## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/01/2024 Period start date To 31/12/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Charlesworth Independent Chapel** ## **Charity registration number: 1164434** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The advancement of the Christian
religion as set out in the Bible.
The advancement of education.
The prevention or relief of suffering,
poverty and distress.
Such other purposes as are exclusively
charitable in accordance with the laws of
England and Wales as the trustees may
from time to time decide| |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|On Sunday mornings we have preached through
the following series: “The Holy Spirit in Luke”,| |||Numbers, and 1 John. In addition we have had a| |||number of one-off sermons. We have seen the
addition of a monthly evening service (replacing
the monthly afternoon Lord’s Supper service), a| |||monthly Gospel Service in Gamesley, and ‘Seeds| |||of Faith’: a toddler Bible study for children aged
0-4 years.
Lunchtime Bible Club has continued weekly in
Charlesworth School.
During 2024, our monthly outreach in Norfolk
Square on Thursday and Saturday has
continued.
We engaged in monthly outreach in Gamesley,
handing out literature, delivering leaflets and
knocking on doors ahead of us hosting a country
and gospel evangelistic evening with Michael
Ramplin.
Weekly prayer meetings have continued on
Thursday mornings and Wednesday evenings.
We continue to meet at 9:45am weekly to pray
before the morning service.
We held 3 weeks of prayer this year in January,
April and November; and days of prayer and
fasting in February and December.
In 2024 we have had 4 funeral services, 4
graveside services, 5 burials, 2 burial of ashes,| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have had regard to the
guidance issued by the charity commission
on public benefit| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|With the exception of the lead elder who is
a paid employee work done by the Charity
is carried out by volunteers. Without those
volunteers the Charity could not function
effectively.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference Summary of the main Para 1.20 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. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Although expenditure exceeded income the
financial position, as shown by the
accounts, was satisfactory.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|A reserves fund and a contingency fund are
regarded as appropriate to cushion the cost
of major projects or emergencies| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£90,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||The Charity continues to give away no less
than 10% of its income. This year recipients
include Barnabas Aid, Christian Institute,
Farming Christian Link,_image_, International
Mission to Jewish People, Manchester City
Mission| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s

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Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |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
|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by the members in
general meeting| |~~trustees~~||| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Charlesworth Independent Chapel| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Top Chapel| |Registered charity number|1164434| |Charity’s principal address|Top Chapel, Chapel Brow, Monks Road, Charlesworth,
Glossop, SK13 5HH| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
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Copestake|||| ||Phillip
