## **Grace Church Swansea** 

## **Trustees' Annual Report** 

**Period from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024** 

## **Reference and administratve details** 

**Registered charity name** : Grace Church Swansea **Charity registration number:** 1174245 **The Trustees:** 

Mr B Measday (Appointed 14 Aug 2017) Mrs C McCarthy-Reed (Appointed 14 Aug 2017) Mrs D Essery (Appointed 14 Aug 2017) Mr B Farr (Appointed 20 May2020) Mrs G Ware (Appointed 15 Feb 2023) 

## **Accountants:** 

Stephen Kent and Co, Chartered Accountants, 456 Gower Road, Killay, Swansea, SA2 7AL 

## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

Grace Church Swansea is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered in August 2017. Registered Charity Number: 1174245. 

Grace Church Swansea leadership have responsibility for the recruitment and appointment of Trustees of the Charity. They are responsible for identifying potential individuals with appropriate ethos and skills for the position. This is then discussed with the existing appointed Trustees. A consensus must be found to appoint. All existing and new Trustees must agree with the Statement of Belief set out in our governing documents. 

All newly appointed Trustees will undergo an orientation meeting with the Chair of the Trustees to brief them on their duties and responsibilities as a Trustee, the decision making processes and the current financial position of the charity as set out in the latest published accounts. Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate training events where these will help them carry out their roles and responsibilities effectively. 

The Trustees fulfil their legal obligations on behalf of the Charity, aiming to meet at least four times a year. 



## **Charity Trustees:** 

Byron Measday 

Claire McCarthy-Reed 

Donna Essery 

Brian Farr 

Gayle Ware 

## **Church Leadership** : 

Byron Measday - Senior Leader 

Sarah Measday 

Emma Ball 

Charlotte Whitcombe **Small Group Leadership:** 

Emma Ball 

Charlotte Whitcombe 

Adam McCarthy-Reed Chloe Measday 

## **Employees:** 

Chloe Measday (Resigned Jan 2024) 



## **Objectves and actvites** 

Grace Church Swansea exists to welcome as many people as possible into Church community, in order for them to learn more about the Christian faith and become passionate followers of Jesus. We welcome people just as they are, no pretence, no masks, just real life - with all its mess and challenges. 

## **Sunday Gatherings** 

For several years now we have been meeting at the local Scouts Hall, Clase, where we hired a weekly space on Sunday afternoons for us to come together for worship, teaching, friendship and support. These times are important for us to share vision and purpose with the church family and for us to keep learning and exploring more about the life Jesus has called us to live together. 

Pleasingly, we were able to move into our newly refurbished Church building just in time to celebrate Christmas 2023. 

2024 has been a great year of settling into our new Church building, and being able to adapt and increase our Church and community engagement with our new fixed space. We are very grateful to God for his provision every step of the way in obtaining the money and skills, in order to transform the building for our community. 



## **Small Groups** 

In addition to meeting together on a Sunday, we also meet together weekly in each other’s homes. These meetings provide greater opportunities for us to get to know each other, to share life together, to stand side by side, to encourage and pray for one another. Together we explore the Bible and the teachings of Jesus in order that we feel equipped and empowered to follow Him in our daily lives. 



## **Social Gatherings** 

Relationships are really important to us at Grace Church. We want to share life with people, the good times and the challenging times. To encourage the development of great friendships we have regularly organised social times for church family and friends to come together to be able to talk and have fun. This year we have been able to adapt and increase what we can do as we now have a permanent building that we can use whenever suits, instead of renting places on Sundays and for events. We’ve also linked with Purple Elephant Coffee Shop which runs from the Church building that we work in partnership with, to put on community events and where people can gather socially 5 days a week. We’ve able to do all the favourite events we love and have continued from through the years including men’s breakfasts and ladie’s evenings, crafts sessions, fundraising events and a conference or two. 

## **Community Projects** 

Another important way of us building strong relationships is by serving together. Clase is an amazing community full of life and spirit. Being part of this community and serving the individuals and families that live there is central in our purposes and objectives as a Church. 2024 was another year full of activity and we were able to embrace being family together and serving the community we love, Clase. 

Much of the planning of the following activities was led by our former Community Development Worker, Chloe Measday. Chloe stepped down from the role in January to pursue the running of the Coffee Shop inside the Church building. During the year Chloe has continued to build on the amazing community relationships already established. Chloe has helped us to bring the community together in the Coffee shop setting, in order to raise funds for charities, and for the continued church renovation project, and also to serve the local community. She has also headed up a great small team of volunteers, together making these things possible. A massive thank you to each and every one of you for giving up your time, using your gifts and talents, and coming together to bless others. Without you all, none of this would have been be possible. 



