**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1st January 2019 31st March 2020 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Fellowship Baptist Church **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1173883 **Charity's principal address** 144 Alexandra Avenue Luton Bedfordshire **Postcode LU3 1HJ**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **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 Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods By appointment of the members (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include 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;
Regarding relationships with related parties, the church is a member of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. This is purely a joining of hearts and minds as opposed to a structural union, the FIEC does not own any of the church’s property and neither does it require a membership fee. The church shares the same theological perspective and annually affirms its agreement with the articles of faith.
- 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 objective of the charity is for public benefit, the advancement of the Christian faith, in accordance with the Statement of Faith.
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The main activities fall under the stated objective of advancing the Christian Faith. Specifically, these include:
- Regular meetings for Christian worship
- Children’s clubs to enhance their Christian faith
- Support for the public as available (see below under activities)
As needed, the trustees have met to review the work of the charity as well as to oversee the financial status.
**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)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
2020, going into 2021, has been the most unusual time any church, or **Summary of the main** indeed, any individual could experience. At the start of 2020, the charity **achievements of the charity** was continuing public meetings, it was running a children’s programme **during the year** and was continuing its focus on prayer. With the advent of the COVID pandemic, and subsequent lockdowns, all of that was either altered or cancelled. In person meetings ceased in March 2020. At the start of the 2020-21 year, all ministry was taking place via the Zoom platform. The following is repeated here from last year’s report: “Regular Zoom meetings happen on Sunday mornings and in the afternoon, the pastor does a sermon via Facebook Live.” This last continues to be an excellent outreach tool in that over a hundred people are watching each week, some of which have no connection to the Christian faith. Over the Christmas period, some sermons gathered an audience of nearly 300. Numerous people have been following the sermons including those of other faiths, or none. At times, some have reached out and discussions on the meaning of Christianity ensued. In addition to the Sunday meetings, the youth work has continued. This has also been on Zoom and the Friday meetings have been fruitful and offered much to support young people in their Christian faith. One particular initiative was a series of open mike discussions. These created some wonderful discussions on a range of topics ranging from the qualities of a good church to the current LGBT movement. In years past, the charity has sought to support local causes such as Keech Hospice. This was able to continue at a distance. Even though the normal harvest service took place on screen, food stuffs were still collected and delivered by the pastor. Normally, the church would have contributed to the cause of Tear Fund but that did not happen with the closure of in person meetings Because the church was not meeting in rented premises, a uniquely good financial position has been enjoyed. To make use of this, the charity was able to offer two of its missionaries a one off gift of £2,000 each. A third gift will be given to our other missionary. This was a really positive outcome from the pandemic. Another very positive event was the opportunity to help a family in the church. This family has school aged children but their computer technology was ageing and this was hindering their education. It was agreed that the church should put together funds and a new laptop was secured. Needless to say, the family was both surprised and overjoyed. Throughout the last year, work has gone on to improve the web presence for the charity. A new website has been developing with the aid of ChurchinSight. Whilst this is a step forward, web design has proven to be harder than it looks! Currently, the website is nearly ready to be launched.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The trustees and the membership have considered the need for a reserves policy and it has been agreed that no set amount is needed but that the charity will always agree to meet its financial obligations. Apart from the moneys held in the charity’s current account, there is an unrestricted fund with a value of £28,858.72 at the start of the new financial year (April, 2020)
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
No deficit exists.
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
The charity subsists from the donations of its members. Other fund raising is used to support community needs (see above on the quiz night)
Expenditures supported the objectives via payments for rental costs, literature to Christian work, and the support of Christian work in other parts of the world
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical 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)** Stanley Eugene Boelman **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair/Pastor **etc) Date**
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**Charity Name No (if any) Fellowship Baptist Church 1173883**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
|**For the period**
**from**|01/04/20
Period start date|**To**|31/03/2021
Period end date|
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## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,711**
**2,769**
**484**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,964**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,964**
**6,520**
**289**
**117**
**450**
**468**
**7,844**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,844**
**4,120**
**-**
**-**
**4,120**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Collections taken duringchurch services|**8,711**|||**8,711**|
|Donation from supporters outside the church|**2,769**|||**2,769**|
|Gift-Aid rincome|**484**|||**484**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**11,964**|||**11,964**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||
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|Support for missionaries|**6,520**|||**6,520**|
|Hire of school premises for church services||||**-**|
|Liabilityinsurance|**289**|||**289**|
|CCLI music licence|**117**|||**117**|
|Storage facilties|**450**|||**450**|
|FIEC membership|**468**|||**468**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**7,844**|||**7,844**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**|
|**_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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## **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
**Details**
**Details**
Balance at year ended 31 March, 2021
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
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Savings for eventual capital asset purchase,
including interest earned of £209
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,120**
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**Unrestricted**
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**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**29,299**
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## **CC16a**
**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**9,262 2,807 - - - - - - 12,069**
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**12,069**
**2,560 6,180 235 108 1,444 - - - - 10,527**
**10,527 1,542 - - 1,542**
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