THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD
AGAPE CENTRE HAVANT
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RCCG AGAPE CENTRE HAVANT TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MAY 2025
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THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD
AGAPE CENTRE HAVANT
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| Corporate Information | 3 |
| Board of Trustee’s Report | 4 |
| Receipts & Payments Account | 9 |
| Statement of Assets & Liabilities | 10 |
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Corporate Information
| Registered Charity Number: | 1167951 |
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| Principal Office: | St Faith’s Church House, |
| The Pallant, | |
| Havant | |
| PO9 3TU | |
| Board of Trustees: | Mrs Akosua Fraikue |
| Mr Ademola Adenugba | |
| Mr Carl Kofi Tsikata | |
| Mr Temitayo Oloruntuyi | |
| Bankers: | HSBC |
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Board of Trustee’s Report
1.0 Introduction
The Board of Trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31st May 2025.
1.1 Public Benefit Statement
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charites Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit "Charites and Public Benefit".
1.2 Structure, Governance and Management
1.2.1 Governing Document
The charity is constituted as a “Trust” and Governed by ‘Trust Deed’ dated 24th May 2015.
1.2.2 Trustee Appointments
Trustees are appointed under the terms of the trust deed.
1.2.3 Organisational Structure
The spiritual aspect of the church is handled by the Parish Pastor and the day-to-day running of the charity is overseen by the Trustees and Board of Ministers, who meet regularly to review the operations of the church and also make decisions on major issues affecting the church.
1.2.4 Related Party Relationship
The charity is a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), a global church with parishes in over 190 countries. The relationship is governed by an “Agreement for Common Purposes” between the parish and RCCG. The referenced “Agreement for Common Purposes” document is constantly monitored and recommended for updates, to take cognisance of unfolding events (policies, regulations) in the United Kingdom.
1.2.5 Risk Management
The trustee board performs its duty of safeguarding the charity against major risk. The board regularly reviews the charity’s governance structures, policies, procedures and practices. It recommends strategic and operational options and implements adequate prudent controls and preventative action to safeguard the assets of the charity, as well as its reputation.
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2.0 Objectives and Global Outreach
2.1 Objectives and Activities
The objectives of the charity are categorised under the following five themes:
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To teach the sound word of God, leading to result oriented prayers
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To further the advancement of Christian faith and educating members of the community as necessary.
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• To organise children and youth activities, to promote unity in the course of developing deeper spiritual growth.
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To provide hospitality to visiting ministers of Gospel.
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To work in cooperation with other Christian organisations and support events to enable achievement of Christian aims and objectives.
2.2 Achievement and Performance
At Agape Centre, we have always engaged, and we continue to engage, in teaching the word of God in the Bible during all our meetings on every Sunday mornings, Tuesday evenings and Thursday evenings. Like many organisations, many of our activities which were affected by the Coronavirus Pandemic in year 202021, the functioning of the charity has now largely returned back to normality. Also, our income (donations) and our ability to collect donations from members or attendees to our services has been improving since Covid-19 situation in the society has improved.
We have restarted our Tuesday evening prayer meetings, and we are continuing our first Thursdays of every month Holy Communion evening service where we share the Lord’s Supper. On the last Sundays of every month, we are holding House Fellowship online via zoom. We sometimes meet in various member’s home, enabling a deeper study of the word of God within the home setting. We also hold such meetings virtually depending on what suits our members in the various house fellowship cells. We engage in Bible study on zoom every Thursdays of the month.
On every Sundays, we engaged in Sunday school. This is not just for children but also for adults where we engage in teaching, discussion, and enlightenment of members in the fundamental aspects of our Christian faith. During these sessions, as in Bible Study as well, members were able to bring questions and seek answers to their questions as they deepen their understanding and knowledge of the Christian faith.
The main service held on every Sunday includes periods of praising and worshipping God, session of prayer for the peace and prosperity of our nations (United Kingdom and other countries of the world), community, families, and individuals. We believe our prayers is helping people to know more about God; to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life and this has been a source of comfort, strength and stability to many families and individuals in our church and community.
During our Sunday meetings, depending on attendance, we held short teachings and fun activity sessions for young children and teenagers among us promoting their understanding and growth in the Christian faith while
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also engaging them in general learning and stimulating activities. These sessions may include video presentations, Christian films and gaming activities, art and craft activities, storytelling and role-playing, etc. Within this year, we have started similar age-appropriate meetings for teenagers (called Emerging Leader’s Church), which is a separate meeting every Sunday except first Sunday of the month and special event Sundays. We believe these meetings should develop in our children, teenagers and young adults, a good foundation for being able to learn the basic principles of life, developing them in good moral behaviour and ability to correctly engage and contribute positively to society, now and in the future.
On Good Friday, March 2025, we engaged children in the community together with members’ children in art and craft activities at the Meridian Shopping Centre in Havant. This was preceded by a children’s activity session, which we hosted in August 2024, involving local community children and parent participating in various activities including games, singing, and dancing, dance competition, playing on the bouncy castle, face painting, etc while also introducing parents to the Christian faith.
We continue to be a part of Havant and Bedhampton Churches Together (HBCT) group. We engage and actively participate in the activities of this local Churches Together (in England) group. In January 2025, we organised and hosted one day of the weeklong “Prayer for Unity” or “Week of Prayer” programme of the Churches Together in England. We provided light refreshments at the end of the meeting which was very well attended.
