2020-12-31-accounts

Kings Arms Community Church

Trustees Report 2020

Kings Arms Community Church (KACC) is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) as defined in our constitution dated 19 April 2016.

The Trustees remain unchanged for the year being Walter Leach (Pastor/Elder), Tom Allen (Elder) and John Wood (Financial Controller). The Elders typically meet monthly for the purpose of providing Spiritual leadership as defined in the constitution.

Our Bankers Are:

Lloyds Bank 55 Newerne Street Lydney GL15 5RA

Our Accounts are audited by:

Mr M Wakerley CA Details as provided in the Audit Report

Our principle meeting is on a Sunday at 10:30 and held in:

Lydney Youth & Community Centre Naas Lane Lydney GL15 5AT

The aim of KACC is to provide an active Christian witness and presence to Lydney and the surrounding area that proclaims the good news of salvation by grace through Jesus Christ.

The principle activities of KACC are to

• Provide regular public Christian worship open to all that includes

• Sung worship

• Preaching of scripture

• Prayer

• Sunday school classes for children

• Opportunity to fellowship

• Teaching Christianity through sermons, courses and small group bible study, fellowship and prayer meetings in members houses during the week

• Conducting pastoral work including visiting the sick and the bereaved

• Encouraging the youth that attend the church to live by a Christian ethos

• Supporting the whole mission of the church by supporting other charities, missionaries both overseas and UK

• Meeting practical local needs as they become apparent and deemed appropriate by the Elders.

• Engage with our community through supporting the Community Centre in which we hold our services, providing a CAP Job Club for long term unemployed and ad-hoc initiatives as needs become apparent.

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Kings Arms Community Church

Summary of 2020 – The year of COVID-19:

Due to the global COVID epidemic 2020 has been a very unusual year curtailing many of our regular activities. Prior to lockdown we held our annual church meeting and were meeting as usual. On March 22[nd] we performed our first Livestream service as we were unable to meet in person. Over the first few weeks we adjusted our methodology and settled on a 9:30AM livestream that has continued on a weekly basis since. The livestream attracts a regular audience that are not regular church attendees and has become a central pillar of our ministry through the epidemic. We have had frequent feedback that the service is seen as a reference point providing consistency and hope in difficult times..

Sadly, we have had very limited ability to provide online services for youth. Several of our youth have used online service provided by larger churches with greater resources. We did use the puppets and other resources for our Easter service to tell the Easter story.

For Christmas 2020 we ran a campaign to encourage people to put stars in their decorations and ran a competition for the best entries. Our Starlight livestream service has had well over 500 views and was watched by a large audience on the night.

We delayed our planned Alpha Course in Oct 2020 to Jan 20201 to run following the Starlight initiative.

The take-up to use zoom received a more mixed reaction than doing livestream and a significant number of our regulars choose not to engage either as they find the technology uncomfortable, or they are ‘weary’ from using it for business, so they opt out of using it for church. Prayer meetings and other events have been held over zoom.

The church donated £500 to the Lydney Support group to assist with food in the early stages of lockdown.

The church supported the Forest Foodbank assisting with deliveries in the early stages of lockdown and until such time as they changed their procedures and our support was no longer required. The church continued to make both physical and cash donations to the foodbank (much of this was direct from the individuals).

Our links to Regions Beyond have been invaluable in providing support an encouragement to the leadership and we were able to support churches on different continents through gifts via Regions beyond.

Although we were unable to meet it is encouraging that the overall giving (income) has increased compared to 2019 and also our giving to support others in donations/gifts and grants has increased significantly as well as shown in the accounts.

Pastors Statement

2020 was a difficult year and in some ways we will only be able to assess quite where we are as a church when we start to gather again in 2021. A frequent message through 2020 has been that this ‘pause’ is a time to reimagine our call and purpose so that when we do come through the current difficulty we have a revitalised sense of our mission.

As reported in 2019 the Ministry Team continue to provide leadership under the Eldership of Tom and Walter and we are still seeking a third Elder to join the team. Our ‘need’ for our own building will be reviewed in the context of the new environment.

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Kings Arms Community Church

Statement of Responsibilities

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Under charity law the Trustees must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and the group, and of their net outgoing resources for that period.

In preparing these accounts, the Trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently

• make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

• state whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the accounts

• prepare the accounts on the going-concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue to operate.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the accounts 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 and other irregularities.

The accounts were approved and duly signed by the Board of Trustees at a Trustees Meeting held on 30 Apr 2021.

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Recel ts and ents accounts CC16a Fovthe peFlod 0110112020 31M212020 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted fund5 tothe nfrarmt £ toth• nearest£ EndI￿rn￿ funds tothe n•estÈ toth•h•Jr••t£ Totalfunds Last year toth• nMreJt£ A1 Recelpts C85h Offerings GMBg st￿Bro￿lP (￿9ft￿l￿) Region6 &nDoy eous 34225 ross Income AR) 41, 41.$79 373 (see tabl• 41,679 A3Pa eb)ts Room Hir8 Speakers, preathar5&wc￿ip 199OBrs 2,529 .oJ• 103 Chufth EvtsTts Re6oUr￿S.tr￿r￿ a CLYrfererK9 P￿fB￿li￿d fèèB &sÈnAt8B 2,008 1,102 11113 7T2 l794 3,W2 2f.769 11,7 General Gts, grants & doniw5 Sub total 32,533 31533 31.126 urcha88* Stage e9UiPtnenl PA &AV EquyneDt SFgnoge 110 180 Sub total 31871 Nat of r8e8lpts/(paym•nts} Transf8r5 between funds A6 Cash funds last year end CCXY R1 ISSI 2410312021

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the tn￿te members of KINGS ARMS COMMUNITY CHURCH On account5 for the year ondod 31 December 2020 Charity no {rf any) 1166620 Sèt out on pages 3T I report to the trust88s on my examination of the acwunts of th6 above charity (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended g I 11 2(Eo As thè ¢hariWs trustees. you are responsib￿ for the preparation of the aGcounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acri. Responsibilties and basis of report I report in resped of my examination Df the Trusfs accounts carried out under sectton 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission under sectlon 145{5){b) of the Act. Independent examinerf8 Statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no materral matters have come to my attentlon In connection with the examination which glves me cause to be￿eve that in, any mater181 respect: the accounting records were not kept in a0￿)rdan￿ vath seeAion 130 of the Chaiities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements nceming the fo￿ and content of accouFts set (xjt in the Charitses (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts glve a Irue and fair, view whith is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no GOn￿m$ and have come across no other matters in ci)nnection with the examination to which attention shoukl be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the aeAx)unts lo be reached. Slgnod: Name.. MATTHEW WAKERLEY Relevant professlonal qualification(s) or body Ilf any): INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

Address: WOODLAND HOUSE, BOWSON SQUARE BREAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE GL15 6LB Section B Dis¢losure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highligm material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts". directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brlef detalls of any itgms that the examlner wlshes to disclose.