## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
1[st] April
31[st] March 2024
2023
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** The Community Church Burton and District **Other names charity is known by** TCC, The Community Church **Registered charity number (if any)** 1177675 **Charity's principal address** Main Street Burton on Trent Staffordshire **Postcode** DE15 9AR
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Kirsty Brown Chair Trustees
2 Dawn Bircher Trustees
3 Laurie Charles Trustees
4 Lindsay Corten Trustees
5 Anthony Gratton Trustees
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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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address**
## **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
CIO - Foundation
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Foundation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by the current 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;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 4.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, 4.2. TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF NEED OR DISTRESS BY REASON **Summary of the objects of the** OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY OR SUCH OTHER ECONOMIC OR **charity set out in its** SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE; AND **governing document** 4.3. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF BURTON-UPON-TRENT AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**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)**
Our main Sunday services take place every week and we continue to live stream them, with a great number of viewing figures. We continue to use our community room (No 1, Ferry Street) for community and church groups. Mondays we have a food bank, Tuesdays – Cuppa and a Chat, Wednesday – Teapots, a free afternoon tea, Thursday – Heat & Eat, a free hot meal, Friday – Youth Drop In run in conjunction with Burton Youth For Christ. Apart from the drop in all of these are Warm Spaces and are open to different people within our local community and are proving very popular. We also have Knit night once a month and the youth of the church meet every week on a Tuesday. We run two successful Alpha courses.
At our church building we also have Young Adults who meet every Tuesday and Little Blessings Toddler group on a Wednesday and Shorties Baby group on Thursdays.
The employment of a Community Development Manager in the previous year has proved to be a great thing and she liaises with all groups as well as looks for grant funding.
We continue to run the Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre and this remains busy. Again, Christmas hampers were put together with help from the congregation and all of the CAP clients were given one to bless them.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
All policies in place are made and approved by the trustees.
We currently hold no investments.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
We highly value the contribution made by volunteers, so many members of church give their time to enable us to carry out all of our activities to a high level. We could not do the majority of things within TCC without our volunteers.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** We started the year in April with Easter celebrations at the groups, with **achievements of the charity** prize draws of Hampers and craft activities, it was our most attended **during the year** week of the year 23/24. Cuppa and a Chat are gradually starting to see numbers increase and are making the space have its own identity now with new table cloths and decorations in their theme colours. They held a morning over Easter focusing on bereavement help and had a table outside with free plants and memorial stones for people to take home and plant in memory of a loved one. Connect, our over 60’s group had a Film night and Christmas dinner, numbers to Connect have increased. Numbers continue to rise at all of the groups and following a visit from Welcome spaces lead Lesley Bovington, we have been advertised on the Staffordshire groups news page including photographs of some of the groups. Heat and Eat held several craft activities, including knitting a blanket for the homeless and creating Wool wall Art and are serving a 2-course meal to an average of 27 people per week. Following a visit from Stapenhill Councillor Michael Fitzpatrick & Sara Botham (E.S.B.C) to our Number One Ferry Street & Sixty-Three Main Street buildings, we were thrilled to receive £2,000 funding from E.S.B.C towards the running of our community projects. Both were very impressed with the level of support being offered to local residents. Valentine themed meals were served at Number One and every visitor given a little rose with a bible verse attached. We continued to help our asylum seeker friends, with English lessons amongst many other areas of support – clothes, appointments, etc. Our volunteers did a really good job helping them and it was great to see them become integrated into our church family. We have also seen several of them baptised into the Christan Faith. We continue to support our family in Burundi with a monthly gift – they do great work amongst young people and children who would otherwise be living on the streets. A group of various leaders across the church attended the Pioneer Leaders Conference in March – a great event for encouraging them. We also ran a very successful Ladies Weekend in June and throughout the year there were Mens Discipleship Nights. A group of our young people went to Limitless, a residential camp, in the summer and had a great time.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The church holds reserves to cover all of our commitments towards debtors and also employees should we require redundancy. This is reviewed yearly.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **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);
Most of the charity’s funding comes from individual donors, plus some grants that we have received for our work. We also received some funding for our Food Bank and other activities in our community rooms. We continue to be very grateful to all the people who invest into The Community Church activities across the year and know that this has helped us to grow in both our church and community activities.
- how expenditure has We have no investment policy and no investments.
- 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)** Kirsty Brown Laurie Charles **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Trustee **etc) Date**
March **2012**
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**Charity Name No (if any) The Community Church 1177675 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2023 31/03/2024
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Restricted
Total funds Last year
funds funds - Other Fund - CAP
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Voluntary donations 137,373 6,422 11,306 155,101 124,680
Income for activities and events 1,260 1,260 1,743
Investment income 1,020 14 1,034 222
Grants 16 5,940 11,000 16,956 11,156
Earned Income 615 615 7,490
Other 889 1,520 2,409 1,344
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- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 141,173 ] 12,362 23,840 177,375 146,635
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 141,173 12,362 23,840 177,375 146,635
A3 Payments
Mission 16,601 1,766 18,367 17,071
Ministry 11,843 2,895 6,316 21,054 24,270
People related costs 61,138 32 8,989 70,159 55,289
Overheads 2,558 663 50 3,271 4,809
Hospitality - -
Office Costs 4,022 32 90 4,144 4,673
Miscellaneous - -
Premises Expenses 14,999 22,565 37,564 35,956
- -
- -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 111,161 ] 27,953 15,445 154,559 142,068
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Water boiler 1,591 - 1,591
Other 2,059 1,368 3,427 4,168
Sub total [ 2,059 ] 1,591 1,368 5,018 4,168
Total payments 113,220 29,544 16,813 159,577 146,236
Net of receipts/(payments) 27,953 - 17,182 7,027 17,798 399
A5 Transfers between funds - 15,553 15,553 - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 73,332 7,410 3,206 83,948 83,549
Cash funds this year end 85,732 5,781 10,233 101,746 83,948
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors -Gift aid receivable
Prepayments
CAF Cash & Savings Accounts
CAP Account
Building account
**Details**
**Details**
A/V and Music instruments
Computers
Main Street Stapenhill property
Cameras
Live Stream equipment
Defibrilator
Tables ,Chairs & Trolley
Water boiler
spotlights
**Details**
Suppliers
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**71,750**
**5,781**
**13,982**
**85,732**
**5,781**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**23,506**
**-**
**7,112**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Restricted CAP
**1,368**
Unrestricted
**118,457**
Unrestricted
**3,873**
Unrestricted
**563**
Unrestricted
**1,913**
Unrestricted
**3,155**
Unrestricted
**1,591**
Unrestricted
**436**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**3,302**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Restricted**
**fund - CAP**
**to nearest £**
**772**
**9,461**
**-**|
||||**10,233**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|
|---|---|
|**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|The Community Church
31stMarch 2024
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1177675
1 and 2 of Schedule CC16a
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/03/2024**.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of theTrust’saccounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.|
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- • the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**
||10/1/2025|
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||Richard Farmer||
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||Chartered Institute of Management Accountants||
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||23, Faraday Avenue, Stretton, Burton upon Trent, Staffs, DE13 0FX||
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