2023-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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**From **	Period start date			To	Period end date
	1st	April	2022		**31st **	March	2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Saffron Walden Community Church Other names charity is known by formerly Gold Street Chapel Registered charity number (if any) 1176353 Charity's principal address Saffron Walden Community Church Castle Street Saffron Walden Postcode CB10 1BD

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for **whole year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	BarryJames Land	Chair & Secretary
	Peter Jonathan Graves
	Paul AnthonyJohn Martin
	Siobhan Rouse

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

New trustees are appointed by existing trustees

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and 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.

The trustees delegate the day-to-day running of the church to the pastor and the leadership team, who are primarily responsible for the spiritual wellbeing of the church, and the operation of the various church policies and practices.

The trustees and leadership team are assisted by a Support Team who are appointed by the members of the church. The Support Team are responsible for maintaining the fabric of the building, finance and admin.

• One in particular is the Finance Co-ordinator responsible for keeping accurate accounts of all transactions and for preparing the accounts for the end of year Independent Examination and for presentation at the church AGM and quarterly business meetings, which are open to the public. There is regular oversight of accounting records and processes by the trustees.

The church employs three staff members: the pastor, the ministry leader and, from August 2022, a church administrator. All three staff members were offered entry into a pension scheme but all three have opted out.

The trustees ensure that the charity is being run satisfactorily by those delegated to do so, including compliance with the Child Protection Policy, Risk Management Policy and Data Protection Policy, all of which are reviewed annually, and that the charity is operating for the public benefit.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

For the public benefit, to advance the Christian faith in Saffron Walden, Essex and such other parts of the UK and the world as the charity trustees may from time to time decide.

We act for the public benefit in enabling all people to live out their Christian faith as part of our church and town communities through: • regular worship services • teaching related to evangelical Christianity for children and adults • regular coffee morning, Toddlers Group, and well-being groups, and • working with other churches and with Saffron Walden Churches Together

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 particular, we promote and support -	In particular, we promote and support -
local mission activities:
o	Alpha courses, or similar
o	Various styles of Sunday services
o	Children’s and youth activities
o	Social events
o	Teaching church members to promote Christianity where the live
	and work
o	Celebration of Christian festivals
o	Support for Stort Valley Schools Trust
And international mission activities:
o	Latin Link
o	Wycliffe Bible Translators
o	TEAR Fund
We strive to advance citizenship and community development through:
•	Pastoral care, primarily to those who attend church but also
	extended to those outside the church
•	Support for Stort Valley Schools Trust
•	Part of Saffron Walden Street Pastors
When	planning activities for the year, the pastor, leadership team and
trustees have regard to the Commission’s guidance on charities for the
advancement of religion.
All the	above activities are open to all sections of the general public.

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.

As resources and opportunity permit we attempt to help those in need through:

• TEAR Fund (a third world development and aid agency),

• Emergency aid for others in great need.

The pastor, the ministry leader and the church administrator have been the only paid employees of the church so much of our activities are provided by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Worship

• Sunday Morning services and occasional Evening Prayer and Praise services. The Sundsy Morning services continued to be made available on line.

• All are welcome to join us in our services in the building and online.

Mid-week meetings

• Midweek small groups have continued.

• Pastoral Care

• Pastoral care continues through the small groups and directly by the Pastoral Care Team with issues passed on to the Leadership Team when appropriate. The wider community benefits from our pastoral care as appropriate through WWW (see below).

Pop-In Coffee Morning

• This particularly helps those of the wider community who may be lonely or in need of a chat. Payment is by voluntary gift only.

• Walden Wellbeing Walk-In

• This initiative has continued providing counselling for those in the community with emotional and mental health issues, staffed by qualified mental health practitioners and volunteers. This is open to the general public.

Mother and Toddler Group

• Continues throughout the year..

• Market Square Outreach

• Last year’s new initiative continued on Saturday mornings offering to listen and support any with issues who wished to share, particularly offering prayer support.

