## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** ## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] JANUARY 2024** **CHARITY NUMBER: 1160874** SINAI MISSION CHURCH 25 Dragonfly Road Covingham SWINDON SN3 4ET ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 **INDEX** Index 2 Trustee’s Report 3-4 Receipts and Payments Account 5 Statement of Assets and Liabilities 6 Notes on the financial Statements 7 2 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 # **TRUSTEES’ REPORT** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST JANUARY 2024** The trustees are pleased to present their report for the year ended 31[st] January 2024 for the charity, Sinai Mission Church with charity number 1160874. The Trustees of the charity are:  Pr Seejo Joy  Mr James Rajan  Mr Priju Joseph The principal address of the charity is: 25 Dragonfly Road Covingham SWINDON SN3 4ET ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** The Charity governing document is a CIO – Foundation Constitution registered 12[th] March 2015.The Charity is governed by a board on which the trustees are represented. It meets regularly to review, plan activities, and monitor the financial position. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** The Objects of the organisation are first to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statement of beliefs for the benefit in the United Kingdom and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may think fit from time to time. The trustees confirm that they have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit before deciding what activities the charity should undertake. The Main activities during the period are 18/02/23 Church anniversary SMC 01/04/23 SMC tract distribution 21/05/23 Child dedication 03/06/23 SMC BBQ 29/07/23 SMC tour 19/08/23 SMC kids & youth vacation bible school 02/09/23 SMC tract distribution 16/09/23 Open Air Meeting 02/12/23 SMC music night 20/01/2024 New Church Inauguration ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** The organisation continues to hold regular weekly services. This has produced good results in reaching and helping members of the community. The organisation also held regular evangelism outreaches and tract distributions in the community that brought great emotional and spiritual support to members of the community. They also conducted a music festival to reach out to the community with the Christian message of faith. 3 Registered UK Charity: 1160874 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** The income of the charity is £46,802.80, resources expended are £33,642.85. The costs have been well managed over this period. The organisation is still in a good position to manage its costs. The main cost of the organisation was paying for the rent of its building that it uses for worship services and church office rent. ## **RESERVE POLICY** It is the policy of the Charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the reserves of the charity at about 3 months of unrestricted expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover any emergency expenditures that may arise from time to time. The charity will seek to maintain this level throughout the year. ## **RISK MANAGEMENT** The charity has assessed all the major risks to which the charity is exposed to, in particular those related to operations and finances of the charity and are satisfied those systems are in place to mitigate exposure to major risks. ## **TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITIES** Under the Charities Act 2011, the trustees are required to prepare a statement of accounts for each accounting year which gives a true and fair view of the state of the church. They are required to: 1. Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently. 2. Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent. 3. State whether the applicable accounting standards have been followed. 4. Prepare financial statements on an ongoing basis. They are responsible for keeping proper records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the finances of the church at any time and to ensure that such accounts comply with the Charities Act 2011.They also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the church and to take reasonable steps to detect fraud or other irregularities. Approved by the Trustees on 28[th] August 2024. 4 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 ## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st January 2024** |||
**Sinai Mission Church**|
**Sinai Mission Church**|
**Sinai Mission Church**||
**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||| ||**For the period**||Period start date||Period end date|| ||||01/02/2023|**To**|31/01/2024|| |||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||| ||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endow**
**ment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the**
**nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||| |||||||| |Bank interest|**7.62**||**-**|**-**|
**7.62**|
**-**| |Donation|**46,257.77**||**-**|**-**|
**46,257.77**|
**19,420.36**| |Other|**537.41**||**-**|**-**|
**537.41**|
**7,476.67**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross_
_income for AR)_|**46,802.80**||**-**|**-**|
**46,802.80**|
**26,897.03**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and**
**investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**46,802.80**||**-**|**-**|
**46,802.80**|**26,897.03**| |||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||| |Rent|**6,347.73**||**-**|**-**|
**6,347.73**|
**3,341.52**| |Equipments expensed|**1,138.24**||**-**|**-**|
**1,138.24**|
**951.67**| |Missionaries|**6,700.00**||**-**|**-**|
**6,700.00**|
**2,600.00**| |Food expense|**7,613.13**||**-**|**-**|
**7,613.13**|
**293.42**| |Conferences|**3,034.35**||**-**|**-**|
**3,034.35**|
**6,167.68**| |Professional fee|**150.00**||**-**|**-**|
**150.00**|
**100.00**| |Charity|**2,918.26**||**-**|**-**|
**2,918.26**|
**1,676.75**| |Youth and kids events|**1,320.95**||||**1,320.95**|
**1,800.00**| |Repairs and maintenance|**3,263.16**||||**3,263.16**|
**-**| |Printing and stationery|**285.94**||||**285.94**|
**-**| |Travel|**520.00**||||**520.00**|
**-**| |Insurance|**100.80**||||**100.80**|
**-**| |Miscellaneous|250.29||**-**|**-**|
**250.29**|
**48.26**| |**_Sub total_**|**33,642.85**||**-**|**-**|
**33,642.85**|
**16,979.30**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and**
