**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **Capel Community Church**
## **Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
**For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
**Registered Charity Number: 1162194**
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
|**Table of Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Legal and Administratve Informaton|3|
|Trustees’ Annual Report|4|
|Objectves and Actvites|4|
|Objects of the Charity|4|
|Background|5|
|Actvites of the Charity during the Year|5|
|Our Premises|6|
|Serving the Local and Wider Community|6|
|Teaching & Building up the Christan Faith|6|
|Structure, Governance and Management|7|
|Founding Church|7|
|Church Ofcers|7|
|Public Beneft|8|
|Financial Review|8|
|Principle Funding Sources & Plans for Future Periods|8|
|Investment Policy|9|
|Reserves Policy|9|
|Responsibility of the Board of Trustees|10|
|Statement of Financial actvites Balance Sheet|11|
|Notes forming part of the fnancial statements|13|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|14|
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
**For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION**
Charity Name: Capel Community Church CIO Registered Charity Number: 1162194 Registered Office: Capel Community Church Days Road Capel St Mary Ipswich Suffolk IP9 2JW
Constitution: Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its charity trustees Dated 22[nd] May 2015
Board of Trustees: Stephen Locke (Chair of Trustees) Peter Matthews Gordon Mower David Owen (Senior Leader) Keith Smith Treasurer: Stephen Locke Bankers: Co-operative Bank, P.O.Box 250, Delf House Southway, Skelmersdale WN8 6WT Independent Examiner Mrs. Carole Cowgill ACA Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT**
The accounts and financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the
accounting policies set out in notes to the accounts and comply with:
the charity's governing document;
Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice;
the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (FRSSE); the Charities Act 2011;
UK generally accepted practice
Insofar as they apply to the charity and it’s Trustees' Annual Report & Financial Statements.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objects of the Charity**
The objects of the charity are for the public benefit, the advancement of the Christian faith, in accordance with the Statement of Faith, in Ipswich, Suffolk and such other parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the charity trustees may from time to time decide.
Our vision statement summarises the practical outworking of the Objects of the Charity:
## **To create Christian community that is welcoming and everyone loves to be part of**
## Our mission: **To help people find and follow Jesus**
We have been able to demonstrate the practical application of our vision statement this year through events, such as:
_Curry Night – October 2024 – event for local community in aid of East Anglian Children’s Hospice_
_The Tearfund Big Quiz Night – November 2024 – fundraising event in aid of Tearfund_
_Barn Dance – January 2025 – activity for local community_
_Art Evening – March 2025 – activity for local community_
_Easter Egg Hunt – April 2025 – activity for local community_
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **Background**
Capel Community Church CIO was incorporated on 22 May 2015 and became a registered charity on 15 June 2015. Following approval by the Charity Commission, all assets and liabilities of the founding unincorporated association Capel Community Church, were transferred to Capel Community Church CIO (this charity) on the 1[st] August 2016.
Capel Community Church CIO has continued with the mission and ministry of the unincorporated association Capel Community Church and the Trustees have applied the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission in December 2008.
Capel Community Church CIO is a member of the Ground Level Network of churches, Ground Level provide leadership, church management and ministry resources.
Capel Community Church CIO is also a member of the Further Faster Network of churches.
The Further Faster Network offers coaching, community and content for the leaders of churches who want to grow their churches by creating churches that unchurched people love to attend.
## **Activities of the Charity during the Year**
Our main activities include:
Sunday morning worship services – weekly
Monday morning prayer meetings – weekly via Zoom
Mid-week small groups including prayer and Bible study – weekly
Funeral services – as required
Wedding services – as required
Pastoral work, including visiting the sick and bereaved
Informal social events for fellowship and outreach
Alpha Course – an introduction to the Christian faith
Hosting other charities and local groups at subsidised rates at our premise
Stay & Play for carers and toddlers – weekly, including some school holiday sessions
Renew Wellbeing Lounge – a weekly gathering of mostly senior citizens for connection and support – a place where it is ‘OK to not be OK’
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **Our Premises**
The church premises are the base for the majority of the activities arranged by Capel Community Church CIO. Phase 1 of the building was completed in 1987 comprising the foyer, lounge area, meeting rooms, basement, kitchen and toilets. Phase 2 of the building was completed in 1993 providing the main hall.
To help improve the security of the church and facilities, a new fence and gates to the rear of the property and grounds have been installed.
