## **Growing Young Disciples**
## **Legal and Administrative Details**
## **For The Year Ended 30 June 2021**
ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE 10 South Downs Knutsford WA16 8ND GOVERNING DOCUMENT Declaration of Trust dated 21 May 2018 CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER 1178450 TRUSTEES RESPONSIBLE FOR Mr T Thornborough, Rev T Wickham, Mr S Chaplin, MANAGING THE CHARITY Miss D Woods BANKERS Lloyds INDEPENDENT EXAMINER Mrs Helen-Frances Dessain **INDEX** Page 1 Legal and Administrative Details Pages 2 Trustees’ Report Page 5 Independent Examiner Report Page 6 Receipts and Payment Account Page 7 Statement of Assets & Liabilities
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## **GROWING YOUNG DISCIPLES**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2021**
The Trustees have pleasure in submitting the Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2021.
## **Objects of the charity**
The charity, governed by a trust deed, seeks the advancement of the Christian faith in accordance with the basis of faith, by resourcing and training people to teach the Christian faith to children and young people.
## **Summary of the charity’s main activities and achievements**
To further the above object, the charity’s main activities and achievements were as follows:
## **Training**
During this year Growing Young Disciples has primarily been concerned to focus on training those committed to raising children and young people in the knowledge and love of the Lord Jesus Christ. The demand for training has steadily increased since the launch of Growing Young Disciples in 2018 and training has occurred in a variety of places – local churches, theological colleges, gospel partnership courses, conferences and, due to Covid-19, in a virtual format. The content of the training varied from place to place and was often prepared specifically in response to a particular invitation. Growing Young Disciples was pleased to offer several training courses to local churches, _Raising Kids for Christ in a Confusing World_ is a three-part course designed to help parents and ministers nurture children in the Christian faith and _Understanding Gen Z_ seeks to equip parents and ministers with a nuanced understanding of Generation Z in the anticipation that it might enable them to teach and apply scripture more keenly. _Raising Kids in a Sex Obsessed World_ proved useful in more educational settings where students were being trained as children’ and youth workers.
Growing Young Disciples has had the joy of partnering with Crosslands in providing excellent theological education for those training for ministry in the local church and beyond.
The enthusiasm for training through virtual book clubs was embraced throughout the year and a reasonable number of full-time workers engaged with this online provision.
## **Resourcing and Equipping**
Growing Young Disciples has a desire to resource and equip church workers in their ministry among families, children, and young people in the local church. There have been many opportunities throughout the year to engage with workers on an individual basis either through face to face meetings or virtual meetings. The emphasis of these meeting has been primarily to resource, advise and equip, but there has also been a reasonable amount of pastoral care provided along the way. In September 2020 Growing Young Disciples launched a formal mentoring scheme and individually mentored 6 youth and children’s workers from local churches in the United Kingdom.
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## **Impact of Covid-19**
Covid-19 had a reasonable impact on the training ministry of Growing Young Disciples as most things remained online. This required some thoughtfulness about the nature of the training Growing Young Disciples provided and the medium it was provided through.
## **Staff**
Growing Young Disciples has one full-time employee.
## **Financial Review**
There has been a lot of financial uncertainty generally in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our position has been affected by the pandemic and our reserves have been reduced. However, during the year several new initiatives were developed (including the mentor scheme and online training delivery) which have enabled us to generate revenues in new areas. Our unrestricted funds decreased by approximately £13,000. In part this was due to the need to cancel the annual conference and reduced opportunities for training in light of the pandemic. Towards the end of the year new opportunities were opening up and our donor base remained encouraging given the situation.
## **Reserves Policy**
The trustees’ objective is to establish unrestricted funds to cover 3 months of ordinary operating expenses (excluding the cost of one-off events such as annual conferences). As at year end, 3 months of ordinary operating expenses was £19,000 and there were £ 31,550 in unrestricted funds. Therefore, the trustees are satisfied that the reserves policy has been followed and there are no going concern issues.
## **Governance**
The policy and operating decisions of the charity rest with the trustees who meet regularly to monitor the activities of the Trust. The trustees and the employee are responsible for the implementation of the trustees' decisions. New trustees may be appointed by a resolution of the trustees passed by a majority of the trustees.
## **Risk Assessment**
The trustees have reviewed the risks to which a small charity operating with three or fewer employees in areas of education and The Children Act of 1989 are exposed. Appropriate procedures are in place to identify, monitor and review these risks on a regular basis.
## **Responsibility of Trustees**
Charity law requires us as Trustees to prepare financial statements for each accounting year which record the receipts and payments of the charity for the year.
We are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable us to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011.
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We also have a responsibility to safeguard the assets of the charity and to take reasonable steps to prevent fraud or any other irregularities.
## **Approval**
This report was approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
Mr Tim Thornborough Chair of Trustees
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Growing Young Disciples 1178450
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/07/2020 30/06/2021
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Receipts from donors 46,179 575 - 46,754 67,685
Gift Aid recovered 2,216 - - 2,216 2,813
Conference income - - - - 73,538
Receipts from training 14,739 - - 14,739 42,775
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Sub total (Gross income for
63,134 575 - 63,709 186,811
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 63,134 575 - 63,709 186,811
A3 Payments
Payroll Costs 68,792 - - 68,792 65,469
Conference expenditure 200 - - 200 69,237
Other expenses 6,852 - - 6,852 13,151
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Sub total [ 75,844 ] - - 75,844 147,857
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 75,844 - - 75,844 147,857
Net of receipts/(payments) - 12,710 575 - - 12,135 38,954
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 44,260 - - 44,260 5,306
Cash funds this year end 31,550 575 - 32,125 44,260
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
21/03/2022
## **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))
Tax reclaims due
Cash at bank
**Details**
**Details**
Loan by guarantee
**Details**
Pension costs due
Tax due to HMRC
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**31,550**
**575**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**31,550**
**575**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,754**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**380**
Unrestricted
**1,700**
Unrestricted
**6,000**
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Print Name
Timothy Thornborough|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
**11 July 2020**
**22 July 2020**
**N/A**
Date of
approval
21st March 2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
21/03/2022
## **Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Growing Young Disciples**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Growing Young Disciples (the CIO) for the year ended 30 June 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO 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 the CIO’s accounts 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 examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the CIO as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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: H-F Dessain
Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies: ICAS Address: 50 Dene Road, Manchester
Date: 22 March 2022
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