## Forum of Christian Leaders UK CIO
Report and Accounts Year ended 30 September 2022
1 Lamb's Passage, London EC1Y 8AB www.stewardship.org.uk
## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
## **LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Tyndale Lodge Grange Road Cambridge, CB3 9AS GOVERNING DOCUMENT CIO Foundation registered 2 September 2015
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1163385 TRUSTEES RESPONSIBLE FOR Mr A Fellows MANAGING THE CHARITY Dr P Mead Dr G Pritchard (Chairman) Mrs N Leach Dr P Williams Mr A Myrick REPORTING ACCOUNTANTS Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage LONDON EC1Y 8AB
## **INDEX**
Page 1 Legal & Administrative Details Pages 2-3 Trustees' Report Page 4 Accountant's Report Page 5 Receipts and Payments Account Page 6 Statement of Assets & Liabilities Page 7 Notes to the Accounts
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## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
The Trustees have pleasure in submitting the Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2022.
## **Objects of the charity**
The object of the charity is to advance the Christian faith by providing leadership training and development for those involved in Christian ministries.
## **Organisational structure and partner charities**
New trustees are recruited and appointed by the existing trustees, by a majority vote.
The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the Trustees who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the CIO.
Forum of Christian Leaders UK CIO partners with Forum of Christian Leaders, a 501(c)3 non-profit organisation based in the United States, in order to pursue their mutual object to advance the Christian faith by providing leadership training and development for those involved in Christian ministries.
The charity also partners with the European Leadership Forum, a coalition movement of hundreds of Christian organisations working together in network across Europe.
## **Summary of the charity's main activities and achievements**
The charity advances the Christian faith by providing grants to support the activities of their partner organisation, the Forum of Christian Leaders, in order to pursue their mutual object to advance the Christian faith by providing leadership training and development for those involved in Christian ministries.
The grants made by the charity helped to provide training through the following retreats, short courses, conferences and mentoring programmes organised by the US based charity Forum of Christian Leaders:
## _**1. European Leadership Forum’s Annual Meeting**_
This is an invitation-only, intensive week-long event that unites, equips, and resources Christian leaders, consisting of corporate worship, small group training, mentoring, and fellowship.
a) Nearly 600 Christian leaders from 41 countries were united, equipped, and resourced in ministry and leadership for the advancement of the Christian faith at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
b) Participants learned from 25 specialised Forum Networks (designed to mentor and resource leaders in specific ministry and vocational callings from across Europe). Most of these Networks also implemented virtual small groups to build community.
c) Participants received mentoring and counselling from senior leaders in over 197 Mentoring Meetings at the Forum, including both one-on-one and small-group meetings.
d) Over 300 Workshops were led by Forum speakers who are leading experts on various discipleship, evangelistic, leadership, and biblical topics.
## _**2. Cambridge Leaders Network**_
This is an invitation-only seminar intended to mentor key emerging Christian leaders, helping them face leadership challenges. Nine emerging ministry leaders were mentored in management and leadership of Christian ministry.
## _**3. Cambridge Scholars Network**_
This is designed to encourage Christian Ph.D. students to consider their disciplines and calling from a biblical standpoint. Twelve young Christian academics were mentored toward spiritual maturity, biblical faithfulness, and academic excellence.
In planning the charity's activities the Trustees apply the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission.
## **Grant-making policy**
The trustees carries out sufficient due diligence to ensure that all grants are expended in accordance with the charitable purposes of the charity (as set out in its governing document) and, where grants were made from restricted funds, in accordance with any donor imposed restrictions.
In July 2019 the Trustees adopted a grant-making policy. In constructing this policy, the trustees have considered guidance published by the Charity Commission.
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## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
## **Financial review**
During the year the charity received donations totalling £22,186 (2021: £20,891), paid grants totalling £36,000 (2021: £14,000) and incurred other expenses totalling £893 (2021: £1,634). As a result cash decreased by £14,707 to £8,795, of which £1,939 is unrestricted.
## **Reserves policy**
The trustees note that most of the charity's expenditure is discretionary and have determined that the charity should aim to hold unrestricted cash of no less than £1,000 so that the charity could continue to operate should income and / or expenditure vary adversely. At the year end, the charity held unrestricted cash of £1,939 and the charity is complying with its reserves policy.
## **Risk management policy**
The trustees abide by a risk management policy adopted during the financial year ending in 2018. The trustees acknowledge that the responsibility for the management and control of the charity rests with them and that an integral part of this management and control is the development of a risk management policy.
Our policy is to identify and manage the possible and probably risks that the charity may face in the short and medium term as an integral part of governance. The trustees overriding responsibility is to develop, oversee and put into place systems, procedures and controls that enable the charity to be successful in achieving the purposes for which it was established and to be honouring to God.