**investment**
**purchases, (see**
**table)**||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**33,642.85**||**-**|**-**|**33,642.85**|
**16,979.30**| |||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(pay_**|**_m_**
**13,159.95**||**-**|**-**|**13,159.95**|
**9,917.73**| |**A5 Transfers betwee**|**n**
**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last ye**|**16,798.79**||**-**|**-**|
**16,798.79**|
**6,881.06**| |**_funds this year end_**|**29,958.74**||**-**|**-**|**29,958.74**|
**16,798.79**| |||||||| |||||||| 5 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**to nearest**
**£**|
**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash/ Cheques in hand||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||Cash at bank||**29,959**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**29,959**|
**-**|
**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
||OK|OK|OK| ||~~t( ))~~||**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest**
**£**|
**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment**
**assets**||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained**
**for the charity’s**
**own use**||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| ||||||| |Signed by one or two
trustees on behalf of all
the trustees|
Signature||Print Name||Date of
approval| ||||Pastor: Seejo Joy||| ||||||| 6 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 These accounts were approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by: Pastor Seejo Joy **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st January 2024** ## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES** ## **Basis of Accounting** These accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis with all revenue and expenses shown on a cash basis. Non-monetary assets are shown at estimates of the value at the end of the year. ## **Funds** The charity has a general unrestricted fund that receives voluntary donations from attendants at the services. There is outstanding guarantees to third parties no any debts secured on the assets of the CIO ## **Public Benefit** The charity acknowledges its requirement to demonstrate clearly that it must have charitable purposes or aims that are for public benefit. Details of how this is achieved are provided in the Trustees report. The trustees confirm that they have paid due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit before deciding what activities the charity should undertake. 7 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** ## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] JANUARY 2024** **CHARITY NUMBER: 1160874** SINAI MISSION CHURCH 25 Dragonfly Road Covingham SWINDON SN3 4ET ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 **INDEX** Index 2 Trustee’s Report 3-4 Receipts and Payments Account 5 Statement of Assets and Liabilities 6 Notes on the financial Statements 7 2 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 # **TRUSTEES’ REPORT** **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST JANUARY 2024** The trustees are pleased to present their report for the year ended 31[st] January 2024 for the charity, Sinai Mission Church with charity number 1160874. The Trustees of the charity are:  Pr Seejo Joy  Mr James Rajan  Mr Priju Joseph The principal address of the charity is: 25 Dragonfly Road Covingham SWINDON SN3 4ET ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** The Charity governing document is a CIO – Foundation Constitution registered 12[th] March 2015.The Charity is governed by a board on which the trustees are represented. It meets regularly to review, plan activities, and monitor the financial position. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** The Objects of the organisation are first to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statement of beliefs for the benefit in the United Kingdom and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may think fit from time to time. The trustees confirm that they have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit before deciding what activities the charity should undertake. The Main activities during the period are 18/02/23 Church anniversary SMC 01/04/23 SMC tract distribution 21/05/23 Child dedication 03/06/23 SMC BBQ 29/07/23 SMC tour 19/08/23 SMC kids & youth vacation bible school 02/09/23 SMC tract distribution 16/09/23 Open Air Meeting 02/12/23 SMC music night 20/01/2024 New Church Inauguration ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** The organisation continues to hold regular weekly services. This has produced good results in reaching and helping members of the community. The organisation also held regular evangelism outreaches and tract distributions in the community that brought great emotional and spiritual support to members of the community. They also conducted a music festival to reach out to the community with the Christian message of faith. 3 Registered UK Charity: 1160874 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** The income of the charity is £46,802.80, resources expended are £33,642.85. The costs have been well managed over this period. The organisation is still in a good position to manage its costs. The main cost of the organisation was paying for the rent of its building that it uses for worship services and church office rent. ## **RESERVE POLICY** It is the policy of the Charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the reserves of the charity at about 3 months of unrestricted expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover any emergency expenditures that may arise from time to time. The charity will seek to maintain this level throughout the year. ## **RISK MANAGEMENT** The charity has assessed all the major risks to which the charity is exposed to, in particular those related to operations and finances of the charity and are satisfied those systems are in place to mitigate exposure to major risks. ## **TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITIES** Under the Charities Act 2011, the trustees are required to prepare a statement of accounts for each accounting year which gives a true and fair view of the state of the church. They are required to: 1. Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently. 2. Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent. 3. State whether the applicable accounting standards have been followed. 4. Prepare financial statements on an ongoing basis. They are responsible for keeping proper records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the finances of the church at any time and to ensure that such accounts comply with the Charities Act 2011.They also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the church and to take reasonable steps to detect fraud or other irregularities. Approved by the Trustees on 28[th] August 2024. 4 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 ## **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st January 2024** |||
