2024-12-31-accounts - Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church

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Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church

Charity No 1172195

Unaudited Financial Statements

For the year ended 31 December 2024

Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church

Contents
	Page
Reference and Administrative Details	2
Trustees’ Report	3-6
Trustees’ responsibilities	7
Independent Examiners Report	8
Receipts and Payments Account	9
Statement of Assets and Liabilities	10
Notes to the Accounts	10

Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church Reference and Administrative Details

Charity Name	Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church
Charity Registration Number	1172195
Registered and Administrative	Lee Street Church
Office	Lee Street
	HORLEY
	RH6 8ES
Trustees	Brian Legg
	Nathan Page, resigned 27 March 2025
	Kenneth Cowell
	Susan Cottingham
Bankers	HSBC UK
	9 The Boulevard
	CRAWLEY
	RH10 1UT
	Barclays Bank UK Plc
	90/92 High Street
	CRAWLEY
	RH10 1BP
Independent Examiners	Field Sullivan
	9 Hare & Billet Road
	Blackheath
	London
	SE3 0RB

	Trustees' Annual Report for the period
	Period start date		Period end date
	01 01 2024		31	12	2024
	From	To
Section A Reference and administration details	Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Lee Street Church Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1172195 Charity's principal address Lee Street Horley Surrey Postcode RH6 8ES

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if whole year any) 1 Brian Legg Church Secretary 2 Kenneth Cowell 3 Nathan Page 4 Susan Cottingham 5 6 7 8 9 10

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

Name Dates acted if not for whole year ~~ee~~ Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Buildings and Land Church Growth Trust The Barn, 1 Manor Farm Barns, Baines Lane, Seaton, Oakham LE15 9HP Evangelical & Legal Stewardship 1 Lambs Passage, London EC1Y 8AB ~~——————————~~ 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 Trust Deed (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Declaration of Trust (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointed by a collective agreement of all the existing trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include N/A 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

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objectives of the charity are for the public benefit and are to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statement of beliefs as set out in the trust deed in Horley and in other parts of the United kingdom or the world as the trustees see fit.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The main activities of Lee Street Church are:

Sunday Services
Pre-school Playgroup
Coffee Morning
Service and support the local community

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further Apart from Lee Street Playgroup all activities of the charity are carried out by statements, where relevant, about: part time unpaid volunteers.

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

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity during
the year

The main achievements and performance activities of Lee Street Church in 2024
are:

Maintained Christian Witness at Lee Street Church

Worked closely with Churches for Horley to advance the Christian faith.

Continued to maintain the grounds over the year.

Continued to support missionary work of other charities and
individuals.

Continued to hold Sunday Meeting via zoom for members who are not
local to Horley .

To provide practical support to the Churches for Horley Foodbank.

Continued with the outreach in the local community, through our
Church Playgroup.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s	The Church has some reserves which are reviewed by the Trustees. The Trustees
policy on reserves	consider that the church should continue to maintain minimum level of general
	reserves to enable building and ground maintenance.
Details of any funds materially in deficit	N/A
Further financial review details (Optional information)
Youmay chooseto include	Lee Street receives income form a number of sources, these include:
additional information, where	 Weekly offering and Monthly direct payments
relevant about:	 Gift aid
 the charity’s principal sources	 Legacies
of funds (including any	 County Council funding for Playgroup
fundraising);
 how expenditure has supported	The income over 2024 is used to ensure all the payments, and bills are paid.
the key objectives of the	Over the year in 2024the income was £119,678.
charity;
 investment policy and	All of the expenses for the church and playgroup are taken from the income as
objectives including any ethical	stated above.
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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)

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Trustees’ responsibilities in relation to the financial statements

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with the applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards. The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records with disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the Trust. The Trustees are responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and taking reasonable steps to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities. In accordance with The Charities Act 2011 Section 145 the accounts have been independently examined.

FIELD SULLIVAN • CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church (‘the charity’) for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the summary of receipts and payments and the statement of assets and liabilities.

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with section 145 of the Charities Act 2011. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the charity’s trustees those matters I am required to state to them in this report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for my work, for this report, or for the opinions I have formed.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 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.

An independent examination does not involve gathering all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently does not cover all the matters that an auditor considers in giving their opinion on the accounts. The planning and conduct of an audit goes beyond the limited assurance that an independent examination can provide. Consequently I express no audit opinion on the accounts and my report is limited to those specific matters set out in the independent examiner’s statement.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records.

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.

Tim Sullivan FCA Field Sullivan Limited 9 Hare & Billet Road Blackheath London SE3 0RB

Date:……………………….

Lee Street Independent Evangelical Church Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the 01/01/2024 To 31/12/2024 period from ~~Sass~~ Section A Receipts and payments Unrestrict Restricted Endowment funds Total funds Last year ed funds funds to the to the to the nearest to the to the nearest £ nearest £ nearest £ £ nearest £ A1 Receipts Playgroup 106,101 - - 106,101 93,229 Church 13,576 - - 13,576 14,663 - - - - - - - - - Sub total (Gross income for AR) 119,678 - - 119,678 107,892 ~~=~~ A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - - Sub total - Total receipts 119,678 - - 119,678 107,892 ~~—=—==~~ A3 Payments Playgroup 96,691 - - 96,691 81,267 Church 19,032 - - 19,032 18,542 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total 115,723 - - 115,723 99,809 ~~—==—==~~ A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Furniture and equipment - Sub total - Total payments 115,723 - - 115,723 99,809 ~~—=—==~~ Net of receipts/(payments) 3,955 - - 3,955 8,083 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 88,997 - - 88,997 80,914 Cash funds this year end 92,952 - - 92,952 88,997 ~~=====~~

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

Unrestricted funds Restricted Endowme funds nt funds

Categories

B1 Cash funds

B2 Other monetary assets

B3 Investment assets

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

B5 Liabilities

Details

Other creditors Accruals Details Details Insured value of Lee Street Church premises, leased from the Church Growth Trust Furniture and equipment - insured value Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Gift aid debtor Prepayments Playgroup bank and cash Church bank and cash	to nearest £ 82,773 10,179 - 92,952 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 2,711 1,091 3,802 Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Unrestricted fund Unrestricted fund Fund to which liability relates Unrestricted fund Unrestricted fund	to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - Cost (optional) - Cost (optional) - - Amount due (optional) 901 3,552	to nearest £
			-
			-
			-
			-
			OK
			Endowme nt funds to nearest £
			-
			-
			-
			Current value (optional)
			-
			Current value (optional)
			787,627
			-
			When due (optional)
Other creditors	Unrestricted fund	901
Accruals	Unrestricted fund	3,552

Notes to the accounts

During 2024 £1,400 (2023: £600) was paid to Kenneth Cowell for speakers expenses and gifts.

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature	Print Name Brian Legg	Date of approval
	Brian Legg