Ecumenical Relationships

• The church continues to be an active member of Churches Together in Saffron Walden. We are also members of the Evangelical Alliance. We have also continued to support three overseas missionary societies and to one UK missionary society.

Section D Achievements and erformance p

Summary of the main . Street Pastors achievements of the charity during the year (cont.) •

• The church continues a deep involvement with Street Pastors that was launched in 2013. They continued to patrol the streets every Friday evening between 8pm and 1.30am when licensed premises were open. They are there to help the evening community to have an enjoyable, and as far as possible, a safe experience of the town.

• • This initiative continues to have the support of the local police and the various licenced premises of the town.

Alpha Courses

• The church successfully ran a number of Alpha Courses during the year teaching the basics of Christianity to a range of interested people.

Church Building

• The church building has continued to be used for the benefit of the community providing accommodation as a Polling Station.

Section E Financial review

The income of the church, largely through voluntary donation, increased Brief statement of the from last year, while the expenditure remained at a similar level. The charity’s policy on reserves charity finished the year with a cash balance of £201,078 The above figure includes a restricted reserve of £9,882 donated for the Vacation Bible School. This activity is no longer continuing and it was decided to disburse this sum to other similar activities with similar aims but this has not yet been finalised. The church has a policy of maintaining a balance of £50,000 (or less if agreed by a church meeting) for the running of the charity. It was also resolved during the year to pursue investment of church funds in accordance with an Investment Policy, adopted during the year so as to offset the loss of value in savings accounts through inflation.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

Our income comes from:

• gifts and donations from those attending the church or using its facilities

• investment income

• gifts from individuals.

• 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

Signature(s) B J Land P J Graves Peter Jonathan Graves Full name(s) Barry James Land Position Chair & Secretary Trustee Date 16/10/2023

Saffron Walden Community Church 1176353 Receipts and payments accounts For the period 01/04/2022 31/03/2023 To from

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Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 117,573 540 13,982 817 - - - - 132,912 - - - 132,912 56,750 882 980 201 176 16,485 723 500 16,034 990 600 468 2,770 - 97,560 - - - 97,560 35,352 - 155,844 191,196	Restricted funds to the nearest £ 10 - - - - - - - 10 - - - 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 - 9,872 9,882	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 117,583 540 13,982 817 - - - - 132,922 - - - 132,922 56,750 882 980 201 176 16,485 723 500 16,034 990 600 468 2,770 - 97,560 - - - 97,560 35,362		Last year to the nearest £
Donations	117,573					99,662
Rental Income	540					420
Gift Aid Tax Reclaims	13,982					28,627
Savings A/c Interest	817					179
Govt Grant in lieu of VAT	-					1,442
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	-					-
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Sub total(Gross income for AR)	132,912					130,330
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-
	-					-
Sub total	-					-
Total receipts A3 Payments
						130,330
Employment	56,750					50,691
Worship	882					624
Youth	980					994
Community	201					128
Pastoral	176					145
Mission Support	16,485					9,899
Outreach	723					1,314
Social	500					-
Services	16,034					10,717
Subscriptions	990					943
Professional Fees	600					644
Refurbishment of building	468					9,533
Equipmentpurchases	2,770					8,077
	-					-
**Sub total **	97,560					93,707
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	-
	-
**Sub total **	-					-
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
						93,707
	35,352	10	-	35,362		36,623
	-	-	-	-		-
	155,844	9,872	-	165,716		129,095
	191,196	9,882	-	201,078		165,718

