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2022-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date Period end date
From 01 Jan 2022 To 31 Dec 2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Grace Church Beckenham

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1164443

Charity's principal address Grace Church Beckenham

Church Office, Highland Road Bromley Postcode BR1 4AA

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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6		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Stephen Lock Secretary
Simon Cooke
Michael Downing Until May 2022
RosemaryWorboys
Matthew Dew-Jones ex-officio
Ngan Thi Thu Jones Appointed March 2022

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)

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Constitution (adopted November 2015)

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Foundation)

Trustee selection methods New Charity Trustees are appointed by existing Trustees, with due regard (eg. appointed by, elected by) to appropriate skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. All Charity Trustees are required to subscribe and adhere to, in belief and lifestyle, the Statement of Faith included in the Constitution.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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

The organisational structure of Grace Church Beckenham is such that the spiritual government and leadership of the Church Fellowship, for the purposes of which the CIO has been established, rests with the Spiritual Leadership and to the extent to which the Charity Trustees are not synonymous with the Spiritual Leadership their powers are confined to the proper management and administration of the CIO and its resources in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and in furtherance of its Objects. In so doing the Trustees have full and proper regard to the Spiritual Leadership provided always that they do not act outside their powers as conferred by the Constitution and by general law.

The Church is affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) (Registered Charity 1168037) who, amongst other things, provide a source of practical and legal advice (e.g. on Employment regulations, Data protection, Property etc.). Support is also received from The Co-Mission Initiative Trust (Registered Charity 1157383).

The Trustees have approved/implemented a number of policies (which are kept under regular review and updated as appropriate) including:

The Trustees also have an established Risk Register to support the regular review and discussion of risk. Careful management of these has enabled the Trustees to be confident that, despite challenges, including those presented by wider economic conditions, GCB continues to be a ‘going concern’ and that, going forward, the CIO can continue to meet its objectives.

On appointment new Trustees are provided with a copy of:

New Trustees are required to assent to and sign the Statement of Faith contained in the schedule to the Constitution. All Trustees have also completed an automatic disqualification declaration .

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the The Object of the CIO is for the public benefit the advancement of the charity set out in its Christian faith in Bromley and such other parts of the United Kingdom governing document and the world as the Charity Trustees may from time to time decide.

The Trustees have kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, and in particular guidance on charities for the advancement of religion, in the planning and delivery of all our activities.

Specifically, we aim to help any who are interested to find out more about the Christian faith, and to enable ordinary people to live out the Christian faith and to develop their knowledge and trust in Jesus Christ, through learning about the Gospel as declared in the Bible.

Our key focus is the provision of a weekly Service of worship, Bible teaching and prayer each Sunday. These meetings aim to provide instruction in the Christian faith both for those wishing to investigate its Summary of the main activities undertaken for the claims and those already committed to living as Christians, as well as pastoral support and care for all. Children of primary school age have public benefit in relation to their own activities for part of the time. these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have GCB also provides other opportunities both before Sunday church and mid-week for people to study the Bible and discover the doctrines of the had regard to the guidance Christian faith in more detail; to hear from and to be updated on the work issued by the Charity of our various Mission Partners, and to provide for the mutual support Commission on public and encouragement of those attending. benefit)

Additionally, we hold a regular series of publicly advertised Special Events and Courses specifically for anyone from the local community looking for an introduction to, or to learn more about, the Christian faith. Our website also includes: an ‘Explore’ area for those wishing to discover more about Christianity or to engage with the important questions of life from a Christian perspective.

With the help of a dedicated team of volunteers, we also seek to help support those with young children, and especially those new to parenthood, though our weekly Beckenham Babytalk group.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

There is a keen contribution from volunteers at the church, and the Trustees are grateful for the valuable commitment of time and energy You may choose to include from all those involved in running Beckenham Babytalk and Family Fun further statements, where events during the week, those serving on various Rotas and those relevant, about: involved in Administration, Safeguarding, Publicity, Outreach and Finance throughout the year.

