HAVEN CHURCH TRUST
Trustees’ Report 2024/2025
We can testify to God’s wonderful grace and goodness to us throughout another year.
Our Sunday events include a morning and an afternoon service with members and others attending regularly. The holiday seasons will add visitors to those services, including many who return year after year and who are fully supportive of our work and ministry. Sunday afternoons include our children’s Explorers group. While we applaud the input by the leaders, and the development of the children who attend, we would like to extend this to a larger group. The children have benefited greatly and it’s encouraging to hear from them what they have already learned.
Our Friday pre-school group has expanded through this past year and we are delighted that parents and carers are keen to attend, along with the children. Of course, numbers can fluctuate as children start school but we hope that additional children will join the group and share their excitement. It is also hoped to build on the group of parents who have suggested a craft event especially for them.
We continue to value the contacts with the community through the women who join the monthly Knit and Natter as they work towards making fillers for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox project. Last November we were able to send 349 shoeboxes to needy children across Eastern Europe. We were pleased to see pictures of many such ecstatic children receiving their shoebox, the first gift that some poorer children have ever received.
In addition to the women of our community, we are seeking to reach out to the men who join in a meal at a local restaurant and then to a breakfast at the church as a follow-up.
Our church members are regular donors to the St Austell Foodbank which is always in need of basic food contributions.
We are satisfied that the use of the church building has been in line with the Trust Constitution and for the benefit of the community. Our various church policies are reviewed annually and minor changes are made as necessary.
Our church plant in Funchal, Madeira continues to consolidate and expand. Numerous individuals and couples of various nationalities are hoping to share in the ministry of the church and even establish other churches on the island in a kind of spiritual ‘vegetative propagation’.
Our Prayer Care groups at Gorran Haven and St Austell provide the powerhouse to any spiritual work. We are pleased that a small core of committed members is keen to provide regular support to the ministries.
Our three administrative trustees and three external trustees continue to exercise their roles faithfully and selflessly. We are grateful to our external trustees who provide much wisdom and consultancy including areas such as management, health and safety, finance and technology.
Looking forward, it is still the aim of the church to engage a full or part time employee/trainee to extend the mission and ministry of the church, particularly among young people, younger parents and others who would be interested in some form of 1-2-1 or group studies. We have engaged the help of South West Youth Ministries (SWYM) to recruit a suitable candidate on a 12-month work experience/training package, supported jointly by Haven Church and SWYM. While we have found suitable local accommodation for such a worker, it will be important to recruit a candidate who shares our theological position as well as our vision for the community.
HAVEN CHURCH CIO
CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1170060
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: BALANCE SHEET PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT AND NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 3157 2025
PREPARED BY:ROWEDOWRICK ASSOCIATES 7 TRENOWAH ROAD BETHEL ST AUSTELL PL25 3EB TEL:- 01726 70700
HAVEN CHURCH CIO
CHARITY INFORMATION FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 3157 2025
Chairman: Geoff Fox
Treasurer:
Richard Holmes
Registered Address: Schovella Cliff Road Gorran Haven Cornwall PL26 6JN
Charity Registration Number: 1170060
HAVEN CHURCH CIO
Accounting records
The trustee’s of a CIO are required to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the organisation as at the balance sheet date and of its income and expenditure for the year then ended. In preparing those financial! statements, the trustee’s are required to:
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¢ select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
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¢ make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
The trustee’s are responsible for keeping proper books of account such as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the organisation’s state of affairs and to explain its financial transactions. The trustee’s must also establish and maintain a satisfactory system of control of its books of account, its cash holdings and all its receipts and remittances, and hence is responsible for safeguarding the assets and taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Objects
The advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with the Basis of Faith, primarily, but not exclusively, within Gorran Haven and the surrounding area, and such other charitable purposes, as shail in the opinion of the charity trustees, facilitate the work of the Fellowship in accordance with Basis of Faith, including but not limited to: the prevention and relief of need, hardship and sickness; the advancement of education; and the provision of community facilities provided that the advancement of such purposes are undertaken in a manner that js consistent with the Doctrinal Distinctives and Ethical Statements.
Power
The ClO has the power to do anything which is calculated to further its objects or is conductive or
incidental to doingso.
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¢ Borrow money and to charge the whole or any part of its property as security for the repayment of the money borrowed.
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¢ Buy, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and to maintain and equip it for use.
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° Sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the property belonging to the CIO. ¢ Employ and remunerate such staff as are necessary for carrying out the work of[the][CIO.] * Deposit or invest funds, employ a professional fund manager, arrange for the investments or other property of the CIO to be held in the name of a nominee.
Application of Income and Property
The income and property of the ClO must be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects. None of the income or property of the ClO may be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise by way of profit to any member of the ClO.
HAVEN CHURCH CIO
FORSTATEMENTTHE YEAR ENDEDOF PROFIT31°t ANDMARCHLOSS2025
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|2024|INCOME|2025|
|16785|Deed|of Covenant|16653|
|1590|Donations|500|
|3930|Murfitts|1942|
|4308|Offerings|5761|
|240|Missions|240|
|---|Tape|Recording|50|
|7000|Non|Gift|Aid|---|
|2080|Sandro|Farinha|3250|
|3060|Bank|Interest|3122|
|38993|GROSS|INCOME|31518|
|LESS:|EXPENSES|
|11945|Building|5280|
|500|FIEC|-—-|
|1736|Missionary|200|
|12000|Murfitts|12062|
|635|Out|Reach|178|
|1052|Publicity|1444|
|523|Recording &|PA|126|
|100|Samaritans|Purse/|Gift|---|
|574|Sundries|273|
|250|Visiting|Preachers|and|Speakers|800|
|256|Website|216|
|1844|Youth|Work|1066|
|“-|Catering|295|
|5135|Sandro|Farinha|9450|
|(37240)|_690|Accountancy|_690|(32080}|
|1753|NET|PROFIT/(LOSS)|FOR|PERIOD|{562}|
|7046|GIFT AID|RECEIVED — HMRC|6079|
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ACCOUNTANT’S REPORT
In accordance with instructions given to me, | have produced, without audit, the above Profit and Loss Account and Notes to the Account from the accounting records of Haven Church ClO, together with information and explanations supplied to me. | certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, said Profit and Loss Account and Notes are in accordance therewith.
DATED THIS ax
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Ms C O Dowrick MAAT
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HAVEN CHURCH CIO BALANCE SHEET AT MARCH 31ST 2025 2024 2025 Assets: Cash and Bank Accounts Haven Church 6229.80 8763.17 Kingdom Bank 94361.32 97482.98 Mount Zion Investment Account 423.72 423.72 Mount Zion Cash Account 282. 144.00 TOTAL ASSETS 101296.84 106813.87 We have examined and approved the attached Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, and Bank Reconciliation. DATED THIS DAY OF 2025 Geoff Fox (Chalrman) Richard Holmes (Treasurer)
E! CHARITY COMMISSION | Independent examiner's report on the (AEs) FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
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Report to the trustees/ wh te
members of Haven Church
On accounts for the year | 31% March 2025 Charity no | 1170060
ended (if any)
Set out on pages | Of attached accounts |
| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity for the year ended 31/03/2025.
Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).
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| report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
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examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or e the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
| 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.
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Name: ; Caroline Olivia Dowrick
Relevant professional | [MAAT]
qualification(s) or body | Association of Accounting Technicians
(if any):
Address: | 7 Trenowah Road
Bethel
-| St Austell PL25 3EB
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