## **Trustees Report & Unaudited Financial Statements**
North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024
## **Contents**
- **3** Legal and Administrative Information
- **4** Report of the Trustees
- **8** Report of the Independent Examiner
- **9** Statement of Financial Activities
- **10** Balance Sheet
- **11** Notes forming part of the Financial Statements
- **14** Resources Expended
- **15** Analysis of Net Assets - Current year
- **16** Analysis of Net Assets - Prior Year
- **17** Movement in Funds - Current Year
- **18** Movement in Funds - Prior Year
- **19** Comparative Statement of Financial Activities
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## **Legal and Administrative Information**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **Charity Name:**
North Road Meeting Room Trust
## **Registered Charity Number:**
1161975
## **Trustees:**
Mr N Keam
Mr NP Burtenshaw
Mr R Melvin
Mr T Hill - resigned 6th January 2024
Mr M Hannaford - resigned 5th December 2023
Mr H Melvin (Chair) - reappointed 5th December 2023
Mr NJ Burtenshaw - appointed 6th January 2024
## **Treasurer:**
Mr NP Burtenshaw
**Principle Address:**
124 Looseleigh Lane, Derriford, Plymouth, United Kingdom, PL6 5JD
## **Independent Examiner:**
Lloyd Tunley Oldfield Advisory LLP 1120 Elliot Court Herald Avenue Coventry CV5 6UB
**Accountant:** Oldfield Advisory LLP 1120 Elliot Court Herald Avenue Coventry CV5 6UB
## **Bankers:**
Lloyds Bank Plc Derry Cross Plymouth
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## **Report of the Trustees**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust 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 an unincorporated trust constituted by a Deed of Trust dated 28th June 1982, most recently amended by Deed of Variation dated 12th August 2014. The trust was registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 3rd June 2015 under Charity Registration Number: 1161975
## **Recruitment and appointment of new Trustees**
The Trustees who have 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.
The Trust operates one 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 Compton Meeting Rooms 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 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.
## **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.
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Report of the Trustees
## **Main activities and achievements**
The Trust provides and maintains one Gospel hall 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.
During the financial year the trust has invested in a full rehaul and upgrade of the air conditioning and heating controls at the city gospel hall. This was to modernise and bring the systems up to date since the previous controls were original to the construction of the hall. The installations were made after conducting considerable thorough research and planning for the equipment and contractor. Further to this, an intruder alarm system has been installed along with improved CCTV installation.
Also during the 2023-24 financial year, the Charity continued its support of local foodbanks with ambient food items. Donations were made to 4 charities during the financial year. These charities were:
- Childrens Hospice South West - a regional organisation with 3 childrens hospices between Cornwall, Devon and Somerset - Shekinah Mission - a Devon charity for homelessness, with operations in Plymouth and Torbay
- St Lukes Hospice - a local charity providing palliative care and support within the Plymouth area.
- Help for Heroes - a national charity providing lifelong support to injured and wounded military veterans across the UK.
A separate report details further activities carried out by members of the local congregation, including support for a separate charity, the Rapid Relief Team, in Plymouth that regularly supports the local community.
## **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.
The trustees have conducted research and carried out financial costing for the full refurbishment of the city gospel hall. This includes mainly internal works, including an airlock, audio, seating and carpets as well some external works such as painting the roof cladding. Other parts of the hall and grounds have already received extensive modernisations such as toilets, car park resurfacing, CCTV and alarm systems. The trustees anticipate for this to take place during 2025.
## **Meetings**
Meetings held at the Gospel hall 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 100 and 250 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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Report of the Trustees
## **Spreading the Gospel message and the life of a Christian**
The Gospel hall is 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 where 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**
In the year ended 5 April 2024 the Trust had a modest deficit of incoming resources over resources expended. This is mostly due to non-monetary items such as depreciation.
Total voluntary income received this year was £58,635 compared to £51,091 in the previous year.
All funds held were unrestricted funds.
## **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 apart from a minimum of £50,000 to enable the Charity to have sufficient flexibility to handle any future needs that the Charity may have to face. 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. The Charity is also holding free reserves in anticipation of additional costs in 2025 if the charity progresses with the refurbishment of the gospel hall.
