## **CHESTER SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORK CIO** 

**Registered Charity No. 1177175** 

**Annual Report & Financial Statements For the year ended 31st August 2022** 



## **CHESTER SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORK CIO** 

Registered Charity No. 1177175 

## **Contents of Annual Report & Financial Statements For the period ended 31st August 2022** 

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|**CONTENTS**|**Page**|
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|Charity information|2|
|Trustees annual report|3|
|Independent Examiners Report|6|
|Receipts and payments account|8|



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## **CHESTER SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORK CIO** 

## **Charity lnformation** 

## **For the year ended 31st August 2022** 

|_______________________________________________________________________|_______________________________________________________________________|
|---|---|
|Charity Number|1177175|
|Working Names|Chester Schools Christian Work|
||CSCW|
|Governing lnstrument:||
||Constitution registered by the Charity Commission|
||5thFebruary 2018|
|Trustees|Su Chester|
||Sue Glover|
||Philip Goss|
||Lucy Metcalfe|
||Simon Kaye|
|Principal Address|Vicars Cross United Reformed Church|
||Oldfield Drive|
||Vicars Cross|
||Chester|
||CH3 5LL|
|Bankers|Bank of Scotland|
||33 Old Broad Street London Branch,|
||PO Box 1000,|
||BX2 1LB|
||Kingdom Bank|
||Media House|
||Padge Road|
||Beeston|
||NOTTINGHAM|
||NG9 2RS|
|Independent Examiners|G. Mattocks FCA,|
||18 Mulberry Avenue,|
||Turnstone Business Park,|
||WIDNES,|
||WA8 0WN|



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## **CHESTER SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORK CIO** 

## **Trustees' Report for the year ended 31st August 2022** 

The Trustees submit their report and the financial statements for the period ended 31st August 2022 _._ 

## **General lnforma%on** 

The charity is a charitable incorporated organisa�on, governed by a cons�tu�on registered by the Charity Commission on 5[th] February 2018. 

The first trustees were appointed by the cons�tu�on. Subsequent appointments are made by the trustees. They serve for an indefinite period. 

The Trust is a ‘Local Mission Partner’ linked to and supported by Scripture Union, a large and worldwide organiza�on working with children, young people and families interna�onally. By an order of the Charity Commission dated 27[th] June 2018 the Chester Schools Chris�an Work Trust Charity Registra�on number 1041454 was authorised to transfer its assets to the CIO. On 1[st] September 2018 all the assets of the Chester Schools Chris�an Work Trust were vested in this charity. The charity is carrying on the work formerly done by the trust from 1[st] September 2018. 

## **Objects of the charity as laid down by the Cons%tu%on** 

To advance the Chris�an religion in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs appearing in the Schedule to the cons�tu�on and in par�cular in the city of Chester and the surrounding area and primarily amongst children and young people in the schools and other educa�onal establishments in the said area. 

This has been achieved by raising money to support Chris�an workers to go into schools. 

## **Review of the Year** 

## **Primary Schools Work** 

The new academic year began posi�vely with the regular primary school work being delivered by Andy Avery, church partners and the team of volunteers. Andy Avery con�nued to lead collec�ve worship for 8oo pupils every week with a further 750 young people on a monthly basis. Andy has also supported partner churches to deliver collec�ve worship to a similar number of pupils again at their local primary schools. 

In many ways, the last 12 months have been more challenging than the first 18 months of Covid as it has been really tough to get in any kind of rou�ne. Un�l Easter Andy never really knew whether he would be in a school as planned or cancelled (o9en at the very last minute), not always knowing which year groups would be available or whether it would be held in a hall or a classroom, or on Zoom which made planning incredibly difficult! 

Despite this, it has been exci�ng to see God working in the Primary Schools across the city. Highlights would include, star�ng monthly worship at one primary school which has been great, giving out over 1000 ‘It's Your Move’ books alongside other workers across the city. Feedback from the lessons indicate that around 90% of the Year 6’s felt more confident about going to High School a9er we had spoken with them which is really encouraging. 

