## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1-Jul** _**-2021**_ **Period start date To** _**30-Jun-2022**_ **Period end date**
**Charity name: The Church in Manchester**
## **Charity registration number: 1166488**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the
purposes of the
charity as set out in
its governing
document|Para 1.17|**The charity's object is the advancement of the**
**Christian faith. Toward this goal, the charity works**
**to facilitate the preaching of the gospel, the**
**spiritual nourishment of the new believers, the**
**perfecting of all believers to be living, functioning**
**members in the Body of Christ, by holding**
**meetings for prayer, for remembrance of the Lord**
**and for prophesying unto mutual encouragement,**
**exhortation and building up, by seeking to raise up**
**and support full time workers, by supporting works**
**to spread the gospel both locally and abroad and**
**by regular and frequent fellowship with other**
**churches throughout the earth for the practical**
**keeping of the oneness of the Body of Christ**
**universally.**
**Please note: The Church in Manchester (capital C)**
**is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO)**
**registered with and regulated by the Charity**
**Commission. In contrast, the church in Manchester**
**(small c) is an inclusive description encompassing**
**all believers in Christ residing within the city of**
**Manchester.**
**The Church in Manchester (herein referred to as**
**"the charity") is a legal incorporation in the secular**
**realm which facilitates the outward activities of the**
**church in Manchester, a human and divine**
**incorporation in the spiritual realm.**|
1
|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|**The main activities of the charity in relation to the**
**public benefit are:**
**1) Facilitating the preaching of the gospel, and**
**the cherishing and nourishing of the**
**believers in Christ as well as those seeking**
**to know Him.**
**2) Organising various meetings for Christian**
**fellowship and edification, both locally and**
**further abroad.**
**3) Covering the costs of transport and**
**attendance at meetings, conferences and**
**other times of fellowship, where this is**
**deemed necessary and beneficial to the**
**fellowship among the churches and the**
**building up of the believers.**
**4) Raising up and supporting full-time**
**Christian workers.**
**5) Supporting the fund-raising efforts of other**
**charities with similar purposes and objects**
**to those of the Church in Manchester.**|
|---|---|---|
|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 received the guidance issued by**
**the Charity Commission on public benefit. The**
**trustees have had regard for this guidance in**
**approving all activities and expenditures of the**
**charity.**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
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.|Para 1.20|**1) The charity's financial support has**
**been instrumental in allowing members of**
**the church in Manchester to participate in**
**larger conferences and gatherings for**
**their perfecting and for maintaining the**
**one fellowship in the one Body of Christ**
**by contributing to transport costs and**
**other expenses.**
**2) The charity has significantly increased**
**our support for full-time Christian workers**
**– those who work full-time for the**
**advancement of the Christian faith. In**
**addition to our existing coordination with**
**the Church in Ipswich for the support of a**
**Christian worker, we also contribute to the**
**support of other Christian workers**
**through Amanatrust.**
**3) The charity has provided financial and**
**logistical support to facilitate Christian**
**meetings and events in Manchester and**
**the north of England.**|
2
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the
charity’s financial
position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity's income has slightly decreased from the**
**previous fiscal year, but saw a much steeper drop in**
**expenditure. This resulted in a 22% increase in the**
**charity's cash reserves as compared with the previous**
**year.**
**Total funds at the end of the year to 30 June 2021 was**
**£65,082 and total funds at the end of the year to 30 June**
**2022 was £79,529.**
**The charity's meeting expenses have largely returned to**
**pre-COVID levels, spending £4,080 on meetings and rent,**
**compared to £3,410 in the year ending 30-June 2019.**
**Gifts to support extra-local causes – and associated fund-**
**raising activities - continued to represent a significant**
**activity for the charity. Expenses appear to have fallen**
**because the charity recorded reduced opportunities to**
**give in support of extra-local causes. However, this is**
**actually due to a change in the charity's fundraising**
**practices with fewer funds being collected locally.**
**Instead awareness is raised locally and individuals are**
**advised on how to give directly to a charity involved in**
**the related work.**
|
|---|---|---|
|Statement
explaining the
policy for holding
reserves stating
why they are held|Para 1.22|**Since nearly all income to the charity is from one off**
**donations the Trustees have strived to maintain a high**
**level of reserves – typically around 12 months operating**
**costs. The Trustees believe this level of financial security**
**is important to allow planning for future activities and a**
**buffer for an unanticipated increase in expenses or drop**
**in income.**
**However, the charity is currently exploring the possibility**
**of acquiring a permanent property to support our**
**activities. We are therefore allowing our reserves to**
**increase in anticipation of this large expense in the**
**future. These reserves have grown as a result of the**
**excess of income over expenditure over the last few**
**years, and has now reached a level of nearly 4 years**
**worth of usual operating costs.**
**The charity has already put in place plans to significantly**
**increase our support of full-time Christian workers going**
**forward to avoid further accumulation of cash reserves,**
**until plans to acquire a permanent property can be**
**advanced.**|
|Amount of
reserves held|Para 1.22|**£60,324 in general funds. The charity holds a further**
**£19,205 in restricted funds. The majority of this is our**
**building fund.**|
|Reasons for|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
3
|holding zero
reserves|||
|---|---|---|
|Details of fund
materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of
any uncertainties
about the charity
continuing as a
going concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
|Details of Trustee
compensation||The Trustees of the Charity are volunteers working free of
charge for the public benefit in advancing the objects of the
Charity.
