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**01**|Month
**04**|Year
**2024**||Day
**31**|Month
**03**|Year
**2025**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH Other names charity is known by N/A Registered charity number (if any) 1162575 Charity's principal address UNIT 3, 280 FOLESHILL ROAD COVENTRY WEST MIDLAND Postcode CV6 5AH** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||IVY DUFIE
**WILSON**|LEAD TRUSTEE||CHURCH COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES| ||EBENEZER AGYEMANG
**AMPONSAH**|ORGANISING
SECRETARY||CHURCH COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES| ||ANNIE
**OWUSU**|FUNDRAISING
LEAD||CHURCH COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES| **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 Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** |Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)|

Our governing document is the backbone of Church and also as a
charitable organisation, it is the memorandum and articles of
Constitution of a Charity Incorporated Organisations (CIO). The
governing document has been in use since 16th July 2014 and
was later amended by the trustees following a consent resolution
on the 1st July 2015.| |---|---| ||
Dome of Grace International Church is an association of Christian
believers whose activities are in line with the teaching of our Lord,
Jesus Christ. We operate a free-will membership policy. Our
donors are largely members from the age range of 18 years and
above and also non-members who occasionally give free-will
donations as and when it suits them. As a rule, Dome of Grace
International Church does not affiliation with any other charity in
England or outside England. And we are not in a partnership with
any other association, club or organisation.| ||
Currently, there are three trustees appointed by a resolution
passed at an appropriately convened joint meeting of the board of
Charity Trustees and the Church Council members. For the
induction process 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| ## **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. ## **1. Organisational Structure:** 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 management of the day-today church's businesses in accordance with the organisational objectives and in line with the Charity Commission’s guidance of trustees. ## **2. Annual General Meeting (AGM)** It is the collective responsibility of the Trustees and the Church Council to present a summary of the financial record of the church, administration, monitoring systems and all church activities that transpired within during 2023 to the congregation. An agreed date scheduled for AGM on a **TAR** March **2012** 2 Sunday in January (Before the first trustees’ meeting of the year) is communicated to the congregation in advance. At our AGM, light refreshments and pastries are normally served to compliment members support and commitment to the church. We also award and reward exceptional members’ and non-members contributions for the year. Our AGM enables the trustees to make amendments to Annual Trustees Report (TAR), if any, before the TAR is uploaded onto the Charity Commission’s website by 31[st] January. This year, we had our AGM on the 12[th] January, 2025 at our church hall. The meeting started at 1:30pm and ended at 3:00pm. All Trustees, Church Council Members, members of the church and our independent accountant (as observer) attended the AGM. The Lead Trustee led the AGM by presenting the 2024 accounts (1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024). Our AGM talked about all achievements, management (including financial control) and a summary of financial records for the year ending 2024. We used PowerPoint presentation for the meeting to summarise our church’s plans for 2025. This presentation was also shown on the TV screens at the church hall. All attendees the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation and responded accordingly and where clarifications needed, lead Trustee, supported by our independent Accountant as usual ensured that financial report is well understood by everyone who attended the meeting. Our AGM is always an important to the trustees and is well-attended by our members as it is an opportunity to answer their questions and queries because they form majority of all our donors. Feedback resulting from our AGM are later analysed and reviewed to improve our services to donors and the community we serve. This year AGM was awesome, and we can only thank God who year on and year on make provisions for our main donor, our members. ## 3. **Church Members** The church membership opens 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. We operate a freewill membership policy, and we do not take any membership fee. ## **4. Risk Management** The 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 **TAR** March **2012** 3 Trustees achieve this our TAR 3 Dome of Grace International Church 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. Our 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 the unexpected happens. The Trustees and the Church Council are satisfied that there is nothing known to us as church posing any form 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 the following policies in place for our members to adhere to: • Safeguarding Policy, • Conflict Resolution Policy, • Child Protection Poli • Equal Opportunity Policy • Risk Assessment Policy. • Complaint Handling Policy, • Finance and Financial Control Policy, • GDPR Compliant and Data Handling Policy, • Church Visitation policy. It is the collective duty of all Trustees and Church council to ensure the policies are followed. All our policies are normally reviewed every two years and reenforced by the Church Council (which includes all the Trustees). We treat all our policy documents essential to the growth of the church. All our policies in place are in line with the church’s constitutional and operational objectives and the Trustees work very hard to ensure each policy is adhered to. All policies are open to review at agreed times. