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2022-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address

N/A

1162575

UNIT 3, 280 FOLESHILL ROAD

COVENTRY WEST MIDLANDS Postcode CV6 5AH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if Name of person (or body)
Trustee name Office (if any) not for whole entitled to appoint trustee
year (if any)
EMMANUEL NANA LEAD TRUSTEE CHURCH COUNCIL AND
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BANYIN WILSON BOARD OF TRUSTEES
EBENEZER AGYEMANG ORGANISING CHURCH COUNCIL AND
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AMPONSAH BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SECRETARY
ANNIE FUNRAISING CHURCH COUNCIL AND
3
LEAD BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OWUSU
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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 professional advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANCY UNIT 9, 243 CROSS ROAD, COVENTRY, ACCOUNTANTS/AUDITO SOLUTIONS LIMITED ENGLAND, CV6 5GP RS SOLICITORS BAND HATTON BUTTON 53-55 BUTT ROAD, COVENTRY, ENGLAND SOLICITORS CV1 3BH

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BANKERS

BARCLAYS BANK PLC

25 HIGH STREET, COVENTRY, ENGLAND, CV1 5RE

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

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Our governing document first and foremost as Church and then as a
Type of governing
document charititable organisation is the memorandum and articles of
(eg. trust deed, Constitution of a Charity Incorporated Organisations (CIO). The
constitution) governing document has been in use since 16th July 2014 and was
later amended by the trustees following a consent resolution on the
1 [st] July 2015.
Dome of Grace International Church is an association of Christian
How the charity is
constituted believers whose activities hone in with the teaching of our Lord, Jesus
(eg. trust, Christ. We operate a free-will membership policy. Our donors, mainly
association, members and non-members make free-will donations as and when it
company) suits them. As a rule, Dome of Grace International Church does not
affiliation with any other charity in England or outside England.
Trustee selection There are three trustees appointed by a resolution passed at an
methods appropriately convened joint meeting of the board of Charity
(eg. appointed by, Trustees and the Church Council members. For the induction process
elected by) of any newly appointed trustee, the lead Charity trustee will make
available on or before his or her appointment copies of the following
documents:
a) a copy of the latest version of the Church’s Constitution
b) a copy of the Statement of Faith document (Tenets)
c) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and
Statement of Accounts
d) the Charity Commission's guidance for trustees: 'The Essential
Trustee: what you need to know, what you need to do’
(updated
3 May 2018)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-essential-trustee-
what-you-need-to-know-cc3/the-essential-trustee-what-you-need-to-
know-what-you-need-to-do
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Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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1. Organisational Structure:

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

The trustees manage all the administrative and financial activities of Dome of Grace International Church. The trustees do not interfere with spiritual matters of the church, as this area is managed by the Church’s Council and led by the presiding Reverend Minister and associate ministers). The trustees ensure the smooth the day-to-day management of the church's businesses in accordance with the organisational objectives and in line with the Charity Commission’s guidance of trustees.

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our cherished members - our main donors.

3. Church Members

Our church’s membership is free and open to everyone who by the grace of God shows the embedded faith in the gospel Lord Jesus Christ in him or her, the desire to worship with us and serve God in line with the basic and true Christian principles as stipulated in church’s Statement of Faith which is grounded in the Holy Bible. This year, the leadership of the Dome of Grace |International Church reminded all members of their individual membership categories as explained last year in our trustees’ annual report, as reviewed by the Church Council:

Full Member , Partial Member , and Friends of Dome of Grace. We strive to achieve and support all categories of church members status, accordingly and fairly. Being a member of our Church comes with some well-thought benefits and responsibilities. Our members do not pay any registration fee to join Dome of Grace International Church, since Christianity is based on love and giving back to society. These include membership donations to bereaved members, visitation to members who are down in their spirit, support for members and non-members (within our budget) going through various difficult situations to encourage them. We also support members who are ill (short term or long term). In extreme cases, members extreme financial difficulties are given a one-off lumpsum donation to temporary ease them of that burden. That said, we are a non-profitable organisation and not a loan-giving association.

We always celebrate the arrival of a new baby into our church community by showing love in kind or cash from an annual budget from church’s coffers.

4. Risk Management

As church's main objective is to glorify our God. Whilst it is the church's policy to expect members to have faith in God, which we inherently believe will work out God purpose in our lives, we also ensure members are always safe whilst they are in our custody (especially, children). For the Trustees achieve this our main objective, collectively, the leadership strives to encourage all members to be responsible for their safety at church, by way of empowering individuals, to identify and manage potential risk faced by them and any other member wen fellowship at the church premises.