## **Serving the Local and Wider Community**
An important aspect of the church ethos is to be part of the local community regardless of personal faith or none. These activities range from pre-school children through to senior citizens. Suffolk County Council Children’s Team are based at the church twice a month, coinciding with our Stay & Play morning, when they provide Health Visitor services and related early years activities and services. We also offer an initiative called Renew Wellbeing Lounge. This is a Friday afternoon café styled event, where it’s ‘OK not to be OK’ – an opportunity to meet, chat over a hot drink and bring a craft activity if you so wish.
The church also works in conjunction with the other Christian churches in the village to enable joint acts of prayer and worship, in addition to the Easter March of Witness on Good Friday and the Christmas Eve carol service in the shopping precinct.
We actively support the annual Act of Remembrance at the new village war memorial to remember those who served and died in the armed forces.
## **Teaching & Building-up Christian faith**
During our main worship service each Sunday, we have modern worship songs and structured Bible teaching using both the Old & New Testaments. Teaching is usually based on themes or specific aspects of the Christian life, helping to bring the timeless truths of the Bible into a practical and relevant message for today. During the year a number of media presentational styles are used to help keep our services contemporary and accessible to all ages. Age specific teaching and activities are provided in our Junior Church groups. Registered Charity № 1162194 Page 6
**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
In the last year we have covered the following subjects:
_The Fundamental List_
_Address the Mess Reactions Speak Louder Than Words_
_What Our World Needs Now_
_Under the Circumstances_
_The Day After Christmas – Christmas series_
_Fatal Distractions The Responsibles 3 Questions…everyone has about God_
_Welcome to Wonderland_
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the Trustees who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the CIO.
New trustees are appointed by the Trustees in accordance with the Constitution.
## **Founding Church**
Capel Community Church CIO was formed by the unincorporated association Capel
Community Church.
Following approval from the Charity Commission on 1[st] June 2016, all assets and liabilities of
the founding church were transferred to this CIO on 1[st] August 2016.
## **Church Officers**
Capel Community Church CIO is led by a spiritual leadership team appointed by the Trustees
and with the support of the committed congregation. The CIO delegate the day-to-day functions of the church to this leadership team, comprising of:
David Owen (Pastor & Senior Leader)
Rachel Owen
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **PUBLIC BENEFIT**
The trustees have considered the guidance produced by the Charity Commission on the
provision of public benefit and they confirm that public benefit has been provided by:
Providing regular public worship open to all and talks etc. posted on the church website
Promoting the whole mission of the Church through activities for individuals, parents and carers
Conducting pastoral work including visiting the sick in their homes and in hospital and the bereaved
Teaching Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups
Supporting other charities in the UK, some of which work overseas
Supporting local families and individuals in distress or bereavement
Supporting inter-church activities within the village to promote Christian witness and service
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Principle Funding Sources and Plans for Future Periods**
Funding of the CIO is ordinarily and primarily from those committed to, and supportive of, the objectives of the charity; members of the congregation. The hiring of the charity building and facilities generates a small income to help towards building overheads. The Trustees are investigating the feasibility of increasing the availability of the building and facilities to other groups and individuals to provide additional income streams, while maintaining the ethos and values of the church.
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
Although the majority of our income is from regular monthly gifts, the Trustees have taken a cautious approach and have put aside additional reserves and have setup a special fund to help with financial hardship in the community due to the cost of living crisis.
## **Investment Policy**
The Trustees have considered whether there is a need to designate any of the unrestricted funds for the purposes of holding investments.
In July 2024 a 95-day savings account was opened with our bank, the Co-Operative Bank, to run alongside our existing current account as agreed by the trustees as it was felt that the higher rate of interest rate available via this account would be of benefit to the CIO and sufficient available reserves were available to allocate to this account.
As a result, the CIO now operates one charity current account and one savings account, both of which are fully covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. In the event that reserves would not be fully covered by the compensation scheme, additional, nonconnected accounts would be established.
## **Reserves Policy**
The Trustees acknowledge that the charity must have sufficient reserves to meet all known current liabilities in addition to being able to meet unplanned emergency costs. The Trustees maintain a ‘ring-fenced’ fund within the general unrestricted funds to provide reserves to cover any unexpected reduction in voluntary giving. Reserves are maintained to comply with the charity’s Reserves Policy, which includes actions to be taken if the reserves are likely to be required to cover day to day operational costs.
