## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **From 01 July 2023 To 30 June 2024** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1177407 ## **TURNERS HILL FREE CHURCH** **Charity's principal address** North Street Turners Hill Crawley West Sussex RH10 4NR ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Andrew Sweetman|Chairman|01/11/2023 - 30/06/2024|| ||Peter James||01/11/2023 – 30/06/2024|| ||Pamela Miller|Treasurer||| ||Karen Miller|Secretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** June 2024 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||| |**Bankers**|HSBC||9 The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1UT| |**Independent Examiner**|Keith Halstead MA
(Oxon) FCA||60 Woodcote Hurst, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7DT| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| ||||| |**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
(eg. trust, association, company)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Church Member vote|||| |||

Constitution|| |||
Charitable Incorporated Organisation|| |||
Church Member vote|| ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Throughout the year (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2024) the Church has been under the Spiritual oversight of a full-time Minister and 4 Elders. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - Turners Hill Free Church has strong links to The Countess of - • Huntingdon’s Connexion which was founded by Lady Selina Countess of policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Huntingdon, during a season of revival that saw a dramatic expansion of Gospel influence that transformed society on both sides of the Atlantic. - training of trustees; The Countess welcomed all who would make the proclamation of the - • the charity’s organisational Gospel their priority and we are proud to remain in that tradition. structure and any wider network with which the charity Historically Turners Hill Free Church was part of the Countess of works; Huntingdon’s Connexion Trust (Charity No 232674) until it was decided - • relationship with any related that the Church would be better served by becoming a Registered Charity (Charitable Incorporated Organisation – CIO) in its own right. The - parties; Countess of Huntingdon Trust is responsible for the oversight of Turners - • trustees’ consideration of Hill Free Church. major risks and the system and procedures to manage Turners Hill Free Church is a member of the Evangelical Alliance and fully them. endorses its Basis of Faith. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** Turners Hill Free Church exists to declare the Lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ in Turners Hill and the surrounding area. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** **TAR** June 2024 2 |**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)**||The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit. The main activities undertaken during
2023/2024 were as follows:-
**Church Services**
Church Services are open to all and are held every Sunday at 10 am.
**Fellowship groups and prayer meetings**
The congregation is encouraged to meeting weekly in smaller Fellowship
Groups for bible study and prayer
**Little Angels**
This group caters for parents and pre-school age children who meet on
Tuesday mornings during term-time. It is very well attended and is
currently the most successful aspect of the Church’s community
activities.
**Community Lunch**
Once a month a lunch is provided for the community in the Church Hall.
All members of the community are invited to attend.
**Church and Hall Hire**
A local choir hire the Church for rehearsals on one evening per week.
The Church Hall is also available for hire by the local community.
**Gilgal Mission**
The Church continues to support, financially, in prayer and with
friendship, the work of Gilgal Bible Training College located in Southern
India.
**Sierra Leone Mission**
The Church supports, financially, in prayer and with friendship the work of
the Sierra Leone Mission. The Church makes a large contribution
towards the annual Shoe Bag project administered by the Sierra Leone
Mission.
**Support for Missionaries**
We are supporting financially, in prayer and with friendship people who
are preparing for mission work in Thailand and regular mission work in
Romania.
**British Heart Foundation Bike Ride**
Once a year approximately 1000 cyclists stop for free refreshments at
Turners Hill Free Church when they are taking part in the British Heart
Foundation Bike Ride. We provide free refreshments to all who stop by.