The Trustees have therefore put in place a Risk Management Policy which was last reviewed in May 2022 to conform with latest legislations. Risk Management Policy at Dome of Grace International Church emphasizes the guidance for assessing major risks to which our church members could be exposed to. This policy also highlights, especially, certain specific operational areas of the Church, how to control risk to the minimum, and procedures to follow, should te unexpected happens. The Trustees and the Church Council are satisfied that there is nothing known to us as church posing any form

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of risk as of the time of writing this report.

5. Policies and Procedures

Our essential operational aims of Dome of Grace International Church are to maintain law, order, peace and members’ satisfaction. Therefore, we have penned down the following policies for our members to adhere to:

It is the duty of our Trustees and Church leaders to ensure members strive adhere to policies. All our policies are normally reviewed every two years and re-enforced by the Church Council (which includes all the Trustees). We treat all our policy documents, essential. For instance:

1. Safeguarding Policy:

The Trustees and the Safeguarding Officer are tasked to ensure that both adults and children are safe in the church hall and outside the church hall. Where there is a disclosure or suspicion of abuse, our Safeguarding Officer will act swiftly to investigate, deal with it, if this is a minor issue. Where the issue must involve external agencies and the police in line with safeguarding laws in England and Wales, we will do so. All disclosure, suspicion, investigations, and discussions are recorded and saved securely and precisely with utmost confidentially to conform with Data Protection law in England and Wales

2. Equal Opportunity Policy:

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among members.

We also value God’s command to “Love your neighbour as yourself” and believe this is universal command for all Christians. We recognise that in the general society, groups and individuals have been, and will continue to be discriminated against, based on race, sex, marital status, disability, sexuality, age and religious belief, so this policy debars any form of unequal opportunity among members.

We also believe that discrimination against any members on any ground whatsoever, is unacceptable and does not serve the purposes of God for humankind. The aim of Dome of Grace International Church regarding this policy is therefore, to provide genuine equality of opportunity to our culturally diverse members.

1. Child Protection Policy :

Child Protection at church is as important as in schools. We, therefore, always endeavour to protect the interest of the child. We, therefore, have an open-door policy that enables us to collaborate to work with all government agencies and the police when the need arises.

We ensure that we carry out Criminal Records Bureau checks (DBS) prior to the commencement of any work or trusteeship in the church. We also do Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks on volunteers who work with children in the church. These checks are carried out in every two years, in line with statutory requirements.

All our policies in place are in line with the church’s constitutional and operational objectives and the Trustees work so hard to ensure each policy is adhered to. All policies are open to review at an agreed time.

Section C Objectives and activities

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In accordance with the Constitution of Dome of Grace International Church, our core objective is the advancement of the Christian faith for the public benefit by:

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

Summary of the main The Trustees have given due regard to the Charity Commission's activities guidance on public benefits, especially, the specific guidance on undertaken charities for the advancement of religion. In 2022, we did not relent on for the public benefit in such activities benefit and enthuse the public to promote the Gospel of relation to Jesus Christ: these objects (include 1. Supporting other Charities in England and Wales: within this section the As part of our core aims, we continue to support the needy, homeless statutory and the hopeless, in our prayers, in fellowship together (as the Bible declaration that trustees says ‘Do not forsake the assembly of the brethren’) and in donations in have had kind or cash. It is in this selfless giving that makes us fulfil scripture. regard to the Year on and year on, the Trustees have ensured dates are set for guidance donating food items and toiletries to the Coventry ‘Food Bank’ and cash issued by the donation to the ‘Zoe’s Place’ in Coventry. We also ensured that Charity Commission members who lost their jobs, as well as the disadvantaged families on public supported in cash and kind (grocery shopping for them fortnightly). benefit) These gestures have always been welcoming to our community and serve as a huge relief for families, Like last year, we extended our

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donations to include Mental Health victims.

2. Donations to the poor and needy

From 2018 to date, we started supporting an orphanage in Ghana (Kumasi). This year asked members to donate second-hand clothing to the church. Thankfully, we were able to ship these clothing twice in 2022 to the orphanage. We ensured there were enough clothing for these poor orphans because the church buys extra new clothing to top it up. This year we were able top up with £1500 in total for the purchase of the clothing to support these orphans. We strongly believe Christianity is built on showing love to others and making life better for the disadvantaged in our communities.

