## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
## **From**
Period start date Period end date
**To**
Day 01 Month 01 Year 2022
Day 31 Month 12 Year 2022
## Section A Reference and administration details
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**Charity name**
Believers in Recovery
**Other names charity is known by**
BIR
**Registered charity number (if any)**
1177934
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**Charity's principal address**
## 8 Niblett Close
Kingswood
BRISTOL
## **Postcode**
**BS15 9GL**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year**
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**Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)**
1
Gavin Parry
2
Alexander Lamb
3
Stephen Griffith Lewis
Aaron Carrington
Appointed 01/12/2022
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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)**
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## **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)
CIO- Foundation
Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
The trustees are selected by existing trustees
## **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**
## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The relief of people in need by reason of addiction, their families or persons affected by addicts with particular focus on drug and alcohol dependencies in the UK or such parts of the world as the trustees determine from time to time
## **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)**
Believers in Recovery holds both online meetings and in person meetings.
## **Online meetings**
Mens ministry is held Monday and Wednesday 7am and Saturday 8am. Womans ministry is held Monday & Wednesday 7am and Saturday 8am. BiR online is held on Friday and Sunday 7pm.
## **In person meetings** at
Weston Super Mare – Tuesday @7pm. Leigh on Sea – Thursday @ 6.45pm. West London – Monday @ 6.45pm. Bournemouth – Tuesday @7pm (Hybrid).
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Bristol – closed during 2022.
Two retreats were also held during the year, together with one woman’s ministry, one whole ministry and one conference.
The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **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.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The charity holds open weekly meetings in Weston-Super-Mare; leigh on Sea; Bournemouth and West London.
Online meetings for men, woman and open are also advertised widely.
During the year there were two retreats held, together with one woman’s ministry, one whole ministry and one conference.
**Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has minimal contractual outgoings, all venues for the weekly meetings are available rent-free, other than Bristol. That expenditure has now ceased, however. The charity therefore has capacity to maintain free reserves of at least six months expenditure.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **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 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)**
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Stephen Griffith Lewis
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
Trustee
## **Date**
21/07/2023
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**Charity Name Believers in Recovery**
**N 1**
## **Receipts and payments acco**
Period start date
## **For the period from**
**To**
01/01/2022
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £ to the nearest £**
## **A1 Receipts**
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Donations 5,136 - -
Conference in 4,431 - -
Mechandise - -
Gift aid - - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
9,567 - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts 9,567 - -
A3 Payments
Conference 1,375 - -
Internet 535 - -
Funeral/member support 900 - -
Merchandise 162 - -
Child protection 129 - -
Fees 940 - -
Mission - - -
Donations 1,136
Building rent 870 - -
Expenses 1,296 - -
Sub total 7,344 - -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total payments 7,344 - -
Net of receipts/(payments) 2,223 - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
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**A6 Cash funds last year end 5,122 - -** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **7,345 - -**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of**
||||**Unrestricted**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Lloyds Bank|**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**7,345**
**-**
**7,345**|
||(agree balances|with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|
||||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**||**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**||**asset belongs**|
|**charity’s own use**|||**Fund to which**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
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|Signature|Print N|
|Stephen|
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**o (if any) 177934**
## **ounts**
## **CC16a**
Period end date 12/31/2022
## **Total funds**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
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5,136 5,329
4,431 750
- 120
-
- -
- -
- -
- -
9,567 6,199
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-
- -
- -
9,567 6,199
1,375 1,268
535 938
900 3,702
162 1,061
129 128
940 193
- 2,040
1,136 -
870 -
1,296 -
7,344 9,330
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-
-
- -
7,344 9,330
2,223 - 3,131
- -
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5,122 5,122
7,345
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## **the period**
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Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
- -
- -
- -
- -
OK OK
Restricted Endowment
funds funds
to nearest £ to nearest £
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Current value
Cost (optional)
(optional)
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Amount due When due
(optional) (optional)
-
-
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Date of
Name
approval
Lewis 07/21/2023
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