**CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1176259** 

# **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries Receipts and payments accounts For the year ended 31 October 2023** 

## **XAVIERS ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED** 

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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

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|Trustees' annual report|**1**|
|Independent examiner's report to the trustees|**4**|
|Receipts and payments accounts|**5**|





## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Trustees' Annual Report** 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

The trustees present their report and the receipts and payments accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2023. 

## **Reference and administrative details** 

**Registered charity name** Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham **Charity registration number** 1176259 **Principal office** 86 Walton Road Chesterfield Derbyshire England S40 3BY **The trustees** Saju Varghese George Joseph Tharakan Jithu Devasia (Resigned 11 March 2024) Babu Joseph Dr Rengi Mathew Rev Saviour Vattayil Varghese (Appointed 29 June 2024) **Independent examiner** Mijos Xavier ACA FCCA Xaviers Accountants Limited Chartered Certified Accountants Suite 3J Recycling Lives Centre 1A Essex Street Preston PR1 1QE 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

## **Governing documents** 

Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham under its constitution is a UK registered charity (1176259) with the Charity Commission. It is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose Foundation was registered with the Charity Commission on 13 Dec 2017. The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1. 

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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

**Trustees' Annual Report** _**(continued)**_ 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

## **Objectives and activities** 

## **Objectives of the Charity** 

In setting our objectives, and planning our activities, we have given careful consideration to Charity Commission's guidelines on public benefit. Charity's objectives are: - The advancement of catholic faith and Christian beliefs for the benefit of public in accordance with the statements of beliefs of the roman catholic church by the organisation of prayer meetings, conferences, lectures, retreats, public celebrations of religious services, missions and similar events. 

- The production and distribution of literature and the broadcasting of information using modern media to enlighten others about the catholic faith. 

- The training of individuals and groups to further the work of evangelisation and any other related activities which support the promotion of Christian beliefs. 

## **Achievements and performance** 

As we started to recover from the COVID pandemic, the charity started to conduct face to face prayer meetings and spiritual events while continuing to benefit from the use of online platforms to deliver various spiritual services like spiritual sharing, healing prayers, and online adoration, to name a few. 

The charity has changed its name on the 23rd of May 2023 from its original name “Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries” to “Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham”. 

The Charity conducted retreats in the months of November and May during the financial year. The retreats were highly welcomed by many young people. 

The Charity continued publishing the printed version of its children’s magazine, "Little Evangelist" again last year. By God's grace, the charity continued to support some families with more than four children in India in need of support for day-to-day life through the "More Children More Anointing" (MCMA) Ministry. The funds were collected through voluntary donations. The support helped the families’ meet necessities and helped their physical and mental wellbeing during the difficult times. 

The Charity continued delivering its services to people in North Indian state of Punjab, Fr Soji Olikkal was blessed to lead the activities in this area. The services the Charity providing here are helping people to strengthens their believes in Christ, empowering them to face the difficulties in life with a new attitude. The daily prayer meetings and weekend community prayer meetings helped participants to re-gain their belief in Christ and become more empowered to face difficult situations in life. Looking ahead, the charity aspires to broaden its activities in line with its objectives to reach a wider community. 

The Charity has progressed in its Gift Aid claim and received its first claim in May 2023 for £13,251.76. The money received helped the charity to deliver its objectives. Thank you to UK government for introducing the scheme. 

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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Trustees' Annual Report** _**(continued)**_ 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

## **Financial review** 

The charity's principal funding source is from donations, donations from sale of Little Evangelist Magazine and Events admission fee. In comparison to the previous financial year the charity had £12k less cash receipts, mainly due to decrease in receipts in donations and event subscriptions. The gift aid receipts helped to keep the receipts to £62k. In comparison to the previous financial year the charity had £18k less cash payments. The decrease in expenditure was mainly due to decrease in "Resource Person" and hall booking. At the end of the financial year the charity has a closing cash balance of £22,500 in its bank account. This is an increase of £12k despite the decrease in donations, the increase in cash balance is due to the receipt of Gift Aid in May 2023. 