We also had the opportunity to support one academy for the first �me and are already exploring how we can strengthen the rela�onship with them. It's also been exci�ng to start doing some Prayer Spaces again - this is something we hope to do more of in the next 

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academic year.  Whole-school ‘Prayer Spaces’ were provided in 2 primary schools. There was an opportunity to restart residen�al trips this year. 

## **High Schools Summary** 

What an amazing year full of ups and downs - along with uncertain�es and challenges we can s�ll reflect on many moments of seeing young people developing resilience, being encouraged and achieving incredible success in many areas. Over the year we have delivered hundreds of hours mentoring to those most in need, support to Chris�an Unions and helped run Prayer Spaces, delivered engaging and appropriate healthy rela�onship and sex educa�on through the RSE curriculum, facilitated several rounds of the Kintsugi Hope Mental Wellbeing Group and been a key lead in city-wide youth events. 

The Kintsugi Hope groups have changed format throughout the year as we con�nued to seek to deliver this much needed support in the most impacJul way. eg we worked with the school to release the pupils for 1 full day (rather than 6 sessions over a half term) and covered the key topics with greater depth of conversa�on and rela�onship in making a bigger posi�ve impact on their wellbeing. We are now discussing a regular Kintsugi Club at lunch�mes to further develop this essen�al area of support. 

The city-wide youth events con�nue to bring young people from different schools and congrega�ons together to equip and encourage young people in their faith. From May, Darren leads the monthly youth event YthX where we are partnering with Chester churches to deliver a youth service for young people, by young people. Also, Project 22 at Easter brought youth and youth workers from different churches together to deliver a missionfocused event - a massive thank you to everyone who prayed for this event - it was fantas�c! 

The development and support of Chris�an Unions and safe spaces con�nues to be important and we were invited into another Chester high school to lead a Chris�an Union with the local church, star�ng in September! Our hope is to partner with key pupils and staff in other schools to see a CU in every High School in Chester 

As well as con�nuing the above, we are again seNng more dates for RSE lessons for all year groups throughout the coming year, have a full week of assemblies already booked in for September, a term of city-wide youth events including a youth weekend away in November, we're con�nuing to support those most in need through our mentoring programme, seeking further prayer space opportuni�es and doing all we can to Inspire HOPE and Unlock POTENTIAL in the lives of our amazing young people in Chester. 

It has been an extremely challenging year and the coming year looks to bring many new challenges too. We are looking forward to con�nuing to serve and support pupils in Chester schools, knowing there will be a high demand to adapt and respond quickly to developing needs in the personal and spiritual wellbeing of children and young people in Chester. 

## **lnvestment Policy** 

The charity’s policy is to deposit surplus funds with the Kingdom Bank to seek a reasonable interest rate. 

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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 

**Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

> **Report to the trustees of** The Chester Schools Chris�an Work CIO 

**On accounts for the year** 31st August 2022 **Charity no** 1177175 **ended Set out on pages** 8-10) 

**Respec%ve responsibili%es of** The charity's trustees are responsible for the prepara�on of **trustees and examiner** the accounts. 

The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under sec�on 144 of the Chari�es Act 2011 (the Chari�es Act) and that an independent examina�on is needed. 

It is my responsibility to: 

- examine the accounts under sec�on 145 of the Chari�es Act, 

- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Direc�ons given by the Charity Commission (under sec�on 145(5)(b) of the Chari�es Act, and 

- to state whether par�cular maUers have come to my aUen�on. 