We as a team have created space for conversations and relationships to form. We have seen many new people come along to our events, as well as regulars who really know us now, and are excited to bring their family along. We have continued to do similar events as before, which we know work, and have adapted them to fit in our new space, as well as continuing to hire the community centre for larger events like Messy Church. We were all very excited in particular to run our Easter Messy Church and Egg Hunt event, and it was yet again a great success and continues to be our most attended event. 

We continued with Messy Church events throughout the year and our Coffee mornings. We also celebrated world events with the Community such as the Olympics. These events all continue to bring out a variety of community members. Many who have attended have given us great unprompted feedback throughout, including they felt the events had a warm community feel, that their families had a lot of fun and that they were grateful for free activities on their doorsteps. We ran these events both in the Church and in the Community Centre. We have had lots of positive comments about how great it is to see the Church transformed for the community. Many generations stay and live in Clase, and remember the building from its former years as a Church from it being built in the 50’s. 

We continued with our kids group called G-Force. G-Force has been wonderful throughout the year with around 15 children attending weekly. We have seen amazing relationships also form with the parents of these children and those families are now all mostly regulars at every event we put on. Some of our children out-grew the group this year as they started comp in the September. 



The Church has also organised fundraising events to help raise funds for our building renovations, and charities like Macmillan Cancer support. We did a Christmas Fair, Quizzes, Welsh parties, a book club, menopause group, craft and knitting groups, Chinese cooking courses, and more. These are organised in partnership with Chloe at the Coffee Shop. 

Below is a table of community events we have run or supported throughout 2024. 

|**Date:**|**Event:**|**Organised**<br>**by:**|**Venue:**|**No of volunteers:**|**No of attendees:**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Jan 4th|G-Force|GC|Church|4|6|
|Feb 1nd|G-Force|GC|Church|4|8|
|March 2nd|Welsh Party|GC|Church|6|45|
|Mar 7nd|G-Force|GC|Church|4|12|
|April 4th|G-Force|GC|Church|4|10|
|March 21st|Menopause café|GC|Church|1|10|
|March 29th|Easter Messy<br>Church and Egg<br>hunt|GC|Community<br>Centre/ Park/<br>Church|8|50|
|April 18th<br>~~a~~|Menopause cafe<br>~~GO~~|GC<br>~~GO~~|Church<br>~~GO~~|1|8|





|May 2nd|G-Force|GC|Church|4|7|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|May 7th|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|May 9th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|20|
|May 16th|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|7|
|May 23rd|Book Club|GC|Church|2|10|
|June 4th|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|June 6th|G-Force|GC|Church|4|8|
|June 13th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|24|
|June 20th|Menopause café|GC|Church|1|4|
|June 27th|Book Club|GC|Church|2|11|
|July 2nd|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|July 4th|G-Force|GC|Church|4|3|
|July 11th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|22|
|July 18th|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|4|
|July 20th|Summer Fair|Purple<br>Elephant|Church|4|100|
|July 25th|Book Club|GC|Church|2|13|
|Aug 1st|G-Force|GC|Church|4|4|
|Aug 6th|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|Aug 15th|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|5|
|Aug 22nd|Book Club|GC|Church|2|14|
|Sept 3rd|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|Sept 5th|G-Force|GC|Church|4|8|
|Sept 19th|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|4|
|Sept 26th|Book Club|GC|Church|2|12|
|Oct 1st|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|Oct 3rd|G-Force|GC|Church|4|10|





|Oct 5th|Macmillan Cofee<br>morning|Purple<br>Elephant|Church|5|60|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Oct 10th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|20|
|Oct 17th|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|6|
|Oct 24th|G-Force light party|GC|Church|4|15|
|Oct 23rd|Quiz|GC|Church|4|40|
|Oct 24th|Book Club|GC|Church|2|12|
|Nov 5th|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|Nov 14th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|18|
|Noc 21st|Menopause cafe|GC|Church|1|4|
|Nov 28th|Book Club|GC|Church|2|14|
|Nov 30th|Christmas fair|Purple<br>Elephant|Church|5|100|
|Dec 3rd|Support hub|GC|Cofee Shop|2||
|Dec 5th|G-Force|GC|Church|3|9|
|Dec 7th|Messy Church|GC|Community<br>Centre|8|Cancelled due to<br>bad weather|
|Dec 10th|Chinese cooking|GC|Church|2|26|
|Dec 11th|Church Meal|GC|Toby Carvery|1|45|
|Dec 18th|Christmas party|Purple<br>Elephant|Church|4|65|
|Dec 22nd|Carol Service|GC|Church|6|60|



