CIO, registered charity 1175280 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS & REPORT AprIl 2024 - MarCH 2025 ## Contents & Key Details Greetings from our chair of Trustees 3 Trustees Report: Work & Activities of the CIO 4 -8 Leading & Teaching at Conferences & Events 4 Online Courses, Production of Publications 5 40th Anniversary Celebration 6 Evergreen 7 Website, Commitment to Higher Education 8 Reference and Administration Details 9 ## ACCOUNTS ACCOUNTS 10-17 Section A: Statement of Financial Activities 10 Section B: Balance Sheet 11-12 Section C: Notes to the accounts 13-16 Independent Examiner’s Report 17 Our charity number is 1175280. Find previous reports and other details about the charity through **engageworship.org/MWFcc** ## Contact Details Websites: mwf.org.uk engageworship.org evergreenworship.org Facebook, Instagram, X: @engageworship Registered office: 2 Old Chapel Close, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2GG Emails: chair@mwf.org.uk treasurer@mwf.org.uk info@engageworship.org If you have questions about our work, giving, policies, bookings or anything else, please get in touch. 2 Music & Worship Foundation Annual Report & Accounts ## **Greetings from Hannah Hodges, chair of trustees** Welcome to our annual report! We are passionate about releasing every church to see their worship potential and connect with God in ways that work for them. **With your support, churches are discovering their unique voice in worship.** Music and Worship Foundation CIO works through the ministry of **Engage Worship** , resourcing and training the local church for creative, sustainable and world-changing worship. More recently, the **Evergreen** project has been supporting and forming younger worship leaders. Read on page six about our charity’s 40th Anniversary celebrations, and how you can see this vision extended into the future. Thank you for your invaluable support! ## Key Numbers for the Year: Apr ‘24- Mar ‘25 166,000 350 active users on our website people being trained online 4.8/5 1060 event feedback score (Walsall) attenders at in-person events 4.8/5 event feedback score (Walsall) 41,128 website downloads (2024 calendar year) 65 young worship leaders at Evergreen retreats 3 ## Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts Trustees Report ## WORK AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CIO, April ‘24- March ‘25 ## **Leading & Teaching at Conferences & Events** We began this year leading the All Age Celebrations at **Spring Harvest Minehead** . This was a great time to connect to a wide range of people. We also led a matinee called the Big Family Bible Story alongside Bob Hartman, and taught a workshop on Intergenerational Worship. ## “ “Ever since Spring Harvest my three year old has been making us sing songs from the _Whole Church Worship_ book and reading/singing along before he’ll go to bed. Very precious!” _Libby_ In this year we also led worship and/or delivered teaching at events including: - the **Faith in Business** conference in Cambridge, - the **Salvation Army** national Mission Conference in Warwick, - a retreat for those ministering to sex trafficked women in **Bulgaria,** - the 5-11’s venue at the **Satellites** youth festival, - _**Whole Church Worship**_ training for Leeds Diocese, St Albans Diocese and churches around Walsall, - A _**Rest Is Worship**_ retreat at the beginning of Lent. ## “ “Today was so good. Thank you and Sara for sharing the gift God has given you both with us all today. It was an honour.” “So enjoyed your training last week in Walsall. It was refreshing, encouraging and inspirational.” _Colin & Lucinda_ 4 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & AccountsMusic & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report ## **Online Courses** In addition to these, we also ran two _**Whole Church Worship**_ online courses. Each ran over three evenings and reached booking capacity. This online format proved to be accessible for people from all over the world and across the UK. ## “ “I can’t recommend this [ _Whole Church Worship_ ] course highly enough. It has helped to transform how our church thinks about all age/whole church worship… We have incorporated many of the ideas and resources shared during the sessions.” _Natalie_ **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Production of Publications** This year we released _**Bible Noise**_ by our long-term collaborator Sunil Chandy. This book brings together fresh thinking and resources for reading aloud the Bible in groups and services. It encourages us to listen anew to scripture, one another and marginalised voices. We also published a free Small Group Guide for our popular book _**The Rest Is Worship**_ . We included gathering ideas, Bible discussion, reflective activities and questions for application. There are also links to listen to songs, watch videos and engage with podcast episodes. Gemma created a beautiful set of _**Encouraging Scripture Postcards**_ . 