Pennington|||| ||Andrew Wood|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity Trustee nam8 Dates acted if not tor whole year **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional** ~~**information)**~~ ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Michael John Copestake **Position (eg** Trustee/Secretary **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 3 June 2025 Page 1 CIC Accs 2024 Dec Final 3.xlsx arl Ind ntch ncom 24 tsec Final 3 Weekly Offertory Gift Aid £9.868.95 £14,013.62 £29,464.12 £8,346.08 £0.00 £9,700.00 £25,861.51 Tox kefwid (Sift Aid) £7,099.88 £0.00 £9,000.00 81ank Investment Property School Aent £9,600.00 £9.600.00 Investments ond Interest £3,312.66 £30,172.22 Vault (mthly) Car Park Fund £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Funerals Groves £3,020.00 £1,050.00 Weddings181egsi Manse Cor Ptsrkin9 £0.00 £0. £200.00 £200.00 Blank Tra￿f¢r￿n IN £2,748.00 £848.00 Woyleave Electric Charities. Gifts £20.00 £44h6 £635.00 £20,780.00 8ldr War 6raves Donation £50.00 £50.00 Blonk glank £0.00 £o.¢)o £0.00 £153.98 Miscellaneous £76964. £119.49127 Add previous year £53ts70.74 Less Expenditure current yeor £104,048. Grand Totdl £26.58&74 Cheques not presented £0 New Balance current year £26.586.74 .4 G&*tre& Page lofl Page 2 CIC Accs 2024 Dec Final 3.xlsx Charlesworth Independent Chapel Epenses for 2024 Dec Final 3 2024 2023 . Comments stip￿ /Expenses Church Telephone U.W. Tithes / Charities/ Donations £28.490.65 £487.89 £9,4H.40 £28.324.88 £533.31 £6,181.H Chapel Water (U.U.) Chapel Electricity (UW) Chapel Oi116as Chapel Repairs (incl. boi I￿) Chapd Exp. incl (81d9 tns) New Manse Exp+ Bldg. Sraveyard Extension Chapel Projects Petty Cash Stationery/ Toner W/0 Env. Posters / Bo¢ks / DVD'S Trthwfers. (XIT tnvestment Property Expthses Misc Copyright Fees Computer Set Up £241.03 £5,478.30 £2,675.20 £815.70 £6,139.38 £2,627.29 £0.00 £13,680.63 £800.00 £588.33 £1,257.06 £3,238.00 £2,029.50 £122.50 £1,241.75 £60.00 £0.00 £391.20 £0.00 £0 £20.000.00 £4,240.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £o.(J) £o.(x) £o.cK) £113.41 £6.142.42 £837.00 £545.19 £6.862.98 £4,567.09 £579.36 £10.390.00 £900.00 £39.49 £678.87 £2,270.40 £1,664.86 £303.04 £439.30 £180.00 £O.(K) £391.20 £0.00 £0.00 £20.000.00 £1,560.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Piano Tmin9 Organ Re￿IrS Notice Bc¥]rd Rental Income 8onds Members Expen%es Blonk Bltjnk Blank Blank Blank ak￿k Page lof I Page 3 uIIuIMuuuIuI luuiiulliii tlllllll IIIIUllllUllUlll llllllllllMllUIIIU 1111111111 IIUIUIUUllllUU rt5 Page 4 0000 Page 5 CIC Accs 2024 Dec Flnal 3.xlsx hIn end fIn 2023 Am nt te NS&I 1154973 3165569 3920591 2053745 2214493 3079894 3516614 003.886463-61 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 C4251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 CA251400 £35,000.00 £12,000.00 £24,000.00 £15,000.00 £5,000.00 £10,000.00 £17,000.00 £12,000.00 £50,000.00 £35,000.00 -£35,000.00 -£18,000.00 £150,000.00 -£300,000.00 £410,000.00 -£41,000.00 -£250,000.00 £250,000.00 -£10,000.00 -£10,000.00 -£260,000.00 -£24,000.00 -£7,000.00 £8,000.00 -£8,000.00 £20,000.00 -£20,000.00 £20,000.00 04103/1987 25/11/1992 05109/1995 2310911997 15112/ig97 23/0211999 1710611999 1011012006 06/0512014 2711112015 NS&I NS&I NS&I NS&I NS&1 NS&I NS&I Ns NS NS&I 0110712016 27/07/2017 NS NS&I 23112/2017 NS 0510312018 NS&I 1810812018 NS&I 0811112018 01/05120L9 NS NS&t 0110612019 NS&I 13/08/2019 05112/2019 0 1/02/2020 06/11/2020 2910312021 NS&I NS NS NS&I NS&I 05/04/2022 NS&I 1610312023 NS&I 0611212023 NS 21/1212023 ssa 01/02/2024 Total £90 000.00 Page lof I Page 6 CEC Accs 2024 Dec Final 3.xlsx Charlesworth Independent Chapel Name of Asset Pla￿ where deeds are kept 2024 Chapel and Graveyard Monks road Charleworth Glossop In Chapel Safe The School Town Lane Charleworth Glossop In Chapel Safe Land facing old manse on Back Lane & Three Car Parking spaces In Chapel Safe "Car Park Field" Opposite Chapel Monks Road Charlesworth Glossop In Chapel Safe 17 Spring Meadow Charlesworth Glossop (Bought July 2018) In Chapel Safe l Kensington Grove Simmomdley Glossop SK13 6AE In Chapel Safe Page lofl Page 7 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinetrs report on the accounts Sectioii A Independent Examiiier's Report Roport to th• trusloesl m•mber8 of On a¢counts forthe year ondad 7((1?