Free Reserves at the year end were £101,879 ( 2023: £131,950)
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## **Report of the Independent Examiner**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the North Road Meeting Room Trust for the year ended 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’).
I report in respect 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 the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner's Report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking of explanations from you as Trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
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.
...................................................................................................
Lloyd Tunley Oldfield Advisory LLP 1120 Elliott Court Herald Avenue Coventry CV5 6UB
16 January 2025
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## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
|**Statement of Financial Activities**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust**
**For the year ended 5 April 2024**|**Statement of Financial Activities**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust**
**For the year ended 5 April 2024**|
|---|---|
|**UNRESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**DESIGNATED**
**FUNDS**
**RESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2024**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2023**||
|**Income and endowments:**||
||**Donations and Legacies:**|
||Contributions from the Congregation
29,535
-
-
29,535
27,066|
||Gift Aid Donations
22,320
-
-
22,320
17,680|
||Income Tax refunds
5,580
-
-
5,580
4,420|
||Other donations
1,200
-
-
1,200
1,925
**Investments**|
||Interest Received
922
-
-
922
157|
|**Total Income and endowments:**
**59,557**
**-**
**-**
**59,557**
**51,248**
**Expenditure:**||
|Running Meeting Rooms (note 8)
46,461
-
-
46,461
44,386||
|Cost of donated services (note 4)
33,193
-
-
33,193
9,202||
|**Total Expenditure:**
**79,654**
**-**
**-**
**79,654**
**53,588**||
|**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
**(20,096)**
**-**
**-**
**(20,096)**
**(2,340)**||
|**Net Movement In Funds**
**(20,096)**
**-**
**-**
**(20,096)**
**(2,340)**
**UNRESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**DESIGNATED**
**FUNDS**
**RESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2024**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2023**||
|**Reconciliation of funds (note 10)**||
|Total Funds bought forward
767,955
-
-
767,955
770,295||
|Net movement in funds
(20,096)
-
-
(20,096)
(2,340)||
|**Total Funds carried forward**
**747,858**
**-**
**-**
**747,858**
**767,955**||
The notes on page 11 - 19 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Balance Sheet**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust As at 5 April 2024**
|**Balance Sheet**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust**
**As at 5 April 2024**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2024**|**2023**|
|**Fixed Assets**|||
|Tangible assets (note 5)|645,979|636,005|
|**Total Fixed Assets**|**645,979**|**636,005**|
|**Current assets**|||
|Prepayments and accrued income|4,043|5,240|
|Cash at bank and in hand|101,227|131,302|
|**Total Current assets**|**105,271**|**136,541**|
|**Creditors: amounts falling due withinone year**|||
|Accruals and deferred income|3,392|4,591|
|**Total Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|**3,392**|**4,591**|
|**Net current assets/(liabilities)**|**101,879**|**131,950**|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|**747,858**|**767,955**|
|**Net Assets**|**747,858**|**767,955**|
|**Funds (note 9)**|||
|Unrestricted funds|747,858|767,955|
|**Total Funds**|**747,858**|**767,955**|
The unaudited financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Trustees of North Road Meeting Room Trust on .........................................and were signed on its behalf by:
.............................................................................................
Mr N Burtenshaw (Trustee)
The notes on pages 11 - 19 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Notes forming part of the Financial Statements**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust 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 North Road Meeting Room 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 £100) 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:
|Freehold buildings|3% straight line|
|---|---|
|Fixtures & Fittings|25% reducing balance|
## **1.6 Taxation**
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Notes forming part of the Financial Statements
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.
