Charity number: 1173397
WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK
(A CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION)
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
01/04/2024 - 31/03/2025
WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK (A charitable incorporated organisation
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
The Trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
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Worship 24/7 Network CIO - FOUNDATION 13 Jun 2017 1173397 1 Lowes Court, Durham, DH1 4NR Reliance Bank Limited Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB.
Trustees: Indicated roles are those as at 31/3/25.
Tiffany Buhler William Robert Byng – Secretary Jocelyn Claire Dillamore Robin Mark Dillamore James Waters (resigned July 2025)
Core Leadership Team Indicated roles are those as at 31/3/25.
Robin & Claire Dillamore – National Directors William Byng Helen Carr – Administrator Lee Gater – Missions Director Sean Gooch Joanne Maynard –Training and Discipleship Coordinator
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WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK (A charitable incorporated organisation
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Structure, governance and management
Governing document
WORSHIP 24/7 NETWORK (formerly THE BURN 24/7 UK) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 13 Jun 2017.
Worship 24/7 Network as an organisation
Worship 24/7 Network operates primarily in the British Isles, with links with churches and Christian organisations both in the UK and internationally.
The reporting period represents a season of significant transition for the organisation. Towards the end of the reporting period, Worship 24/7 Network was still in relationship with the wider Burn 24-7 Global movement. However, 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, subsequently adopting the new name of Worship 24/7 Network. Worship 24/7 Network no longer has any connection with The Burn Global.
This decision to separate formally from The Burn Global and to re-establish as Worship 24/7 Network was communicated to local Furnace Directors via live video calls with follow-up emails, and to the wider network and other stakeholders via email and social media posts. The National Directors and Core Team then made themselves available to anyone who wanted to discuss this decision privately or in more detail.
The process of separation from The Burn Global and reframing as Worship 24/7 Network provided opportunity for the Core Team, local Directors and team members to celebrate and reflect on our shared history, and to begin to explore novel approaches to facilitating extended worship and outreach events locally. The annual Summit in May 2024 was an important time of communal reflection and consideration of immediate priorities for the organisation.
Local Worship 24/7 Furnaces 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 20 Communities across the British Isles.
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Discipleship and training in the theology and values underpinning Worship 24/7 Network and the practical operations of leading a Furnace are an ongoing priority for the movement. At the beginning of the reporting period, this was carried out via The Burn Global’s online ‘Field Training’ programme. However, towards the end of the reporting period, Worship 24/7 Network launched a new pilot training programme called ‘First Love.’
Our British Isles missions arm continues to develop with local street outreaches. We also have a desire to facilitate mission trips overseas, primarily via our links with people in Cyprus. However, because of the impact on leaders’ capacity of the transition and change described above, it was decided not to plan a trip to Cyprus in the summer of 2024, but it is intended to resume these trips in 2025 and beyond. For now, it remains impossible to continue facilitating similar trips to the Middle East because of the ongoing security situation.
Within the British Isles an organisational structure has developed to provide this largely ‘grassroots’ movement with effective support for sustainable growth. Local Furnaces have at least one Director ultimately responsible for pioneering it with the 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 Furnace 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.
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Objectives, activities and achievements
The objectives of the charity are:
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The advancement of the Christian faith;
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The stirring of prayer and worship within the wider church;
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The facilitation of mission and evangelism in the British Isles and wider.
Local Furnaces
Local Furnaces are at the heart of Worship 24/7 Network. There is a variety in the level of activity, depending on where each local Furnace 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. During the reporting period:
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In May 2024, the Chester Furnace hosted a 50-hour worship event. This was supported by people representing other Furnaces across the nation as well as by worship teams from across the North West and North Wales.
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The new Tunbridge Wells team gained cohesion, hosted pilot worship events and planned to launch a Furnace officially in the autumn of 2025.
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Expressions of interest in launching new Furnaces in new locations in the South East and Midlands were made.
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. These calls enable us to stay connected, provide updates and facilitate opportunities to pray together and support one another.
In addition:
- In May 2024 we held a national Summit at The Poplars in Ledury. This was attended by a significant number of Furnace Directors and local team members. The Summit provided an opportunity for everyone to reflect together on the impact of separation from The Burn Global, for the Core Team to join in conversation with others around outstanding questions, and for collective discernment about a new name and immediate priorities for the movement.
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In July 2024, an extended worship and outreach event was held in Edinburgh to coincide with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This was supported by a number of people representing other local Furnaces.
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In August 2024 many local Directors and team members chose to attend the ‘David’s Tent’ worship festival in Wiltshire. An informal Worship 24/7 Network gathering was held onsite during the event.
