**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** |**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**|**Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**From**|Period start date|||_To_|Period end date|||| ||**1st**|**April**|**2024**||**31st **|**March**|**2025**|| ## _**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
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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 - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Constitution How the charity is constituted - Charitable Incorporated Organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods New trustees are appointed by existing trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **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 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. It is intended to seek additional trustees from the Leadership Team during 2025. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** For the public benefit, to advance the Christian faith in Saffron Walden, **Summary of the objects of the** Essex and such other parts of the UK and the world as the charity **charity set out in its** trustees may from time to time decide. **governing document** ||**Objectives and activities**| |---|---| ||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.| |**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)**|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:
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regular worship services
•
teaching related to evangelical Christianity for children and adults
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a Toddlers Group, and well-being groups, and
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working with other churches and with Saffron Walden Churches
Together
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:
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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 Sunday Morning services continued to be made available on line. • From September 2023, a second weekly Sunday Morning Service was held in the Jubilee Gardens Hub in the centre of town providing a more informal service but still under the main church umbrella. • All are welcome to join us in our services in the buildings and on-line. _**Mid-week meetings**_ • Midweek small groups have continued. _**Pastoral Care**_ • Pastoral care continues through the small groups and directly by 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 helped those of the wider community who may be lonely or in need of a chat. Payment was by voluntary gift only. However, due to falling numbers and recognition that other opportunities were available in town, this activity ceased in November 2024. _**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**_ • This 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 performance |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year (cont.)**|.
**_Community Pastors_**
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Renamed from Street Pastors with which the church continues a
deep involvement. 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. They have expanded into help on the
local railway and daytime patrols in town when necessary.
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This initiative continues to have the support of the Town Council,
the local police and the various licenced premises of the town.
**_Alpha Courses_**
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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** |**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially**
**in deficit**|The income of the church, largely through voluntary donation and return
on savings and investments, increased substantially from last year, while
the expenditure increased only modestly. The charity finished the year
with a cash balance of £191,825 and an investment portfolio of £103,000.
The church sought to appoint another staff member during the year
without success (but a new staff member is due to start in September
2025) and the balance may be required not only for employment costs
but also some element of housing funding.
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.| |---|---| ||| ## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position**
**Date**|_B. J. Land_|_P.J. Graves_| |---|---|---| ||Barry James Land|Peter Jonathan Graves| ||Chair & Secretary|Trustee| ||20 October 2025|| ||20 October 2025|| |**Saffron Walden Community Church**|**Saffron Walden Community Church**||**1176353**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|4/1/2024|**To**|3/31/2025|| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**125,432**
Rental Income
**1,260**
Gift Aid Tax Reclaims
**34,612**
Savings A/c Interest
**3,810**
Govt Grant in lieu of VAT
**169**
Interest and dividents(Walden Capital)
**874**
**-**
**-**
**166,157**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**(Gross income for AR)||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**125,432**
**1,260**
**34,612**
**3,810**
**169**
**874**
**-**
**-**
**166,157**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**125,432**|**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**125,432**|**128,536**| |Rental Income|**1,260**|**-**||**1,260**|**420**| |Gift Aid Tax Reclaims|**34,612**|**-**||**34,612**|**34,469**| |Savings A/c Interest|**3,810**|**-**||**3,810**|**3,757**| |Govt Grant in lieu of VAT|**169**|**-**||**169**|**243**| |Interest and dividents(Walden Capital)|**874**|**-**||**874**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**(Gross income for AR)|**166,157**|**-**||**166,157**|**167,426**| |**-**
Investment sales
