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| Summary | of the purposes | of | The | main activities ofthe trust centred | |||||
| the charity as set | out | in its | around demonstrating God's love and |
care, | |||||
| governing | document | mainly to the people of Hiichin and | |||||||
| surrounding area, but also to the wider |
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| World. This is done boih through the more |
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| conventional church work and through |
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| variety ofcommunity activities. |
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| Summary activities |
of the main in relation to those |
Para 1.17and 1.19 |
Activities carried out include:- | ||||||
| purposes | for the public | 1. | Regular gatherings to worship and |
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| benefit, | in particular, | the | explore the Christian faith including |
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| activities, | projects | or | Sunday meetings and mid-week |
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| services | identified | in | the | gloups. | |||||
| accounts. | 2. | Professionally run Playbox Pre-School. |
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| 3. | Various weekly youth and children' | s | |||||||
| activities and clubs. | |||||||||
| 4. | Specific programmes and events to |
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| support men, and women, including |
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| weekends away for men and |
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| inspirational brunches for women. |
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| 5. | Support ofvarious international |
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| initiatives to countries such as |
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| Moldova, Israel, and Uganda. |
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| 6. | Support to the under privileged in our |
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| local community, particularly through |
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| the food bank (an initiative co- | |||||||||
| sponsored by Churches Together |
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| Hitchin) and food parcels/vouchers. | |||||||||
| 7. | Visiting and meeting the needs of | ||||||||
| Senior Citizens, many ofwhom no |
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| longer have contact with their families. | |||||||||
| 8. | Providing support, help and counselling |
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| for marriages and families, helping |
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| families to thrive in life. |
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| 9. | Support ofthose in poverty and debt, |
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| through our affiliation to the charity |
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| Christians Against Poverty (CAP). |
A | ||||||||
| CAP Job Club also operates as well as |
| running | CAP Life | Skills and | CAP | ||||
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| Money | courses. | ||||||
| Statement | confirming | Para 1.18 | In carrying | out its objectives the GIO has | |||
| whether the trustees | have | regard to the guidance | issued | by the | |||
| had regard | to the guidance | Charity Commission. | |||||
| issued by the Charity |
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| Commission | on public | ||||||
| benefit |
| SORP reference | ||||||
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| N/A | ||||||
| Para 1.38 | ||||||
| Policy on | grant making | |||||
| N/A | ||||||
| Para 1.38 | ||||||
| Policy on | social investment | |||||
| including | program | related | ||||
| investment | ||||||
| Para 1.38 | The CIO relies heavily on unpaid | |||||
| Contribution volunteers |
made | by | volunteers to carry out its objectives, with any church-based organisation. |
as | ||
| Whilst there is a small staff team, over 150 | ||||||
| volunteers serve across the various |
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| activities ofthe church giving thousands |
of | |||||
| hours each year to be good news to the | ||||||
| local community and beyond. |
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| Other |
| Achieve | men | ts | and Per | formance | ||
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| SORP reference | ||||||
| We were navigating Covid the whole year |
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| but despite that the main achievements | in | |||||
| the year have been:- | ||||||
| Summary ofthe main achievements ofthe charity, |
Para 1.20 | CAP spoke to 21 new clients, and 8 | ||||
| identifying | the | difference the | went debt free. | |||
| charity's | work | has made to | ||||
| the circumstances | of its | At Christmas, we were involved in the |
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| beneficiaries and |
any wider | Hitchin Partnership to provide hampers |
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| benefits to society as a | for 158families, serving over 600 |
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| whole. | people including 361 children. |
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| Our new Zeo Community Fund gave |
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| f1716ofsupport to people with a | ||||||
| variety of needs including a new bed, |
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| gift vouchers for food, furniture, an |
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| oven, washing machine, a bed |
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| mattress. | ||||||
| We took up a special offering to support | ||||||
| other organisations in this difficult Covid |
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| year and as a result, through the |
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| generosity of the Zeo family, we were |
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| able to give F3,000to the Hitchin Food | ||||||
| Partnership, R2,000to the Women' s |
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| Refuge, E1,000to World Vision | ||||||
| Mozambique, f500to Villages of Hope |
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| Zambia PLUS additional financial |
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| support to work we already support. | ||||||
| Our Playbox pre-school group started |
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| with 20 children and gradually as |
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| confidence grew numbers and hours |
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| increased ( we finished with 36 |
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| children). | ||||||
| Our Zeo Children's sessions have all |
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| been online. A weekly family prayer |
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| challenge was included in each |
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| session. There have been 7 adults, | 8 | |||||
| youth and 2 children involved with the |
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| online team children's team. This has |
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| encouraged our youth to |