## **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)
## **4. Donated Services**
|**2024**
**2023**|**2024**
**2023**|
|---|---|
|**Donated Services**||
||**Donated To:**|
||Donated Services to Compton Meeting Rooms Trust
33,193
9,202|
||**Total Donated Services:**
**33,193**
**9,202**|
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Notes forming part of the Financial Statements
## **5. Tangible Fixed Assets**
|**Cost**|Freehold Property - Brest Road|Fixtures & Fittings|Totals|
|---|---|---|---|
|At 6 April 2023|750,000|75,396|825,396|
|Additions|13,528|14,847|28,375|
|Disposals|-|-|-|
|At 5 April 2024|763,528|90,243|853,771|
|**Depreciation**||||
|At 6 April 2023|120,000|69,391|189,391|
|Current Year Depreciation|15,174|3,226|18,400|
|Eliminated on disposals|-|-|-|
|At 5 April 2024|135,174|72,617|207,792|
|**Net Book Value**||||
|At 5 April 2024|628,354|17,626|645,979|
|At 5 April 2023|630,000|6,005|636,005|
Land registry titles of the above property held are DN226860.
## **6. TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES**
During the financial year, aggregated donations of £11,160 (2023: £7,935) were received. The trust also incurred expenses totaling £3,177 from Protective Wear Supplies Ltd, of which Neil Burtenshaw (a trustee) is a director of, relating to general expenses for the Trust such as washroom supplies and cleaning materials
## **7. VOLUNTEERS**
North Road Meeting Room 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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## **Resources Expended**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **8. Resources Expended**
||**RUNNING MEETING**
**ROOMS**|**OTHER**
**CHARITABLE**
**ACTIVITIES**|**TOTAL COSTS**
**2024**|**TOTAL COSTS**
**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Direct Costs**|||||
|Premises costs - repairs and maintenance|8,336|-|8,336|7,477|
|Premises costs - heat, light and power|8,177|-|8,177|7,747|
|Telephone|1,218|-|1,218|1,505|
|Health and Safety|400|-|400|370|
|Legal and professional|788|-|788|1,856|
|Public outreach expenses|-|557|557|70|
|Special meeting costs|85|-|85|384|
|Depreciation|18,400|-|18,400|16,592|
|Insurance|1,893|-|1,893|1,801|
|Other Expenses|5,510|-|5,510|5,538|
|Governance|1,098|-|1,098|1,045|
|**Total Direct Costs**|**45,904**|**557**|**46,461**|**44,386**|
Governance costs include £180 (prior year: £180) in respect of independent examiners fees.
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## **Analysis of Net Assets - Current year**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **9. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS**
|9.1 Current Year|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**UNRESTRICTED**|**DESIGNATED**|**RESTRICTED**|**TOTAL FUNDS**|
||**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**2024**|
|**Funds**|||||
|Tangible Fixed Assets|645,979|-|-|645,979|
|Current Assets|105,271|-|-|105,271|
|Current Liabilities|(3,392)|-|-|(3,392)|
|**Total Funds**|**747,858**|**-**|**-**|**747,858**|
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## **Analysis of Net Assets - Prior Year**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## 9.2 Prior Year
||**UNRESTRICTED**|**DESIGNATED**|**RESTRICTED**|**TOTAL FUNDS**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**2023**|
|**Funds**|||||
|Tangible Fixed Assets|636,005|-|-|636,005|
|Current Assets|136,541|-|-|136,541|
|Current Liabilities|(4,591)|-|-|(4,591)|
|**Total Funds**|**767,955**|**-**|**-**|**767,955**|
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## **Movement in Funds - Current Year**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **10. Movement in Funds**
10.1 Movement in funds - current year
||**UNRESTRICTED**|**DESIGNATED**|**RESTRICTED**|**TOTAL FUNDS**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**2024**|
|**Movement in Funds**|||||
|Total funds bought forward|767,955|-|-|767,955|
|Incoming resources|59,557|-|-|59,557|
|Resources expended|(79,654)|-|-|(79,654)|
|**Total funds carried forward**|**747,858**|**-**|**-**|**747,858**|
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## **Movement in Funds - Prior Year**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
## **10. Movement in Funds**
10.2 Movement in funds - Prior year
||**UNRESTRICTED**|**DESIGNATED**|**RESTRICTED**|**TOTAL FUNDS**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|**2023**|
|**Movement in Funds**|||||
|Total funds bought forward|770,295|-|-|770,295|
|Incoming resources|51,248|-|-|51,248|
|Resources expended|(53,588)|-|-|(53,588)|
|**Total funds carried forward**|**767,955**|**-**|**-**|**767,955**|
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## **Comparative Statement of Financial Activities**
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust For the year ended 5 April 2024**
|**Comparative Statement of Financial Activities**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust**