**Basis of independent examiner’s statement** 

My examina�on was carried out in accordance with general Direc�ons given by the Charity Commission.  An examina�on includes a review of the accoun�ng records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records.  It also includes considera�on of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explana�ons from the trustees concerning any such maUers.  The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and 

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||**Chester Schools Christian Work CIO **|**Chester Schools Christian Work CIO **|**Chester Schools Christian Work CIO **|**Chester Schools Christian Work CIO **|**Chester Schools Christian Work CIO **|**1177175**|**1177175**||**CC16a**||
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||1st September||**To**|31st August|||||
||||<br>2021|||<br>2022|||||
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|**Section A Receipts andpayments**|||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|Gifts and donations from Churches|**14,619**||**2,631**||**-**||**17,250**||**18,193**||
|Gifts and donations from individuals|**14,983**||**1,220**||**-**||**16,203**||**16,976**||
|Othergrants and legacies|**13,000**||||**-**||**13,000**||**22,000**||
|Tax repayments|**4,298**||**175**||**-**||**4,473**||**1,170**||
|Fund raisingevents|**567**||||||**567**||||
|Movingon donations|**-**||**995**||**-**||**995**||**958**||
|Sundryincome|**385**||**-**||**-**||**385**||**13**||
|Bank interest|**46**||**-**||**-**||**46**||**69**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**47,898**||**5,021**||**-**||**52,919**||**59,379**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Total receipts_ **|**47,898**||**5,021**||**-**||**52,919**||**59,379**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
|**Salaries**andpension|**36,412**||**8,381**||**-**||**44,793**||**49,209**||
|Other staff expenses and costs|**1,213**||**-**||**-**||**1,213**||**538**||
|**Office costs**|**2,677**||||**-**||**2,677**||**2,505**||
|**Project expenses**|**156**||**77**||**-**||**233**||**224**||
|Movingon|||**1,215**||**-**||**1,215**||**1,163**||
|Project expenses RSE|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**99**||
|**Events**|**449**||**-**||**-**||**449**||**-**||
|**Training**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**105**||
|**Other -**Gifts|**178**||**-**||**-**||**178**||**156**||
|Scripture Union|**500**||**-**||**-**||**500**||**500**||
|Insurance|**1,017**||**-**||**-**||**1,017**||**530**||
|Staff computers and video software|**112**||**-**||**-**||**112**||**1,405**||
|Refreshments dinners and hospitality|**28**||**-**||**-**||**28**||**108**||
|Accounts examination|**264**||**-**||**-**||**264**||**240**||
|Miscellaneous|**152**||**-**||**-**||**152**||**25**||
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|**_Sub total_**|**43,158**||**9,673**||**-**||**52,831**||**56,807**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|**43,158**||**9,673**||**-**||**52,831**||**56,807**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**4,740**||**(4,652)**||**-**||**88**||**2,572**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**||**-**||||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**33,296**||**6,007**||**-**||**39,303**||**27,924**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**38,036**||**1,355**||**-**||**39,391**||**30,496**||
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||Total cashfunds|||
||(agree balances with receipts and|||
|||Restricted<br>fundsII|Endowment<br> <br>funds|
|83Investment assets||||
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|85 Liabilities||||
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|**Section C Notes on accounts**|||||||||||
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|**C  Movements of restricted andgeneral funds**|||||||||||
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||Opening||Receipts||Payments||Transfers||Closing||
||Balance||||||||Balance||
|**General Fund**|||||||||||
|Undesignated funds|33,296||47,898||43,158||||38,036||
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|**Restricted funds**|||||||||||
|Resilience|5,000||-||5,000||||-||
|Primarywork|-||3,381||3,381||||-||
|Movingon|(100)||1,012||1,215||290||(13)||
|Prayer spaces|1,110||600||77||(290)||1,343||
|CU Bibles|-||25||||||25||
|Chocs for teachers|(3.00)||3||||||-||
|Restricted Totals|6,007||5,021||9,673||-||1,355||
|Overall totals|39,303||52,919||52,831||-||39,391||
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|Note that £13 deficit for MovingOn was met bya tax repayment in September 2022|||||||||||
|£290 was transferred from Prayer Spaces to MovingOn byagreement with the donors|||||||||||
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