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**DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH CHARITY NUMBE: 1169983 | THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.   PSALM 119:105** 

## **CONTACT** 

96D South End Croydon. CR0 1DQ devotionallightchurch@hotmail.com Tel: 07552152566 

## **Trustee Annual Report for the period 01/03/2022 to 28/02/2023** 

**DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH                                                       Charity number: 1169983** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

Devotional Light Church is a charity enabling many people as possible to worship at our church and become part of the church. Our service and worship put faith into practice through prayer and scripture, music and sacrament. 

We try to enable ordinary people to live out their faith as part of our church community through: Worship and prayer; learning about the gospel and developing their knowledge and trust in Jesus. Provision of pastoral care for people living in the community. Missionary and outreach work. 

## **Achievement and performance** 

## Place of Worship 

Last year we were able to successful lease a building as a place of worship and this year we have been able to renovate and make it very suitable as a place of worship. 

## Worship and prayer 

Devotional Light Church is keen to offer a range of services during the week and over the course of the year that the community find both beneficial and spiritually fulfilling. For 



example, evening prayers provide a quiet, intimate and reflective environment for worship whilst opportunities are provided for people to engage in more outgoing worship. 

We have been successful this year in welcoming more families into our church. 

All are welcome to attend our regular services. At present there are 50 members. The average weekly attendance is 38 people in person and 9 people online. 

As well as regular service, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God at the milestones of the journey through life. Through baptism we thank God for the gift of life, in marriage public vows are exchange with God’s blessing and through funeral services friends and family express their grief and give thanks for the life which is now complete in this world and to commend the person into Gods keeping. 

Outreach and Evangelism 

Telling people about Christ Jesus demonstrates our faith. The church was able to change the outreach van to acquire a new one that complies with ULEZ. 

The Outreach and evangelism committee is to be congratulated on their fund- raising and soul winning effort to be out the whole day once every week and three hours twice a week telling people about Jesus. 

## **Financial Review** 

Total receipts on funds were £102,066 which increase by 24.2% 

## **Volunteers** 

We would like to thank all volunteers who work so hard to make our church the lively and vibrant community it is. 

## **Trustees** 

We will like to thank the following people who were trustees for this accounting period: 

Emmanuel Adjei (Chair) Madeline Lewis Denise Learmond 

Theodora Pavlou 

## **Approved by the Trustees committee on 27[th] October 2024** 



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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

## **Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**<br>**On accounts for the year**<br>**ended**<br>**Set out on pages**<br>**Responsibilities and**<br>**basis of report**|Charity Name<br>DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH|Charity Name<br>DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH|Charity Name<br>DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH|
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||29thFebruary 2024|**Charity no**<br>**(if any)**|1169983|
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||Of the Receipt and Payment Account<br>)|||
||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity<br>(“the Trust”) for the year ended 29/02/2024.<br>As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the<br>accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the<br>Act”).|||



I report in respect of my examination of the Charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- the accounting records were kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or 

- the accounts accord with the accounting records 

- the accounts comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008. 

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. 

|**Signed:**<br>**Name:**<br>**Relevant professional**<br>**qualification(s) or body**<br>**(if any):**<br>**Address:**<br> <br>|C. J-M|23rdOctober 2024|
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||Chioma John-Musa FFA FIPA||
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||Institute of Financial Accountant (IFA)||
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**Section B                           Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