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **RESPONSIBILITY OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES**
Charity law requires us as Trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year.
We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011.
We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities.
## **Independent Examiner’s Report**
The accounts of the CIO have been independently examined to comply with the Charity Commission requirements for CIOs with an income over £25,000. This is included as part of this report.
## **Approval**
This report was approved by the Trustees on January 2026 and is signed on their behalf by:
- S. Locke (Chair)
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
|**-**
**-**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||
**Capel Community Church**||||||||
||~~**-**~~
~~**-**~~
**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||
**-**
**For the period**
**from**||
Period start date||
**-**
**To**|~~**-**~~
Period end date|||
||||
01/04/2024|||
31/03/2025|||
||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|Donations received|**67,160**||**-**||**-**|**67,160**||**38,086**|
|Income from Charitable Activities|**6,988**||**-**||**-**|**6,988**||**6,473**|
|Savings income|**193**||**-**||**-**|**193**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**74,341**||**-**||**-**|**74,341**||**44,559**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|**74,341**||**-**||**-**|**74,341**||**44,559**|
||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Staff related expenditure|**16,584**||**-**||**-**|**16,584**||**17,269**|
|Buildings maintenance, renewals, utility
exps|**29,727**||**-**||**-**|**29,727**||**11,463**|
|Grounds renewal and maintenance|**2,188**||**-**||**-**|**2,188**||**2,309**|
|Administration expenditure|**10,558**||**-**||**-**|**10,558**||**8,376**|
|Gifts/Payments|**15,453**||**-**||**-**|**15,453**||**11,392**|
|Special and outreach events|**3,321**||**-**||**-**|**3,321**||**2,933**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**77,831**||**-**||**-**|**77,831**||**53,742**|
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|**77,831**||**-**||**-**|**77,831**||**53,742**|
||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 3,490**||**-**||**-**|**- 3,490**||**- 9,183**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**37,107**||**-**||**-**|**37,107**||**46,290**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**33,617**||**-**||**-**|**33,617**||**37,107**|
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Current account||||**18,424**|**-**||**-**|
||95-day notice account||||**15,193**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**33,617**|**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK|OK||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|||||||**Cost (optional)**|||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**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**||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**|||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|Tithe special alloation to CYM||||Unrestricted|**-**|||
||Payment received in error||||Unrestricted|**242**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
|||||||**-**|||
||||||||||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||Date of
approval|
||||||STEPHEN LOCKE|||29-Jan-26|
||||||||||
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**Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements**
## **For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025**
## **NOTES FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
No guarantee has been made by the CIO, where any potential liability under the guarantee is outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities.
No debts are outstanding at the date of the statement of assets and liabilities which is owed by the CIO and which is secured by an express charge on any of the assets of the CIO.
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Capel Community Church CIO Trustees Annual Report and Financial Ststements
For the period 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
Inde
endent Examiner's Re
rt to the Tru$t¢eg of
el Communi
Church CIO
(Charity Numb¢r 1162194)
For the
ear ended 31° March 2025
I rep)rt to the InleeS on my examination of the accounts of the aknve Charity for the
year ended 31. March 2025.
As the chity'S trus*es. you arc rcswnsible for the preparation of the accounts in
rdan¢e with th¢ rvquirem¢n15 Qfthe Charities Act 2011 I'the Charities Act").
I rep)rt in res of my examin&lion of the Charity's ¥nIS carried oui under
se¢tion 145 of the 2011 Charities ACL and. in carrying out my examination, I have
followed the applicable Directions given by the Chariry Commission (4llbJer tIOn
145(5Xb) of the Clwities Act).
I have completed my examination. I confirn] that no material matters have come lo
my attenlion in ¢onn¢ction with the examination whi¢h give me caus¢ to beli¢v¢ th&4
in any material respecL accounting record5 were not kept in accordallce with section
130 of the Charities ACL or that the accounts do not trrd with the )untIng
records.
I hav¢ no Concer and have come acro&8 no other matters in connection the
examination to which attention Should be drawn in order to enable 8 proper
underthdin8 of the accounts to reached.
l2
12
2025
Si8ncd:
Mrs. Carole Cowgill ACA
4 Penny Meath)w
Capel St. Mary
Ipswich
IP9 2UU
ICAeW
CHARTERED
ACCOUNTAMT
Registered Charity No 1162194
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