**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1st January 2025 31st December 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Wellcome Church **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1176350 Charity's principal address** 42 Stanford Road Grays Essex **Postcode RM16 4XS**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Andrew Blakey Chair
2 Neil Frost Secretary
3 Jo Jones Treasurer
4 Len Stockwell Until 19 January 2025
5 Harold Hoyte
6 Emma Dell
7 Gordon Hayers From 19 January 2025
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charity Incorporated Organisation Foundation (CIO) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed By Trustees Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
## **Risk Management**
You **may choose** to include The board includes individuals with financial management, safeguarding, additional information, where IT and administration skills, who are responsible for ensuring that relevant, about: adequate controls are in place for keeping accurate records, ensuring the policies and procedures safeguarding of the congregation and for guaranteeing the future of the adopted for the induction and charity. training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The object of the CIO is, for the public benefit, the advancement of Christian faith in Thurrock and in such other parts of the United Kingdom and the world as the charity trustees may from time to time decide
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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Members attended the Congregational Federation National Assembly in Nottingham and two regional assemblies for the Eastern region.
As a Christian organisation we have worked with others to support people in the community both locally and abroad. Demonstrating our faith in action and by our attitude to others.
We had Christmas cards delivered to the surrounding area, with invitations to attend church events.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
In Thurrock we have worked with Foodbank, a homeless project, and QVSR London Tilbury’s Seafarers centre.
Overseas we have continued to support a church in Kosovo with:-
Time and finance in the relief of poverty,
Access to education, Access to health care Christian teaching.
Internally we have encouraged people to explore their faith, and it’s outworking in their lives. We share testimony when people recognise God’s interest in their everyday life and that of those they interact with day by day.
We have made use of video conferencing, offering a hybrid approach allowing interaction both from in-person and online attendees. We have been successful in maintaining numbers.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
There are no paid staff within the organisation, All work on projects and all supporting other organisations is on a voluntary basis. Four of the members are in the second year of a 4 year part time degree in Practical Theology.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Currently £23,680, held in the main account, is set aside for finding funds to allow Victory Church to buy the premises it rents.
And £24,140 is ringfenced by the terms of its donor for local mission. This leaves a working capital of £12,961.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
|**Working with community offering financial support**.
Victory Church Kosovo
Essex and East London Homeless.|**Working with community offering financial support**.
Victory Church Kosovo
Essex and East London Homeless.|
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||Thurrock Foodbank.|
||QVSR Seafarer Centre at Tilbury Docks.|
||Blythwood Care.|
||Local Scouts.|
|**Supporting community groups**with volunteer time these groups||
|included||
||Victory Church Kosovo|
||QVSR Seafarer Centre at Tilbury Docks.|
||The Homeless Response Action Group in Grays.|
||Foodbank, working in the warehouse, leading a team for|
||collection, helping in distribution.|
||Blythwood Care|
||`o`sorting|
||`o`packing shoeboxes for overseas aid and|
||`o`delivering boxes in Kosovo|
||Local Scouts|
||Thurrock Street Pastors|
|**Working with other Churches**||
||Victory Church Kosovo|
||The C of E parish of Horndon, Orsett and Bulphan|
||Methodist Church of Horndon|
||Fresh Hope Community Church Stanford-le-Hope|
||Salvation Army Grays|
||Church of His Presence (Grays)|
||Church of Glorious Vision Prophetic Voice Tabernacle Ministries|
||Grays Baptist|
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## **Section E Financial review**
To maintain a balance at the bank to cover recurring costs for a year
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
The charity’s principal sources of funds are donations
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- Investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **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**
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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Andrew James Blakey Neil Frost
Position (eg Secretary, Chair,
CHAIR SECRETARY
etc)
Date
29/01/2026
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Charity Name No (if any)
Wellcome Church
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 19,640 515 - 20,155 19,229
Gift Aid from HMRC - - - 9,533
Mission donation 2,680 - 2,680 3,015
Gift from OCC for local mission - - - - -
Interest 7 - 7 3
Con Fed Award - - - 2,000
from Orsett Churches Centre - - - 3,000
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
22,320 522 - 22,842 36,780
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 22,320 522 - 22,842 36,780
A3 Payments
Hall Hire 500 - - 500 500
Supporting Thurrock Mission 3,174 - 3,174 8,000
Supporting overseas mission 10,740 700 - 11,440 13,215
Donations 750 - - 750 2,000
Internal costs 3,615 - - 3,615 1,867
Congregational Federation 373 - - 373 363
Local Mission 594 - 594 1,367
Insurance 523 - - 523 518
Sundry items - - -
Sub total [ 19,675 ] 1,294 - 20,969 27,830
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
PA system and instruments 7,678 - - 7,678
Chairs and equipment 1,770 - - 1,770 1,121
Sub total [ 9,448 ] - - 9,448 1,121
Total payments 29,123 1,294 - 30,417 28,951
Net of receipts/(payments) - 6,803 - 772 - - 7,575 7,829
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 43,205 25,151 - 68,356 60,527
Cash funds this year end 36,402 24,379 - 60,781 68,356
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
main Account
Mission Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**36,402**
**24,140**
**239**
**-**
**-**
**36,402**
**24,379**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Print Name
Neil Frost
Andrew Blakey|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
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**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
29/01/2026
29/01/2026|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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