## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** **From: Period start date 01/11/2023 To: Period end date 31/10/2024** **Charity name: Zetland Evangelical Church Land Trust Ltd.** **Charity registration number: 1162967** ## **Company number:** ## **Objectives and activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Religious activities, Christian worship,**
**teaching and other activities aimed at**
**expanding Christian belief**| |
Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|
**Support of all in need, including from the**
**surrounding community.**
**We provide weekly Church services and**
**also provide practical support including**
**lunch after the main Sunday service. A**
**Sunday School is provided for young**
**children to teach from the Bible and**
**about the Christian good news.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|
**The Trustees are aware of the need to**
**ensure that the charity is of benefit to all.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We do not seek grants from external**
**bodies.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Our social investment involves us in**
**being an open place of worship who seek**
**to reach out to the community with the**
**good news of Jesus. We are open to all**
**and invite people in to share, worship and**
**learn with us from the Bible.**
**We provide further opportunities and**
**support when and where required.**| |||| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers give support to the work of the**
**charity in helping run the various**
**activities.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**N/A**| |**Achievements and performance**||| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The charity has sought to maintain**
**Christian worship in the main building**
**and to provide help and outreach to all**
**visitors and those in the community.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We continue to meet on Sundays and**
**Wednesdays for services. We also have**
**additional meetings and activities at other**
**times too.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Fundraising is through free-will**
**donations made by those attending.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**No investments are held except for**
**standard accounts.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity remains financially similar to**
**the preceding year.**| |---|---|---| |
Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held within a Post Office**
**Investment account and a Bank account.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£18 900**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Voluntary donations**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Investments are not made beyond the**
**accounts in which reserves are held.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Low numbers of volunteers**| |Other||**N./A**| ## **Structure, governance and management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|**Trust deed.**| |---|---|---| |How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|**Members of the church, overseen by**
**Leaders and Trustees**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointment of Trustees is based on**
**recommendation of existing trustees and**
**knowing the person to be a Christian**| |||| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Trustees are appointed and guided by**
**existing trustees**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity is lead by Leaders (Elders**
**and Deacons). It is an independent**
**Christian church but has fraternal**
**contacts with other churches with shared**
**doctrinal beliefs.**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**The church has fraternal contacts with**
**other churches with shared doctrinal**
**beliefs.**| |Other||**N/A**| |||| ## **Reference and administrative details** |Charity name|**Zetland Evangelical Church Land Trust Ltd.**| |---|---| |
Other name the charity uses|
**Zetland Evangelical Church**| |
Registered charity number|
**1162967**| |
Charity’s principal address|**4+ 6 North Road, St. Andrews, Bristol BS6 5AE**| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**
**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---| |Alistair
Montgomery|Trustee|21 years
Can appoint
trustee| |Stuart Burgess|Trustee|31 years
Can appoint
trustee| |Peter Millier|Trustee|31 years
Can appoint
trustee| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---| |**N/A**|| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|None| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|None| |
Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|None| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||| ||**N/A**||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)**|||| ||||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **None** ## **Other optional information** **None** ## **Declarations** **The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors** **Signature(s)** A Montgomery **Full name(s)** Alistair Montgomery **Position (for example** Trustee / Elder **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 28/08/2024 ZETLAND EVANGELICAL CHURCH LAND TRUST (Charity commission ref. 1162967) ## Annual Statement 1/11/23 – 31/10/24 |||**1/11/23 –**|**1/11/22 –**|**2022**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**31/10/24**|**31/10/23**|**(Jan – Dec. 2022)**| |TOTAL INCOME||16, 819|13, 446|11, 032| |TOTAL EXPENDITURE||||| |Pastoral||0|0|0| |Insurance||3, 413|(3, 224)|3, 125| |Literature, ET advert, etc.||140|124|124| |Maintenance||3, 953|4, 610|288| |Missionary||360|610|760| |Speakers||0|0|25| |Utilities (total)||(4, 748)|(5, 927)|(3, 975)| |Gas||3, 128|3, 463|2, 816| |Electricity||1, 260|1, 828|458| |Water||764|636|701| |Council Tax||1, 616|1, 542|1, 482| ||Total|14, 836|12, 814|9, 779| |FINAL BALANCE||||| |Current account (Lloyds)||21, 965|19, 783|21, 970| |ZEC Land Trust (Lloyds)||5, 000|5, 000|5, 000| |Post Office(Investment Account)||13, 900|13, 793|13, 782| ||Total|40, 865|38, 576|40, 752| NOTE: Thank you for your generous giving. Let us pray that the Lord would give us wisdom in the use of this money in His service as we take part in the outreach and missionary work of the fellowship including the support of preaching the Word of God. Alistair Montgomery (Treasurer)