3. Our Youth

Again, just like every year, the women ministry of the church takes the initiative of ensuring our youth are happy and brought up in the teachings of the Bible. The leadership of the church, spearheaded by the Youth Ministry In collaboration with the Women Ministry organise fortnightly sessions for pre-teens and teenagers to keep them engaged and active to improve their quality of lives and mental health. These sessions were aimed at tackling difficult social and challenging issues faced by the modern youth. The sessions are more like talk-shows, where the youth discuss topics on healthy relationships with the opposite sex, making informed life decisions, having difficult conversation with youth, knife crimes, loneliness, career searching opportunities and choices, personal hygiene, becoming an adult, volunteering, spiritual life and many more.

Adult volunteers within the men and women ministries lead on these sessions. However, we sometimes we invite external resource persons to lead sessions. These programmes are open to all youth from our community. Attendance is always high.

Photo gallery from 2023

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

We are grateful to our main donors (church members and non-church members) and other donors (volunteers) who have continually donated money to support activities throughout the year 2022, especially, when living cost and other household bills soared high. On the hindsight, as a church were able to achieve all our short-term plans for 2022, thanks to our awesome donors. God bless us all.

programme related investment;

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volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievement s of the charity during the year

We are an independent, culturally diverse, vibrant and charismatic Bible-believing church in Coventry (England). We get our congregation from a wide range of cultures across Coventry city and sometimes from nearby cities and towns. We cater for all age groups with great diversity. Over the last ten years, Dome of Grace International church has maintained a strong presence in our community with regards to the good work we do. We have been able to forge good relationship and collaborate well with other churches and religious faiths in Coventry in pursuant of achieving our long and short-term goals.

As we do every year, we have rate activities and departments in the church by conducting members’ survey on the last Sunday in December collate information to improve on areas we are not doing well as a church from an observer’s point of view. This yearly accountability exercise has been truly rewarding.

From our findings, we gather from members’ feedback, out of a 100%:

1. Family Worship Service (88%)

2. Mental Health Activities (96%)

3. Youth Programmes (100%)

4. Men Ministry (75%)

5. Women Ministry (95%) :

6. Visitation and Hospitality (100%)

7. Growth and Training (60%)

8. Projects (92%)

9. Outreach Evangelism (56%)

Section E Financial review

Brief

statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Our operating reserve policy as a church ensures stability of our church’s vision mission, programmes, services, and ongoing operations of the church are not cut off. Our Operating Reserve, this year is £45 000. This an accumulation of previous years’ reserves to date. The reserve is intended to provide an internal source of funds for situations such as a sudden increase in expenditure, one-time unbudgeted expenses, unanticipated loss in funding, or uninsured losses. More importantly, the reserve is our hope for a deposit for mortgage for our own church premises. The Reserve is there for a one off non-recurring expenses that will build long-term capacity, such as staff development, research and

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development, low-risk investment opportunities, starting a new church branch, or initial deposit for purchasing the church’s permanent place of worship.

Dome of Grace International church’s operating reserves does not replace any permanent loss of funds or eliminate an ongoing budget gap. It is the intention of the trustees to ensure the Operating Reserves to be used and replenished within reasonably short period only. The Operating Reserve Policy has been implemented in accordance with the other governance and financial polices of Dome of Grace International Church and is intended to support the goals and strategies contained in these related policies and in strategic and operational plans. As usual, our trustees have a responsibility of protecting our operational reserve and will not lean on it even in during this year when prices are high.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The church’s principal sources of funds are from:

You may choose to include  Members’ tithes additional information,  Members’ freewill offertory where relevant about:

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Section F Other optional information

1. Strategies for next year:

The church strategy for next year will not be very different from the years before. We aim to invest in more volunteers in area of evangelism, counselling, and financial support in the Ministry to push ministerial work forward. We will again continue to invest in activities that will attract more youth to turn to Christ Jesus, and to motivate them that there is still hope in Christ, even if they have messed up their lives in relation to social vices. We will continue to have our summer socialising fayre and strive feed the hungry and disadvantaged people in our community. We will intensify our outreach evangelism (which was rated lowest two years in a roll) to encourage new members to worship with us.

The Church is still actively searching on the market for a new property to buy and use as our permanent place of worship. This is because the Trustees are anticipating a 100% increase in congregation in the next couple of years and we would not fit into our current place.

2. Plans for 2023:

We believe God and that He always makes His way amidst uncertainties, and that everything is in God’s control and without Him we cannot be effective in our planning and the service we render to mankind. Our plans for 2023 are mostly a repeat of previous years:

1. Conclusion:

The Trustees hereby present the Annual Report together with the Financial Statements of Dome of Grace International Church for the year ending 31st March 2023.

