Company registration number: 09174464 Charity registration number: 1163083
THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE
YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2024
CONTENTS
| Page | 1 | Legal and administrative information |
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| 2 | Report of the trustees | |
| 4 | Independent Examiner’s report | |
| 5 | Statement of financial activities | |
| 6 | Balance sheet | |
| 7 | Notes on the financial statements |
THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Charity name: The King’s Centre Southall Charity registration number: 1163083 Company registration number: 09174464 Registered office St John’s Parish Centre Guru Nanak Road Southall UB2 4NT. Trustees: Alma Patterson Sebastian Stephen Bathsheba Mall Mark Poulson Administrator David Marsden Independent Examiners Gowers Limited The Old School House Bridge Road Hunton Bridge Kings Langley Herts WD4 8SZ
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
The directors submit their annual trustees report and financial statements of the company for the period 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024.
Structure, Governance and Management
Governing Document
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 13th August 2014 and registered as a charity on 11th August 2015. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. In the event of the company being wound up members are required to contribute an amount not exceeding £1.
Recruitment and Appointment of Trustees
The directors of the company are charity trustees for the purpose of charity law and under the company’s Articles are also known as trustees. Under the requirements of the Memorandum and Articles of Association the Trustees are elected to serve for an indefinite period. Under the Companies Act 2006 any new directors must retire and offer themselves for re-election after one period. The trustees during the financial period were:
Alma Patterson Sebastian Stephen Bathsheba Mall Anna Poulson (resigned 25th June 2024) Mark Poulson (appointed 25th June 2024)
Organisational Structure
The trustees of the charity have close overview of its activities and meet regularly. Responsibility is delegated to the Administrator for many day-today functions.
Objective and Activities
The charity’s objectives and principal activities are to:
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To further or benefit the residents of and visitors to Southall and West London and the surrounding areas, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or political, religious or other opinions by associating them together with the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effect to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents and visitor and their relatives and families.
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To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the tenets of faith of the Church of England.
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To promote religious harmony by, but not limited to, promoting inter-faith and multi-faith education, information, dialogue and communication thus overcoming any isolationism or misunderstanding among diverse religious groups.
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To advance and develop the heritage of all communities represented in Southall and West London and the surrounding areas.
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The promotion of regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation and in particular in Southall and West London and the surrounding areas.
Public benefit
The charity's trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charities Commission in exercising their powers and duties
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
Achievements and Performance
2024 saw the second full year of the Transforming Southall and Hounslow project which is run from the Kings Centre. It has been a year focused on consolidating the training offer through the Myriad Church Planting programme that we deliver in conjunction with the Centre for Church Multiplication (CCX).
The aims of the project are to plant fifteen new worshipping communities, develop sixty emerging leaders and to make a quantifiable social impact environmentally, in active participation within our communities and in transformative youth work.
With Anita Beeden at the helm, we have delivered another five training sessions with up to eight groups and between twenty and thirty lay leaders at each session. We have learnt an enormous amount and are excited about the possibility of a second cohort beginning in September 2025 after our graduation and celebration ceremony in June this year.
It has been a real boon for the Kings Centre that Anita Beeden, as Associate Director, has assumed the lead for our Myriad training. She has overseen the training hosted at St John’s and the relationships with the CCX team.
Alongside David Marsden and Cassie Bobb, Anita has also steered the relaunching of a new website for the Kings Centre with a specially selected community focused firm called Loud Local.
I am grateful to our trustees: Sheba Mall, Alma Patterson (who will be stepping down because of a new role in the Mission Area as Acting Youth Director for the Southall Youth Network), Anna Poulson (who finished in January 2024 as Incumbent of St John’s to take a new role as Academic Dean in Guildford) and Seb Stephen, who have continued to be the anchor for this endeavour and to provide practical support with financial transactions.
We are now actively recruiting new trustees from across the emerging Southall team.
Finally, I am also very thankful to our administrator David Marsden who has been the consistent and constant staffing presence at the heart of all that we are doing. He has been conscientious and fastidious in ensuring that the Kings Centre is run smoothly, transparently and with integrity.
Reserves policy
The Kings Centre aims to maintain over 6 months of unrestricted and undesignated reserves, which has been achieved through the period, with a closing balance of £55,270 of unrestricted and undesignated reserves. This represents over 6 months of operational expenditure, which the Trustees feel is prudent given uncertainties of future grant programmes.’
Responsibilities of the trustees
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial period, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the balance sheet date and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including income and expenditure of the charitable company for that year. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 19th June 2025. and signed on its behalf by:
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
______________ Mark Poulson, Trustee
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 set out on pages 5 to 8.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is required.
It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts under Section 145 of the 2011 Act
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to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under Section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act); and
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of the independent examiner's report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, 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 statements below.
