2025-08-31-accounts

YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR

31 AUGUST 2025

FINANSURE LIMITED

2 Sheppard Street, Brymbo, Wrexham, LL11 5FF

YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

CONTENTS	PAGES
Legal and administrative information	3
Report of the trustees	4 – 8
Independent Examiner’s Report	9
Receipts and payments accounts	10
Statement of assets and liabilities	11

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YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity number 1164721 Working name YWAM Cymru/Wales Governing instrument CIO - foundation registered 7[th] December 2015 Trustees Rachael Howson (Chair) Sarah Opper Lidia Lammardo Sue Pratt Andrew Watts (Appointed 27[th] February 2025) Principal address 25 Hightown Road Wrexham LL13 8EB

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YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

Structure, governance and management

Youth With A Mission Cymru/Wales is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation registered on 7[th] December 2015 with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

This is the tenth annual report and accounts prepared by the charity. In previous years YWAM Wales has operated under Youth With A Mission Limited (charity number 264078), and relations are still strong with this ‘sister charity’.

New trustees are appointed by the current trustees in accordance with the governing instrument.

Public benefit

The charity trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the 2006 Charities Act to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties.

Objectives and activities

The purposes of the charity are:

• The advancement of the Evangelical Christian Faith in Wales and elsewhere in the United Kingdom or abroad as the trustees may from time to time think fit.

• To advance education in accordance with Christian principles in the said country and elsewhere in the United Kingdom or abroad as the trustees may from time to time think fit.

• • To promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in the said country and elsewhere in the United Kingdom or abroad as the trustees may from time to time think fit.

To fulfil these purposes the charity has carried out the following activities during the year:

Introduction

The 2024-25 year was one of challenge and change. Both Wrexham and Cardiff said goodbye to staff members leaving us nearly as small as we’ve ever been. However – those left are deeply committed and serving the Lord with all their heart and blessing the cities of Wrexham and Cardiff. Small but mighty!

Christian Training and Education

Several of our missionaries have been engaged in teaching, speaking and preaching ministries in local churches as well as in other missionary training centres. Our commitment to Christian training and education has continued throughout the year – not only as teachers and trainers, but as learners. Of particular note:

• Lidia provided ongoing coaching and spiritual direction to individuals from various churches, including young leaders, volunteers and church members seeking personal guidance. These one-to-one sessions have provided a safe and encouraging space for reflection, prayer and practical support;

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued)

• YWAM Cardiff has continued to deepen their mentoring programme for young adult leaders, helping equip the next generation with confidence, spiritual foundations and leadership skills rooted in discipleship and service. This investment in emerging leaders remains a significant contribution to the wider Christian community in Cardiff;

• Luciene completed a 6 week School of the Word & Spirit at YWAM Seamill. This was a relational study and overview of the Scriptures with a goal to strengthen your spirit, live with a greater awareness of your connectedness to God, and sustain that connection while studying the Scriptures;

• Sarah staffed two 2-week seminars on Christian Spiritual formation in YWAM Seamill and YWAM Holmsted Manor. The focus of these events was introducing a variety of spiritual practices (disciples) that could be used individually or in community, which would encourage deeper processing, vulnerability and growth;

• Jo staffed several Alpha courses in the Wrexham prison, seeing many of the men make commitments to follow Jesus. Alpha can give prisoners a chance to ask life’s big questions and find out about the Christian faith in a safe, informal and friendly environment;

• Sarah & Lidia both had several opportunities to preach at local churches.