The Trustees also confirm that the Annual report and financial statements of the church (charity) comply with the current requirements guided by the Charity Commission:

References : “Implications of COVID-19 control measures and charity financial reporting” issued 23 March 2020 and ”Charities SORP (FRS 102) – Second

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edition” - effective on 1[st] January 2019

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

EWilson Signature(s) EMMANUEL NANA BANYIN WILSON Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, LEAD TRUSTEE Chair, etc) Date 30/01/2023

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Charity Name No (if any) DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH 1162575

Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date To from 1/1/2022

Period start date Period end date To 1/1/2022 12/31/2022

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Tithe and Offertory 36,803 - - 36,803
VoluntaryThanksgiving Donations 28,699 - - 28,699
In-House Fundraising Activities 11,725 - - 11,725
Hire of Church Hall and Equipment 3,265 - - 3,265
Voluntary Consultation Donations 7,018 - - 7,018
Building Fund 6,750 - - 6,750
Other Cash and Cheque Donations 5,020 - 5,020
- -
99,280 - - 99,280
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
Receipts from sale of fixed Assets 450 - - 450
- - - -
Sub total 450 - - 450
Total receipts 99,730 - - 99,730
A3 Payments
Fuel, Transportation and other Sundries 2,166 - - 2,166
Renting of Premises and Accomodation 15,468 - - 15,468
Utility Bills, Phone Bills & Heating Costs 7,792 - - 7,792
Insurance/Tax (Building & Motor Vehicle) 3,050 - - 3,050
Events,Training & Fundraising Costs 10,250 - - 10,250
Office Supplies and Administrative Costs 1,820 - - 1,820
Honourarium (Pastors, Guests) 15,521 - - 15,521
Grants and Charitable Donations 6,312 - - 6,312
Decorations, Repairs and Maintenance 1,200 - - 1,200
Sub total [ 63,579 ] - - 63,579
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Musical Equipment & Accessories - 560 - 560
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] 560 - 560
Total payments 63,579 560 - 64,139
Net of receipts/(payments) 36,151 - 560 - 35,591
A5 Transfers between funds - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - -
Cash funds this year end 36,151 - 560 - 35,591
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Unrestricted Restricted
Categories Details
funds
funds
B1 Cash funds to nearest £
Current Account
32,741
Saving Account
2,850
-
35,591
Total cash funds
to nearest £
-
-
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Unrestricted Restricted
funds funds
B2 Other monetary assets Details to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
B3 Investment assets Details Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
B4 Assets retained for the Details
Musical Instruments
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
14,060
charity’s own use Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
Computers, Printers and TVs
Electrical Equipments & P.A. Systems
Kitchen Utensils, Glasses, and Cutlery
TOTAL
17,100
3,900
14,025
1,850
50,935
-
-
-
B5 Liabilities Details Fund to which
liability relates
-
-
-
-
-
Amount due
(optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print Name
EMMANUEL NANA BANYIN WILSON
Ewilson

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CC16a
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Last year

to the nearest £

21,460 18,475 6,690 1,480 3,100 - 7,040 58,245

58,245

3,656 20,516 2,800 2,416 16,450 845 5,600 2,968 1,020 56,271

56,271 1,974 - - 1,974

Endowment funds

to nearest £ - - - -

Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional)

When due (optional)

Date of approval

28/01/2023

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ members DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH of 31[ST] MARCH 2023 Charity 1162575 On accounts for the no (if year ended any) Set out on pages 1, 2 and 3

Responsibilities and basis of report

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2023.

The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the charities Act 1993 and that an independent examination is needed, the accounts do not exceed £250 000.

It is my responsibility to

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

My examination was carried out in accordance with General Direction given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by Dome of Grace International Church and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records.

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It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanation from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit as afore mentioned 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 statement below.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material examiner's matters have come to my attention in connection with the statement examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: PK_OHENE Date: 26/01/2022

Name: Prosper Kwabena Ohene

Relevant Chartered Institute of Auditors (CIA) professional qualification(s) or body

Address: 22 Kendon Avenue Coventry CV6 1GG

APPROVAL CERTIFICATE

I approve the accounts which comprise of the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and the related notes. I acknowledge my responsibility for the accounts, including the appropriateness of the

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applicable financial reporting framework as set out in note 1, and for providing The Accountancy Solutions with all information and explanations necessary for their compilation.

Name of proprietor signing balance sheet: Mr. Emmanuel Nana Banyin Wilson

(Lead Trustees)

Address: 148 WOODSIDE AVENUE SOUTH

COVENTRY, STYVECHALE

CV3 6BE

Signature: EWilson

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

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Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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