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In November 2024 and March 2025, the Worship 24/7 Network Core Leadership team gathered in Chester for weekends of prayer, worship and planning.
Worship 24/7 Network Missions
Worship 24/7 Network Missions seeks to:
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Put into practice the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) by facilitating long and short-term missions and training trips
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Train and equip local Communities to become missional – activating them in local, supernatural outreach
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Plant Communities of worship all over the world, bringing worship to the darkest places
UK mission trips
- In August 2024, a missions trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, took place to coincide with the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Overseas mission trips:
- As outlined above, it was not felt feasible to organise any overseas missions trips during the reporting period.
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 The Burn Global which is no longer offered as a result of the separation of Worship 24/7 Network from The Burn Global. However, at the start of the reporting period, a British student cohort was nearing the end of the programme; students graduated with a celebratory video call in April 2024.
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First Love
In March 2025, a new training programme, ‘First Love’ was launched, specifically geared to the needs of Worship 24/7 Network. The pilot programme ran over 6 consecutive weeks (with an Easter break) in March and April 2025 and was well subscribed, being attended by over 60 people – some of whom were already part of the network and others for whom this represented their first contact. The programme was focused around the theological basis for extended worship and prayer in the context of community and was carried out via a series of live Zoom calls supported by differentiated written teaching and learning materials. There are plans to make the call recordings and teaching materials available as a training package, as well as to develop the model further with different areas of study.
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 accounting 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 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 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 27 January 2025 and signed on their behalf by Robin M Dillamore
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1173397
from Section A Receipts and payments ~~a~~
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For the period 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 To from
| ~~a~~ | ~~a~~ | Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds | Endowment funds |
Total funds | Last year | ||||||
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| to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | ||||||||
| A1 Receipts | ||||||||||||
| Local furnace income | - | 5,485 | - | 5,485 | 5,284 | |||||||
| Offerings and donations | 280 | - | - | 280 | 5,385 | |||||||
| UK Summit fee income | 6,987 | - | - | 6,987 | 6,419 | |||||||
| Sales of merchandise | 1,265 | - | - | 1,265 | 1,799 | |||||||
| Missions tripincome | - | 10 | - | 10 | 1,300 | |||||||
| Gift Aid income | 745 | - | - | 745 | 1,535 | |||||||
| Sales of booklets | - | - | - | - | 61 | |||||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | (Gross income for AR) | 9,277 | 5,495 | - | 14,772 | 21,783 | ||||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - Sub total - Total receipts 9,277 ~~= SS~~ |
- - - 5,495 ~~SS~~ |
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- - - 14,772 |
- - - 21,783 |
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| A3 Payments | ||||||||||||
| Local furnace expenses | - | 2,351 | - | 2,351 | 1,212 | |||||||
| UK Summit expenses | 8,809 | - | - | 8,809 | 8,860 | |||||||
| Purchases of merchandise | 1,025 | - | - | 1,025 | 2,998 | |||||||
| Mission tripexpenses | - | 44 | - | 44 | 3,995 | |||||||
| Administration and bookkeepingfees | fees | 2,584 | - | - | 2,584 | 1,215 | ||||||
| Bank charges | 159 | 5 | - | 164 | 154 | |||||||
| Conference fees | 607 | - | - | 607 | - | |||||||
| Gifts and honoraria | 4,500 | - | - | 4,500 | 1,537 | |||||||
| Graphic design andprinting | 1,640 | - | - | 1,640 | 535 | |||||||
| Licences | 170 | - | - | 170 | 438 | |||||||
| Sundryexpenses | - | - | - | - | 224 | |||||||
| Travel and accommodation | 811 | - | - | 811 | - | |||||||
| Website and marketing | 77 | - | - | 77 | 1,205 | |||||||
| **Sub total ** | 20,382 | 2,400 | - | 22,782 | 22,373 | |||||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases(see table) - - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total payments 20,382 2,400 - 22,782 22,373 ~~=====~~ |
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| Net of receipts/(payments) - 11,105 3,095 - - 8,010 - 590 A5 Transfers between funds 1,920 - 1,920 - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 18,388 11,353 - 29,741 30,331 Cash funds this year end 9,203 12,528 - 21,731 29,741 ~~===——~~ |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
30/01/2026
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Signature Bank charges Details Reliance Bank account Kingdom Bank account Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Stocks of merchandise Gift Aid debtor Details Details Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 9,191 12,528 12 - 9,203 12,528 OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 387 - 995 - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Unrestricted 17 - - - - Print Name Robin Dillamore |
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| 22 April 2025 | |||
| Date of approval | |||
| Robin Dillamore | 27 January 2026 | ||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/01/2026
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