## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **To 31[st] October 2023 Period start date 1[st] November 2022 Period end date** ## **Charity name:ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH** ## **Charity registration number:1169728** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The principle object of the Charity is the**
**advancement of the Christian faith in**
**accordance with the Statement of Faith**
**and Practice of the Independent**
**Methodist Connexion. The Charity may**
**also carry out other charitable purposes**
**in the uk and/or other parts of the world.**| |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|**The focus of our activities are: Worship,**
**Prayer and Bible studies held every**
**week at the Church premises and virtual**
**meetings of the congregation online.**
**Weekly children’s groups, involving**
**activities, music, bible stories and art**
**and craft work. We welcome all young**
**people regardless of personal**
**background, gender or personal**
**circumstances**
**Summer Activity Mornings were held**
**and were well received and attended by**
**the community. We are holding**
**seasonal events, coffee mornings for**
**adults and evening quizzes and meals**
**with speakers at various times over the**
**year.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**
**The Trustees met 3 times during the**
**year in person.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 |Policy on grant making||**The Charity does not currently make any**
**grants.**| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Any surplus funds, which are not likely**
**to be needed to pay for our day to day**
**activities and maintenance costs are**
**placed on deposit to earn interest.**
**These funds are available to further**
**expand our outreach into the local**
**community and beyond.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**A great contribution is made by our**
**volunteers, without whom we would not**
**be able to hold our weekly activities.**
**This year, again they have spent many**
**hours keeping in touch, not only with**
**our member but in the wider community**
**via social media, zoom, speaker boxes**
**and posting out information.**| |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|**We reviewed our risk assessments and**
**policies in line with government**
**guidance on Covid 19. We make**
**available hand sanitiser and paper**
**towels. We continue to sanitise and**
**clean down equipment used by he**
**various groups. Our toddler groups**
**continue to thrive with 45 children and**
**carers attending weekly. In the summer**
**we held 3 activity mornings, which were**
**very well attended, with 120 children**
**participating in the sessions. We hold**
**monthly Messy Church sessions, which**
**approx. 20 children attend regularly.**
**We hold monthly Café~ Church**
**services one Sunday monthly, which is**
**all age and provides an opportunity for**
**all to worship together in a more relaxed**
**atmosphere. These services are very**
**well received and have proved very**
**popular.**
**The Whatsapp group continues to**
**support and inform and the zoom**
**evening services, with speakers**
**continue..**
**The uniformed groups of Guides,**
**Brownies and Rainbows bring a new**
**group of youngsters into our building,**
**developing our links with the wider**
**community.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Because our membership is elderly we**
**are at times struggling to attract**
**volunteers to help with events, but the**
**Leadership is hopeful encouraging new**
**people**
**Donations to other Charitable**
**organisations during the year totalled**
**£2570**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Fundraising has been improving over**
**the year, as more events are held on a**
**regular basis.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**In January 2023 £32061 was transferred**
**from the Investment account to the**
**current account to cover expected**
**expenses. At the end of the period funds**
**increased by £4994**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Any surplus funds, which are not**
**needed to pay for our day to day**
**activities and maintenance costs are**
**placed on deposit to earn interest.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£50040**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |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|**We hold sales and coffee mornings**
**during the year. We hire out our Church**
**Hall to gain extra income.**
**Our main income for this period has**
**been freewill offerings by the**
**congregation and donations from the**
**community**| |---|---|---| |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 agreed 20th march 2016**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Governing Document approved by**
**Church Members meeting.**
**6 Church members meetings were held**
**during the period.**| |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|**Trustees are appointed by the Annual**
**General Meeting held in January each**
**year, by approval of Church Members.**
**All Trustees are holding Trustees of the**
**Church building in accordance with the**
**Trust Deed.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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 Independent Methodist Connexion**
**provides professional training to all**
**Trustees. Webinar training was**
**undertaken by 2 trustees**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Church is a member of the**
**Independent Methodist Connexion.**
**The Church is a member of the Baptist**
**Union of Great Britain.**
**The church is member of the**
**Evangelical Alliance.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**See above**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|ROMAN RD IM CHURCH| |Registered charity number|1169728| |Charity’s principal address|38 Hedges Street
FAILSWORTH
