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2025-03-31-accounts

Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
Dome of Grace International Church – Coventry
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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

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)
EMMANUEL NANA
BANYINWILSON
LEAD TRUSTEE 10/11/2025 CHURCH COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
EBENEZER AGYEMENG
AMPONSAH
ORGANISING
SECRETARY
10/01/2014 CHURCH COUNCIL AND
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
ANNIE
OWUSU
FUNDRAISING
LEAD
10/01/2014 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: Dome of Grace International Church

March 2012

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)


The governing document of Dome of Grace International Church is
the backbone of Church. The church a registered charitable
organisation, and its memorandum and articles of Constitution is
that 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 of
July 2015

Dome of Grace International Church is an association of Christian
believers whose activities are inspired by the teaching of our Lord
and saviour, Jesus Christ. We operate a free-will membership
policy. Almost 95% of our donors are largely members of the church
and about 5% are non-members who occasionally give free-will
donations as and when it suits them. Dome of Grace International
Church has no 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-
trusteewhat-you-need-to-know-cc3/the-essential-trustee-what-you-
needto-know-what-you-need-to-do

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Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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 management of the day-to-day church's businesses in accordance with the organisational objectives and in line with the Charity Commission’s guidance of trustees.

Annual General Meeting (AGM) :

Every year, the Trustees and the Church Council prepare the AGM documents, organise the AGM, and formally present to the congregation (donors), a summary of the financial record of the church, administration, monitoring systems and all church activities that transpired during the calendar year. For the AGM to be organise successfully, the trustees agreed on a date and then inform the church council. The AGM is then scheduled and then then announced at church service at least two weeks before the set date. Our AGMs are always on Sundays in January (normally, before the first trustees’ meeting of the year). 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 who contribute in diverse ways to promote the vision of the church.

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 31st January. This year, we had our AGM on the 25[th] January, 2026 at our church hall. The meeting started at 1:35pm and ended at 2.50pm. All 3 Trustees, Church Council Members, donors of the church (member and nonmembers) and our independent examiner (as observer) attended the AGM. The Lead Trustee led the AGM by presenting the 2025 accounts (1st January 2025 to 31st December 2025). This year’s AGM emphasized on all church achievements, management (including financial control) and a summary of financial records for the year ending December 2025. 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.

At this year’s AGM, the trustees gave all our donors in attendance the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation. The lead trustee with the support of the independent examiner responded to all queries and questions from members of the church. This

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exercise helped to clarify any misconception harboured my members of the church and promoted confidence in the church’s leadership. The trustees ensured the financial report is well understood by everyone who attended the meeting. Our AGM this year, like all other years gone is important to the trustees and was well-attended (123 members in attendance), as it is an opportunity to answer their questions and queries as they form majority of all our donors. Feedback resulting from our AGM was analysed the next day and reviewed to improve our services to donors and the community we serve. This year AGM was one of the best, and we can firstly, thank God and then our congregation for their unflinching support for the church.

Church Members :

At Church of Grace International Church, we pride ourselves in showing love to one another. We operate a freewill membership policy, and we do not take any membership fee.Membership is open to everyone who by the grace of God shows the embedded faith in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and is willing to accept our modest Christian teachings, alongside their desire to worship with us and serve God willingly with the basic and true Christian principles as stipulated in church’s Statement of Faith which is grounded in the Holy Bible..

Risk Management :

The church's main objective is to glorify our God. Whilst it is true that our church's risk management policy expects members to always be safe whilst they are in our custody (especially, children and report any potential risk to the safeguarding team. For the Trustees and the Church Council to a achieve this 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 when fellowship at the church premises.

Although, members have faith in God, which we inherently believe will work out God purpose in their lives, we also ensure members support each other by making the church premises safe at all times.

Our Risk Management Policy 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, and procedures to follow, should the unexpected happens. The Trustees and the Church Council are satisfied that there is nothing known to us as of the time of writing this TAR, which poses any form of risk to our members.

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March 2012

Safeguarding:

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 comply to: Safeguarding Policy, Conflict Resolution Policy, Child Protection Policy, Equal Opportunity Policy, Risk Assessment Policy, Complaint Handling Policy, Finance and Financial Control Policy, GDPR Compliant and Data Handling Policy, Church Visitation policy.

All Other Policies

There are other church policies in place at Dome of Grace international Church. However, for the sake of this report, space will not permit us to talk about each policy. The assurance is that, 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 re-enforced 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 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 various 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.