5 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report ## **40th Anniversary Celebration** On 28th September 2024, around 40 people gathered to celebrate 40 years of the Music and Worship Foundation. It was a delight to be joined by people who have served MWF from across the past 4 decades - some of the original trustees from 1984, through the eras of MWF regions right through to involvement in Engage Worship and Evergreen today. After the event one attendee emailed to say: ## “ **“It was great to reflect on the past vision and activities, but also equally to cast pearls of vision and wisdom for the future. It’s interesting, how in so many ways the same, original, vision is still as relevant and needed as ever.”** _Noël_ You can see more pictures, video and read more about this event at **engageworship.org/MWF-40** We used this opportunity to launch a new way of supporting our work. **Friends Of Engage Worship** is a growing group of people who give regularly to this ministry. In return we keep them up to date with news, prayer requests and more. These regular gifts enable us to plan for the future, and build relationships with our treasured supporters. Thank you to everyone who supports our ministry - it makes a huge difference! If you are interested in contributing to our work visit **engageworship.org/friends** 6 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report ## **Evergreen** Evergreen is a project which has been running since 2022, aiming to nurture and grow worship leaders in the 18-35 age bracket. We have identified this as a group which needs specific support in order to grow their spiritual formation and emotional health. A group of 10 young worship leaders completed the 2024 **Evergreen+** programme. This combined a weekend, day retreats and mentoring to encourage spiritual growth for sustainable ministry. Feedback from this group included: ## “ **“The residential and talking/reading about rest made me hungry to go on a solo retreat, which I then did, and it was a really wonderful experience!”** ## “ **“Evergreen has refreshed my soul time and time again. I am so grateful to show up to a retreat space where the team know my name and are invested in my wellbeing and seeing me grow. It has been an invaluable experience and I am so grateful. Thank you!”** **“I’ve loved Evergreen & have been particularly loving the mentorship - we keep in contact loads and I really appreciated having that person!”** _Eleanor_ _Stephanie_ In 2025 we have focused on the wider Evergreen community, and ran a retreat day on 28th February in Guildford. Our guest speaker Tibz Adeniyi focussed on the topic **“Community, Conflict & Christ”** , which led to deep reflection and discussion on issues around conflict. We also gave space for people to worship without having to feel responsible for the music or technology, which is a great blessing to many! 7 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report ## **Resourcing Worship Through Our Website** The team spent a significant amount of time reviewing every one of the hundreds of free resources we offer on our website. Older or outdated ideas were either “retired” or updated in order to better serve the current needs of churches. We have been posting weekly _Whole Church Worship_ sheets to further facilitate intergenerational worship. These are based on lectionary readings although they can be equally useful for those who don’t follow these set passages. We launched a third season of our Pause/Pray reflective podcast. These episodes feature intentionally short, “express” prayers aimed at people engaging with God during junction moments in their day. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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_Charlie on the Anxiety episode of Pause/Pray:_ **“It was so, so helpful. It engaged my heart, my mind, my body and that was a big thing for me because that was where I was feeling stress and anxiety.”** ## **Commitment to Higher Education** Sara and Sam taught an afternoon on _Creativity in Worship_ at **St Mellitus College** . Timo and Sam returned to **Nexus Institute of Creative Arts** to teach _The Rest Is Worship_ for a day. Sam taught a module on _Multimedia and Multisensory Worship_ for **London School of Theology** , as well as tutoring an MA module. 