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||PHILIP DAVIES|CHAIR -TRUSTEES||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||LILA ADAMS|||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||PAUL LAMBERT|MINISTER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||DOROTHY
KENDRICK|ELDER – MINISTER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||JEAN TAVENER|MINISTER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||DEREK BARRON|MINISTER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||CHRISTINE BELL|LEADER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||ELIZABETH
BARRON|CHURCH
SECRETARY||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||ALEC BELL|||CURCH MEMBERS| ||ALISON TIPPING|LEADER/
TREASURER||CHURCH MEMBERS| ||VALERIE
COCKCROFT|TREASURER||CHURCH MEBERS| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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**|| |---|---|---| |**ALL TRUSTEES ARE**||| |**HOLDING TRUSTEES OF**||| |**THE CHURCH BUILDING**||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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**||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **NONE** ## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||PHILIP R DAVIES|VALERIE A COCKCROFT| ||
CHAIR TRUSTEES|SECR| |||| |||| ||**ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH**|**ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH**|**ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH**|**No (if any)**
**1169728**|**No (if any)**
**1169728**|**No (if any)**
**1169728**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/11/2022|**To**||Period end date
31/10/2023||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**15,153**
**6,568**
**2,425**
**5,551**
**7,421**
**41**
**-**
**-**
**37,159**
**82,061**
**-**
**82,061**
**119,220**
**2,177**
**846**
**17,068**
**2,704**
**930**
**1,689**
**2,570**
**1,690**
**2,450**
**32,124**
**50,000**
**-**
**50,000**
**82,124**
**37,096**
**-**
**-**
**37,096**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**15,153**
**6,568**
**2,425**
**5,551**
**7,421**
**41**
**-**
**-**
**37,159**
**82,061**
**-**
**82,061**
**119,220**
**2,177**
**846**
**17,068**
**2,704**
**930**
**1,689**
**2,570**
**1,690**
**2,450**
**32,124**
**50,000**
**-**
**50,000**
**82,124**
**37,096**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |VOLUNTARY RECEIPTS|**15,153**||||||**14,660**| |HIRE OF HALL|**6,568**||||||**5,687**| |FUNDRAISING EVENTS|**2,425**||||||**1,007**| |DONATIONS|**5,551**||||||**5,130**| |OTHER RECEIPTS|**7,421**||||||**5,208**| |SHAWBROOK BANK INTEREST|**41**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**37,159**||||||**31,692**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| |**SHAWBROOK BANK**|**82,061**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**82,061**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**31,692**| ||||||||| |WAGES/NI/TAX|**2,177**||||||**10,822**| |COST OF FUNDRAISING|**846**||||||**307**| |MAINTENANCE|**17,068**||||||**13,395**| |UTILITIES|**2,704**||||||**2,045**| |TELEPHONE/BROADBAND|**930**||||||**.**| |MEMBERSHIP|**1,689**||||||**1,504**| |DONATIONS|**2,570**||||||**2,210**| |INSURANCE|**1,690**||||||**1,610**| |SUNDRIES|**2,450**||||||**3,586**| |**_Sub total_ **|**32,124**||||||**35,479**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| |**SHAWBROOK BANK**|**50,000**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**50,000**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**35,479**| ||||||||| ||**37,096**|**-**|**-**||**37,096**||**- 3,787**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**37,096**|**-**|**-**||**37,096**||**- 3,787**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 16/02/2024 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
CO-OPERATIVE BANK
SHAWBROOK BANK
**Details**
**Details**
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**62,256**
**-**
**50,041**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**112,297**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**25,201**| ||||**82,051**| ||||**-**| ||||**107,252**| ||||Agreement Error| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 16/02/2024 2 ROMAN ROAD INDEPENDENT m￿ll0D1￿ CHURCH FAIISWORTH FINANCIAL STATEMENfs YEAR ENDED 31 ocfoBER 2023 FINANCIAL ￿ATEMENT I have prepared the financial statements for the year ended 31 Ottober 2023 Signed By Treasurer Date: 10 January 2024 Name of Treasurer: Valerie A Cockcroft INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT I report on the financial statements of Roman Road Independent Methodist Church Failsworth forthe year ended 31 October 2023. Respertive responsibiltties The church is responsible forthe preparation of the financial statements, and considers that the audit requirement of Settion 4312) of the CharitiesAct 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibilityto state. on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under Section 4317}{bl of the Act. whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of Independent Examinerfs report My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Dirertions of the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the church and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the financial statements. and seeking explanations concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the financial statements. Independent Examinerfs statement In connection with my examination of the church funds. nothing came to my attention which gave me cause to believe otherwise than that the financial statements accord with the accounting records of the church. and that those records satisfied the requirements of the Att. l am not aware of any matter to which attention should be drawn in arderto enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached. Signed bythe Independent Examiner: Date: 10 January 2024 Name of the Independent Examiner: Judith Haughton B.E.M.