They are entitled to be reimbursed for legitimate reasonable
expenses incurred on behalf of the charity. During the course
of this reporting period the Trustees of the charity received
reimbursements as follows:
•
Trustee Jonathan Ong was reimbursed on 2 occasions
totalling £97.95 in purchases made on behalf of the
Charity.
•
Trustee Stephen Frost was reimbursed on 4 occasions
totalling £301.14 in purchases made on behalf of the
Charity.
•
Trustee James Moes was reimbursed on 3 occasions
in the amount of £154.80 for purchases made on
behalf of the Charity.
In each case, these expenses were reviewed for approval by
two other Trustees and found to be reasonable and in keeping
with the Charity's objects.
|
||||
4
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**N/A**|
|---|---|---|
|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|**The charity is a CIO (Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation).**|
|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
trustees|Para 1.25|**In accordance with the charity's**
**constitution: “Trustees must be appointed**
**for a term of three years by a resolution**
**passed at a properly convened meeting of**
**the charity trustees.” In re-appointing**
**serving Trustees at the end of their tenure,**
**or in appointing new ones the Trustees**
**select and approve individuals who are**
**willing and able to support the charity in**
**the carrying out of its objects, as outlined**
**in its constitution and summarized at the**
**start of this document.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**In accordance with our objective to**
**advance the Christian faith by maintaining**
**and nurturing the one fellowship of the**
**one Body of Christ, The Church in**
**Manchester coordinates many of its**
**activities and meetings with like minded**
**charities and unincorporated community**
**organisations. This includes, but is not**
**limited to, Amana Trust, the Church in**
**London, the Church in Birmingham, the**
**Church in Coventry, the Church in Leeds,**
**the Church in Nottingham, the Church in**
**Glasgow, the Church in Ipswich, and the**
**Church in Sheffield.**|
|---|---|---|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
5
|Charity name|The Church in Manchester|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1166488|
|Charity’s principal address|17 Mawson Road
Manchester M13 9HG|
|||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year
Stephen Frost Chair Whole year
1
James Moes Secretary Whole year
2
Jonathan Ong Whole year
3
4
5
6
–
Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
Director name
N/A
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
N/A
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
6
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|None|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A|
7
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Declarations**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** `James Moes, Stephen Frost, Jonathan Ong` **Full name(s)** James Moes, Stephen Frost, Jonathan Ong **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Secretary, Chair, Trustee **Date** 31/12/22
8
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of**
## **The Church in Manchester**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Church in Manchester (the Trust) for the year ending 30 June 2022.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do 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 no concerns and 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.
## _Paul Cowham_
Paul Cowham FCA DChA Green Fish Resource Centre Manchester M4 1LE
Date …6 March 2023…
9
||**Church in Manchester**
**Charity Name**|**Church in Manchester**
**Charity Name**|**Church in Manchester**
**Charity Name**|**1166488**
**No (if any)**|**1166488**
**No (if any)**|**1166488**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/07/21|**To**||Period end date
30/06/22|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**to the nearest £**
**19,348**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,348**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,348**
**4,086**
**-**
**297**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**448**
**-**
**-**
**4,830**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,830**
**14,517**
**- 5,350**
**51,157**
**60,324**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,450**
**330**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,780**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,800**
**1,050**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,850**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,850**
**- 70**
**5,350**
**13,925**
**19,205**|**Endowment**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**19,348**
**2,450**
**330**
**-**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,128**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,128**
**4,086**
**-**
**297**
**6,800**
**1,050**
**-**
**448**
**-**
**-**
**12,680**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,680**
**14,447**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|General Giving|**19,348**||||||**15,678**|
|Support for Full-timers|**-**||||||**2,220**|
|Extra-local Causes|**-**|||||||
|LSM Training Donations|**-**||||||**10,534**|
|Local Purposes|**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**
|||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**19,348**||||||**28,431**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**
||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**28,431**|
|||||||||
|
Meeting|**4,086**||||||**-**|
|Local Gospel Support|**-**|||||||
|Travel & Transport|**297**||||||**-**|
|Supporting Full-timers|**-**||||||**5,800**|
|Extra-local Causes|**-**||||||**6,800**|
|LSM Trainings|**-**||||||**10,934**|
|Governance & Support|**448**||||||**984**|
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**4,830**||||||**24,518**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**24,518**|
|||||||||
||**14,517**|**- 70**|**-**||**14,447**||**3,913**|
||**- 5,350**|**5,350**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**51,157**|**13,925**|**-**||**65,082**||**61,169**|
||**60,324**|**19,205**|**-**||**79,529**||**65,082**|
06/03/2023
102
10
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**|BFE Bible Distribution Kit
Wireless multi-function printer
**Details**
**Details**
~~James Moes~~
Stephen Frost
Independent Examination fee due to
~~Accountant~~
Designated Givingto Amanatrust UK Building
Designated Giving to Ukraine Support
Signature
HSBC Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**60,324**
**19,205**
**-**
**-**
**60,324**
**19,205**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
General
**-**
General
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
General
**250**
Amana UK Building
**280**
Ukraine Support
**50**
**-**
**-**
James Moes
Stephen Frost
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**100**|
||||**100**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date ofapproval|
||||04/09/2022|
||||04/09/2022|
|||||
06/03/2023
112
11