CHARITY REPORT FOR JANUARY 2024 TO 31ST DECEMBER 2024
Trustees:
Jonathan McGilL- Chairperson
Jenny Davis- Treasurer and secretary
Margaret Travers- resigned May 2024
Rev Martyn Travers- resigned May 2024
Rev David Wood Keith MiLLer- from August 2024
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 January 2024 to the year ended 31 st December 2024.
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 nighttime Patrols The primary activity of
the charity is to provide patrols of Street Pastors as a service to the
community, to give reassurance, 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 to continue
to go out on the High Streets of Beckenham, BromLey and Orpington. The
Street Pastors by their weekly presence 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 unweLI.
Activities- Prayer Support for Street Pastors.
A minister or church leader comes from the Churches Together in
Beckenham to lead a devotion and pray with the Beckenham Street
Pastors before they go out on patrol. 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, and some are on call when the patrols go out. Beckenham
and BromLey have churches and prayergroups who undertake to prayfor
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 encounters,
conversations, heLping vuLnerable people, calming aggressive situations
and counting bottles 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 service 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 famiLyto come and pick them up.
Street Pastors receive a warm welcome from the pubLic-we have made
many friends over the years and had many happy conversations with all
kinds of people. The regular interaction with the pubLic produces 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.
In July 2024 we were invited to help support the Crystal Place Festival- a
great experience for our patrols. This invoLved a long patrol, they were
attached to the security team, but the aim was to care, listen and heLp
people make sense of where they were in such a large crowd. They also
were at the local railway station to help control the crowds at the end of the
evening. The team all felt it was worthwhile to do, particuLarLy as it was so
well organised and staffed. The team was welcomed and felt needed.
Christ Church Anerley's daughter church, St Paul's, very close to the
venue, kindly opened for the team which gave them a base to leave their
possessions and to return for short breaks, and finally to close the night
with fellowship and prayers.
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, BromLey 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 officers deployed in Beckenham and Orpington High
Streets on a Friday night. The BromLey Street Pastors are supported by the
LocaL police who asked them to restart in the town centre of BromLey in
2022 and would like them to go out weekly. Street Pastors in the Borough of
Bromley are regarded as a benefit to the High Streets by the Council and
the police.
Contribution made byvolunteers
Street pastors come from 24 churches across the Borough of Bromley and
are uniformed voLunteers after training for 45 hours. We have 39 Street
Pastors in the Borough of BromLey. We continue to recover from the
lockdowns- Orpington have been able to return to weekly patroLs with a
once-a-month Saturday morning patrol. Beckenham managed 33 patrols
Limited by the reduced number of Street Pastors, Bromley had 24 patrols. A
total number of 178 people were helped on the streets, and in addition
there were 31 anti-social incidents where Street Pastors calmed aggressive
situations, 134 incidents helping vulnerable people, 19 people were
signposted to other organisations. 800 bottles were colLected during the
year, 6 pairs of flip flops were given out.
FUTURE PLANS
The aim for 2025 is to continue to draw the Borough of Bromley team of
Street Pastors, operating within the current three geographical areas, into
one area which wouLd bring some efficiencies and other benefits such as
administration and governance and provide a one stop shop for all street
pastor activities within the Borough and operate as a single conduit for
recruitment. We remain fully committed to maintaining our existing street
Pastor patrols but we would like to extend them, so we achieve weekly
patrols again in both Beckenham and Bromley
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The income from 1 January to 31 December 2024 was £410. We spent
£1,584 including £921 on training and kitting out new Street Pastors and
£668 fees on Licence fees and DBS, We had a cLosing balance of £8072.
Reserves Policy
The trustees have determined that the charity should aim to hold
unrestricted cash of no Less than 2-3 months of unrestricted expenditure.
This is to enable the charity to continue to operate should income andlor

expenditure vary adversely. In practice this equates to no Less than £750
and at the year end the charity held unrestricted cash of £8,072, therefore
it is complying with its reserves policy.
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 newtrustees
The Management Committee ofthe Borough of Bromley Street Pastors,
who are also the Trustees of the charity, aim to meet three 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
benefit 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 instance 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 benefit through
the Street Pastors, regular patrols in Beckenham, BromLey and Orpington.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
The financial statements are set out in the accounts for the period 1 st
January and ending 31 st December 2024. 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 MCGILI (Chair)
Jenny Davis- Treasurer and Secretary
Rev David Wood
Keith Miller

REPORT OFTHE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER
2024
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 OFTHETRUSTEES:
Signed-jonathan MCGILL

Account for Bromley Borough Street
Pastors
Balance Sheet for Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Narrative
Donations
Training
Uniforms
Licence Fee
DBS
Other
Income
£410
Expenditure
£415
£426
£650
£18
£75
Total
£410
£1584
Closing bank balance 31 st Dec 2023
Total Income
Total Ex
enditure
Closin
Balance 31st Dec 2024
£9,246
£410
£1584
£8072