## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 January 2019 Period start date To 31 December 2020 Period end date** **Charity name: Newbury Christadelphian Ecclesia** **Charity registration number: 1168280** ## **Objectives and Activities** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance Bible-based Christian faith to the
glory of God and the honour of Jesus Christ
in accordance with the Christadelphian
Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith
(Section 3) for the benefit of members of the
public and the worldwide Christadelphian
community particularly in and around
Newbury| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and 1.19|Weekly services and meetings.
Weekly Sunday School.
Supported West Berks Food Bank
Engaged in activities with West Berkshire
Mencap and Newbury Soup Kitchen.
Raised funds for a wide variety of appeals
and charitable organisations.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|Yes all trustees have reviewed the guidance
issued by the Charity Commission with
respect to public benefit| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference No policy Para 1.38 Policy on grant making |||| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Provide a creche for new born babies and up
to 4 year olds.
Public talks were restricted by Covid
Limitations during the latter part of the
period.
50no mid week Bible Class study evenings.
Spring Fayre with West Berks Mencap
Raised fund for various local/national
charities and good causes within the
Christadelphian community nationally and
internationally – Christadelphian Meal a Day,
Christadelphian Car Homes, Christadelphian
Samaritan Fund, Agape in Action, Disaster
Emergency Committee.
COG charity providing sleeping bags for
local homeless people via local organisations
Responded to specific and emergency
appeals.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set |||| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|No policy| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|The charity has £163588 total cash funds at
the end of the year.
Expenditure was £21292
Funds were £31512.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Additionally we will hold in reserve monies
saved for expenditure on specific capital
projects| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|15% of budgeted operating costs will be held
in reserve as a general contingency.| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|NA| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|None| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Voluntary donations via weekly collections
and standing orders| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |||| |---|---|---| |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution (adopted 9 Sept 15)| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|All trustees are elected either to the roles of
secretary, assistant secretary or as part of an
arranging committee group by members of
the church. These roles are by our
constitution trustees| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** ||| |---|---| |Charity name|Newbury Christadelphian Ecclesia| |Other name the charity uses|Newbury Christadelphian Church| |Registered charity number|| |Charity’s principal address|| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |1|Chris Edwards|Secretary||Church Members| |2|Matthew
Swain|Assistant
Secretary||Church Members| |3|Rodger Yuille|Arranging
Committee
member||Church Members| |4|Ben Cox|Arranging
Committee
member and
Finance
administrator||Church Members| |5||||| |6||||| |7||||| |8||||| |9||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** Treasurer Ben Cox 29 Groveland Road, Newbury, Berks RG14 1ST **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## D **eclarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signature(s) [Chris Edwards ] Matt Swain
Full name(s) [Christopher Paul Edwards ] Ben Cox
Position (eg Secretary Treasurer/Admin Team
Secretary, Chair, etc) member
Date 23/10/21
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**Charity Name Newbury Christadelphian Ecclesia** **No (if any) 1168280 CC16a** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2020 31/12/2020 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Donations|**15,453.31**||**9,257**||**-**||**24,710**||**24,632**| |Tax reclaimed from Gift Aid|**3,231.54**||**2,201**||**-**||**5,432**||**5,532**| |Interest on deposit account|**28.37**||**-**||**-**||**28**||**53**| |Sales of mags,diaries and hymnbooks|**58.00**||**-**||**-**||**58**||**165**| |Sports equipment fundraising|**-**||**1,284**||**-**||**1,284**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**18,771**||**12,741**||**-**||**31,512**||**30,383**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**30,383**| ||||||||||| |
Repairs and maintenance|**1,029.45**||**-**||**-**||**1,029**||**8,279**| |Electricityandgas|**947.70**||**-**||**-**||**948**||**1,163**| |Water and sewage|**134.21**||**-**||**-**||**134**||**234**| |Insurance|**961.86**||**-**||**-**||**962**||**913**| |Telephone and internet|**418.45**||**-**||**-**||**418**||**406**| |Admin|**1,170.00**||**-**||**-**||**1,170**||**67**| |Donationspaid|**2,247.00**||**11,603**||**-**||**13,850**||**15,324**| |General housekeeping|**1,280.20**||**-**||**-**||**1,280**||**2,725**| |Outreach activities|**1,251.73**||**249**||**-**||**1,501**||**4,319**| |**_Sub total_ **|**9,441**||**11,852**||**-**||**21,292**||**33,431**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**33,431**| ||||||||||| ||**9,331**||||||||**- 3,048**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**3,905**||||||||**9,186**| ||**13,235**||||||||**6,138**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
Newbury Building Society Deposit A/C
Lloyds Bank Current A/C
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**7,171**
**6,064**
**-**
**13,235**
OK|20/10/2021
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**3,123**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,123**
**-**
OK
OK|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**|**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**
**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||Signature
SIGN||Print Name
Ben Cox
Chris Edwards||||| ||||||||Date of approval| ||||Ben Cox||||20/10/2021| ||SIGN||Chris Edwards||||20/10/21| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 20/10/2021 2 Newbury Christadelphian Ecclesia Independent Financial Examination I have examined the account5 showing the financial position and income and expenditure of Nlewbury Christ3dÈ'ohian Ecclesia for the year ended 31, December 2020 and thi3 has been agreed he fiyary-ial record¢ I confirm these are correct presented and in order. Stephen B. Robinson 17 October 2021