2025-03-31-accounts - The Community Church Burton And District

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

1[st] April

31[st] March 2025

2024

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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
6 Alexander Shaw 22.05.25 Trustees
7 Katy Broomfield 22.05.25 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

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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

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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. The young adults
and youth of TCC continue to meet every week.
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 have Knit night once a month and the youth of the church have met
there every week on a Tuesday.
We continue to run Alpha Courses (for people to look at Christianity) and
it was very successful.
We have introduced a ‘Foundations’ Course for people to look at the
foundations of Christianity and this ran twice throughout the year with
good attendance.
We also continued to run Freedom in Christ courses for those who want
to discover more about the freedom of living as a Christian.
At our church building Young Adults meet every Tuesday, 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 success and she liaises with all groups as
well and also applied for funding via grants. The church profited well
from grants throughout the year and this enabled us to continue our free
events for the community.
We continue to run the Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre for Burton
and the surrounding area, and this remains busy. Once again, Christmas
hampers were put together with help from the congregation and all of the
CAP clients were given one to bless them.
Volunteers also offered to help people filling in forms, CV’s etc alongside
our other activities at No 1 Ferry Street, which people found very helpful
and we saw success with some finding jobs.

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 continue to highly value the contribution made by volunteers, so many members of church give their time which enables us to carry out all of our activities to a high level. We could not achieve our impact on the community without our volunteers.

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main In April our safeguarding lead held a course for teenage girls called ‘I am achievements of the charity Worthy’, which was well attended and very useful. during the year In May we had a successful Men’s Weekend with a guest speaker and everyone had a good time together. An evening called ‘Linger’ was introduced for the church once a month, which enabled people to come along and linger in the presence of God. Connect, our over 60’s group were unable to book the restaurant normally used for a Christmas Dinner, but the team members took it upon themselves to organise a meal at No 1 and this was very well attended and enjoyed by our older members of the congregation. All groups are well attended and making a difference in our community on many different levels. Cuppa and a Chat continuing well and now we find numbers are increasing. This has been a slow burn event every week at No 1 but we are grateful that our volunteers have continued to open every week and that their dedication has paid off. Our toddler group, Little Blessings and baby group, Shorties continue to be very popular. It should be mentioned that we make no charge for any of our community events so that they can be accessed by all, however people are able to give donations should they wish. The Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre has had a few changes but continues to help out people in debt. We have a new Service Team Leader and this has allowed the member of staff doing Centre Manager and also Debt Coaching to concentrate on coaching. Our Community Development Manager once again organised a CAP Christmas Market and whilst not as successful as the previous year raised vital funds for the centre. The team ran a CAP Money Course for people who are not necessarily in debt, but enables them to order their finances and hopefully keep them out of debt. Some of our volunteers continued their work with asylum seekers that have been attending our community events and really worked hard at helping them to integrated into society but also allowing them the freedom to celebrate their culture together by helping them to cook traditional meals to share together. Several of these men were baptised as Christians at TCC. Small groups continue to meet and are very helpful in the lives of our church members. These are overseen by the discipleship team, who meet the group leaders to encourage and train. In conjunction with Burton Youth For Christ the main church building was used for a pop-up Prom Shop, allowing girls who would not be able to afford a prom dress to come and choose one for free, this was an amazing event and helped out many disadvantaged girls.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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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)

Most of the charity’s funding comes from individual donors, plus some You may choose to include grants that we have received for our work. We have also received grants additional information, where towards the running of our community events at the two properties rented relevant about: by the church and also towards the CAP Centre.

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

We have no investment policy and no investments.

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) Kirsty Brown Laurie Charles Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair of Trustees Trustee etc)

Date 25.05.2025

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date

Period end date

1[st] April

31[st] March 2025

2024

From

Section A Reference and administration details

Burton on Trent Staffordshire Postcode DE15 9AR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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

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

March 2012

TAR

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:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

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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)

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

We have no investment policy and no investments.

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) Kirsty Brown Laurie Charles Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair of Trustees Trustee etc)

Date 25.05.2025

March 2012

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

The Community Church	The Community Church	The Community Church

31stMarch 2025	Charity no (if any)	1177675

1 & 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 31/03/2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed 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:

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other 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.

Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:		6/11/25

	Richard Farmer

	Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

	23 Faraday Avenue, Stretton, Burton upon Trent, Staffs, DE13 0FX

October 2018

IER