Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year ending 31[st] December 2021 




## **Contents** 

|Introduction|3|
|---|---|
|Reference and Administration Details|3-4|
|Structure, Governance and Management|5-6|
|Objectives and Activities|7|
|Achievements and Performance|8|
|Financial Review|9|
|Statement of Accounts|10|
|Independent examiner’s statement|11|
|Declaration|11|



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## **Introduction** 

The Trustee’s present their report and financial statement for the year ending 31[st] December 2020. This report is presented in accordance with the statement of recommended practice, “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (SORP), issued in March 2005. 

A Charitable Incorporated Organisation (the CIO) registered number 1167521 was established on 7[th] June 2016, to use the creative arts to proclaim the Good News, equip Christians through training and provide them with resources to tell the Big Story of God. 

The financial year for the charity runs from January to December and this is the fourth annual report covering the period between 1[st] January 2020 – 31[st] December 2020. 

## **Reference and Administration Details** 

**Charity Name:** The Big Story Trust 

**Registered Charity Number:** 1167521 **Registered Address:** 80 Broadview Avenue Rainham Kent ME8 9DE **Bankers:** Lloyds Bank PLC Uttoxeter PO BOX 1000 Andover BX1 1LT 

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## **Trustees:** 

|Trustee Name|Office|Date Started|Date Ended|
|---|---|---|---|
|REV SUSAN VALLENTE-KERR|Chair|7.6.16|N/A|
|CAPTAIN GRAHAM NUNN CA||7.6.16|6.6.21|
|REV TIMOTHY SAIET||7.6.16|14.9.21|
|REV NATHAN WARD||14.9.21|N/A|
|CLIVE ARUNDELL||14.9.21|N/A|



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## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

The Charity is governed by a constitution and is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. 

The trustee’s are fully committed to safeguarding and therefore have made ‘The Big Story Trust’ a member of CCPAS (The Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service) which is an independent Christian charity providing professional advice, support, training and resources in all areas of safeguarding children, vulnerable adults and for those affected by abuse. 

The trustees have adopted a full set of policies and procedure which are all published on the charities website under the governance section. The policies include: 

- Volunteer management policy 

- Risk management policy 

- Reserves policy 

- Paying staff policy 

- Investment policy 

- Grant-making policy 

- Expenses Policy 

- Equal Opportunities Policy Statement 

- Conflict of interest policy 

- Complaints handling policy 

- Code of Conduct Policy 

- Anti money-laundering terrorist financing and bribery policy 

- Safeguarding Policy 

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## • Volunteer Agreement 

The trustees review all major risks facing the charity at each meeting of the trustee’s and believe that there are no major risks facing the charity at this time. New Trustees are provided with a copy of the Charity Commission’s leaflet “The  Essential  Trustee – CC3’’. 

## **Public Benefit** 

The Trustees have considered the Charity  Commission’s  general  guidance  on  public benefit  and,  in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion, when reviewing the Trust’s aims and objectives and in planning future activities and setting the grant making policy for the year. The Trustees have, in their view, met the public benefit requirement by holding a variety of events which are open to the general public and which seek, in accordance with their vision, to transform lives and thus enable people to live as responsible citizens in their community. 

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## **Objectives and Activities** 

The Big Story Trust is a Kent based charity aiming to uses the creative arts to proclaim the Good News, equip Christians through training and provide them with resources to tell the Big Story of God. 

Its objective is to advance the Christian Faith by communicating the Good News through evangelism and the teaching and training of Christian disciples. 

## **Vision** 

Our Vision is to transform lives by communicating the truth of Christianity. 

## **Mission** 

To have an impact in every region of the UK, locally and nationally 

- by presenting the truth of Christianity in a way that  enables  people  to  make  an informed decision about Jesus Christ. 

- by teaching and training Christians to do the same 

- by developing resources to support the above 

The Big Story Trust has done this through: 

- Proclamation – communicating Christianity using the creative arts 

- Training – equipping Christians to communicate Christianity and Disciple others 

- Producing resources for evangelism and discipleship 

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## **Achievement and Performance** 

During the year a number of achievements and successes can be recorded. Due to the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, the main focus of our work has been online evangelism and the development of the brand ‘Life at the Vicarage’. This ‘fallow’ time has also been spent in the development of new outreach shows; namely ‘The Cube’ which is aimed at under 18’s and them exploring their uniqueness as individuals and ‘Blind Faith’ which is aimed at young adults and above exploring key questions of faith. We look forward to the time when social distancing is over and we can undertake ‘in person’ programs again. 

## **Plans for the future** 

We have now received the anticipated legacy for which the charity is deeply grateful for. This will be used to further our work including the employment of a person to develop further online resources. 

## **Financial Review** 

Due to COVID 19 and the inability to engage physically, the charity did not seek any income during this financial year. 

## **Policy on reserves** 

Due to the small size of the charity and the fact that it does not own any assets or buildings and has no employed staff, the trustees have concluded that it does not need to hold any reserves however this policy will be continually be reviewed as and when the charity grows. 

## **Deficits** 

The charity does not have any deficits at the time of reporting. 

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## **Statement of Accounts** 

||<br>**Charity Name**|<br>**Charity Name**|<br>**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||<br>|||||
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**|Period start date|**To**|Period end date||
|||1.1.21||31.12.21||
|||||||
|**Section A Receipts and**|**payments**|||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||
|Donations|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**75,000**|
|Grants|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Gift Aid|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Other|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**75,000**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**75,000**|
|||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||
|Printed Material|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Resources for Mission|**7,161**|**-**|**-**|**7,161**|**7,273**|
|Bank Charges|**35**|**-**|**-**|**35**|**27**|
|Awards for All Project|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Consultancy Fees|**4,500**|**-**|**-**|**4,500**|**75**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**11,696**|**-**|**-**|**11,696**|**7,375**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||
|**_Total payments_**|**11,696**|**-**|**-**|**11,696**|**7,375**|
|||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-                11,696**|**-**|<br>**-**|<br>**-                11,696**|**67,625**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**67,625**|**-**|**-**|**67,625**|**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**55,929**|**-**|<br>**-**|**55,929**|**67,625**|
|||||||
|||||||
|**Section B Statement of a**|**ssets and lia**|**bilities at the e**|**nd of the period**|||
|**Categories**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Current Account||**55,929**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**_Total cash funds_**|**55,929**|**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receip|ts and payments account(s))|OK|OK|OK|
||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|
|||||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Sign|ature|Print|Name|Date of approval|
||||Revd Sue V|allente-Kerr|13-Nov-22|
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## Declaration 

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report and annual accounts above. 

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees: 


Rev’d Sue Vallente-Kerr 13[th] November 2022 

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