**26,436**
**_Sub total_ 26,436**
**_Total receipts_ 192,593**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**26,436**
**26,436**
**192,593**|| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| |||||**26,436**|**-**| |||||**26,436**|**-**| ||||||| |||**-**|**-**||**167,426**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**(see table).**|||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |Investment sales||**26,436**||**-**||**-**||**26,436**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**26,436**||**-**||**-**||**26,436**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**||**192,593**||**-**||**-**||**192,593**||**167,426**|| ## **A3 Payments** |Employment|**72,701**||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**72,701**||**64,396**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Worship|**3,001**||**-**|||**3,001**||**2,686**| |Youth|**1,971**||**-**|||**1,971**||**1,097**| |Community|**9**||**-**|||**9**||**149**| |Pastoral|**1,514**||**-**|||**1,514**||**671**| |Mission Support|**12,538**|||||**12,538**||**22,718**| |Outreach|**454**||**-**|||**454**||**548**| |Social|**848**||**-**|||**848**||**1,000**| |Services|**15,308**||**-**|||**15,308**||**14,721**| |Subscriptions|**2,170**||**-**|||**2,170**||**1,650**| |Professional Fees|**720**||**-**|||**720**||**775**| |Refurbishment of building|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |Equipmentpurchases|**17,371**||**-**|||**17,371**||**3,327**| |Investment Management fees|**1,420**||**-**|||**1,420**||**1,697**| |Adjustment|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**8**| |**_Sub total_**|**130,026**||**-**|||**130,026**||**115,443**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| |Walden Capital Investment|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**97,996**|| |Purchase of investment|**25,808**||**-**||**-**||**25,808**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|**25,808**||**-**||**-**||**25,808**||**97,996**|| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**155,834**||**-**||**-**||**155,834**||**213,439**|| |||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**36,760**||**-**||**-**||**36,760**||**- 46,013**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**155,065**||**-**||**-**||**155,065**||**155,065**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**191,825**||**-**||**-**||**191,825**||**109,052**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Lloyds Current A/c - SWCC
Petty Cash
Walden Capital
Lloyds Current A/c - VBS
Saffron Building Society Savings A/c
**Details**
Gift Aid reclamable for 24/25
**Details**
Walden Capital
**Details**
Church building in Castle Street
Other Assets
**Details**
Independent Examiner’s fees
Expenses & refund debit card
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**94,019**
**-**
**992**
**-**
**96,814**
**191,825**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**2,254**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**General Investment**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**450,000**
**51,963**
**720**
**166**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**103,000**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||Independent Examiner’s fees||**720**|| ||Expenses & refund debit card||**166**|| **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Signed by one or two trustees on Date of
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B. J. L an d B. J. Land 10/20/2025
P. J. Graves
10/20/2025
P. J. Graves
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Asset Register |**Details**
Laptops x 2
Drum Kit(electronic)
Keyboard(Electric)
Sound system
Portable Baptistry
Photocopier
Stagingfor modular system
Cooker
Camera for recordingservices
Projectors x 3
WIFI Hardware
Chairs (160 * £107 each)|**Fund to**
**which**
**asset**
**belongs**|**Cost**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| |||| |||**940**| |||**2,300**| |||**2,000**| |||**16,000**| |||**1,830**| |||**1,400**| |||**2,100**| |||**1,700**| |||**2,700**| |||**2,000**| |||**1,632**| |||**17,161**| 160 107.2563 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Saffron Walden Community Church On aC￿unts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 31 March 2025 1176353 Set out on pages TAR and CC16a 1-2 Respectlve The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in responsbbilities of accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 1.the Acr}. trustees and examiner The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Act and thal an independent examination is needed. 11 is my responsibility to". examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act. to follow the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145151(b) of the Act, and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Basis of independent My examination was Garried out in accordance with general Directions given examiner's statement by the Charity Commission. An exafflination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and faiff view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the slalement below. Independent In connection WFth my examinath'on. no material matters have come to Tny examiner's statement attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting re(xJrds were not kept in accordance wilh section 130 of the Charities Ad or the accounts do not accord wtth the accoLJnting records. I have no concerns and have come acr033 no olher matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgned: Date: 20 October 2025 Name: Peter Wi Relevant professional quallflcationls} or body Chartered Accountant {FCA- Membership no 7139500) Address: Hill House, 27 Meadowford Newport. Saffron Walden Essex CB113QL IER May 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rfthe examiner needs lo highlight matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief detslls of any items that the exafniner wishes to Isclose. IER May 2018