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Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Grace Baptist Women’s Association
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1168383
**Charity's principal address** c/o Joanne Coleman 17 Hillyfields Dunstable, Bedfordshire **Postcode LU63NS**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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||BeverleyKeble|||The GBWA Council|
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||Lena King|Conference secretary|||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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||**Section B**|**Structure,**||**governance and management**||
|**Description of the charity’s trusts**||||||
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||Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)||Each trustee is appointed by the GBWA council with recommendation
from their local church leadership.|||
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**Section C Objectives and activities**
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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its governing**
**document**
**Summary of the main activities**
**undertaken for the public**
**benefit in relation to these**
**objects (include within this**
**section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit)**|The advancement of the christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal
basis primarily (but not exclusively) by training, equipping and supporting
women involved in Grace Baptist Churches.|
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||The main focus of the GBWA is an annual conference during which
women receive bible teaching, relaxation and opportunities for friendship.
A magazine is produced twice a year providing a platform for women to
share stories and testimonies for mutual encouragement.
We have a website and facebook page to keep women informed of
upcoming events, and again provide opportunities for teaching and
sharing encouragements.
A friendship Link enables women who might be lonely, to receive written
correspondence from a fellow christian woman (like a pen-pal)
A Need Fund provides financial help to women who might otherwise
struggle to afford to attend the conference, and seeks to meet other
financial needs on an individual basis.
The GBWA also seeks to support a nominated charity each year, either in
the UK or abroad, whose aims are in line with ours.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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All of our work is undertaken by volunteers. We have no paid (by GBWA) workers.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
The committee continues to meet twice a year. We continue to **Summary of the main** encourage opportunities for teaching and fellowship within each of the **achievements of the charity** districts represented by GBWA. A number of conferences took place **during the year** throughout 2022/2023 which were very well received. A weekend conference is planned for September 2024 at High Leigh Conference Centre. The speaker is yet to be finalised and a number of seminars and workshops will also be planned. The Need Fund has been wound down, with a final donation going to support a refugee seeking to rescue her sons from a war-torn country. It was decided that the Need Fund was no longer viable and the account has been closed. The Sharing magazine continues to be well received and contains good representation from women in all walks of life. We have finished supporting Noor Ministries as our designated charity. We have now chosen to support the work of Tamer, a charity based in London supporting women involved in trafficking. Heidi Mistry has resigned from the GBWA council. Sandra Piggott will continue to represent her area.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Joanne Ruth Coleman **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)**
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Date
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