• policy programme related In accordance with our objective, we are also keen to partner with those seeking to advance the Christian faith in other parts of the UK and the investment; world. Specifically, we help provide financial support for a children’s • contribution made by worker, sponsored by UFM Worldwide (Registered Charity 219946), in our volunteers. partner church (GracePoint Waiyaki Way) Nairobi, Kenya.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main Whilst Grace Church operates as a week round family, our regular achievements of the charity weekly Sunday Church service has continued to be the high point of our during the year activity. It was encouraging to see this grow during 2022, with new visitors most weeks and attendance up by a third since 2021 and a doubling in the number of people coming at least once a month. During the year we launched our Head, Heart, Hands (HHH) ‘Adult Sunday school’, meeting on several Sundays each term before the main service and providing an opportunity for anyone to explore the Christian faith in more depth and discuss how this works out in everyday life. We have been running four different groups for children on Sunday mornings Grace Kids, Creche , and (during HHH) parallel groups for older and younger children. During the year, both as numbers grew and the availability of facilities at Beckenham Place Mansion became more difficult to hire on a regular basis, the decision was made to move our main meeting location to the Harris Primary Academy Beckenham Green. From July this not only provided additional space, but a much more central Beckenham location within the community we seek to serve and has enabled us to meet at a more convenient time for everyone on a Sunday morning. Mid-week there have been regular small groups (Grace Groups), providing opportunities for studying the Bible and pastoral support, interspersed with whole church meetings for prayer and fellowship. A Women’s book group has been meeting weekly during term time to read and discuss encouraging Christian books and study the Bible together. There have also been opportunities for those who wish to meet in 1-2-1s/smaller groups. A range of Special Events and courses have been run, including Life Explored and Hope Explored (for those wishing to investigate the Christian faith) and an engaging and well-attended guest event with Rory Steyn (former chief body guard to Nelson Mandela) who shared both his deep respect for Mandela and how that shaped him, but also how a new found faith in Jesus Christ led him to explore truth and reconciliation not just within society, but with God. Family Fun – We looked to engage our local community during the year through launching a ‘Family Fun’ series of events, including an Easter Egg and Scavenger Hunt, a Family Quiz Night, a kids Light Party, a family Escape Room Challenge and Christmas Fun events. This attracted and proved popular with a large number of non-church guests from the community. Throughout 2022 the weekly group for Mums and Babies - Beckenham Baby Talk – continued to prove popular, providing an opportunity to meet and share together the highs and lows of the early days of parenting, though, given the nature of maternity leave, numbers have fluctuated over the months. In addition, together with local partner churches in Bromley and Croydon and experienced speakers, we ran a Parenthood Day in November to help encourage and support Christian parents. More widely, in addition to supporting our mission partner in Kenya (via UFM Worldwide), we have provided financial contributions through the European Missionary Fellowship to help Christians in Ukraine and to our local branch of Christians Against Poverty to help in their work amongst those facing financial issues and debt in the community.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the The Trustees have an approved Policy on Reserves which aims to hold charity’s policy on reserves in reserve sufficient general funds to cover a minimum of three month’s average expenditure. The aim is to mitigate against unanticipated reductions in regular income; significant cash flow fluctuations and/or sudden/one-off unbudgeted increases in expenditure, to help ensure stability in the operation of the CIO, particularly in respect of the employment of staff engaged to advance the objects of the Trust. The level of reserves is monitored regularly and reported to the Trustees for review at each of their meetings. At the report year-end date (Dec 2022) the level of the reserves stood in excess of 5 months average monthly spend (all unrestricted funds).

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

No other amounts were paid or are payable to any other Trustee or to any person connected to them.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Stephen Peter Lock

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Secretary Date 1 Sept 2023

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Grace Church Beckenham On accounts for the year Charity no ended 31 December 2022 (if any) 1164443 Set out on pages 8 - 9 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 12 / 2022 .

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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention ( ~~other than that disclosed below~~ *) 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 in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: Date: Name: David Whybrow Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 35 Brockenhurst Road Addiscombe CR0 7DR

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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 .

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Charity Name
Grace Church Beckenham		 Charity Name
Grace Church Beckenham		 Charity Name
Grace Church Beckenham		 Charity Name
Grace Church Beckenham		 Charity Name
Grace Church Beckenham		 No (if any)
1164443		 No (if any)
1164443		 No (if any)
1164443		 CC16a
For the period
from		 Period start date
1-Jan-22		 To Period end date
31-Dec-22
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
A1 Receipts
to the nearest
£		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £		 Last year
to the nearest £
Voluntary Giving 85,460 - - 85,460 82,128
Gift Aid 20,375 - - 20,375 20,345
Parents & Toddlers 1,014 - - 1,014 130
Events 488 - - 488 1,109
Other 26,780 - 26,780 14,381
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- - - - -
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Sub total
(Gross income for
AR)		 134,117 - - 134,117 118,092
A2 Asset and investment
sales, (see table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
A3 Payments
Sub total
Total receipts		 - - - - -
134,117 - - 134,117 118,092
Salaries and National Insurance 47,033 - - 47,033 46,652
Pensions 5,166 - - 5,166 5,038
Other Staff Costs 6,444 - - 6,444 -
Rented Accommodation 40,684 - - 40,684 40,234
Venue Hire 10,088 - - 10,088 2,790
Events & Publicity 1,082 - - 1,082 2,533
Admin & Other 4,074 - - 4,074 3,685
Insurance 225 - - 225 295
Mission Partners 6,338 - - 6,338 4,620
Sub total 121,133 - - 121,133 105,847
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - - -
- - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end
A5 Transfers between funds
Sub total
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
Cash funds this year end		 - - - - -
121,133 - - 121,133 105,847
12,985 - - 12,985 12,245
- - - - -
39,422 - - 39,422 27,177
52,407 - - 52,407 39,422

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B1 Cash funds		 Details Details Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
Bank Current Account 44,299 - -
Bank Savings Account 8,108 - -
- - -
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 December Gift Aid Claim
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Details
Details
Details
Signature		 52,407 - -
OK OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
1,699
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Cost (optional)
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asset belongs
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Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
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Stephen Lock
Print Name		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Date of
approval
Stephen Lock Sep-23

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