2022-01-31-accounts - Earlesfield Community Church

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 02 2021 31 01 2022 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Earlesfield Community Church

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1170812

Charity's principal address 20 Gresley Court Grantham Lincolnshire Postcode NG31 7RH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Daniel Howson	Chairperson
	Grace Howson
	Andrew Morton	Treasurer
	Grace Morton

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustees are appointed by a resolution passed by the existing trustees. Trustee selection methods Recommendations for appointment as a trustee are accepted from the (eg. appointed by, elected by) Elders.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Earlesfield Community Church was established for

1) The advancement of the Christian Faith

2) Any other charitable work that facilitates the preceding aim. Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

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In working towards the objectives, the Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and have worked towards making Earlesfield Community Church as accessible and inclusive as possible to all the community.

Church Activities Our activities have recovered well after the Covid 19 pandemic and it has been a great benefit to our community to be able to meet physically once again.

Our church WhatsApp group is a great way to communicate and this has Summary of the main grown over the year which is indicative of the widening influence of activities undertaken for the Earlesfield Community church. public benefit in relation to these objects (include within Church services have been very well accepted and appreciated with slow this section the statutory but steady growth over the year. This is also true of our Tuesday evening declaration that trustees have bible studies which has continued to be available on Zoom. had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity We were glad to be able to have our Christmas activities again this year Commission on public for which our community were very grateful. benefit)

School collective worship has continued by producing weekly YouTube material which has been sent out to pupils by the school. Hope Community Café is appreciated by our community and is as busy as we can cope with!

We have taken on another staff member on the apprenticeship programme and continue to accommodate a number of placement students from various learning providers across Grantham.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The church has met every Sunday.

Weekly Bible studies have also met every week either on Zoom or in person.

A YouTube collective worship video has been produced each week for the school to use at their convenience.

Christmas and Easter celebrations were well attended, representing a wide spectrum of our estate.

All these activities have given many opportunities for sharing the good news and providing bible teaching on a variety of subjects and scripture passages.

In addition the church has:

Supported overseas missions.
Distributed surplus food received from a local shop.
Facilitated a very popular ‘Tots and Toys’ group
Worked with our local youth and provided groups for these to meet in a safe environment.

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Section E Financial review

The ECC policy is to retain 3 months expenditure as unrestricted Brief statement of the reserves, in case of unexpected expenses. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially N/A 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) Andrew Morton Daniel Howson Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Treasurer ] Chairperson Date 15/03/2022

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Earlesfield Community Church	Earlesfield Community Church		1170812
Receipts andpayments accounts
For the period from	01/02/2021	To	31/01/2022

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Donations & Offerings Gift Aid Rental Income Trading	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 28,154.00 0 5,117.60 28,248.90	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 28,154.00 0 5,117.60 28,248.90	Last year to the nearest £ 42,630.00 1840 5,235.00 18,517.00
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	61,521	-	-	61,521 - - - 61,521 1,149 6,414 4,899 780 - 23,138 2,081 21,901 - 60,362 - - - 60,362 1,159 - 57,911 59,070	68,222

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					68,222

Evangelism & Outreach Ministry Expenses Maintainence Rental Overseas & Local Mission Trading Costs Professional Fees	1,149				975
	6,414				3,158
	4,899				1,490
	780				770
	-				2,074
	23,138				16,950
	2,081				1,121
Staff costs	21,901				29,269
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**Sub total **	60,362				55,807

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					55,807

	1,159				12,415
	-				- 45,496
	57,911
	59,070				57,911

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds	Bank Accounts Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 59,070 - - 59,070 OK Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds	Endowment funds to nearest £
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				Endowment funds

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

29/11/2022

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	Signature Details Details Details Details	to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - Print Name A Morton	to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		A Morton	25/02/2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

29/11/2022

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Earlesfield Community Church

On accounts for the year 31 January 2022 Charity no 1170812 ended (if any) Set out on pages

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 01 / 2022 .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”) .

I 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, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention ~~(other than that disclosed below *)~~ in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Date: 29/11/2022 Signed: Name: Carl Braddy Relevant professional ACCA and CMIIA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of None any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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