  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 shortterm 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.

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  1. Establishing and running Churches to advance the Christian faith in accordance with our statement of beliefs in such parts of the U.K. or the world, as Trustees from time to time think fit.

  2. 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.

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 there are funds to support one person who needed an urgent medical surgery. This surgery went well. There were six people who unfortunately lost their jobs and the church, as would be expected, supported them financially till they were back on their feet again. We also reached out to non-members of our community to make a one-off donation to ten disadvantaged families in cash and kind (grocery shopping). These gestures have always been welcoming to our community and serve as huge relief for families financially.

We cannot end the year without donating to food items to Coventry Food Bank. These year’s as usual we were able to donate a large quantity of groceries to Coventry Food Bank. We were able to donate in cash to a hospice (Zoe’s Place) and they were very happy with our donation.

We can attest for the fact that God blessed our church immensely, through our wonderful and committed donors, so extended the gesture of kindness and thoughtfulness to our congregation. We surprised the congregation nby giving out a bag of rice and a gallon of cooking oil to each member from 18 years and above, It was the first time we have done such a thing.

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Empowering the Youth:

This year, the women of the church again, empowered the 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, so as 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, 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 this year’s sessions was great. This is one of the popular events on the church calendar.

Another impactful youth empowerment event that drew remarkably more youth form outside our church was a youth programme dubbed ‘ACCESS 25’. This was the first of its kind. Youth from Coventry came together to collaborate and share ideas in line with the Christian beliefs. It was a mixture of singing, dancing, recitation of poem, personal encounter with Jesus Christ, motivational talk and what have you. This was organised by the youth leadership of Dome of Grace International Church. It was amazing to see the talent these youth possess and the difference that can make in others’ lives.

Many voted the ACCESS 25 as the ‘programme of the year’.

Marriage Seminar:

Two marriage seminars were organised by the men and women fellowship of the church: one for singles and one for couples.

These marriage seminars were organised as parties, where finger foods and refreshing drinks were served, attendees dressed to the occasion, danced to good songs and indulged in various indoor activities. There were 30 minutes marriage talk and thereafter, people ask questions about marriage. People were also given the opportunities to answer selected questions from the host to educate and inspire other couples. These seminars were very informative, and it was a joy to see couples sharing ideas and personal experiences.

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Other Activities:

There were other activities that took place this year as well. There were equally popular activities scheduled ahead of time on our church calendar. These activities were:

  1. Variety Show

  2. Carols Night

  3. Praise and Worship Night

  4. Revival Services

  5. Children’s day

  6. Youth Day

  7. Men’s Day

  8. Women’s Day

  9. Fathers’ and Mothers’ day activities

  10. Cultural day

  11. Love Feast

  12. Pastors and Widows’ Appreciation Day

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

This year has been good. Ane we are grateful to our Almighty God.

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

We appreciate our church members and all our donors and volunteer who supported the growth of the church’s objective by donating money to support our activities throughout the year 2025, especially, when living cost and other household bills soared high. Without these donors, will not be able to achieve all most of plans for 2025.

God bless the powerful and the least of our donors.

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March 2012

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Our congregation are 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. We believe in inclusivity and we therefore thrive on our inclusivity culture. 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 – giving back to the community we serve.

As we do every year, we have again, this year, gauged the success and popularity of all activities and departments in the church. We do this by conducting members’ survey on the last Sunday in December. We then, collated information to improve on areas we fell short this year compared to last year in the church. This is solely from an observer’s point of view.

This was year’s (2025) findings from members’ feedback, out of hundred percent (100%):

  1. Family Worship Service (90%) 2. Mental Health Activities (85%)

  2. Youth Programmes (100%)

  3. Men Ministry (65%)

  4. Women Ministry (85%):

  5. Visitation and Hospitality (100%) 7. Growth and Training (70%)

  6. Projects (80%)

  7. Outreach Evangelism (60%) 10. Charitable Giving – 90%

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March 2012

Section D Achievements and performance

PHOTO GALLERY OF SOME ACTIVITIES OF 2025

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March 2012

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

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March 2012

Section E Financial review

The church’s operating reserve policy ensures stability of church’s Brief statement of the vision and mission statements, programmes, services, and ongoing charity’s policy on reserves operations of the church, and thus, are not cut off. Our Operating Reserve, for 2025 is £90 000. 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. The church’s reserve is still our hope for a deposit for a future mortgage of 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 if used, would be 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 for strategic and operational plans. As usual, and as expected by the Charity Commission, our Trustees are responsible of protecting Dome of Grace International Church’s operational reserve.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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

Our main sources of funding are still from:

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ethical investment policy adopted.

philanthropists

Section F Other optional information

I write on behalf of the Trustees and Church Council, l hereby, present the Trustees Annual Report together with the Financial Statements of Dome of Grace International Church for the year ending 31st March 2026.

