## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 January 2024 **To** 31 December 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Bishop Sutton Community Church
**Other names charity is known by** BSCC **Registered charity number (if any)** 1174332 **Charity's principal address** c/o 24 Highmead Gardens Bishop Sutton Bristol. **Postcode BS39 5XB.** ~~—~~
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1174332
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 David Dickerson Chair 2 Jennifer Dickerson Treasurer/Secretary 3 Lin Johnson Admin 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~Oe~~ **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)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**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.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
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 **Summary of the objects of the** and the nurture and growth of Christian disciples to enlighten others **charity set out in its** about the Christian religion. **governing document** Nothing in the constitution authorises application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable.
The Church ceased the on-line public worship service on Sundays and encouraged members to attend a local Church instead. The weekly prayer and fellowship meetings continued. We supported worship and at Lawrence Weston Community Church, South Bristol House of Prayer, the Father’s House in Bath and Lee Abbey in Knowle. A number of Men’s Breakfasts at the Red Lion also took place.
Open the Book sessions took place once each term in Bishop Sutton School and Childrens holiday camps run by Get Sported were supported six times a year at Winford School.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The Church operates a web site which makes available the preaching via **public benefit in relation to** the internet and our Facebook page posts articles and videos to promote **these objects (include within** the Christian faith. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The Church supported local, national and overseas missionary activity as **had regard to the guidance** well as other emergency relief. **issued by the Charity Commission on public** Details of our activities are publicised on our web site and facebook **benefit)** 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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
The continuing prayer and fellowship meetings. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** The support of elderly and vulnerable individuals within and associated **during the year** with the congregation. The support of missionary activity including resources at Bishop Sutton School, Men’s Breakfasts, Get Sported children’s camps and other missional activity in the Village and beyond. Financial support for emergencies.
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 2024 our expenditure was broken down to:
- Ministry 5%;
- • Church life and admin 25%; and • Mission 70%.
- how expenditure has • supported the key objectives • Mission 70%. of the charity; We consider this expenditure was appropriate in meeting our objectives and loving our neighbour as ourselves.
- investment policy and objectives including any Since our reserves exceed £10,000 we hold £8,156 in the Kingdom bank
- ethical investment policy which supports churches in the UK and other ethical initiatives.
- adopted.
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~~ee~~ **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration** ~~ee~~
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Dr David Stanley Dickerson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** ~~[~~ **Date** 18/09/2025 ~~__~~
Mrs Jenny Dickerson Secretary/Treasurer
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|**Charity Name**||||**No (if any)**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Bishop Sutton Community Church**||||**1174332**||||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||**CC16a**||
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
01/01/2024||**To**||Period end date
31/12/2024||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**||**Designated**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|Notes
**to the nearest**
**£**
**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||
|Offerings
**3,470**
Gift Aid tax refund
**1,504**
**-**
Gifts & Donations
**-**
Other Causes Income
1
**-**
Other Income
2
**37**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~
**5,011**
**-**
~~== ~~||**3,470**
**4,815**
**1,504**
**-**
**715**
**-**
**-**
**37**
**409**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,011**
**5,939**
~~===~~||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**5,011**
**-**
**-**
**5,011**
**5,939**
~~—SS55=5~~||||||||
|**A3 Payments**
Ministry
3
**180**
**-**
**-**
Mission
4
**2,266**
**-**
**-**
Church Life & Administration
5
**827**
**-**
**-**
Premises
6
**-**
**-**
**-**
Other
7
**_Sub total_**
**3,273**
**-**
**-**
~~—S=SS~~||||**180**