Christian Ministry and Outreach

Both teams have been involved in several local projects in cooperation with other Christian organisations and churches. Each of the team members finds local projects they want to get involved in and take the initiative to do so. A selection of these ongoing ministries include:

• Helping to run Baby Basics Wrexham which gives large hampers of baby clothing and supplies to families in need in our locality. This ministry has grown significantly during 2024/2025, serving over 100 families and working with over 35 professionals working with the families. In 2025 the ministry will expand to provide more items and sizes of clothing;

• Hosting outreach teams who focus on doing community outreach. YWAM Cardiff hosted outreach groups from England, Brazil and Northern Ireland, guiding them through their programmes and connecting them with partner churches for ministry opportunities. Their commitment to serving the most vulnerable continued as they supported established homeless ministries in the city centre and ran the food-market project at St Mark’s, which provides essential food support for homeless people, refugees and others in need, and serving in the weekly Wednesday coffee-and-cake mornings at St Philip’s by helping to provide a warm and friendly environment where local residents can feel welcomed, listened to and supported;

• Working with the supply of management staff and provision of volunteers to our local Wrexham Foodbank and Cardiff food market. Luciene has been serving on the Friday morning team for nearly 10 years and Bob has been stocking satellite sites for 12 years!

• Providing practical support to Rainbow of Hope a ministry in Cardiff for homeless and asylum seekers;

• Involvement with FireStarters in Cardiff which is a youth ministry for churches;

• Befriending ministries to many individuals – both Christian and not. Some examples are Prayer House Bethania, St Mark’s church, Gabalva with evangelism and Woodville Baptist church with youth and children’s programs;

• Doing student ministry, worship ministry, prayer ministry and kids ministries with and for more than one local church in Cardiff, including Woodville Baptist;

• Wrexham team members establishing a community café “The Mustard Seed” with others in their village as well as a weekly group for new believers that meets in the café;

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued)

• Helped in organising a Walk of Witness through Wrexham city centre for Good Friday;

• • Supporting a weekly local mums & tots groups and befriending mums struggling with parenting young children;

• YWAM Cardiff continued to strengthen discipleship, pastoral care and local partnerships across the city. The year has been marked by steady, relational ministry and a growing sense of collaboration with churches, community groups and local leaders. Much of their work has focused on investing in people, creating spaces for connection, and supporting the spiritual growth of individuals and church communities alike;

• Leading prayer and worship gatherings, teaching Alpha sessions at St. Phillips;

• Running joint prayer events to strengthen intercession across different communities and creating consistent rhythms of worship & prayer that benefit church members and those exploring faith;

• YWAM Cardiff coordinated several months of outreach for visiting missionaries from Brazil, connecting them with partnership churches and helping them with on-the-ground support as they engaged in local ministry. These relational bridges have helped foster collaboration, shared vision and mutual encouragement among various church communities.

Internal Operations and Performance

Our activities this year have been in full accordance with our objects and purposes as laid out on the Charities Commission. During the year we focussed on opportunities to provide support to local families, ministries and people through our activities with established charities and churches in Wrexham and Cardiff.

The Wrexham team has ongoing twice weekly team meetings and has continued (nearly) monthly prayer and fasting sessions as part of their rhythm. Cardiff team times were suspended when the team shrank to only one person for most of the year. Lidia seeks encouragement and partnerships with several local churches to stay positive and supported.

As the year continued, the Wrexham team maintained and improved the interior of our property in line with our policy to be good stewards of all that God provides. Wrexham team spent several months chipping away at redecorating our main hospitality room in order to bless and serve those who come to stay even more. We had a Christian student come to lodge in the property for the year as well as hosting several missionary families and other guests for varying amounts of time. Our former national leaders, Mark & Sue, returned from Panama for their home assignment in Wrexham and their whole family stayed at the property for a month.

YWAM Cymru/Wales is a part of a YWAM area team called WISE (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England) and both teams sent representatives to serve and attend at the bi-annual family gathering for all staff in this region in May 2025. Each nation got time to share and after the Wales report everyone gathered around our team leaders to pray for us and the future of YWAM in Wales. Additionally we’re a part of the wider connection circle in Europe – though no in-person or online meetings occurring during this year.

Our Board of Trustees hosted a “policy party” in October 2024 where we spent a day all together reading and editing our old and new policies. It was so much more enjoyable to do this in a group than online and will shape future policy making in the future.