## **Reserve policy** 

It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds at a level which equates to approximately three months unrestricted expenditure. This provides sufficient funds to cover management and administration and support costs. 

The trustees' annual report was approved and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by: 

**Saju Varghese Trustee Date: 30 August 2024** 

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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham ('the charity') for the year ended 31 October 2023. 

## **Responsibilities and basis of report** 

As the trustees of the charity, you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). 

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's financial statements carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 

## **Independent examiner's statement** 

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or 

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. 

## **Mijos Xavier ACA FCCA Independent Examiner** 

**Xaviers Accountants Limited Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors** 

**Suite 3J Recycling Lives Centre 1A Essex Street Preston PR1 1QE** 

## **Date: 30 August 2024** 

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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts - CC16a** 

## **Year ended 31 October 2023** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
||**to the nearest**<br>**£**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||
|Donation to support families with more children|**18,978**||**-**|**-**|**18,978**|**17,459**|
|Donations Received|**18,847**||**-**|**-**|**18,847**|**29,920**|
|VoluntaryContribution towards Publications|**438**||**-**|**-**|**438**|**1,696**|
|Event Subscriptions|**520**||**-**|**-**|**520**|**12,607**|
|Donation to Support medical treatment|**1,015**||**-**|**-**|**1,015**|**11,160**|
|Donation to support Mission in India|**4,450**||**-**|**-**|**4,450**|**1,000**|
|Voluntarycontribution towardsprayer books|**2,422**||**-**|**-**|**2,422**|**-**|
|Refund- travel claim error|**242**||**-**|**-**|**242**|**-**|
|Gift-Aid receipt|**13,252**||**-**|**-**|**13,252**|**-**|
||**1,473**||**-**|**-**|**1,473**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**61,637**||**-**|**-**|**61,637**|**73,842**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|**61,637**||**-**|**-**|**61,637**|**73,842**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||
|Account charges|**61**||**-**|**-**|**61**|**51**|
|Insurance|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**611**|
|IT Licence|**144**||**-**|**-**|**144**|**192**|
|Printingand Stationery|**109**||**-**|**-**|**109**|**95**|
|Resourceperson expenses|**12,940**||**-**|**-**|**12,940**|**21,465**|
|Support for families with more children|**19,305**||**-**|**-**|**19,305**|**17,694**|
|Support for medical treatment|**1,597**||**-**|**-**|**1,597**|**11,362**|
|Travel & Substance|**440**||**-**|**-**|**440**|**418**|
|Retreat Expences|**1,381**||**-**|**-**|**1,381**|**1,044**|
|Support to Mission in India|**8,425**||**-**|**-**|**8,425**|**1,000**|
|Refund of Event Subscriptions|**6**||**-**|**-**|**6**|**1,162**|
|Religious Publications|**2,318**||**-**|**-**|**2,318**|**917**|
|Church Hire|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**320**|
|FamilyGathering- Food|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**837**|
|FamilyGathering- Transport|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**300**|
|Hall booking- Retreat|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**9,679**|
|Payments for bus hire|**2,775**||**-**|**-**|**2,775**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**49,502**||**-**|**-**|**49,502**|**67,146**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_                49,502**|||**-**|**-**|**49,502**|**67,146**|
||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**12,135**||**-**|<br>**-**|**12,135**|**6,696**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**10,365**||**-**|**-**|**10,365**|**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**22,500**||**-**|<br>**-**|**22,500**|**6,696**|
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## **Preachers of Divine Mercy (PDM), Birmingham** 

## **Formerly known as Anointing Fire Catholic Ministries** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts - CC16a** _**(continued)**_ 

## **31 October 2023** 

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

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash at bank|||**22,500**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**22,500**|**-**|**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and<br>payments account(s))|||OK|OK|OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
||||||**-**|**-**|
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**|||||**-**|**-**|
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**|**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**|**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||**-**||
||||||**-**||
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|Signed byone or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print|Name|Date of approval|
|||||**Saju Varghese**||**30/08/2024**|
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