## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 January 2023 **To** 31 December 2023
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by** BSCC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1174332 **Charity's principal address** c/o 24 Highmead Gardens
Bishop Sutton Community Church
Bishop Sutton Bristol. **Postcode BS39 5XB.**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
October **2023**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**External Accounts**
**Auditor**|Rod Podger|Underwood Lamb, Chartered Certified Accountants,
Ground Floor, The Old Barn, Lady Farm, Chelwood
Bristol. BS39 4NN.|
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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**
CIO Foundation Constitution v1.31 dated 23[rd] October 2017. Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by consensus of trustees with regard to the skills, knowledge Trustee selection methods and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO (eg. appointed by, elected by)
- (eg. trust, association, company)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
a. a copy of the current version of the constitution; and
- b. a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- Information about the role of the trustee and the CIO will be made
- training of trustees; available with the Church Growth Trust / Stewardship publications:
- • the charity’s organisational Charitable Incorporated Organisations for church charities and structure and any wider Guide to churches on spiritual leadership and trustees. network with which the charity works;
Oversight of the Church is provided by Julian and Liz Marsh.
- relationship with any related parties;
Risks are managed by the Trustees under Safeguarding and Health and Safety Policies; the policies are reviewed annually. The Church has Public Liability, Products Liability, Pollution Liability and Professional Services Extension: insurance cover with Zurich (Policy XAO1220573903).
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
**TAR**
October **2023**
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**Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The objects of the CIO are to advance the Christian religion for the benefit of the public through the holding of regular public worship, prayer, Bible study, preaching and teaching, evangelism, mission, pastoral care and the nurture and growth of Christian disciples to enlighten others about the Christian religion. Nothing in the constitution authorises application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable.
The Church provided an on-line public worship service on Sundays along with weekly prayer and fellowship meetings. We occasionally joined with Lawrence Weston Community Church for Sunday services and supported worship and prayer at South Bristol House of Prayer and Lee Abbey in Knowle. A number of Men’s Breakfasts at the Red Lion also took place.
Open the Book sessions took place in Cameley School on a fortnightly basis and once each term in Bishop Sutton School.
**Summary of the main** The Church operates a web site which makes available the preaching via **activities undertaken for the** the internet and our Facebook page posts articles and videos to promote **public benefit in relation to** the Christian faith. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** The Church supported local, national and overseas missionary activity as **declaration that trustees have** well as other emergency relief. **had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity** Details of our activities are publicised on our web site and facebook **Commission on public** page. The trustees have regard to guidance issued by the Charity **benefit)** Commission on public benefit and are satisfied that these criteria are
Details of our activities are publicised on our web site and facebook page. The trustees have regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit and are satisfied that these criteria are met.
## **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.
**TAR**
October **2023**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The continuing of public worship broadcast on-line along with prayer and fellowship meetings. The support of elderly and vulnerable individuals within and associated with the congregation. The support of missionary activity including resources at Cameley and Bishop Sutton Schools, Men’s Breakfasts and other missional activity in the Village and beyond. Financial support for emergencies. Participation in the Keynsham Foodbank.
Production of articles in the monthly Village Magazine to promote the Christian faith.
## **Section E Financial review**
If reserves exceed £10,000, a proportion of reserves will be ethically **Brief statement of the** invested. **charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
Our principal source of income is from freewill offerings from the You **may choose** to include congregation. additional information, where relevant about:
We do not engage in fundraising.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Over 2023 our expenditure was broken down to:
- Ministry 27%;
- • Church life and admin 32%; • Mission 40%; and • Other 1%
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- We consider this expenditure was appropriate in meeting our objectives
- • investment policy and and loving our neighbour as ourselves.
- objectives including any ethical investment policy Since our reserves exceed £10,000 we hold £8,000 in the Kingdom bank
- adopted. which supports churches in the UK and other ethical initiatives.
