Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From 6 April 2023 Period start date To 5 April 2024 Period end date
Charity name: Bethania Evangelical Church
Charity registration number: 1173470
Objectives and Activities
| SORP reference | ||
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document |
Para 1.17 | Toadvance the Christian faith, for the public benefit, by seeking to meet the needs that are identified in the local community, using the principles of the Christian faith to guide our actions. |
| Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. |
Para 1.17 and 1.19 |
During this year we continued our prayer and community activities, Our prayer activities include weekly prayer, monthly ‘prayer for the city’ and monthly worship evenings. The Chaplaincy in our local High School continued with 3-5 chaplains supporting the students and staff during the period. This year we extended this work to a Sunday Afternoon youth group. In order to facilitate and improve this, including our digital presence we commenced a local partnership |
| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | We have complied with our duty to have due regard to the commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| SORP reference | ||
|---|---|---|
| Policy on grant making | Para 1.38 | n/a |
| Policy on social investment including program related investment |
Para 1.38 | n/a |
| Para 1.38 | During this period we handed over our Food Pantry responsibility to a local residents group, having fulfilled our mission |
| Contribution made by volunteers |
to provide a Covid related community food support. With a reduced number of volunteers, we continued our School Chaplaincy and support for our prayer initiatives for the local area and City. We have also been able to provide a hospitable and safe environment for gatherings in our building |
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| Other |
Achievements and Performance
| SORP reference | |||
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| Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole. |
Para 1.20 | During this period, our focus has been in two main areas Prayer and Community Support. Whilst these are strongly linked, they are here described separately: Prayer Initiatives We have continued to gather people from many different churches and communities both locally and city wide in our building to worship and pray for people and initiatives on a weekly and monthly basis. During this period we took our well- developed prayer programme to several communities around Wales. We have also hosted prayer breakfasts for local leaders We have continued to develop spiritual support and prayer in our local High School where we operate our chaplaincy including a new prayer initiative in a room in the high school. Our involvement with a national organisation, ‘Pray for Schools’ has enabled us to connect with other organisations working with and praying for schools and young people Rumney Partnership In this period we developed a partnership with a local Church/Charity to promote prayer and mission in East Cardiff. This enabled us to provide a 1 day/person/week funding for joint prayer/mission activities including: • the development of our digital presence, • Hosting and support of our monthly prayer and worship times • Coordination of Christ Centred Mission activity and events |
| • Development of the schools ministry in |
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| East Cardiff |
| • Production of multi-media |
| communication to support prayer and |
| mission |
| • Making improvements to the space at |
| Bethania to facilitate events and |
| activities in a safe and welcoming |
| environment |
| Community Support |
| Working in the partnership above, we are |
| now reaching over 2,000 young people, |
| teachers and some parents with our work |
| as school chaplains which has included: |
| • Onsite provision of a lunchtime club |
| and prayer group |
| • Taking regular assemblies |
| throughout the year |
| • Provision of a weekly youth group |
| based in our building |
| Sale of Disused Cemetery |
| The acquisition of our facility when the |
| charity was established, included a disused |
| cemetery which, due to restrictive |
| covenants provides little to further the |
| charity purpose and would be expensive to |
| restore as an asset for the local community. |
| We were very pleased to be able to sell this |
| at auction, raising £9,116 to help fund the |
| above local partnership |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Achievements against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | During this period the charity has performed well against its declared objectives namely: ‘… to advance the Christian faith, for the public benefit, by seeking to meet the needs that are identified in the local community, using the principles of the Christian faith to guide our actions’. |
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| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | We have received very generous support from personal donations and the raising of funds through the cemetery sale above |
| Investment performance against objectives |
Para 1.41 | |
| Other |
Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
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| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | The charity received £21,699 of income set against £26,662 expenditure. Taking into account a residual balance from 2022/23 of £33,576, this has resulted in a surplus of £28,613 at the end of the period. The reduction from last year is due donations to external groups and funding in the Rumney Partnership |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | The Charity is holding a reserve in the accounts of £24,613 unrestricted funds. This is intended to support future maintenance and improvement works of our 19c Listed Building. The charity is also holding as reserves, a surplus of £4,000 of restricted funds to fund the Rumney Partnership until the end of Aug 2024 |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £24,613 |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | n/a |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | n/a |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | No concerns at this time. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) |
