## **BETHLEHEM CITY OF THE HEROES LTD** **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1[ST] APRIL 2024 TO 31[st] MARCH 2025** **Company Number 09520204 Charity No 1172603** ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 1 ## **BETHLEHEM CITY OF THE HEROES LTD** ## **DIRECTORS’ REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2025** We have pleasure in presenting the directors’ Annual Report for the period ended 31[st] March 2025. ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF THE ORGANISATION, ITS DIRECTORS AND ADVISORS.** ||**_Status_**|Bethlehem City of the Heroes Ltd is a charitable organisation that was
established on the 31stMarch 2015 under a Memorandum of Association,
which established the objects and powers of the organisation and is
governed by its articles of Association.| |---|---|---| ||**_Boards of Trustees_**|The organisation’s Board of Trustees are also its Directors. Members of
the Board are appointed by unanimous agreement of existing Board
members.| ||**_Chair_**|Pitshou Louis Bwaka| ||**_Treasurer-Shared role_**|Didier Kadima–Eben Muntaba| ||**_Secretary_**|Chancelle Akinga| ||**_Other directors_**|
Hortense M’bissa; Judith Salayumbu-Moso| ||**_Registered Office_**|
Unit D2, Marvin Street, Liverpool L6 1NF. Tel: 0151 345 3434 Mob:
07469969385. Email:bethlehemcityoftheheroes@gmail.com| ||**_Bankers_**|Lloyds Bank, Foregate Street,Chester CH1 1XP| ## **BETHLEHEM CITY OF THE HEROES LTD** ## **DIRECTORS’ REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2025** ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** The organisation is managed by the Directors who are its Committee Management and Governing Body, and have power to make rules and bye-laws for regulating the use by Members and others of any property of the company. Nominations were invited for the Committee Management 2024/2025. Membership of the group is made up of local people who are interested in the organisation’s objects, have taken part in some of Bethlehem City of the Heroes Ltd activities or attended some the organisation’s training and are interested in promoting the aims of the organisation. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR** The organisation’s objects are specifically restricted to the following: - ➢ To provide educational support services for the unemployed and excluded communities within, but not exclusively, the Black and minority Ethnic communities in the United Kingdom or the World as the trustees may from time to time think fit. - ➢ To promote well-being of the local community in the UK or the World through counselling/advice, recreational activities and other amusements. - ➢ To advance the Christian faith through the preaching of the gospel in the United Kingdom or the World as the trustees may from time to time think fit. ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 2 ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR** |**ACTIVITY**|**HOW**
**MANY?**||**ATTENDEES**
**2024/2025**| |---|---|---|---| |1. Conferences (Start of the year, Easter, Christmas)|3||300| |2. Youth Pubic Services (every 2 weeks of the month)|20 sessions||500| |3. Sunday school (Every Sunday 3-4pm)|45 sessions||270| |4. Families’ meeting (every Wednesday 6-8 pm)|50 sessions||300| |5. Counselling Support (Every Sunday 4.30 – 5pm)|52 sessions||208| |6. Arts, Musical activities (Every Saturday 1 – 4 pm)|45 sessions||870| |7. Morning Prayer & Online Counselling on
WhatsApp(Everyday Monday – Friday. 6 – 7 am)|260 sessions||6500| |8. Weekly fellowships (Every Sunday 1.30 – 4.30 pm)|32 sessions||800| |9. Reference for passports, driving licence, work|10||10| |10. BME Community Support (Use of hall, one to one support
with front line service providers)|4||400| |11. Missionary trips|1||150| |12. BME Health Project UK|1||150| |13. Community TV Project|1||500| ## **OVERALL IMPACT** Direct beneficiaries (in our premises) 3658 people (including families, single parents, young people and children, people in low income and asylum seekers and refugees, etc) Other beneficiaries (Online through Facebook, You Tube, 7500 Website, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp/tel. Healing 200 ## **PLANS FOR THE COMING YEAR** Our main focus for the new year is to continue developing our current activities and enhance our productivity towards sustainability. Some of them include: our community media studio, the BME health project, our community hub, the community support project, etc. ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 3 ## **TRUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2025** ## **Financial Review** Total Income for the period was £ 32,882 comprising primarily of donations, offering, training and members contributions, including loans from the stakeholders. £ 30,009 was brought forward from the previous year (£419 current assets and £27,975 non-current assets). Total expenditure for charitable activities for the period was £ 32,404 and total liabilities for the period were £ 17,500 (accounts payable). At 31[st] March 2025, the balance stood at £ 28,394 (£419 current assets and £27,975 noncurrent) and the organisation’s reserves stood at £ 10,894 as unrestricted funds. ## Risk management The main risks to the organisation is exposed as identified by the Directors have been considered and systems have been established to mitigate those risks. ## Reserves Policy It is not anticipated that the organisation will hold reserves for long term projects. The Committee seeks to obtain funding for activities and directly expend these in furtherance of the objects. At any time, reserves should be sufficient to ensure the ongoing operation of the organisation. ## Investment Policy The Directors have the power to invest any monies not immediately required for the charitable purposes of the company. ## **Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors** ## _Pitshou L. Bwaka, Chair_ Dated: ---31/03/2025 -------------------------------------------- ## **STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES** The Directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 1985. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. By Order of the Board _Chancelle Akinga_ (acting secretary) Company Secretary Date: 31/03/2025 ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 4 ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31[TH] MARCH 2025** |**Income and expenditure**||**Unrestricted Restricted**|**Unrestricted Restricted**|| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Notes**|**Funds Funds**
||**Totals Totals**| |||**2025 2025**||**2025 2024**| |||**£**
|**£**
|**£ £**| |**INCOMING RESOURCES**||||| |Charitable activities
|3|26,172 -||26,172 15,889| |Other incoming resources
|4
|6,651 -||6,651 5,723| |**Total incoming resources**
||**32,822 -**|
|**32,882 21,612**| |**RESOURCES EXPENDED**|5|||| |Costs of charitable activities||30,375|-|30,375 19,879| |Governance costs & Depreciation||2,029|-|2,029 1,311| |**Total resources expended**||**32,404**||**32,404 21,190**| |**Net incoming resources**||||| |**Income for the year**
||**32,822**|**-**|**32,822 21,612**| |Fund balances brought forward at||||| |01stApril 2025||28,394|-
|28,394 -| |**Fund balances carried forward at**||||| |**31st March 2024**
|**8-10**
|||**30,009**| The notes on page 9 to 13 form part of these accounts. All the above amounts relate to continuing activities of the company. ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 5 ## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31[st] March 2025** ||Notes March 2025 March 2024| |---|---| |**ASSETS**|| |**_Current Assets_**|| |Cash & Cash Equivalents|419 426| |Other Current Assets|- -| |**_Total Current Assets_**:|419 426| |**_Non-Current Assets (Fixed assets)_**|| |Equipment (tangible fixed assets)|6 4,816 4,583| |Intangible Assets|7 - -| |Other Assets|23,159 25,000| |**_Total Non-Current Assets_**|**27,975 29,583**| |**Total Assets**|**28,394 30,009**| |**LIABILITIES**|| |**_Current Liabilities_**|| |Accounts Payable|- -| |Other Current Liabilities|--| |**_Total Current Liabilities_**|-**_-_**| |**_Non-Current Liabilities_**|| |Long Term Debts|17,50020,200| |Other Liabilities|- -| |**_Total Non-Current Liabilities_**|**17,500** **20,200**| |**Total Liabilities**|**17,500 20,200**| |Stockholders’ Equity|| |Plant, equipment, property|27,975 29,583| |Retain Earning|419 426| |Other Stockholders’ Equity|(17,500) (20,200)| |Total Stockholders’ Equity|10,894 9,809| |Total Liabilities and Stockholder Equity|28,394 30,009| |**Funds:**|**£**| |Unrestricted funds|8,9,10 28,394 30,009| |Restricted funds|8,9,10 - -| |**Total**|**28,394 30,009**| ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 6 These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provision of Part VII of the companies Act 1985 relating to small companies and with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2005). For the period covered by these accounts the company was entitled to exemption under section 249a (1) of the companies Act 1985. No members have required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 249b (2) of the Companies Act 1985. The Trustees, who are the directors of the company, acknowledge their responsibility for ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 221 of the companies Act 1985 and preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial accounting period and of its surplus for the financial period in accordance with section 226, and which otherwise comply with requirements of the companies Act relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company. Approved by the Board on: 31[st] March 2025 _Pitshou Louis Bwaka, Chairman_ _Chancelle Akinga, secretary_ ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 7 ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD** ## **1[st] APRIL 2024 TO 31[st] MARCH 2025** ## **Limited Liability** The organisation is a company limited by guarantee. Each member’s liability is limited to £ 1. ## **Accounting Policies** ## _**Basis of Accounting**_ The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost accounting rules, and are in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2005) and the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005). ## _**Fixed Assets**_ Capital