**TAR**
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**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)** Mrs Jenny Dickerson **Full name(s)** Dr David Stanley Dickerson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Secretary/Treasurer **etc) Date** 8/10/2024
**TAR**
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|||**Bishop Sutton Community Church**
**Charity Name**|**Bishop Sutton Community Church**
**Charity Name**|**Bishop Sutton Community Church**
**Charity Name**|**1174332**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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|||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||
|||**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2023
Period start date|**To**|31/12/2023
Period end date||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|Notes
**A1 Receipts**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Designated**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Offerings||**4,815**
**595**
**409**
**-**
**5,819**|||**4,815**|**8,234**|
|Gift Aid tax refund|||**-**||**-**|**2,379**|
|Gifts & Donations||||**120**|**715**|**386**|
|Other Causes Income|1||**-**|**-**|**-**|**440**|
|Other Income|2||**-**||**409**|**453**|
||||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**5,939**|**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~||||**120**||**11,892**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**-**
**-**
**-**|||||
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**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||**5,819**|**-**|**120**|**5,939**|**11,892**|
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Ministry|3|**1,310**
**1,981**
**1,557**
**-**
**36**
**4,884**|**-**|**-**|**1,310**|**1,100**|
|Mission|4||**-**|**-**|**1,981**|**2,329**|
|Church Life & Administration|5||**-**|**-**|**1,557**|**2,020**|
|Premises|6||**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,937**|
|Other|7||**-**|**25**|**61**
**4,909**|**2,011**|
|**_Sub total_**||||**25**||**9,397**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||**3,000**
**-**
**3,000**|||||
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**Kingdom bank**|||**-**|**-**|**3,000**|**5,000**|
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**-**|**-**|**-**
**3,000**||
|**_Sub total_**||||**-**||**5,000**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||**7,884**|**-**|**25**|**7,909**|**14,397**|
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|||**- 2,065**|**-**|
**95**|**- 1,970**|**- 2,505**|
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**5,164**|**-**|**- 1,593**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**1,820**|**6,984**|**9,489**|
|||**4,692**|**-**|
**323**|**5,014**|**6,984**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Designated**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||HSBC|**4,692**|**-**|**323**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|**4,692**|**-**|**323**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
08/10/2024
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Kingdom Bank|OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**unrestricted**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|OK|
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|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|||||**-**|
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|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**8,156**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
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|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
08/10/2024
2
## **Bishop Sutton Community Church Notes to the accounts for Year End 2023**
|**1.Other Causes Income**|**1.Other Causes Income**|**Unrestricted**
**£**|**Restricted £**|**Designated**
**£**|**Total 2023**|**Last Year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Tearfund||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**|
|Ukrainian Refugees||||||**440**|
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|~~**_Total_**~~||**-**
**409**
**-**
**-**
**409**
**1,310**
**1,310**
**50**
**-**
**500**
**500**
**270**
**-**
**480**
**181**
**1,981**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**440**|
|**2.Other Income**|||**-**||||
|EbayProjector Refund|||||**409**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**409**||
|Oddments Theatre||||||**453**|
|DBS Checks(HolyTrinity)||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
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|**_Total_**||||||**453**|
|**3. Ministry**|||||||
|VisitingSpeakers(eg. Sun services)|||||**1,310**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,310**|**1,100**|
|Training& Resources|||||||
|Junior Church|||||||
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|**_Total_**||||||**1,100**|
|**4. Mission**|||||||
|Men's Breakfast speakers|||**-**
**-**
**-**||**50**
**-**
**500**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**270**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**480**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**181**
**-**
**1,981**||
|red lion meal vouchers / storage||||||**120**|
|HongKongtrip||||||**-**|
|World Sport Ministries - Akeel||||||**-**|
|Open the Book||||||**100**|
|CVM Subscription||||||**99**|
|Bible SocietyBooklets for schools||||||**-**|
|New Wine Org||||**-**|||
|Ice-Cream Sundae Outreach|||||||
|Balloons Galore||||||**60**|
|Ukrainians white board,books,etc||||||**1,171**|
|Oddments Theatre(+tickets)||||||**285**|
|Just Fishing|||||||
|Stan Strunc- In His Love Ministries||||||**480**|
|Neil Wilkin(from holyfools)||||||**250**|
|Schools scripture union bks||||||**113**|
|Stan Strunc- Ukrainian refugees||||||**522**|
|ccli (normally church life , but sbhop
mission)|||||||
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|**_Total_**||||||**3,200**|
## **5. Church Life & Administration**
|**5.Church Life & Administration**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Administration & consumables||**885**
**284**
**145**
**182**
**62**
**1,558**|||**-**
**-**
**885**
**284**
**-**
**145**
**182**
**62**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,558**|**6**|
|Health & Safety|||||||
|Equipment (Hybrid church) Keys,
microphone, 2 projectors (1 got refunded
to unrestricted income)||||||**45**|
|Zurich Insurance (Public Liability & Equip't)
(2023 & 2024,waived in 2022 covid|||||||
|CCLI License(a lot is for outside work)||||||**206**|
|Thirty-one eight(Safe Guarding)||||||**219**|
|WIX.com Subscription(website)||||||**158**|
|HSBC Bank Charges||||||**71**|
|Dave Phillips Taxi||||||**960**|
|Discipleshipcourse- materials|||||||
|zoom subscription||||||**144**|
|Square card reader||||||**19**|
|training||||||**84**|
|booklets/ Leaflets/ literature||||||**182**|
|Bible Society||||||**300**|
|**_Total_**||||||**2,394**|
## **6. Premises**
|**6. Premises**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Hall Hire||**-**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**1,937**|
|Chair lift service and maintenance||||||**-**|
|Racking& cushions||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total_**||||||**1,937**|
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CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
08/10/2024
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|**7.Other**|**7.Other**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|d2 designated Ukrainian fund||**-**||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**25**
**36**|**1,171**|
|Ukrainian refugees|||||||**440**|
|Oddments|||||||**400**|
|Ukraingenerator|||||**25**|||
|Financialpersonal help||**36**||||||
|**_Total_**||**36**||**-**|**25**|**61**|**2,011**|
The charity has no additional monetary assets and no building. Current equipment is insured for £4,305 The accounts outlined above relate to the year ending on 31st December 2023 as approved by the trustees below on behalf of the leadership team at Bishop Sutton Community Church.
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name
D S Dickerson
J M Dickerson|Date of
approval|
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CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
08/10/2024
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