## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 04 2022 **To** 31 03 2023
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
HEART OF CHRIST
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1177397
**Charity's principal address** Kemp House 152 - 160 City Road London **Postcode EC1V 2NX**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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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||NICK GILCHRIST||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**|**Name**
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted
Constitution Foundation CIO
(eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Managing Trustees Trustee selection methods
(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;
## **Appointment of charity trustees**
1. Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed [for a term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
2. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, HOC trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of HOC objectives.
## **Information for new charity trustees**
The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
- a. Copy of the current version of HOC constitution; and
- b. Copy of HOC latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
1. For the public benefit, to advance the Christian faith in the UK and such other parts of the world as the trustees decide from time to time by: a. producing and/or distributing literature on Christianity to enlighten others about the Christian faith; and
- b. the provision of, or assisting in the provision of, Christian outreach and ministry.
2. The prevention or relief of poverty anywhere in the world by providing or assisting in the provision of practical assistance or support to the poor.
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## **Evangelism**
HOC evangelism activities returned to the streets following the lifting of Covid restrictions during the reporting period, as a result we were able to distribute over 1000 gospel materials.
## **Material assistance to the homeless**
Material assistance has mostly been directed to the following charity organisations during the reporting period:
**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)**
- Marylebone project
- NSNO (No Second Night Out) Family Spirit (Orphanage in Uganda)
- Zoe Girls (residential/vocational home for destitute girls in Uganda)
- Baptist Outreach Church (Christian/welfare outreach to rural Nigeria)
- Selection of material support provided in UK to the homeless through NSNO and Marylebone project include;
- Regular supply of provisions (Socks, underwear, tinned food, breakfast cereal & toiletries)
- Welcome rucksacks provided to newly admitted homeless women at Marylebone project
- Provision of beddings and room furniture to Marylebone project Christmas treats provided to the homeless residents at Marylebone project
- **Support for Outreach ministries** HOC maintain consistent modest financial support towards missionary Christian outreach to the Jewish community via CWI (Christian Witness to Israel)
## **Support for Outreach ministries**
## **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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Evangelism**
HOC returned to active street evangelism following the lifting of Covid restrictions during the reporting period, as a result we were able to distribute over 1200 gospel materials.
**Material assistance to the homeless** Most of the material assistance we delivered to the needy in the UK was channelled through our engagement with NSNO and Marylebone project. These organisations provide frontline services to the homeless in London.
||**NSNO**ofer temporary respite to homeless persons of the streets and process|
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||**Marylebone project**is residential unit for homeless women in London. The|
||hostel run by Church Army in central London has capacity to accommodate 112|
||women and play host to appx 50 non-resident homeless women who drop-in|
||daily to shower and access other welfare assistance.|
|We also provided fnancial support to cater for rural evangelism in Nigeria, the welfare||
|needs of|orphans and destitute girls via the following organisations in Uganda.|
||Glad Tidings Baptist church (rural outreach church)|
||Family Spirit (Orphanage in Uganda)|
||Zoe Girls (residential/vocational home for destitute girls in Uganda)|
|Below is|a selection of achievements in relation to support provided during the reporting|
|period:||
|**Marylebone project:**||
||Welcome rucksacks all stocked with personal care items and toiletries provided|
||to newly admitted homeless women at Marylebone project|
||Provision of beddings and room furniture for homeless residents|
||Provision of food containers|
|**Glassdoor:**||
||Provision of toiletries and dry food items to support the homeless at Christmas.|
|**NSNO:**||
||Provision of toiletries, food items and winter clothing to support homeless|
||service users.|
|**Family Spirit:**||
||We provided welfare support towards feeding and medication for the|
||orphanage with residence of appx 100 children in Uganda.|
|**Zoe Girls:**||
||We provided welfare support towards feeding, education and medication for the|
||girls home – residence to approximately 25 teenage girls in Uganda.|
|**Glad Tidings Baptist Church:**||
||We provided fnancial support towards construction of a rural|
||church/community building in rural Nigeria.|
|**Support for Outreach ministries:**||
||HOC provided modest regular fnancial support towards outreach ministry to|
||the Jewish community via CWI (Christian Witness to Israel). Approximately £600|
||fnancial support to help with gospel resources and outreach to Jewish|
||communities in UK and Europe.|
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
HOC has a deliberate policy of velocity in expending funds received consistent with stated charity objectives.
However, as our commitments continue to expand, we have resolved to maintain adequate reserves to sustain our commitments for at least 3- months.
## **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 (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**
**Signature(s)** CYRIL SOLUADE **Full name(s)** BALA ENEBI **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIR TRUSTEE **etc) Date** 24/12/2023
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**Charity Name No (if any) HEART OF CHRIST 1177397 Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date Period end date **To** 4/1/2023 3/31/2024
**For the period from**
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**Total funds Last year**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
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|**A1 Receipts**
Trustees
**3,918**
Donations
Gift Aid
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,918**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 3,918**
**A3 Payments**
Evangelism
**1,182**
Welfare for the Needy
**5,511**
Support for Christian Missions
**3,305**
Operations
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 10,122**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 10,122**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 6,204**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**7,312**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 1,108**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**
**3,918**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,918**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,918**
**1,182**
**5,511**
**3,305**
**124**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,122**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,122**
**- 6,204**
**-**
**7,312**
**1,108**|**to the nearest £**|
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**-**
**-**
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**-**|**3,918**|**-**|
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**-**
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**-**|**1,182**|**-**|
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||**-**||**1,108**|**-**|
## **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**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash funds this year end
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,108**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,108**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
BALA ENEBI
CYRIL SOLUADE
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
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