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** 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** 1. Holding church meetings, organising lectures, producing and distributing Christian literature to enlighten others about Christianity and tell them about Christ through our outreach programmes and broadcasting on social media and radio stations evangelistic teaching messages to humankind. **TAR** March **2012** 4 2. Promoting the spiritual and moral welfare of the society. To achieve this, the trustees will ensure the church endeavours to relieve members of Dome of Grace International Church of short-term financial hardship, promotes and preserves good health of our members. If someone is introduced to us from the community we will provide a one-off financial support, goods or services of any kind, including, provision of guidance and counselling. The Trustees from time to time • assess the feasibility of this objective. 3. Establishing and running Churches to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statement of beliefs in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world, as Trustees from time to time think fit. 4. To advance Christian education, especially in the youth, in such ways that it will make them useful and well-directed citizens for the future in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world at large, as Trustees from time to time may think fit. 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) The Trustees have given due regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefits, especially, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion. In 2024, we were relentless on such activities that benefit and enthuse the public to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ: ## 1. **Supporting the needy and the disadvantaged in society:** **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)** As part of our core aims, we continue to support the needy, homeless and the hopeless, in our prayers, in fellowship together (as the Bible says ‘Do not forsake the assembly of the brethren’) and in donations in kind or cash. It is in this selfless giving that makes us fulfil scripture. This year the trustees ensured we there are funds to support three people who needed life-threatened medical surgeries, which were all successful. We also supported members who lost their jobs, as well as the disadvantaged families in cash and kind (grocery shopping for them weekly). These gestures have always been welcoming to our community and serve as huge relief for families, especially, when rising living cost is awful, 2. This year, the women of the church empowered Youth from within the church and other Youth who are not members of our church through an initiative called ‘The Youth is the future’. 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 **TAR** March **2012** 5 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, life in university, difficult conversation with other 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 also led on these sessions. The attendance for these sessions were always great. ## **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; We appreciate our church members and all our donors and volunteer who supported the growth of the ministries objective by donating money to support our activities throughout the year 2024, especially, when living cost and other household bills soared high. Without these donors, will not be able to achieve all most of plans for 2024. God bless the powerful and the least of our donors. - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance We get our congregation from a wide range of cultures across **Summary of the main** Coventry city and sometimes from nearby cities and towns. We **achievements of the charity** cater for all age groups with great diversity. Over the last ten years, **during the year** Dome of Grace International church has maintained a strong presence in our community with regards to the good work we do. 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 year’s findings from members’ feedback, out of a 100%: 1. Family Worship Service (95%) 2. Mental Health Activities (75%) 3. Youth Programmes (100%) 4. Men Ministry (70%) 5. Women Ministry (95%): 6. Visitation and Hospitality (98%) 7. Growth and Training (72%) 8. Projects (76%) 9. Outreach Evangelism (68%) ## **Section E Financial review** **TAR** March **2012** 6 **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, for 2024 is £60K. 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. Our reserve is still our hope for a deposit for mortgage for our own church premises. The Reserve is there for a one-off non-recurring expense that will build long-term capacity, such as staff development, research and 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. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** N/A ## **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. Our main sources of funding are still from: - Members’ tithes - Members’ freewill offertory - Members’ freewill donations - Members’ thanksgiving offerings - Annual harvest (In-house fundraising) - Building fund donations (Dubbed ‘Temple Tax’) - Donations from other churches, Christians and philanthropists - External funds applications and fundraising **TAR** March **2012** 7 ## **Section F Other optional information** On behalf of the Trustees, l hereby present the Annual Report together with the Financial Statements of Dome of Grace International Church for the year ending 31st March 2025. The Trustees also confirm that the Annual report and financial statements of the church comply with the current requirements by the Charity Commission ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** Idwilson **Signature(s) IVY DUFIE WILSON Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, LEAD TRUSTEE etc) Date 31/01/2025** **TAR** March **2012** 8 **Charity Name** No (if any) **DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH** 1162575 **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/01/2024 31/12/2024** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**43,360**
**25,760**
**13,867**
**4,493**
**4,891**
**4,550**
**1,560**
**-**
**98,481**
**415**
**-**
**415**
**98,896**
**3,629**
**15,504**
**10,230**
**2,860**
**2,870**
**2,905**
**18,934**
**6,750**
**6,336**
**70,018**
**6,500**
**-**
**6,500**
**76,518**
**22,378**
**-**
**-**
**22,378**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**43,360**
**25,760**
**13,867**
**4,493**
**4,891**
**4,550**
**1,560**
**-**
**98,481**
**415**
**-**
**415**
**98,896**
**3,629**
**15,504**
**10,230**
**2,860**
**2,870**
**2,905**
**18,934**
**6,750**
**6,336**
**70,018**
**6,500**
**-**
**6,500**
**76,518**
**22,378**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Tithe and Offertory|**43,360**|||||**42,450**| |VoluntaryThanksgivingDonations|**25,760**|||||**30,560**| |In-House FundraisingActivities|**13,867**|||||**12,800**| |Church Hall and Equipment Hire|**4,493**|||||**3,960**| |VoluntaryConsultation Donations|**4,891**|||||**5,856**| |BuildingFund|**4,550**|||||**4,250**| |Other Cash and Cheque Donations|**1,560**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**98,481**|||||**99,876**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| |**Sale of fixed Assets Receipts**|**415**|||||| ||**-**
|||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**415**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**99,876**| |||||||| |Fuel,Transportation and other Sundries|**3,629**|||||**3,150**| |Rentingof Premises and Accomodation|**15,504**|||||**16,571**| |UtilityBills,Phone Bills & HeatingCosts|**10,230**|||||**9,700**| |Insurance/Tax(Building& Motor Vehicle)|**2,860**|||||**4,240**| |Events,Training& FundraisingCosts|**2,870**|||||**9,890**| |Office Supplies and Administrative Costs|**2,905**|||||**1,115**| |Honourarium(Pastors,Guests)|**18,934**|||||**16,020**| |Grants and Charitable Donations|**6,750**|||||**7,340**| |Decorations,Repairs and Maintenance|**6,336**|||||**2,737**| ||**70,018**|||||**70,763**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |
Musical Equipment &Accessories|**6,500**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**6,500**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**70,763**| |||||||| ||**22,378**|**-**|**-**|**22,378**||**29,113**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**22,378**|**-**|**-**|**22,378**||**29,113**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/01/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank Current Account
**Details**
**Details**
Musical Instruments
Furniture, Fixtures and Kitchen
~~Equipment~~
Computers, Printers and TVs
Electrical Equipments & P.A. Systems
Kitchen Utensils, Glasses, and Cutlery
TOTAL
**Details**
Signature
~~IdWilson~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**20,072**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,072**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**18,250**
**17,400**
**4,750**
**19,840**
**2,555**
**62,795**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
IVY DUFIE WILSON|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||~~IdWilson~~|IVY DUFIE WILSON|30/01/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/01/2025 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** > **Report to the trustees/ DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH members of** > **On accounts for the year 31[ST] MARCH 2025 Charity no 1162575 ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 03 / 2025. **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|**PK_OHENE**|**26/01/2025**| |---|---|---| |||| ||**PROSPER KWABENA OHENE**|| |||| ||**Chartered Institute of Auditors (CIA)**|| |||| ||**22 KENDON AVENUE**|| ||**COVENTRY**|| ||**CV6 1GG**|| **October 2018** 1 **IER** **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). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . ## **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 applicable financial reporting framework as set out in note 1, and for providing Accountancy Solutions with all information and explanations necessary for their compilation. **Name of proprietor signing balance sheet:** MRS. IVY DUFIE WILSON (Lead Trustees) **Address:** 148 WOODSIDE AVENUE SOUTH COVENTRY, STYVECHALE CV3 6BE ## **Signature:** IdWilson **October 2018** 2 **IER**