## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 2020 **To** 31 12 2020 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** RANELAGH ROAD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP **Other names charity is known by** RRCF **Registered charity number (if any)** 1166763 **Charity's principal address** RANELAGH ROAD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP RANELAGH ROAD FELIXSTOWE **Postcode** IP11 7HA ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Andrew Steven Piper|||| ||Dawn JoyPiper|||| ||AnthonyJohn Golding|||| ||Beryl Evelyn Golding|||| ||Ian Charles Stone|||| ||Patricia Louise Stone|||| ||Richard HenryTaylor|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** - Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Constitution How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Charity trustees are appointed by a resolution passed at a properly (eg. appointed by, elected by) convened meeting of the charity trustees ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: Please see the enclosed RRCF CIO Organisation chart, which was current for the period covered by this report. • policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The Object of the CIO is, in accordance with the Statement of Faith and **Summary of the objects of the** for the public benefit, the advancement of the Christian faith in Felixstowe **charity set out in its** and such other parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the charity **governing document** trustees may from time to time decide. **TAR** March **2012** 2 |**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|RRCF is a local Christian Church, in Felixstowe, Suffolk and exists for the
benefit of the general public, Church members and the local community.
In order to advance the Christian Faith and under normal circumstances
(no pandemics!) the Charity carries out the following activities – weekly
Worship Services & Prayer Meetings, Friends and Neighbours weekly
meetings for older ladies, weekly Parent and Toddler groups and
weekday Bible Study Groups.
RRCF have continued to support local communities through financial
giving to different organisations and in support of local missionaries
based around the UK. We currently make gifts to BOOST Felixstowe who
are a local Youth Worker charity, providing a Chaplaincy Service to local
Schools and Academies. We give regularly to Hope Trust a local
Felixstowe charity providing a befriending service, advice and support for
the elderly as well as to Felixstowe Town Pastors and Walton Parish
Nursing, who both provide much needed pastoral and nursing services to
the local community of Felixstowe and surrounding villages.
Needless to say, like the rest of the world, our activities during 2020 were
affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Being a small fellowship, the skills required to go “online” and stream
anything near a normal kind of Sunday service are just not there and the
“take-up” by the rest of the fellowship would not justify the time and effort
invested.
Instead we chose to encourage our fellowship to, where possible, join
other local church online services and events, sharing details of those
that we had experienced ourselves and found beneficial.
We did take up the mantle in using Zoom and held a once per month
online shared time of Communion and a once per month “online prayer
and share” to maintain some form of contact with as many as we were
able to and who wished to join us.
In addition, we produced a monthly update news and encouragement
bulletin, aptly called “The Rainbow” which we distributed via email, and
printed copies to the homes of those we knew did not have internet
access and we setup regular phone calls to those who we knew would be
alone and might just need someone to chat to, or might need some help
with maybe shopping or medical supplies.
Due to our small numbers of regular attendees, in order to provide a
Covid-19 Secure environment we prepared appropriate Risk
Assessments and guidance documents to share with the fellowship, and
implemented a number of Safety and Protective measures. We were then
able to open the church for a period during the summer and then a short
period in the autumn, in between lockdowns.
During the time when the building was closed to the public, we
maintained weekly security checks around the premises and carried out
regular water system flushing.
Following the extensive maintenance work undertaken to the extension at
the front of our building in 2019, with the new flat roof, the rendering and
the new double-glazed entrance doors, we completed the refresh of the
interior of the entrance foyer area, during the spring time of 2020.
We received some legacy funds from a former regular attendee at our
fellowship during 2020, which was earmarked towards the cost of
replacing the window frames in the kitchen and toilets, which are within
the same extension at the front of the building.