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| introduce/close sessions, sing, lead |
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| sporting activities and pray out loud |
in | |||||
| their video clips. | ||||||
| We ran the 8week course called | ||||||
| Parenting for Faith. 6families joined |
the | |||||
| course on a regular basis. | ||||||
| A team of8 did six door visits to 50 | ||||||
| households (eg. Christmas, Easter, |
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| Father's Day) —encouraging families |
by | |||||
| connectin to see how home-schoolin, |
| life in general etcwas going and |
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| praying for families where needed. |
| Bags thai included games, activities |
| and gifts for each ofthese occasions |
| were given to each family. |
| We ran 49Zeo Groups over the course |
| ofthe year with an average monthly |
| attendance of 171people (with a high |
| avg in Jan 2027 of27$, and low avg of |
| 100in June 2021). Each term we had a |
| key focus with Autumn 20 focused on |
| Mission (Everyone Everywhere series), |
| Spring 21 on Wellbeing (Wellbeing |
| Journey), and Summer 21 on Identity |
| and Purpose (You were made for this). |
| 20 leaders led a Group for the first time |
| which is fantastic. |
| 10.We trained 9leaders to run the Kintsugi |
| Wellbeing Groups and ran 9courses |
| over the last year with 108people |
| participating in at least part ofthe |
| course. |
| 11.We ran church online every Sunday |
| throughout the year. Throughout the |
| year we refined our online church |
| content, reflecting our learnings and |
| what was working. 24,149views |
| 7,132.2 hours watched |
| 104subscribers gained to total 446 |
| Average watch time is 18minutes |
| Current weekly average is about 350 |
| views Biggest demographic age-group |
| is 35-44 and 57%female |
| 40% ofviews are from subscribers. |
| Watched on mobile (43%),then TV |
| (23%),computer (20%),tablet (12%). |
| 12.The pastoral team has grown from 14to |
| 30 people, supporting people through |
| ihe difficult journey of Covid. |
| 13.As we journeyed through our 40th year |
| we clearly sensed that God's word over |
| Zeo was, and is, reboot! We strongly |
| sense that we' re NOT to 'go back' but |
| to pursue 'going forward' with the new |
| that God has for us. NOT the new |
| normal, bui the new adventure, the new |
| way ofbeing church, the new way of |
| seeing more people truly reached and |
| discipled - we sense that this includes a |
| greater focus on establishing smaller |
| missional expressions ofZeo (working |
| title 'Zeo Collectives') in the years to |
| come. |
| Achievements against |
Para 1.41 |
|---|---|
| objectives set | |
| Performance offundraising activities against objectives |
Para 1.41 |
| set | |
| Investment performance |
Para 1.41 |
| against objectives | |
| Other |
| Review | ofthe charity's | ofthe charity's | Para 1.21 | The trustees are satisfied with the financial |
The trustees are satisfied with the financial |
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| financial | position | at the end | position as at 30'" June 2021. | |||
| ofthe | eriod | |||||
| Statement explaining |
the | Para 1.22 | It is the intention | ofthe Trustees that the | ||
| policy for holding | reserves | Charity should | hold reserves in the form of |
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| stating | why they | are held | cash to maintain | sufficient free funds (i.e. |
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| total net assets | less restricted funds less |
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| designated funds less unrestricted fund |
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| fixed assets) to | equate to approximately | |||||
| three month's operating expenditure. This |
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| is considered b |
the Trustees to be an |
| appropriate sum given |
appropriate sum given |
the | nature ofthe | nature ofthe | ||||||
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| Charity's income. |
It is reviewed | annually, | ||||||||
| taking into account |
planned | expenditure | ||||||||
| and income expectations. | ||||||||||
| Amount ofreserves | held | Para 1.22 | f402,141 equating | to | approximately: | |||||
| 294,141 General Reserve | in accordance | |||||||||
| with reserve policy | ||||||||||
| F308,000 Designated | Building | Fund | ||||||||
| Reserve | ||||||||||
| Reasons for | holding | zero | Para 1.22 | |||||||
| reserves | ||||||||||
| Details offund materially | in | Para 1.24 | None | |||||||
| deficit | ||||||||||
| Explanation | ofany | Para 1.23 | ||||||||
| uncertainties | about | the | ||||||||
| charity continuing | as a going | |||||||||
| concern |
| ou ma choose to include fur |
ther statement | s where relevant about: |
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| Regular and adhoc giving from Church | ||
| The charity's principal sources offunds (including |
Para 1.47 | Members. |
| any fundraising) | ||
| Investment policy and objectives including any |
Para 1.46 | |
| social investment policy |
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| adopted | ||
| A description of the principal |
Para 1.46 | |
| risks facing the charity | ||
| Other |
| Description | of charity's | of charity's | ||
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| trusts: | ||||
| Type ofgoverning | document | Para 1.25 | Trust Deed | |
| How is the | charity | Para 1.25 | CIO | |
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| Policies and procedures adopted for the induction |
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction |
Para 1.51 |
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| and training | oftrustees | |
| The charity's organisational structure and any wider |
Para 1.51 | |
| network with |
which the | |
| charity works | ||
| Relationship | with any related | Para 1.51 |
| parties | ||
| Other |
| mes | ofthe charity trus | tees who manage | the charity | ||
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| Trustee name | Office (ifany) | Dates acted ifnot forwhole ear |
Name ofperson (or body) entitled to appoint trustee ifan |
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| Felicity Gorton | Chair | ||||
| Matt Summerfield | |||||
| Jumoke Cox | |||||
| Paul Reynard | Treasurer | ||||
| Ginette Beeson | |||||
| Dan Garfield | |||||
| David Lasaki | (incoming) | 10'"May 2021 | |||
| Sandra Okwara | (incoming) | 1"February 2021 | |||
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| Description of the assets |
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| held in this capacity |
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| Name and objects ofthe | |
| charity on whose behalf | the |
| assets are held and how | this |
| falls within the custodian | |
| charity's objects |
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| Details ofarrangements | for |
| safe custody and | |
| segregation ofsuch assets |
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| from the charity's own |
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| on behal | f ofthe charity' | s trustees | ||
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| Signature{s) | ||||
| Full name(s) | Felicity Gorton | Matt Summerfield | ||
| Position | {egSecretary, | Chair | Trustee | |
| Chair, etc) | ||||
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