Any donations (net of costs) are sent to the Sierra Leone Mission and
Gilgal.| |---|---|---| **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** June 2024 3 **............................................................................................ ...............** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** June 2024 4 ## Section D Achievements and erformance p **Summary of the main ............................................................................................ achievements of the charity ............... during the year** **TAR** June 2024 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The Trustees’ policy is to ensure that unrestricted reserves are sufficient **Brief statement of the** for three months’ unrestricted expenditure at current costs. **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 (including any fundraising); The charity’s principal source of funding comes from planned and ad- hoc giving from church members. The charity’s main expenditure is on staff costs of key workers, maintenance of the buildings, missional activities (Sierra Leone and Gilgal) and local events such as the annual Turners Hill Fete and the British Heart Foundation Bike Ride. - 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)** Andrew Sweetman Pamela Miller **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 25 August 2024 **TAR** June 2024 6 ||||||||||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**TURNERS HILL FREE CHURCH**|||||**1177407**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||**01/07/2023**||||**30/06/2024**||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts andpayments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest**
**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |General Giving|**32,874**||**16,931**||**-**||**49,805**||**44,915**| |Tax Refunds|**7,415**||**3,115**||**-**||**10,529**||**9,975**| |Rental Income|**1,457**||||**-**||**1,457**||**2,957**| |Interest Received|**803**||||**-**||**803**||**453**| |Sundry|**3,315**||**346**||**-**||**3,661**||**118**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**45,864**||**20,392**||**-**||**66,255**||**58,418**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||||||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**45,864**||**20,392**||**-**||**66,255**||**58,418**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Donations|**794**||**18,470**||**-**||**19,264**||**14,486**| |PropertyRepairs|||||**-**||**-**||**11,028**| |PropertyOverheads|**14,995**||||**-**||**14,995**||**11,231**| |Hospitality|||||||**-**||**-**| |Overheads|**4,743**||||||**4,743**||**3,364**| |Sundry|**2,446**||**143**||||**2,589**||**5,261**| |Payroll & allowances|**32,328**||||||**32,328**||**28,844**| |Outreach/Youth/Pastoral|**2,392**||**213**||**-**||**2,605**||**1,621**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**57,697**||**18,826**||**-**||**76,523**||**75,835**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|**57,697**||**18,826**||**-**||**76,523**||**75,835**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 11,834**||**1,566**||**-**||**- 10,268**||**- 17,416.37**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**111,271**||**3,737**||**-**||**115,008**||**132,424**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**99,437**||**5,302**||**-**||**104,740**||**115,008**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 11/11/2024 1 ||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of theperiod**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Account 02415194 40-18-22||||**23,319**||**3,583**||**-**| ||Account 22415208 40-18-22||||||**1,719**||**-**| ||Insignis Cash Management Fund||||**76,119**||||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**99,438**||**5,302**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||Agreement Error||OK||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||||||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 11/11/2024 2 ||||||||**-**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of
approval| ||||||Pamela Miller||||**27/10/2024**| ||||||||||| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 11/11/2024 3 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIANO ANO WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner s Report ReF)Ort to th• trustees TURNERS HILL FREE CHURCH On accounts for the year ended 30" June 2024 Charity no {If any) 1177407 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the at￿UnIS of the atx)V8 charity {llhe Trusfi for the year ended 3010612024. As the chaiitys trustees. you are responsible for the preparatron of the acojunts in accordance with the requirements of the Chanties Act 2011 {Ihe A(X). Re3Ron$lblllties and basls of report I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's &tounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in caryng OLrt my examination, I have folkhved all the applicable Directions gwen by the Chanty Commission under sethon 145(5){b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I ￿nfirrn that no mateiial matters have examiner's ststement come to my attention in conneclion with the examination which gives me cause lo beI￿ve that in, any material respect.. the ac£ounting records ￿tre not kept in accordan￿ wilh sedion 130 ot the Charities Act.. or the actounts dbj not acrnfd with the accounling records., or the accounts did not COM￿ with the apFlicable requirements conceming the form and ￿ntent of ￿unt$ set oui in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts gNe a ttrue and fairf v￿W wttich is not a matter consmlered as part of an independent examination. I have m concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examinats'on to whith attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understsnding of the accounts to be reached. Slgnod: Name: Kerth Halstead Relevant professional qualification(s) or body Irf any): Instrtute of Chartered Ac￿untants in EnglarKI and W*s Address: 60 Wo(xlo)te Hurst. Ep$￿, sU￿Y I￿18 7DT IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rflhe examiner needs to highlighi material matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examinatM)n of chanty accounts". directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Glve hore brlef detalls of any items that the examiner wishos to disclose. NIA IER Oct 2018