## **Other actvites:** 

We have maintained excellent links within the community through supporting and volunteering within Clase. The Church has remained linked with all the local schools including: Clase primary, Pen-y-bryn, Bishop Vaughan Comprehensive and Tan-y-Lan. We let them know about events we have on to share with the community and vice versa. We also have links with some amazing local partners including Clase Community Cwtch family centre, Clase Community centre where we host many events, local shops and residents, our local community councillors and assembly member, housing associations, local area coordinators, Clase scouts, Christians against poverty, other local Churches and much more! 



## **Financials:** 

For the period of January 2024 to December 2024, our accounts have been pre pared by Stephen Kent and Co, Chartered Accountants, Swansea. 

During this period Grace Church Swansea, received a total of £21667 of donations towards its charitable purpose. 

Grace Church Swansea continued to sponsor a little girl through Compassion, and made donations to, World Horizon Uk, and Christian Aid, giving a total of £904 towards these charities for 2024. 

The Church received a total of £22900 of grants for the refurbishment of the church building. 

At the end of the financial period, 31st December 2024, the balance was £33994 of funds to carry forward into the next financial year, all funds are currently unrestricted. 

Byron Measday 

Chair of Trustees 



Registered Charity Number.. 1174245
Grace Church Swansea
Unaudited Financial Statements
For the year ended 31 December 2024

Grace Church Swansea
Accountants & Business Advisors Report to Grace Church Swansea on the
Unaudited Financial Information of Grace Church Swansea
For the year ended 31 December 2024
As described on the statement of financial position, the trustees of the charity are responsible for the
preparation of the financial statements lof the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the
statement of fi'nancial aclivilies, statement of financial position and the related notes.
You consider thal the charity is exempl from an audit under the Charities Act 2011.
In accordance with your instructions we have compiled these financial statements in order lo assist
you to fulfil or statutory responsibilities, from the accounting records and from information and
explanations supplied to us.
Slephen Kent and Company Ltd
456 Gower Road
Killay
Swansea
SA2 7AL

Grace Church Swansea
Statement of Financial Activities
As at 31 De￿mber 2024
2024
2023
Total
Funds
Unrestricted
Funds
Total
Funds
Income and endowments
Donations and legacies
Total income
21
Expendlture
Expenditure on raising funds-.
Costs of raising don£tions and legacies
Expendtture on charitable activities
Total expenditure
904
904
967
J2
Other operatlng income
21,872
21,872
194
Net (expendlturelllncome and net movement In funds
Q21
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
43408
Total funds carried forward
The staternenl of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year
All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

Grace Church Swansea
Statement of Financial Position
As at 31 December 2024
2024
2023
Flxed assets
Tangible fixed assets
42,3S5
26,468
Current assets
Cash al bank and in hand
33,994
18,425
Creditors: amounts falllng due within one year
(1.910}
(1,485)
Net current assets
16 940
Total assets less current liabllltles
Funds of the charity
Unreslricted funds
Total charity funds
These fnancial statements were approved by the board of trustees and aulhorised for issue on
and are signed on behalf of the board by..
Gayle Ware
Treasurer

Grace Church Swansea
Notes to the Financial Statements
For the year ended 31 December 2024
1. General information
The charity is a public benefil entity and a registered charity in England and Wales and is
unincorporated. The address of the principal office is 46 Rhodfa'r Eos, Cwmrhydyceirw,
Swansea, SA6 6SW.
2. Ststement of compllance
These financial statements have been prepared in compliance with FRS 102, 'The Financial
Reporling Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland,, Ihe Statement of
Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordan￿ wilh
the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)
(Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Charities Act 2011.
3. Accountlng policies
Basis of preparatlon
The fi'nancial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis, as modified by the
revaluation of certain financial assets and liabilities and investment properties measured at
fairvalue through income and expenditure.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the
entity.
Going concern
There are no malerial uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements,
estimates and assumptions that affecl the amounts reported. These estimates and
judgements are continually reviewed and are based on experience and other factors,
including expectations of future events that are believed lo be reasonable under the
circumstances.
Fund accountlng
Unrestricted fvnds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees to further any of the
charity's purposes.
Incoming resources
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when entillement
has passed lo the charity,. il is probable that Ihe economic benefits associated with the
transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliably measured. The following
specific policies are applied lo particular categories of income..
Income from donations or grants is recognised when there is evidence of entitlement
to the gift, receipt is probable and its amount can be rneasured reliably.