That work was scheduled for early 2021, when opportunity allowed us to
and within any Covid-19 relevant restrictions.| |---|---| **TAR** March **2012** 3 ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** Through 2020 we continued our support along with a number of other You **may choose** to include local Churches, for the Felixstowe CAP Debt Centre. CAP is the national further statements, where Christian’s Against Poverty organisation whose primary aim is to support relevant, about: anyone who is struggling with debt and poverty through the process of • policy on grantmaking; becoming debt-free. The Felixstowe Christian Action Against Poverty and Debt charity • policy programme related (FACCPD), manages the running of the Felixstowe CAP Debt Centre. investment; We continue to be one of many churches that provide financial support and volunteer resources for the work of the FCAAPD charity. • contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** Given the impact of the pandemic, the social climate and the national **achievements of the charity** trend in declining Church congregations, we were encouraged that the **during the year** numbers attending our main Sunday services remained at a reasonable level over the reporting year, on those occasions when we were open. We were grateful for the financial support of those within the fellowship during this period, which has allowed us to maintain and in some areas still improve the fabric of the building and which has ensured we remain financially viable. ## **Section E Financial review** We currently maintain a reserve amount of £3000 in the church bank **Brief statement of the** account. **charity’s policy on reserves** A Reserves Policy is being developed as part of the financial operations of the CIO. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); • how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; • investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Given the additional expenditure during the reporting year, the overall funds available to us remain healthy. We remain continually grateful to everyone who has attended the Church regularly and contributes to the financial running of the Church matters and thankful to God for the blessings that we experience every year. Included with this report, is the CC16a form for the reporting year with the summary of the examinded Church Accounts. These documents, together with the completed independent examiners report of the Church Accounts will be submitted into the online Charity Commission Annual Return for 2020. **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section F Other o tional information DocLunentaJon Induded with thts subm￿On, RRCF CIO Ctynisatx)n chart for 2020. CIO A(fA)urts for 2020. CC16a fomi for 2020. Section G Declaration The truslees declare that they have approved the trustèes. report above. Slgn•d on b•h•lf of th• charV$ tTUSt•o• Slgnature(s) Full name(s) Ar4&bRCW 5 Piful Poshlon (•9 S•cr•lary. Chalr. etc) 74¥£ Al)￿1￿1SrOtWOR D•t• 2£ 2021 2Ft9 [2021 TAR TAR Mar¢h 2012 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WALES Ran•lagh Road Christian F•llowship 1166763 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the perlod frorn To 0110112020 3111212020 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrlcted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds Total lunds Last year to th• near• to n•arn•t e lo ¢h• n•grnot £ to tho n￿￿¥$1 £ to th• noar•$t A1 Recei 7.966 10,414 2.862 6.361 142 3.475 Special Cdleclions all Llsers DonatK>n$ IisceiL7neous Income Gift RÈtun¢ss Tranyler Df fun¢Js iom Qld TTWt Casn transli 3,236 3.2 1,388 1.740 2.910 1.690 2,910 Sub iota r055 incorne for ARI 13.953 8,286 17,239 23,054 A2 Asset and investment 5ale$, (see table). Sub total rotal recelpts 13,953 3,286 17.239 23,054 A3Pa nts Bu,Icin9 8 Nlainienantè Yk"a9es Icleaneri Olttef Running C0515 Special Cc4ie¢iion remitted Oltter Charities support 3.031 3.6J1 2.880 4,749 3,929 1$.357 4.560 4.984 3.ITg 6.030 4.749 878 4.750 3,051 Sub tolal 3.101 19.739 34.110 A4 Asset and Investment UTchases, see table Sub total Total payments 16,658 3,101 19.759 34,110 Nef of receiptsl(payments) AS Transfers between fund# A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds Ihis year end 2.705 185 2.520 11,05 16.212 127 16,339 13,819 27,395 16,33 13,507 312 CCXX R1 •¢counts ISSI Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrostn'cled fvnd• Rgslrlctod fund• Endown)ent fun 81 C••h fvnds 11S07 312 Total cash hmds 13.f•07 J12 fvnds fvnd• fuftd• Det•lLry Fund ID whl¢h Cuff•rf4 Tnl B4 A880ts r•tsln•d for the ch•fW• own u Detsl 85 UabllllO•• Prirt Nwne Dat• of CCXX R2 acfxx#ts ISSI IA I report to the Trust886 on the accounts of the Ranelagh Road Chrtslian Felk)wship CIO (the Tn￿t) fof the year endad 3111 Decembar 2020 R••pon8lbllhl•• and bul• of r•port AS the charlty tru8tee8 of the Trust you are responsible for the preparatlon of the accounts in accordance with tho reqL4irement8 of the Chariti08 Act 2011 (the Act). I report in respxt of my oxamination of the TnJ$t's accounts carriad out urthr eeclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrylng out my examination I have followed 811 the applicable Direction8 given by the Charity Cornrnissx)n urKler section 145(5>(b) of th8 Act. Ind•p•nd•nt •xamln•rf• •tst•m•nt I have cornpleted my examinatim. I confimi that no material matter5 have c(¥ne lo my attention In connection wilh the examination gNing me cause to bel*ve thal In any matwhl respBct.' a¢counting rocord8 were not kept Sn respect of the Tru8t as requlred by 8ectk)n 130 of the Act, or the accounts do not accord with lho￿ r8cord8. I hav8 no conc•m$ and have Mme 8UOB8 no other mattern in connection with the examinatirjn to which attentK)n shoukl be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be rexhed. J,L Davhd J Rust 79 Ferry Road Felixstowe Suffolk IP119LU