8 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## Reference & Administration details ## Principal Office 2 Old Chapel Close, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 2GG ## Legal Structure Charitable Incorporated Organisation ## Governing Document Constitution of Music & Worship Foundation CIO (incorporated 20 October 2017) ## Trustees Nicholas Bennett (Treasurer) Damian Herbert Hannah Hodges (Chair, from January 2025) Ron Jones (Resigned on 21st January 2026) Sylvia Kalisch Andrew Mitchell (Vice-chair & Secretary) Mwidimi Ndosi Rev. Eileen Osgood (Chair, until resignation from board on 29th January 2025) Naomi Buckler ## OBJECTIVES The objectives of the CIO (“MWF”) are: - 1 The advancement of the Christian religion through music, media and other art forms; 2 To advance the education of the public in Christian worship and music. ## STRUCTURE The aims of the CIO are advanced through the operations of MWF’s ministry Engage Worship. MWF employs Sam and Sara Hargreaves to lead this work, under the supervision of the Trustees. It also employed Gemma and Timo Scharnowski as team members (Timo finished in July 2024, Gemma moved on in June 2025). The Trustees meet mostly via video-call, or occasionally face-to-face when required. They also keep in contact with each other, and with the team, by email. 9 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts Rev. Eileen Osgood resigned as a Trustee and Chair on 29 January 2025. One new Trustee was appointed during the year: Naomi Buckler on 10 July 2024. ## Public Benefit: Public Benefit is served by the activities described in this report. The Trustees take into account the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public Benefit in all relevant decisions. ## Policies: MWF CIO holds policies including Safeguarding, Data Privacy, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Conflict of Interest, Trustee Recruitment, Complaints and others. These are all available on request. ## Reserves: The Trustees’ policy is that if the level of reserves should fall below £10,000 immediate consideration would be given to reducing costs in whatever way possible, including curtailing the employees’ hours of work. Part of the Reserves are retained against a requirement in extremis to make redundancy payments. ## Future Plans: The charity is about to release a new book, the _Really Useful Book For Leading Worship Without A Worship Team_ . We will continue to run training in-person and online, and provide resources through our website. We also plan to launch a new podcast, to keep people up to date with our news and developments. Regarding Evergreen, we are currently reflecting and reviewing our finances as to whether we can employ a new person to take over the role vacated by Gemma Scharnowski. 10 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts **Annual Accounts for the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025** ## **Section A Statement of financial activities** |**Recommended categories by activity**
**Incoming resources**
**Incoming resources from generated funds**
Voluntary income
**Incoming resources from charitable activities**
**Other incoming resources**
**_Total incoming resources_**
**Resources expended (Notes 3-4)**
**Costs of Generating Funds**
Costs of generating voluntary income
**Charitable activities**
**Governance costs**
**Other resources expended**
**_Total resources expended_**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources_**
**_before transfers_**
**Gross transfers between funds**
**_Net incoming/(outgoing) resources_**
**_before other recognised gains/(losses)_**
**_Net movement in funds_**
**Total funds brought forward**
**_Total funds carried forward_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**income funds**
**Total this year**
**Total last year**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
F01
F02
F04
F05
31,764
1,500
33,264
32,853
37,900
-
37,900
44,378
-
-
-
7,233
69,665
1,500
71,165
84,465
236
-
236
-
74,570
-
74,570
23,559
411
-
411
-
1,746
-
1,746
73,563

76,963
-
76,963
97,122

7,299
-
1,500
5,799
-
12,657
-
-
-
-
-

7,299
-
1,500
5,799
-
12,657
-
7,299
-
1,500
5,799
-
12,657
-
54,183
-
54,183
66,841

46,885
1,500
48,385
54,183| |---|---| 11 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## **Section B Balance sheet** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Unrestricted Restricted
funds income funds Total this year Total last year
£ £ £ £
Fixed assets F01 F02 F04 F05
Tangible assets (Note 5) 655 - 655 1,968
- - - -
Investments (Note 10) - - - -
Total fixed assets 655 - 655 1,968
Current assets
Stock and work in progress - - - -
Debtors (Note 6) 7,927 - 7,927 1,020
Cash at bank and in hand 41,671 - 41,671 52,330
