CHARITY REPORT FOR THE APRIL 2022 TO 31ST DECEMBER 2022
Trustees=
Jonathan McGill- Chairperson
Jenny Davis- Treasurer and secretary
Margaret Travers
Rev Martyn Travers
Rev David Wood
Registered Office
2 Ethelbert Road, Bromley BR1 1JA
The charity is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. 1171291.
The trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the charity
from 1 April 2022 to the year ended 31st December 2022.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
The aims of the organization are to advance the Christian faith particularly but not
exclusively by means of caring. listening and helping people on the streets.
Activities - Street Pastors night time Patro15
The prirnary activity of the charity is to provide patrols of street pastors as a service
to the community, to give reassuran. safety and support through listening, caring
and helping. These patrols advance the Christian faith by practical demonstration of
the unconditional love and kindness of God.
The Charity's main activity and objectives for the year has been working to restart
our patro15 on a Friday night in Orpington and Beckenham High Street, and as from
November a once a month patrol in Bromley High Street. The street pastors by their
weekly presen promote a calming influence on the High Streets and complement
the work of the Police and other emergency services by providing a supportive
presence for potential victims, providing a calming influence for potential offenders
and a positive presence for the vulnerable. We continue to engage with people who
are lost, alone and unwell.
Activities - Prayer Support for Street Pastors. A minister or church leader comes
from the Churches Together in Beckenham to pray with the Beckenham Street
Pastors patrols in Orpington and Bromley always start with prayer and all three areas
finish with prayer at the end of their patrols. Orpington street pastors have a list of
people who pray for street pastors. Beckenham and Bromley also have chuiches
and prayer groups who undertake to pray for street pastors.
Reporting - Each street pastor patrol has a leader who is responsible for the team
for the night and writes a report giving details of encounter5, conversations, helping
vulnerable people. calming aggressive situations and counting botlles and cans
picked up.
Achievements and Performance- Street pastors are recognized as one of the key
factors in keeping the High Streets calm on a Friday night. They provide a non-
confrontational and supportive se1 to help those who are vulnerable, for those
the worse for drink, or injured. For example people who may be the worse for drink
are cared for and every effort is made to get them to their home safely either by a
local taxi or by calling a member of the family to come and pick them up.
Street Pastors receive a wami welcome from the publi¢- we have made many
friends over the years and had many happy conversations with all kinds of people.
The regular interaction with the public produ$ the significant but intangible benefit
of reassurance and promotion of safer behaviour. We routinely get many people
thanking us or saying they think street pastors is a great idea etc.
There continues to be an improvement in the atmosphere and a measurable
reduction in violent crime in the night times when we are on duty in Beckenham and
Orpington. Police have remarked on the reduction in violence on Beckenham High
Street since the Street Pastors started in December 2007 and this is supported by
the fact that there is a reduction of police offirS deployed in Beckenham and
Orpington High Streets on a Friday night. The Bromley Street Pastors restarted in
November at the request of the police and are hoping to go out on a twice monthly
basis in 2023.
Contribution made by volunteers
Street pastors come from 19 churches across the Borough of Bromley and are
uniformed volunleers after training for 45 hours. We have 31 Street Pastors in the
Borough of Bromley. After the lockdown finished, we were not able to raise enough
teams to return to weekly patrols but went out as often as we could raise a team. In
Orpington there were 31 patrols. in Beckenham 20 and in Bromley 2. A total number
of 130 people were helped on the streets, and there were 12 anti-social incidents
dealt with. 327 bottles were collected during the year. 9 pairs of flipflops were given
out.
FUTURE PLANS
We remain fully committed to maintaining our existing street pastor patrols and are
very pleased that we were able to slart up in Bromley again. For the initial start in
Bromley in November and Dernber both Orpington and Bromley Street pastors
were part of the team. Recruiting for Bromley has been encouraging and we look
forward to the new recruits going out on patrol in June 2023. Both Orpington and
Beckenham had new recruits during 2022.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The income from 1 April to 31 December 2022 was £641. We spent £2,486,
including £1,281 on training and £709 on professional fees such as insurance,
licence fees and obtaining our own DBS. We had a closing balance of £5.997.
The charity does not employ any staff.
STRUCTURE. GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT GOVERNING DOCUMENT
The Borough of Bromley Street Pastors, governing document is a Charitable
Incorporated Organisation Foundation.
Management and recruitment of new trustees
The Management Committee of the Borough of Bromley Street Pastors, who are
also the Trustees of the charity. aim to meet Ihree times a year. All trustees give of
their time freely and no remuneration or expenses were paid in the year.
We aim to recruit new trustees from the churches supporting the charity.
PUBLIC BENEFIT
The charity's trustees have regards to the Charity Commission's public benefrt
guidance. The trustees are aware of the guidance and have taken it into account
when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant in the running of the
charity. In any Instan where the trustees decide to depart from the guidance they
have good reasons for doing so and this is recorded.
The trustees believe that the charity has provided public benefi't through the street
pastors, weekly patro15 in Beckenham, Orpington and now Bromley.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The financial statements are set out in the accounts for the period ISI April and
ending 3151 December. The accounts have been presented as a receipts and
payments account.
Members of Trustees at the date the report and the accounts were approved were
Jonathan McGill (Chair)
Jenny Davis - Treasurer and Secretary
Rev Martyn Travers
Margaret Travers
Rev David Wood
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2022
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose
with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to
enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable laws and
regulations. They are also responsible for ensuring that the charity maintains an
adequate system of internal control designed to provide reasonable assurance that
assets are safeguarded against loss or unauthorized use and to prevent and detect
fraud and other irregularities.
ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES..
Signed
|**Account for Borough**|**of**|**of**|**Bromley Street Pastors**|**Bromley Street Pastors**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Balance Sheet for April**|||**2022 – December 2022**|||
|**Income**|||||**Expenditure**|
|Donations General|||£431|||
|Donations Training|||£210|||
|Ofice Costs||||||
|Professional Fees|||||£709|
|Gift Aid||||||
|Training|||||£1281|
|DBS|||||£356|
|Printing/publicity|||||£105|
|Bank charges||||||
|£35||||||
|Total|||£641||£2,486|
|Closing Bank Balance 1|st
|January, 2022
||£7,842||
|Total income||||£641||
|Total expenditure||||£2,486||
|Closing Bank Balance 31||st
|December 2022|£5,997||