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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Main Street Community Church
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1162138
**Charity's principal address**
Main Street Community Church 61 Main Street Frodsham WA6 7DF
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name Office (if any)** 1 Jeffrey Wood Chairman 2 Treasurer
- 2 Gareth Morgan
**Dates acted if not for whole year**
- 3 Andrew Basden
- 4 Sue Spilman
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are appointed by resolution passed at a properly convened Trustee selection methods meeting of charity trustees in line with the constitution. (eg. appointed by, elected by)
- (eg. trust, association, company)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
**The object of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation is the proclamation and furtherance of the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord and the preaching and teaching of the Christian faith at Main Street Community Church and elsewhere in accordance with the Declaration of Faith set out in the schedule to the constitution.**
**The Trustees ensured that the work we carried out was consistent with the guidance from the Charity Commission on public benefit and with our charitable aims and objectives.**
**Main Street Community Church believes that the Christian faith is proclaimed through action as well as by words. Our activities over the year have continued to demonstrate that belief and were conducted so as to be open to the community in which we are situated, regardless of whether beneficiaries consider themselves to be members of the church or not. The name “Main Street Community Church” was chosen to reflect our involvement in, and support for, the community in which we are situated.**
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**1. Our Church premises are registered as a place of religious worship and regular services were held on Sunday mornings throughout the year. All services are open to all. Our premises have also been used for funerals and blessings of infants and have frequently been open to provide space for private prayer and reflection. We also run weekly evening and daytime bible study and discussion groups.**
**2. Although the current age profile of the church membership means we no longer run weekly Sunday School classes (Sunday Clubs) and ‘all age’ worship services we have continued to present Christian beliefs concerning Christmas and Easter through running Christmas and Easter Journeys, which were attended by pupils from around 15 local primary schools, and which are recognised as supporting the schools in their delivery of the RE curriculum.**
**3. We provided support for elderly people within the community through activities, including (i) providing services of worship in local nursing homes and care homes, (ii) assisting elderly people to attend our own services, if they wish to do so, (iii) running a fortnightly ‘Friendship Group’ where elderly people meet for tea, conversation and other activities.**
**4. We have provided facilities for other organisations to conduct activities that we regard as consistent with the practical application of Christian beliefs, for example the Alzheimer’s Society’s Singing for the Brain and the weekly Memory Café. Our facilities are also used on a regular basis for rehearsals by the One Voice Community Choir.**
**5. We have made grants and provided practical support to a wide range of other organisations, including those engaged in (i) spiritual education of children within local schools, (ii) poverty relief and community development at home and in developing countries,**
**6. We play an active part in Churches Together in Frodsham working together with other churches in the Town on events and initiatives throughout the year including work in local schools and the holding of joint services.**
**7. We provide pastoral care, visiting and caring for those who are unwell or facing difficult times, and their families.**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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Apart from our full time paid pastor all our work is carried out by a large number of volunteers.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the** See Section C above. **year**
|**Section E Financial review**||
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|**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**||
||No formal policy on reserves has been
adopted but our normal approach is to
maintain reserves of around 50% of
annual expenditure which the trustees
regard to be a prudent but not
excessive amount. However, as a
result of some large donations in the
previous year, reserves are currently
running somewhat above this.|
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The principle source of income is from donations from members of the Fellowship. Wherever possible income tax is reclaimed from these donations under the Gift Aid scheme. Income is also received from regular coffee mornings which also act as part of the wider outreach of the Church to the local community. We also receive some income from other groups that use our premises, which contribute to the running costs of the building.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Jeffrey Peter Wood **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chairman **Date** 10 January 2026
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALE5
Maln StY•èt Communlty Church
1162138
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For thè p•rfod
from
1st June 21r24
To
31st May 2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unr•$trf¢t8d
fund•
Endowmgnt
funds
funds
Total funds
•t year
toth• £ to Ihe n•ar••t£
trllho M*r#t£
*the £
toth• ne•f••t t
A1 Rocolpts
Donations, Legaclas and other sknllar
receipts
Opernts'ng A¢tiviti•s lo furth
Charrtles ob'•ctiv••
80,671
414
Sub total (Gmss income lor
AR)
eo,671
81.018
nvo•
{••• tabh).
Sub totsl
Total rncelpts
80,671
414
81,085
A3 Payment•
Charitable payrnerrt8- chath•bl•
activities
ChArilabl8 payrnerrts- rnanagerrffjrrt
and admlnlstratlon
402
Sub total
69.911
402
70.313
A4 A8#8t and Investment
pUhaSe8, (see tsblel
Sub total
69,911
402
70.313
Net of rncelpts/(payments)
AS Transfer5 bgtwogn funds
A6 Cash fund8 last year end
Cash lun(ts this yearend
10.760
12
10.772
84,2S1
95.011
84,439
95,211
200
CCXX R1 accounts ISS)
2311012025
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestrictod
funds
Rgslrided
fund8
Endowment
fund¥
Categories
Details
to rnar86t £
27.592
87.419
to ne•re8t £
to rbEare8te
B1 Cash fvnds
BalaTh In Currentknwnt
Btl8Th In f*posit Ac¢wrt
2fy)
Total cash funds
95,011
200
Unrnstrlctfjd
funds
Roslrlctsd
funds
Endowmgnt
lund8
to £
to n•w••t £
Details
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lon•1
B4 Assets retalned for tho
charity's own use
L>etaiis
B6 Liabillues
Sfign8d by one Orkn Injstees on
b•half of all th? trustees
&gnature
Print Name
Dat8 of
roval
CCXX R1 accounts ISS)
311012025
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
mombers of
Maln Street Community Church
On accounts for the year
endod
31* May 2025
Charity no ,' 1162138
Irfany)
Set out on pages
CC16a pwJes 1 arKI 2
Respectlve The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
rasponsibiliti•s of The chanty's tnJste8s consider that an audit is not required for this year
trustees and examlner under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {the Charities Act) and that an
independent examination is needed.
li is my responsibility to:
examine the a(£ounts under sedion 145 of the Charities Act,
to fdlow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 145(5){b) of the Charities Act, and
to state whether paiticular matters have come to my attention.
Basls of Indendent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given
examlnarfs statement by the Chartty Commission. An examin*on includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison ol the unt$
presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual
rtems or disdosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the
trustees conceming any such matters The procedures undertaken do not
provide ail the evidertce that would be required in an audit, and
consequently no ow.nion is giben as to whether the eKcounts present a 'true
and fairf view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
8tstement below.
Independent In connection with my examinats'on, no matter has come to my attention
examinerfs statement (oth•p4+ below ">
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect,
the requirements..
to keep acuunting records in 4rdanCe with section 130 of the
Charities Act., and
to prepare &wunts whtch xcord with the accounting records and
comply wilh the accounting requirements of the Chanties Acl
have not been met. or
2. to which. in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
' Please delete the WO in the btsd(ets rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Name:
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
(If any):
IER
March 2012
Address:
LF
ection B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to hhlIght matenal probl8n.
Iva hore brlef detslls
any ttems that the
aminar wlshe8 to
1080.
March 2012