**For the year ended 5 April 2024**|**Comparative Statement of Financial Activities**
**North Road Meeting Room Trust**
**For the year ended 5 April 2024**|
|---|---|
|**UNRESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**DESIGNATED**
**FUNDS**
**RESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2023**||
|**Income and endowments:**||
||**Donations and Legacies:**|
||Contributions from the Congregation
27,066
-
-
27,066|
||Gift Aid Donations
17,680
-
-
17,680|
||Income Tax refunds
4,420
-
-
4,420|
||Other donations
1,925
-
-
1,925
**Investments**|
||Interest Received
157
-
-
157|
|**Total Income and endowments:**
**51,248**
**-**
**-**
**51,248**
**Expenditure:**||
|Running Meeting Rooms (note 8)
44,386
-
-
44,386||
|Cost of donated services (note 4)
9,202
-
-
9,202||
|**Total Expenditure:**
**53,588**
**-**
**-**
**53,588**||
|**Net Income/(Expenditure)**
**(2,340)**
**-**
**-**
**(2,340)**||
|**Net Movement In Funds**
**(2,340)**
**-**
**-**
**(2,340)**
**UNRESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**DESIGNATED**
**FUNDS**
**RESTRICTED**
**FUNDS**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**2023**||
|**Reconciliation of funds (note 10)**||
|Total Funds bought forward
770,295
-
-
770,295||
|Net movement in funds
(2,340)
-
-
(2,340)||
|**Total Funds carried forward**
**767,955**
**-**
**-**
**767,955**||
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Trustees Report & Unaudited Financial Statements North Road Meeting Room Trust
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **North Road Meeting Room Trust - Public Benefit**
This report showcases the ways in which the North Road Meeting Room Trust and its congregation participate and engage in work of public benefit, connecting with the wider community in various ways.
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church was established around 200 years ago and was founded by John Nelson Darby, one of the most influential Protestant thinkers of the 19th century.
Mr Darby broke with the established church in Ireland in 1827 and broke bread with those close to him, following deep spiritual exercise. This was the start of the Plymouth Brethren movement, and today, we are a community of over 55,000 members who live, work and worship around the world.
Around 1830 Mr Darby came to Plymouth where the congregation grew rapidly. Early publications were produced in Plymouth and distributed to other congregations of followers throughout the globe.
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **Introduction**
Over 18,000 members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church reside in the UK, and gather in 86 congregations spread across the country. The PBCC UK website displays these locations: PBCC UK Locations
Ever since the establishment of the Church, there have been Brethren gospel halls or meeting halls in the city of Plymouth – this is for approximately 190 years.
The North Road Meeting Trust was created in for the purpose of acquisition and construction of gospel halls for 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. This includes 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 teachings of the Holy Bible and the practices of those Christians forming a global fellowship known as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.
The North Road congregation currently has 119 members, living in the Plymouth and Yelverton areas in Devon. With members from the neighbouring congregation in St Austell, attending services up to twice a week along with other visitors, numbers can reach 280 persons, ranging from young to old.
The PBCC website gives more details on our way of life – follow https://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **Street Preaching and Tract Distribution**
In cities and towns where there are Brethren congregations, public gospel preaching takes place on many weekdays, in the middle of the day.
The aim is not to recruit more members for the Brethren but to present eternal salvation, available to all men and women by faith in Jesus Christ, through His blood and His work of atonement.
_‘God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth’_
1 Timothy 2: 3-4
In Plymouth the street preachings are currently held at midday on weekdays, at the top of New George Street in the city centre.
Gospel tracts are handed out to passers-by – and these include phone numbers, so that a contact is available for anyone seeking help, guidance, reassurance or solace.
Bibles and gospel tracts/booklets are available on the below website: https://christiandoctrineandgospelpublishing.org/publications/outreach
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **Outreach and Public Benefit**
There is a strong and generous charitable spirit amongst the Brethren community, with many actively devoting time to volunteer and contribute financially to causes close to home and right across the globe.