/ loL Charty no {If any) //& t&*f+ Sèt out on pag•s /+-t I report to the trubXe&s on my axamination rf the a￿nts of the above diarity {Ihe Trusfi for the year ended As the charivs tnjstees, you are rèsponsible forthe preparation of the a¢xourrt5 in aCCord￿Ce with the requlrements of the Charittes Act 2011 {'the A￿). Responslbilties and basls of r•port I report In respe¢t of my exanination of the Trus¥s arKounts cathed out under sectlon 145 of the 2011 Act and in Ggrrylna out my examlnatlon, I ha￿ foltowed all the applicable Direct¥M8 g5ven by Ihe Charity Commlssion under sectlon 145(5)(b) of the ￿. Independent ￿h¢ charttrfs gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualllled to examlnerfs 8tatement undertake th8 examination by bèing a qualtfied m&n*Jer of linsert name of applicable listed t)ody]J. Delete [ l ff not applica*Ye. I havé completed my examination. I corfinn that no materlal matt8rs have Come to my attention in connedion ￿fjth the examination (other than that dlsdosed bekjw J vknich gives me cause to believe that in, any material respecl. Ihe aceounllng records y￿re not kept in accordance ￿1th sediDn 130 of the Charili8s Act: or the accounts did not accord V￿th the accounting fecords: or the accounts did not conwy the applicable requI￿rnents eoncemlng the form and ￿fttent of actounts sel out in the Charities {A￿Unts and Reports) Reguletions 2008 other than any rnqulreThnt that the accounts give a Iruè and faif Mew is not a matter considered as part of an irK1ependent examination. I have no concem$ ond have com across no ¢)ther mattern in conneclion with the èxamination to vknich attention sliould be dravm tll th1$ report In order to enable a proper underst8rwJing of the ac(x)unts to be reached. ' Please delets the wortls in thg braGkets rfthey do not ap@y. Signed: Namo: -H OuSA%oAJ Rolwant profe88lonal quallllcatlorfs) or body IER Oct 2018 Page 8 Ilf any): Address: 7S Section B Disclosure Onty complele rf thè èxamlnef noeds to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32. Independent examination of th¥tty accounts: direth'ons and guidance for examlners). Givo here brief dotalls of any Items that the oxamlner wl8hes to dl$clo8e. IER Oct 2018 Page 7 CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiners report on the accounts Sectlon A IiidEpciideiit ExaffliT)er's Report Report to tho tN6tee¥l membern of On a￿Unts for tho year •nded 71(i&/ Charlty no Ilf any) //{ S•t out on pag I report to thè bwiee8 ¢M examination of the a(u)unts ofth8 atm anty {Ihe Tru*) for ts year Respomlblhim and ba$1$ of report As the charity8 tru￿e¢s, you are r8spornible forthè praparatit)n of Ihe 8rxounts In accord￿ requirem￿ts ofthe Chwmes A¢t 2011 rthe Arf). I report In resped of my exan*n8tion of thè Trusfs ac£ounts caryled txrt under sedlon 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrylrrfJ out my examlnati¢)n, I haw followBd all the a￿￿'¢able Difections gfven by th8 CorwnIs￿n under sedon 14515)Ib) of the Ad. Independent trhe charlvs gross In￿Me excoeded £250,LKIO and l am qualllled to gxamlnofs •tat•ment undertako the ex8nMnAtion ty being a qualified I￿}mber of linsert name of aPp￿cable Ilsted bodyll. Dehte I l ff not8ppIKatYe. I have wnpl8ted my examination. I confkni that no mAtèrl81 matt8rs ha C￿Me to my attention in connedion wlth the exaninalion (other than that isdosed below") wthich gives me caLtse to believe that in, any materfal respe¢a". the aoounlkng reeord8 were not kgpi In a¢o)rdan¢a secllon 130 of the Charities kt. or the acc￿Unts did not acojrd vAlh tho a¢LY>unting ret￿dS.. or the atxounts did not eoTIPty ￿1h the applicable r8quW￿Onts con(*ming the fom content of accounls sel out In the Chaiilies lkn(y)unts and Reports) Ragulation$ 2008 otherthan any rèqulrem8nt that the a(*ounts glve a Iru8 and fairf ￿laW vthich Is not a matter considored as part of an independent examln811on. I have no ￿nce￿5 and have come awss no other matters In conn&dlon the examination to att8ntion should be dra1￿ in th15 repjrt In order to enable É proper underntandlThJ of th8 aLuiunts lo b• reached. . Plgas8 delete the in the brackets rfthey do not appty. SIgn￿. 2S Namtr. R•l•vant profes8lonal qualffi¢atlon(sl or tK>dy IER Oct 2018