2022-03-31-accounts - Fellowship Baptist Church

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date	Period end date
	1st	April	2021		31st	March	2022
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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

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Stanley Eugene Boelman	Pastor
	Marin Tomuz
	Beavin Andrew	Treasurer

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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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 (e.g. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (e.g. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods By appointment of the members (e.g. 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

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

In many ways, the past year has continued along the same path as the year past — with one notable exception as will be outlined below.

Whilst the national lockdown ended in 2021, the church’s usual meeting venue, a school, has not yet allowed the church to worship as before. As a consequent, meetings have continued on Zoom.

For a short while, the church did meet at a community centre but then the rise of Omicron made it too risky. As a result, we continue to worship and interact on the internet. This was a shame but the membership felt that the risks were too great.

Having said that, the past year has been a very positive experience in terms of carrying out our mandate. Fellowship Baptist Church exists to proclaim the Christian faith and that has continued in a variety of ways:

On Sunday mornings, the church worships via Zoom. It is a small group and sadly no more congregational singing is going on but the membership are faithful and appreciate the time.
In the afternoon, the pastor continues to make use of Facebook Live to do sermons for the public. This has had increasing responses with some sermons attaining over 400 people who watched the entire sermon. And happily, not all of the listeners are Christians. Some are of other faiths and some of no faith at all. We welcome this as part of our ongoing mission to proclaim the Christian faith.
In the week, prayer meetings take place as people are available. Again, this is not a large number but no less enthusiastic about prayer.
Finally, the ladies group, called Servants Hearts, has continue to meet on a monthly basis. Even though the original leader has moved with her family, she continues to work with the group and help to plan meetings. Indeed, there have been some meetings that included women from other churches not in Luton.
Much good has been achieved in the lives of people in the church and in the community.

In the autumn, the church provided another food delivery for Keech Hospice. This is a very effective service to the community or those in need of care and the church values its efforts to help.

Within the church, a family’s husband was gravely ill and eventually passed away. Initially, the congregation prayed and offered a gift of #1,000 to help with housing needs. Once the man had passed, another gift of #1,000 was offered to help with funeral expenses.

These gifts are examples of the generosity and philanthropic spirit of the congregation. It is hoped that this can continue once the church starts to rent premises again. Indeed, at the AGM a more proactive campaign of charity will be discussed.

It is a welcome achievement to get the long awaited website on line. This was a long process and the pastor, who was doing the

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work, has now got a new appreciation for those who create websites! Happily, there has been some good feedback and it is hoped that the final product will be a good tool for reaching the public.

With all the above, there are a few negatives that must be noted.

In August, a family moved from Luton. They are no longer part of the local congregation but continue to keep in touch via Zoom and other platforms. Indeed, the wife in the family has carried on with managing the ladies group called Servants Hearts. Even so, they will be missed when the church starts to meet in public.
The children’s work has stopped because younger ones are not the best on Zoom. Having said that. the Friday night Zoom youth meeting continues with great enthusiasm.
As mentioned above, one of our members passed away and this man was a trustee for the charity. This latter point will be addressed in due course.

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Section E Financial review

The trustees and the membership have considered the need for a Brief statement of the reserves policy and it has been agreed that no set amount is needed but charity’s policy on reserves 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 No deficit exists. in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal The charity subsists from the donations of its members. Other fund sources of funds (including raising is used to support community needs (see above on the quiz night) any fundraising);
• how expenditure has Expenditures supported the objectives via payments for rental costs, supported the key objectives literature to Christian work, and the support of Christian work in other of the charity; 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 (e.g. Secretary, Chair, Chair/Pastor etc) Date

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Charity Name No (if any) Fellowship Baptist Church 1173883 Receipts and payments accounts

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For the period from	Period start date 04/01/2021	To	Period end date 31/03/2022

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	Restricted funds to the nearest £	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
Collections taken duringchurch services	11,463	-	-	11,463	9,262
Donation from supporters outside church		-	-	-	2,807
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	11,463	-	-	11,463	12,069

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
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Support for missionaries	4,520	-	-	4,520	2,560
Hire of communitycentre for services	360	-	-	360	6,180
Liabilityinsurance	196	-	-	196	235
CCLI music licence	127	-	-	127	108
Storage facilties	450	-	-	450	1,444
FIEC membership	400	-	-	400	-
Speaker's remuneration	50	-	-	50	-
Abraham's Oasis UK	1,200	-	-	1,200	-
Emilia Tomuz	2,000	-	-	2,000	-
**Sub total **	9,303	-	-	9,303	10,527

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)			1 - -	- -	- -	06/09/2022
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS

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	*Total payments*	9,303	-		-	9,303	10,527

	*Net of receipts/(payments)*	2,160	-		-	2,160	1,542
A5	Transfers between funds	-	-	-		-	-
A6	Cash funds last year end	-	-	-		-	-
	*Cash funds this year end*	2,160	-		-	2,160	1,542

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

Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Savings for eventual capital asset purchase, ~~including interest earned of £2 93~~ Balance at year ended 31 March, 2022 Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 2,160 - - 2,160 "Agreement Error","OK") Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 29,232 - - - - -	Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - -	Endowment funds to nearest £

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Savings for eventual capital asset purchase, ~~includininterestearnedof£293~~	29,232	-	-
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B3 Investment assets

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B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

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B5 Liabilities

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

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Signature Print Name Date of approval Stan Boelman 29/09/2021

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