Members of the Plymouth congregation volunteer with the Plymouth branch of the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) (a separate charity to North Road Meeting Room Trust) which is the global church’s charitable arm. As well as this, financial donations are made to a range of charitable causes. During the year 2023-2024 this included:
- ❖ 4 charities supported with financial donations
- ❖ 15 active volunteers with Rapid Relief Team
- ❖ 6 donations to foodbanks of ambient food and household items
Donations were made to:
- Childrens Hospice South West - a regional organisation with 3 hospices for children, between Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
- Shekinah Mission - a Devon charity for homelessness, with operations in Plymouth and Torbay.
- St Lukes Hospice - a local charity providing palliative care and support within the Plymouth area.
- Help for Heroes - a national charity providing lifelong support to injured and wounded military veterans across the UK.
The trust continued its support of local foodbanks in the city of Plymouth with ambient food and household items, regularly throughout the year.
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **Rapid Relief Team**
There is a strong and generous charitable spirit among the Brethren, with many of us actively devoting our time to volunteer and contribute financially to causes close to home and right across the globe.
In 2013, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) was established to help put our care and compassion into action for the benefit of people in need. Fast forward to today, and RRT is active in 14 countries and is operated by 14,500 volunteers from our Community.
RRT volunteers lend a helping hand to first responders and those impacted by disaster, as well as providing specific support for young people, people facing health and disability challenges and the homeless or people impacted by poverty and hardship.
## 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
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## ❖ 5 events supported by RRT
## ❖ 30 RRT Food Boxes donated to schools
## ❖ 120 RRT Smarrt Cookie cereal bars donated to schools
## ❖ 3000 bottles of water donated
In the spring of 2023, a range of products were donated to Widey Court Primary School, Plymouth. This included RRT Food Boxes for the school to distribute to student families that were struggling with the cost of living. The Food Box was designed to provide emergency food supplies for people and families in need, and now supports people from low socio-economic backgrounds and those in crisis.
Also donated were RRT Smarrt Cookie cereal bars. The Smarrt Cookie initiative aims to assist in the fight against hunger in primary school aged children and break down the barrier hunger has in distracting children from their education, ensuring they reach their full potential.
Throughout the year, RRT in Plymouth supported St Lukes Hospice, a local charity providing palliative care and support, with a donation of 2 pallets of bottled water to support their fundraising events, including sponsored walks and bicycle rides.
The volunteer work of the members of the congregation is of great importance to the community in which we serve. The trust is pleased for its external facilities at the local gospel halls to be used as a
meeting/gathering point for RRT volunteers to start from prior to deployment. Equipment and trailers are stored in the secure grounds and a dedicated storage facility at one of the halls for the volunteers to access 24/7 whenever called upon.
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **Case Studies**
## **February 2024**
Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Keyham area of Plymouth on Tuesday 20th February after the discovery of a WWII Unexploded Bomb (UXB) in a residential garden.
Congregation members volunteered with RRT to support emergency services working at the scene and at numerous cordons over the course of . They provided food and hot drinks to bomb disposal teams and to some of the thousands of residents who had to be evacuated.
The first deployment was at midday on Tuesday 20th February, with a tent being set up a Lidl supermarket car park in the Keyham area to provide quality food and refreshments around the clock for emergency responders. This support continued on Thursday and Friday, serving over 200 meals and drinks to officers working within the cordon.
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
The charity also set up a secondary support point and served meals and drinks at Plymouth Life Centre which was used as an emergency rest centre for people who had been evacuated from the exclusion zone.
This news article and video shows the RRT set up in the supermarket car - park location: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk 68388709
**North Road Meeting Room Trust** Charity number 1161975
## **March 2024**
Members of the congregation volunteered with RRT to support a search on Dartmoor for a missing person. A police helicopter was involved in the search in Brentor and the surrounding areas, for the missing local man who was reported missing from his home.
The RRT team was deployed to the search base at a local village hall in Mary Tavy, Devon, where they served drinks and snacks to the Mountain Rescue teams involved.
- - - https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/local news/live police - - - helicopter searches dartmoor 9193038
## **Registered address:**
5 Brest Road, Derriford, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5XN
## **Contact:**
Email: enquiries@nrmt-uk.org Phone: 07585 965968