Furthermore, as part of our agreement of common purpose with the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Central Office UK, we have continued to contribute to World Evangelical Mission, and Central Office Fund. Also, we make a small regular donation towards a RCCG mission activity called Habitation of Hope. Habitation of Hope is a charity that take care of street kids between the ages of 7-17 years in Africa.
Through the national UK charity organisation known as “Compassion UK”, we have continued to support the spiritual and educational development of a child in Nepal, who would not have otherwise had any opportunity to access good secular or Christian religious education. We regularly receive update about the development and growth of this child, and we sometimes send gift and items to him during his birthdays and at festive periods.
Since March 2020, when the Coronavirus restrictions and remote working/connectivity capabilities became popular, we have been able to take advantage of that to develop our capability to connect and conduct our services with members and the public, online. Currently our Tuesday and Thursday meetings are being held virtually while our Sunday services are hybrid services (i.e. combination of virtual and in person meetings). We are maintaining an online presence via zoom, Facebook and YouTube. Our presence in the online spaces has resulted in many more members of the public knowing more and having access to our services online as and when they wish.
At the beginning of year 2023, we commenced virtual early morning prayer meetings starting at 6am for only
30 mins, Monday to Friday, to deepen members’ prayer life and spiritual development. We also hold night time
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prayers online every Friday night except the first Friday of the Month. Many has found this very refreshing starting their day in God’s presence and setting a positive productive tone for the rest of the days.
Moreover, in January 2025, we saw the need to raise the awareness of members to the importance of living a healthy more productive lifestyle, taking control of one’s own health and wellbeing and reducing demand on the NHS, we organised an event called “Focus on Health” where health professionals among us including doctors, nurses, health care support workers, pharmacists, etc voluntarily came together to educate people on health matter at that event. The event was well attended, and the volunteer health professionals used appropriate equipment like blood pressure monitor, blood-sugar monitors, etc to check willing attendees’ basic health parameters and signpost them accordingly to relevant primary or secondary health agencies to assist them further where relevant. Those not needing further follow-up were educated on how to continue to maintain healthy living and well-being.
In February 2025, we also focused our teachings on how people can maintain healthy fruitful relationships within their family, among their colleagues at work or with their employers/employees, with governments and with other people in general. We believe that if good relationships can be maintained in the smallest units of society (i.e. family), the society, at large, would be better for it. The interactive nature of this event, whereby questions were able to be asked anonymously, and answers based on sound Biblical principles and concepts were provided has evidently helped and helping families within our membership.
As part of Mothering Sunday celebration, in March 2025, our women’s group held a breakfast meeting where full English breakfast was served while women discussed pertinent issues germane to the health and wellbeing and empowerment of women. This event held on a Saturday morning was very well attended, and women are looking forward to making this at least an annual meeting to empower women.
All our events and activities are organised free of charge to everyone including member of the public. We are wholly financed through voluntary donations made by church members in form of tithe and offerings.
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Trustees’ Responsibilities
The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the net income or expenditure of the charity for the year. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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Prepare the financial statements on the going-concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements 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 appended financial statements have been prepared on the receipts and payments basis.
This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on 12 March 2026 and signed on their behalf by:
Full Name: Ademola Adenugba Signature: Position: Trustee Date: 12 March 2026
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Receipts and Payments Accounts: Year Ended 31st May 2025
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Charity Name No (if any)
RCCG Agape Centre Havant 1167951
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
Period start date Period end date
For the period from To
01 June 2024 31 May 2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Restricted Endowment
Unrestricted funds Total funds Last year
funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Voluntary donations 84,699 - - 84,699 52,092
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Sub total (Gross income for AR) 84,699 - - 84,699 52,092
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Total receipts 84,699 - - 84,699 52,092
A3 Payments
Hall hire 6,530 - - 6,530 7,678
Welfare 2,800 - - 2,800 3,593
Training & development - - -
Mission support 3,711 - - 3,711 2,798
RCCG Central Office 11,609 - - 11,609 13,026
Subscriptions - - - 144
Worship & meeting costs 11,733 - - 11,733 11,659
Other costs 3,597 - - 3,597 6,614
Printing, Postage & Stationery 480 - - 480 422
Sub total 40,460 - - 40,460 45,934
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
Computer equipment - - -
Other fixed asset - - - 23,708
Sub total - - - - 23,708
Total payments 40,460 - - 40,460 69,642
Net of receipts/(payments) 44,239 - - 44,239 - 17,550
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 17,621 - - 17,621 35,171
Cash funds this year end 61,860 - - 61,860 17,621
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Statement of Assets & Liabilities: Year Ended 31st May 2025
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
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B1 Cash funds As at 31 May 2025 61,860 - -
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Total cash funds 61,860 - -
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval
Ademola Adenugba
Chairman of Trustees
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Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/members of: The Redeemed Christian Church of God Agape Centre Havant
On accounts for the year ended: 31st May 2025 Charity No: 1167951
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
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to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act), and
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s statement
My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner’s statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
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(1) which give me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act;
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or
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(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date: 12 March 2026
Name: Tobi Labeodan, for and on behalf Chedders Ltd
Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): ACCA
Address: Synium House, Ground Floor, Shallowford Court, Henley in Arden B95 5FY