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YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued)

We celebrate diversity with YWAM Cymru/Wales – we have Canadian, Brazilian, American, German and Argentinean people serving on our teams and board in addition to Brits. Our board and teams have a mix of genders holding a variety of roles. Both team leaders have committed to learning and speaking Welsh and at least three of our missionaries speak English as a second language. We make space on both our teams for complex medical conditions and disabilities by creating positive working conditions to serve as they are able.

Overall, this has been a highly fruitful year for both YWAM Cardiff and YWAM Wrexham. Both teams have served as a bridge between churches, a steady source of pastoral support, and an active presence among vulnerable communities. Their commitment to prayer, mentoring and local partnerships continues to contribute significantly to the wider work of YWAM Cymru/Wales, enriching both the local church landscape and the lives of those they serve.

Plans for future years

YWAM Cardiff hopes to recruit new team members to join in the abundance of opportunities and good reputation that previous iterations of YWAM Cardiff have sowed.

YWAM Wrexham will be taking on some temporary lodgers this coming year to ensure steady finances are coming in for maintaining and heating the YWAM property. There is a bubbling vision for creating a missional community and we wonder if having some lodgers will give us a taster of what some aspects of that could be like. Two more of our staff team are moving onto fresh callings from God so the team is continuing to shrink.

We wonder (with faith and trust) how God will encourage and supply both teams in this coming season. It’s clear God’s blessing is on the work and even when we don’t see the specifics we trust His goodness to make a way.

Changes in Trustees & Members

In February 2025 at our AGM, current chair Rachael agreed to continue for one more year and we voted to invite Andrew Watts to join our board of trustees. There were no changes in membership.

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YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued)

Trustees’ responsibilities

Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of its financial activities for that year. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

• a) select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

• b) make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• c) state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

• d) prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the charity will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities.

5th March This report was approved by the trustees on …………………………….. 2026 and is signed on their behalf by:

……………………………………… Miss R Howson (Chair)

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YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT

I report on the receipt and payments accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025, which are set out on pages 10 & 11.

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 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

• examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act;

• to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act; and

• to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of 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 statement below.

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:

• the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or

• the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or

• the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

………………………………………….. ………………………………… 2026 17th March

Luke Howson MAAT Finansure Limited, 2 Sheppard Street, Brymbo, Wrexham, LL11 5FF

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YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS

RECEIPTS Donations received YWAMer contributions Training course income Other income Investment income TOTAL RECEIPTS PAYMENTS Rent Cardiff expenses Training course expenses Outreach teams Heat and light Water and rates Insurance Office expenses Telephone and internet Motor and travel expenses Repairs and maintenance Hospitality Other expenses TOTAL PAYMENTS NET OF RECEIPTS/(PAYMENTS) Cash funds last y/e Cash funds this y/e	Unrestricted funds Total Funds Total funds 2025 2025 2024 £ £ £ 14,674 14,674 1,847 21,578 21,578 35,612 5,965 5,965 - 132 132 1,522 44 44 17
	42,393 42,393 38,998
	18,900 18,900 21,132 - - 2,383 5,207 5,207 - 3,872 3,872 - 3,235 3,235 2,381 4,202 4,202 1,096 1,407 1,407 1,383 833 833 655 378 378 232 172 172 337 378 378 380 1,034 1,034 380 116 116 856
	39,734 39,734 34,012
	2,659 2,659 4,986 21,274 21,274 16,288
	23,933 23,933 21,274

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YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU/WALES

YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2025

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

	2025	2024
	£	£
CASH FUNDS
CAF current account	7,585	6,543
CAF Cardiff account	14,338	14,506
Paypal account	1,056	132
Cash in hand	954	93
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TOTAL CASH FUNDS	23,933	21,274
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	Current value
	£
ASSETS RETAINED FOR THE CHARITY’S OWN USE
25 Hightown Road	395,000
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	395,000
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These receipts and payments accounts were approved by the trustees on …………………………. 2026 5th March and are signed on their behalf by:

……………………………………… Miss R Howson (Chair)

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