Grace Church Swansea
Notes to the Financial Statements
For the year ended 31 December 2024
Legacy income is recognised when receipt is probable and entillemenl is established.
Income from donated goods is measured al the fair value of the goods unless this is
impractical to measure reliably, in which case the value is derived from the cosl to the
(Jonor or the estimated resale value. Donated facilities and services are recognised
in Ihe accounls when received if the value can be reliably measured. No amounls
are included fof the contribution of gener31 volunteers.
Income from contracts for the supply of services is recognised wilh the delivery of the
ontracted service. This is classified as unrestricted funds unless there is a
contractual requirement for rt to be spent on a particular purpose and returned if
unspent, in which case il may be regarded as restricted.
Resources expended
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes
any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement
of financial activities to which it relates..
Expenditure on raising funds includes the costs of all fundraising activities, events,
non-charitable trading activities. and the sale of donated goods.
Expenditure on charitable activities includes all costs incurred by a charity in
undertaking activities that further its charitable aims for the benefit of its
beneficiaries, including those support costs and cost5 relating to the 8overnance of
the cha rity apportioned to charitable activities.
Other expenditure includes all expenditure Ihat is neither related to raising funds for
the charity nor part of its expenditure on charitable activities.
All costs are allocated to expenditure categories reflecting the use of the resource. Direct
costs attributable to a sinEle activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs are
apportioned between the activities they contribute to on a reasonable, justifiable and
consistent basis.
4. Trustee remuneration and expenses
No remuneration or other benefits from employment with the charity or a related entity
were received by the trustees.

Grace Church Swansea
Notes to the Financial Statements
For The Year Ended 31 December 2024
l. General Information
Grace Church Swansea is a public benefit entity and a registered tharity in England and Wales and is unincorporated. The
registered office is 46 Rhodfa'r Eos, Cwmrhydyceirw, Swansea, SA6 6SW.
2. Accounting Policies
2. 1. Basls of Preparation of Financlal Statements
The prlnclple aecounting policles are summarised below. They have been applled conslstently throughout this year and
Ibst.
2.2. Tanglble Flxed Assets and Depreclatlon
Tangible fixed assets are measure(J at ¢05t less accumulated depreciètion and any acojmulated Impalrment losse5.
Depreciation Is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less Ihelr estimated residual value.
over thelr expected useful lives on the following bases..
Fixture5 & Filting5
20% SL
3. Tangible As$et$
Lattd &
Property
Leasehold
Fixture5 &
Flttlngs
Total
Cost
As at l January 2024
Additions
Disposals
22,268
10,862
8,000
9,031
(3,000)
14,031
30,268
19,893
{3,000)
As at 31 December 2024
33,130
47,161
Qepre¢latlon
As at l January 2024
Provided during the period
Disposals
3.800
2,806
11,8001
3,800
2,806
(1,800)
As at 31 December 2024
4,806
4,806
Net Book Value
As at 31 December 2024
33,130
9,225
42,355
As at l January 2024
22,268
4,200
26,468
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Grace Church Swansea
Trading Income Statement
For The Year Ended 31 December 2024
2024
2023
TURNOVER
Donations
Hire of Building
Donation for oven
18,492
813
2,372
17,834
21,677
21,677
17,834
17,834
GROSS PROFIT
Admlnlstrative Expenses
Wages and salaries
Employer5 pensions
Stsff training
Light and heat
Water rates
Repairs, renewals and malntenance
Insurance
Advertising and marketin9 costs
Community Events
Telephone & Internet
Accountancy fees
Legal & Professional fees
Bank charges
Charitsble donations
Other offlce costs
Depreciation of fixtures and httings
390
20
8,790
120
182
15551
301
551
408
2,521
2,605
2,079
82
1,009
S28
514
99
424
269
83
904
423
J70
150
967
135
2.806
1,600
(12,518)
115.OS7)
other Operatin9 Income
Grant Income
21,400
21,400
OPERATING PROFIT
30,559
2, 777
Proflt on d15P05al of tangible fixed a55ets
300
300
Other Fnterest recelvable and similar income
Bank interest ieceivable
172
194
172
194
PROFIT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR
31.031
2,971
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