In constructing this policy, the trustees paid due consideration to the Charity Commission guidance “How to manage risks in your charity”.
## **Responsibilities of trustees**
Charity law requires us as Trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year.
We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011.
We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities.
## **Approval**
This report was approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
## G. Pritchard
………………………………………………………..
G Pritchard
Date: 06 July 2023
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## **Accountant’s Report to the Trustees of Forum of Christian Leader UK CIO ("the Charity") on the Charity's unaudited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2022**
In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Charities Act 2011, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30 September 2022, as set out on pages 5 to 7, from the accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.
This report is made solely to the Trustees of the charity, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter . Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of the charity and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Trustees of the charity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and its Trustees as a body for our work or for this report.
It is your duty to ensure that the charity has kept adequate records and to prepare statutory accounts that meet the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 for the charity. You consider that the charity is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year and is eligible to prepare ‘Receipts and Payments’ accounts.
We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or review of the accounts of the charity. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.
Stewardship
Stewardship 1 Lamb's Passage LONDON EC1Y 8AB
Date: 10 July 2023
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## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
|Notes
**_Income receipts_**
Donations, legacies and grants
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**
2
3
**_Total payments_**
Transfers between funds
**Net movement in funds**
Cash funds as at last year end
**Cash funds at this year end**
A
Net
of
receipts
/
(payments)
before
transfers
Grants paid to Forum of Christian Leaders
Administrative expenses|Unrestricted
Funds
£
-
-
-
893
893
(893)
-
(893)
2,832
1,939|Restricted
Funds
£
22,186
22,186
36,000
-
36,000
(13,814)
-
(13,814)
20,670
6,856|2022
£
22,186
22,186
36,000
893
36,893
(14,707)
-
(14,707)
23,502
8,795|2021
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||20,891|
|||||20,891|
|||||14,000
1,634|
|||||15,634|
|||||5,257
-|
|||||5,257
18,246|
|||||23,502|
The notes on page 7 form part of these accounts.
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## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
|**h funds**
Cash at bank with immediate access
**er monetary assets**
Other debtors
**bilities**
Forum of Christian Leaders USA
Fees for preparation of accounts:
2021 accounts
2022 accounts|Unrestricted
funds
£
1,939
-
6,322
-
540
6,862|Restricted
funds
£
6,856
-
-
-
-
-|2022
£
8,795
-
6,322
-
540
6,322|2021
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||23,502|
|||||-|
|||||4,430
540
-|
|||||4,970|
## **A Cash funds**
## **B Other monetary assets**
## **C Liabilities**
## **D Guarantees and secured debts**
The charity has not given any guarantees and has not provided its assets as security for any liabilities.
The accounts were approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf
G. Pritchard by -------------------------------------------date 06 July 2023 G. Pritchard
The notes on page 7 form part of these accounts.
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## **FORUM OF CHRISTIAN LEADERS UK CIO**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2022**
## **1 Accounting policies**
The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis and comprise a statement that shows the charity's receipts and payments, a statement that summarises the charity's assets and liabilities and related notes. The accountancy profession have determined that only accounts prepared in accordance with applicable accounting standards present a 'true and fair' view and, as these receipts and payments accounts have not (and cannot) be prepared in accordance with accounting standards, these accounts do not present (and are not intended to present) a 'true and fair' view of the charity's financial activities and state of affairs.
Unrestricted funds are funds which are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. Restricted funds are donations which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors; they include donations received from appeals for specific activities or projects.
|**2**
**Grants paid to Forum of Christian Leaders for:**
Cambridge Scholars Network
Cambridge Leaders Network
European Leadership Forum|Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-|Restricted
Funds
£
-
2,500
33,500
36,000|Total
2022
£
-
2,500
33,500
36,000|Total
2021
£|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||10,000
4,000
-|
|||||14,000|
All of the above grants were paid to Forum of Christian Leaders (a charity registered in the USA) to provide leadership training to those engaged in Christian ministry.
## **3 Administrative expenses:**
|Preparation of accounts
Other governance expenses
**ement on restricted funds**
Cambridge Leaders Network
European Leadership Forum|Balance
at 30.9.21
£
2,500
18,170
20,670|540
353
893
Receipts
£
-
22,186
22,186|-
-
-
Payments
£
(2,500)
(33,500)
(36,000)|540
353
893
Transfers
£
-
-
-|1,320
314|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||1,634|
||||||Balance
at 30.9.22
£
-
6,856|
||||||6,856|
## **Movement on restricted funds**
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