2025-12-31-accounts

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St Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity. Registered Charity No 1167054

Trustees Report - Year Ending December 31st 2025

1. Introduction

Charity Details

St Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity.
Registered Charity No 1167054
Registered at All Hallows by the Tower, London.
Registered with HMRC 26.10.16 Ref: EW58375
Contact details: 4 Stanley Crescent, Holyhead, Ynys Mon LL65 1DD Tel: 07957987317 l.balfe18@gmail.com

2. Structure and Governance

Trustees as at 31.12 25

Linda Balfe Chair of Trustees
• John Worton-Griffiths Trustee • Linda Smith Trustee
Anne Lloyd Trustee
• David Wilde Trustee
Shane Barnes Trustee
Wendy Davies Trustee

There are no committees or sub-groups.

Governance

The Trustees meet twice a year and can attend in person or via Zoom, with all actions formally minuted. Agendas are issued prior to the meetings and minutes are duly approved by the trustees at the following meeting.

A copy of the approved minutes is sent to the Secretary of St Andrew’s Church Council.

Meetings in 2025 took place on 15.5.25 & 23.10.25

Wendy Davies has joined the Trustees. No other changes.

New trustees are recruited by invitation of the existing trustees from within the body of St Andrew’s Church. They are known to the existing trustees and are generally recruited on the basis of a particular skill or experience they have to offer.

3. Objectives and Activities

The mission of the Charity is :

To promote the ministry and work of St. Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia by raising, holding and dispersing funds to build the mission and work of St. Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia within the Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf in the Episcopal Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.

Activities and Achievements in 2025

Regular Sunday worship (Service of Holy Communion)
Additional special services in Advent, at Christmas, in Lent and at Easter
Additional special services as required (Baptisms, Memorial Services, etc)
Social and cultural events taking place in the church and church hall, including musical concerts during the year.
Regular fellowship in the church hall after Sunday services and at social events.
Lent and Advent Bible Study group, meeting at The Hermitage
Fundraising and support for local and international charities (e.g. Harvest Festival donations and funds raised for Tulips Charity for cancer sufferers in N Cyprus, Poppy Appeal, etc.)
Use of church premises by other Christian groups for worship, including a Francophone African Church and a Russian Evangelical Church.
Use of church premises by local groups for social activities (mother & toddler group, country dancing classes, etc.)
Provision of expenses for the priest.

Public Benefit

St Andrew’s is the only Anglican Church in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus with an ordained priest and thus provides ministry for a large geographical area of the island.
Services are attended by worshippers from many parts of the world, who live, work in or visit the Kyrenia area, including: UK, Ireland, Germany, Scandanavia, Russia, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Nigeria, DRC, Phillipines.
Worshippers come from a variety of Christian traditions, including Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Orthodox. The church provides worship and also fellowship and belonging for people a long way from home - particularly students and migrant workers.
Centrally located, the church provides a hub and focus for Christians in and around Kyrenia.
St Andrew’s publicises regular and special events through its website, Facebook and Instagram pages. Facebook posts are shared to other local groups, to extend our reach to others in N Cyprus.
All members of the community are invited to worship with us and use are facilities. Services and events are publicly advertised.

4. Financial Review

The Draft Charity Accounts for the year ending 31st December 2025 are attached

INCOME for 2025 was £15,802
EXPENDITURE was £11,949
SURPLUS was £3,853
BALANCE on 31.12.25 was £70,351

Income

As of December 2025 there were 12 regular donors via standing orders (15 in 2024)
Regular standing order gift-aided donations totalled £6,434
Other (non gift-aided) donations and grants into the Unity Trust account totalled £6,984
A grant of £2,647 was received from JEMT (Cyprus)* towards a new boiler and updated central heating in the priest’s house. This is included under donations.
HMRC paid £2,384 Gift Aid to the charity

Expenditure

All payments made by the Charity were at the request of the Church Council and in accordance with the Charity purposes and governing document, where the UK Charity account was considered the most convenient means of delivering these payments.

Synod costs for our representative were £788. Registration fee for 2025 - for 3 delegates – was paid in 2024
Bank charges were £72

This overview puts 2025 in context:

St Andrew’s UK Charity Account – Unity Bank	St Andrew’s UK Charity Account – Unity Bank	St Andrew’s UK Charity Account – Unity Bank	St Andrew’s UK Charity Account – Unity Bank
Year	Income	Expenditure	Balance	Notes
2025	15,802	11,949	70,351
2024	15,503	10,081	66,499	No major items of expenditure
2023	29,742*	36,013**	61,078	Includes £14,504 JEMT Grant *Includes outlayon The Hermitage
2022	12,716	3,615	67,349
2021	5,604	3,811	58,249	Covid
2020	23,146	6,749	52,644	Covid 3 x one-of donatons totalling£12,000
2019	18,580	14,957	29,499
2018	22,527	10,365	25,876
2017	13,456		14,006
2016	500	0	500

Annual income (not including the JEMT grant in 2023) has grown since Covid, but not reached pre-Covid levels.

The balance that has built up is due partly to decreased expenditure during Covid and the period when there was no paid priest, together with some specific one-off donations.

St Andrew’s UK Charity makes regular stewardship straightforward for donors with UK bank accounts, who can donate by standing order.
Those who pay UK tax can also Gift Aid their donations.
Gift Aid applications were made in 2025, where appropriate,
The Trustees continue to work to make church members aware of the importance of stewardship.
The Trustees continue to look into ways of transferring some of the funds held in this account into a higher interest account.
We do not currently hold reserves or investments

5. Plans for Future Periods

Our objectives, as outined in our mission statement (above) remain unchanged. Our plans for the future include the continuation and development of:

Regular Sunday worship (Service of Holy Communion)
Special services in Advent, at Christmas, in Lent and at Easter, etc. including joint services with other Christian Groups
Special services for families/individuals as required (Baptisms, Memorial Services, etc)
Continued upkeep and improvement of ‘The Hermitage’, providing a home for our priest - and a resource for the church community.
Bible Study groups meeting through the year at The Hermitage.
Social and cultural events taking place in the church and church hall.
Regular fellowship in the church hall after Sunday services and at social events.
Fundraising and support for charities
Use of church premises by other Christian groups for worship.

6. Policies

St Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity is a small organisation, which serves to promote the ministry and work of St. Andrew’s Church, Kyrenia.

The policies of St. Andrew’s Church and of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf apply to St. Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity

The charity has no employees and organises no activities (aside from its own meetings) independently of St. Andrew’s Church.

7. Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

It is the responsibility of St Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity Trustees to act at all times in accordance with the Constitution of St Andrew’s Church Kyrenia UK Charity, dated 11th May 2016.

Trustees must ensure that payments made by the Charity are at the request of St Andrew’s Church Council and in accordance with the Charity purposes and governing document, where the UK Charity account is considered the most convenient means.

8. Independent Auditor's Report

The Church Accounts for the year ending 31st December 2025 were independently examined by Mr Kieron King:

* NOTE

The Jerusalem and the East Mission Trust Limited (JEMT) and The Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association (JMECA)

The Jerusalem and the East Mission was established in the 19[th] Century, as a fund for the maintenance and development of the Diocese.

This later became The Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association (Charity no. 248799).

On July 1st, 2015 JMECA became a Limited Company Charity with, a new charity number (11584760) and a Company Number (09067852)

The charity supports the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East and the Province of Alexandria.

The Jerusalem and the East Mission Trust Limited is a Trust Corporation established in 1929 to act as a trustee for charitable bodies. JEMT is not itself a charity, but a non-profit limited company that administers the assets of JMECA and a number of other charities that provide support for the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.