**2,266**
**827**
**-**
**-**
**3,273**||**1,310**
**1,981**
**1,557**
**61**
**4,909**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**Kingdom bank**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,000**
**_Total payments_**
**3,273**
**-**
**-**
**3,273**
**7,909**
~~S555~~||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**1,738**
**-**
**- 1,738**
**- 1,970**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**4,692**
**- 323**
**5,014**
**6,984**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**6,430**
**-**
**323**
**6,752**
**5,014**
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Designated**||
|**Categories**
**Details**||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**||
|||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**6,430**
**-**
**-**
**6,430**
**_Total cash funds_**
HSBC
**B1 Cash funds**
~~—SS~~||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**323**
**-**
**-**
**323**||
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|**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Kingdom Bank
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|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|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**8,156**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
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## **Bishop Sutton Community Church Notes to the accounts for Year End 2024**
|**1.Other Causes Income**|**1.Other Causes Income**|**Unrestricted**
**£**|**Restricted £**|**Designated**
**£**|**Total 2020**|**Last Year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Tearfund||**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**|
|Ukrainian Refugees|||||||
||||||||
|~~**_Total_**~~||**-**
**35**
**-**
**2**
**37**
**180**
**180**
**190**
**-**
**480**
**100**
**250**
**661**
**5**
**480**
**100**
**2,266**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**2.Other Income**|||**-**||||
|EbayProjector Refund|||||**-**
**35**
**-**
**2**
**-**
**37**|**409**|
|Men's Breakfastprofit|||||||
|DBS Checks(HolyTrinity)||||||**-**|
|wix.com overpaid||||||**-**|
|||||**-**|||
|**_Total_**||||||**409**|
|**3. Ministry**|||||||
|VisitingSpeakers(eg. Sun services)|||||**180**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**180**|**1,310**|
|Training& Resources|||||||
|Junior Church|||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|**_Total_**||||||**1,310**|
|**4. Mission**|||||||
|Men's Breakfast speakers + hall hire|||**-**
**-**
**-**||**190**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**480**
**100**
**250**
**661**
**5**
**-**
**-**
**480**
**-**
**100**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,266**|**50**|
|red lion meal vouchers / storage|||||||
|HongKongtrip||||||**500**|
|World Sport Ministries - Akeel||||||**500**|
|Open the Book|||||||
|CVM Subscription|||||||
|Bible SocietyBooklets for schools||||||**270**|
|Goonhavern Hall Hire cornwall||||**-**|||
|CWW for India trip|||||||
|gear4music ltd …piano for lawrence
weston|||||||
|HSBC Bank Mission related charges
(usuallyin as Admin)|||||||
|Oddments Theatre(+tickets)|||||||
|Just Fishing|||||||
|Stan Strunc- In His Love Ministries||||||**480**|
|Neil Wilkin(from holyfools)|||||||
|Schools scripture union bks|||||||
|Stan Strunc- Ukrainian refugees|||||||
|ccli (normally church life , but sbhop
mission)||||||**181**|
|||||**-**|||
|**_Total_**||||||**1,981**|
**5. Church Life & Administration**
|**5.Church Life & Administration**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Administration & consumables||**148**
**150**
**130**
**56**
**70**
**18**
**99**
**156**
**827**
**-**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**148**
**150**
**130**
**56**
**70**
**18**
**99**
**-**
**156**
**-**
**-**
**827**||
|Health & Safety|||||||
|Equipment (Hybrid church) Keys,
microphone, 2 projectors (1 got refunded
to unrestricted income)||||||**885**|
|Zurich Insurance (Public Liability & Equip't)
(for 2023 in JN& for 2024,Dec)||||||**284**|
|CCLI License(a lot is for outside work)|||||||
|Thirty-one eight(Safe Guarding)||||||**145**|
|WIX.com Subscription(website)||||||**182**|
|HSBC Bank Charges||||||**62**|
|jdickerson expenses|||||||
|Individual Financial help|||||||
|CVM(move to mission nextyear)|||||||
|Square card reader|||||||
|Zoom subscription|||||||
||||||||
||||||||
|**_Total_**||||||**1,558**|
|**6. Premises**|||||||
|Hall Hire|||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||
|Chair lift service and maintenance||||||**-**|
|Racking& cushions||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total_**||||||**-**|
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**7. Other**
d2 designated Ukrainian fund **-** Ukrainian refugees **-** Oddments **-** Ukrain generator **25** Financial personal help **36** _**Total**_ **61** ~~=~~ 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||Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||D S Dickerson||22/07/2025|
|||J M Dickerson||22/07/2025|
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