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||**DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH**<br> <br>**Charity Name**|**DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH**<br> <br>**Charity Name**|**DEVOTIONAL LIGHT CHURCH**<br> <br>**Charity Name**|**1169983**<br>**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**|01/03/2023<br>Period start date||29/02/2024<br>Period end date||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Tithe|**36,461**|**-**|**-**|**36,461**|**37,400**|
|offering|**20,230**|**-**|**-**|**20,230**|**15,929**|
|Other|**11,406**|||**11,406**|**7,359**|
|Donation|**9,556**|**-**|**-**|**9,556**|**5,060**|
|Gift Aid|**19,413**|**-**|**-**|**19,413**|**16,437**|
|ULEZ Grant|**5,000**|**-**|**-**|**5,000**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**102,066**|**-**|**-**|**102,066**|**82,185**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||
|Loan|**15,600**|**-**|**-**|**15,600**||
|Van Sold|**4,400**|**-**|**-**|**4,400**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**20,000**|**-**|**-**|**20,000**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**||||||
||**122,066**|**-**|**-**|**122,066**|**82,185**|
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|Outreachs / Jesus The Answer|**6,217**|**-**|**-**|**6,217**|**-**|
|Independent Examination & Accountancy fees|**250**|**-**|**-**|**250**|**250**|
|chairs|**-**|||**-**|**2,450**|
|refrbursment|**5,050**|**-**|**-**|**5,050**|**7,508**|
|Donations|**3,000**|||**3,000**|**6,500**|
|workers appreciation|**1,800**|**-**|**-**|**1,800**|**1,400**|
|Mission trips|**1,200**|||**1,200**|**-**|
|General Expenses|**1,947**|||**1,947**|**1,800**|
|Insurance|**2,402**|||**2,402**|**2,302**|
|Legal and Professional Expenses|**-**|||**-**|**1,500**|
|Motor Vehicle Expenses|**2,800**|||**2,800**|**3,850**|
|Office supplies/Refreshments|**1,800**|||**1,800**|**1,300**|
|Retreat|**2,200**|||**2,200**|**-**|
|Printing & Stationery|**800**|||**800**|**350**|
|Rent|**26,808**|||**26,808**|**19,008**|
|Repairs & Maintenace|**2,700**|||**2,700**|**180**|
|Workers Training|**800**|||**800**|**1,000**|
|Utilities|**2,580**|||**2,580**|**1,342**|
|Travel & Subsistence|**1,000**|**-**|**-**|**1,000**|**3,000**|
|Uniforms<br>Wages|**850**|**-**||**850**|**450**|
||**21,600**||**-**|**21,600**|**15,600**|
|Instruments|**3600**|**-**|**-**|**3,600**|**-**|
|Other|**4,812**|**-**|**-**|**4,812**|**22,750**|
|Pensions|**1,512**|**-**|**-**|**1,512**|**1,091**|
|New van branding|**2,200**<br>**1,008**<br>**1,800**<br>**1,020**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**2,200**|**-**|
|Van Awening||||**1,008**|**-**|
|Chour & instrumentalies coach||||**1,800**|**-**|
|Loan Interest / Charges||||**1,020**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||
|||||**-**||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**101,756**|**-**|**-**|**101,756**|**93,631**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**|**-**|||**-**||
|van purchase|**8,300**|**-**|**-**|**8,300**||
|Loan repayment|**8,500**|**-**|**-**|**8,500**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**16,800**|**-**|**-**|**16,800**|**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||**118,556**|**-**|**-**|**118,556**|**93,631**|
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||**3,510**|**-**|<br>**-**|<br>**3,510**|**-              11,446**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**2,806**|**-**|**-**|**2,806**|**14,252**|
||**6,316**|**-**|<br>**-**|<br>**6,316**|**2,806**|



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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>Categories  Details   funds  funds  funds<br>to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £<br>B1 Cash funds  Barclays Bank Ac                        6,316                              -                              -<br> Nat west Bank Ac                              -                                -                              -<br> Fairfax Card                              -                                -                              -<br> Total cash funds                     6,316                          -                           -<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s)) OK OK OK<br>Unrestricted  Restricted  Endowment<br>funds  funds  funds<br>Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £<br>B2 Other monetary assets                             -                                -                              -<br>                            -                                -                              -<br>                            -                                -                              -<br>                            -                                -                              -<br>                            -                                -                              -<br>                            -                                -                              -<br>Fund to which  Current value<br>Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)<br>B3 Investment assets                             -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>Fund to which  Current value<br>Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional)<br>B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use  Computer -laptops  unrestricted funds                           -<br> Motor Vehicle  unrestricted funds                             -                              -<br> Office Equipment  unrestricted funds                           -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>                            -                              -<br>Fund to which  Amount due  When due<br>Details liability relates (optional) (optional)<br>B5 Liabilities  Bounce back loan  Unrestricted<br> Individual Loan  Unrestricted                             -<br>                            -<br>                            -<br>                            -<br>Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees  Signature Print Name Date of<br>approval<br>E A Adjei Emmanuel Adjei 23/10/2024<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


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