## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 01/05/2024    Period start date   To  30/04/2025     Period end date** 

## **Charity name: BETHAL PARADISE CHURCH** 

## **Charity registration number:1167558** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the CIO is for the benefit of the<br>public: to advance the Christian faith in<br>accordance with the statement of beliefs in<br>such ways the trustees, from time to time<br>think fit|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|Evangelism throughout Hackney and to hold<br>conference calls|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees follow the guidance provided by<br>the charity commission on the public benefit<br>when making decisions and carrying out their<br>duties|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|
|Policy on social investment|Para 1.38|
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|investment||
|Contribution made by|Para 1.38|
|volunteers||





Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Charity to St Joseph’s Hospice and Great<br>Ormond Street Hospital Charity and also we<br>do charity to the elderly people in the church<br>and the sick. We also do donations to some<br>people in Ghana, who are in need of help.|



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|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41|**It was good**|
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
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Other 

## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of theperiod|Para 1.21|**13121-income**<br>**Offering**|
|Statement  explaining  the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|Reserves are held for when things need to<br>be replaced, or people need to be helped in<br>the church.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|0|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|-Because we spent a lot of income rather<br>than the moneyweget|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|-|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|-|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

Description of charity’s trusts: 



|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO – Foundation registered 08 Jun 2016|
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|How is the charity<br>constituted?(e.g<br>unincorporated<br>association,CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable incorporated organisation|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled to<br>appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by Rev Dorcas Owusu|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
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## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|Bethal Paradise church|
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|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|1167558|
|Charity’s principal address|11 April Court,<br>Teale street,<br>London,<br>E2 9AA|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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|Rev Dorcas Owusu||||
|Ms Comfort Osei||||
|<br>Mr Dickson<br>Yaw Appiah||||
|Ms Margaret<br>Adarkwah Ofori||||
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

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Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

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**Dates acted if not for whole year** 

## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

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|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|-|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and segregation<br>of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|-|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 



## **Other optional information** 

## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** DORCAS OWUSU **Full name(s)** Rev Dorcas Owusu **Position (eg Secretary,** Head **Chair, e** 

**Date** 21/02/26 

