2024-03-31-accounts - Worship 24/7 Network

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Charity number: 1173397

THE BURN 24-7 UNITED KINGDOM

WORKING NAME: WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK

(A CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION)

ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

01/04/2023 - 31/03/2024

THE BURN 24-7 UNITED KINGDOM

(A charitable incorporated organisation)

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES

The Trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2024.

Reference and administrative details

Charity name: The Burn 24-7 United Kingdom Working name: Worship 24/7 Network Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registration date: 13 Jun 2017 Charity registration number: 1173397 Principal address: 1 Lowes Court, Durham, DH1 4NR Bankers: Reliance Bank Limited Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB. Trustees: Tiffany Buhler Indicated roles are those as at 31/3/24. William Robert Byng – Secretary Jocelyn Claire Dillamore Robin Mark Dillamore – Chair James Waters Core Leadership Team Robin & Claire Dillamore – National Indicated roles are those as at 31/3/24. Directors William Byng Helen Carr – Administrator Lee Gater – Missions Director Sean Gooch (Joanne Maynard joined the Core Team in May 2024 as Training and Discipleship Coordinator.)

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Structure, governance and management

Governing document

THE BURN 24-7 UNITED KINGDOM (working name WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 13 Jun 2017.

Worship 24/7 Network as an organisation The Worship 24/7 Network operates primarily in the United Kingdom, with links with churches and Christian organisations both in the UK and internationally. During the reporting period, Worship 24/7 Network continued to relate to the wider Burn 24-7 Global movement. However, over the course of the year, conversations with the Burn 24-7 Global Board took place around the ongoing nature of this relationship. As a result of a failure to resolve ongoing difficulties, primarily regarding differences in political ideology and leadership styles, in May 2024 the Trustees decided to separate the UK movement formally from the global organisation, and adopted the new working name of Worship 24/7 Network.

Local Worship 24/7 Communities are at the heart of the Worship 24/7 Network. These are communities of passionate worshippers from different churches and denominations who unify around the presence of God for regular extended times of worship and prayer.

At the end of the reporting period, there were around 25 Communities across the UK. The movement is growing as new Communities are launched. There is a hunger stirring across the nation for the presence of God and to see night and day worship established.

Discipleship and training in the values underpinning Worship 24/7 Network, and the practical operations of leading a Community, were carried out via the online ‘Field Training’ programme during the reporting year.

Our UK missions arm continues to develop with local street outreaches and extended outreaches during large cultural or sporting events. We also facilitate mission trips overseas, primarily via our links with people in Cyprus and the Middle East. (Trips to the Middle East have not been possible since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war which was precipitated by the events of 7[th] October 2023.)

Within the British Isles an organisational structure has developed to provide this largely ‘grassroots’ movement with effective support for sustainable growth. Local Communities have at least one Director ultimately responsible for pioneering it with the

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Holy Spirit’s help. Directors are strongly encouraged to prioritise the development of a local team that will share the vision and bring different skills to bear on its fulfillment. During the reporting period, Local Community Directors were supported by a Core Leadership Team, which included the National Directors, an Administrator and others providing additional support for areas such as evangelism and overseas mission, and discipleship and training.

Worship 24/7 Network as a charity

The charity was established in 2017 in support of the wider aims of the organisation. Being registered as a charity provides a context within which good practice can be applied to financial accountability and social responsibility. As such the board of Trustees aims to meets at least termly. These meetings take place online, to accommodate the constraints of one Trustee living overseas. They allow Trustees to review finances, risk management, legal issues and other matters affecting the charitable company. In setting our objectives and planning our activities, the Trustees have regard to the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.

Objectives, activities and achievements

The objectives of the charity are:

The advancement of the Christian faith;
The stirring of prayer and worship within the wider church;
The facilitation of mission and evangelism in the British Isles and wider.

Local Communities

Local Communities are at the heart of Worship 24/7 Network. During the reporting period a worship event was held in Coventry as a precursor to the potential of a new Furnace being launched, and a team began to form in Tunbridge Wells with the intention of relaunching a Furnace in the town. Interest is also being expressed in additional locations.

There is a variety in the level of activity, depending on where each local Community is in its development process, but the majority consistently hold extended (at least three hours, often more) worship and prayer times, with sessions led by worship leaders representing the church across their locality. Worship 24/7 Network enjoys partnering with other parts of the body of Christ, and our Directors are often found supporting other similar ventures under those ventures’ own banners.

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National Initiatives

As a national movement, we gathered regularly online throughout the reporting period, including monthly meetings of the Core Leadership Team and regular national and regional calls, open to Community Directors and members of local teams, to provide updates and opportunities to pray together and support one another.

In addition:

In May 2023 we held a national Summit at The Poplars in Ledbury. This was attended by nearly all UK Community Directors and others interested in finding out more about the movement. We were joined by Jamie Dickson, representing the Burn 24-7 Global Board, and by British worship leader, Steve Tebb.
In July 2023, the Worship 24/7 Network Core Leadership team gathered in Durham for a weekend of prayer, worship and planning.
In August 2023 many local Directors and team members chose to attend the ‘David’s Tent’ worship festival in West Sussex. Some of them represented Worship 24/7 Network at a stall in the festival’s resource tent to promote awareness of the organisation. An informal Worship 24/7 Network gathering was also held onsite during the event.
In November 2023, the Community in Dover, England, celebrated its 10-year anniversary with over 24 hours of worship. This event was attended by several Directors and team members from other UK Communities.

