## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 06/04/2020 To 05/04/2021 **Charity name:** GOOD TIDINGS BIBLE CHURCH **Charity registration number:** 1177694 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The main purpose of the charity is to
advance the Christian faith for the benefit of
the public in accordance with the principles
and practices of Good Tidings Bible
Church.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The main activities of the charity for the
public benefits are as follows:
1. Establishing and operating a church,
offering regular public place of worship,
prayer, Bible study and teaching.
2. Nurturing the spiritual growth and
development of Christian disciplines
among members by holding meetings
and corporate worship.
3. Undertaking religious ordinances such
as baptisms and sharing holy
communion.
4. Providing information regarding
Christian faith, beliefs, and practices.
5. Providing pastoral care to members to
nurture spiritual development and
counselling.
6. Relieve poverty and distress created by
unexpected circumstances among
needy persons or groups in the society.
7. Undertaking other activities that are
consistent and beneficial to the
community as may be charitable under
the laws of England and Wales.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have considered the guidance
produced by the Charity Commission on
the provision of public benefits and they
confirm that public benefit has been
provided by:
1. Providing regular public worship open
to all| 2. Conducting pastoral work including counselling, visiting, and praying for the people in the community 3. Teaching Christianity through sermons, seminars, conferences, and workshops. **4.** Serving people of all ages and perspectives, from caring and helping people of all backgrounds grow in their faith and connect to the community. 5. Providing instant food, cupboard essentials, tea and coffee including warm clothes to members of the community. **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not Applicable| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not Applicable| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteer’s contributions have really help in
making sure our objectives
and activities of the church are as effective
as they need to be. Over the years, they
have provided the ministry of hospitality to
both members as well as visitors coming to
worship at your church, creating a warm
and welcoming space where people feel at
home, where strangers become friends and
family.| |Other||Not Applicable| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society.|Para 1.20|The trustees recognise that these are
difficult to measure but believe that
2020/21 was a positive year in the life of
the church and its members.
People professed faith in Jesus Christ for
the first time during the year and some
reaffirmed their faith in Christ.
Many people have been inspired through
our activities, thereby making positive
impact and contribution to the community
we are part of.
The average attendance at our worship
services, conferences, workshops, and
seminar has increased during the year as
well.
This is a sign that our charity has made a
huge impact in the lives of people in our
community bringing in so many hopes at
these unprecedented times by making sure
the hungry are fed all week alongside
counselling and any other kind of help at
our disposal.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Not Applicable| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Not Applicable| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not Applicable| |Other||Not Applicable| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The income the charity used in carrying out
its activities is received as voluntary
donations from within its own trustees and
members of the congregation. There is no
wider appeal made for funds during the
financial year. The income for the year was
£7149 while the expenditure was £3360| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The trustees have established a reserves
policy to enable the church to function
effectively in the event of a decline in its
income.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not Applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not Applicable| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Not Applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Voluntary donations by the trustees and
members of the Church| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not Applicable| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Not Applicable| |Other||Not Applicable| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||Good Tidings Bible Church| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|
Para 1.25|The Charity is governed by constitution
which established the objects and power of
the charitable organisation| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|Good Tidings Bible Church is a registered
CIO foundation, registered on the 26 March
2018, with registration number 1177694| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions
e.g., election to post or
name of any person or body
entitled to appoint one or
more trustees|Para 1.25|The trustees of Good Tidings Bible Church
are recruited and appointed base on
eligibility which is as follows:
(a) The charity trustee must be a natural
person.
(b) No individual may be appointed as a
charity trustee of the CIO:
• if he or she is under the age of 16 years;
or
• if he or she would automatically cease to
hold office under the provisions of clause
[12(1)(e]).
(c) No one is entitled to act as a charity
trustee whether on appointment or on any
re-appointment until he or she has
expressly acknowledged, in whatever way
the charity trustees decide, his or her
acceptance of the office of charity trustee.
[(d) At least one of the trustees of the CIO
must be 18 years of age or over| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|Not Applicable| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Not Applicable| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|Not Applicable| |Other||Not Applicable| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Good Tidings Bible Church| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1177694| |Charity’s principal address|26 Devon Street
Hartlepool
TS25 5SW| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |Pastor Ojiugo Duru|Chair||| |Pastor Jude Duru|||| |Mr Olayombo Akintola|Secretary||| |Miss Edah Chanda|||| |Mr Mark John Jude|||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ## **Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved** **Director name** ## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity** **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Not Applicable Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this Not Applicable fall within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets Not Applicable from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** ORAkintola **Full name(s)** Olayombo Richard Akintola **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc) Date** 02/12/2021 **Charity Name No (if any) GOOD TIDINGS BIBLE CHURCH 1177694 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 06/04/2020 05/04/2021 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**7,149**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,149**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,149**
**-**
**1,375**
**200**
**49**
**263**
**668**
**805**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**3,789**
**-**
**-**
**3,789**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,149**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,149**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,149**
**-**
**1,375**
**200**
**49**
**263**
**668**
**805**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,360**

**3,789**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |VoluntaryDonations|**7,149**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**7,149**||**5,082**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**7,149**|||**7,149**||**5,082**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**7,149**||**5,082**| |||||||| |Venue Hire|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||**1,429**| |Hospitality|**1,375**|||**1,375**||**1,543**| |honorarium|**200**|||**200**||**300**| |Transport|**49**|||**49**||**233**| |Advertisement / Publications|**263**|||**263**||**181**| |Equipment|**668**|||**668**||**835**| |Repairs & Maintenance|**805**|||**805**||**-**| |Charges & Insurance|**-**|||**-**||**13**| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**3,360**|||**3,360**||**4,534**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**3,360**||**4,534**| |||||||| ||**3,789**|**-**|**-**|
**3,789**||**548**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**3,789**|**-**|**-**|**3,789**||**548**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 02/12/2021 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
ORAkintola|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Olayombo Akintola|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||ORAkintola|Olayombo Akintola|02/12/2021| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 02/12/2021 2