as the Trustees see fit.
## **10. Transactions with related parties**
The only payments made to related parties related to reimbursement of expenses incurred on behalf of the Charity in furthering the Charity’s objects.
The loan to East Kent Projects Ltd, which is interest free, is still outstanding. Tim Deacon (Trustee) and Nigel Deacon (Trustee) and Chester Clarke (Trustee) are directors of this company. East Kent Projects Ltd also invoiced the Trust £27,736 (2023: £39,783) throughout the year for works on the new Hall. At the year end there was £5,764 outstanding (2023: £14,240).
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **11. Volunteers**
East Kent 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.
## **12. Comparative Statement of Financial Activities**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments from:**
**_Donations and legacies:_**
Collections
Contributions from the congregation
Gift Aid donations
Income tax refunds
Donations - East Kent Projects Ltd
Payroll giving
Grants from other Trusts
**_Investments_**
Bank interest
**_Other_**
Profit on sale of assets
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
**_Charitable activities_**
Running meeting rooms
Charitable activities
Cost of donated services
**4**
**Total**
**5**
**Net income/(expenditure)**
Gains/(losses) on revaluations of fixed
assets
**Transfer of restricted fund**
Net movement in funds
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Designated**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
**£**
0
0
0
0
26,444
0
0
26,444
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
60,501
0
0
60,501
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|
|---|---|
||86,945
0
0
86,945|
||36,309
0
0
36,309
1,690
0
0
1,690
3,775
0
0
3,775|
||41,774
0
0
41,774|
||45,171
0
0
45,171
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
45,171
0
0
45,171
2,861,245
0
0
2,861,245|
||2,906,416
0
0
2,906,416|
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## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust**
## **Public Benefit Report**
The purpose of this factual presentation, is to show how the East Kent Gospel Hall Trust community engage in many acts of public benefit and interact with the wider community in so many ways.
The Plymouth Brethren were established in 1828 when John Nelson Darby broke with the established Church in Dublin. Darby and others formed a fellowship based on the strict observance of Christian teachings as set out in the Holy Scriptures. Darby came to Plymouth in the early 1830s and the congregation grew rapidly. Early publications were produced in Plymouth and distributed to other congregations of followers throughout the globe.
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## **Introduction**
There are over 18,000 Plymouth Brethren members in the UK, spread across 87 locations. These locations can be found on the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) UK Site.
There have been Brethren Gospel, or meeting halls in the East Kent area for over 150 years. The East Kent Gospel Hall Trust was formed to acquire buildings to be used for the advancement of the Christian religion by carrying on the service of God, including the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, Gospel Preachings, Bible Readings and addresses on the Word of God and other meetings of a Christian religious character according to the injunctions contained in the Holy Scriptures and the tenets and practices of those Christians forming a worldwide fellowship known as Plymouth Brethren.
The East Kent congregation is one of the smaller congregations in the UK, with 122 members living in the Canterbury and Dover districts; however with residents from the Maidstone and Medway area attending services up to three times a week, together with other visitors, numbers attending services regularly approach 450 persons, from young babies to nonagenarians.
## **Our Network**
To read more on the PBCC way of life, visit our website: https://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org.
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## **Street Preaching and Tract Distribution**
Street Preaching Street Preaching has been actively promoted by the Plymouth brethren for many years, at least from the 1920's, and today is enthusiastically supported by members of the East Kent Gospel Hall Trust congregation, as we seek to follow the example set out by our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke ch4 v17- 20)
The essential activity of publicly preaching the name of Jesus and God’s wonderful Gospel indiscriminately, gives joy and encouragement to our daily lives; as having personally proved the tangible benefit and immense improvement believing in Jesus brings, we seek to highlight the availability of Jesus to all mankind.
Currently the main chosen location is in the High Street, Canterbury, street preachings have been held here since the 1970s.
_Romans 10v13; “For everyone whosoever, who shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved”._
The aim of the street preaching is not to recruit additional members for the Plymouth Brethren but to present eternal salvation as available to all men by faith in Jesus Christ and His blood and His work of atonement.
Members of the congregation have continued to hand out tracts to neighbours and people in need when they have met them. Tracts are available for download on the below website: https://christiandoctrineandgospelpublishing.org/
## **Outreach**
In our outreach program, we have engaged with centres for the homeless, vulnerable and in prison. At the heart of our Community is the commitment to care and compassion, as we recognise the rights of all humanity within society. Members of the Congregation dedicate their time volunteering through our charitable arm, Rapid Relief Team(RRT) and contribute financially to many causes. As East Kent Gospel Hall Trust, we actively seek opportunities to support our local community from cleaning road signs to donating to local charities.
## **East Kent Gospel Hall Trust Public benefit**
- Supply of 20 Bibles to East Kent Hospital Trust
- £100/mth food box donations to Aylesham food bank
## **Rapid Relief Team**
Our Mission - To serve people with care & compassion in their time of need.
- Our Vision - For the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church to express Christian principles of care and compassion, by way of benevolent relief to people in need.
- Our Values - Global Team | Community Care | Compassion | Consistency
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**Donations:** 25 Food boxes donated to families in need, in Aylesham District. **Meals:** Martha Trust - charity staff reward day 150 meals - 10 RRT volunteers; 4.5 hours each Pegasus charity - first day of summer holiday care. 80 meals - 8 RRT volunteers; 3.5 hours each
Foster Care charity event - fun day for Foster children in the summer holidays 100 meals - 8 RRT volunteers; 5 hours each
## **Registered Address:**
29, Mill Lane, Shepherdswell, Dover CT15 7LJ