Annual Report 2019/2020
1. Introduction
This is the sixth annual report for Redeemer King Church; a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Commission on 18[th] November 2014 (N[o] . 1159252).
The report covers the period ending 31[st] July 2020.
2. Governance
At the start of the reporting period there were eight trustees overseeing the charitable purposes of the church. Andrew Turner and Simon Cozens stepped down as trustees in December 2019. Benjamin Garstang was appointed as a trustee on 1[st] January 2020. Arrangements for appointing trustees are set out in our constitution.
By agreement Mr Neville Taylor is the Chair of Trustees and Mr Richard Kirk continues in the role of Treasurer for the charity.
Janet Ayres and Andrew Kind were appointed to the leadership team in this period. By the end of the reporting period the leadership team consisted of Carl Beech, Karen Beech, Joshua Botham, Richard Kirk, Andrew Kind, Janet Ayres and Steve Parker.
A number of individuals who regularly attend church events and meetings are, along with trustees, taking responsibility on a voluntary basis for various functions that are crucial to achieving our charitable aims and objectives.
3.
Activities and Objectives
The charitable purposes and objectives of Redeemer King Church are to advance Christianity in Derbyshire by means of:
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i. communicating Christian messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature, in accordance with our basis of faith;
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ii. identifying and addressing the needs of socially and economically disadvantaged members of our community through engagement with existing, and the development of new, initiatives as appropriate and in keeping with our basis of faith.
Details of how these objectives have been achieved during the reporting period are set out below.
3.1 Objective 1: to communicate Christian messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature, in accordance with our basis of faith.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have been unable to meet physically together since mid-March 2020. With the mindset of ‘innovate, don’t replicate’, we switched immediately to broadcasting 20– 30-minute sermons on Sundays on our YouTube channel. We also launched our monthly magazinestyle Bonanza services, where we have a guest speaker or interview, testimonies and worship songs. Our Kids Church is also broadcast on Sunday mornings on YouTube. We placed great emphasis in getting involved in home groups and creating small communities, to the extent that 70% of our people are regularly engaged in home groups. Over Zoom, we have been able to hold a number of evangelistic meetings with guest speakers, take communion, join in prayer and worship evenings, run Alpha courses and have held quizzes, talent shows and games. We have created an RK Family Online Facebook Group, to share, encourage and pray for each other and have been sharing short devotionals by email. All of these activities have enabled us to support each other, grow as a church community and expand our reach online way beyond Chesterfield. Even despite the pandemic, we have seen an unprecedented number of people coming to faith.
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a) Weekly meetings of the church on Sunday mornings; incorporating an element led by volunteers specifically for children age 0 to 14yrs.
Sunday meetings held in reporting period – 33 (no physical meetings were held since 15[th] March 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic)
Average attendance (March 2020) – Adults 90 Children 30.
b) Encounter. Monthly meetings of the church on a Sunday evening.
Meetings held in reporting period – 5 (no meetings have taken place since 1[st] March 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic).
Average attendance (prior to March 2020) - 30.
c) Midweek ‘Home Groups’ meeting weekly in homes (and online via Zoom since March 2020); an opportunity for smaller groups to study, pray, support one another and serve the community.
Number of midweek groups – 9. Average attendance (all groups – July 2020) – 65.
d) Regular Prayer & Vision nights. Meetings to gather the church family to pray and look towards the future. Prayer & Vision nights held in reporting period – 4 physical meetings & 5 online.
e) Occasional evangelistic events often with prominent guest speakers tackling a range of subjects.
f) Alpha course. An evangelistic teaching course introducing the Christian faith over a ten-week period. Average attendance – 12.
g) Freedom in Christ Course. A course aimed at furthering the Christian faith and discipleship over a 10 week period. Average attendance - 55
g) Specific events aimed at outreach including quizzes, special services and festivals.
h) Specific events aimed at men, women and those in the age range 18-30.
3.2 Objective 2: reaching out in the local community and beyond.
a. Local community
During the reporting period, and even despite much of this time being subject to restrictions and lockdown, we have continued to build a vibrant, inclusive church community, both physically and online, which attracts families, couples and individuals from all backgrounds, both local to where we meet and across the wider Chesterfield area. As a community we are able to care for and support each other according to need.
We have continued our partnership with Christians Against Poverty (CAP), delivering an exemplary debt help service across Chesterfield; this service will always be free of charge to our Clients. In order protect our Debt Coach, Volunteers and Clients, and to secure compliance with government restrictions introduced in response to the Covid pandemic, we have had to adapt our debt help service. This period has been challenging and unfortunately we have been unable to help as many Clients. Nevertheless, we continue to see households go debt free. Furthermore, we maintain a
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hardship fund from which we help CAP clients and others in crisis by for example, shopping for food and household items, topping up pre-payment meters, paying transport costs to see family or attend appointments, and so on.
Many of those who attend Redeemer King are involved with local charities: The Message Trust, Derby City Mission, the Chesterfield Food Bank and the Elderfriends visiting scheme. Over the winter months we supported the Christians Together in Chesterfield (CTC) night shelter.
b. National and International
The Redeemer King church family and friends sponsor 61 children (at March 2020) in Ngong Kenya through a partnership with Compassion UK. We also continue to support Open Doors International, the Message Trust, the Cinnamon Network, Watoto and Christian Vision for Men.
3.3 Future plans
Our church is now a year into our five-year strategic plan which the leadership are working towards so that our growth is managed well from a financial and personnel perspective. We will continue to flex and adapt our plans to tackle the challenges of living in a COVID-19 world.