Worship 24/7 Network Missions

Worship 24/7 Network Missions seeks to:

Put into practice the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) by facilitating long and short-term missions and training trips
Train and equip local Communities to become missional – activating them in local, supernatural outreach
Plant Communities of worship all over the world, bringing worship to the darkest places

UK mission trips

In August 2023, a missions trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, took place to coincide with the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Overseas mission trips:

A missions trip to Bethlehem and Jerusalem took place in April 2023. Our primary partnership was with local Christians already known to us. Our team visited different houses of prayer, participated in times of worship, and engaged in outreach activities.

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Equipping and Training

We are committed to building people up to be able to fulfill the calling to love God and love the world He loves. To this end we run several initiatives aimed at equipping believers through the word and practical engagement.

Field Training

This is an online course developed by Burn 24-7 Global with an orientation towards establishing people in its core values and principles. During the reporting period, Field Training was recommended to local Community directors and members of their teams, and was open and available to anyone interested in developing a fuller understanding of the worship and prayer movement.

During the report period, further revisions to course materials were made by Robin and Claire Dillamore, who oversaw the course globally. Teaching and learning took place via pre-recorded videos, Bible study, and required reading by a wide variety of authors. The course included opportunities for differentiation, such as resources for ‘going deeper’ in areas of study and suggestions for extended reading.

In the UK, 2023-4 saw another highly successful mentoring group run with a British leader. This group worked through the materials together at a manageable pace, with opportunities to discuss learning facilitated by fortnightly Zoom calls. Much positive feedback was received from participants.

It is intended to launch and develop a new training programme in the spring of 2025, which is more specifically geared to the needs of Worship 24/7 Network.

Financial Statements

A bookkeeping system exists, overseen by our Administrator. This provides accountability for local Furnaces to raise finances (through free will offerings at monthly worship events and regular giving via standing order). Funds raised are deposited in the shared bank account and registered within a ‘virtual sub account.’ The same account and bookkeeping system is also used to manage other corporate activities such as Discipleship Schools, Missions trips and the annual Summit.

An annual subscription of £120 is requested from each Community. This covers central administrative costs such as the Administrator’s stipend and licence fees, for example, and is transferred from each Community’s ‘sub account’ in April each year.

In addition, each Community is invited to make voluntary donations to centralised Worship 24/7 Network funds. These and other generous donations enable us to

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subsidise missions trips, provide travel expenses (e.g. for our Missions Director), and to offer bursaries for different events, for example. As a charity we monitor the payments received and will claim gift aid where it is appropriate.

The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Approved by the trustees on 28 January 2025 and signed on their behalf by Robin M Dillamore (Chair of Trustees).

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|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |THE BURN 24-7 UNITED KINGDOM|1173397| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period|01/04/2023|31/03/2024| |To| |from| |ee|ee ee|ee-| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Endowment| |Restricted funds|Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Local furnace income|-|5,284|-|5,284|4,447| |Offerings and donations|4,935|450|-|5,385|904| |UK Summit fee income|6,419|-|-|6,419|7,882| |Worship & mission school fee income|-|-|-|-|1,825| |Missions trip income|-|1,300|-|1,300|10,890| |Sales of merchandise|1,799|-|-|1,799|1,300| |Sales of booklets|61|-|-|61|-| |Gift Aid|1,535|-|-|1,535|7,417| |Sub total|(Gross income for AR)|14,749|7,034|-|21,783|34,665| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total receipts|14,749|7,034|-|21,783|34,665| |——————| |A3 Payments| |Local furnace expenses|-|1,212|-|1,212|1,378| |UK Summit expenses|8,860|-|-|8,860|6,050| |Worship & mission school expenses|-|-|-|-|5,392| |Mission trip expenses|-|3,995|-|3,995|11,025| |Commonwealth Games Burn|-|-|-|-|4,362| |Gifts and honoraria|1,087|450|-|1,537|257| |Administration and bookkeeping fees|1,215|-|-|1,215|1,462| |Bank charges|154|-|-|154|173| |Licences|438|-|-|438|399| |Graphic design and printing|535|-|-|535|215| |Subscriptions|-|-|-|-|159| |Website and marketing|1,205|-|-|1,205|657| |Sundry expenses|224|-|-|224|-| |Purchases of merchandise|2,998|-|-|2,998|1,122|

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Sub total 16,716

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||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |16,716|5,657|-|22,373|32,651| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases (see table)| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total payments|16,716|5,657|-|22,373|32,651| |——————| |Net of receipts/(payments)|- 1,967|1,377|-|- 590|2,014| |A5 Transfers between funds|1,974|- 1,974|-|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|18,381|11,950|-|30,331|28,317| |Cash funds this year end|18,388|11,353|- 29,741|30,331| |===>|>=|=>|

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

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		Robin Dillamore	28/01/2025

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