## ## ## ## ## |||||||SORP reference|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |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||| ||||||||World. This is done boih through
the more||| ||||||||conventional
church work and through||a| ||||||||variety ofcommunity
activities.||| |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|| |benefit,|in particular,|||the||||explore the Christian
faith including|| |activities,||projects|or|||||Sunday
meetings
and mid-week|| |services||identified|in|the||||gloups.|| |accounts.|||||||2.|Professionally
run Playbox Pre-School.|| ||||||||3.|Various weekly youth and children'|s| |||||||||activities and clubs.|| ||||||||4.|Specific programmes
and events to|| |||||||||support
men, and women,
including|| |||||||||weekends
away for men and|| |||||||||inspirational
brunches
for women.|| ||||||||5.|Support ofvarious
international|| |||||||||initiatives
to countries
such as|| |||||||||Moldova,
Israel, and Uganda.|| ||||||||6.|Support to the under privileged
in our|| |||||||||local community,
particularly
through|| |||||||||the food bank (an initiative co-|| |||||||||sponsored
by Churches Together|in| |||||||||Hitchin) and food parcels/vouchers.|| ||||||||7.|Visiting and meeting the needs of|| |||||||||Senior Citizens,
many ofwhom
no|| |||||||||longer have contact with their families.|| ||||||||8.|Providing
support,
help and counselling|| |||||||||for marriages
and families,
helping|| |||||||||families to thrive
in life.|| ||||||||9.|Support ofthose in poverty
and debt,|| |||||||||through
our affiliation to the charity|| |||||||||Christians
Against Poverty (CAP).|A| |||||||||CAP Job Club also operates as well as|| |||||running|CAP Life|Skills and|CAP| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||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|||||||| |Commission|on public||||||| |benefit|||||||| ## |||||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||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|| ||||||activities ofthe church
giving thousands|of| ||||||hours each year to be good news to the|| ||||||local community
and beyond.|| |Other||||||| ## |Achieve|men|ts|and Per|formance||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||SORP reference||| ||||||We were navigating
Covid the whole year|| ||||||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|| |beneficiaries
and|||any wider||Hitchin
Partnership
to provide hampers|| |benefits to society as a|||||for 158families,
serving over 600|| |whole.|||||people including
361 children.|| ||||||Our new Zeo Community
Fund gave|| ||||||f1716ofsupport to people with a|| ||||||variety of needs including
a new bed,|| ||||||gift vouchers for food, furniture,
an|| ||||||oven, washing
machine, a bed|| ||||||mattress.|| ||||||We took up a special offering to support|| ||||||other organisations
in this difficult Covid|| ||||||year and as a result, through
the|| ||||||generosity
of the Zeo family, we were|| ||||||able to give F3,000to the Hitchin Food|| ||||||Partnership,
R2,000to the Women' s|| ||||||Refuge, E1,000to World Vision|| ||||||Mozambique,
f500to Villages of Hope|| ||||||Zambia PLUS additional
financial|| ||||||support to work we already support.|| ||||||Our Playbox pre-school
group started|| ||||||with 20 children
and gradually
as|| ||||||confidence
grew numbers
and hours|| ||||||increased
( we finished
with 36|| ||||||children).|| ||||||Our Zeo Children's
sessions have all|| ||||||been online.
A weekly family prayer|| ||||||challenge was included
in each|| ||||||session. There have been 7 adults,|8| ||||||youth and 2 children
involved
with the|| ||||||online team children's
team. This has|| ||||||encouraged
our youth to|| ||||||introduce/close
sessions,
sing, lead|| ||||||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,|| ||||||Father's
Day) —encouraging
families|by| ||||||connectin
to see how home-schoolin,|| |life in general etcwas going and| |---| |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| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |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| |stating|why they|are held|||cash to maintain|sufficient free funds
(i.e.| ||||||total net assets|less restricted
funds less| ||||||designated
funds less unrestricted
fund|| ||||||fixed assets) to|equate to approximately| ||||||three month's
operating
expenditure.
This|| ||||||is considered
b|the Trustees to be an| ## |||||||appropriate
sum given|appropriate
sum given|the|nature ofthe|nature ofthe| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||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:| |---|---|---| |||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||| |adopted||| |A description
of the principal|Para 1.46|| |risks facing the charity||| |Other||| ## |Description|of charity's|of charity's||| |---|---|---|---|---| |trusts:||||| |Type ofgoverning||document|Para 1.25|Trust Deed| |How is the|charity||Para 1.25|CIO| |constituted7||||| |je.g Unjncof|porar.|:-;o||| ## |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction|Para 1.51| |---|---|---| |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||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Trustee name|Office (ifany)|Dates acted ifnot forwhole
ear|Name ofperson (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee
ifan|| ||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||| |9|||||| |10|||||| |11|||||| |12|||||| |13|||||| |14|||||| |15|||||| |16|||||| |17|||||| |18|||||| |19|||||| |20|||||| |Funds held as cust|odi| |---|---| |Description
of the assets|| |held
in this capacity|| |Name and objects ofthe|| |charity on whose behalf|the| |assets are held and how|this| |falls within the custodian|| |charity's
objects|| |Details ofarrangements|for| |safe custody and|| |segregation
ofsuch assets|| |from the charity's
own|| |assets|| ## ## ## ## |on behal|f ofthe charity'|s trustees||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Signature{s)|||| ||Full name(s)|Felicity Gorton||Matt Summerfield| |Position|{egSecretary,|Chair||Trustee| ||Chair, etc)|||| |||Z7/|~/z &z||