Total current assets 49,598 - 49,598 53,350
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year (Note 7) 3,595 - 3,595 1,134
Net current assets/(liabilities) 46,004 - 46,004 52,216
Total assets less current liabilities 46,658 - 46,658 54,183
Net assets 46,658 - 46,658 54,183
Funds of the Charity
Unrestricted funds 45,308 45,308 54,183
Restricted income funds (Note 8) 1,500 1,500 -
Total funds 45,308 1,500 46,808 54,183
Signed on behalf of the Trustees Name Date of approval
Nick Bennett 22nd January 2026
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12 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section C Notes to the accounts**|||||| ||||||| |**Note 1: Basis ofpreparation**|||||| ||||||| |**1.1 Basis of accounting**|||||| |These accounts have beenprepared on the basis of historic cost(except that investments are shown at market value)in accordance|||||| |• Accounting and Reporting by Charities – Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP 2005);|||||| |• and with AccountingStandards|||||| |• and with the Charities Act.|||||| |**1.2 Change in basis of accounting**|||||| |There has been no change to the accounting policies(valuation rules and methods of accounting)since lastyear.|||||| |**1.3 Changes to previous accounts**|||||| |No changes have been made to accounts forpreviousyears.|||||| ||||||| ||||||| |**Note 2: Accounting Policies**|||||| ||||||| |**Incoming Resources**|||||| |**Recognition of incoming resources**|These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:||||| ||• the charity becomes entitled to the resources;||||| ||• the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and||||| ||• the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.||||| |**Incoming resources with related**
**expenditure**|Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the
incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.||||| |**Grants and donations**|Grants and donations are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to
the resources.||||| |**Tax reclaims on donations and gifts**|Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift to which
they relate.||||| |**Contractual income and performance**
**related grants**|This is only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.||||| |**Gifts in kind**|Gifts in kind are accounted for at a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the amount
actually realised.||||| ||Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or distributed
by the charity.||||| ||Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SoFA as incoming resources when receivable.||||| |**Donated services and facilities**|These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended)
where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material_._The value
placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.||||| |**Volunteer help**|The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the accounts but is described in the
trustees’ annual report.||||| |**Investment income**|This is included in the accounts when receivable.||||| |**Investment gains and losses**|This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments and any gain or loss resulting from revaluing
investments to market value at the end of the year.||||| |**Expenditure and Liabilities**|||||| |**Liability recognition**|Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity
to pay out resources.||||| |**Governance costs**|Include costs of the preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings
and cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.||||| |**Grants with performance conditions**|Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level of service or
output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SoFA once the recipient of the grant has
provided the specified service or output.||||| |**Grants payable without performance**
**conditions**|These are only recognised in the accounts when a commitment has been made and there are no
conditions to be met relating to the grant which remain in the control of the charity.||||| |**Support Costs**|Support costs include central functions and have been allocated to activity cost categories on a basis
consistent with the use of resources, eg allocating property costs by floor areas, or per capita, staff
costs by the time spent and other costs by their usage.||||| |**Assets**|||||| |**Tangible fixed assets for use by charity**|These are capitalised if they can be used for more than one year, and cost at least £500. They are
valued at cost or a reasonable value on receipt.||||| |**Investments**|Investments quoted on a recognised stock exchange are valued at market value at the year end.
