## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 1 2020 31 12 2020 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Pontypool Churches & Friends Christian Bookshop **Other names charity is known by** None **Registered charity number (if any)** 1162433
**Charity's principal address** 23 Commercial St, Pontypool
Torfaen
**Postcode NP4 6JQ**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Trust Deed
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation Trust. How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To advance the Christian religion by promoting the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the town of Pontypool by producing and/or distributing literature on the Christian faith to enlighten others about the Christian religion.
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The provision and sale of literature, compact discs and DVD’s that provide information on the Christian faith. This information has a two-fold purpose; the first is a means of educating and teaching non-Christians about the tenets of the Christian faith and secondly, to provide further instruction and education to believing Christians.
**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)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity** The achievements for the year 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 are **during the year** as follows;
- 1) January – March ; 49 books sold, 103 other items; total 152.
- 2) April – June : 3 books sold, 7 other items sold; total 10
- 3) July – September: 110 books sold; other items sold 131; total 141 4) October - December; books sold 53; other items sold 151; total 204.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The financial reserves kept by the Christian Bookshop are enough to **Brief statement of the** keep the charity functioning for at least six months in cases of financial **charity’s policy on reserves** difficulty.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
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.
## **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)** Paul Bufton **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary **etc)**
**Date** 11 March 2021
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