**Sinai Mission Church**|
**Sinai Mission Church**|
**Sinai Mission Church**||
**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||| ||**For the period**||Period start date||Period end date|| ||||01/02/2023|**To**|31/01/2024|| |||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||| ||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endow**
**ment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the**
**nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||| |||||||| |Bank interest|**7.62**||**-**|**-**|
**7.62**|
**-**| |Donation|**46,257.77**||**-**|**-**|
**46,257.77**|
**19,420.36**| |Other|**537.41**||**-**|**-**|
**537.41**|
**7,476.67**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross_
_income for AR)_|**46,802.80**||**-**|**-**|
**46,802.80**|
**26,897.03**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and**
**investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**46,802.80**||**-**|**-**|
**46,802.80**|**26,897.03**| |||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||| |Rent|**6,347.73**||**-**|**-**|
**6,347.73**|
**3,341.52**| |Equipments expensed|**1,138.24**||**-**|**-**|
**1,138.24**|
**951.67**| |Missionaries|**6,700.00**||**-**|**-**|
**6,700.00**|
**2,600.00**| |Food expense|**7,613.13**||**-**|**-**|
**7,613.13**|
**293.42**| |Conferences|**3,034.35**||**-**|**-**|
**3,034.35**|
**6,167.68**| |Professional fee|**150.00**||**-**|**-**|
**150.00**|
**100.00**| |Charity|**2,918.26**||**-**|**-**|
**2,918.26**|
**1,676.75**| |Youth and kids events|**1,320.95**||||**1,320.95**|
**1,800.00**| |Repairs and maintenance|**3,263.16**||||**3,263.16**|
**-**| |Printing and stationery|**285.94**||||**285.94**|
**-**| |Travel|**520.00**||||**520.00**|
**-**| |Insurance|**100.80**||||**100.80**|
**-**| |Miscellaneous|250.29||**-**|**-**|
**250.29**|
**48.26**| |**_Sub total_**|**33,642.85**||**-**|**-**|
**33,642.85**|
**16,979.30**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and**
**investment**
**purchases, (see**
**table)**||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**33,642.85**||**-**|**-**|**33,642.85**|
**16,979.30**| |||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(pay_**|**_m_**
**13,159.95**||**-**|**-**|**13,159.95**|
**9,917.73**| |**A5 Transfers betwee**|**n**
**-**||**-**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last ye**|**16,798.79**||**-**|**-**|
**16,798.79**|
**6,881.06**| |**_funds this year end_**|**29,958.74**||**-**|**-**|**29,958.74**|
**16,798.79**| |||||||| |||||||| 5 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**||**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**to nearest**
**£**|
**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Cash/ Cheques in hand||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||Cash at bank||**29,959**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**29,959**|
**-**|
**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
||OK|OK|OK| ||~~t( ))~~||**Unrestri**
**cted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest**
**£**|
**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary**
**assets**|||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment**
**assets**||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained**
**for the charity’s**
**own use**||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| |||||**-**|
**-**| ||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to**
**which**
**liability**
**relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| ||||||| |Signed by one or two
trustees on behalf of all
the trustees|
Signature||Print Name||Date of
approval| ||||Pastor: Seejo Joy||| ||||||| 6 ## **SINAI MISSION CHURCH** Registered UK Charity: 1160874 These accounts were approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by: Pastor Seejo Joy **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st January 2024** ## **ACCOUNTING POLICIES** ## **Basis of Accounting** These accounts have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis with all revenue and expenses shown on a cash basis. Non-monetary assets are shown at estimates of the value at the end of the year. ## **Funds** The charity has a general unrestricted fund that receives voluntary donations from attendants at the services. There is outstanding guarantees to third parties no any debts secured on the assets of the CIO ## **Public Benefit** The charity acknowledges its requirement to demonstrate clearly that it must have charitable purposes or aims that are for public benefit. Details of how this is achieved are provided in the Trustees report. The trustees confirm that they have paid due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit before deciding what activities the charity should undertake. 7 ## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of** ## SINAI MISSION CHURCH SWINDON **(Charity number: 1160874)** I report on the receipt and payment accounts for the year ended 31st January 2024 set out on page 7 ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner:** The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993(the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. ## **It is my responsibility to:** - examine the accounts under section 43 of the 1993 Act - to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act); and - to state whether matters have come to my 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 of disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the 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 above. ## **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, the requirements - to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the 1993 Act: and - to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act have not been met or 2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ## Noble Dani George ## 02/09/24 Noble Dani George 41 Mayville Avenue Bristol BS34 7AB 1