Other investment assets are included at trustees' best estimate of market value.||||| |**Stocks and work in progress**|These are valued at the lower of cost or market value.||||| ||||||| |13|||||| 13 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## **Note 3 Paid employees** ## **3.1 Staff Costs** ||||||**This year**|**This year**||**Last year**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**£**|||**£**||| |**Gross wages, salaries and benefits in kind**|||||61,129||||63,136|| |**Employer’s National Insurance costs**|||||||-||2,024|| |**Pension costs**||||||1,195|||1,206|| ||||**Total staff costs**||62,323||||66,366|| |||||||||||| |**3.2 Average number of full-time equivalent employees in the year**|||||**This year**
**Number**|||**Last year**
**Number**||| |**The parts of the charity in which the employees**|||**Fundraising**||||-||-|| |**work**|||**Charitable**||||2||3|| ||||**Activities**|||||||| ||||**Governance**||||-||-|| ||||**Other**||||-||-|| ||||**Total**||||2||3|| |**3.3 Defined contribution pension scheme**||||||||||| |**Brief details of the scheme**|||**The charity runs**||**a standard auto-enrolment DC scheme**|||||| ||||**through NEST.**|||||||| |||||||||||| ||||||**This year**|||**Last year**||| ||||||**£**|||**£**||| |||**The costs of the scheme to the**|**charity for the year**|||1195|||1206|| ||**The amount of any contributions outstanding at the year end**|||||708.2|||268|| |||**The amount of any contributions prepaid at the year end**|||||0|||0| ## **Note 4 Grantmaking** ## **4.1 Total value of grants** |||**Grants to**|| |---|---|---|---| |||**institutions**|**Grants to individuals**| |||**Total amount**|| |**Purpose for which grants made**||**£**|**Total amount £**| |Donation to Selah, Albania over the course of the year.||1,243.56|-| ||**_Total_**|**1,244**|**-**| 14 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## **Note 5 Tangible fixed assets** ## **5.1 Cost or valuation** ||**Fixtures, fittings**
**and equipment**
**£**|**Fixtures, fittings**
**and equipment**
**£**|**Fixtures, fittings**
**and equipment**
**£**|
**Total**
**£**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Balance brought forward||2,662|||2,662| |Additions|||-||-| |Revaluations|||-||-| |Disposals|-||750|-|750| |Balance carried forward||1,912|||1,912| |**ment provisions**|||||| |**Basis**|SL||||| |**Rate**|25%
||||| ||||||| |Balance brought forward|||694||694| |Depreciation charge for year|||318||318| |Impairment provisions|||-||-| |Revaluations|||-||-| |Disposals|||245||245| |Balance carried forward||1,258|||1,258| ||||||| |Brought forward||1,968|||1,968| |Carried forward|||655||655| ## **5.2 Accumulated depreciation and impairment provisions** ## **5.3 Net book value** ## **Note 6 Debtors and prepayments** |**Note 6 Debtors and prepayments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Analysis of debtors**||**Amounts**|**falling due within one**|**year**|| |||**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**||| ||**Trade debtors**|7,388.9|||481.3| |**Prepayments and**|**accrued income**|538.6|||538.6| ||**Total**|7,927.5||1,019.8|| |**Note 7 Creditors and accruals**|||||| |**Analysis of creditors**||**Amounts**|**falling due within one**|**year**|| |||**This year**
**£**|**Last year**
**£**||| ||**Trade creditors**|719|||-| ||**Other creditors**|2,726|||1,134| ||**Total**|3,445|||1,134| 15 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## **Note 8 Endowment and restricted income funds** ## **8.1 Funds held** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Type PE, EE
Fund Name Purpose and Restrictions
or R
Evergreen R For the Evergreen programme for young worship leaders
8.2 Movements of major funds
Fund
balances
brought Incoming Outgoing
forward resources resources Fund balances carried forward
Fund names £ £ £ £
Evergreen - 1,500 - 1,500
Total Funds - 1,500 - 1,500
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16 Music & Worship Foundation CIO - Annual Report & Accounts ## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Music and Worship Foundation Charitable Incorporated Organisation (‘the CIO’)** I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2025. ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the CIO’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the CIO as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Joel Williams FCIE 1 Montrose Avenue Stretford Manchester M32 9LN ## **24/01/2026** 17