Independent examiner's statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
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(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that, in any material respect, the requirements
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to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 130 of the 2011 Act; and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act
have not been met; or
- (2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Rev David M Green FCA Gowers Limited Chartered Accountants The Old School House Bridge Road Hunton Bridge Kings Langley Herts WD4 8SZ
19th June 2025
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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
FOR THE YEAR FROM 1st JANUARY 2024 TO 31st DECEMBER 2024
| Unrestricted funds |
Designated funds |
Restricted funds |
Endowment funds |
Total funds |
Prior year total funds |
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| £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| ______________ | ||||||
| Income and endowments from: | ||||||
| Donations and legacies | — | — | 90 | — | 90 | — |
| Income from charitable activities | — | — | 139,101 | — | 139,101 | 205,209 |
| Investments | 1,170 | — | 4 | — | 1,175 | 900 |
| Total income | 1,170 | — | 139,195 | — | 140,366 | 206,109 |
| Expenditure on: | ||||||
| Raising funds | — | — | 9 | — | 9 | — |
| Expenditure on charitable activities | — | — | 159,378 | — | 159,378 | 162,912 |
| Other expenditure | — | — | 549 | — | 549 | 544 |
| Total expenditure | — | — | 159,936 | — | 159,936 | 163,456 |
| Gains / losses on investment assets | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net income / (expenditure) resources before transfer | 1,170 | — | (20,741) | — | (19,570) | 42,653 |
| Transfers | ||||||
| Gross transfers between funds - in | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross transfers between funds - out | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other recognised gains / losses | ||||||
| Gains on revaluation, fixed assets, charity's own use | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net movement in funds | 1,170 | — | (20,741) | — | (19,570) | 42,653 |
| Reconciliation of funds | ||||||
| Total funds brought forward | 54,100 | — | 46,336 | — | 100,436 | 57,783 |
| Total funds carried forward | 55,270 | — | 25,595 | — | 80,866 | 100,436 |
There may be minor rounding discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2023
| AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2023 | ||
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| 31st December 2024 | 31st December 2023 | |
| £ | £ | |
| _____________________ | ||
| Current assets | ||
| Cash at bank and in hand | 80,866 | 100,436 |
| 80,866 | 100,436 | |
| Liabilities | ||
| Creditors: Amounts falling due in one year | — | — |
| Net current assets less current liabilities | 80,866 | 100,436 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 80,866 | 100,436 |
| Total net assets less liabilities | 80,866 | 100,436 |
| Represented by | ||
| Unrestricted | ||
| Unrestricted - General fund | 55,270 | 54,100 |
| Restricted | ||
| Restricted - Transforming Southall and Hounslow | 25,595 | 46,336 |
| Funds of the charity | 80,866 | 100,436 |
The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31st December 2024.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for year ended 31st December 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for:
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a) ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and
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b) preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.
The financial statements were approved by the trustees on 19th June 2025. and were signed on its behalf by:
Mark Poulson, Trustee
There may be minor rounding discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
NOTES ON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2024
1. Accounting policies
The following accounting policies have been used consistently in dealing with items which are considered material in relation to the company’s financial statements:
- Basis of accounting
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with “Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)” (as amended for accounting periods commencing from 1 January 2019).
- Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor.
- Incoming resources
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
Voluntary income is received by way of legacies, grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants, where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant.
- Resources expended
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates:
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
Governance costs include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity and include the audit fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity.
All costs are allocated between the expenditure categories of the statement of financial activities on a basis designed to reflect the use of the resource. Costs relating to a particular activity are allocated directly, others are apportioned on an appropriate basis
2. Governance costs
Legal and professional fees includes £840 (2023: £828) in respect of fees paid in the period to the Independent Examiner.
3. Rounding
There may be minor discrepancies in the totals since the pence are not being shown in these accounts.
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THE KINGS CENTRE SOUTHALL
NOTES ON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2024
| Total | |||||||
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| Unrestricted | Designated | Restricted | Endowment | This year | Last year | ||
| Income and endowments | |||||||
| Donations and legacies | |||||||
| I100 - Donations | — | — | 90 | — | 90 | — | |
| Donations and legacies Totals | — | — | 90 | — | 90 | — | |
| Income from charitable activities | |||||||
| I200 - Grants | — | — | 139,101 | — | 139,101 | 205,209 | |
| Income from charitable activities total | — | — | 139,101 | — | 139,101 | 205,209 | |
| Investments | |||||||
| I900 - Bank interest | 1,170 | — | 4 | — | 1,175 | 900 | |
| Investments Totals | 1,170 | — | 4 | — | 1,175 | 900 | |
| Income grand totals | 1,170 | — | 139,195 | — | 140,366 | 206,109 | |
| Expenditure | |||||||
| Raising funds | |||||||
| E700 - Fundraising costs | — | — | 9 | — | 9 | — | |
| Raising funds Totals | — | — | 9 | — | 9 | — | |
| Expenditure on charitable activities | |||||||
| E100 - Staff salaries | — | — | 26,595 | — | 26,595 | 18,007 | |
| E110 - Staff training & recruitment | — | — | 5,805 | — | 5,805 | 649 | |
| E115 - Staff relocation costs | — | — | 4,194 | — | 4,194 | — | |
| E130 - Legal and professional fees | — | — | 840 | — | 840 | 828 | |
| E200 - Office rent | — | — | 4,680 | — | 4,680 | — | |
| E210 - Curacy House | — | — | 4,200 | — | 4,200 | 9,600 | |
| E300 - Insurance | — | — | 646 | — | 646 | 617 | |
| E400 - Travel & subsistence | — | — | 609 | — | 609 | — | |
| E410 - Meeting costs | — | — | 45 | — | 45 | 180 | |
| E420 - Event costs | — | — | 4,415 | — | 4,415 | 998 | |
| E430 - Media & promotion | — | — | 4,480 | — | 4,480 | — | |
| E440 - Office costs | — | — | 1,767 | — | 1,767 | 2,141 | |
| E450 - Training costs | — | — | 11,525 | — | 11,525 | 6,204 | |
| E600 - Grants payable | — | — | 89,577 | — | 89,577 | 123,689 | |
| Expenditure on charitable activities total | — | — | 159,378 | — | 159,378 | 162,912 | |
| Other expenditure | |||||||
| E120 - Payroll | — | — | 489 | — | 489 | 484 | |
| E500 - Bank charges | — | — | 60 | — | 60 | 60 | |
| Other expenditure Totals | — | — | 549 | — | 549 | 544 | |
| Expenditure Grand totals | — | — | 159,936 | — | 159,936 | 163,456 |
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