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

25/10/2023

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

Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets CCXX R2 accounts (SS)	Petty Cash Independent Examiner’s fees Expenses & refund debit card Portable Baptistry Photocopier Camera for recording services Projectors x 3 Details Staging for modular system Cooker Details Church building in Castle Street Laptops x 2 Drum Kit (electronic) Keyboard (Electric) Sound system Gift Aid reclaimable for 21/22 Lloyds Current A/c - SWCC Lloyds Current A/c - VBS Saffron Building Society Savings A/c Gift Aid reclaimable for 22/23 Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Gift Aid reclaimable for 22/23 Gift Aid reclaimable for 21/22 Details 2	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 101,338 - - 89,848 191,186 Agreement Error Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 12,679 1,635 600 350 - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates	Restricted funds to nearest £ - - 9,882 - 9,882 OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - Cost (optional) 450,000 940 2,300 2,000 16,000 1,830 1,400 2,100 1,700 2,700 2,000 Amount due (optional) 600 600 - -	Endowment funds to nearest £
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				-
				-
				-
				OK
				Endowment funds to nearest £
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				Current value (optional)
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				Current value (optional)
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				When due (optional)
	Independent Examiner’s fees		600
	Expenses & refund debit card		600
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	2		-	25/10/2023

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	P JGraves Signature B J Land	Print Name B J Land P J Graves	Date of approval
	B J Land	B J Land	16/10/2023
	P JGraves	P J Graves	16/10/2023

CCXX R3 accounts (SS)

25/10/2023

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report R•port to the trustesl m•mb•r8 of ,. saffr￿ Waklgn C(wnmunity Churth On accounis for th• year Charity no Irf any) 31 Mar( 2023 1176353 Set tjut on pag•x TAR aTrJ CC168 1-2 Respectfve The chatys trusiees are respo￿&ble for Ihe twaratlon of th8 acca)unts in r•sponsibilities of accordan￿ wilh the requirements of the Charltles Act 2011 {llh8 Acr). trustees and •xamin•r The canty's trustees cmsider that an is r#)1 requfred for this year undor sgction 144 of the Act and that an independent examinatbon is nèèd￿. It is my resp(x)s￿￿1ty b: examine the accounts urthr secxbn 145 01 Ihg Charitigs Acl, to follow the applt¢able Directions gNgn by the Charity Commisslon {under sets.on 14515)Ibl of th8 Act. and to stsle whether parbcular matters have corn to my attentbn. Bag19 of Indopond•nt My examinalKJi was carried wt in a¢￿dance with gonefal Direct￿nS given •xamlner's stat•ment by Ihe Chwity Commission. An examinab'on includes a review of Ihe ac£ounb'ng r￿OrdS kept by It￿ charity and a Comparison of tho 8Q￿untS prasenied Mlh thoso reci)rds. It also indudes ¢onsKleration of any unusual ems or disdosures in Ihe acccMJnts. and seekiThJ oxplanalM)ns from the trustees conceming any such matters. The [￿C￿edu￿S undertakgn do not prowde all the ey￿enCe Ihal ¥4Duld be required in an audit and conwuonty no opinion is giv&n 8S to ¥thther the accounts present a 'tru8 ard fairf wew and Iha report b Nmitod to those matters set in the siaiement ￿14￿. Independent In C￿neCtIon with my examination. no material matters have come to my examlnerfs statsmeni attent￿￿ whith gives me cause to beleve thal in. any material ras￿¢1.. accnunting recrKts were kew in accordanco wlth sectsjn 130 of tho Charithe$ Act or the accounts do not acccd tr accnc8ms aThJ have come across no olher matters in connocl vfith the examInat￿n to ￿lch aftenb'on shoukl drawn in order to enable a proper undetstanding of Ihe accounts to bo reached. Slgn•d: Dat•: 16 O¢iob8r 2023 Nam•: Pe er William Hill Relèvant professlonal quallfication(s) or body Chartered Accxxmtsnt (FCA- ￿lt￿h￿ no 7139500) Addres8: Hill House. 27 Me8dowf￿d Newpofc Saffron Walden , Essex C811 3QL IER May 2018

Section B Disclosur9 Only c¢mplele If ihe examiner needs lo nighlight matters ol Goricem Iseo CG32, Independent examinatKJn of charity aco)unts'. directions and guid8nce for examwers). ive he'-e any Items that tha gxaminer wlsh•g to di8e14W. May 2018