## **Trustees ’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** _**1 - Jul - 2024**_ **Period start date To** _**30 - Jun - 2025**_ **Period end date**
**Charity name: The Church in Manchester Charity registration number: 1166488**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORPreference||
|---|---|---|
|Summaryof the
purposesof the
charityas set out in
itsgoverning
document|Para1.17|**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.**|
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|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**
**maintaining the one fellowship in the**
**one Body of Christ by contributing to**
**transport costs and other expenses.**
**2) The charity has continued to support**
**full-time Christian workers– those who**
**work full-time for the advancement of**
**the Christian faith. The charity supports**
**a Christian worker in coordination with**
**the Church in Ipswich, and also**
**contributed to the support of other**
**Christian workers through Amana Trust.**
**3) The charity has continued to provide**
**financial and logistical support to**
**facilitate Christian meetings and events**
**in Manchester and the north of England.**|
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## **Financial Review**
|Review of the
charity’s financial
position at the
end of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity experienced a 48% increase in income over**
**the previous year. This was largely due to our organsing**
**a several regional conferences and trainings. These**
**events were organised in such as way as to have as close**
**to a net zero affect on the charity's finances. Aside from**
**these major events, general giving to the charity actually**
**fell by 21% from the previous year. In unrestricted or**
**general funds, the charity experienced a net loss over the**
**year. Due to the charity's strong cash reserves, the**
**Trustees felt it appropriate to pull from these in response**
**to several emergent needs over the course of the year.**
**Overall the charity's accounts still increased. However a**
**larger portion of this is now in restricted funds– funds**
**given or committed for specific purposes.**
**Total funds at the beginning of the year were£ 98,955 and**
**at the end of the year to 30 June 2025 were£99,727.**|
|---|---|---|
|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. 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.**
**In addition, because the charity is hoping to acquire a**
**property to support our activities we have allowed our**
**reserves to increase further in anticipation of this large**
**expense.**|
|Amount of
reserves held|Para 1.22|**£65,595 in general funds. The charity holds a further**
**£34,132 in restricted funds, the majority of which is in the**
**building fund.**|
|Reasons for
holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|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 do not receive any compensation.|
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## **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 Liverpool, 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**
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|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**
|1
2
3|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|---|---|
||Stephen Frost|Chair|Whole year|
||James Moes|Secretary|Whole year|
||Jonathan Ong||Whole year|
– 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**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity ’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity ’s own assets
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**Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees ’ report above.**
**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** 09/03/26
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## **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 2025.
## **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 FCA DChA Withington Works Withington Baths 30 Burton Road Manchester, M20 3EB
Date ………………………
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**Charity Name No (if any) Church in Manchester 1166488 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/07/24 30/06/25
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest£ **
**20,231**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,231**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**20,231**
**253**
**-**
**1,009**
**11,500**
**995**
**-**
**-**
**1,078**
**-**
**14,836**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**14,836**
**5,395**
**- 5,703**
**71,787**
**71,479**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest£**
**1,450**
**2,400**
**17,401**
**7,569**
**615**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,435**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,435**
**5,884**
**-**
**-**
**2,400**
**18,616**
**7,159**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,059**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**34,059**
**- 4,623**
**5,703**
**27,168**
**28,248**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest£**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest£**
**21,681**
**2,400**
**17,401**
**7,569**
**615**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,666**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**49,666**
**6,137**
**-**
**1,009**
**13,900**
**19,611**
**7,159**
**-**
**1,078**
**-**
**48,894**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,894**
**772**||**Last year**
**to the nearest£**|
|General Giving|**20,231**|||||**25,554**|
|Support for Full-timers|**-**|||||**2,675**|
|Extra-local Causes|**-**||||||
|LSM TrainingDonations|**-**|||||**3,224**|
|Local Purposes|**-**|||||**2,140**|
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**20,231**|||||**33,593**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**33,593**|
||||||||
|Meeting|**253**|||||**3,146**|
|Local Gospel Support|**-**||||||
|Travel & Transport|**1,009**|||||**2,079**|
|SupportingFull-timers|**11,500**|||||**13,975**|
|Extra-local Causes|**995**|||||**1,268**|
|LSM Trainings|**-**||||||
|Localpurposes|**-**|||||**2,070**|
|Governance & Support|**1,078**|||||**378**|
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**14,836**|||||**22,916**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**22,916**|
||||||||
||**5,395**|**- 4,623**|**-**|**772**||**10,677**|
||**- 5,703**|**5,703**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**71,787**|**27,168**|**-**|**98,955**||**88,279**|
||**71,479**|**28,248**|**-**|**99,727**||**98,956**|
CCXX R8 accounts (SS)
21/04/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R9 accounts (SS)|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
HSBC Account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
BFE Bible Distribution Kit
Wireless multi-function printer
Signature
James Moes
Stephen Frost
9|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest£**
**to nearest£**
**71,479**
**28,248**
**-**
**-**
**71,479**
**28,248**
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)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
James Moes
Stephen Frost|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest£**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest£**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**100**|
||||**100**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of approval|
||||XX/08/2025|
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CCXX R9 accounts (SS)