2024-03-31-accounts - Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

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Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Charity number 1168120

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the year ended 31 March 2024

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024

Contents	Page
Trustees' report	2 to 4
Examiner's report	5
Receipts and payments account	6
Statement of assets and liabilities	7
Notes to the accounts	8 to 9

Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024

Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors

The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: Name Position Dates

Jovita Patinglag Lailanie Ringor Harold Rasalan Danilo Alimba Gemma Tacderas Jingle Ortiz

Trustee Trustee Trustee Chair Treasurer Secretary

Appointed 24 November 2024 Appointed 24 November 2024 Appointed 24 November 2024 Resigned 24 November 2024 Resigned 24 November 2024 Resigned 24 November 2024

Charity number

1168120

Registered in England and Wales

Registered and principal address

Bankers

49 The Rein HSBC Bank Plc Seacroft PO Box 105 Leeds 33 Park Row LS14 1LA Leeds LS1 1LD

Independent examiner

Sarah Coates MAAT

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Structure, governance and management

The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) formed on 7 July 2016 and is governed by a constitution.

Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees

The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024

Objectives and activities

The charity's objects

1) To advance the Christian religion in England and Wales, mainly Yorkshire and the Humber, particularly the Metropolitan District of Leeds.

2) To advance the education of the public in the Christian religion.

3) The advancement of the Christian religion mainly, but not exclusively, by means of broadcasting the Christian religion messages of an evangelistic and teaching nature.

4) To advance the Christian religion for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures, public celebration of religious festivals, producing end or distributing literature on the Christian religion to enlighten others about Christian religion.

5) The prevention or relief of poverty by providing items and services to individuals in need.

The charity's main activities

Regular Sunday Services.
Sunday school conducted for children.
Weekday prayer meetings and quarterly corporate prayer meetings.
Marriage and parenting counselling.
Weekday Bible study group for families, working adults, young adults and youth.
Leadership training - virtually via Zoom, leadership retreat.
Community activities – Meet and greet events for UK newcomers
Summer Camp.
Easter Camp - HOPE Fest
Marriage Course
Family beach day outings – including but not limited to baptisms

Public benefit statement

In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.

Achievements and performance

Able to reach out nationally and internationally via our Sunday virtual service and mid-week Bible study
Continued charity usual activities as mentioned above – virtually and in person
1 new church plant in Malton
13 new baptisms since January 2023 - 6 in Leeds and 7 in Malton
Basketball outreach - 9 events to date
Birthed 6 new bible study groups

Financial review

The net receipts for the year were £3,633, including net expenditure of £10,566 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £14,199 on restricted funds after transfers.

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024

Reserves policy

The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £118,366.

The purposes of the church reserves are:

1) for the future purchase of church building if the church building fund is not sufficient.
2) for future staff employment
3) for church expenditure if the regular donations are not sufficient to cover it.

To achieve the above, the maximum amount of the reserves should be £99,000.00 and the minimum amount of reserves should be £12,000.

The Trustees are aware that the Church has excess free reserves for the year 2023-2024. The excess will be used for the following:

To purchase a building for the church.
To increase the number of missions

Approved by the board of trustees on 15/01/2025

Jovita Patinglag (Trustee)

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Hope Leeds Community

Church CIO

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').

I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Sarah Coates MAAT

15/01/2025

West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO

Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024

Notes 2024 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Offerings and tithes 58,701 Campers payments 7,227 Building fund pledges 100 Donations and love gifts 1,910 Gift aid 25,179 Total receipts 93,117 Payments Salaries 900 Rent 4,881 Leadership conference and training 791 Church supplies 2,871 Church equipment 1,054 Transport 58,441 Events and activities 6,985 Insurance 224 Independent examination 720 Miscellaneous 578 Mission support / Hope church worldwide 15,798 Love offering 2,150 Benevolent fund 300 Campers payment 7,990 Total payments 103,683 (10,566) Fund balances brought forward 128,932 Fund balances carried forward (2) 118,366 Net receipts / (payments)	2024 Restricted funds £ - - 14,272 - - 14,272 - - - - - - - - - 73 - - - - 73 14,199 61,827 76,026	2024 Total funds £ 58,701 7,227 14,372 1,910 25,179 107,389 900 4,881 791 2,871 1,054 58,441 6,985 224 720 651 15,798 2,150 300 7,990 103,756 3,633 190,759 194,392	2023 Total funds £ 65,521 3,790 8,027 2,340 - 79,678 1,400 6,893 - 3,053 4,765 1,100 7,440 234 420 1,080 11,393 1,600 300 2,643 42,321 37,357 153,403 190,759

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO Statement of assets and liabilities

as at 31 March 2024 2024 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 118,366 Total cash funds 118,366 0 Debtors and prepayments Debtors Gift aid Other debtors Prepayments Assets retained for the charity's own use Musical equipment Kitchen equipment 2 x Laptops Various other equipment Van Liabilities Creditors Accruals	2024 Restricted £ 76,026 76,026	2024 Total £ 194,392 194,392 0 2024 £ 13,785 770 952 15,507 2024 £ 23 1,764 1,787	2023 Total £ 190,759 190,759 0

The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 15/01/2025

Jovita Patinglag (Trustee)

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Notes to the accounts

for the year ended 31 March 2024

1 Accounting policies

Basis of accounting

The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.

There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.

No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.

Taxation

As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.

Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.

Salaries

Payroll is administered by Hope Leeds Community Church who is registered as the employer for two staff, with an agreed part of the costs being met by the central Church.

Only the contribution paid by Hope Leeds Community Church is recognised in the Receipts and payment account.

Hope Leeds Community Church CIO

Notes to the accounts continued

for the year ended 31 March 2024

2 Restricted funds Building fund Fund name Building fund	Balance b/f Incoming Outgoing £ £ £ 61,827 14,272 73 61,827 14,272 73 Purpose of restriction To fund the purchase of a property.	Transfers £ - -	Balance c/f £ 76,026 76,026

3 Related party transactions

Donations from trustees and related parties

The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £9,425 (2023: £11,175).

Trustee expenses

No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.

Trustee remuneration and benefits

No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.