Para 1.47 | The charity is funded by regular and ‘one- off’ donations by regular donors. This enables us to maintain our regular prayer and community support. Our major ‘Food Pantry’ initiative is now considered self- funding and was handed over to a community organisation during this period |
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| Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted |
Para 1.46 | n/a |
| A description of the principal risks facing the charity |
Para 1.46 | The principal risk would be the reduction of giving from our regular contributors. A secondary risk would be the need for unforeseen investment becoming necessary in our 200-year-old building. However, a full structural survey followed by a substantial programme of improvements has reduced this risk to medium. There remains damp penetration remedial works to be undertaken. This is planned to be funded by a combination of reserves and grant funding |
| Other |
Structure, Governance and Management
| Description of charity’s trusts: |
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| Type of governing document | Para 1.25 | ‘Foundation’ model constitution |
| How is the charity constituted? |
Para 1.25 | Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) who’s only voting members are its charity trustees with a ‘Foundation’ model constitution |
| Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees |
Para 1.25 | In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees will have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees |
Para 1.51 | |
| The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works |
Para 1.51 | |
| Relationship with any related parties |
Para 1.51 | |
| Other |
Reference and Administrative details
| Charity name | Bethania Evangelical Church |
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| Other name the charity uses | PrayerHouse at Bethania |
| Registered charity number | 1173470 |
| Charity’s principal address | 13 Barons Court Road Penylan Cardiff CF23 9DF |
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| 1 2 3 |
Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any) |
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| David Clague | Treasurer and principal contact |
All three | ||
| John Gallagher | ||||
| Robert Jones |
Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
n/a ~~re~~
Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) David Robert Clague ~~a~~ Position Secretary and Treasurer (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) ~~po~~ Date 23rd December 2024 ~~—~~
Bethania Evangelical Church
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Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
For the period 6th April 2023 5th April 2024 To from
Section A Receipts and payments
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|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|Total funds|Last year|
|funds|funds|funds|
|to the nearest|
|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|
|£|
|A1 Receipts|
|Donations (restricted applies to directed|
|giving)|6 858|2 198|-|9 056|8 783|
|Grants summer fun project|-|4 900|
|Interest received|10|-|10|
|Pantry Takings|465|-|465|7 170|
|pantry|grants|-|-|-|7 132|
|Grant vis Rumney Chapel Cst project|4 117|
|HMRC gift aid|3 052|-|-|3 052|
|Overheads Cast|-|-|-|-|
|Legacy|-|-|-|-|-|
|Sub total|(Gross income for|
|9 920|2 663|-|12 583|32 102|
|AR)|
|A2 Asset and investment sales,|
|(see table).|
|Cemetery sale|9 116|-|-|9 116|
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|Sub total|9 116|-|-|9 116|-|
|Total receipts|19 036|2 663|-|21 699|32 102|
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|A3 Payments|
|Utilities & servicing building|3 004|-|-|3 004|1 911|
|insurance|2 529|-|-|2 529|2 107|
|Building Maintenance|693|-|-|693|1 336|
|Operational Costs|1 688|-|-|1 688|2 087|
|Summer Fun project|4 500|
|Donations events|2 800|-|-|2 800|1 594|
|Donation Nepal Aanandit Charity|750|750|
|Rumney Partnership|9 375|9 375|
|Trowbridge Pantry|5 323|5 323|
|CCXX R1 accounts (|SS)|Cast Food Project|-|360|1|-|360|11 090|
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| Castpersonnel fees | 140 | 140 | 12 936 | ||||||
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| - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| **Sub total ** | 20 839 | 5 823 | - | 26 662 | 37 561 | ||||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 37 561 | |||||||||
| - 4 963 | - 5 459 | ||||||||
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| 33 576 | - | ||||||||
| 28 613 | - 5 459 | ||||||||
| Section B Statement of assets and | liabilities at the end of the period | ||||||||
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets SS) |
Details | Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 24 613 - - 24 613 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - 4 000 - 4 000 OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Church accounts | - | ||||||||
| Rumney Partnership until aug24 | - | ||||||||
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| OK | |||||||||
| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B3 Investment assets - - - - - - - - - - ~~aes~~ Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained for the - - charity’s own use - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) B5 Liabilities - - - - - ~~——~~ Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval D R Clague 05-Jan-24 3 ~~————~~
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)