Lifepoint church in Lowedges in Sheffield continued to meet until late 2019, however there are no plans to start again when COVID restrictions cease. Redeemer King are looking to plant a new work in Sheffield in the near future.
We have continued to explore various meeting and office space options, however nothing suitable was found. We are continuing to look for premises so that we have the ability to work more efficiently as a team and have a greater impact in our town, especially when we emerge from the pandemic.
4. Public Benefit Report
As a church we exist to communicate the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. We want people to be full of faith, hope and new life through faith in God. In all we do we point beyond ourselves to the hope we have in our God and also seek to make a practical difference to the lives of people in Chesterfield.
We will continue to:
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take this life changing message to all that we connect with;
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provide Christian teaching to our community and beyond, in accordance with our basis of faith;
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continue to develop links to best serve the people of our town, country and beyond;
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provide opportunity and access through programmes and events for people of all ages and backgrounds;
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serve and love our town, county and country through both existing and new initiatives;
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develop and grow our new debt centre which is part of an award-winning charity called CAP (Christians Against Poverty).
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5. Trustees remuneration and benefits
Mr Carl Beech received remuneration of £10,416 during the year for his role as senior leader of the Church. He did not receive any expenses payments.
Mrs Karen Beech received remuneration of £1266.97 and stepped down from her during role as Operations Manager, safe guarding officer and pastoral care coordinator at the end of August 2019. She did not receive any expenses payments. No staff member earned over £60,000.
6. Financial Review
This is the sixth financial year for Redeemer King Church covering the year 1[st] August 2019 to 31[st] July 2020. This review highlights how the church has been supported financially and the support the church has offered the local community. We have received voluntary contributions including gift aid payments of £125,225 with an expenditure of £119,398.
As a church we routinely set aside a minimum of 10% of our income which, at the discretion of the leadership team is used to help local, national and international initiatives as covered in section 3.2.
The charity has no outstanding liabilities.
For full details please refer to the annual audited accounts submitted with this report.
Redeemer King Church
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Receipts and payments accounts
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For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/08/2019 31/07/2020
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | ||||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 86,211 14,929 - 21,632 144 2,309 - - 125,225 - - - 125,225 41,596 - 10,605 802 300 1,398 1,957 11,900 688 1,314 6,316 1,105 392 60 32,818 1,036 7,111 - 119,398 - - - 119,398 5,827 - 96,493 102,320 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations - Gift Aid | 86,211 | - | - - - - - - - - |
86,211 | 85,795 | ||
| Donations - None Gift Aid | 14,929 | - | 14,929 | 15,974 | |||
| Donations - Other | - | - | - | 2,766 | |||
| Income Tax Recoverable(Gift Aid) | 21,632 | - | 21,632 | 31,012 | |||
| Other income / commission | 144 | - | 144 | 122 | |||
| Events | 2,309 | - | 2,309 | 3,189 | |||
| Sale of resources | - | - | - | - | |||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) |
125,225 |
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125,225 | 138,858 | ||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 138,858 | |||||||
Wages |
41,596 | 58,392 | |||||
| Training | - | 285 | |||||
| Rent ofpremises | 10,605 | 15,421 | |||||
| Otherpremises costs | 802 | 721 | |||||
| Insurance | 300 | 267 | |||||
| Creche/Sundayschool costs | 1,398 | 578 | |||||
| Subscriptions | 1,957 | 1,868 | |||||
| Donations | 11,900 | 16,317 | |||||
| Telephone/Stationery/Postage | 688 | 928 | |||||
| Books/Gifts | 1,314 | 1,325 | |||||
| Fundraising& marketing | 6,316 | 8,772 | |||||
| Audit & Accountancy | 1,105 | 3,180 | |||||
| Travel & Subsistence | 392 | 569 | |||||
| Bank charges | 60 | 60 | |||||
| Professional/Consultancy | 32,818 | 22,600 | |||||
| Other | 1,036 | 138 | |||||
| Helping those in need Fixed asset purchases **Sub total ** |
7,111 | ||||||
| - | 2,267 | ||||||
| 119,398 | 133,688 | ||||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | |||||
| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 133,688 | |||||||
| 5,827 | - | 5,827 | 5,170 | ||||
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| 96,493 | - | 96,493 | 91,323 | ||||
| 102,320 | - | 102,320 | 96,493 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | |
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| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Signature Neville C Taylor Details Details Cash at bank Petty Cash Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 102,214 - 106 - - - 102,320 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Neville Taylor |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Date of approval |
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| Neville C Taylor | Neville Taylor | 26/03/2021 | |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/03/2021
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of REDEEMER KING CHURCH On accounts for the year ended 31 JULY 2020 Charity no (if any 1159252 Sat out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily I the Trust.) for the year ended 3110712020. Rosponslbllltle8 and ba81s of report As th8 charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Ad 2011 ('the Act"). I report in respecl of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by th8 Charity Commission under section 145{5)Ib) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examlner's 8tatem6nt come to my attention in ¢onneclion with the examination which gives me ause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounling re¢ords', or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements oncerning the form and content of aGcounls set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulalions 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter consid8r8d as part of an independent examination. I have no Goncerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examinalion lo which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached. Slgned: Date: 21 Name: LESLEY WHITE Relevant professional qualification(s) or body lif any): CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ICAEW Address: HUB3 LIMITED MARKET PLACE, CRICH, MATLOCK, DERBYSHIRE DE4 5DD IER Oct 2018
Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern {see CC32, Independent exarnination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examin8rs). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. I IER Oct 2018