expenditure is treated as a fixed asset and depreciated on the following bases in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life: Computer Equipment 33 % per annum straight line Musical Instruments & Equipment 10 % per annum straight line Media and other 10 % per annum straight line No value has been placed in the accounts on volunteer labour provided. ## _**Current Assets**_ Current Assets are stated at the lower of cost and net receivable value. ## _**Other Accruals and Prepayments**_ There were no accrual nor prepayment. ## _**Grants Receivable**_ There were no grants receivable. ## _**Resources Expended**_ Charitable expenditure comprises services supplied and activities undertaken which are identifiable wholly or mainly in support of the chairity’s objectives. Governance costs relate ensuring the charity is well governed, and run in accordance with constitutional and statutory requirements. Where appropriate, expenditure is apportioned on a reasonable and consistent basis. ## _**Taxation**_ The income and gains of the funds are exempt from taxation as they are applied for charitable purposes only. ## _**Operating Leases**_ Commitments under non-cancellable operating leases are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities when payable. ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 8 ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD** ## **1[st] APRIL 2024 TO 31[st ] MARCH 2025** ## **Donations, Grants and other** The organisation relies on the receipt of donations and grants to fund its activities. These are treated as restricted funds whenever specific requirements are attached to awards. **Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Total Funds 2025 Total Funds 2024 £ £ £ £** Gifts/donations 14,493 - 14,493 10,466 Offering 6,878 - 6,878 5,423 Loans 4.800 - 4,800 - Other income 6,651 - 6,651 5,723 Income from previous years 30,009 30,009 34,477 **TOTAL 62,831 - 62,831 56,089** ## **Total Resources Expended** Staff Depre- Other Total 2025 Total 2024 Costs ciation Costs Direct charitable expenditure **£ - £ - £ 32,404 £ 21,190** Governance Costs **£ - £ - £ - £ -** Depreciation £ 2,029 **£ 2,029 £ 1,311** There were no paid staff during the period; the Trustees, being also the Directors of the company, all work in a voluntary capacity and are not remunerated for their services. ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD** ## **1[st] APRIL 2024 TO 31[st] MARCH 2025** **Tangible Fixed Assets Musical Media, Vehicles Other Prop. & Total Equipment & Plants & lands/tax Cost £ £ £ £** **Additions and Accumulated Depreciation** Balance at 01[st] April 2024 967 2,749 25,000 28,716 ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 9 Additions during the period - 1,100 - Charge for the period 97 275 1,469 2,029 Balance at 31[st] March 2025 870 **3,574 23,531 27,975** There were no material commitments at the period end. All fixed assets are used in the direct charitable activities of the organisation. **Tangible fixed assets include musical equipment, Media, plants and other properties.** **Debtors** General debtors 2024 £ 17,500 **Creditors** General creditors 2024 £ NIL ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD 1[st] APRIL 2024 TO 31[st] MARCH 2025** **Analysis of Net Assets between Funds** **Other Net Tangible Current Fixed Bank Assets/ Assets Balances (Liabilities) Total Unrestricted Funds £ £ £ £** General Fund 27,975 419 (17,500) 10,894 **Restricted Funds** - - - - **Total Funds 27,975 419 (17,500) 10,894** ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 10 ## **SOME OF OUR CURRENT ACTIVITIES** ## **1. BME COMMUNITY COUNSELLING SUPPORT** 5 to 10 minutes one to one direct support every Sunday after our fellowship for urgent matters requiring urgent attention. Service run on the basis of first come first served, however follow up continuous support and other appointments can be booked for weekdays advice and counselling. ## **2. CONFERENCES** *** 4 days’ Deliverance Conference on Easter 2024** ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 11 ## **Faith, health and wellbeing conference** ## **3. DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS** ## **Bethlehem Adults’ Choir** ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 12 11 Con olese Dance Initiative ro ect LCDI uveRpooL CONGOLESE DANC INITIATIVE ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 13 ## **Congolese Youth Choir: Heaven Harmony** ## **Congolese Children Choir: The Benjamin** ## **4. PRAYER MEETINGS** - Monday to Friday, 6h.00 – 07h00 am. (Commanding the Morning Prayer) - Every Tuesday: 06.00 – 08.00 pm: Youth Ignite (Youth Study Group) - Wednesday 6.00 – 8.00 pm: Intercession ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 14 ## **5. SUNDAY FELLOWSHIPS** - Every Sunday 1.30 pm – 4.30 pm ## **6. SHARED PROJECTS** - Congolese Community Protest. ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 15 ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 16 ## **7. MISSION: visit to orphanage to Luanda, Angola** ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 17 ACCOUNTS AS AT 31 MARCH 2025 18