The Trustees also confirm that the Annual Report and Financial Statements of the church comply with the current requirements by the Charity Commission

Finally, l would like to thank all our donors and congregation for their various contributions in kind and cash this year – 2025/26. We appreciate you all and God bless our church.

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) E_N_B Wilson EMMANUEL NANA BANYIN WILSON Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, LEAD TRUSTEE etc) Date 30[TH] JANUARY 2026

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March 2012

Charity Name
DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
Charity Name
DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
Charity Name
DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH
No (if any)
1162575
No (if any)
1162575
For the period
from
Period start date
01/01/2025
To Period end date
31/12/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
51,222
20,771
20,500
2,983
4,230
3,150
23,162
2,470
128,488
580
-
580
129,068
2,909
17,840
7,343
2,300
8,722
2,176
18,374
16,956
3,470
80,089
7,800
-
7,800
87,889
41,179
-
-
41,179
Restricted funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Endowment funds
to the nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

-
-
-

-
Total funds
to the nearest £
51,222
20,771
20,500
2,983
4,230
3,150
23,162
2,470
128,488
580
-
580
129,068
2,909
17,840
7,343
2,300
8,722
2,176
18,374
16,956
3,470
80,089
7,800
-
7,800
87,889
41,179
-
-
41,179
Tithe and Offfertory 51,222
VoluntaryThanksgivingDonations 20,771
In-house Fundraising Activities 20,500
Church Hall and Equipment 2,983
Voluntary Consultation Donations 4,230
BuildingFund 3,150
Gift Aid Donations Claimed 23,162
OtherCashand ChequeDonations 2,470
Sub total(Gross income for AR) 128,488
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).
Sale of Fixed Assets Receipts 580
-
Sub total 580
Total receipts
A3 Payments

Fuel Transportation and Sundaries
2,909

Premises Rent and Accommodations
17,840
Utulity Bills and Bank Charges 7,343

Insurance/Tax (Buliding & Motor)
2,300

Events,Training & Fundraising Costs
8,722

Office Supplies & Admin. Costs
2,176

Honourarium (Pastors & Guests)
18,374

Charitable Donations
16,956
Decorations, Repairs & Maintenance 3,470

**Sub total **
80,089
A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)

Musical Equipment & Accessories
7,800
-
**Sub total ** 7,800
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
41,179 -
-
41,179
- **- ** - -
- - - -
41,179 -
-
41,179

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

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))
Money in Bank Accounts
Details
Details
Musical Equipments
Furniture, Fixtures & Kitchen
~~Eq ipment~~
Computer and Televisuon Monitors
Electrical Equipment and P. A.
~~S stems~~
Kitchen Utensuils, Glasses and
~~C tler~~
Chuurch Van
Details
Signature
E_N_B Wilson
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
26,120
-
-
-
-
-
26,120
-
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)
23,640
16,500
4,920
20,056
2,400
8,000
-
-
-
Fund to which liability
relates
Amount due (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Print Name
EMMANUEL NANA BANYIN WILSON
E_N_B Wilson EMMANUEL NANA BANYIN WILSON

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

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Last year

to the nearest £

43,360 25,760 13,867 4,493 4,891 4,550 - 1,560 98,481

98,481

3,629 15,504 10,283 2,860 2,870 2,905 18,934 6,750 6,336 70,071

70,071 28,410 - - 28,410

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

3

Endowment funds to nearest £

OK

Endowment funds to nearest £

-

-

-

-

-

Current value

(optional)

Current value

(optional)

-

-

-

When due (optional)

Date of approval

26/01/2026

CCXX R4 accounts (SS)

30/01/2026

4

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of DOME OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH On accounts for the year 31[ST] MARCH 2026 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 for the year ended 31/03/2026.

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 examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the 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 to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: PK_OHENE

Date: 23/01/2026

Name: PROSPER KWABENA OHENE Relevant professional

qualification(s) or body Chartered Institute of Auditors (CIA) (if any):

Address: 22 KENDON AVENUE

COVENTRY

CV6 1GG

1

October 2018

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 .

2

October 2018

IER